Starship

SpaceX previously used the same near-launch-site manufacturing approach for its Starship-Super Heavy system.

SpaceX will use Just Read The Instructions to transport Starship hardware between Starbase and Florida.

SpaceX’s Starship tanker manifest has no formal NASA priority framework.

SpaceX’s Pad 39A is becoming a primarily Falcon Heavy and Starship launch pad.

SpaceX’s 165 launches in 2025 were all Falcon 9 missions or Starship test flights.

SpaceX’s Starship has not yet reached orbit and spent much of 2025 exploding during test flights.

Each Starship tanker flight burns nine Raptor engines.

Philip Johnston expects frequent Starship launches within three to five years to enable large amounts of mass to reach orbit and support cost-competitive data centers in space.

More than ten Starship tanker flights are required before any astronaut can land on the Moon under Artemis IV.

The Starship tanker flights must occur at roughly one launch every six days across a 200-day pre-mission window for Artemis IV.

The Artemis IV lunar landing depends on cryogenic propellant transfer to a Starship lunar lander in low Earth orbit.

Starship’s orbital debut slipped three times in 2026.

Critical Design Review for SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System has been pushed to August 2026.

SpaceX lost three consecutive Starship vehicles on Flights 7, 8, and 9.

SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System has slipped roughly two years from its original schedule.

SpaceX told NASA in fall 2025 that Starship Human Landing System could not make a June 2027 crewed landing.

SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System will not be ready for a June 2027 lunar landing.

SpaceX has completed nine Starship launches to date.