The Starship, which is currently being developed and tested in suborbital flights, will land on Mars until 2030. Confidence in this was expressed by Elon Musk, the head of the company that developed this carrier SpaceX.
The billionaire commented on an article in Are Technica that “Europe is starting to worry about SpaceX’s growing dominance of launches.” According to Musk, European missile developers “charge too low.”
He said that very soon only rockets that will be fully and quickly reusable will be competitive: “Everything else will be like a fabric biplane in the era of jet aircraft.”
See photo: A drone-helicopter is preparing for the first ever flight of a drone-helicopter on Mars
“SpaceX will land Starships on Mars long before 2030,” Musk wrote and added that against this background, a really difficult obstacle is to make the first Mars Base Alpha on the Red Planet autonomous.
Tomorrow, a new sample of Starship SN11 may make a suborbital flight. Three of its predecessors exploded at different stages of testing.
REFERENCE… The final version of the Starship reusable spacecraft, together with the Super Heavy stage (see photo below), will be about 120 m high, 9 m in diameter, with a launch mass of up to 5000 tons. They want to bring the payload up to 150 tons into low-earth orbit. Case material – alloy 304L stainless steel. It is designed for both close (from one point of the Earth to another) and long-distance flights into space, including the Moon and Mars. It is planned that the ship will be able to take on board up to 100 people. Raptor is a closed cycle liquid engine with full gasification of fuel components (liquid methane and oxygen).
First sample of Super Heavy, estimate dimensions:
- On March 3, 2021, the Starship SN10 prototype flew with a subsequent partially successful landing: watch the video.
- The first Starship orbital flight is scheduled for the end of the year.
- Musk hopes to launch Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on a flight around the moon in 2023.
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