SpaceX revealed Today, Sunday, its plans to build a city of one million people on Mars and believes SpaceX’s Starlink satellites will play a key role in the mission. The company’s president and COO Gwynee Shotwell explained, that CEO Elon Musk, has plans to send one million people to Mars by 2025
Once we take people to Mars, they are going to need a capability to communicate, Shotwell added.
COO Gwynee Shotwell
Also, not only will the satellites beam internet to those living on Mars, but the team will act as a bridge for the planet to communicate with Earth.
On last January, SpaceX aimed to put a million people on the Red Planet by 2050. He planned for three flights a day, or 1,000 flights a year with 100 people on each one.
On October 2020, SpaceX released 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to SpaceX, the Starlink satellites, which are each about the size of a table, deployed approximately one hour and three minutes after liftoff.
Earlier, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in September, boosting the total number launched to date to 713 in a fast-growing constellation of internet relay stations.
The company’s fleet of flight-proven boosters has been busy this summer, with the California-based rocket builder reaching a new milestone on its previous Starlink flight: launching and landing the same first-stage booster six times.
According to cbsnews, generating 1.7 million pounds of thrust, the nine Merlin engines powering the previously flown first stage boosted the rocket out of the thick lower atmosphere.
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