The Starship vehicle is poised to revolutionise human spaceflight. With SpaceX and NASA working together to develop Starship for the Artemis Program, our ambitions in space have profoundly changed. Aspiring Martian Colonist Dr Ryan MacDonald charts the course towards the first human missions to the Red Planet.
***** Chapters *****
0:00 - Introduction 1:20 - SpaceX Starship Overview 4:00 - Early Starship Hardware 5:00 - Starbase Boca Chica Begins 5:33 - Cryogenic Tests & Static Fires 8:06 - Starship Low-Altitude Flights 9:09 - Starship High-Altitude Flights 15:10 - Future of the Starship Program 15:50 - Super Heavy Construction 16:52 - Orbital Starship Design 17:49 - Orbital Starship Launch Profile 18:42 - Starbase Orbital Flight Preparations 19:11 - Starship Program Timeline (2020 - 2021) 20:05 - Starship Sea Launch Platforms 21:45 - Human Spaceflight Overview 22:39 - Commercial Astronaut Flights 25:17 - Artemis Program Overview 26:04 - Artemis I Updates 27:02 - Artemis II & Artemis III 29:40 - Lunar Starship Timeline (2022 - 2024) 32:27 - Starship Mars Missions 34:08 - Human Mars Mission Timeline (2024 - 2029) 34:35 - New 2021 Mars Missions 35:11 - Mars Hope (UAE) 37:33 - Tianwen-1 (China) 38:27 - Zhurong Rover (China) 39:37 - Perseverance Rover (USA) 42:31 - Ingenuity Helicopter (USA) 45:16 - Mars Sample Return 47:42 - Final Thoughts
***** Animations and media *****
Special thanks go to Owe, the SpaceX 3D Creation Eccentric, for the new Martian Colonist logo!
Many thanks go to the following content creators, whose work features in this video:
► Alexander Svan: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFtAc_KRuj4mrr0bVMZMn2w ► BocaChicaGal + NASASpaceFlight: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSUu1lih2RifWkKtDOJdsBA ► Caspar Stanley (Stanley Creative): https://www.youtube.com/StanleyCreative ► C-Bass Productions: https://www.youtube.com/c/CbassProductions ► Charles Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVmFHH326XBzF2ZATO0RzrQ ► Cosmic Perspective: https://cosmicperspective.com/ https://www.youtube.com/cosmicperspective ► Csaba Molnár: https://renderhell.com ► Dale Rutherford: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzyF403nUIHskojgQ7n28_A ► DeepSpaceCourier: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHdi4L0qHu8wgVFt9Of3G1g ► ErcX Space + smallstars https://www.youtube.com/ercxspace https://www.youtube.com/smallstars ► Evan Karen: https://www.youtube.com/c/evankaren ► Everday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/everydayastronaut ► Hazegrayart: https://www.youtube.com/hazegrayart ► John Winkopp: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKupV958nO8EPY63rm8FCrQ ► LabPadre: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFwMITSkc1Fms6PoJoh1OUQ ► Matt Ryan: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0oP_hNkRB1ix63bDIhzi2A ► Nick Henning: https://www.nickhenning3d.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0k6WvuPJUp7BKkbCOjefsg ► Owe (Spacex 3D Creation Eccentric): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRqNQqEW4nKlZ9A0Lpfxo6g ► Roger Bootsma (SpaceXVision): https://spacexvision.com/ ► Spaceport3D: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHwwg1Na_dn0YaLqd2xY_pQ ► Spadre: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDkP5NWUhfHXZNhcGr2G2pQ ► + Various animations from NASA, SpaceX, etc.
This update's thumbnail was inspired by the official NASA / SpaceX rendering of the 2021 Lunar Starship design.
***** Music *****
'The Travelling Symphony' by Savfk is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
***** Community Acknowledgements *****
Many thanks to Faulx and tuxer for helpful discussions during the production of this video. If you would like to join the Martian Colonist Discord community, please reach out to @MartianColonist on Twitter.