April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
..., SpaceX has ambitious targets of launching 48 Falcon missions, three crewed missions to the ISS and flying Starship closer to Mars. Starship is a fully reusable transportation system incorporating the most powerful launch vehicle ever developed and...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
..., generated profits, and a fraction of the money earned has now been devoted towards developing the visionary Starship system with no expectation of immediate financial return. In addition, SpaceX’s commercial work with large rockets feeds into...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... scene of the 1994 film, Star Trek Generations. In this 23rd century ship christening ceremony, we see a new Starship Enterprise entering service in a fictional, futuristic society where alcoholic beverages are as ubiquitous in space as they are...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
...carbon compounds, which are effective as radiation protection materials. Starships that are out of flight resources can also be used ...by using ring trestles made of light lattice trusses. If Starship rockets are used to supply lunar bases, by the time...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
... vehicle. SpaceX has revealed it will provide a lunar optimised Starship to land NASA astronauts on the moon, that “can fly...with these teammates, we will succeed.” SpaceX human-rated Starship concept. One of three concepts selected by NASA for its...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
...’t until mid-century, the first sunshades deployed will probably be built on Earth. SpaceX’s design goals for Starship, its reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle, and logistical requirements for a city on Mars leave enough...
