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Starship vehicles have been launched 7 times, resulting in 4 successes (57.14%), and 3 failures. Starship Block 1 was launched six times between April 2023 and November 2024, with the ship retired ahead of the seventh flight. [9] Block 1 boosters are expected to fly further into the future. [10]
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.
List of SpaceX launches may refer to: List of Falcon 1 launches, SpaceX's retired first launch vehicle; List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches, SpaceX's current operational launch vehicles; List of Starship launches, SpaceX's upcoming launch vehicle in development
The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches. For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line , the FAI -recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL) . [ 1 ]
Starship and the Artemis timeline With many milestones left to hit, it’s clear that even if the next Starship test flight is wholly successful, a moon landing will remain on the distant horizon.
Starhopper was retired after this launch and used as a water tank at the production site. [4] [17] [18] 3 4 August 2020 23:57 [19] [20] Starship SN5: Suborbital Pad A 150 m (490 ft) [19] 00:51 [21] Success Success Second 150-meter hop, and first hop of a full Starship prototype. [22] [20] 4 3 September 2020 17:47 [23] Starship SN6: Suborbital Pad A
SpaceX has broken its own record for the number of orbital rocket launches in a single year. The launch from Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida of a Falcon 9 rocket this week passed the ...
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.