Elon Musk has a plan for an internet system to serve future colonists on Mars (Image: GETTY)
The founder of SpaceX revealed his “space internet” plan at the private Seattle event were Mr Musk told the crowd the Seattle office will be the headquarters for a next-generation space Internet initiative He said: “We could use the Starlink structure and leverage it to put an internet system on Mars. Mars is going to need a global communication system to.
“There are no fibre optics or wires or anything on Mars.
“We are going to need high bandwidth communications between Earth and Mars and the Starlink system will provide this.”
Elon Musk’s martian ambitions for Starlink were also confirmed during an early 2016 interview with famous filmmaker Werner Herzog for the documentary Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World.
Mr Musk said: “Mars is actually a comparatively easy place to establish a local internet because you wouldn't have be living everywhere on Mars, so you really just need maybe four satellites to have global coverage because of how sparse that
