SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System
Why Space Exploration Stack Exchange recommends it
Space Exploration Stack Exchange answerers link it as the primary official visual reference for how SpaceX's Mars ship and booster were meant to be integrated, refueled and operated.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2017 to 2020.
What it is
A roughly four-minute animated video from SpaceX showing its 2016 Interplanetary Transport System concept: a large reusable booster and spaceship that launch, refuel in orbit, fly crews to Mars, and land. It was released after the company's 2016 announcement of its Mars architecture.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including ITS launch vehicle.
What people said
Cites Enigma Maitreya · 2017-04 · Space Exploration Stack Exchange · on “How will astronauts live in Spacex's red dragon?”
@uhoh some visual information for M, Tyler - [this video] - a Link to SpaceX's method of getting to Mars. The ship depicted is not a Red Dragon. I don't down vote ... I see the question as being interestingly enough, the very criticism of the Orion Capsule approach originally leading up to the more updated approach of adding a Habitat. So if nothing else hopefully the Linked Video shows two very different approaches. SpaceX will carry "100 and perhaps as many as 200 people" at a time. [LINK]
Cites Erin Anne · 2018-05 · Space Exploration Stack Exchange · on “Silly concept: repurposing BFS into a spin-gravity habitat”
Obvious caveat: the BFS isn't completely real right now, and what The Public knows about it is even less limited than whatever has been finalized in the design. I guess what I'm saying is some of this might sound stupid, but I claim that's not my fault. First question: Based on what we know about the ITS per the video on it [this video] , the BFS will be vertically integrated on the BFR by picking it up by the nose with a crane. So yes, the BFS can apparently handle being in tension under 1 gravity. (The same crane is in the BFS video [LINK] , so I haven't seen any indication that the vertical integration plans have changed). I'll even go one further and say that I'm not aware of any rules of thu
Cites DrFriedParts · 2019-10 · Space Exploration Stack Exchange · on “How will the crew exit Starship when it lands on Mars?”
SpaceX has implied that there will be a crew/cargo lift system similar to how skyscraper window washing platforms work (a crane swings the platform out from inside and lowers it to the ground): [LINK] SpaceX teased it at the end of this video from last year:
Cites AtlantX · 2020-06 · Space Exploration Stack Exchange · on “Why will Superheavy/Starship have a landing pad so close to the launch pad?”
The reason why the landing pad is so close to the launchpad is for SpaceX to be able to launch rockets as frequently as possible. In the announcement [this video] of Starship and Superheavy, we see that SpaceX is planning to launch a rocket more than once in a day as they are planning to create an Interplanetary transport system. For this purpose, the landing pad has to be close so the booster can be transported to the launchpad as fast as possible (It is not that easy to do that).