/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12440647
Retrofitting starships to replace space stations sounds like a fucking awesome idea. I.e. instead of paying billions and billions for something like ISS, NASA could just buy a custom outfitted starship and launch it wherever for like 1/1000th the cost (plus more internal habitable space).
I'm also a big proponent of a starship ferry with expanded living space and maybe even ion engines like HDLT or something. See pic related. You could use it ass a replacement gateway or ISS. And if you want to move it to Mars or something you could do that if you so desire.

>>12390500
Oh shit I've had this idea before. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

>>12311739
Agreed
>>12311741
You absolutely could. Hell, get started on pic related. Maybe a slimmed down version- you don't even need an engine, just some small station-keeping reaction wheels and/or thrusters. Add a rotating hab module so you can study long-term effects of gravity while IN space (i.e. still exposed to higher doses of radiation and cosmic rays and such). Lot's of things could be tested with starship because you can bring up a metric fuckload of science materials for dirt cheap

>>12296569
4-ARSE Starship ferry with SNC habs and a fuckhuge HDLThruster WHEN BROS

>>12235148
Not him but a lot of people are under the impression that because Starship can dock at the ass™ it will dock in space and spin while attached to another starship. This would be the easiest way to do it but would fuck you up because of the high gradient of centripetal force between your feet and head. DESU the best way, in my opinion, is to dock a rotating hab. Something like image related but smaller could be done for the first few dozen or hundred human flights

>>12217707
Honestly this is why I think you might as well construct a Nautilus-X style "station" and send it to Mars. You could dock 2 or more starships at a time (on of them a cargo starship or a tanker), and you wouldnt have to rely on a methalox engine to get you to Mars. Transfer with your nautilus to deimos and then bring your starships down to the surface. Also a station like this could be built with starships in like a week and a plasma engine could drag everything to Mars relatively quickly

>>12210808
We live in a society where no one has the balls to make this. In a perfect world SNC and SpaceX would build this and tell urf to fuck off as they zip around the solar system. Think of all the room you would have on your trip to Mars.