Project Troy - Mission to Mars - (Reaction Engines Ltd)

Project Troy is a concept for a large space-based assembly of a transportation system which can ferry people and cargo from Earth to Mars with all mission infrastructure being totally re-used for any future missions.

The first of these interplanetary missions would send three spacecraft to the Red Planet with living modules, rovers, power units and other essential equipment.

Once these were safely established, a follow-up mission would send three spacecraft, each carrying a crew of six, to land at the sites with their ready-prepared lodgings. They would spend more than a year of exploration before making a return.

The exciting video, above, shows how such a concept, dubbed Project Troy, would be constructed. Firstly a number of Skylons would deliver components into orbit for the construction of two fleets of spacecraft to fly to Mars.

Alan Bond

SEE ALSO: Skylon