Why The SpaceX Starship Won’t Simply Orbit Mars

Can you guess how quickly the SpaceX Starship will run out of propellant? Hint: it holds 1200 metric tons of Methane and Oxygen. If you want your own Mars Mission Specialist shirt you can get it on Amazon and a few dollars from the sale will go to support smallstars: BIG BIG BIG thank you to Eric X for working with me on this project! Update: it is possible that the Starships may use aerobraking to get into an elliptical orbit before landing. Kind of a cool thing to visualize: orbiting a planet with your periapsis inside the atmosphere!?!? Wild stuff. I love it. Thank you Reddit users u/Martianspirit for pointing out elon’s tweet: and u/kroOoze for showing nasa’s visualization of an orbit achieved by aerobraking: I’m changing the title of the video because “Won’t Orbit Mars“ may end up not being accurate. The point that the Starships will not use propellant to get into orbit around Mars still stands. Thanks to Martian Days as well for modeling one of the versions of the SpaceX starship you see in this video Thanks to Haze Gray Art, I somehow always end up putting a second or two of their footage in my vidoes: 00:00 Intro 00:21 Mars Intro 00:50 Starship Launch Procedure 03:45 Journey To Mars 05:14 Arriving At Mars 08:15 Return To Earth 10:39 Outro Why The SpaceX Starship Wont Orbit Mars How Will SpaceX Starships Land On Mars? #SpaceX #Starship #Mars