Next year is going to be awesome. Elon Musk has been saying since July that he expects grok 5 to enable a new physics by the end of the year and all kinds of scientific innovations. I’ve seen a mathematician say that he expects most if not all unsolved math problems to be solved next year with the coming more powerful AI. Next year is just a warm up for the civilization shift that comes in 2027 with Recursive Self Improvement or RSI
Nov-Dec will be the next launch window for Mars.
There needs to be a Mars-orbit-then-return mission of some sort, also it wouldn’t hurt a thing for SpaceX to deploy at least three of the new version Starlink satellites around Mars with a laser comm station (or more than one) to keep an active (though obviously time-delayed) comm link between Mars and Earth.
NASA might even be interested in piggybacking relays for the existing surface rovers and such to improve links to and from those.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/dtm5bc/mars_launch_windows_20202030/