SpaceX Mars Plan

At the recent world astronautical forum in Australia, Elon Musk shared his updated plan for the company's Mars mission. The overall Launch vehicle is scaled back a little to 106m from About 130m, the first stage from 42 Raptor engines to 31 and the main vehicle from 9 engines to 6.

The tooling has been ordered and the construction of the 'BFR' would start in 6 to 9 months, the first launch to Mars in 2022 and the crew mission in 2024. There would be a also a plan using the BFR to travel from place to place within Earth in mostly less than 30min trip.

Exciting plan ahead for SpaceX,but bad news for commercial launch companies in the industry.

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