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As of January 2025, 6 Block 1 vehicles and 1 Block 2 vehicle have flown; [6] with the last Block 1 ship completing its mission in November 2024. [7] Both Starship's first and second stages are planned to be reusable, and are planned to be caught by the tower arms used to assemble the rocket at the pad. [8]
When stacked and fully fueled, Starship has a mass of approximately 5,000 t (11,000,000 lb), [c] a diameter of 9 m (30 ft) [17] and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). [6] The rocket has been designed with the goal of being fully reusable to reduce launch costs; [18] it consists of the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage [19] which are powered by Raptor and Raptor Vacuum engines.
Starship flight test 8 will be the eighth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. Ship 34 and Booster 15 are expected to fly on this test flight. [2] [3] It is expected to be the second flight of a Block 2 ship. After Flight 6, Elon Musk stated that flight 8 could be the first 'catch' of the Ship should flight 7's landing be successful ...
It’s only been a month since the last Starship flight test, which saw SpaceX successfully catch the Super Heavy booster rocket using “chopstick arms” on the launch tower for the first time ...
The static fire test comes less than two weeks after the last Starship mission, which saw the rocket reach orbital velocity for the first time before breaking up upon reentry to Earth’s atmosphere.
SpaceX is once again set to launch its massive Starship rocket — the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed — on a third test flight.
Ship 25 was a Starship prototype similar to Ship 24, equipped with a heat shield and a payload bay, though this was permanently welded shut. [130] It was used to test the cryogenic test stand at Massey's test site. [130] During the third week of May 2023, Ship 25 was moved to the launch site and lifted onto suborbital pad B for engine testing ...
Starship flight test 6 was the sixth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. The prototype vehicles flown were the Ship 31 upper stage and first stage Booster 13. [3] [4] The flight test started on November 19, 2024, at 22:00:00 UTC (4:00 pm CST, local time at the launch site).