Elon Musk declares that the construction of the "habitable city" on the planet Mars requires a thousand spacecraft and 20 years to complete.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has provided more details about the timelines and tooling requirements not only for reaching Mars, but in creating a stable base on the Red Planet that could serve as a city. current, supporting the livelihood of a local population there.
This is the long-term vision for Musk and his space technology company â to make humans an "interplanetary species".
The timeline discussed by Musk, responding to fans on Twitter, may be too impressive or too ambitious, depending on your perspective, writes TechCrunch, Telegraph reports.
But to make the "self-sustaining city on Mars" a reality, Musk declared, SpaceX would need to build and fly an estimated 1.000 spacecraft, which would need to transport cargo, infrastructure and crew to Mars in a time frame of about 20 years, as the planetary alignment only allows for one flyby to Mars every two years.
Musk points out that if you get all the payload-carrying sidecars into action, the total payload capacity is only 500 tonnes per year â with SpaceX's own Falcon series rockets making up about half of that.
Also, Musk envisions a future where orbital space is a very busy place and a staging ground for transferring orbital cargo and fuel, as lunar and Mars-bound rovers are ready for outer travel.
Of course, in order to establish a permanent and stable city on Mars, we need to get there first.
There is another step from now on, which is "landing" the astronauts back to the Moon, Telegrafi reports.
NASA has set 2024 as their target for that milestone, and SpaceX has said it hopes to land the Starship there by 2022, to help with the preparation phase.
in the past, Musk has discussed the Mars mission as well for realization by 2024, but this goal seems out of reach, from where the developments stand today.
Otherwise, this "warning" of the company led by Musk, does not seem very ambitious, given the nature of its boss.
As is well known, he has "presented" several ambitious projects.
And although not of the highest level, this company has recently announced a project that has nothing to do with life on Mars or the Moon, but on Earth - and this time, not for cars.
It's the latest version of the company's "solar roof tiles," which Muska calls the "solar glass roof."
The estimated cost of a 2.000-square-foot âsolar roofâ is $33.950, according to Tesla.
Finally, we can conclude that his goals, although not modest, have also brought results.
He is considered one of the richest people in technology in the world, whose wealth has increased this year as well.
Thus, the total net worth of his company is calculated at $25.8 billion, although Musk recently stated that he does not have much money.
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