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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]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Starship S28 and Super Heavy B10, loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant, lifted off from Boca Chica/Starbase at 8:25 a.m. Thursday for SpaceX's third Starship orbital flight ...
Dec. 29—SpaceX managed to get two Starship orbital launch attempts under its belt in 2023, the first on April 20 and the second nearly seven months later on Nov. 18, both launching from the ...
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. [93] [94] 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 ...
SpaceX declared this flight a success, as their primary goal was to only clear the pad. [17] The launch resulted in extensive damage to the orbital launch mount and the infrastructures around it, including the propellant tank farm. [18] 2 18 November 2023 13:02:50 [19] Block 1, B9: Block 1, S25: Starbase, OLP-A — — Transatmospheric [20 ...