Re:NASA’s bet on Starship for the Moon
by sneak on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:30PM
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I imagine that we'd need hundreds or thousands of people in space to make such a base/fuel depot worth it - IIRC it's less fuel to use a transfer orbit than to go to L4 or L1 and stop on the way.
Such a thing might make sense once there are, say, 50 or 100 starships.
For the foreseeable future, all missions will "start" in Earth's gravity well due to the fact that the o2 and ch4 are all down here. It will be some years until we have significant fuel stores in space.
Such a thing might make sense once there are, say, 50 or 100 starships.
For the foreseeable future, all missions will "start" in Earth's gravity well due to the fact that the o2 and ch4 are all down here. It will be some years until we have significant fuel stores in space.