Starship launch system
Starship is SpaceX's two-stage, fully reusable launch-system architecture, comprising the Super Heavy first-stage booster and the Starship spacecraft/upper stage. Twelve integrated development flights through May 2026 progressed across first-, second-, and V3-generation hardware, demonstrating hot-staging, booster catches and reflights, controlled ship entry, payload deployment, and ocean landing burns.
Identity
- Aliases
- Starship/Super HeavyStarship Super HeavyBFRInterplanetary Transport System
- Family Name
- Starship
- Full Name
- Starship launch system
- Reusability
- fully_reusable
- Slug
- starship-launch-system
- Status
- development
- Type
- rocket
Details
- Description
- Starship is SpaceX's two-stage, fully reusable launch-system architecture, comprising the Super Heavy first-stage booster and the Starship spacecraft/upper stage. Twelve integrated development flights through May 2026 progressed across first-, second-, and V3-generation hardware, demonstrating hot-staging, booster catches and reflights, controlled ship entry, payload deployment, and ocean landing burns.
- Engines
- Count
- 33
- Name
- Raptor
- Placement
- booster
- Count
- 6
- Name
- Raptor
- Placement
- upper
- First Flight Year
- 2,023
- Manufacturer Id
- jd7ce2bqftfeecsmsam5yhj86d7kqbmw
- Operator Id
- jd7ce2bqftfeecsmsam5yhj86d7kqbmw
- Stages Count
- 2
Links
- Official Url
- https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- 4/26/2026, 2:21:48 PM
- Image
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- Updated Time
- 7/14/2026, 5:08:51 PM