This screengrab from SpaceX live shows the SpaceX Starship rocket launching from Starbase, Texas, on May 27, 2025. SpaceX's prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping another bumpy tes
SpaceX has also won a $2.9 billion contract with NASA to develop the Starship into a human-rated lander for the agency’s Artemis moon missions. A moon derivative of the Starship, assisted by Starship refueling tankers, will be utilized for a lunar landing with astronauts, an event NASA say...
SpaceX's Starship is going orbital, NASA is launching its biggest rocket ever and Blue Origin wants to give you a postal address in low-Earth orbit. As the new space race heats up, we look at all the big launches, events and stories to watch this year....
NASA is interested in Starship, too. The agency has tapped SpaceX to provide the Human Landing System (HLS) for its upcoming Artemis moon missions. The timeline for these missions is still unclear as it relies on the Space Launch System (SLS), which finally flew the uncrewed Artemis I miss...
NASA will depend on the rocket company to ferry astronauts to the lunar surface on a modified Starship for the Artemis III and IV moon missions under a $4.2 billion contract. To do that, SpaceX first has to master refueling its spaceship in space. For Musk, Starship is also a passion pr...
"It is rocket science, on ludicrous mode." NASA tapped SpaceX to develop a human landing system version of Starship.Credit: SpaceX How will NASA use Starship? NASA plans to use Starship to land astronauts on the moon duringArtemis III and IV, two upcoming missions which could come as earl...
Data about this vehicle is scarce as well, although it has conducted two test missions by now with the Explora- tion Flight Test-1 in 2014 and with the recent Artemis 1. NASA has published some information about the mass budget18 of the vehicle, which can be used as a basis to ...
And, despite what NASA likes to claim for the SLS, the Starship will be the largest rocket on the planet with about twice the thrust and lifting capacity of the SLS. SLS, if it ever leaves the ground, will still by a wide margin hold the record for lifting the most pork barrels. Jun...
Artemis Price: $876.0 million Liftoff Thrust: 39,440 kN <== Payload to LEO: 95,000 kg Stages: 2 Strap-ons: 2 <==throwaways Rocket Height: 98.1 m Fairing Diameter: 5.1 m SpaceX Status: Active Liftoff Thrust: 61,800 kN <== Stages: 2 Strap-ons: 0 <==NO throwaways Rocket Hei...
Artemis? I don't even follow the government plans anymore because they'll change again (and never be completed). Might as well read SciFi novels in PowerPoint format. No need to rehash I suppose, but I still don't get how a rocket that can do Earth to Earth, Earth to Moon, Moo...