List of Starship launches

SpaceX Starship during Starship flight test 2

Since April 2023, the SpaceX Starship has been launched 7 times, with 4 successes and 3 failures. The American company has developed Starship with the intention of lowering launch costs using economies of scale.[1] It aims to achieve this by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, increasing launch frequency, creating a mass-manufacturing pipeline and adapting it to a wide range of space missions.[2][3] Starship is the latest project in SpaceX's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars, and also one of two landing systems selected by NASA for the Artemis program's crewed Lunar missions.

SpaceX calls the entire launch vehicle "Starship", which consists of the Super Heavy first stage (booster) and the ambiguously-named Starship second stage (ship).[4] There are three versions of Starship: Block 1, (also known as Starship 1, Version 1, or V1) which is retired, Block 2, which first flew in Starship flight test 7, and Block 3, which is still in development. As of September 2024, vehicles of different versions are expected to be integrated and flown together.[5] As of January 2025, 6 Block 1 vehicles and 1 Block 2 vehicle have flown;[6] with the last Block 1 ship completing its mission in November 2024.[7] 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.[8] This capability was first demonstrated during Starship's fifth flight test, using a Block 1 booster.[9]

  1. ^ Dans, Enrique. "Elon Musk's Economies Of Scale Won SpaceX The NASA Moonshot". Forbes. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  2. ^ Wattles, Jackie (29 September 2019). "Elon Musk says SpaceX's Mars rocket will be cheaper than he once thought. Here's why". CNN Business. Archived from the original on 26 June 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  3. ^ Garofalo, Meredith (8 June 2024). "SpaceX wants to build 1 Starship megarocket a day with new Starfactory". Space.com. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  4. ^ Amos, Jonathan (6 August 2021). "Biggest ever rocket is assembled briefly in Texas". BBC News. Archived from the original on 11 August 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  5. ^ Jax (4 June 2024). "From Render to Reality: A Status Update on Starship Block 2". Ringwatchers. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  6. ^ Berger, Eric (8 April 2024). "Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible". Ars Technica. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference SpaceX 6th test was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Everyday Astronaut (26 May 2022). Go up SpaceX's Starship-catching robotic launch tower with Elon Musk!. Retrieved 3 June 2024 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Weber 2024 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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