Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 primarily to help humanity settle Mars. Here's a look at the gear the company is developing to do just that — a giant rocket called Super Heavy and a 100-passenger vehicle called Starship.
The ISS has a 'dry' mass — structure and equipment, minus all consumables — of 304 tons, about 10 percent more than the super jumbo Airbus A380 (277 tons). They are also roughly the same size, in overall dimensions (both having 'wings') and in bulk, with pressurized volume about ...
Elon Musk gave his annual update about Starship and Super Heavy, the reusable spaceship and rocket, respectively, that the company is building to help colonize Mars. The presentation took place at SpaceX's South Texas site and featured the 165-foot-tall Starship Mk1 - the first full-size ...
Starship Troopersfollows Johnny Rico and his friends Diz, Carmen, and Carl, from humble beginnings together at school, into their participation in a war against the super evolved insect race called the Arachnids, or “Bugs.” Johnny, who is excellent at sports but poor with verbal and math sk...
Considering that Starship together with Super Heavy is already the biggest rocket ever built, the number seems unreachable, being around 150 times as high as currently. The specific impulse is also high, out of reach for any chemical rocket engine. The highest specific impulse by a chemical ...
Super Heavy is the large bottom half of Starship rocket, which has most of the engines and is used during for the beginning of a launch. SpaceX has continued to raise private funding for its programs, with the company most recently seeking nearly $2.1 billion in an equity round of ...
And while we are at it, we also REALLY need Super-STOL composite amphibians in a range of sizes… Shared overall geometries. Just in a range of size/carrying-capacities. For some of those, we might even look at plywood/epoxy/foam/fiberglass hulls so well buildable as one-off options to...
The conditions would probably not be too bad unless we were quite close to a very large star. Of course, young massive stars produce supernovas, and you don't want to be within a few tens of light years of one of those. Chris ...
On this basis, for Mars one and other large-scale interplanetary exploration missions, SpaceX proposed a fully reusable “Starship + Super Heavy” launch vehicle program [8]. Among them, the starship as the upper stage returns to re-entry at orbital velocity after completing the delivery mission...