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SpaceX Mars Fleet Operations With Thousands of Starships

SpaceX Mars Fleet Operations With Thousands of Starships

By Brian Wang

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Apr 16, 2024
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Elon discussed SpaceX plans to send a fleet of 1000-1200 Starships every two years to Mars. SpaceX Mars fleet operations would have huge challenges.

The plan is to launch 1.5 million tons to orbit every two years. They would then send 250,000 tons to Mars.

If every Mars-bound SpaceX Starship can take 250 tons of payload then there would need to be 1000 S…

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