SpaceX vs NASA: Wie das Starship zum Mars scheitert

Here the impossible became possible Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first to set foot on the moon with the help of the most capable scientists of their time, a lot of money and above all thanks to the largest rocket of all time to date, the El Saturn 5 was first launched 53 years ago, yet it is the most powerful transportation system to ever fly. This Ton 5 was 110.6 meters tall and could carry up to 140 tons of cargo to low Earth orbit. It must have been extremely exciting to have experienced the Apollo missions back then. Unfortunately, I am. And many of you are probably too young to have seen the moon landing live, but that doesn't matter because the next milestone in human history is about to arrive.

The next chapter of space travel is clear. We want to go to Mars and there are currently two rockets there, the Saturn 5. On the one hand is the SL designed by NASA? It is supposed to take us first to the Moon and then possibly to Mars. It is 65 centimeters taller than the Saturn 5 and could therefore be the largest rocket of all. However, sometimes it can only carry 130 tons of cargo to low Earth orbit. So it will always be in the shadow of Saturn 5 and then there is private space travel, the Spacex spacecraft. The spacecraft should take humanity to Mars within the next 20 years, enabling supersonic travel to Earth and actually supporting the Artemis mission. towards the Moon, could become a real competition for the SLS.

If all goes as planned, Starship will be the largest rocket of all time. It will be ten meters taller than the Saturn 5 and will be able to carry another ten tons. To top it off, it can also be completely reusable, but how can that really be? How can Space, a private space company with only a fraction of the budget, accomplish something that NASA hasn't been able to do to help us in the next 20 years? Years, years to bring failures in the

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, there will be explosions, deadlines will be missed and there will be failures and that is good, why that is explained to you today in Dr.

Watson Loos, the map creator has placed his tester since 2012 in the one Spacex has been working on? stars of a two-stage heavy-lift carrier rocket It owes its name to the second stage of the star itself. It is a long-haul passenger and cargo spacecraft that should have room for almost 100 people. What until now was unthinkable. Compared to the Saturn 5, only three astronauts always fly. The first stage of the ship is the superheavy stage, which is a booster stage, that is, an extremely powerful rocket that must help Starship itself travel into space. To do this, it uses 31 engines called Raptor, each of which has 310 tons, so with a single Raptor engine 172 cars or even a complete Boeing 747 could fly.

Here you can see how big the engines are on this Raptor. It doesn't look so good in the intro, but a 120 meter tall rocket is tremendously big, it's basically a skyscraper. It's particularly impressive compared to another Spacex rocket, that is, the crumpled mobile that looked impressive, falls. in heavy, with a height of 70 meters it is practically a dwarf compared to the Star and due to delays in development and rapid progress with the Starship, it falls like now. It's probably hardly used anymore. The Felton Harry was intended as a. A temporary fix from the start, but you probably wouldn't have expected it to be replaced so quickly.

Spacex is essentially outdoing itself with its spaceships, according to former Space president Green Shotwell, it's supposed to be the first spacecraft. The iceberg in the future will be a whole series of stars, one larger than the other and, unlike the field, the ship should be super heavy and, in addition, the ship should be completely recyclable. If you are interested in how the field used for space travel has always changed, then feel free to watch this video of mine here. Space Ex currently hopes the craft can be launched for just $2 million, of which $900,000 is for fuel. alone, which of course is a lot of money, but because of that, if the spacecraft can be reused, it will actually be significantly cheaper than what NASA spends on launching the SL, because it is supposed to cost to a state between one and two billion dollars. , i.e. 500 to 1000 times the pocketbook, so in theory you could instead get the SLS off the ground once, make 1000 flights with the Starship and, given that another variant of the chip, the Starship Angeles, is also being considered for NASA's Artemis lunar missions. , SLS and NASA have to be very warm in terms of pricing.

This, of course, assumes that SpaceX can really get started for only $2 million, and by the way, some industry experts are still very, very skeptical. If you see a video about Artemis's quests, let me know in the comments below. We've already covered it a little bit on Instagram, but if you'd like to watch the full video, we'd be happy to do so. But let's get back to the topic: we want to go to Mars and that the ship can make history as the rocket that took humanity to Mars, whose manned rocket will really be the first to land on the red planet.

Nobody knows that today, but according to Space EX, the first self-sufficient launch to be built on Mars in the next 20 years would be a milestone in the history of humanity because with it we will become a multiplanetary species for the mission ship to Mars from SpaceX with the help of the. superheavy, then the booster stage separates from the

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and returns to Earth as soon as the starship reaches Earth orbit, it encounters a tanker spacecraft which shortly after the starship took off and the tanker again senses the ship . It also returns to Earth fully automatically. of two spacecraft has already been successfully carried out on the ISS, the starship filled again can now start the journey to Mars and this will take about six months when the spacecraft has arrived, then that's it, of course, the day is vacuum so that Instead of using liquid hydrogen in combination with liquid oxygen, the Starship is powered by a combination of methane and liquid oxygen.

It will probably be possible to produce methane on Mars. On the other hand, liquid hydrogen has a much lower density than liquefied methane. This means that for hydrogen I simply need a larger tank, but how is methane and oxygen produced on Mars? In theory, it would be feasible on Mars. The ice would be broken down and split into oxygen and hydrogen by electrolysis of water. The oxygen would then be liquefied and stored and the hydrogen could be used along with carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere to produce methane. The water produced in the Sabbath process would in turn be supplied to electrolysis and the energy needed for all these processes would have to come from solar power plants on Mars.

But, of course, Mars must be populated first. You need houses, plants, people, food, a lot of resources, a lot of musk. I estimate we have a million tons on Mars. It would take about 1,000 Starship flights from Earth to build a self-sufficient city. Mars and do you remember exactly what a state with the SLS costs a thousand times for the same money that NASA could spend on the launch of the SLS? Spacex simply pays for all the flights for the colonization of another planet. That is, of course, a bit. As I said, there are good reasons to question whether Spacex can really start with so little money and then it's not entirely clear how much it costs each person from Mars to Earth, but it still shows how expensive SLS is or how much cheaper It is space. ex is into space travel Another interesting and fun fact is that the ship could be launched from a spaceport in the sea off the coast of Texas.

At least in one Spacex job ad, it is also mentioned that the ship could be used as a. way to travel on Earth From Texas you could go to Australia at 27,000 km h or from New York to Shanghai in just 39 minutes, what a normal plane takes. This route currently takes 15 hours, okay, that's all well and good, but currently there are. There's no real Starship yet, so you're good to go. First of all, the entire project needs great planning. Many prototype tests are currently being carried out; the first test flight with a real Starship should take place in 2021.

If all this happens, there are countless critics and I too am always skeptical about its mask and its deadlines. Well, let's sum it all up: Starship is supposed to be the most powerful rocket ever and can carry more. of cargo and be the first manned spacecraft to land on Mars and that the ship can be completely reused and refueled on Mars, so the costs per kilogram transported should be extremely low, but all that could change very quickly and that has much to do with the philosophy of

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the development of the spacecraft began with the objective of developing a reusable rocket that would take humanity to another celestial body.

For the moment everything was normal, but from that objective we worked backwards for it . an ambitious goal Of course, there are powerful engines. With the Raptor engines, the foundations for the Starship were laid and since then the German project has become a design playground for Spacex. Nothing is set in stone. Everything that is not optimal is adjusted or as desired. the mask says it is the trace tool layout or the pipeline layout etc. in matters that would be conceivable for state space travel and space law is not afraid to simply include or adapt entire design basics, for example, the outer shell is NASA's SLS is made of stainless steel instead of fiberglass. carbon.

They depend on funding, so everything must be planned in advance to be able to present it to political donors, and they prefer to invest in a comprehensive plan that they can have an overview of. That's why the SLS has been in the planning stages for years and will look 99 percent like it did then. He has thought about the best. Ex. It is financed privately and not publicly. One thing can be done, above all, take risks that make the starship unpredictable. The most interesting way and the basic concepts are clear. There are also plans for how to proceed, but each next step is based on the results of the previous step.

If, for example, tomorrow it turns out that another fuel modification is better, then Spacex will not do it. Avoid radically designing the Starship. There will be no work on step 3 until step 2 is finished and steps 4 and 5 are theoretical. However, the plans depend entirely on the results that steps two and three bring. The opposite of SLS and NASA because the 15 steps have been in place for years there, which means we could still see some hiccups and there may be more. There is an explosion, but you learn better from mistakes and, unlike SLS and NASA, failures. are expected at Spacex So you could almost say that it is slowly failing on its way to Mars.

Not enough, this is a revolutionary approach to space travel that could take us to another habitable planet. That's precisely why it's unclear if Space EX will do it. Something can always come up to ensure everything is back there. In general, the idea is to get to Mars this way and faster. His mask made this clear in an email circular to all employees in June. After the successful flight to the ISS, Starship has top priority for future upgrades. Of course, Doctor Watson also wants to keep Spacex's mission to Mars constantly updated. Some updates don't feel like a full video, so we'd like to do that. follow us on Instagram We publish the latest and detailed news about space science and technology every day and we put a lot of effort into it.

So what's up with the space sex and Starship thing, you're definitely going to find out first and now I'm. We await your opinion. Do you think it will be the first rocket to Mars or rather the SLS? The former head of NASA. By the way, after a long time as a defender of SL, NASA now believes that SL will disappear and should give way to rockets from private companies. What's your opinion about it? Don't hesitate to leave it in the comments. Otherwise, as always, stay here. then curious patrick