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 11

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

11th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Suborbital Booster 15 - Flight Proven ( ) Gulf of Mexico
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Starship | Superbird-9

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD June, 2027
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Superbird-9 is a high throughput communication satellite. It is designed to deliver broadcast and broadband missions in Ku band primarily over Japan and Eastern Asia, in response to mobility and broadband demands.

Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
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Starship | Starlab

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
TBD December, 2028
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Private space station developed by a joint venture between Voyager Space and Airbus.

Low Earth Orbit
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Previous Flights

flew on 10 previous launch(es).

Starship | Flight 10

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Aug. 26, 2025, 11:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Suborbital Booster 16 - Maiden Flight Gulf of Mexico
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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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Starship | Integrated Flight Test 4

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
June 6, 2024, 12:50 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Suborbital Booster 11 - Maiden Flight Gulf of Mexico
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Starship | Integrated Flight Test 3

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
March 14, 2024, 1:25 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Suborbital Booster 10 - Maiden Flight Gulf of Mexico
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Starship | Integrated Flight Test 2

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX 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
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Starship | Integrated Flight Test

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX 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.

Suborbital Booster 7 - Maiden Flight Gulf of Mexico
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