SpaceX’s Getaway To Mars may double in size! How’s that possible?
The former NASA Administrator wants to get rid of Starship! Can it be used for the Artemis Mars mission?
Impulse Space announces a space tug for Falcon 9! This is a game-changer! And Japan attempts to land on the Moon! Did it crash?
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why not just build a orbital ship yard/station instead of multiple smaller ships you could bring all fuel needed up by unshielded starships that could become material for building huge cargo ship after unloading fuel? the benefit is a large ship could travel to mars and remain in mars orbit as a gateway space station with potential to refuel and load back up for a return trip at a later date. if bigger is better then go supersize make a starship carrier 😂
5:45 – 43 areas? You mean aCres….. the topic demands a bit more precision from presenters I think.
The Helios space tug does intrigue me. Falcon 9 launches almost every week. If it had better range it could send almost as much mass to the moon in a year as it does to LEO. That could be a huge help to NASA and Artemis.
Seriously, jets travel faster spaceward than rockets with an angular approach. A mach 1 jet would beat a rocket to space. Using less fuel in the process
Here is an idea, use a boeing 747 and a rocket. Launch them at the same time and see which one gets to space first
They should build it on the stand it launches from and recycle the launch stands. Would give time to make necessary repairs and provide a quicker turnaround if say you have even three mobile launch platforms.
Who the hell is this guy?
Did you know, that afterburners on jets are to combat icing that happens on the turbines due to entering space?
Felix ?
Seems pretty obvious to me that the "unofficial," aspirational goal is for Starship (most likely) to demonstrate it's capabilities in reusability and orbital refueling such that it then becomes feasible to re-plan for Starship replacing functionally all of the SLS flights, whenever that can demonstrably be done. At that point NASA gets to go to Congress with essentially the same plan that's already been approved for the much more expensive and complex SLS architecture, and say hey, look, this vehicle that is already certified for use in the plan as a commercial refueling stack, can now also be contracted for all SLS launches way cheaper, and you get to go to your constituents and say you've saved the government literally billions of dollars in taxpayer funds, and an American corporation gets to be benefit. Using the SLS in the plans at all is a way to ensure the planning continues to be funded and isn't thrown out the window (because of the sunk cost in the SLS budget already), congressional representatives will never about-face and publicly accepting being wrong; they will be gladdened to have the plans costs substantially decrease, though.
I hate to break it to you Felix, but Humans will not be going to Mars in our lifetimes, if ever. The REAL purpose of Starship is not and never was going to Mars. The REAL purpose of Starship is and always has been the full and rapid deployment of Starlink, which simply is not feasible using Falcon 9s. All that going to Mars malarky was nothing more than a sales pitch for funding.
Keep up the good work TJ!
Good to see you again TJ. Good job mate!
Let's not launch so many Starship rockets, but launch a lot of SLS rockets. 🙃
The illegal employee that cleans the toilets is also an environmental engineer' ..
There is really only one way to go to Mars without a reusable launcher.
A ridiculously massive expendable one. With NASA having a lot larger budget than it has now.
So, basically, it's either Starship/New Shepard(New Armstrong?)/Terran R/???, or Sea Dragon and NASA having a Pentagon-grade budget.
I believe Skylon (or any other SSTO), any sort of tethered solution (even "just" a skyhook) or a massive magnetic rail launcher are unfortunatelly WAY further ahead than even Sea Dragon would be.
I would give that a slim chance! 😅
It's just SpaceX's plan. Nasa is all "hey we are here too"
What ? For each Starship launch we have major repair work ?
Why doesn't Spacex use a more regular space launch site design ? Maybe like Kennedy launch site , with flame trenches ? It worked well with Saturn 5 , i realy don't understand why they insist in this design.
Mars planning before Moon living time long term is probably a pipe dream… or a death wish.
I believe that, the actual workhorse that would lead us, humanity, to Mars, is a reliable SSTO ship, where the cost by pound of cargo to high orbit drops considerably, enough to make the cargo transfer to a interplanetary ship, and that could be even materials for assembly on orbit. Remember that open interplanetary space has a ton of radiation, enough to give deadly doses for the crew if not fully shielded. This shielding, is heavy, being a metal one as lead or a magnetic one, wich also needs a lot of energy, more likely nuclear reactor (fusion or fision) with all its weights and problems. After that, if the mission is a long one, the need for hidroponic oxigen recycling is the more reasonable way, and all this needs energy, space, resources, etc. So… My best way to see a Mars mission before 2050 is a SpaceX built SSTO, where it can reach high altitude flying, where the altitude per pound of fuel efficiency is better, then kickstart the vacum optimized rocket engines to propel the craft to orbit. Years ago i made the calculations and you could deliver 20~25 tons to ISS orbit with this method, avionics borowed from a F18/F15 and the SpaceX engines for oxigen methane crigenic propulsion. The aerial propulsion its just a turbine/scramjet hibrid (already tested and working as a clock), and you could get real high, at real fast velocities, giving the craft a nice boost in initial speed and altitude, and you start where the atmosphere is starting to get slim. Win, win, win situation. The tech exists, the capability is there, the only thing i believe isnt there is to show how much difference is between public military/civilian tech and the hidden tech, wich makes me believe im not the first guy to run this numbers and getting this conclusions.
More space news, lesser water tower news. Please!
SLS is a dead duck, it may well fly again, but in no way shape or form will it form the basis of any plan once starship is operational, the economics of it simply don’t stack up
LTT reported that SpaceX applied for plans to build a Restaurant and shopping centre at Boca Chica.
Expect "The Restaurant at the Start of the Universe", "Universal Shopping Mall", "SpaceX Mall" or the "The Last Mall till Mars" to possibly be the names in the hat for them. Any other suggestions?…
Just wondering why they don’t use the ablative heat tiles around the legs of the launch tower and/or the water deluge base??
Great job TJ👍🏻. I prefer TJ style over Felix, but I still love ya Felix 😅, no offense but I like TJ because he is a real grown up man acting and behaving as it should be and not as a clown like some from other YouTube channels that come across like little immature children playing jokes all the time. Felix you made a great choice in hiring TJ in my opinion.
Griffin's main concern, it seemed to me, was just beating China to the Moon. Which is weird since we already did that, many many years ago. His second concern, it seemed to me, was making it an all government project, private companies needn't apply. SLS is not the future. Blue Origin might be, if their rocket is ever actually launched. That leaves Starship as the viable solution at this time.
It is hard to cross the Atlantic, 11 hours of flight, imagine going to Mars, it would have to be in first class. I'm not going until they clean the rooms and have swimming pools in all the hotels.