SpaceX said it has started offering commercial Starship transport services to Mars and has signed its first agreement with the Italian Space Agency. The pact makes ASI the inaugural external customer for missions to the red planet using the company’s fully reusable heavy-lift rocket system. The company added that Starship will also be used to deploy its next-generation V3 Starlink satellites, with each launch expected to deliver more than 20 times the network capacity of current Falcon 9 missions. SpaceX is currently producing about 70 Starlink V2 satellites a week and aims to begin V3 launches on Starship in roughly six months, which it says could cut latency to below 20 milliseconds. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk reiterated a goal of sending the first uncrewed Starship to Mars during the 2026 Earth-Mars transfer window, followed by crewed flights and an eventual target of moving one million people to the planet by 2050.