Monday, May 25, 2020

Lunar Starship Cargo Deck and Airlock Concepts

I need a clean place to put a diagram I did for another thread, and this is as good a place as any.  I'll fill this out later.





Starship PERT chart:



Starship to Mars PERT chart:


SpaceX and SLS/Orion costing info:


Porkchop for 2024 window Earth to Mars:


Porkchop plot for Mars to Earth
 2024:


Satellite view of SpaceX Boca Chica:



53.8º inclination bounding lines for the launch trajectory:



Approximate IIP zone for a 53.8º dogleg from Boca Chica, which keeps any possible debris from a failure out to sea for as long as possible:




Here's a concept for soft capture and prop lines for Starship refueling:


Another random chart:  A comparison of Starship as it exists vs. a nuclear thermal rocket.


Second attempt, assumes NTR engine can only do propulsive insert back to LEO.




And yet another chart that needs a home on the web, concerning risk assessment for various Artemis architectures:





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