Spacex Starship HLS Concept (wip)

grabcad

Concept HLS Starship I've been thinking about for a few years. Flipped Starship upside down, cut off nose cone, installed legs, moved cargo deck to the very end of the ship, installed a full size elevator that makes up the entire cargo deck, moved landing engines to skirt of ship and installed between the 3 rapter vacuum engines pointing down at angle. Landing legs need to be folded up for launch and only deploy once and then stay deployed. Also, legs would be designed with reuseable shock absorption included. Its my belief that the HLS starship could be the Gateway station. If the main tanks were separated in such a way that they consisted of 4 tanks, small oxygen and small methane at the engine end of the ship with two larger tanks above, the small tanks could be sized such that they are only sized for landing and return to lunar orbit. The other two tanks could have bolted on access covers removed and utilized for storage. A standard starship could then dock and provide the necessary cargo and fuel transfer for landing and return to lunar orbit. Mulitples of these HLS concept Starships could be on rotation with some ferrying cargo to the surface and some completing orbital science missions. The cargo and crew section would be upside down during launch necessitating that large cargo such as rovers be securely restrained during launch, it is not my intention for crew to be launched from earth on board HLS. Launching from earth requires launch seats that can handle the g loading of an earth launch that would never be needed again. An ejectable aero nose cone would be installed for launch from earth and jetisoned after.