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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]
For the purposes of this section, the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. For example, Electron rockets launched from the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand are counted under the United States because Electron is an American ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
“Flight 6 Super Heavy booster moved to the Starbase pad for testing,” SpaceX posted on X, together with images of the rocket. “The move comes just one week after returning the first booster ...
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 ]
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