Starship Zero, a product of Zero Point Frontiers Corp.
Technology required for a human Mars mission has been well characterized and should be achievable using current and near-future state-of-the-art technologies. However, human missions beyond Mars will require significant and exciting advances in related spaceflight and energy technologies. ZPFC is developing a comprehensive mission architecture for crewed missions of increasing complexity to the Asteroid Belt, Saturnian System and the Kuiper Belt, providing the structure for the development of a feasible, technically relevant, mission concept that will open new possibilities for human exploration missions throughout the solar system, and beyond.
As a commercial space company, ZPFC’s long-range internal research and development project is Starship Zero (www.starshipzero.com). The goal of Starship Zero is to develop a human-carrying “very large space vehicle” capable of beyond-Mars exploration missions. In its current formative phase, Starship Zero is a technology pull function designed to identify very long lead mission enabling technologies to focus near-team corporate research and development. Near-Term Goals will focus on system-level drivers to crewed beyond-Mars missions, where each of these missions is expected to require dramatic increases in capabilities. ZPFC is currently working to further the conceptual design of a vehicle system to host the required technologies for these missions and to educate the public about the excitement of human missions beyond-Mars, and to identify potential pathfinder missions.