While tests continue for SpaceX Starship in Texas, in recent days Elon Musk tried to dictate a roadmap to define the timing that will lead to Mars . If in 2024 the human being will return to set foot on the Moon, in the same year there could be a Starship (unmanned) on Mars!

Obviously this goal, as well as being significant, is also quite ambitious. This is not about sending a small rover or a lander (already difficult operation) but a spacecraft of several meters testing new technologies. Elon Musk has accustomed us both to strong statements, but also to successes in the space sector, opening a new era for private companies in the space sector.

The choice of 2024 for Mars is given not only by the technological difficulties in the realization of SpaceX Starship but also related to the mechanics planetary. We will have to wait until the Red Planet is in a favorable position for the journey and this happens every 26 months, approx.

Currently in Boca Chica the tests are continuing on Starship . Thanks to simplified construction, the speed with which prototypes are made and an enlargement of the assembly area, progress appears to have accelerated sharply. Superheavy , the launcher that will be used to get to the Moon or Mars, is still under construction and testing will only happen in the next few months.

Unforeseen events are still possible and therefore the statements of Elon Musk are to be taken with due caution. After all, this week there should be the first flight at 15 km high for SpaceX Starship SN8 (after static fire of these hours), but the road is still long to get to set foot on Mars.