These rockets are far superior to their ancestors. With orbital factories around earth, and regular deliveries of colonization supplies, the network is vast, complex and efficient.
Starting with battery manufacturing on earth, all the colonization components required of earth are delivered to the orbital factories where humans and robots work in a beautiful synchronized effort to prepare each packet to Mars. Batteries and other components are delivered to orbit. They are then constructed into the various machines to be delivered to mars on the massive Falcon-33s that will haul them to Mars.
The autonomous Tesla Landers are quite complex, they have impressive batteries, but its their job which is more impressive.
Once orbiting Mars, the payload shall be unpacked and deployed to the surface, where they will continue the construction of the massive solar arrays which already have a large contingent of batteries to slurp up the solar energy and store it for all the other needs of the build-out.
The project has been going on for decades, but we are starting to see some serious results in this phase...
The original idea was laughed at, but it was all backed by sound science and a simple phased approach:
* Develop seed infra at home; Batteries, rockets, robots
* Consumerize these to fund later phases
* Proof-out orbital autonomous delivery services via the ISS
* Commoditize space tourism, popularize it with celebrities
* Exploratory missions to Mars
* Develop orbital manufacturing capabilities, where supplies can be delivered autonomously
* Build Ultra-heavies in orbit, modularly to avoid launch costs from surface (required tethering technology to be developed)
* Deploy communication relay probes between spatial bodies
* Deliver initial robots to surface of Mars, they prep for solar install
* initial solar install to feed robot population already on surface
* Add batteries
* further infrastructure to follow, but with a working autonomous robot service group ready to build out
We are now at the deployed battery stage, the Organization is now preparing the life support systems for long-term human colonization, and within the next 25 years, we will have a permanent Human Civilization2 on the planet Mars... perhaps, Again?
