Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test

Re:Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test by le-mark on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:31PM (#26007024)

Seems like there are two different things here; launching passengers and freight, and returning passengers in comfort and without neck injuries. One could easily envision a passenger only winged glider similar to the space shuttle to serve the passenger return role. Indeed, although spacex has nothing like that planned, these BFRs enable damn near anything.

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Re:Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test by bostonsre on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:40PM (#26007176)

Maybe some gyroscopic passenger seats that stay in one position relative to the ground so that they only feel g's going in one direction instead of being rag dolls.

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Re:Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test by natch on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:32PM (#26007907)

The atmosphere on Mars is not as thick as ours so there might be an issue with that winged glider vision. And then there is the moon...

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Re:Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test by m4rtink on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:49PM (#26009240)

Both have much weaker gravity though.

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Re:Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test by natch on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:33AM (#26023752)

But that doesn’t help when you have zero atmosphere. Zero times anything is still zero. And doesn’t help enough when the atmosphere is too thin.

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