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SpaceX calls the launch vehicle "Starship", which consists of the Super Heavy first-stage booster and the identically named Starship second-stage. [9] To avoid confusion, "Starship" in this article on the flight testing phase (2019–2024) means the second-stage, while the complete launch vehicle will be referred by the particular prototype booster and ship serial number.
Starship is a spacecraft and second stage [ 3] under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Stacked atop its booster, the Super Heavy, the pair compose SpaceX's new super heavy-lift space vehicle, also called Starship. The spacecraft is designed to transport both crew and cargo to a variety of destinations, including Earth orbit, the ...
CH 4 / LOX. Super Heavy is the first stage of the SpaceX Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle, which it composes in combination with the Starship second-stage. As of 2024, Super Heavy prototypes are being flight tested. Super Heavy flew for the first time on April 20, 2023, during the first orbital launch attempt of the Starship rocket.
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.
Video of the launch. Starship integrated flight test 2 was the second flight test of SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on November 18, 2023. The mission's primary objectives were for the vehicle to hot stage—a new addition to Starship's flight profile—followed by the second stage attaining a near-orbital trajectory with a controlled reentry over the Pacific ...
As the world awaits for news out of SpaceX (see below), Elon Musk has posted. ... A live video will start about 35 minutes before, SpaceX says on its launch page. Starship is back and stacked.
No information yet about timings, though the SpaceX livestream is showing the same time: 7am local central time. Elon Musk tweets about free speech as public waits for news on Starship launch
Starship HLS. Starship HLS[ a] is a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back. It is being designed and built by SpaceX under the Human Landing System contract to NASA as a critical element of NASA's Artemis program to land a crew on the Moon.