Mars Mission Update: May 2019

Aspiring Martian Colonist and Astrophysics PhD candidate Ryan MacDonald covers the progress in SpaceX's plans to send people to Mars. Updates include: construction and testing of Starhopper, launch of the Starlink Constellation, and the Crew Dragon DM-1 mission.
----Further information and links----
*Artemis program background (NASA):
www.nasa.gov/s...
*’SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft suffers an anomaly during static fire testing at Cape Canaveral’ (NASASpaceFlight):
www.nasaspacef...
*’SpaceX is the No. 1 rocket company by revenue, with $2 billion last year’ (CNBC):
www.cnbc.com/2...
*’Falcon Heavy soars; SpaceX lands critical NASA double asteroid redirect launch’ (NASASpaceFlight):
www.nasaspacef...
*Starlink official website (SpaceX):
www.starlink.com/
*'SpaceX launches Starlink mission, deploys 60 satellites' (Ars Technica):
arstechnica.co...
*’A 2027 deadline to surround Earth with high-speed Starlink internet satellites - but the service would work far sooner than that’ (Business Insider):
www.businessin...
*’Elon Musk’s SpaceX raises over $1 billion this year as internet satellite production ramps up’ (CNBC):
www.cnbc.com/2...
*’Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship out of Stainless Steel’ (Popular Mechanics):
www.popularmec...
An extensive summary of information about SpaceX’s Starship:
www.elonx.net/...
*‘SpaceX’s space-optimized Starship engine could be ready sooner than later’ (Teslarati):
www.teslarati....
*’Starhopper conducts Raptor Static Fire tests’ (NASASpaceFlight):
www.nasaspacef...
*’SpaceX wants to unleash Starhopper but longer Raptor test fires come first’ (Teslarati):
www.teslarati....
*'SpaceX plans to A/B test its Starship rocketship builds' (Ars Technica):
arstechnica.co...
----Animations + Video----
*NASA Artemis animations:
• We Are Going
• Powering Our Return to...
*SpaceX Starship animations:
www.spacex.com...
*Starlink constellation animation (Mark Handley):
• Starlink revisions, No...
*Space debris simulation (Stuart Grey):
• Space Debris: 1957 - 2015
*StarHopper static fire (NASASpaceFlight):
• First Raptor Static Fi...
This month's intro graphic is inspired by a photograph of SpaceX's Starhopper at Boca Chica, Texas.