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Since April 2023, the
Since April 2023, the SpaceX Starship
Starship is a two-stage fully reusable launch vehicle, reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. On 20 April 2023, with the Starship flight test 1, first Integrated Flight Test, Starship b ...
has been launched times, with successes and failures. The American company has developed Starship with the intention of lowering launch costs using economies of scale
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. 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. Starship is the latest project in SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an America, American space technology company headquartered at the SpaceX Starbase, Starbase development site in Starbase, Texas. Since its founding in 2002, the compa ...
's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars, and also one of two landing systems selected by NASA
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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
A starship, starcraft, or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for interstellar travel, traveling between planetary systems. The term is mostly found in science fiction. Reference to a "star-ship" appears as early as 1 ...
second stage (ship). 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
Starship flight test 7 was the seventh flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. Flight 7 lifted off from SpaceX Starbase#Orbital Launch Pad A, Orbital Launch Pad A (OLP-A) on January 16, 2025, at 22:37:00UTC (4:37pmCentral Standard Time ...
, and Block 3, which is still in development. As of January 2025, 6 Block 1 vehicles and Block 2 vehicles have flown; with the last Block 1 ship completing its mission in November 2024 ( Starship flight test 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. This capability was first demonstrated during Starship's fifth flight test, using a Block 1 booster.
Launch statistics
Starship vehicles have been launched times, resulting in successes () and failures (). Starship Block 1 was launched six times between April 2023 and November 2024, with Block 1 vehicles being retired ahead of the seventh flight. Block 2 boosters are expected to fly further into the future.Launch sites
Launch outcomes
Booster landings
Ship landings
Booster Version
Ship Version
Past launches
2023
2024
2025
Future launches
Future launches are listed chronologically when firm plans are in place. Launches are expected to take place "no earlier than" (NET) the listed date.2025
In a talk in November 2024, Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders announced that SpaceX wants to catch aStarship
A starship, starcraft, or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for interstellar travel, traveling between planetary systems. The term is mostly found in science fiction. Reference to a "star-ship" appears as early as 1 ...
upper stage sometime in the next 6 months and have 25 launches in 2025.
2026
2027 and beyond
See also
* List of Starship upper stage flight tests *List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
As of , rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched times, with full mission successes, two mission failures during launch, one mission failure before launch, and one partial failure.
Designed and operated by SpaceX, the Falcon 9 fa ...
* List of Space Launch System launches
* List of Super Heavy boosters
* List of Starship vehicles
Notes
References
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