Starship

SpaceX was considering launching Starship from Cape Canaveral by Flight #15.

Gwynne Shotwell said SpaceX engineers are building one Starship super heavy rocket per month.

ESA’s Themis program is a reusable first-stage rocket program intended as Europe’s answer to Falcon and Starship.

SpaceX includes Starlink, Starship, xAI, and X Holdings in its corporate group.

SpaceX operates Falcon launch vehicles, Starship, Starlink, government services, and orbital infrastructure.

SpaceX’s Lunar Starship prototype will fly without life support systems for Artemis III.

The Artemis III astronauts will not enter SpaceX’s Starship from Orion after docking because the Starship prototype lacks life support systems.

SpaceX says Starship Version 3 is designed to carry approximately 200 metric tons to low Earth orbit in fully reusable configuration and roughly 400 metric tons in expendable configuration.

SpaceX flew Starship Version 3 for the first time during Flight 12 last week.

Payload Research estimated Starship’s internal cost per kilogram in an expendable V1 configuration at approximately $500.

Starship Version 3 uses three larger grid fins, an integrated hot-staging design, and a new interstage configuration that SpaceX calls Block 3.

The Italian Space Agency has an agreement with SpaceX to transport Italian experiments on the first Starship missions to Mars.

Starship recorded $657 million in operating losses in 2025.

Starship generated $4.086 billion in revenue in 2025.

SpaceX allocated $3 billion to its Starship division.

SpaceX plans to use capital from the IPO to fully operationalize its heavy-lift Starship mega-rocket.

Shaun Maguire of Sequoia Capital said SpaceX has a position in the orbital data-center market and expects Starship to come online relatively soon.

The FAA approved Starfall’s initial test flights to launch as secondary payloads on either Falcon 9 or Starship.