SpaceX-ийн Марс руу чиглэсэн зорилго: Старшипын туршилтын нислэг болон Элон Маскийн төлөвлөгөө
SpaceX компани нь Старшип хөлгийн ес дэх туршилтын нислэгээ эхлүүлэх гэж буйд олон хүмүүс анхаарлаа хандуулж байна. Энэ үйл явдлын хүрээнд Элон Маск Марс гариг руу хүрэх зорилго, цаашдын төлөвлөгөөгөө танилцуулна. Хэрэв энэ удаагийн туршилт амжилттай явагдвал SpaceX нь 2026 оны сүүлчээр Марс руу нислэг хийх бэлтгэлээ хангаж чадна.
Элон Маск хүний төрөл зүйлийг олон гаригт амьдруулах нь чухал хэмээн үздэг бөгөөд энэ нь Марс гаригийг даатгалын бодлого болгон ашиглах санаатай холбоотой. Тэрээр хиймэл оюун ухаан, цөмийн дайн болон бусад эрсдэлүүдээс хүн төрөлхтнийг хамгаалахын тулд гариг хоорондын нүүдэл хийх шаардлагатай гэж үздэг. Гэхдээ Маскын энэхүү зорилго нь маш олон техникийн бэрхшээлтэй тулгарч байна.
SpaceX компани Старшип хөлгийг тойрог замд дахин шатахуун дүүргэх технологийг хөгжүүлэх хэрэгтэй байгаа нь Марс руу аялахад зайлшгүй шаардлагатай. Энэ нь анх удаа хоёр Старшип хөлгийг тойрог замд холбож, нэг нь нөгөөдөө шатахуун дамжуулах туршилт хийх шаардлагатай болно. Гэвч энэ төлөвлөгөө хойшлогдож, одоогийн байдлаар тодорхойгүй хугацаагаар хойшлогдоод байна.
NASA нь Старшип хөлгийг ашиглан Артемис 3 хөтөлбөрийн хүрээнд сар луу аялал хийхээр төлөвлөж байгаа бөгөөд энэ нь Марс руу хүрэх дараагийн алхам болно. Гэвч SpaceX нь өөрсдийн зорилгыг илүү түргэн хугацаанд хэрэгжүүлэхээр зорьж байна. 2026 оны сүүлчээр Марс руу хүнгүй нислэг хийх нь NASA-гийн сарнаас Марс руу шилжих хөтөлбөрийн цаг хугацаатай зөрчилдөж магадгүй юм.
Энэ бүхний хүрээнд Элон Маскын илтгэл нь SpaceX-ийн Марс руу чиглэсэн зорилго хэрхэн ахих талаар илүү тодорхой мэдээлэл өгч чадна гэж найдаж байна. Хэдийгээр энэхүү зорилго нь маш том амжилт олох боломжтой ч, олон саадтай учирч магадгүй юм.
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How to Watch Elon Musk Unveil SpaceX’s Mars Colonization Roadmap
Musk will discuss progress and next steps toward building a human presence on the Red Planet ahead of Starship’s ninth test flight today.
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Update: May 27, 1:21 p.m ET: SpaceX has pushed the time for today’s talk to 9:00 p.m. ET.
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All eyes are on SpaceX as it gears up to launch Starship’s ninth test flight. Prior to the launch, CEO Elon Musk will discuss the company’s plans for colonizing Mars. The talk will be livestreamed on SpaceX’s X page and on spacex.com today starting at 1:00 p.m. ET. You can also watch at the embedded tweet below.
Colonizing Mars is SpaceX’s guiding mission and the ultimate purpose for Starship. In an emailed statement, the company said Musk will discuss “the development work ahead for Starship and how SpaceX will use the world’s most powerful and capable rocket to build a human presence on the red planet over the next decade,” adding that the next opportunity to launch a mission to Mars opens in late 2026.
Watch an update from @elonmusk on SpaceX’s plan to make life multiplanetary https://t.co/E68TunhFYb
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 26, 2025
Today’s Starship test flight—currently scheduled to launch from Starbase, Texas, at 7:30 p.m. ET—marks a critical moment for this heavy-lift rocket. Its last two test flights ended in explosive failures, putting the Starship program months behind schedule. If SpaceX hopes to launch an Earth-to-Mars mission before the end of 2026, it’s important that today’s launch be successful.
For years, Musk has said humanity needs to become multiplanetary to ensure the species’ long-term survivability. He argues that Mars can serve as an insurance policy for Earth as our home planet faces existential risks like artificial superintelligence, nuclear war, and engineered pandemics.
“Becoming multiplanetary is critical to ensuring the long-term survival of humanity and all life as we know it,” Musk wrote in an X post last September.
In 2016, he said it could take 40 to 100 years to establish a self-sustaining colony on Mars. But according to The New York Times, he told SpaceX employees last year that he expects one million people to be living there within 20 years.
President Donald Trump has likewise expressed an interest in Mars‚ likely due to Musk’s influence. “We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we are going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond,” Trump said in a speech to Congress in March, according to Spaceflight Now. He added, however, that going to Mars is not his top priority.
During today’s talk, many will be watching to see if Musk addresses the numerous technical challenges he will face on the road to Mars, namely the in-orbit refueling of Starship. To make it to Mars, the rocket must first replenish the enormous amount of fuel it will have burned during its ascent. This will require “tanker” Starships to deliver liquid oxygen and methane propellants to a depot in orbit, according to SpaceNews. A Mars-bound Starship could then use this depot to fuel up before traveling beyond Earth’s orbit.
But this architecture is a long way away from being operational. SpaceX originally said it would demonstrate in-orbit refueling in March 2025, when two Starships will dock in orbit with one transferring propellants to the other. But Starship launch delays have pushed the timing of that mission back indefinitely.
NASA will be closely watching today’s launch as the agency plans to use Starship to ferry astronauts to the Moon on the Artemis 3 mission, which is currently scheduled for mid-2027. This mission was delayed from late 2026 partly due to setbacks with SpaceX’s Starship program, Spaceflight Now reports.
The agency sees returning to the Moon as a critical stepping stone toward future Mars missions, but SpaceX—and Musk—clearly see things differently. Targeting a 2026 launch window for an uncrewed mission to the Red Planet would flout the timeline of NASA’s Moon to Mars program, which aims to put astronauts on Mars by the 2030s or 2040s.
SpaceX’s Mars ambitions should come into focus during today’s talk. As of now, it’s not clear how Starship could possibly be ready in time for a late-2026 launch window, or how progress toward this goal might conflict with the objectives outlined in the company’s NASA contracts.
