Starship has reached Earth orbit. It has not left for another planet. Drag the burn. A harder push buys a shorter cruise — until the tanks are the limit.
Not a map. Equal steps on an Archimedean spiral. The open dot is Earth.
Departure burn
4.6 km/s
Crew burn. A studied 2033 Mars window does 4.6 km/s in 90 days — faster than these perfect circles.
From a 200 km orbit, after tankers refill the ship. A loaded Starship is reckoned near 6–8 km/s. The right edge is a flyby, not a landing.
☾The Moon3 daysfor scale · not a planet
86 days shorter than the fastest trip already flown.
This burn
117 d
Cheapest
259 d
Flown
203 d
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Fastest flown: Perseverance, landing, 2021. Light takes 4 min–21 min one way.
Same burn as the 90-day Mars study. This plate’s perfect circles come out slower than that real window.