The picture shared by photographer Austin Barnard via
Thursday features a white Starship nose cone with the flag of the United States and NASA’s recently revived “worm” logo. Barnard shared the picture with the text “NASA Artemis Moon Lander anyone?”NASA Artemis Moon lander anyone?🚀🌙 pic.twitter.com/ORhSMLq12v
— Austin Barnard🚀 (@austinbarnard45) October 22, 2020
It’s uncertain what SpaceX plans to do with the nose cone, but Artemis could provide clues. The project spans a variety of lunar missions, including a crewed mission in 2024 designed to send the next man and woman to the surface. NASA asked SpaceX, along with two other companies, to develop a lander for the mission. The plan proposed by SpaceX makes great use of the spaceship.
“I assume that this will be a replicated moon variant for the Starship presentation,” wrote Barnard on Twitter, referring to the event, which is expected to take place later this month. CEO Elon Musk has hinted that the event could showcase a refined design for the spaceship.
SpaceX has big plans for the spaceship. The ship is designed to carry up to 100 people or 150 tons at a time into space and is powered by a Raptor engine that uses liquid oxygen and methane as fuel. Prototype versions have reached 500 feet in the air, and SpaceX is now planning to reach 50,000 feet with its latest model. The company plans to host a crewed mission to Mars in the 2020s with the goal of having a city on the planet by 2050.
In April, NASA announced it had selected three companies to develop human landers for Artemis: Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin, space technology company Dynetics, and SpaceX. These milestone-based, fixed-price contracts are valued at $ 967 million.
The aim is to develop and demonstrate a human landing system so that one of them can support the crewed mission in 2024. This work will work towards a more sustainable system by 2026. After the announcement in April, NASA began to work with the teams in a 10-month base period until February 2021, during which they will further develop their concepts with additional NASA know-how. The agency is expected to select up to two drafts for the 2024 crewed mission in early 2021.
In addition to crewed missions, Artemis will cover a wide range of moon-focused projects. It will also cover a small spaceship called the Gateway that orbits the moon and helps aid missions to the surface. The project also includes the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft, both of which are intended to launch the crew into space. NASA has also chosen SpaceX to power the gateway with its larger Dragon XL capsule.
SpaceX suggested using multiple spaceships for lunar missions. You would be in low-earth orbit as a fuel storage ship delivered by the tanker Starships. Another spacecraft designed for humans would fly to the fuel depot, refuel, and continue to the moon.
The ship itself would offer “a spacious cabin” alongside two airlocks for astronauts to explore the surface. The rendering concept shows an uplift to the surface. The spaceship would use the Super Heavy Booster to leave Earth, while spaceships in space could be used to transport the crew between the lunar surface and the Orion spaceship and the Gateway spaceship.
Unlike the renders provided in the April announcement, the new nosecone uses a newer NASA logo. NASA’s more minimalist “worm” logo was introduced in 1975 and retired in 1992 in favor of the more complex original “meatball” design. In April 2020, NASA announced that it would revive the logo. The first rocket to use the logo in modern times was the SpaceX Falcon 9, which launched the first Crew Dragon mission with a crew in May.
The Inverse Analysis – It seems that SpaceX is actually preparing a lunar spaceship concept, maybe for its presentation this month. The event would highlight SpaceX’s progress on its contract for NASA’s Artemis project.
It would be a welcome change from last year’s Starship event. Hours before the first full-size prototype was unveiled, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine specifically tweeted that SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule was “years behind schedule.” Bridenstine made it clear during a joint press conference with Musk a month later that NASA wants Starship to be a success. With Crew Dragon and Starship launched as part of Artemis, this year’s event is likely to have a warmer reception.
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