Sid Meier and his studio, Firaxis Games, announced Sid Meier's Starships, a turn-based interstellar strategy game which will arrive as a digital download in the early part of 2015.
The creator of classic PC franchise Civilization will launch a brand new property later this year for PCs, Macs and the iPad. I think we've got a chance."ĭon’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp.Watch Video: A peek at 'Sid Meier's Starships' "We are at this brief moment in civilization where it is possible to become a multi-planet species," he said. The eventual objective is to establish bases on the Moon and Mars and put humans on the "path to being a multi-planet civilization," according to Musk.
SpaceX foresees eventually putting a Starship into orbit, and then refueling it with another Starship so it can continue on a journey to Mars or beyond. "If we get far enough away from the launchpad before something goes wrong then I think I would consider that to be a success," Musk said prior to the flight. They failed to separate however and the booster rocket and Starship spacecraft exploded in the sky in a ball of fire four minutes into the flight. The plan for the integrated test flight was for the Super Heavy booster to separate from Starship about three minutes after launch and splash down in the Gulf of Mexico. It generates 17 million pounds of thrust, more than twice that of the Saturn V rockets used to send Apollo astronauts to the Moon. Starship is both bigger and more powerful than SLS and capable of lifting a payload of more than 100 metric tonnes into orbit. NASA will take astronauts to lunar orbit itself in November 2024 using its own heavy rocket called the Space Launch System (SLS), which has been in development for more than a decade. "There's a million ways this rocket could fail," Musk said. "It's the first launch of a very complicated, gigantic rocket. SpaceX founder Elon Musk had warned ahead of the launch that technical issues were likely and sought to play down expectations for the inaugural test flight. The integrated test flight was intended to assess their performance in combination.
SpaceX conducted a successful test-firing of the 33 massive Raptor engines on the first-stage booster in February but the Starship spacecraft and the Super Heavy rocket were being flown together for the first time. Starship consists of a 164-foot (50-meter) tall spacecraft designed to carry crew and cargo that sits atop a 230-foot tall first-stage Super Heavy booster rocket. The US space agency NASA has picked the Starship spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the Moon in late 2025 - a mission known as Artemis III - for the first time since the Apollo program ended in 1972.
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