Re: [Starlink] some post Starship launch thoughts

[Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 8:16 AM Michael Richardson via Starlink
<starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>     > Everyone wants a water deluge system and flame diverter, but I was
>     > thinking perhaps liquid nitrogen, as a natural byproduct of LOX
>
> Yeah, but how do you put one on the moon or mars?
> Lower gravity helps, sure, ...

Well, the concrete did not shatter at 1/2 thrust...

>     > Landing and then taking off from the moon or mars look rather
>     > problematic at the moment!
>
> Do the rockets do the swoop and flip on mars and the moon?

SSTO in those cases. Presently.

> This part I just don't understand.
> (But then, the entire mars mission is fraught with dozens of missing things,
> starting with radiation shielding)

I was a very lonely asteroid exploration advocate at the launch,
futilely engaging with the "Mars Firsters" once again, as I have been
since the 80s.

* Gravity sucks.
* NEO exploration requires less delta-v to get there and much less to
go elsewhere or return.
* You can use launch tethers to get off the class of  "fast rotators",
especially.

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