When stacked and fully fueled, Starship has a mass of approximately 5,000 t (11,000,000 lb), a diameter of 9 m (30 ft) and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). The rocket has been designed with the goal of being fully See more

Early design concepts (2012–2019)
In November 2005, before SpaceX had launched its first rocket the Falcon 1, CEO Elon Musk first mentioned a high-capacity rocket concept able to launch 100 t (220,000 lb) to low Earth orbit, dubbed the BFR. Later in 2012, … See more

Starship vehicles have been launched six times for flight tests over two years, resulting in four successes ( 66.67%), and two failures. Starship Block 1 has been launched six times between April 2023 to November 2024, with the ship being retired ahead of the … See more

On April 4, 2024, Elon Musk provided an update on Starship at Starbase, where two new versions of Starship were announced, Block 2 and Block 3.
Block 1
As of November 19, 2024, Block 1 has been retired but … See more

Payloads are planned to be integrated into Starship at a separate facility and then rolled out to the launch site. Super Heavy and Starship are then to be stacked onto their launch mount … See more

SpaceX develops the Starship primarily with private funding. SpaceX Chief Financial Officer Bret Johnsen disclosed in court that SpaceX has invested more than $3 billion into the See more

Starlink
SpaceX plans to use Starship to launch the second generation of satellites for SpaceX's See more