Finally, they spelled out my long-time suspicions: "Starship Faces Performance Shortfall for Lunar Missions. If SpaceX is only able to launch 50 tons of propellant to orbit inside each Starship tanker, then it will need to launch the world’s largest rocket a staggering 30 times to refuel a single lunar lander." americaspace.com/2024/04/20/…
The promised 100–150 tons to LEO was recently adjusted to just 50 tons. This is less than Falcon-Heavy. Looks like they cannot clock Raptor-2 to 70-80% of capacity. The promised "catch and reuse" procedure is still in a room of science fiction.
In December 2023 and February 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft, currently in orbit around and investigating… The post Juno observes lava lake on Io, provides insight into Jupiter’s water abundance appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
Why we cannot land on the Moon? "Accounting for inflation, the entire Apollo program would cost over $260 billion in today's dollars. If you include project Gemini and the robotic lunar program, which were necessary precursors to Apollo, that figure reaches over $280 billion." space.com/why-is-getting-to-the-moon-so-hard
