Starship V1 upper stage
Starship V1 was the first upper-stage generation used for integrated Starship flights. Ships 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, and 31 flew the first six tests from 2023 through 2024, establishing hot-staging, spaceflight coast, atmospheric entry, in-space Raptor relight, and controlled ocean splashdown capability.
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- Starship first generationStarship Block 1
- Family Name
- Starship upper stage
- Full Name
- Starship V1 upper stage
- Roles
- experimentaltechnology_demonstrator
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
- Variant Name
- V1
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- Description
- Starship V1 was the first upper-stage generation used for integrated Starship flights. Ships 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, and 31 flew the first six tests from 2023 through 2024, establishing hot-staging, spaceflight coast, atmospheric entry, in-space Raptor relight, and controlled ocean splashdown capability.
- First Flight Year
- 2,023
- Last Flight Year
- 2,024
- Manufacturer
- Operator
- Parent Vehicle Family
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Rocket Specs
- Stages Count
- 1
- Spacecraft Specs
- Reusability
- fully_reusable
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- Creation Time
- July 14, 2026 at 17:08:17 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 15:41:22 UTC
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