Elon Musks plans to colonize space launches this year, and Tesla robots will be the first residents

Trillionaire Elon Musk aims to have rockets blast off from Earth before the end of 2026, sending the first materials to the moon and Mars to start building colonies.The world’s first trillionaire is then planning to send robots to prepare the infrastructure needed for humans to survive.Musk said recently he has shifted Space X’s focus as it is closer and “much faster to complete a moon city,” with a timeline of getting it established in the next 10 years.However, he is optimistic he can also start sending material to the red planet within seven years too.This week, Musk also filed applications with the Federal Communications Commission for the next stage of his plan: sending a “constellation” of 100,000 satellites into space.SpaceX said this will improve communications between earth and space and provide the computing power needed for billions of AI-powered devices — at home and on the moon.“If you’ve got a really capable AI system, are you going to embed that in every robot?” he asked.

“No, you’re going to have centralized compute — that’s what these satellites are for,” SpaceX founding team member Jim Cantrell told The Post.“The robots build the settlement before the humans show up,” he added.“And unless Musk does something stupid or somebody kills him, [he’ll live to see it all].”The plan progressed Thursday, when SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites into low earth orbit using its Falcon 9 re-useable rocket, which has so-far made 36 return flights.However, to launch the heavy machinery needed to build settlements beyond earth, Musk has also said on X he’s planning to engineer a much bigger transport rocket than even his Starship model.His latest forecast is that the first self-sustaining cities will be up and running on the red planet between 2045 and 2055. Here’s how the plan is set to unfold — and the challenges it still faces.Getting millions of tons of goods out of the earth’s atmosphere and into space is n...