Saturday, July 22, 2023
SpaceX Starship landing at Mars Base Alpha by Mark Garlick
British illustrator Mark Garlick has created a set of renders depicting SpaceX's Starship landing at a spaceport near Mars Base Alpha. The spaceport is equipped with a shorter version of SpaceX's launch integration tower for catching and launching only the second stage of Starship rocket, since Mars's comparably lower gravity doesn't require Starship's booster stage to reach orbit.
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I don't see a crane. I wonder how the tower's sections are lifted. People imagining buildings and structures on Mars might want to consider that the elements used are more likely to be shaped for an optimized use of the transport that will bring them to Mars. The elements of the tower on Earth are a simple shape for the mill that produced them and the trailer that brought them to the construction site.
ReplyDeleteHeavy or large non-complex building elements most likely will be made on Mars using local resources. There is no point of transporting simple metal beams weighing tens of tons from Earth to Mars if there is plenty of iron on Mars.
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