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The mission profile for the Starship Propellant Transfer Demo will begin with the first launch. This launch will deliver the upper stage into orbit around the earth, while the first stage returns to the launch site for a catch. The second launch will repeat this profile three to four weeks later, and dock with the first starship. [4]
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]
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 announced on Monday it completed a major test of its latest Starship prototype, as the company prepares for the first orbital launch of the towering rocket.
BOCA CHICA — Starship S28 and Super Heavy B10 lifted off from Boca Chica at 8:25 a.m. Thursday for SpaceX's third Starship orbital flight attempt, after being granted permission by the Federal ...
SpaceX launched the Starship Falcon 9 from its Starbase facility in southern Texas, on Thursday morning — the company's latest attempt of a historic orbital test flight.
ESA plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in the third quarter of the year. [ 9 ] SpaceX expects to perform an in-space propellant transfer demonstration using two docked Starships in 2025—a critical milestone that will allow SpaceX to refuel their Starship HLS vehicle for an uncrewed lunar landing ...
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 ...