20 years and a thousand ships: Elon Musk told what is needed for the colonization of Mars

The head of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said on Twitter that to create a settlement on Mars required build and launch about a thousand Starship rockets, and on infrastructure development will leave until 20 years. Writes about this VC.RU.

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Mask explainedthat to create a colony on Mars, it is necessary to deliver “millions of tons” of equipment and resources there, but since the Earth and Mars come together only once every two years, launching will not work constantly.

Starship is not finished yet. Mask presented reusable rocket project in September 2019 of the year. According to his calculations, the first Starship flights with a crew into orbit can begin in the middle of the 2020 year. The head of SpaceX expects that by the time the base is built on Mars, every Starship flight will cost the company no more than $ 2 million.

Starship is designed for maximum reuse and will be able to fly into space up to three times a day with interruptions in service and refueling. One ship can make about a thousand flights a year, hopes head of SpaceX.

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"If we build as many Starship ships as we have Falcon rockets, that is, about a hundred, and each will deliver 100 tons of cargo into orbit, then the throughput will reach 10 million tons of payload per year," wrote Musk. By his evaluation, Now all existing spacecraft deliver into orbit about 500 tons of payload annually.

TechCrunch notesthat before starting to create a colony on Mars, humanity must make at least one manned flight to the planet. Spacex plans to send the first cargo ship to Mars in the 2022 year, and the first mission with the crew - not earlier than the 2024 year.

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