Elon Musk expected Starship rocket will take off Earth to Mars in 2026

Starship Rocket Mars Launch: Billionaire businessman Elon Musk is very keen to send a human mission to Mars. His company SpaceX has been trying in this direction for many years. It has built the world’s heaviest rocket Starship, which aims to be sent to Mars. However, this rocket is still in the testing phase. Now Elon Musk has said something big. He believes that if everything goes according to plan, the Starship rocket will start flying for the Mars mission after two years.

Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform X that astronauts will not be involved in the tests related to safe landing on Mars. That is, initially the mission will fly without a crew. If successful, a crew mission can be sent to Mars in the next four years. The special thing is that Mars and Earth are in a fixed line once every 26 months for interplanetary missions.
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The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens.

These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years.

Flight rates will be… https://t.co/ZuiM00dpe9

—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2024

Musk also expressed hope that once success is achieved, the flight rate will be faster. The aim is to build a self-sufficient city on Mars in the next 20 years.

The first test flight of the Starship rocket failed. The rocket was destroyed in a few seconds. However, Musk did not give up and SpaceX continued testing. Starship has been flown four times so far. Improvements have been seen in it after each test. The company is now preparing for the fifth flight, in which all aspects will be tested.

What is Starship Rocket

Starship is a reusable rocket. It has mainly two parts. The first is the passenger carry section, i.e. the one in which the passengers will stay, while the second is the super heavy rocket booster. The length of Starship and booster combined is 394 feet (120 meters). While the weight is 50 lakh kilograms. According to the information, the Starship rocket is capable of generating a thrust of 16 million pounds (70 meganewtons). This is almost twice more than NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.