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.

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*Artemis program background (NASA):
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*’SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft suffers an anomaly during static fire testing at Cape Canaveral’ (NASASpaceFlight):
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*’SpaceX is the No. 1 rocket company by revenue, with $2 billion last year’ (CNBC):
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*’Falcon Heavy soars; SpaceX lands critical NASA double asteroid redirect launch’ (NASASpaceFlight):
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*Starlink official website (SpaceX):
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*'SpaceX launches Starlink mission, deploys 60 satellites' (Ars Technica):
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*’A 2027 deadline to surround Earth with high-speed Starlink internet satellites — but the service would work far sooner than that’ (Business Insider):
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*’Elon Musk’s SpaceX raises over $1 billion this year as internet satellite production ramps up’ (CNBC):
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*’Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship out of Stainless Steel’ (Popular Mechanics):
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* An extensive summary of information about SpaceX’s Starship:
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*‘SpaceX’s space-optimized Starship engine could be ready sooner than later’ (Teslarati):
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*’Starhopper conducts Raptor Static Fire tests’ (NASASpaceFlight):
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*’SpaceX wants to unleash Starhopper but longer Raptor test fires come first’ (Teslarati):
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*'SpaceX plans to A/B test its Starship rocketship builds' (Ars Technica):
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*NASA Artemis animations:
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*SpaceX Starship animations:
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*Starlink constellation animation (Mark Handley):
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*Space debris simulation (Stuart Grey):
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*StarHopper static fire (NASASpaceFlight):
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This month's intro graphic is inspired by a photograph of SpaceX's Starhopper at Boca Chica, Texas.

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