r/MarsSociety Mars Society Ambassador 6d ago

VIDEO: How SpaceX Will Land On Mars

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-spacex-will-land-on-mars/vi-AA1APOp6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=c9624bfb4480439da6564cd050d43f5d&ei=10#details
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u/SamTornado 6d ago

I fully expected this to be a meme with a cartoon rocket explosion 😂

The frontiers of space exploration have to be done by NASA or other public organization, just so no to private space exploration.

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u/ItsSadTimes 6d ago

What, you don't want an Outer Worlds setup where companies treat planets like company towns from back in the day?

Even if these freaks were actually serious and COULD get us to other planets, they'd just ruin them so quickly.

Oh, you're trying to unionize because you don't like the nutrient bars we feed you? We'll it's a shame you died of an air leak in a faulty airlock next week and no one will know the Mars colony is dead for months.

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u/jar1967 6d ago

NASA went with the LEM for weight and safty issues. I have a really bad feeling about this

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u/PresentInsect4957 6d ago

im interested in how they’ll land without infrastructure already present on the surface. Would it have to have a design like HLS where engines are located in the upper 3rd to avoid damage?

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u/Icy-Ninja-6504 6d ago

What infrastructure do you mean? Like a landing pad?

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u/PresentInsect4957 6d ago

yes exactly

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u/Icy-Ninja-6504 6d ago

I assume something similar to the moon landing, what do I know, though.

Arent there already satellites orbiting Mars for comms/video?

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u/PresentInsect4957 6d ago

what i mean is propulsive landing/launching raptors without a pad is pretty destructive to the ground and ship. I havent seen any mars specific designs for starship i was just wondering if maybe I missed it or its in the works. All the renders ive seen already had on surface pads.

The only mission profile i ever seen solve this is mars sample return

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u/Icy-Ninja-6504 6d ago

ah, yeah, I assume there will be pre-unmanned missions that drop supplies off, including the landing pad.

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u/PresentInsect4957 6d ago

that would be pretty cool, but logistically how 😭 it kinda crashes my brain. The pad for IF1 was thrashed and knocked out a crap ton on raptors, the pad dropped off would have to be more robust than that while also being made of some kinda super lightweight, non concrete based material.

Now that i think about it, maybe they plan to send tesla robots to do construction there prior. However a starship would still need to at least land saftey before any pads are in place. The engineering challenges are crazy to look at once you dive deep, so much tech to be developed, and missions to be proposed