At vehicle separation, Starship’s upper stage successfully lit all six Raptor engines and flew a normal ascent until approximately seven minutes into the flight, when a planned vent of excess liquid oxygen propellant began. Additional propellant had been loaded on the spacecraft before launch in o...
The booster, the towering first half of SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket system, was undergoing pre-launch tests on a stand on Monday when its engine section burst into flames, sending a shock wave miles across the South Texas facility. SpaceX has launched early prot...
SpaceX has built 10 Starship prototypes, with production and fidelity accelerating on each build. SpaceX has manufactured and tested more than 60 of Starship’s Raptor engines, accumulating nearly 30,000 seconds of total test time over
Starship can also fly to the surface of the Moon (Figure 2), along with deploying and retrieving very large payloads in cislunar space. Although not on the critical path for flights to Mars, flights to the Moon do provide the opportunity to test and demonstrate Starship systems closer to E...
Specifically, SpaceX has now launched or announced several privately supported missions, including the all-civilian Inspiration4 mission and the Polaris Dawn series of missions (including on Starship). These missions enable a broader representation of astronaut cohorts, spanning a wider range of ages ...
The company said it lost contact with Starship as it neared its goal, a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The first-stage booster also ended up in pieces, breaking apart much earlier in the flight over the Gulf of Mexico after launching from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border...
The vehicle consists of the lower section, the Super Heavy booster, and the upper section, the Starship or ship. The two werestacked together aheadof today’s flight and achieved separation a few minutes after launch. This tricky maneuver involves cutting off most of the booster’s 33 Raptor...
“Starship’s second flight test achieved a number of major milestones and provided invaluable data to continue rapidly developing Starship,”SpaceX saidon its website. “Each of these flight tests continue to be just that: a test. They aren’t occurring in a lab or on a test stand, but...
It’s not in the same class as SpaceX’s giant upcoming Starship, but instead is aimed at lifting larger, heavy payloads similar to the ones carried by SpaceX’s incredibly successful Falcon 9. Neutron should be capable of lifting about 28,000 pounds of payload to orbit. During the call...
I mean, ok, but my observation is that it's not just when Elon comes up. I've gotten a flurry of downvotes for posts that asked questions like "is there really a market for launches to Earth orbit robust enough to justify Starship" or simply being skeptical that we ...