Starship

SpaceX concluded it needed to start launching Starship and better understand the vehicle before building offshore launch platforms.

SpaceX is building another Starship launch site at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.

Initial Starship missions will launch Starlink satellites and will develop reliability and reusability needed to support the Human Landing System mission.

SpaceX's immediate goal is to get Starship to orbit as soon as possible.

An orbital flight test of Starship will require a pending FAA launch license.

Starship is also designed to land NASA astronauts on the moon as part of the Artemis lunar exploration campaign.

SpaceX will attempt a static-fire test of all 33 engines in its Starship booster on February 9.

Starship is essential to SpaceX's long-term plans, including deploying a second generation of the Starlink constellation.

SpaceX aims for Starship to achieve a flight rate similar to that of aircraft, targeting dozens of launches per day.

The static-fire test will be the final major technical milestone before the Starship's first orbital launch attempt.

Gwynne Shotwell expects Starship to fly at least 100 times before it carries people for the first time.

Gwynne Shotwell suggested that conducting 100 flights of Starship in 2025 is possible.

Abhishek Tripathi, mission operations director at the University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, recommends that companies prepare to launch products on Starship and change their business models to work with Starship rideshare flights.

SpaceX has received more than $4,000,000,000 from NASA to develop lunar lander versions of Starship for Artemis 3 and Artemis 4.

The first orbital launch of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle is a planned milestone for 2023.

NASA has provided SpaceX with more than $4,000,000,000 in awards through its Human Landing System program to develop versions of Starship to land astronauts on the moon for the Artemis campaign.

SpaceX has received two NASA awards with a combined value of more than $4,000,000,000 to develop Starship-based lunar landers.

SpaceX moved ahead with a final series of tests of its Starship vehicle and Super Heavy booster at its Starbase test site in Boca Chica, Texas, as of 2023-01-12.

The FAA completed an environmental review in June allowing Starship orbital launches to proceed from Boca Chica while requiring SpaceX to implement more than 75 environmental mitigation measures.