Monday, July 13, 2020

Cutaway diagram of SpaceX Lunar Starship

Unofficial cutaway diagram of SpaceX's Lunar Starship interior by Rocket Posters. The Lunar Starship is lunar optimized version (for NASA's Artemis program) of the fully reusable super heavy-lift spacecraft - Starship - currently developed by leading NewSpace company SpaceX.

SpaceX's Lunar Starship cutaway diagram by Rocket Posters

SpaceX's Lunar Starship cutaway diagram by Rocket Posters
Closeup of the diagram:
SpaceX's Lunar Starship cutaway diagram by Rocket Posters - top
SpaceX's Lunar Starship cutaway diagram by Rocket Posters - mid section
SpaceX's Lunar Starship cutaway diagram by Rocket Posters - bottom

More speculative internal layouts of Starship by SpaceX fans:


6 comments:

  1. Pretty cool! But it seems to be missing the oxygen header tank in the tip of the nose cone.

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    1. Don't know artist's reasoning, but if Lunar Starship stays on the Moon and lands with methane thrusters, would it need an oxygen header tank? Maybe for Lunar orbital insertion burn before landing?

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  2. I second the missing header tank. Personally I think it should be integrated in the LOX tank, but they've put it in the nose, which bothers me because it would take up the forward half of the "Grand Window" in Mars versions, giving people an unnecessarily great view of the header tank. Will they move the window or the header tank in future versions? Time will tell...

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  3. I had read somewhere that the LOX tank in the nose is for balance since the top half of SS is air.

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  4. НЕпонятно, где система аварийного спасения (САС как у Союза)? И как вся эта массма людей (100 чел) будет выходить после посадки?

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    1. Starship doesn't have an emergency escape system. Maybe it should have but it's not in the design currently.

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