SpaceX plans to send five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years: Elon Musk

The CEO connected Sunday said that the archetypal crewed ngo timeline volition beryllium upon the occurrence of the uncrewed flights. If the uncrewed missions onshore safely, crewed missions volition beryllium launched successful 4 years. However, successful lawsuit of challenges, crewed missions volition beryllium postponed by different 2 years, Musk said.

SpaceX plans to motorboat astir 5 uncrewed Starships to Mars successful 2 years.

If those each onshore safely, past crewed missions are imaginable successful 4 years. If we brushwood challenges, past the crewed missions volition beryllium postponed different 2 years.

It is lone imaginable to question from… https://t.co/dzi03Hnyhg

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 22, 2024

Musk, known for providing changing timelines connected Starship’s readiness, said earlier this twelvemonth that the archetypal uncrewed starship to onshore connected Mars would beryllium wrong 5 years, with the archetypal radical landing connected Mars wrong 7 years.

In June, a Starship rocket survived a fiery, hypersonic instrumentality from abstraction and achieved a breakthrough landing objection successful the Indian Ocean, completing a afloat trial ngo astir the globe connected the rocket’s 4th try.

Musk is counting connected Starship to fulfill his extremity of producing a large, multipurpose next-generation spacecraft susceptible of sending radical and cargo to the satellite aboriginal this decade, and yet flying to Mars. NASA earlier this twelvemonth delayed.

Artemis 3 ngo and its archetypal crewed satellite landing successful fractional a period utilizing SpaceX’s Starship, to September 2026. It was antecedently planned for precocious 2025, NASA said.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa successful June canceled a backstage ngo astir the satellite helium had paid for, which was to person utilized SpaceX’s Starship, citing docket uncertainties successful the rocket’s development.