SpaceX Starship: Difference between revisions

In 2024, the [[NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return]] project, one of [[NASA]]'s highest priority flagship projects, suffered a setback when an independent review board assigned to assess the feasibility of the project came to the conclusion that the project would not be able to completed under the then mission profile. In April 2024, the [[Administrator of NASA]] then announced that a new mission profile would be needed for the project and that NASA would turn to industry for proposals, with responses due in Fall 2024, and high emphasis on lower total cost and lower risk.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Robinson-Smith |first=Will |title=NASA requests proposals to reduce cost, timeline of Mars Sample Return mission – Spaceflight Now |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/04/16/nasa-requests-proposals-to-reduce-cost-timeline-of-mars-sample-return-mission/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |language=en-US}}</ref> Starship has been widely seen as a leading candidate to serve as a central component of the new mission profile architecture.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Опанасенко |first=Евгений |date=2024-04-24 |title=SpaceX Starship to rescue samples from Mars |url=https://universemagazine.com/en/spacex-starship-to-save-failed-mars-sample-return-mission/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Журнал The Universemagazine Space Tech |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-20 |title=Experts Suggest Using SpaceX's Starship to Rescue Stranded Samples on Surface of Mars |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/experts-suggest-using-spacexs-starship-111513492.html |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Callaghan |first=Jonathan |title=NASA's Rocks Are Stuck on Mars. SpaceX's Starship Could Retrieve Them |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacexs-starship-could-save-nasas-beleaguered-mars-sample-return-mission/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Scientific American |language=en}}</ref>

 

 

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