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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) [16] and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). [17] 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 is a spacecraft and second stage [3] under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Stacked atop its booster, the Super Heavy, the pair compose SpaceX's super heavy-lift space vehicle, also called Starship. The spacecraft is designed to transport both crew and cargo to a variety of destinations, including Earth orbit, the Moon ...
SpaceX: Tanker launch for first Starship mars mission. At least one tanker will be needed for most launches beyond LEO. [48] 2026 [7] Unknown Unknown TBA: Uncrewed Mars Demo [7] [52] Unknown Martian surface: SpaceX: SpaceX plans to launch around five Starship upper stages to Mars in the 2026 Mars transfer window. [52]
SpaceX has moved the latest version of its Starship rocket to the launchpad ahead of new tests for the Mars-bound craft. Starship’s Super Heavy booster, which forms the first stage of the world ...
SpaceX has revealed the next test flight for its Mars-bound Starship spacecraft, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. Elon Musk’s private space company hopes the vehicle will ...
SpaceX is set to launch its Starship craft on Thursday, 16 January, after weather delayed its critical test of the world’s biggest rocket. The 123-metre-tall rocket, which Elon Musk hopes to use ...
Starship flight test 7 was the seventh flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. Flight 7 lifted off from Orbital Launch Pad A (OLP-A) on January 16, 2025, at 22:37:00 UTC (4:37 pm CST , local time) at the Starbase launch site in Texas.
As a successor to SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, Starship is intended to perform a wide range of space missions. For missions to further destinations, such as geosynchronous orbit, the Moon, and Mars, Starship will rely on orbital refueling; a ship-to-ship propellant transfer demonstration is expected to occur in 2025.