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The Starship tanker is designed to transport approximately 100 tonnes (220,000 lb) of propellant to low Earth orbit. [22] [better source needed] In April 2021, NASA selected the SpaceX Lunar Starship with in-orbit refueling for their initial lunar human landing system. [23]
This would allow SpaceX to use a second-generation Starship HLS design to conduct a Lunar Gateway-based demonstration mission as part of Artemis IV. [66] An unknown number of refueling flights, estimated to be in the high teens, will be required. [59] 2028 Unknown Unknown TBA: Starlab [67] LEO: Voyager Space/Airbus
In June 2020, SpaceX started constructing a launch pad for orbital Starship flights. [58] The first flight-capable prototype, SN5, was cylindrical as it had no flaps or nose cone: just one Raptor engine, fuel tanks, and a mass simulator. [166] On 5 August 2020, SN5 performed a 150 m (500 ft) high flight and successfully landed on a nearby pad ...
SpaceX's first orbital Starship SN20 is shown here stacked atop its massive Super Heavy Booster 4 at the company's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022 ...
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.
The Starship Human Landing System program includes the development and operational use of several Starship spacecraft variants by SpaceX, including the Starship HLS ship—optimized to operate on and in the vicinity of the Moon—as well as a Starship depot that will store propellant in Earth orbit, and the Starship tanker designed to fly multiple trips to orbit from Earth's surface to ...
PHOTO: In this screen grab taken from the SpaceX broadcast the Starship's Super Heavy Booster is being grabbed as it returns to the launch pad at Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on Jan. 16, 2025.
In June 2020, SpaceX started constructing a launch pad for orbital Starship flights. In August and September 2020, SN5 and SN6 conducted a 150 m (500 ft) hop test. [99] [100] This was followed by a 12.5 km (7.8 mi) flight test in December 2020, using SN8. Despite a full successfully ascent burn, SN8 failed during the landing attempt, due to low ...