Starship

SpaceX plans to deploy Gen2 satellites using Falcon 9 rockets and its upcoming Starship heavy-launch vehicle.

SpaceX has more than $4,000,000,000 in NASA awards to develop lunar lander versions of its Starship vehicle and demonstrate them on the Artemis 3 and Artemis 4 missions.

SpaceX performed a suborbital test flight of Starship from its Boca Chica, Texas, site in December 2020 that violated the terms of its FAA launch license.

SpaceX has won more than $4,000,000,000 in NASA contracts to develop lunar lander versions of Starship for missions as soon as 2025.

NASA prohibited SpaceX from competing for the SLD competition because SpaceX had won a $2,900,000,000 Human Landing System contract in April 2021 to develop a lander based on Starship.

NASA finalized an Option B award for SpaceX on 2022-11-15 valued at $1,150,000,000 to modify its Starship design for later sustainable missions and conduct a second demonstration mission.

The new work under Option B aims to develop and demonstrate a Starship lunar lander that meets NASA’s sustaining requirements for missions beyond Artemis III, including docking with Gateway, accommodating four crew members, and delivering more mass to the surface.

NASA awarded a contract modification to SpaceX to further develop its Starship human landing system to meet agency requirements for long-term human exploration of the Moon under Artemis.

NASA awarded a contract modification to SpaceX to further develop the company’s Starship human landing system to meet agency requirements for long-term human exploration of the Moon under Artemis.

NASA awarded SpaceX a $1,150,000,000 contract modification to develop an upgraded version of its Starship lunar lander and to fly a second crewed mission.

Option B of NASA’s Human Landing System contract covers upgrades to the Starship lander that NASA originally selected for HLS in April 2021 for $2,900,000,000.

The FAA completed an environmental review in June that cleared the way for Starship launches from Boca Chica but required SpaceX to implement more than 75 measures to mitigate environmental effects.

The planned first orbital Starship test flight profile uses the Super Heavy booster and Starship lifting off from the Boca Chica, Texas, test site with Starship reaching orbit and then reentering to splash down near Hawaii after completing less than one orbit.

NASA plans to use Starship to land astronauts on the Moon for Artemis 3 through its Human Landing System contract with SpaceX.

NASA exercised Option B in its Human Landing System contract with SpaceX in March 2022 to fund changes to the Starship lander and a second demonstration mission.

The effort to develop crew and cargo capability at SLC-40 is driven by SpaceX’s work to host Starship launches at LC-39A.

SpaceX continued testing Starship prototypes at its Boca Chica, Texas, test site, including static-fire tests of the Starship vehicle and the Super Heavy booster.

SpaceX disclosed the plan to use a mix of Falcon 9 and Starship rockets for Starlink V2 in an 2022-08-19 letter to the Federal Communications Commission.