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What other marketable uses are there for Starship if Mars colonization falls through?
Forget transport... Starship could be the 1st Space Warship. With this platform, the U.S. could establish space superiority out to L2, potentially beyond. Weapons could include everything from ...
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What other marketable uses are there for Starship if Mars colonization falls through?
The military is "exploring" the possibility of using Spacex Starship to deploy troops and equipment around the Globe faster. Falcon Heavy is on the Space Force web site.
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What other marketable uses are there for Starship if Mars colonization falls through?
While the other answers are not wrong (a market for Starship launches may materialize), I feel they miss the point that SpaceX doesn't need a market for Starship launches. They can just create their ...
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What other marketable uses are there for Starship if Mars colonization falls through?
If Starship is able to meet its planned goals of greatly lowering the cost of launching large payloads into space, there seems to be a number of possible marketable uses for such a capability.
Note ...
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How would humans actually colonize Mars?
To add onto Dragongeek's excellent answer, IF we were going to send a manned mission there with intentions of setting up a serious, self sufficient colony, we would almost certainly need a pretty ...
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What other marketable uses are there for Starship if Mars colonization falls through?
The market for heavy launchers is probably mostly only small because of the cost.
Orbital payloads are a compromise between cost, mass and capability, and if Starship allows launching more mass for ...
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What other marketable uses are there for Starship if Mars colonization falls through?
If Mars colonization falls through, what economically viable uses are there for Starship?
Everything every other launcher does (and more). According to this article:
In a cost per kilogram of ...
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How would humans actually colonize Mars?
There are currently no serious plans for colonizing Mars
Any credible attempt at colonizing Mars is still a very, very, long way off. Right now, it's essentially just science fiction. Therefore, the ...
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Does SpaceX have plans to utilize Starship to set up orbital infrastructure?
SpaceX is a launch company, who aim to be the "shovel sellers" in (what they believe will be) the next gold rush of developing space.
Outside of lofty and aspirational long-term Mars goals, ...
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What do the current Starships look like inside?
It's a hollow tube.
The IFT Starship diagram shown in the FAA's environmental assessment shows no crew compartments whatsoever:
This is basically the "cargo" variant of the Starship. The ...
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Is there a reason SpaceX does not spiral weld Starship rocket bodies?
I can think of a few reasons:
A spiral welding jig large enough to fabricate a Superheavy booster would be enormous and expensive, and it would lock in aspects of the construction: it would give an ...
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Is there a reason SpaceX does not spiral weld Starship rocket bodies?
How do you know that you've completed the correct length of spiral? What if it's 2cm longer, or shorter? Or if the temperature has varied between this morning and this afternoon, and so the metal ...
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Is there a reason SpaceX does not spiral weld Starship rocket bodies?
It may be that it is just easier to manufacture a number of sub assemblies and fit them with bulkheads, thrust structures, domes, flap fittings, access ports, stringers, heat shield mounting points, ...
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