As of, the SpaceX Starship has been launched times, with successes and failures. The American company has developed Starship with the intention of lowering launch costs using economies of scale.[1] It aims to achieve this by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, increasing launch frequency, creating a mass-manufacturing pipeline and adapting it to a wide range of space missions.[2][3] Starship is the latest project in SpaceX's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars, and is one of two landing systems selected by NASA for the Artemis program's crewed Lunar missions.
SpaceX calls the entire launch vehicle "Starship", which consists of the Super Heavy first stage (booster) and the ambiguously-named Starship second stage (ship).[4] There are four versions of the Starship vehicle: Block 1, (also known as Starship 1, Version 1, or V1) which is retired,[5] Block 2, which first flew in Starship flight test 7 and was retired after Starship flight test 11, Block 3, and Block 4, with the latter two in development. As of, 6 Block 1 vehicles and Block 2 vehicles have flown;[6] with the last Block 1 launch occurring in November 2024 (Starship flight test 6). 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.[7]
Launch statistics
Launch sites
Launch outcomes
Booster landings
Ship landings
Booster version
Ship version
Past launches
Future launches
Future launches are listed chronologically when firm plans are in place. Launches are expected to take place "no earlier than" (NET) the listed date.
2026
2027 and beyond
See also
- List of Starship upper stage flight tests
- List of Starship vehicles
- List of Super Heavy boosters
- List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
- List of New Glenn launches
- List of Space Launch System launches
References
- Enrique Dans. Elon Musk's Economies Of Scale Won SpaceX The NASA Moonshot Forbes, retrieved April 25, 2024^
- Jackie Wattles. Elon Musk says SpaceX's Mars rocket will be cheaper than he once thought. Here's why CNN Business, September 29, 2019, retrieved January 3, 2024^
- Meredith Garofalo. SpaceX wants to build 1 Starship megarocket a day with new Starfactory