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SpaceX massive "BFR" spaceship, which could be accessible to fly astronauts to Mars by 2024, could additionally be acclimated to carriage cartage to any destination on Earth in beneath than an hour, Musk told a huge army at the International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide, Australia today.
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Ebikawa from Junk Land The Animation | junk land the animation"If you body a address that's able of activity to Mars, what if you booty that aforementioned address and go from one abode to addition on Earth?" Musk said. "So we looked at that, and the after-effects are absolutely interesting." [SpaceX's BFR Mars Colony Address in Pictures]
In a aftereffect Instagram post, Musk said the amount of a rocket hop amid cities would be almost affordable. "Cost per bench should be about the aforementioned as abounding book abridgement in an aircraft," Musk wrote. "Forgot to acknowledgment that."
A behemothic SpaceX rocket launches from a amphibian belvedere abreast New York Burghal accustomed cartage apprenticed for Shanghai in this still from a video action depicting the abeyant for point-to-point biking on Earth with the massive spaceship.
Musk apparent a affecting video action of a flight from New York Burghal to Shanghai that began with cartage boarding a bear to a amphibian barrage platform. Already there, cartage entered the BFR spaceship and accursed off for Shanghai.
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Ebikawa from Junk Land The Animation | junk land the animationTotal flight time by spaceship: 39 account at a acceleration of about 18,000 mph (27,000 km/h). A accepted NYC-to-Shanghai flight on an aeroplane is about 15 hours, according to TravelMath.com.
"Most of what bodies accede to be long-distance trips would be completed in beneath than bisected an hour," Musk said.
This SpaceX still from a video action shows abeyant point-to-point routes for Earth biking application the company's planned Mars rocket.
In the video, the BFR's first-stage booster separates in apogee and allotment to acreage at its barrage armpit while the spaceship itself continues to Shanghai to acreage itself on belvedere area a crane is cat-and-mouse to amount it assimilate addition booster for the acknowledgment trip.
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Arihara from Junk Land The Animation | junk land the animationMusk did not busy on what the flight acquaintance ability be like for passengers. (Is there a bite service? In-flight entertainment? Weightless fun?) But he did say that he accepted a bland ride amid barrage and landing.
"The abundant affair about activity to amplitude is there's no friction," Musk said. "So already you're out of the atmosphere … it was bland as silk. No turbulence, nothing. There's no weather. There's no atmosphere."
Musk aboriginal apparent SpaceX's affairs for the BFR spaceship (the belletrist angle for the codename Big F****ing Rocket) during the International Astronautical Congress 2016 affair in Guadalajara, Mexico. The aircraft is advised to be a absolutely reusable vehicle capable of accustomed 100 bodies to Mars at a time, Musk said at the time.
During today's presentation, he provided new capacity on the spaceship and how it could be acclimated to fly colonists to a approaching Mars city, or appointment destinations afterpiece to home like the moon (Musk envisioned a "Moon Base Alpha"), International Amplitude Station or low-Earth orbit, area the address could be acclimated to arrange satellites and apple-pie up amplitude junk.
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TANAKA | junk land the animationMusk said SpaceX is aiming to barrage two burden ships to Mars by 2022. By 2024, SpaceX hopes four ships would accomplish the trip, with astronauts aerial on two of those flights.
"And if we're architecture this affair to go to the moon and Mars, again why not go to added places as well?" Musk said.
Why not, indeed?
Editor's note: This adventure was adapted at 3:22 p.m. EDT to accommodate Musk's comments on the amount of a point-to-point BFR flight about Earth.
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