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ULA employee "critiques" Starship architecture (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I saw a graph of our local gravity wells, the moon and Mars are surprisingly similar. The moon has many extra challenges that Mars does not. Propulsively landing on a dust pile is trickier than slowing down with aerobraking.

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

And to land on Mars you need both, ideally. The athmosphere is too thin to rely on just aerobreaking and the other would use much more propulsion.