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LIVE: Elon Musk IAC Mars Speech - Sept. 27, 2016 - UPDATES
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Not an artists impression.
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"It will look almost exactly like that. Video from SpaceX CAD models".
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"Fleet of ships departing enmasse"
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The Mars Colonial Fleet would have hundreds of spacecrafts in orbit that all leave at the same time
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"Mars Colonial Fleet will leave together. A bit like Battlestar Galactica - great show". <---So Say We All!
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"It's quite big"
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"Yeah, it's quite big" - Elon. And Elon says there will be bigger ones in the future!
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100 people a trip, but may expand crew size to 200 - to reduce costs. 10,000 flights planned.
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"Carrying iron foundries to pizza joints"...
100,000 people per trip (of fleet)
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Eventually extending crew cabin to 200 people.
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The Mars image behind Musk has green regions - terraforming
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Densified deeply-cryogenic propellant. Carbon-fiber primary structure.
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"Challenge to make deep cryo tanks out of carbon fiber " (no liner!)
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Gassify props and use that for pressurization and RCS
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"Carbon Fiber...which is tricky" But don't now need a liner. Prop pressurizes the tank (no naughty COPVs with Helium!)
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Methane and oxygen for control thrusters.
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Spark ignition (no more green flash of TEA-TEB)
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Only need two ingredients instead of five on Falcon 9
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First time the performance bar will exceed the size of the rocket.
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