Spaceflight 🚀Jun 12, 2024
The first #Starhopper flight was in 📆 2019. First #Starship landing (without #RUD 💥) 📆 2021. First #atmospheric entry 📆 2024. When do you expect the first (uncrewed) Starship #Mars 🔴 landing attempt ? 🤔
2025
1%
2027
25.3%
2029
24.2%
> 2030
49.5%
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Show threadRodbotic
@spaceflight i think the refueling missions for the moon will take such a priority that it would be hard to fit that in.
Jun 14, 2024 at 5:22pmWeb
Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Jun 14, 2024
@rodbotic "The revised plan envisions up to 44 Starship launches from LC-39A per year", and they'll soon have 3 launch towers, so where do you see the bottleneck ? https://www.space.com/faa-environmental-impact-statement-spacex-starship-ksc (Falcon 9 currently launches ~2,6 times per week)
FAA to conduct new environmental review for SpaceX's Starship operations in Florida

The agency will prepare an environmental impact statement, a more in-depth review than the environmental assessment performed in 2019.

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Show threadRodboticJun 15, 2024

@spaceflight not only do we need a refill Depot in earth orbit. But we need a lunar refill Depot too. And refilling the lunar Depot is going to take a lot of earth launches.

If a full start ship in orbit is going to take 10 launches just to fill one ship, how many launches will a lunar depot require?

How many earth based launches are needed for lunar landing and return.

I think NASA will keep them pretty busy.

That and i have heard zero equipment being built for a Mars mission.