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Published: 2017-07-02 22:36:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 52235; Favourites: 1090; Downloads: 0
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ITS landers at Alpha Site, first large scale human colony on Mars.
My take on SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System announced by Elon Musk last year.
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Interesting concept! If these "shuttle-like" crafts can get their fuel on Mars, this concept would be possible. They will fly to Earth and land like space shuttle, will they? How about way back?
I guess that the living spaces are underground, because of radiation protection?
GREAT AND REALISTIC CONCEPT! You have a lot good ideas here!
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The spaceX its concept in this artwork comes from the actual spaceX ITS concept revealed a couple years ago. The ITS would have taken off with a boost stage, gotten refueled by an unmanned fueler ITS and flown to mars and landed vertically like in this picture, it then would have been refueled by the sabatier process using the water on mars, come back to earth and landed vertically again, much like a falcon 9 boost stage. The ITS concept has been scrapped for the BFR which is only a bit smaller but accomplishes the same mission.
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Thanks for explanation!
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I love this. Reminds me of the piles of science fiction i read in the seventies.
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I like his plan in general, but now we just gotta figure out how to get hundreds of people to live on the surface of Mars. Not talking volunteers. Where will they live? What will they eat? How will they recycle oxygen?
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He mentioned that they will live in carbon fiber and glass geodesic domes.
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Or build in the canyons and mountains.
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This is so brilliant and just mashes all my geek buttons.
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It feels like 1965 again. When it seemed everything was possible.
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I love this piece man. Excellent work. Maybe I'll see you on the ITS one day
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the bowl shaped landing sites make no sense. They would tend to collect copious quantities of Martian dust and silt. It would make more sense if they were flat or even ever so slightly domed with excavated areas surrounding them (easier than building a platform). The Martian wind will tend to keep the landing site clear of dust and any dust/silt that collects around the launch site would be blasted outwards and upwards during launches or landings.
Nice artwork. Insufficient thought.
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Bowl landing pad is a nice way to solve one obvious problem the ITS have - rocks hitting the engine bells during last seconds of landing. It have to be pre-built by some unmanned mission before manned landing.
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The major issue with a bowl shape landing site is probably acoustics and shock waves generated by the rocket engines and rocket engine exhaust. These would be directed back at the rocket engines likely destroying the rocket engines or the rocket/spacecraft that is landing or taking off.
This is one of the reasons that launches from Earth have flame trenches and water deluge systems. They are not there for cooling but primarily to diminish shock waves and acoustics.
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Very intriguing! And absolutely gorgeous colors and shading!
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