Musk sets a date for the Starship trip to Mars with Optimus on board

Elon Musk announced when he expected to take the Starship to Mars for his first, unwritten mission, and he also says that Teslas Optimus Humanoid robot will be on board.

On Friday, Musk wrote on X that SpaceX 'reusable Starship Rocket will bring Optimus to Mars at the end of 2026. The human landings are expected to begin a few years later.

“The Starship will go to Mars at the end of next year and has Optimus,” said Musk. “If these landings are going well, human landings can start until 2029, although 2031 is more likely.”

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Last year SpaceX and Tesla Head also expected that SpaceX 2016 can start with the on -on start starts, with early start both Optimus and a cyberruck unit.

Musk also followed the announcement on Saturday morning with a post on X and found that he would expect SpaceX to launch more than 90 percent of the payload of the earth's load this year. In the meantime, China will only make up around 5 percent, while the rest of the world, including other parts of America, would also only make up 5 percent.

He also predicted that this number would continue to increase almost 100 percent as soon as the reusable rocket from SpaceX is started more often.

“When the starship starts with a high price start, SpaceX will probably have> 99 percent of the earth's payload mass in orbit. This is necessary to make Mars a self -supporting civilization, ”added Musk.

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Of course, it is known that Musk receives ambitious claims when the products of its companies would reach certain milestones. For example, Musk predicted in 2018 that SpaceX could start a rocket for Mars with people on board by 2024, although SpaceX was not able to test the company's reusable spaceship until 2023.

Nevertheless, the company has routinely tested the starship and with increasing frequency, and in October SpaceX carried out the first catch of the Super Heavy Boor of the Starship after the buoyancy to demonstrate the concept that could be possible to reuse rocket. At the beginning of this month, SpaceX successfully caught the super heavy booster, although it lost the upper stage with a “quick unscheduled disassembly”, which means that it exploded in air and overwhelmed the surrounding areas with rocket parts.

The explosion was the second start in a row, in which debris prevailed from the spaceship and pointed out the persistent importance of tests as a spaceex to make the rocket a sustainable product for reusable space travel.

On Friday, SpaceX also started his Starliner spaceship in the International Space Station (ISS) to save astronauts that were recorded on the orbital vehicle after a Boeing start was originally supposed to return to earth. While SpaceX tried to save the two astronauts in September, problems with the engines of the Startliner Craft, which were discovered on arrival, caused NASA to hold NASA when the return mission was approved.

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