Starship

Active Re-Usable

SpaceX (SpX)

April 20, 2023

Description

Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    120.0 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    5000.0 T
  • Thrust
    72000.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    21000.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

SpaceX

Commercial
CEO: Elon Musk
SpX 2002

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

Upcoming Spaceflights


Starship | Flight 10

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
TBD August, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

10th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Suborbital Booster 16 - Maiden Flight Orbital Launch Mount A
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Starship | Flight 9

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
May 27, 2025, 11:36 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

9th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Suborbital Booster 14 - Flight Proven ( ) Gulf of Mexico
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Starship | Flight 8

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
March 6, 2025, 11:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Eighth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Suborbital Booster 15 - Maiden Flight Orbital Launch Mount A
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Starship | Flight 7

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Jan. 16, 2025, 10:37 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Seventh test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Suborbital Booster 14 - Maiden Flight Orbital Launch Mount A
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Starship | Integrated Flight Test 6

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Nov. 19, 2024, 10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Sixth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Suborbital Booster 13 - Maiden Flight Orbital Launch Mount A
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Starship | Integrated Flight Test 5

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Oct. 13, 2024, 12:25 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Fifth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Suborbital Booster 12 - Maiden Flight Orbital Launch Mount A
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Falcon 9
Go
6 hours, 41 minutes ago
TRACERS
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, consisting of two identical satellites that will orb…


Falcon 9
Go
1 day, 3 hours ago
O3b mPower 9-10
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

2 high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.


Falcon 9
Success
3 days, 21 hours ago
Starlink Group 17-3
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
6 days, 18 hours ago
Project Kuiper (KF-01)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

First of a three launches contract for Amazon's Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation, with 24 satellites on board.


Falcon 9
Success
6 days, 22 hours ago
Starlink Group 15-2
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 26 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.