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Now that SpaceX has proved both Starship and Super Heavy can launch toward space and return to Earth in one piece, the company is on track to reduce rocket-launch costs by an estimated 10 times.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship performed another spectacular launch during Tuesday’s test flight, but the company opted at the last minute not to try for its second-ever catch of the Super Heavy ...
A Super Heavy-Starship - the most powerful rocket ever built - blasts off from SpaceX's Gulf Coast manufacturing and flight test facility. / Credit: SpaceX
Starship Flight 7 saw SpaceX catch the Super Heavy booster using a ‘chopstick’ mechanism on the launch tower at the firm’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on 16 January, 2025 (SpaceX)
The SpaceX Starship lifts off from Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on Nov. 19, 2024, for the Starship Flight 6 test. / Credit: CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images
[3] [4] Starship is the latest project in SpaceX's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars. [5] There are currently three planned versions of Super Heavy: Block 1 (also known as Version 1 or V1), Block 2, and Block 3. As of 2025, Block 1 Super Heavy boosters are compatible with Block 1 and Block 2 Starships. [6]
The rocket's first stage "Super Heavy" booster lifted off at 7:25 a.m. CT (1225 GMT) from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas launch facilities, sending the Starship second stage rocket toward space before ...
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.