Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are the protagonists of the following publication, Bezos because he must be quite happy, since last Friday, October 6, Amazon launched the first satellites of its Kuiper constellation into orbit with which it wants to compete in the communications service with the Starling constellation from SpaceX, Elon Musk's company that currently has about 2 million users.
Amazon, Jeff Bezos' company, plans to reach 3,236 satellites. Curiously, Jeff Bezos has a space company that is Blue Origin and that has been in the news for taking tourists to the frontier of space, but its satellites have had to be put into orbit by another company. space company the United Launch Alliance.
A company created in 2006 by the collaboration of two old giants experts in astronautics, Lucky Martin and Boing.
On the other hand, Elon Musk, who was the protagonist of the 74th International Astronautical Congress held from October 2 to 6 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, although he did not physically attend, made an intervention by videoconference and in it, among other things, he said that SpaceX could land on Mars in 3 to 4 years, will you be able to do it?
It must be remembered that a Tesla sports car was already sent to Mars orbit in 2018, in this case the landing would be done with a Starship, although it is more than doubtful that the ship could carry humans, develop technology for such long human journeys, A mission to Mars is estimated to take 2 years with current engines; it requires much more developed technology than that which can be created in two or three years.
I find it difficult to keep this promise because once the StarShip is developed, it would be enough to fill it with fuel and have someone finance the trip to Mars, but at the moment Elon Musk has other commitments with his StarShip, one is to take astronauts to the surface of the moon again. in the Artemis 3 mission, which will mean the return of humans to the moon since 1972, attention because this mission that was scheduled for the end of 2025, there are already NASA authorities, according to a New York Times report, who are studying delaying it to 2026.
The other important commitment of the StarShip would be the first tourist trip to the moon financed by the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. In addition to Maezawa, eight artists and one or two professional astronauts will travel with him to be able to control the ship, in this case they will not land on the moon. moon would be a flight around the moon and the trip would last a week or even maybe 10 days.
In principle it was announced that this trip would take place in 2023, but as we see that is impossible, no StarShip prototype has yet managed to reach space, the ship and the entire life support system must be developed and when all of this is achieved there will be to make a test flight to the moon without a crew, so I highly doubt that Maezawa and his artist friends will be able to travel to lunar orbit before 2025.
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