> Starship is intended to be able to transport a million tonnes of cargo to the surface of Mars in just ten launch windows<p>Again, this is from 2021, one of those set of launches was to be <i>last year</i>. And it was to be 1,000 starships bound for Mars to meet that goal.<p>Starship is impressive but we need to be realistic about these numbers. We haven’t even technically had a launch with any payload. Additionally they claim that within 2 years of the Artemis mission we could get 1,000 people on the moon (though say this isn’t going to happen at least).<p>Starship will make Starlink V2 feasible and dozens if not hundreds of missions that would otherwise never be possible. But getting 1 million people to Mars (or even 1,000 people to the Moon) is just fantasy. I will gladly eat crow but none of these capabilities that exist on paper have actually been demonstrated that are necessary to meet these goals. SapceX is the best there is and likely will get to Mars. Just not how Musk describes it.