People are afraid of famous pigs, Musk has recently gotten into trouble again, Airbus launched a provocation against him, thinking that Musk can not reach Mars before 2030!
Airbus provoked and Musk replied
Air passenger gas is good, took a big deal, got a contract to return to earth orbiter for Mars sampling, worth $551 million, will be launched in 2026!
In a moment of triumph, The head of Airbus Aerospace launched a provocation against Musk, saying: When we return from Mars samples, Mr. Musk will also look up at the red planet on Earth.
Red Planet
Last year, ESA awarded Airbus a contract to design and manufacture an orbiter to return to Earth from Mars to bring back to Earth Mars samples collected by the U.S. Perseverance Mars rover. Although humans have been exploring Mars for decades, not a single speck of dust has yet been brought back from Mars.
Perseverance's sampling tube
Perseverance is a Mars rover launched by the United States on July 30, 2020, and successfully landed on Mars on February 19, 2021. It carries multiple detection instruments as well as sampling equipment and includes a Mars unmanned helicopter.
After the first sampling failure, after adjustment, the first Mars sampling was successfully achieved on September 6, 2021. So far, Perseverance has taken multiple samples in several different places on the surface of Mars. These samples are sealed in a sampling tube and then stored on the surface of Mars, where they are retrieved to Earth years later.
Perseverance Mars sampling
In addition, ESA's ExoMars 2022 rover will arrive on Mars in 2023 and will continue to drill the surface of Mars in search of signs of life, with a drilling depth of up to 2 meters!
According to the plan, the Airbus-built orbiter will be launched in 2026 and return to Earth with a Martian sample in 2030, the entire mission will last 5 years, which may be the first time humans have brought back from Mars. Airbus claims to return to Earth with samples from Mars, which means that Musk will not be able to go to Mars in 2030, which is very provocative.
Musk as the most obsessed to go to Mars, he originally planned to 2024 manned to mars for the first time, although it seems that there is little hope now, but Musk said that the goal has not changed, the first manned fire time between 2024 and 2026.
From the earliest criticism and ridicule, to the slow acceptance of more and more people, and NASA's selection as a lander to repeat the moon, Musk's starship prototype exploded all the way.
Starship II static ignition
After more than a dozen iterations of technology, the starship has now built a complete body, and the first orbital flight is expected in January 2022, and various pre-launch tests are currently in full swing.
How far have the starships progressed? This is a concern for many people. Musk replied on December 18, 2021, saying that the starship is not yet in its final form, but it is very close, the technical iteration progress has been carried out for most of the time, and more than a dozen starship orbit flight tests will be carried out in 2022.
Spacex has already begun building a second starship launch pad at kennedy space center's LC39A launch site, which is expected to be completed next summer.
The starship launched CG in orbit for the first time
Musk didn't scare the ESA provocation, didn't even pay too much attention to it, just sent a two-word response: game on (game start).
This simple reply may kick off the prelude to the era of human spaceflight!