Mars Transport Concept Vehicle

The main purpose of this concept car is to make it possible for four to six crew members to be transported from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Low Mars Orbit (LMO). Take the orbit and the crew will drop the landing module (LM) into the outpost of Mars (which is existing for this concept). In addition, LM must be able to connect to the Martian Resident Transport Vehicle (MCTV) on Mars Orbit. In addition, MCTV can automatically return to LEO and replenish it, and you should be able to pick up another crew.

Elon Musk and Space X proposed the development of Mars transport infrastructure to promote the final colonization of Mars. This design includes a fully reusable launch vehicle, a human spaceship, an on-orbit propulsion tanker, a rapidly launching / landing mount, and on-site resource utilization (ISRU) of rocket fuel to Mars Local production is included. The ideal goal of SpaceX is to let the first human being land on Mars by 2024. An important element of the infrastructure is a two-stage rocket, BFR, which is also used as a spacecraft to reach Mars and return to the Earth. In order to get a large payload, the spacecraft firstly fills the earth's orbit and refuels it before leaving Mars. After landing on Mars, the spacecraft loaded the locally produced fuel back to Earth. The expected load capacity of BFR is 150 tons (330,000 pounds) of Mars.

For a while, the Martian colony transport machine (MCT) floated. This is a rational name as this is the purpose of use of the vehicle. However, several weeks before the meeting Elon said that on Twitter that name was changed to represent a more powerful task later, so it is now called the interplanetary transmission system. Fortunately, at the 4th launch destiny smiled at them and was able to get in orbit (by the way, this launch was made on September 28, 2008 9 years ago at the IAC 2017 meeting). This led NASA to finance Falcon 9 and dragon spacecraft to serve the International Space Station. Further development of Falcon 9 and the Crew Dragon was covered by the private satellite market and the NASA private crew contract

In addition to the final Mars mission plan by SpaceX's personal funds, NASA's Ames Research Center has developed a concept called "Red Dragon". When passing through the jet plane of Mars, the dragon capsule enters the Martian atmosphere. The concept was originally started as a discovery mission of NASA in 2018, and it was supposed to be started in 2022 after that. The purpose of this mission is to return samples from Mars to the Earth with a cost of $ 6 billion of NASA's own return sample.