The first #Starhopper flight was in πŸ“† 2019. First #Starship landing (without #RUD πŸ’₯) πŸ“† 2021. First #atmospheric entry πŸ“† 2024. When do you expect the first (uncrewed) Starship #Mars πŸ”΄ landing attempt ? πŸ€”
2025
1%
2027
25.3%
2029
24.2%
> 2030
49.5%
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"this will enable us to increase πŸ“ˆour production rate significantly as we build toward our long-term goal of producing one Ship per day" https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-one-a-day-starfactory

#SpaceX #Starship

SpaceX wants to build 1 Starship megarocket a day with new Starfactory

"This will enable us to increase our production rate significantly as we build toward our long-term goal of producing one Ship per day."

Space
Some time next year, #NASA believes SpaceX will be ready to link two #Starships πŸš€πŸš€ in orbit for an ambitious refueling β›½ demonstration. #SpaceX is planning to build an additional launch tower at #Starbase in #Texas, and at least two Starship pads on #Florida's Space Coast https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/nasa-exploration-chief-lays-out-next-steps-for-starship-development/2/
NASA lays out how SpaceX will refuel Starships in low-Earth orbit

"The fundamental flow mechanism is the pressure delta across the umbilical."

Ars Technica
#NASA’s associate administrator for exploration systems development said that if not all the technological pieces were ready for a #moon πŸŒ™ landing, β€œwe may end up flying a different πŸ”΄ mission.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/science/elon-musk-spacex-starship-mars.html
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Could Land on Mars in 3 to 4 Years

The prediction is the latest in a series of ambitious timelines for reaching the red planet that the entrepreneur has previously failed to meet.

The New York Times

#SpaceX aims to speed up πŸ“ˆ its development timeline even further. β€œWe have Ships and #SuperHeavy boosters built and either ready to launch or in testing for the next several flights with more coming off of the production line as SpaceX’s #Starfactory 🏭 continues to grow. The latest phase ⏱️ of the factory currently under construction will come online this summer, giving us several 100,000 more square feet of space.” Starship should launch nine times this year. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/spacex-plans-to-produce-rocket-every-day

#Starship

SpaceX plans to produce world’s most powerful rocket every day

SpaceX is enhancing Starfactory, its manufacturing site in Texas, with the goal of achieving daily production of one Starship rocket.

Interesting Engineering
Can Starship ACTUALLY land on Mars? (Aerobraking)

YouTube
The time of travel to #Mars πŸ”΄ can be reduced to about four months (128 days). This would reduce #radiation ☒️ doses by over 60% πŸ“‰ 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 https://marspedia.org/Aerobraking
Aerobraking

Marspedia

#SyntrichiaCaninervis is able to withstand drought conditions, but tests by researchers at the #Chinese πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Academy of Sciences revealed that it can also tolerate temperatures as low as -196Β°C ❄️ and similar levels of gamma radiation ☒️ to that found on the #Martian surface. "A promising candidate pioneer plant 🌱 for colonising #extraterrestrial environments" https://www.independent.co.uk/space/mars-moss-survive-human-colony-b2571878.html

#Terraforming #Mars

Scientists discover moss can grow on Mars

Desert plant offers big boost for making Red Planet habitable

The Independent
@spaceflight I bet we find moss everywhere in Space, planets of moss way more common than planets such as Earth.
@Lazarou "Recent research shows that ancient moss could explain why the Ordovician ice ages occurred" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss#Geological_history
Moss - Wikipedia