SpaceX Starship development: 7th flight January 10

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Looking back 10 years -

SpaceX Thread 'SpaceX: Interplanetary Transport System'

Sep 28, 2016

Elon Musk presented SpaceX's plans for its manned missions beyond Earth orbit yesterday. SpaceX is well known for missing their deadlines (like most in the space industry, to be fair), so we'll see how long it will take to develop it. The question how it will look like is clearer already, here are the key points. I rounded some numbers, and they are all preliminary anyway:

The system will have three components:
- a booster
- an interplanetary spacecraft ("ship" in this post)
- a tanker spacecraft ("tanker")

All three components are designed to be fully reusable with...

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One person who was key to SpaceX development is Tom Mueller, SpaceX employee 1, and cofounder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller

Mueller was a propulsion engineer at TRW. Mueller is best known for his engineering work on the Merlin, Draco, Super Draco and TR-106 rocket engines.

 

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Some updates on HLS
(archived version)

It has a first (?) official rendering of the crew cabin. There is a lot of space for 4 astronauts!

SpaceX has started fabricating a flight-article Starship HLS cabin that will include functional avionics and power systems, crew systems and mechanisms, environmental control and life support systems, cabin and crew communications systems, and a cabin thermal control system.
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The next major flight milestones tied specifically to HLS will be a long-duration flight test and the in-space propellant transfer flight test. [2026]