Starship

SpaceX's Starship vehicle failed to complete its mission profiles during its first two test flights.

SpaceX aims for Starship to have a launch readiness time of one hour, significantly faster than current launch systems.

Gary Henry from SpaceX stated that Starship could begin a cost trajectory at $200 per kilogram for launches.

Starship's operational cost could potentially drop to $20 per kilogram to low Earth orbit due to reductions in fuel costs.

SpaceX's Starship is proposed for high-speed point-to-point transportation of cargo for military operations and humanitarian relief.

Starship could deliver 30 metric tons of cargo and has a cargo bay similar in volume to a C-17 aircraft.

SpaceX would modify, reuse, or demolish the existing SLC-37 infrastructure to support Starship-Super Heavy launch and landing operations.

The U.S. Space Force is preparing environmental studies that could lead to SpaceX Starship launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

SpaceX is building a Starship launch pad at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A adjacent to the existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy pad.

The EIS will include a no-action alternative where no Starship launch sites are built at either SLC-37 or SLC-50.

Kennedy Space Center prepared an environmental review in December 2021 to construct a Starship launch complex at LC-49 on the northern end of KSC property, and that LC-49 study is currently on hold.

The EIS will examine an alternative that builds a new Starship launch complex designated SLC-50 located between SLC-37 and SLC-40.

SpaceX currently has one Starship launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas and plans to build a second Starship launch pad at Starbase.

Starship delivery robots are deployed in 80 locations across the world, including the US, UK, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, and Finland.

The report assumed a launch cost of $1,000 per kilogram for the Starship, despite projections of future costs as low as $20 to $30 per kilogram.

SpaceX's Starship was assumed for launching the SBSP systems, accounting for over 70% of the total costs.

Starship is still in development and SpaceX conducted two Starship test flights in 2023 and was planning a third test flight 2024-02.

Starlab Space selected SpaceX’s Starship to launch the Starlab commercial space station on a single flight.