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Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. A first list contains rockets that are operational or have attempted an orbital flight attempt as of 2024; a second list ...
The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. As the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon landing program, SLS is designed to launch the crewed Orion spacecraft on a trans-lunar trajectory. The first (and so far only) SLS launch was the uncrewed Artemis I, which took place on 16 ...
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 ...
The closest thing the space agency has today to the Saturn 5 is the Space Launch System ... the upper stage of the Starship to serve as the Human Landing System—the 21st century version of the ...
In a big first, Starship will also attempt to deploy 10 satellite “simulators,” SpaceX said, that will be “similar in size and weight” to the company’s next generation of Starlink ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to launch its most daring rocket ever.. Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. Eventually, SpaceX hopes it can carry people to the Moon and Mars ...
Starship ignition during launch on its fifth flight. Starship is a two-stage fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. On April 20, 2023, with the first Integrated Flight Test, Starship became the most massive, tallest, and most powerful vehicle ever to fly. [8]
Shortly after liftoff, the 233-foot-tall Super Heavy booster separated from Starship, the rocket that was stacked on top, and flew back to the launch site. As it descended toward the launchpad, a ...