SpaceX Starship Mars mission update 2025

On May 29th at Starbase, Texas SpaceX CEO and lead designer Elon Musk provided an update of SpaceX's Starship Mars architecture "The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary". Here are slides from his presentation.

Full presentation:

Slides from the presentation

Starship mission timeline for next 4 Earth-Mars transfer windows every 26 months:

The next opportunity is in the end of 2026, with landing in 2027:

SpaceX Mars mission in 2026:

SpaceX Mars mission in 2028:

Primary candidate sites for SpaceX Mars base are located in Arcadia Planitia:

SpaceX's latest vision for a City on Mars:

Why humanity should expand to Mars?

Future iterations of the Starship:

Starship Block 3 specifications:

In future Starship will have 9 Raptor engines (3 sea level and 6 vacuum):

Super Heavy Block 3 specifications:

SpaceX's latest vision for Moon Base Alpha (Atemis Base Camp):

Starship's heatshield should work both on Earth and Mars:

SpaceX Spaceports on Mars:

Starship interior views during a transfer to Mars:

Deployment of modified Starlink sattelites (Marslink) in orbit around Mars:

Elon Musk presenting SpaceX City on Mars:

Elon's previous Starship presentations:

• Starship update 2024 (April 2024)
• Starship update 2022 (February 2022)
• Starship update 2019 (September 2019)
• Big Falcon Rocket v2018 (September 2018)
• Big Falcon Rocket v2017 (IAC, September 2017)
• Interplanetary Transport System (IAC, September 2016)