'I want to make a colony on Mars be possible': Elon Musk outlines his ambitious plan to start a colony on the Red Planet by building the most powerful rocket in history.
Elon Musk publishes a scientific paper outlining detailed plans to build the first Martian colony.
SpaceX founders said cutting the cost of a one-way travel ticket to Mars is vital to starting a sustainable population.
The key is to build the Interplanetary Transport System, a rocket that can be used in interplanetary travel.
Musk plans to build the most powerful rocket capable of launching 300 metric tons into low Earth.
Elon Musk has revealed more details of his ambitious plans to build the first human colony on Mars. In a scientific paper, billionaire SpaceX says the only way to attract enough people to build settlements on the red planet is to cut the cost of one-way tickets. The entrepreneur aims to lower ticket prices to the average cost of middle-class homes in the United States or about $ 200,000.
ELON MUSK PLAN FOR MARS
CUT COSTS A OUTER SPACE TRAVEL
BUILD A SYSTEM OF TRANSLATION BETWEEN PLANET THAT CAN BE USED REPEATEDLY
BUILD A BUILDING OF FUEL OUTER SPACE IN MARS
EXPLORING THE SOLAR PROCEDURE
To achieve this in our lifetime, he will create the first Planet Transportation Plan for the first time, a rocket and space shuttle that can be reused and powered by 42 SpaceX Raptor machines.
"I want to make the Martian Colony a reality, and it seems we can do in our lifetime now," Musk wrote in a journal published in New Space.
"Actually there is a way for anyone if they want."
Musk wrote that cutting the price of a single ticket trip to Mars would be the key to starting a viable population on Mars.
"Right now, you can not go to Mars, except with unlimited money," he said. 'Using traditional methods, such as space travel using NASA's Apollo rocket, cost about $ 10 billion per person."
'You can not create an independent civilization if the ticket price is $ 10 billion per person. If we can get the cost of moving to Mars roughly equivalent to the average house price in the United States, which is about $ 200,000, then I think the possibility of building an independent civilization can be very high. '
"I think it must happen."
He added that 'not everyone wants to go' but people from all walks of life can apply for sponsorship to take up much-needed job positions in the colony. The key to cutting the cost of space travel is to make rockets and high-power reusable spacecraft, he said.
WHY MUSK CHOOSE MARS?
The reason for choosing Mars as the primary goal is because the Red Planet has much in common with Earth. Its natural resources are rich and most likely to be inhabited today.
He writes: 'Sometimes people wonder, "What about elsewhere in the Solar System? Why should Mars?"
"We have a lot of options in terms of mileage, Venus for example, but high-pressure Venus, a high-pressure acid pool, so it will be very difficult, Venus is not a goddess at all, so it will be very difficult to make everything work on Venus.
"Then there is Mercurius, but too close to the sun.We can go to one of the moons in Jupiter or Saturn, but that is far enough away from the sun, more difficult to achieve.
"Finally we have one choice if we want to be multi-planet civilization, and Mars is what we mean."
CHARACTERISTICS OF EARTH AND MARS
| CHARACTERISTICS | EARTH | MARS |
|---|---|---|
| DIAMETER | 12,756km | 6.792km |
| DISTANCE OF THE SUN | 150.000.000 km | 229.000.000 km |
| TEMPERATURE DEGREE | -88 ° C sampai 58 ° C | -140 ° C sampai 30 ° C |
| COMPOSITION OF ATMOSPHERE | 78% N2, 21% O2, 1% others | 96% CO2, <2% Ar, <2% N2, <1% others |
| GRAVITY | £ 100 | £ 38 (62.5% less gravity) |
| 1 DAY | 24 hours | 24 hours 40 minutes |
| SURFACE AREA | 148.9 million km2 | 144.8 million km2 (97% of Earth) |
| HUMAN POPULATION | 7 BILLIONS | 0 |
Data Source: Elon Musk
'You can use any means of transportation as an example of the difference between reusability, reusability, and expandability, only disposable on airplanes,' he wrote.
'A car, a bicycle, a horse, if it can only be used once, almost no one will use it, the reason is that it is expensive.
"However, with high flight frequencies, you can board a plane that costs $ 90 million and buys tickets at Southwest now from Los Angeles to Vegas for only $ 43, including taxes.
"If only used in a single flight, then the ticket price will reach $ 500,000.At there, you can see the difference. '
He writes that both the booster and the spacecraft will use the Raptor SpaceX engine, whose company is still developing. Musk says the engines will be three times stronger than the engine that drives its Falcon 9 rocket.
This booster will be supported by as many as 42 Raptor engines, which will make it the most powerful rocket in the history of mankind so far. And capable of launching 300 metric tons into low Earth orbit. In comparison, NASA's record-breaking Saturn rocket capable of producing 135 metric tons. The rocket could carry a million people to Mars within 50 to 100 years, he said.
He added that the key to building a very strong reusable rocket is to develop a way to produce fuel on Mars.
'Producing propellants on Mars is obviously very important too. Again, if we do not do this, there will be at least a half of the cost of travel, "he wrote Propellant is the driving force, the material used to drive an object.Generally, this push process is caused by a chemical reaction.In rockets and ammunition, the propellant is an explosive device used as a propulsion gas in a gun cartridge or a rocket motor Propellant includes weak explosives used as a propulsion material for ammunition.
"It would not make sense to try to build a city on Mars if your spacecraft lives on Mars and does not return to Earth.
'You will get a great grave plane; You have to do something with them. '
Musk hopes to realize this goal in his lifetime and also hopes that his spacecraft can be used to go 'beyond Mars'.
He said: 'Clearly there are rocket boosters, spacecraft, tankers and propellant plants, and propellant production processes.
'If you have these four elements, you can go anywhere in the Solar System, jump over the planet or jump over the moon.
'By setting up a propellant depot on an asteroid belt or in one of Jupiter's moons, you can fly from Mars to Jupiter.
"In fact, even without a propellant depot on Mars, you can still fly past Jupiter."
Reference :
- http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20170929-spacex-updated-colonization-plans.html
- https://www.space.com/37200-read-elon-musk-spacex-mars-colony-plan.html
- http://www.spacex.com/mars
- https://futurism.com/elon-musk-plans-colonize-mars-overlook-major-hurdles/
- https://www.recode.net/2017/6/17/15824500/elon-musk-getting-to-mars-cheaper-college-new-paper
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