Author Topic: HLS Landing in 2023 - What would it take? (Read 65945 times)

Zed_Noir · « **Reply #100 on:** 04/24/2023 11:46 am »

Quote from: sanman on 04/23/2023 11:20 am

Well, there could still be HLS Starship landing attempt this year -- but it would be a dunk into the Pacific Ocean, like OFT-1 was trying to achieve. My understanding is that OFT-2 will involve the flapless HLS version of Starship.

AIUI the next 2 Starship in the launch queue are spoiler airfoils less and have no thermal protection. Which means they will not survive atmospheric reentry. So a Pacific dunking will have to be some other Starship in the launch queue.

baddux · « **Reply #101 on:** 04/26/2023 10:05 pm »

What it would take:
- Starship can be launched next time in July
- Next launch will be a perfect success
- They decide they need to do refueling demo as early as possible, so the next launch is refueling Starship, also success
- The third launch will be the target ship of a refueling test. Now they have a fueled ship and they decide to test going to the Moon as well.
They have one refueling to go from LEO to TLI and to LLO and also to the lunar surface, or at least very close before they would start the small landing engines.

TomH · « **Reply #102 on:** 12/31/2023 10:32 pm »

Well, Starship didn't even make it to orbit this year. So the answer must be, It was simply beyond a reasonable ability. In that the specified time period has passed, I am recommending mods close thread.

sdsds · « **Reply #103 on:** 12/31/2023 11:15 pm »

Quote from: TrueBlueWitt on 01/18/2023 02:51 pm

According to Wayne Hale in the NAC, they think SpaceX could even attempt a Moon landing this year??

This serves to demonstrate the reliability of reports about what the NAC is seriously contemplating.

steveleach · « **Reply #104 on:** 01/01/2024 02:59 pm »

Quote from: sdsds on 12/31/2023 11:15 pm

Quote from: TrueBlueWitt on 01/18/2023 02:51 pm
According to Wayne Hale in the NAC, they think SpaceX could even attempt a Moon landing this year??

This serves to demonstrate the reliability of reports about what the NAC is seriously contemplating.

If someone tosses a coin, I seriously contemplate the possibility of it coming up heads. I don't then consider myself unreliable if it comes up tails though.