Starship Flight 5 likely delayed BIG time, Elon Musk announces Mars timeline

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Starship's Next Steps: Mars in Sight!- Elon Musk has set a new timeline for SpaceX's Mars ambitions, with uncrewed Starships launching by 2026 to test Mars landings. If successful, crewed missions could follow in four years! Despite the skepticism around these ambitious deadlines, history shows Elon's goals often push the boundaries of what's possible.
Why Mars?- Making life multiplanetary reduces existential risks to humanity. The current cost to Mars is about $1 billion per ton, but SpaceX aims for $100,000 per ton to make a self-sustaining city viable.
Tech Talk- From the switch to methane fuel for easier Mars-based production to the challenges of energy generation on Mars, we dive into the tech making this dream feasible.
Launch Windows:- Learn about the Hohmann transfer orbit, explaining why Mars launches happen every 26 months, aiming for a 9-month journey.
SpaceX Updates:- While we await Starship Flight 5, where they'll attempt to catch the booster with the Mechazilla, SpaceX continues to innovate with Starlink, potentially funding these Mars missions.
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@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

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@cornnatron3030 11 дней назад

what about the moon mission ? bit optimistic to talk about mars if you havnt even completed your moon mission let alone the testing for that mission or a date for that moon mission. but than again that is elon who knows enough of his followers take his word even though he has never delivered on the time he said he would in the last 2 decades . but still people trust him on what he says boggles the mind .

@GrigoriZhukov 11 дней назад

@@ellieinspace You rock. Keep it factual and informative in YOUR style not the way some idiot producers and directors tend to take things. But don't mind me grew up around radio before automation ruined it. 😉

@mhughes1160 11 дней назад

I suspect it will happen about 5 years after the pi phone is released LoL 😂 . Man may one day visit mars and die there But no one will ever live there .

@GrigoriZhukov 11 дней назад

@mhughes1160 better than. Kippining off in Brighton, I suppose.

@mhughes1160 11 дней назад

@@GrigoriZhukov It’s only $500 billion to get there . One way ticket LoL 😂

@stevecam724 12 дней назад

4 years to get humans to Mars? It will take 4 years to get the FAA approval to launch a test flight to Mars.

@richdurbin6146 12 дней назад

If they crash land on Mars will they have to file a mishap report?

@stevecam724 12 дней назад

@@richdurbin6146 IF SpaceX can file a comprehensive environmental impact statement.

@BBBrasil 12 дней назад

About that, is someone in FAA aware of the plans Elon has to fly thousands of those? Anyone can imagine Starbase and Cape Canaveral to become like airports, imagine FAA telling JFK and Newark, sorry you have to restrict the trips to Europe to a hundred per year...

@JoesPalace 12 дней назад

Seems like he should move some operations to another country that has less restrictions?

@stuartgray5877 12 дней назад

@@JoesPalace Or to international waters so he can tell the FAA where to stick it?

@eddecook9252 12 дней назад

So a portion of my Star Link bill every month is effectively a "tax" to support Elon's Mars project. This is one tax I have no problem whatsoever paying for as long as it takes.

@paulw7404 11 дней назад

Not exactly - He is reinvesting profits back into R&D - so less profits to shareholders and CEO's! Also less/no $$$ into corporate lawfare like Bozo.

@davidbeppler3032 11 дней назад

@@paulw7404 Amazing, you know Elon is not paid, and shareholders do not collect dividends from Tesla/SpaceX? Maybe you are the Bozo?

@hardcoreherbivore4730 11 дней назад

Let’s not have any delusions. The mars mission is more about mining the asteroid belt for rare earth metals. Not that it’s any less important, just a harder sales pitch.

@seancollins9745 11 дней назад

@@hardcoreherbivore4730 both are absolutely critical to the human future

@Wirmish 11 дней назад

I see it as an investment in the protection of _the light of consciousness_ in our Milky Way.

@TheOrsonbuggy 12 дней назад

The sooner they get started, the better. Mistakes will be made, but that’s the way to learn. Take care Ellie! 😊

@SebastianWellsTL 12 дней назад

SpaceX is a source of inspiration and hope during troubling times. I wish them well!

@kneekoo 12 дней назад

I'll be in person in front of my PC for the next Starship test. 😄

@davidbeppler3032 11 дней назад

Ditto!

@skyserf 11 дней назад

Ditto

@spazticfantaztic8553 10 дней назад

AI ?

@kneekoo 10 дней назад

@@spazticfantaztic8553 Al Bundy?

@ross077 12 дней назад

Thanks for the preview of The Cost to Mars chapter from Reentry, Ellie. I'll look forward to your interview with Eric Berger and reading the book when it comes out.

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

It is SOOO good !

@LinusWelt 11 дней назад

Wer ist er?

@Liberty4Ever 12 дней назад

I am a huge SpaceX fan and love everything they're doing. I've waited five decades for a tech entrepreneur approach to aerospace. That said, the 2 years for unmanned and 4 years for manned missions to Mars is wack. SpaceX kicks ass because they have a tight loop for design-build-test. The Hohmann transfer orbit prevents SpaceX from rapid design iterations. Fly a test mission, and when it doesn't work, try again in 26 months.

@imconsequetau5275 11 дней назад

Earth re-entry can test many aspects of the Mars missions. So could Moon landings. The experimental propellant transfers will likely be the last required link in enabling a first Mars mission launch, even preceding a successful Moon landing. I can easily see further propellant transfers enabling the subsequent first Moon test, running concurrently with the longer term Mars mission.

@bendeckstarkiller9615 11 дней назад

Even if the timeline is impossible it’s amazing having someone that thinks the way musk does. The future isn’t as far away when we have thinking like that

@BBBrasil 12 дней назад

Many of the hardcore fans of SpaceX sometimes forget that Elon doesn't want to build the best spaceship ever. He wants a thousand of them. If they had a problem with a valve, SpaceX engineers are not just fixing it, they are thinking, OK, that times 1,000 -how do we make a production line of that? It would be much easier to make Spaceshuttle-style heat shield but that just wouldn't work because they need literally millions of PICA tiles. Also they will need tens of thousands of Raptor engines, giga-factories worth for methane and oxygen propellant, megatons of steel, you guys got the idea...

@KrustyKlown 12 дней назад

AND Who will pay for ALL THAT?? LOL. $$ TRILLIONS ... colonizing Mars would be the most expense project ever attempted by mankind.. and for WHAT return on that investment?? .. that is where this sci-fi Mars fantasy face plants big time.

@shvrdavid 12 дней назад

Yet Space X now holds the best safety record in space travel, ever.. Due to mass production, not skipping steps, or stealing someone else's work to get there......... The chances of any other company doing so successfully, are slim to none....

@I_Dont_Answer_Questions 11 дней назад

You mean boot lickers... because Elon has fuck all to do with any of it.

@davidbeppler3032 11 дней назад

Bezos just wants one reusable rocket to do space tourism. Elon wants thousands to do colonization. Pretty big difference is scope.

@99slacker999999999 11 дней назад

I'll be driving from Massachusetts in my car full of camping gear to Rocket Ranch for IFT-5 ! It will be so awesome to see Round One of Mechazilla vs Booster.

@MikeG-gf2zl 11 дней назад

Thank you Ellie!

@HockeyDay 12 дней назад

Have you heard the FAA investigating Starliner? It was a ship that was launched with many failures. The FAA should be all over this, but isn’t.

@alkimball8920 12 дней назад

Excelent point.

@nextlevelenglish5858 12 дней назад

Its experimental. Failures are expected.

@moonasha 12 дней назад

the FAA is responsible for things flying on earth. As far as I know it has no jurisdiction over things going wrong in space. Starliner didn't have any incidents while flying. It was only when it got to space that things were found to be out of whack.

@PaleBlueDotCitizen 12 дней назад

Corruption

@BBBrasil 12 дней назад

I am not sure we are aware of everything the FAA does and doesn't

@cathyk9197 11 дней назад

Eric Berger is awesome and I look forward to watching your interview🥰

@dirkbester9050 11 дней назад

Well it's interesting because right now Starship is expendable. As soon as the booster becomes reusable by being catchable the program is suddenly equivalent to F9. The limitation becomes just pure ship build rate. As soon as the ship makes it back for a catch the cadence becomes nuts like the current F9 cadence. A few more ship and booster revisions and you get pretty rapid progress. The tanker just needs this to be viable. Once tanker works you can launch to a large chunk of the solar system. 2 years to unmanned and 2 more till manned is a decent guess at it? The unknown is just how long does it take to get to that truly rapid stage. Progress is so agonizing right now!

@imconsequetau5275 11 дней назад

I recall that NASA requires a calculable mortality risk of less than 1:280-ish for LEO missions. Can SpaceX and private crew astronauts exceed these risks for the first Mars mission?

@dupre7416 11 дней назад

Everyone that doesn't wake up with a burning chunk of de-orbitted rocket in their bed can thank the FAA for that.

@lordinquis8r679 11 дней назад

Thanks, Ellie! Margaritaville when it’s time. Assuming all my systems are go for launch.

@OGSpaceMike 11 дней назад

Great report Ellie. I appreciate you.

@ronaldlebeck9577 12 дней назад

My main concern with the catch attempt of a Super Heavy booster is not if it hits the tower, but rather if it misses the tower completely and slams into the tank farm. THAT will cause a huge explosion that would undoubtedly severely damage, if not destroy, most of the launch site and damage structures a fair distance away. There's a lot of liquid methane and oxygen stored uncomfortably close to the tower(s) that will have a flaming beast roaring down towards it -- off by a little bit and bye-bye launch facility. Nobody seems to be talking about that possibility.

@jrodthegreat1 12 дней назад

That’s why there’s a delay. We have to make sure faa is confident in the catch attempt

@mewintle 12 дней назад

I posted about it on an Ellie thread here

@BBBrasil 12 дней назад

Yeah, we can't be the only ones that thought about that, can't we? SpaceX engineers must have thought about it, right? Right?

@shvrdavid 12 дней назад

@@jrodthegreat1 Faa and confident in the same sentence..... 🤣

@wingsounds13 12 дней назад

Surely, if Super Heavy is off of its landing/catch target by more than a few meters it will abort to a splash down in the gulf. I have already heard something like this mentioned. The tank farm is a couple hundred meters from the tower, so there is plenty of room to detect an error and abort without getting anywhere near the tank farm.

@ohiopat 12 дней назад

Good vid, I learned a few things and I really try to stay up on all this stuff.

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

Glad it was helpful! If you keep watching, I’ll keep creating 🥹

@spanke2999 11 дней назад

and on a side note... honestly guys? Starship is a great tool for LEO, if it works! But to use it as an interplanetary vehicle? Why on earth would you do that? Us it to build infrastructure, use it to build a real craft that can travel the distance and transport enough cargo to make it worth while. Space is not only hard, it's freaking deadly as is Mars. You don't want to use a skiff to haul cargo across the Atlantic!

@JeffGoins88 11 дней назад

This is such a great time to be alive! So exciting. 🚀

@joelazaro461 12 дней назад

If Starship is going anyway, surely there are some potential science missions that wouldn't mind hitching a ride? What about a little greenhouse designed to try growing various seeds in Martian soil? Regarding fuel generation on Mars, talking about solar power seems like at most a stop-gap solution ue to deployment considerations, dust issues, and distance from the sun. Let's not pretend that nuclear power doesn't exist. We need to develop small modular reactors that can be sent via Starship and used in the first human settlements.

@dirkbester9050 11 дней назад

Seeds in Martian soil huh? We would need some kind of robot gardner. Now where can we find a robot at?

@imconsequetau5275 11 дней назад

Greenhouse? Ok, but also include a Sabatier process factory and water drilling/mining probes. All fully automated with minimal remote supervision. It would also be great if the power source is autonomously deployed, such as PV arrays and/or Fission-Stirling power modules.

@FarginBastiges 11 дней назад

If you don't set a goal and deadline...you're Blue Origin.

@Migglesworth 11 дней назад

There is no reason to go to Mars. There will be no permanent city there. Fantasy should be left in the movies.

@LolLol-fv9mt 11 дней назад

Can’t want go launch 🚀

@PapyrusEngineer 11 дней назад

Cannot wait for flight 5 to happen

@garyseven2798 12 дней назад

Look at it this way , The Moon is one Inch AWAY , Mars is 100 Miles Away.

@timesquare5473 12 дней назад

Try, moon is about 2300 metres away, but I get yer idea.

@davidbeppler3032 11 дней назад

Wow... so without wind resistance, distance is just time? 90% of the fuel is used just getting out of our atmosphere.

@warrenwhite9085 11 дней назад

@@garyseven2798 Look at the energy required to land something on the Moon vs landing the same payload on Mars. . For the Moon, you need about 3.2 km/s for TLI, 1 km/s for LOI and 2 km/s for landing. Assuming LOI and landing are done with hypergolics, that means that if you wanted to land a 50-ton habitat on the Moon, you would need to bring about 300 tons to LEO. . For Mars, you need about 3.6 km/s for TMI, a heat shield to aerobrake at Mars, and about 1 km/s for landing. So to land a 50-ton habitat on Mars, you would need to bring about 250 tons to LEO. So it's not really cheaper to get something to the Moon than to get it to Mars.

@imconsequetau5275 11 дней назад

@@warrenwhite9085 Agreed. For Mars, the Aerobraking is mostly done without propellant. Moon missions require propellant all the way down from transfer orbit. Polar Lunar missions are even worse. However, we really want to expend Lots of propellant for *_Crewed Mars missions to minimize transit time._* 2 months vs 6 months is often mentioned. I would also surround the crew section with 100 tons of water and polyethylene to further reduce radiation dose.

@just_archan 11 дней назад

@@davidbeppler3032yes and no. Best description is that while there is no air to brak, you have to first THROW object that far. You need about 9.25 km/s DeltaV to get to Leo. Then you need next 2.5km/s to geo. And so on.

@mikercflyer7383 11 дней назад

The FAA is a terrible bureaucracy.

@KiRiTO72987 11 дней назад

The FAA is mainly just horribley underfunded the can't handle the amount of private launches happening between spaceX and other companies, it's why spaceX is constantly advocating for additional funding for the FAA

@praveenweerasundara619 11 дней назад

kinda, but at least they allowed 4 launches so far

@jorgemorando380 11 дней назад

2:57 Metabolically 🤣. My subscription is so easy to win ... you got it.

@Thunderbyrd. 11 дней назад

I feel like I have a PHD in Rocket Science after all the book learning I got from this video, lol. Very good and informative video, wow!

@darrylreif1492 11 дней назад

Hi Ellie I'm a new listener. Just wanted to say it's refreshing to hear space news from a real journalist that's not only concise but also free from the hubris and fanboy content that seems to permeate most of the others. Nice.

@htraut1725 9 дней назад

Maybe Elon should consider having another Starship base in a friendlier country

@alansnyder8448 12 дней назад

I was hoping flight 5 would be before I finished reading Eric's Reentry book, but it now looks like it will be after.

@joesmith6972 11 дней назад

Read slower.

@fkarg10 11 дней назад

Hey, that's not fair. Reentry is not available for us for another two weeks.

@Autism101 11 дней назад

I’m not confident at all this idea of catching a rocket will work. Especially not consistently which will be needed. It looks great in an animated video though. But then again, no one had ever landed a rocket that had orbited in space before they came along and did it. They have some of the best engineers in the world, and it will be incredible to see them attempt it…excitement guaranteed.

@SteveBakerIsHere 11 дней назад

One way to think about Methane is that it's four hydrogen atoms glued together with a carbon atom. So you have all of the hydrogen stored much more densely than with pure hydrogen - and the carbon "glue" also burns up. Considered that way - it's clearly an improvement over pure hydrogen.

@seasonallyferal1439 11 дней назад

A solar power station in space would be a good work around on Mars. The problem is transmission.

@richardwolf6269 11 дней назад

They can’t even get back to the moon. This Mars talk is pure fantasy!

@mrbruce307 12 дней назад

Chop sticks will not work. There's not enough bracing down below contact points. Hold your arms out while holding a bucket of water. Now have someone drop bucket from 2 feet above you. Youre arms go down a lot. Plus the tower will lean toward rocket, and there's nothing contacting backside to ground... I have ten bucks that say tower will fail.

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

But the booster will hover first, and then arms will wrap around

@Lucas12v 11 дней назад

The strength of the chopsticks isn't the real question. That's easy (relatively speaking) to calculate and engineer. It's how well/softly the booster descends onto them.

@derek_shannon 11 дней назад

The importance of methane dates back to Zubrin's original Mars direct circa 1991. Dr Z definitely deserves lots of credit, I wish Elon would listen to him a little bit more.

@Papazipper9436 11 дней назад

Sooooo he is gonna litter mars with a bunch of starship debris!

@user-ev1ub5es5m 12 дней назад

Ellie that was brilliant thanks, really interesting 🤔😁

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@brendanpells912 11 дней назад

It's another "don't look over there, look over here instead" moment from Space Karen. Let's not talk about the fact that we're way behind schedule on the HLS project even though we've already spent most of the money.

@MajzoubIbrahim-d4r 11 дней назад

These works seem to me like dreams.. They will come true.. within the coming years and very soon..🚀🚀🚀🚀

@Bennie32831 10 дней назад

4 year's would be cool ✌️

@zippythinginvention 11 дней назад

Macaulay Culkin called. He wants his thumbnails back.

@richardloewen7177 11 дней назад

3 problems with martian solar cells: (1) half the sunlight (re that on earth)--you discussed it. (2) faster deterioration because of harsher radiation. (3) massive winter sandstorms, In light of these problems... Elon, at least for the first 20 or 25 years on Mars, please use nuclear for power production. (During that interval, experiment with solar cells on Mars--but DON'T rely on solar!)

@imconsequetau5275 11 дней назад

Yes. Modular fission generators for electrical backup, emergency baseloads, and thermal heating supply.

@JorgeStolfi 11 дней назад

One does a test only when one is not sure whether the thing will work or not. But Test 4 already showed that the Starship cannot get to the lowest LEO with zero payload and return whole. So Test 5 is unnecessary. That however should not prevent us from dreaming of the Mars mission -- provided we put it far enough in the future that people will forget about it by then.

@lvlndco 11 дней назад

Without goals to set milestones you have a hard time reaching...a goal.

@tandymiller775 11 дней назад

We have been on the cusp of launch day for like 2 months, i hate musk time.

@Inspace_noone_can_hear_u_honk. 11 дней назад

I think he may have meant humans to Mars 4 years after first Mars landing. So 6 years… still a lofty goal.

@haydukethor 11 дней назад

Humans might visit Mars but Humans can’t live on mars

@charleslaine 7 дней назад

Agreed. The closest approximation to Mars on Earth the science station at the South Pole. Mars makes the South Pole into a vacation paradise in comparison.

@admarsandbeyond 12 дней назад

Starship can make the trip to Mars much faster than 9 months (which is the lowest ΔV trajectory), it can make it in a minimum of 80 days with an average of 115 days per Spacex.

@davidbeppler3032 11 дней назад

It could go even faster if it had unlimited fuel. Like, let it refuel multiple times on the way to Mars.

@admarsandbeyond 11 дней назад

@@davidbeppler3032 that would require hundreds of launches per Mars lander. 115 days is fast enough to overcome most problems critics consider impossible. Eg radiation, consumables stores, crew psychology and micro g effects on physiology become almost no issues with fast transits. To go faster than that you need nuclear propulsion and that has a great deal of problems on its own (extreme cost, in-space use exclusively which requires different launchers and landers, extreme safety risks from radiation at all stages etc)

@imconsequetau5275 11 дней назад

If you go too fast, the thermal protection system would be overwhelmed within the Mars atmosphere. It might be better to improve radiation shielding by surrounding the crew compartment with mostly water and polyethylene cargo, plus food. You can easily make it within 80-115 days. @@davidbeppler3032

@gunmetalblue7714 11 дней назад

Total Recall......."Get your ass to Mars"

@toddbyrne3001 10 дней назад

I am a DEMOCRATIC SUPPORTER, but I THINK the DEMOCRATIC PARTY is causing all THESE DELAYS because ELON called Joe Biden.............. SLEEP JOE and this is alway of getting back at ELON and SHAME on the DEMOCRATIC PARTY period.

@mbukukanyau 11 дней назад

The timeline is feasible if you layout the Moon Starship schedule laidout by NASA Artemis program. They need to solve transit between earth and moon by this time next year for Starship whi h means, they should be refueling by Summer of 2025 in LEO, they seem to be on schedule for that critical path at this time. If they catch the booster, it's game on, since it's proof they can catch the Ship. Now, the state of the Pad problem after launch is still not solved. The pad is in no shape to launch after lift off. They need to be able to launch at least once everyday to get 4 or 5 ships going in a week, stage them , refuel them and send them on their way.

@simian_essence 10 дней назад

I love the switch to space from politics. The latter is such a waste of Elon's time - and that includes X/Twitter distractions.

@pspicer777 11 дней назад

I saw the moon landing. Four years? I hope so, as I really want to see the first Mars landing.

@davewbaldwin3369 11 дней назад

This would make more sense (leave alone number of months "til") 1) multiple starships enroute 2) multiple starships enroute a) one if not more staffed by humanoid robots 3) multiple starships enroute a) first time w/humans along with bots

@velisvideos6208 11 дней назад

Why do you need spacecraft "staffed" with humanoid robots? Currently spacecraft operate just fine without robots. And, if they had robots, why would these need to be "humanoid"?

@davewbaldwin3369 11 дней назад

@@velisvideos6208 to prove (true humanoid) the ship thru landing and even maneuvering little craft on to surface would work...

@kevinm5363 11 дней назад

Better start incorporating landing gear into Starship soon if they'll ever be landing on the moon and mars. Bots for passengers seem like the way to get there early on, they would make great test dummies and be able to start setting up systems for the later arriving humans....

@velisvideos6208 11 дней назад

A sad fact: we don't have any bots capable of such stunts. There won't be any Mars base this century. Probably not even a permanent Moon base.

@hoffbd1 11 дней назад

You can't talk about Mars or any other significant achievement without understanding how politics can derail those ambitions. You might only want to hear about the tech but Elon is right to focus on the entire picture which unfortunately includes politics.

@linseyyoung1772 12 дней назад

Perhaps Elon has returned to talking about space after realising that promoting holocaust revisionists via Tucker Carlson isn't a good look...

@peterwilson7532 11 дней назад

Oh that one burned! Nice one.

@zapfanzapfan 12 дней назад

Literally and metabolically? That was a new saying. If orbital refueling is working pretty well in two years then maybe a testshot to Mars just to see if it manages to land can become a thing. HLS is supposed to land on the Moon in two years too... probably not happening either...

@lanav9679 11 дней назад

Super Cool !

@skeelo69 11 дней назад

First week of November

@crowdertom 12 дней назад

Well, done as always, Ellie.

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

you are so kind!

@michaelsherman1018 12 дней назад

Great video of the finger-formation of Starship's heading to the 'Red' Planet. Thanks for the content Ellie!!

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

Thanks so much! I was hoping it wasn't too much of old news!

@Mike-tv9rk 12 дней назад

Ellie, they are trying to catch a 300 ton rocket out of the flipping sky on a tall tower that defies every theory of torsional bending! which has just been barbecued 8 minutes earlier. Not even a cable or two holding the tower straight up. Of course this is going to be delayed. Its near impossible !! But hey, your hello fresh will keep you going whilst we all wait for the miracle.

@markoverton5858 12 дней назад

Mini atomic reactors, could be used to power the base and produce fuel for return trips,

@Eric_Tennant 11 дней назад

3:40 Brightness is a bit high.

@loucatozzi7656 11 дней назад

Who wants to bet that the first human to set foot on Mars will be drawing a SpaceX paycheck instead of NASA?

@kwichzwellbreck697 11 дней назад

2026 is the next Earth-Mars window (roughly all 2 years). It can only be done every 2 years.....

@KiloOneThree 11 дней назад

0:20 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.. The Silver Locusts

@Wirmish 11 дней назад

1. Just put 3 Starships in LEO. Two with crew area. One with a removable nose cone. This Starship have the same top as the Booster (you can put another Starship on it). 2. Fill up all 3 Starships. Assembling one of the "Starship Crew #1" on the top of the "Starship Booster". 3. Use a Falcon 9 with a Crew Dragon to send the crew in the same orbit as the "Starship Crew #1". Transfert the crew into it. 4. Fire the "Starship Booster" toward Mars, but return it to LEO with mostly empty tanks. The "Starship Crew" is on its way to Mars using only 40%-50% of its fuel to accelerate (~2 months trip). 5. Refill the "Starship Booster" and assemble the "Starship Crew #2" on top of it. Launch the uncrewed "Starship Crew #2" toward Mars. Don't use its fuel so that it's full when it orbits Mars. 6. "Starship Crew #1" land on Mars with 15%-20% of its fuel still in the tanks. The astronauts can use it to launch to Mars orbit where the 100% fueled "Starship Crew #2" wait patiently. 7. Transfert the crew to the "Starship Crew #2" and fire it toward Earth. The "Starship Crew #2" come back to LEO. The crew transfert to a Crew Dragon capsule and land on Earth.

@imconsequetau5275 11 дней назад

Not a bad plan. Here's another: If Starship can safely land on Mars, it should already be capable of safely landing on Earth, so the Crew Dragon capsule becomes unnecessary. Both the refilled Mars crew mission ship and a full tanker ship leave LEO together. They transfer propellant in a highly elliptical orbit. The tanker has a nose section, flaps, and thermal protection tiles. It either returns to Earth's surface, or to LEO - using mostly the thermal protection tile system and just a smidge of propellant from the header tanks. Without the nose section, flaps and tiles, it cannot return to LEO except by using lots of propellant, which is very wasteful. The Mars crew mission ship, now filled to the brim and firing a second time from a highly elliptical orbit, can reach Mars rapidly (in 2 months) and then use Aerocapture to either land or make an elliptical orbit. I would put the tanker in Mars orbit two years before (plus many cargo ships at the landing site) and send the first crew mission only if the tanker and cargo missions succeed. Every 26 months, more tanker ships would be added to Mars orbit. Enough to evacuate a collapsed colony. Every fast crew mission is preceded by cargo ships using the slower Hohman transfer orbit. These cargo ships are for both the current mission and also surplus for later missions.

@imconsequetau5275 11 дней назад

Also, the crew ships have enough food for a two-way trip. *_Besides extra propellants, the cargo is mostly water and polyethylene._* Both are excellent radiation absorbers and will shield the crew from radiation both during the trip and on the surface of Mars. [One of the first cargo ships to land on the surface should have a Sabatier process conversion factory and water drilling probe. Once these automated factories accumulate enough propellant, the orbital depot becomes redundant.]

@executivesteps 11 дней назад

It’s funny when you can no longer blame the FAA you revert to the very cute “Elon Time”. It’s so cute.

@peterbridger9254 11 дней назад

looking forward to the Eric Berger interview

@D0zer122 11 дней назад

4:36 bending moment excessive on the curtain rail.

@somethingsomethingsomethingdar 11 дней назад

Lol when has Elon Musk ever uttered a realistic timeline? Anyone on here still waiting on their roadster? How about that full self-driving promise? That thing that they could do "right now".

@praveenweerasundara619 11 дней назад

Yeah Elon time is never realistic, but so far it's been beneficial because it pushes SpaceX to move faster than the competition. Peter Beck explains it pretty well.

@somethingsomethingsomethingdar 11 дней назад

@@praveenweerasundara619 speed is directly opposite of quality and safety. Never forget this.

@praveenweerasundara619 11 дней назад

@@somethingsomethingsomethingdar That's true as a general rule, but so far that hasn't been the case for SpaceX. Falcon 9 and Dragon are the safest and most reliable vehicles in the market. The recent event with Starliner has shown that even more.

@TubbyJ420 12 дней назад

0:46 no goal or deadline = treading water. Hmm sure sounds like blue origin to me lol.

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

You mean sue origin?

@albertross2322 11 дней назад

If he doesn't get out of America with SpaceX he'll end up on a NASA type timeframe! One launch every three years!

@jroar123 11 дней назад

SpaceX should consider building its own LNG facility to be made from pipeline gas closer to the launch pad. It would save them hundreds of millions. My entire life has been working in LNG and I consider myself a expert. The type of plant was built in Topoc Arizona and I was the field engineer who commissioned the plant.

@rogerrussell9544 12 дней назад

The FAA won't it, Elon hasn't donated enough to the DNC.

@Jim-mn7yq 11 дней назад

As far as propellent for the return flight from mars -- and I know others must have thought of this -- why not send an unmanned rocket or rockets loaded with propellant to mars, land and be available when the manned rocket(s) arrive, eliminating the need to produce the methane on Mars?

@michaelcoghlan9124 11 дней назад

Yes he will do it, especially if he gets a brake from dampners. Good luck, we must lead the way, safely an inviomently, M

@dhart1951 12 дней назад

Good for you, Ellie, on getting a copy of Re-entry. Amazon tells me to wait until September 24th. Soooo envious.

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

I’m so grateful I got an advance copy I can’t wait to review it!

@johnkoester6534 12 дней назад

Hi Ellie. Thanks

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

You’re welcome 😊

@lucidmoses 12 дней назад

There are some pretty big things to check of the list to get it done in time. That being said, If they manage an unscrewed test flight seems reasonable.

@craighermle7727 11 дней назад

If Musk was off on autonomous FSD availability by 10+ years, what do you think about the possibility of any Mars timetable announced resembling anything close to reality?

@peterwilson7532 11 дней назад

He is a salesman, nothing more. You might like my comment above yours about life on Mars.

@keithparker6520 11 дней назад

We need to know if there is life on Mars before anyone lands there. We don’t want to wipe out all the planets life or vice versa. Elon is probably too irresponsible to take this into account.

@velisvideos6208 11 дней назад

Not to worry. SpaceX won't get to Mars in 2028, or 2038 either. It's just way too hard and expensive. Just to remind everyone, we are struggling to get back to the Moon. Really struggling.

@texan-american200 12 дней назад

40 years sounds more accurate.

@steeelj 12 дней назад

Swear to god im so tired of all you youtubers constantly saying "elon time" like he hasnt built some of the biggest companies in the world, with the exact vision he had at the beginning. Starship is already reaching orbit. Sending unmanned ones to mars in 2 years is not crazy at all

@bug688 11 дней назад

It is absolutely crazy. You saying this just shows how little you know.

@davidbeppler3032 11 дней назад

It would be crazy if Boeing was doing it.

@dupre7416 11 дней назад

You said "built" but I'm sure you meant to say "bought". Elon *bought* SpaceX and Tesla. Both were someone else's companies prior to Elon being involved. Kind of like Twitter.

@karlelderich7502 11 дней назад

DEI ruined Boeing.

@praveenweerasundara619 11 дней назад

@@dupre7416 I don't like Elon either but that's just factually incorrect. Elon founded SpaceX in 2002. You're right on Tesla though, he was just an angel investor for them.

@cup_and_cone 11 дней назад

Elon time = 1/3 sooner than actual delivery

@davidolsson 11 дней назад

He sais "these will be uncrewed" does that mean he will send atleast 2 at the same time?

@digitalplayland 11 дней назад

SpaceX can go to Mars when the window opens.

@chiaricharlie6608 12 дней назад

Thank you!

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

Thank you for the view!

@marianpazdzioch6632 12 дней назад

Mars, you say ? It looks like he already forgot about he Moon then.

@garyseven2798 12 дней назад

Who wants to visit the Moon Now ? The Chinese landed there a few months ago . I will never visit a COMMUNIST MOON.

@johngrimley3523 12 дней назад

I wish I had the time to go to Texas y'all :)

@ellieinspace 12 дней назад

It’s def a trek And honestly more like going to Mexico lol

@wthharrison7233 11 дней назад

I might go see the launch an landing if someone could tell me when it is.

@ellieinspace 11 дней назад

We alllll wanna know

@farscape1714 11 дней назад

After all of this i feel Elon should put landing legs on the booster like Falcon 9. He should also worry about the catch later and get 5 and 6 flying to work out all the bugs first.