Starship / launch vehicle
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Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Currently built and launched from Starbase in Texas, it is intended as the successor to the company's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, and is part of SpaceX's broader reusable launch system development program.
key specs
faq
Who builds Starship?
Starship is built by SpaceX. (source, as of 2026-07-05)
When did Starship first fly?
Starship first flew on 2023-04-20. (source, as of 2026-07-05)
Is Starship reusable?
Starship is reusable. (source, as of 2026-07-05)
facts
providerSpaceX
countryUSA
classunknown
payload to LEO (kg)100000
reusableyes
first flight2023-04-20
flights totalunknown
flights successfulunknown
last flight2026-05-22
next flightunknown
statusactive
price per launch (USD)unknown
height (m)124.4
diameter (m)9
mass (kg)5000000
events
- notable2026-07-08Earthjustice petitions FCC to pause orbital data center licensing
- notable2026-07-08ispace books 500 kg of SpaceX Starship lunar cargo space
- notable2026-07-07Rocket Lab CFO says 'panic' setting in over Falcon 9 rideshare access
- notable2026-07-07SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 weeks after its Nasdaq IPO
- notable2026-07-07Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs split on SpaceX price target
- notable2026-07-02GAO flags cost overruns, schedule risk in Space Force satellites
- notable2026-06-30SpaceX asks FCC to license 100,000-satellite Gen3 fleet
- notable2026-06-26SpaceX tells investors it plans a Starlink retail mobile service in the US
- noise2026-06-24SpaceX names its orbital AI compute megaconstellation Starmind
- major2026-06-23SpaceX prices $25 billion inaugural bond offering across five tranches
- notable2026-06-23SpaceX flies first Starfall reentry capsule on a secretive Falcon 9 demo mission
- noise2026-06-19SpaceX launches NROL-179 reconnaissance mission on Falcon 9 from Vandenberg
- notable2026-06-19SpaceX beach closures at Boca Chica survive as Texas Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit
- noise2026-06-17AST SpaceMobile puts BlueBirds 8, 9 and 10 in orbit on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral
- major2026-06-16SpaceX agrees to buy AI coding company Cursor in a $60 billion all-stock deal
- seismic2026-06-12SpaceX goes public on Nasdaq, raising $75 billion in the largest IPO on record
- notable2026-06-10SpaceX Starbase land swap challenged in federal court by conservation groups and tribe
- noise2026-06-08SpaceX flies Falcon 9 booster B1067 for a record 35th time on Starlink 10-35
sources
[1] ll.thespacedevs.com ↗
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