SpaceX Starship Could Transform Humanity's Interactions with Mars –Elon Musk

Starship, SpaceX’s ambitious rocket under development, could have an underestimated effect on society’s interactions with space.
The stainless steel rocket is currently in the prototyping phase, but when complete it’s set to unlock some of SpaceX’s most ambitious targets. It uses easier-to-harvest rocket fuel, which could create a planet-hopping network to the moon, Mars and beyond. It can also carry over 100 tons or 100 people into orbit at once, meaning humans can send more into space than ever before.
There’s still a lot of things to take care of on Earth for SpaceX, and moving to Mars is still a far-fetched idea. But, nothing stops Elon Musk to plan and have an idea on what it could take to make it a reality.
All this adds up to a rocket that could smash current annual launch metrics, CEO Elon Musk explained via Twitter Thursday, 7th November. The SpaceX Starships will be essential to the whole process because of their affordability, as well as their capacity for cargo and the fact they are designed to be reusable. Elon Musk went into a bit more detail about the timelines and the vehicle requirements to not only reach Mars, but to set up a sustainable base on the Red Planet that can serve as an actual city, supporting a local population. That’s the long-term vision for Musk and his space technology company, after all — making humans an interplanetary species. The timeline that Musk mentioned at this time, replying to followers on Twitter, may be extremely spectacular or extremely formidable, relying in your perspective.

Musk believes that if his SpaceX company ramps up production on the Starship rockets, it will be able to launch much more payload into orbit each year. This will be a massive increase from the current global payload orbit capacity of about 500 tons per year. Around half of this current capacity is completed by SpaceX’s Falcon family of rockets, which covers the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.
Musk addressed more near-term potential for SpaceX Starship as well, including how much payload capacity Starship will provide for Earth orbital transportation. SpaceX Starship’s design is intended to maximize re-use, and in fact Musk noted that ideally it can fly up to three times per day. That amounts to more than 1,000 flights per year per Starship, which means that if SpaceX end up with as many Starships as they currently have built Falcon rockets (around 100) and those can each transport as much as 100 tons to orbit, then on an annual basis, SpaceX will be able to launch upwards of 10 million tons to orbit per year. That’s 20,000 times more payload than the whole planet is sending to space annually right now.
That’s a lot of stuff — and it could eventually pave the way for Musk’s big ambition to build a city on Mars.
In this video Engineering Today will discuss SpaceX’s Starship which could transform humanity's interactions with space. Why SpaceX wants to send so much stuff to build the first sustainable city on Mars?
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