Starship
Active Re-Usable StarshipSpaceX (SpX)
April 20, 2023
Description
Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
Specifications
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Stages
2 -
Length
120.0 m -
Diameter
9.0 m -
Fairing Diameter
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Launch Mass
5000 T -
Thrust
72000 kN
Family
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Name
Starship -
Family
Starship -
Variant
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Alias
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Full Name
Starship
Payload Capacity
-
Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
100000 kg -
Geostationary Transfer
Orbit
21000 kg -
Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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SpaceX
Commercial
CEO: Elon Musk
SpX 2002Space 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 | Integrated Flight Test 4
SpaceX | USASpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
TBD May, 2024
Starship | Superbird-9
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD June, 2027
Starship | Starlab
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Starship | Integrated Flight Test 3
SpaceX | USASpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
March 14, 2024, 1:25 p.m.
Starship | Integrated Flight Test 2
SpaceX | USASpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Nov. 18, 2023, 1:02 p.m.
Status: Launch was a Partial Failure
Mission:
Second test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster is expected to separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage will follow a suborbital trajectory and perform an unpowered splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii).
Suborbital Booster 9 - Maiden Flight Gulf of Mexico
Starship | Integrated Flight Test
SpaceX | USASpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
April 20, 2023, 1:33 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:
Maiden flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster was supposed to separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage would have followed a suborbital trajectory and performed an unpowered splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii). A launch failure was experienced before stage separation.
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