/sci/ - Science & Math

OK, digging around Atomic Rockets' mission tables page a bit more I found this, which seems suspiciously useful for Starship launching from Mars.

http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2012/06/inflated-delta-vs.html

So if using a Phobos or Deimos depot as I described in this post ( >>14876848 ) and using a capture orbit instead of circularizing, particularly useful for Jupiter since Callisto is way out near the edge of the SoI, you might actually be able to do a manned mission to Jupiter from Mars with chemical rockets. It'd be retarded to subject your crew to multi-year transits when you could just use nuclear propulsion instead and would need to bring an ISRU reactor along anyways, but you could do it.