Space nerds, has SpaceX talked publicly at all about the en-route obstacles to a Mars mission (radiation, deconditioning, closed-loop life support) and how it plans to address them? I can find stuff about launch and landing but not the middle part that is the actual dealbreaker.
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Replying to @Pinboard
3 months isn’t that long. So de conditioning isn’t a terrible issue; so speed of the transfer maneuver really matters. They’ve talked about radiation shielding. Life support is the one I’d be mildly concerned about; but C02 scrubbers and spare pressurized oxygen tanks are easy
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Replying to @Forreststargaze @Pinboard
lol "isn't that long" and "easy"
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Replying to @goblinbox @Pinboard
well yeah; we do have significant practice in this for much longer durations.
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Replying to @Forreststargaze @goblinbox
I'm curious what the 3 month transfer trajectory is based on. I looked around SpaceX's stuff a bit but couldn't find more; would you know a link?
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