> Will starship land with enough fuel to take off and return to friendly territory?
No. If you want it back, you land at a friendly base. The nominal use would not likely to be for insertion but logistics, like a really fast C-17.
It's intended to be quite cheap to build, however, so it's not impossible that it could be used one way (in a very high-value operation.)
> Can starship land in Earth like gravity on a standard concrete area?
Yes. They're doing that right now. Taking off from a flat pad, however, is unlikely, at least in current configuration. A "tactical" version with pre-main-ignition "hop" engines, like planned for the lunar lander version, might allow such ops (providing you can provide large quantities of liquid methane and oxygen on site!)
No. If you want it back, you land at a friendly base. The nominal use would not likely to be for insertion but logistics, like a really fast C-17.
It's intended to be quite cheap to build, however, so it's not impossible that it could be used one way (in a very high-value operation.)
> Can starship land in Earth like gravity on a standard concrete area?
Yes. They're doing that right now. Taking off from a flat pad, however, is unlikely, at least in current configuration. A "tactical" version with pre-main-ignition "hop" engines, like planned for the lunar lander version, might allow such ops (providing you can provide large quantities of liquid methane and oxygen on site!)