Starship

Flight 11 is an upcoming mission in the Starship program.

The Gigabay is an assembly hall for future vehicles related to the Starship program.

Starship has a few more years to demonstrate its on-orbit refueling before a decision must be made regarding its use for the Uranus mission.

Parts of the second tower crane are starting to be put in place at the Starship Giga Bay site.

Launching with Starship refueled in Earth's orbit could allow a spacecraft to reach Uranus in just over six years.

SpaceX has scheduled its next launch of the next-generation rocket Starship for October 13.

Flight 11 will be the last launch of the current Starship model, Version 2.

A study from MIT's Engineering Systems Lab found that Starship may enable the Uranus mission in half the flight time compared to current estimates.

Both stages of Starship are made of stainless steel and are designed for full reusability.

Starship's capabilities could be used to deploy larger masses to Uranus, facilitating enhanced missions with additional instruments or probes.

The two-stage Starship consists of a first stage booster called Super Heavy and a second stage known as Ship.

Aerocapture using Starship could produce deceleration and heating loads similar to other Uranus aerocapture concepts while enabling a cruise time of six years.

Starship is designed to withstand atmospheric entry at Earth and Mars, with a thermal protection system that could be modified for aerocapture at Uranus.

In the previous Flight 10, Starship successfully launched, and Super Heavy landed in the Gulf of Mexico as planned.

Starship uses Raptor engines that utilize liquid methane as propellant and liquid oxygen as an oxidizer.

There is a desire for short-term notice re-entries for Starship in case of on-orbit failures such as tank leaks.

Orbital Launch Mount 3 at LC-39A is being prepared to host Starship in Florida.

The water deluge system at Starbase is designed to mitigate the intense heat and acoustics of Starship launches.