Opening address in JanuaryPresident Donald Trump stated that we will put our density manifest in the stars “and” Plant Stars and Stripes Planet Mars “. Mars ratified the promise Lecture on March 4 To a unified conference session. Like a timeline, SpaceX creator and General Manager of Elon Musk, in NovemberIgly sure“In two years we will send us” starships “to” starships “, and if those are going well, to continue with three-year crew missions.
Meanwhile, March 6, SPACEX’s last starship The center of the flight exploded The second time, it sends waste over Florida and the Caribbean to close the airports in the process.
Something does not add.
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Objectives indicated by Mars landing in 2026 and 2028 are not complete articulated plans. It is simply open to launch window when the Earth and Mars are on the same side of the solar system, and are transferred to that planet The least energy. It’s like predicting a camping trip on your next weekend, without buying camping supplies. And your car is in the store. And has exploded.
So far, it is the only detail of the Mad Mission that has shared Musk Brief comment about XSomeone asked him which load would carry the load on the red planet. His answer: “Cybertucks and Optimus robots”.
Such expressions can play well for sichophants on social media, not anyone to go to Mars, especially considering NASA science budget calls to cut up to 50 percent.
A mission to Mars is not entirely impossible: there is no prohibited law of physics and, in fact, SpaceX has done it Horrible media to develop reusable rookies. And I’m sure Starship, a spectacular cadence to launch her launch, will get the orbit and return to the ground in short order. However, there is still a long way to reach Mars.
In the 1960s the Apollo program went to Lunar landing in less than decades. But Mars is another beast. In the nearest view, this planet is approximately 56 million kilometers, approximately 150 times to the moon. Starship can’t start directly from the ground and go to Mars. Needs Fuel orbitA technology only in the first development. Although the estimates are changed, it is likely to make a fuel for the total filling of Starship 10 to 20 more.
Then Starships must immerse himself through the thin atmosphere of Martia and landed on the ground on its surface Controlled drop– Lander never got before. Spacex was already hired to supply Lunar Lander for Artemis mission, but last year a Government realization office report found “Significant topics that SpaceX can be achieved within the program and acceptable risks.”
MARTERA Group Mission It is not a one-way trip. A return trip would lead to another launch of Mars, another relocation through interplanetary space, plunge another through an atmosphere and another controlled landing, not all of the distances to the disappearance. The return should be transferred in the trip’s fuel (that is, we need to develop even more) or create machinery to create methane from ice water and thin carbon dioxide atmosphere In Mars technologies to be proven, it has only spread.
And all this is for the robotic evidence without a robotic concept of Musk for 2026. A mission brings headaches. For beginners, we do not have a workless human space vehicle. Starships must install and test life support systems and shows a higher level of security Certified to take a man’s crew to Mars.
A typical martial journey takes about two years to focus on our planets to wait for the transfer time and Martian surface. Registry holders for the longest duration International Space Station They are cosmonuts O wrak rajkbarOnly 374 days. For the duration of the Marto’s mission, Starship should be completely independent, unlike Issa, which achieves regular supply and materials, to resolve issues that combine noting continuous guidelines from the ground.
Starship must protect the crew against cosmic radiation for those two years maintain their health against anti-microgravity. This is one of the main motivations of research ISS, which Musk called the disorbitant After being relieved One of the former commanders.
Also, Starship cannot be a vehicle. It must also be the basis of operating (or at least) the basis of Martian surface. Whatever anything at this point, it is certainly not that. Starship has not yet landed on the ground.
Very, we are very far from these ideas to become prototype, even more solid mission components.
In fact, the USA was developing these mission components in 2016, the administration of Obama announced a pivot Focusing on reaching the Martal 2030s from the Moon-oriented initiative. Then Trump reversed Mars and ignored Once again for the moon With Artemis project.
Now with Musk Moon calling “distraction” Rumors are turning on the second Trump administration Artemis can cancel-Not “seems to come from the insistence of Musk”Colonize Mars. “
The only way to go to Mars is to spend a lot of money. It is likely billion dollars. Perhaps it is the real goal of Musk to researchers from NASA and his partners to distribute tremendously and without participating in his private company, without having to respond to shareholders or respond to the schedules. Claims can significantly increase his fortune significantly.
Musk’s followers are her brave and sometimes incredible. For example, Tesla drivers still wait for their vehicles “Self-driving system” “5. Level” to get autonomy, which is It happened in 2021The foam; Meanwhile, the system is studying Fatal accidents. The expressions of the great ambition can turn shareholders and fans, do not make progress in sound space. If we continue to bleach between priorities and allow, self-interest claims according to direct policy, we will go anywhere nowhere.
This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views indicated by the author or authors are not necessarily American scientific.
