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#Starship would take between a mere 80 and 150 days to reach #Mars πŸ”΄, depending on the launch window.

A shorter transfer time comes at the cost of higher fuel β›½ requirements and less payload mass. Not only is it more difficult to reach the required delta-V, it’s also more difficult to stop. The spacecraft will need to brake harder to match velocities with Mars upon arrival https://www.marssociety.ca/2021/01/22/rocket-physics-how-to-go-to-mars

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Parachute πŸͺ‚ is not the only means for descent, as high-mass class vehicles are emerging for human πŸ‘©β€πŸš€ missions. Shallow entry flight-path angles are preferred in order to achieve a lower terminal velocity to ensure a safe descent phase. Retro-propulsion could be activated at Mach 2 and above https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/72944#

#aerocapture #aerobraking#AtmosphericEntry#Mars#Starship

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As the #spacecraft approaches Mars πŸ”΄, it will need to perform a capture burn πŸ”₯ to slow down and be captured by Mars' gravity. This requires a delta-v of about 0.7 to 1.3 km/s to enter Mars' orbit or to land on the planet's surface. #Starship πŸš€ will enter #Mars’ atmosphere at 7.7 km/sec and decelerate #aerodynamicallyhttps://www.uc.edu/content/dam/refresh/cont-ed-62/olli/fall-23-class-handouts/SpaceX%208%20%20Mars%20%20Vision%20Summary.pdf

#aerobraking

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The time of travel to #Mars can be reduced from nine months ⏳ to about four months. This would reduce #radiation ☒️ doses by over 60% compared to the Hohmann transfer. This trajectory uses 4.62 km/s of deltaV. #SpaceX#Starship is designed for about 6 km/s of deltaV. The return velocity of #Apollo was about 11 km/s https://marspedia.org/Aerobraking

#Aerobraking#HumanSpaceflight

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#CapeCanaveral :

β€’ Works on the #Starship launch facility at Pad #39A are proceeding
β€’ #StokeSpace's #Nova is scheduled to fly from #SLC14 as early as next year
β€’ #Relativity’s #SLC16 will support the partially reusable #TerranR
β€’ #ULA is expanding its Spacecraft Processing and Operations Center
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/12/cape-flyover-2

#KennedySpaceCenter

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The #SLS and #Orion spacecraft projects are of such a scale that they spend money in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, creating #parochial interest in nearly every congressional district. It sounds like a straightforward argument: cancel the slow and outdated SLS and direct its $2.6 billion πŸ’° per year into novel public-private partnerships like #SpaceX’s #Starshiphttps://www.planetary.org/articles/why-we-have-the-sls

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#Moon πŸŒ™ scouts will all be #robotic, designed to build a foundation for #astronauts πŸ‘¨β€πŸš€ to follow about two years later. There is need for transporting πŸš€ large masses of equipment and materials from #Earth. An #IntuitiveMachines lander is set to reach the Moon later this year. #NASA’s #JPL will release a β€œswarm” of robot-explorers equipped with stereo cameras πŸ“Ή and charged with creating photorealistic #3D maps πŸ—ΊοΈ of the #lunar terrain https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2024/04/27/robot-explorers-futuristic-spacex-starships-set-to-transform-the-moon/

#SpaceRobot#SpaceLogistics#Starship

#Starship#LaunchCost : "I'm highly confident it would be less than $10 million πŸ’° all in, fast forward two or three years from now," #Musk said about flight #prices during the presentation * https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-rocket-update-flight-cost-million-2022-2

* Starship Update πŸ“† February 2022 https://www.youtube.com/live/3N7L8Xhkzqo?feature=share

Visualized : 10 million $ / 100k kg = 100 $ πŸ’΅ per kg

πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί #Ariane doesn't look good

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πŸš€ #Starship does not use fairings but rather a re-closable payload bay, will mean that the company will reuse 100 percent of the hardware necessary for flight. Resulting in an ever higher cost advantage than #SpaceX already has with its reuse of first stage boosters on #Falcon 9 and #FalconHeavyhttps://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/03/starship-debut-reusability/#more-92054

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#Starship#LaunchCost : "I'm highly confident it would be less than $10 million πŸ’° all in, fast forward two or three years from now," #Musk said about flight #prices during the presentation * https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-rocket-update-flight-cost-million-2022-2

* Starship Update πŸ“† February 2022 https://www.youtube.com/live/3N7L8Xhkzqo?feature=share

Visualized : 10 million $ / 100k kg = 100 $ πŸ’΅ per kg

πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί #Ariane doesn't look good

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πŸš€ Le revers de la mΓ©daille de l'explosion en vol du #Starship : des morceaux ont Γ©tΓ© retrouvΓ©s sur la plage des Iles Turques-et-CaΓ―ques dans les CaraΓ―bes.
Elon payera-t-il la facture de nettoyage des plages ?
CrΓ©dit Chris Caroe
Musing out loud... since Starship 33 didn't finish its climb to orbit, or actually a very high suborbital trajectory since they didn't plan a burn to circularize the orbit, how far short did the debris come down. Southern Africa was underneath the intended path. It could have been one or more of falling short into the Atlantic Ocean, falling on Africa or going past Africa to the Indian Ocean. #SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace

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"Watch SpaceX Starship explode over Atlantic Ocean on Flight Test 7" by @Spacecom - It didn't take long to get an answer where Starship 33 debris came down. People posted videos from the Turks and Caicos Islands. So it made it past Florida to the Atlantic. Dramatic explosion and debris fall captured on several of them. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/watch-spacex-starship-explode-over-atlantic-ocean-on-flight-test-7-videos#SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace

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"Videos on social media show Starship debris streaming across the sky" video by NBC News - NBC anchor and expert where being correctly cautious about concluding the video was of Starship. But they also pointed out the video of debris fall matched the time Starship telemetry was lost on ascent and where it should have been at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0vRGkPsbYc#SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace

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"SpaceX Starship explosion likely caused by propellant leak, Elon Musk says" by @Spacecom - Fuel and oxidizer both leaking into a confined area would only need a flame or spark to explode. And "to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity" means it exploded. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-starship-explosion-likely-caused-by-propellant-leak-elon-musk-says#SpaceX#StarshipπŸš€ #NewSpace