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Elon Musk reveals when he hopes to launch mission crewed by robots to Mars

By Editorial Board Published May 30, 2025 5 Min Read
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Elon Musk reveals when he hopes to launch mission crewed by robots to Mars

Elon Musk has stated he needs to ship a spacecraft crewed by humanoid robots on a voyage to Mars by the tip of subsequent yr.

The tech billionaire outlined his newest schedule for Starship in a video introduced on the challenge’s Starbase dwelling in Texas and posted on-line on Thursday.

The SpaceX founder had been set to present a presentation, referred to as The Highway to Making Life Multiplanetary, on Tuesday evening, following a ninth check flight of the spacecraft earlier that night.

However the speech was cancelled after the automobile spun uncontrolled about half-hour into the launch, having not achieved a few of its most essential check objectives.

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And on Wednesday, Musk confirmed his transient however tumultuous spell within the Trump administration as head of the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) was ending.

Musk warned there was no assure he would be capable to meet the Starship timeframe he set out and far relied on overcoming quite a few technical challenges, throughout flight-test improvement, particularly a post-launch refuelling operation whereas orbiting Earth.

He beforehand stated he aimed to ship an unmanned automobile to the pink planet as early as 2018 and had focused 2024 to launch a primary crewed mission there.

People would land on Mars as a part of the second or third flights, he stated on Thursday, however the first journey could be within the palms of a number of humanoid Optimus design robots constructed by Tesla, the electrical automobile and battery maker he leads.

The present goal to land a human on Mars utilizing Starship is 2028, but it surely has but to make an orbit of Earth.

Musk stated he needs to make it in order that “anyone who wants to move to Mars and help build a new civilisation can do so. Anyone out there. How cool would that be?”.

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On the finish of 2026, Mars and Earth align across the solar, lowering the space between the 2 planets to its shortest, however nonetheless seven to 9 months’ travelling time by spacecraft.

Musk stated that they had a 50-50 probability of assembly that deadline and if Starship is not prepared by then, SpaceX would wait one other two years earlier than making an attempt once more.

NASA, which hopes to land astronauts on Mars someday within the 2030s, is planning to make use of Starship to return people to the floor of the moon as early as 2027 – greater than 50 years after the final lunar landings of the Apollo period.

Elon Musk looks on as President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Starship’s earlier check flights in January and March additionally failed, with the spacecraft exploding moments after lift-off, raining particles over elements of the Caribbean and forcing scores of business jets to vary course as a precaution.

Musk shrugged off the most recent mishap on Tuesday with a quick submit on X, saying it produced lots of “good data to review” and promising a quicker launch “cadence” for the subsequent a number of check flights.

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