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Elon Musk stated in April 2023 that SpaceX expected to spend about $2 billion on Starship development in 2023. [239] [240] In a 2024 response to a lawsuit, SpaceX stated that the cost of the Starship program was approximately $4 million per day. [241]: 25–26 Adding that any day of delay to the Starship program represented a loss of $100,000.
Last year, Elon Musk said SpaceX plans to build Starships in the future that are bigger than the Great Pyramids of Giza. Writing in a post on X (formerly Twitter) last year, Mr Musk wrote that ...
Additionally, Elon Musk provided more details about the space mission architecture, launch vehicle, spacecraft, and Raptor engines. The first test firing of a Raptor engine on a test stand took place in September 2016. [71] [72] 2016 artist concept of the ITS Interplanetary Spaceship, in orbit near the rings of Saturn
And the latest mission of the nearly 400-foot-tall (121-meter) vehicle is designed to push the envelope even further in a quest to return astronauts to the moon and someday fulfill CEO Elon Musk ...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to X on Thursday night to explain what his company believes may have caused part of the Starship rocket to experience a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."
The spacecraft trajectory was suborbital, with a 234 km (145 mi) apogee and −50 km (−31 mi) perigee, [25] although the ship did reach orbital speed. [26] A scheduled restart of a Raptor engine for a prograde burn test did not occur, which would have resulted in a 50 km (31 mi) perigee and somewhat later entry into the atmosphere . [ 25 ]
Starship flight test 3 was the third flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on March 14, 2024. [2] [3]Starship successfully completed a full-duration second stage burn, reaching the intended orbital velocity for the first time, but broke up during re-entry in the atmosphere.
(Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its giant Starship rocket to space from Texas on Tuesday, advancing the ship's spaceflight abilities but botching an attempt to bring its booster back to ...