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Private space company Impulse Space and Relativity Space has announced an ambitious joint venture set to become its first commercial mission Marswhich will feature payload launches starting in 2024.
A renewed interest in space has led private companies to turn their attention to Mars, and a new collaboration was announced Tuesday Between Space Impulse and Space Relativity could be the first commercial landing on the Red Planet. Impulse Space is a company founded by Tom Mueller, a SpaceX company, that specializes in moving payloads into and around space. At the same time, Relativity Space focuses on the production of spacecraft using 3D metal printing, artificial intelligence and autonomous robotics. Impulse will donate the Mars Cruise and Mars Lander vehicles to Relativity’s Terran R, a fully 3D-printed launch vehicle. The launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida will occur in early 2024, and the company has an exclusive agreement to launch there until 2029.
said Tom Mueller in pers conference. Mueller also serves as CEO of Impulse. Relativity Founder and CEO, Tim Ellis, added, “This is a huge challenge, but one that has already been achieved will expand the possibilities of human experience in our lives on two planets.”
The company says the Mars probe will support research and development for future planetary settlements, but additional details about how specifically the probe will do so are weak. Impulse and Relativity did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment. The Terran R is a descendant of Relativity’s Terran 1 – a 3D-printed rocket set to launch later this year – and the company says the Terran R could serve as a “point-to-point cargo spacecraft capable of carrying out missions between Earth, Moon and Mars.” In other words. As a company, Relativity hasn’t launched a rocket, and Impulse Space hasn’t tested any of its payloads into orbit, according to Eric Berger of Ars Technica.
Mars has become the latest target for private space companies looking to be the first to land, but relativity and impulse are They’re not the only ones with high (and potentially unattainable) expectations. Elon Musk of SpaceX doubled down on his plans for the red planet in an April 2022 interview by reiterating his lofty goal of getting million settlers on Mars in 2050.
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