SpaceX is developing its Starship Super Heavy two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle for interplanetary flights. But, if you would need a flight only between the surface of Mars, Moon or other similar planetary body and its orbit, you could do it by less powerful spacecraft - an orbital shuttle.
Here is a concept of such spacecraft, called SpaceX Starflight, by Spanish transportation designer Rodrigo Magro. The orbital shuttle would have a lifting-body shape with thermal shield on the windward side, two forward winglets as Starship, four lower fins with landing legs and solar panels, large panoramic window and hypergolic auxiliary engines for landing on the Moon and other smaller planetary bodies.
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Amazon Prime Air deliveries on Mars
Picture of the Day 20/8/2020 - Amazon Prime Air craft delivering packages on Mars by American concept designer Dave Arredondo. More of his art here.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Silhouettes of Cybertruck and Starman on Mars
Picture of the Day 16/8/2020 - illustration with silhouettes of Tesla Cybertruck and SpaceX's Starman on Mars by French graphic artist Palma.
Saturday, August 8, 2020
SpaceX Starship fleet landing on Mars - video animation by Roger Bootsma
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
SpaceX Starship SN5 150m hop
On August 4, 2020 SpaceX's prototype Starship SN5 successfully performed
150 meter hop with one Raptor Engine at SpaceX's launch site in Boca
Chica, Texas.
Starship Super Heavy is a fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle and spacecraft currently developed by leading New Space company SpaceX.
Starship Super Heavy is a fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle and spacecraft currently developed by leading New Space company SpaceX.
Space illustrator
Tony Bela
captured the path of the flight in the sky from LabPadre's Sapphire Cam:
Thursday, July 30, 2020
NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launch
Today, July 30, at 7:50 AM (EDT) NASA will launch its next generation Mars 2020 Perseverance rover to Mars. The rover will land on Mars on February 18, 2021 in Jezero Crater (Western Isidis Planitia) to collect samples for later retrieval; the rover will be accompanied by a small reconnaissance drone-helicopter Ingenuity.
Here you can watch NASA's livestream of the launch:
The Perseverance is a twin rover of the Curiosity rover (working on Mars since 2012) with some upgrades:
Overview of the Perseverance scientific instruments:
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
SpaceX Starship fleet orbiting Earth by Dale Rutherford
Thursday, July 16, 2020
How SpaceX Mars Colony could look like in a few decades
Polish 3D artist Andrzej Pawelec has created his concept how SpaceX's Mars Colony could look like in a few decades with thousands of inhabitants. Here is detailed animation and drawings of his concept:
Monday, July 13, 2020
Cutaway diagram of SpaceX Lunar Starship
Unofficial cutaway diagram of SpaceX's Lunar Starship interior by Rocket Posters. The Lunar Starship is lunar optimized version (for NASA's Artemis program) of the fully reusable super heavy-lift spacecraft - Starship - currently developed by leading NewSpace company SpaceX.
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