Spacex will delay their first unmanned Red Dragon Mars mission until 2020
by noreply@blogger.com (brian wang) from NextBigFuture.com on (#2D550)
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell confirmed today that SpaceX is now targeting the year 2020 for the Mars trip, a move that will allow the company to better focus on its other ambitious projects. Spacex will focus more heavily on their crew program and their Falcon Heavy program.
Trips to Mars are best launched every 26 months, when the planet aligns with Earth on its orbit.
NASA's next Mars rover is supposed to launch in 2020, as well as the rover for the ExoMars mission - a joint project between Roscosmos and the European Space Agency to look for signs of life on the planet. The United Arab Emirates plans to send an orbiter to Mars in 2020 as well, and even China has expressed a goal of reaching Mars by the end of the decade.
SpaceX is planning an unmanned mission to Mars using the Dragon V2 rocket - starting in 2020 and launch a rocket to Mars every 26 months. The plan is for the first manned Mars mission in 2024 or 2026.
The plan for 2020 is for a sample return Mars rover to be delivered to the Martian surface while also testing techniques to enter the Martian atmosphere with equipment a human crew could eventually use
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Trips to Mars are best launched every 26 months, when the planet aligns with Earth on its orbit.
NASA's next Mars rover is supposed to launch in 2020, as well as the rover for the ExoMars mission - a joint project between Roscosmos and the European Space Agency to look for signs of life on the planet. The United Arab Emirates plans to send an orbiter to Mars in 2020 as well, and even China has expressed a goal of reaching Mars by the end of the decade.
SpaceX is planning an unmanned mission to Mars using the Dragon V2 rocket - starting in 2020 and launch a rocket to Mars every 26 months. The plan is for the first manned Mars mission in 2024 or 2026.
The plan for 2020 is for a sample return Mars rover to be delivered to the Martian surface while also testing techniques to enter the Martian atmosphere with equipment a human crew could eventually use
Read more