This is SpaceX’s Interplanetary Transport System, meant to take humanity to Mars. The new spaceship should be able to take 100 people to the red planet in 80 days. The price for a ticket? Just over 1.7 million.
yesterday, Tuesday spoke to SpaceX founder Elon Musk on astronautkonferensen International Astronautical Conference in Mexico.
On the agenda were Elon Musks ambitious plan to colonize Mars.
During the draw presented to the Swedish space corporation plans to build Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), which consists of a new, larger rocket and a space capsule with the capacity to accommodate 100 people.
Well linked together, the rocket and rymdkapseln have a height of 122 metres, which is almost twice as high as SpaceX’s previous Falcon 9. The launcher and the capsule will be diameters of twelve, respectively, seventeen yards.
ITS to be shot up from Cape Canaveral and will be equipped with 42-Raptor engines, which SpaceX has successfully tested for the first time in a week.
Musk pointed out that the new engines have the same size as SpaceX’s earlier Merlin engines, but are significantly more powerful and have the capability to send a payload of 300 tonnes to earth orbit with a reusable rocket.
In the orbit will SpaceX’s new space capsule – which probably should be named the Heart of Gold tanked, while the thrower takes itself back to the earth to be able to be paired with a new capsule. The journey back to the display is expected to take just over 20 minutes.
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the Use of reusable rockets and the fact that rymdkapseln refuelled with new fuel in orbit is crucial to be able to keep down the cost. Each launcher should be able to be used 1 000 times before retirement – the corresponding figure for rymdkapseln is on the twelve.
According to Musk’s early calculations, the price for a Marsresa be around 200 000 dollars per person, which corresponds to about 1.7 million. The company’s hope is that you will be able to lower the cost to 100 000 dollars by increasing the herd to 200 people.
the Trip to Mars, which takes place at a speed of just over 100 000 kilometres per hour, is estimated to take 80 days. Space capsule is equipped with two solar panels that unfurl during the journey and can generate 200 kW of energy. To make the long journey more pleasant promises Musk to SpaceX’s new capsule, among other things, will be equipped with a restaurant, a cinema and a playroom, where the crew can experience weightlessness.
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once on the March, will the crew be able to extract carbon dioxide and water from the planet in order to create the amount of metanbränsle needed to return the orbiter to the earth. All the while the crew starts to build a colony with the help of various technical hardware that already has been shipped to the planet before the manned expedition’s arrival.
the Development of ITS so far has cost SpaceX tens of billions of dollars, according to Elon Musk. If the company manages to keep its schedule will be to send an unmanned Dragon-lastkapsel to March 2018. The first manned launch is planned for 2024, with an arrival to the red planet during the subsequent.
the Goal of the ITS program is to build a long-term colony. According to Elon Musks estimates, it would require between 20-50 launches over the course of 40 to 100 years to be able to create a completely self-sufficient society with a million inhabitants.
the Road is still long.
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