Timeline for What kind of rocket design would be used for Lunar/Mars E2E travel when colonized?
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| Nov 14, 2021 at 17:34 | vote | accept | Small-Jaguar | ||
| Nov 14, 2021 at 17:12 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | @CuteKItty_pleaseStopBArking: The premise of the question is that Mars colonies would not use rovers. I question that premise since the only person that seems to be seriously working on Mars colonies literally made a company that is perfectly placed to build rovers. The Cybertruck is essentially a clever way of getting ordinary people to pay for development of rover concepts. | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 17:08 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | … robotic cars, and most recently, humanoid robots. He founded a company that builds solar panels, which just happen to be needed both for space travel and for electric rovers. He founded a company that builds tunnels – building habitats underground also happens to be a simple way of solving the problem with a) radiation shielding (just let the rocks do it) and b) how to haul all the construction materials for the Mars base to space (just use the rocks that are already there). Oh, and his brother founded a company building containerized smart hydroponic vertical farms. | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 17:04 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | @CuteKItty_pleaseStopBArking: As far as I can tell, Elon Musk does seriously and genuinely believe that having only one planet is a dangerous risk and that humanity needs a backup plan(et). And he seems to be pretty laser-focused on making that happen, not necessarily for himself or even his children, but his grandchildren and future generations. He founded a space company to build a sustainable, economically viable road to Mars. He invested in an electric car company, since electric wheeled vehicles seem to be the best way to move about Mars. He amended the company's focus into AI and … | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 16:47 | comment | added | CuteKItty_pleaseStopBArking | @JörgWMittag his other company sells the world's most successful electric car, and is valued at 1 trillion USD. His other-other company you have likely used to pay online transactions with. It's hard to miss, it processes 936 billions dollars of payments last year, and made 21.4 billion revenue from that.. I fail to understand just what you are saying with your comment of "Now, what does his other company do again"?? | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 0:40 | answer | added | GremlinWranger | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 13, 2021 at 21:33 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | "Over long distances, rovers would be too slow" – There's a simple solution to that: don't build your bases long distances apart. By the way: the only one who is really serious about colonizing Mars is Elon Musk. Now, what does his other company do again … | |
| Nov 13, 2021 at 18:39 | comment | added | Woody | What distances are you planning to service? Do you want to transport crew or material only? Do you want to limit the question to rocket based solutions only? We all love rockets, but their EPA fuel economy isn't great. | |
| Nov 13, 2021 at 16:08 | comment | added | Small-Jaguar | related blogpost: hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2014/06/travel-on-airless-worlds.html a comment on this post suggests a dragon would have enough deltav to work | |
| Nov 13, 2021 at 15:58 | comment | added | Woody | Related post about maximum lift for helicopters on Mars: space.stackexchange.com/questions/55644/… | |
| Nov 13, 2021 at 15:55 | comment | added | Woody | Mass accelerators would be great for launching suborbital payloads. Catching them at the other end is problematic. Maybe a big Bouncy Castle? | |
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| S Nov 13, 2021 at 13:04 | history | asked | Small-Jaguar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |