17 January 2025
Investigation launched after SpaceX Spaceship 7 explodes
... mission in February rests largely with the FAA) investigation and what findings it reports. Whilst the seventh Starship mission ended in catastrophic failure, the company did manage to execute a spectacular and successful “catch” of the flight...
April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... clearer. SpaceX, by any measure the most innovative and successful space development company of our time, is developing Starship, a new spacecraft explicitly designed to send humans to Mars at far lower cost than previously considered possible. Many...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
...delivery solution than current launch vehicles, including the SpaceX Starship. Here, the authors describe their concept for a ...000 tonnes per year by 2045. A comparison of the StarShip and Galactic Harbour approaches is shown in Table 1. Rockets alone...
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...
