Are space scientists ready for Starship—the biggest rocket ever?

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When Starship makes its first orbital launch attempt, many researchers will be watching, waiting to see whether that giant silvery rocket is a vision of space science’s future, or a mirage. LongReads

Ship refueled using martian resources.Pierre Lionnet, a space economist at Eurospace, an industry trade group, is skeptical SpaceX can achieve such a low price point. It may not correctly account for the costs of developing and building the rocket, for example. “When I look at Starship, I’m looking at what seems to be a very expensive device.

In 2020, she and a team of researchers and industry insiders submitted a white paper touting the benefits of Starship to the “decadal survey” in planetary science, an influential community exercise that helps NASA and Congress set long-term priorities. “It’s a good time to try and get this idea in the consciousness of others,” she says. Heldmann and her colleagues suggested NASA create a dedicated funding line for missions relying on Starship.The survey embraced the ideas.

Rubin also dreams of using Starship to construct a giant telescope—say 30 meters—in space. Limbed robots could precisely lay down mirror segments on a scaffolding, forming a giant mirror that could pick out the universe’s first galaxies and look for signs of life in the atmospheres of Earth-like exoplanets. “The science gains scale really quickly as you build larger and larger telescopes,” Rubin says.

But cheaper launches could allow the probes themselves to be cheaper, with less need for space-rated parts that save on weight or bulk. With Starship, planetary scientists wanting to outfit a rover with a spectrometer could just buy one on the internet. Astronomers could use a glass mirror instead of a featherweight beryllium one, like JWST’s. And, Rubin says, “You should just be able to shield your way into radiation hardness,” rather than soldering circuits out of specialized materials.

In Handmer’s view, the problem is partly cultural: NASA engineers try to get everything right on the first try, at all costs—the vastly expensive, long-delayed JWST being a prime example. “It’s kind of like a medieval cathedral,” he says, of such flagship missions. To exploit Starship’s immense capacity, Handmer estimates NASA will need to make 100 times as much stuff for a fraction of the usual cost. It will need to be a fast-fashion factory, not a boutique.

 

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