SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has hinted that he might disclose novel data on his plans to colonize Mars very soon .
In a short tweet , Musk said he would perchance give an update in September about his bluff proposal to have a million people living there by the end of the century .
This would be at theInternational Astronautical Congress(IAC ) , which is taking place in Adelaide , Australia from September 25 to 29 .
“ Maybe the approaching IAC in Adelaide , ” Musk read on Twitter , in response to a dubiousness postulate when he would reveal the next update on his military mission .
At the moment , though , the IAC said they had not been informed that Musk want to give a talk . " So far as we have it away Mr Musk has no plans to look IAC2017 , " a spokesperson differentiate IFLScience . They did note he might sort of do his own thing there , though .
" I hope he will move in the direction of adopt some of the ideas I confront in [ my]critique , so as to make his computer architecture practical , " aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin , famed for hisMars Directproposal , told IFLScience .
If you ’re maintain track , you ’ll call back that Musk first revealed his architectural plan to colonise Mars , call the International Transport System ( ITS ) , atlast year ’s IACin Guadalajara , Mexico .
vast scores of people assist his talking , which was trace as being more like a rock concert than a scientific public lecture . Nonetheless , there is good deal of interest in hear more about Musk ’s plans .
At that public lecture last yr , Musk announced he wanted to start sending people to Mars as early as 2024 . That ’s now likely to be delayed , but if he have anywhere near that time frame it ’ll still be much in the first place than NASA ’s design to send humans to Mars in the recent 2030s .
The garden rocket used to gestate human being to Mars would be the biggest ever built , called the Mars Vehicle . It would measure 122 meters high ( 400 foot ) , compared to 111 meter ( 364 feet ) for the Saturn V that took astronauts to the Moon . More imposingly , it would be able to take 550,000 kilograms ( 1.2 million Cypriot pound ) to low Earth area , compared to 135,000 kg ( 300,000 pounds ) for the Saturn V.
This would be middling utile , because on top of the rocket Musk wants to have a large birdie - corresponding fomite . This would send 100 people or so at a time to Mars , land on the Earth’s surface , and then launch back when our two planet align for the short tripper possible ( roughly every 26 months ) .
The journey between our two major planet usually takes about eight month , but Musk thinks he can get finally get it down to a issue of week .
While there is no shortage of critics of Musk ’s design , it is an interesting approximation still . And the excitation to find out more about it is intelligible .
So when Musk hints in a six - Son tweet that he might bring out more details in two months , well , that ’s for certain going to get people talking . It ’s just a shame he ’s not so skilful atbeach parties , eh .
