SpaceX’s Starship Is So Big NASA Is Worried It’ll Affect Lunar Space Station’s Orbit

SpaceX’s Starship Is So Big NASA Is Worried It’ll Affect Lunar Space Station’s Orbit

SpaceX’s Starship lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program might be too big to comfortably dock with the space agency’s planned lunar space station, according to a fresh report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO undertook a study of the space station’s mass constraints, and it concluded that two of its primary components, namely the habitation and logistics outpost (HALO) and the power and propulsion element (PPE), had a combined mass that was greater than their target. It was also found that the PPE might be unable to correctly steer the vehicle in case large vehicles such as […]

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