33 SpaceX raptor engines power the first booster stage, and comprise 226 feet of that overall length. The second spacecraft stage of Starship is 164 feet long and is where the crew and payload are housed. This section can carry up to 150 metric tons, and as many as 100 people.
A trip to Mars will take a journey, as the average one-way distance between here and there is about 140 million miles. The most fuel-efficient method of performing an Earth-Mars trip is using a single rocket burn that puts the ship into an elliptical transfer orbit, also called the Hohmann transfer. This method essentially lines up the trajectory of the spacecraft with the gravitational orbit of Mars, propelling the rocket with the Red Planet’s own orbit — using less rocket fuel.
This would take a craft about 259 days (eight-to-nine months) to complete. However, SpaceX claims it can make the trip in six months. The trick here is that the launch window for a Hohmann transfer only appears every two years or so due to the differences in the planet’s respective orbits around the Sun.
In 2020, Musk stated that he wanted to build a city on Mars with a population of one million people by 2050, and hoped to make enough Starships to launch three a day (or 1,000 flights per year). In March 2022, he predicted that we’d be on Mars by 2029.
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