/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16178200
>Moving 100 tons is more complicated than something we already did in the 60s?
In order for Starship to do anything beyond earth orbit, they need to get refueling to work between ships, multiple launches, as well as well as boil off mitigation and raptor relight after several weeks/months of loiter in orbit. That alone is a more complicated mission architecture than what Apollo did. There's pretty much two ways to do a lunar mission; make a Super Heavy lift vehicle that carries has both a crew module and lunar lander and can do the mission in one launch, or do multiple launches using bunch of smaller vehicles. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, the SHLV is going to be more complex and difficult to develop but it can do the mission in 1 launch, which massively simplifies the mission planning. Going the multiple launch route means that you can use smaller and and easier to build launch vehicles but with the downside that your mission planning is much more difficult. You now have to make sure multiple launches go correctly instead of just one and you have to work schedule slip into everything in case a flight is delayed for whatever reason. Starship has worst of both worlds in that it is both a complex SHLV and one that needs multiple launches to get out beyond LEO, all for the sake of it being reusable when HLS starship won't be returning to earth. So yes, it is an big increase in complexity over what was done in the 60s.
>At this rate it will be ready before SLS
What do you mean? SLS already flew in 2022. HLS is the pacing item for Artemis, unless Jeff Bezos decides to haul ass and get Blue Moon up and running in short form.

>>15647635
2 weeks is more than enough time to study, don't be a whiny faggot.

>>15638079
>fuck-huge cloud of oxygen
That's not a big discovery, Oxygen is third most common element in the universe and we've know
>By hobbyist astronomers
That's great and I'm all for it, but that's not all that ground breaking

>>15638080
>D*scord

>>15638081
>Hey baby, wanna come with me to this cool place and form a cooper pair.