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As of January 2025, 6 Block 1 vehicles and 1 Block 2 vehicle have flown; [5] with the last Block 1 ship completing its mission in November 2024. [6] Both Starship's first and second stages are planned to be reusable, and are planned to be caught by the tower arms used to assemble the rocket at the pad. [7]
Hague and Williams ventured outside and replaced the Rate Gyro Assembly Gyroscope 2 on the S0 Truss, replaced the retro reflectors on IDA 3, installed shields on NICER to patch holes in the light shades, relocated the C2V2 cables out of the way so the astronauts and Canadarm 2 could access the worksite, tested a tool on the AMS jumpers, and ...
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 ]
SpaceX's Starship rocket achieved a world first on Sunday during its fifth test flight, showing for the first time that Elon Musk's launch system may really have what it takes to revolutionize ...
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 ...
One month later, Flight Test 6 saw a tower capture abort -- a disappointment -- but picture-perfect water landings by both Super Heavy and the rocket's Starship second stage, as well as a ...
Launch site [a] Flight apogee Duration (mm:ss) Launch outcome Landing outcome - 3 April 2019 Starhopper: Suborbital Launch Site <0.3 m (1 ft 0 in) ~00:03 Success — The first firing of Starhopper and the first tethered hop (according to Musk [10] [11]). The burn was a few seconds in duration and the vehicle was tethered to the ground.
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