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With The Vision Of Elon Musk, SpaceX Plans To Build A Sustainable City On Mars, Using 1,000 Starship Rockets And 20 Years Of Continuous Missions To Bring Humans To The Red Planet
Last year, SpaceX installed a neon sign at Starbase that says “Gateway to Mars”. Elon Musk founded the company in 2002 with the money from selling PayPal and the determination to colonize the red planet. SpaceX has achieved incredible feats since then, but its most optimistic plan will require at least a thousand Starships and another 20 years of work, according to Musk himself.
Before founding SpaceX, Elon Musk briefly served on the board of directors of the Mars Society, a nonprofit organization that promotes human exploration of Mars. It was during a keynote address of the association that Musk announced a project called Mars Oasis, which aimed to install a small greenhouse on the red planet to rekindle public interest in Martian exploration.
Musk is ambitious, and the idea of growing plants on Mars eventually evolved into something much more complex: transforming humanity into a multiplanetary species capable of surviving a catastrophe on Earth. Or, viewed more pragmatically, creating the necessary infrastructure for a self-sustaining human settlement on Mars.
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“Wait a moment, I could create my own rockets to go to Mars”, Musk must have thought, because 20 years later, that is exactly what he is doing with Starship.
A Thousand Starships To Colonize Mars
Although its name and design have changed over the years, the long-term plan for the Starship program remains the same:
A huge, fully and rapidly reusable rocket that can launch over 100 tons into space at minimal cost. A fleet of these rockets, funded with public and private funds, capable of transporting dozens of people to the red planet to build a crewed base there.
Thousands of these rockets flying to Mars whenever the planets are aligned, to build a self-sufficient city with a million inhabitants.
SpaceX still needs to demonstrate the first point, but beyond being ambitious, Elon Musk is optimistic. In 2019, the mogul estimated that it would take a thousand Starships and 20 years of launches to build a sustainable city on the red planet.
Additionally, he estimated the cost of each launch at 2 million dollars, an absurdly low amount by industry standards. Launching a Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket in service, costs 50 times more.
In 2020, Elon Musk presented some additional calculations. The objective of Starship is to fly three times a day, a thousand times a year, launching one megaton annually into space for every ten Starships. “If we build 100 Starships per year, we will have 1,000 in 10 years, or 100 megatons per year”, he said. “About 100,000 people for each Earth-Mars orbital synchronization”.
The launch windows for Mars open every 26 months, taking advantage of the proximity to Earth. Elon Musk believes that if launches start in 2028, the Martian city of one million inhabitants could materialize just 22 years later, in 2050.
It is an extremely optimistic vision of what a company like SpaceX can achieve in such a short time, but there is one thing that cannot be denied about Elon Musk: his goal has been the same since he founded SpaceX. The company is now worth 180 billion dollars, and Starship exists — we have already seen it reach space.
Os bilionários destruindo o planeta e agora querendo “colonizar Marte” pra fugir pra lá depois q acabarem com a terra. E o povo aplaudindo como se fosse uma put4 inovação achando q eles vão pra Marte tb. Quando na vdd vão ficar aqui pra morrer nesse calor infernal e continuar sendo explorados trabalhando pra eles por uns trocados e se achando “os empreendedores” pq ganham 15k por mês kkkkk
Não entendo essa discussão! Um homem com um plano tão ambicioso quanto esse de colonizar um planeta sem nenhuma condição natural de vida, enquanto o próprio lar, a Terra, vai se deteriorando e necessita de cuidados. Primeiro temos que aprender a cuidar do nosso planeta.
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