Elon Musk stated in April 2023 that SpaceX expected to spend about $2 billion on Starship development in 2023. [ 238 ] [ 239 ] In a 2024 response to a lawsuit, SpaceX stated that the cost of the Starship program was approximately $4 million per day.

SpaceX will also be able to use the Starship to deploy larger swarms of Starlink internet satellites. Currently, the Falcon 9 can take 60 of the micro-satellites into orbit at a time, but the ...

Starship Overview. SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket – collectively referred to as Starship – represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond.

2024年10月13日 · Elon Musk’s Starship rocket has completed a world first after part of it was captured on its return to the launch pad. The SpaceX vehicle's lower half manoeuvred back beside its launch...

2024年6月6日 · Elon Musk's mammoth new rocket system has returned to Earth in a groundbreaking fourth test flight that culminated in a first-ever soft ocean landing for the Starship vehicle.

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, estimated in a tweet that eight launches would be needed to completely refuel a Starship in low Earth orbit, enabling it to travel onwards. [7] Development began in 2012, when Musk described a plan to build a reusable launch vehicle with substantially greater capabilities than the Falcon 9 and the planned Falcon ...

2024年3月14日 · US company SpaceX's Starship rocket made major progress in its third test flight on Thursday, completing many of its objectives. The two-stage vehicle produced a clean getaway from its Texas...

2024年9月8日 · SpaceX plans to start launching uncrewed Mars missions with its Starship megarocket in 2026 and crewed flights to the Red Planet two years after that, Elon Musk said.

2024年10月10日 · Elon Musk wants his new rocket to revolutionise spaceflight. And that rocket, Starship, is now the largest and most powerful spacecraft ever built. It’s also designed to be fully and rapidly...

2024年6月6日 · Standing nearly 400 feet tall when stacked on top of its "Super Heavy" booster, Starship is larger than even the Saturn V rockets that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon. The...