Mars Mission Update: June 2021

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.

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