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List of Starship launches

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SpaceX Starship during Starship flight test 2

Since April 2023, the SpaceX Starship has been launched 6 times, with 4 successes and 2 failures. The American company has developed Starship with the intention of lowering launch costs using economies of scale.[1] It aims to achieve this by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, increasing launch frequency, creating a mass-manufacturing pipeline and adapting it to a wide range of space missions.[2][3] Starship is the latest project in SpaceX's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars, and also one of two landing systems selected by NASA for the Artemis program's crewed Lunar missions.

SpaceX calls the entire launch vehicle "Starship", which consists of the Super Heavy first stage (booster) and the ambiguously-named Starship second stage (ship).[4] There are three versions of Starship: Block 1 (also known as Starship 1, Version 1, or V1) which is retired, Block 2 which will fly in Starship flight test 7, and Block 3, which is still in development. As of September 2024, vehicles of different versions are expected to be integrated and flown together.[5] As of October 2024, only Block 1 vehicles have flown;[6] the last Block 1 ship completed its mission in November 2024.[7] Both Starship's first and second stages are reusable, and are planned to be caught by the tower arms used to assemble the rocket at the pad.[8] This capability was first demonstrated during Starship's fifth flight test, using a Block 1 booster.[9]

Launch statistics

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Starship vehicles have been launched six times for flight tests over two years, resulting in four successes (66.67%), and two failures. Starship Block 1 has been launched six times between April 2023 to November 2024, with the ship being retired ahead of the seventh flight.[10] Block 1 boosters are expected to fly further into the future.[11]

Launch sites

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Launch outcomes

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4
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  •   Failure[i]
  •   Partial failure
  •   Success
  •   Planned

Booster landings

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4
2023
2024
2025
2026
  •   Precluded
  •   Ocean failure
  •   Tower failure
  •   Ocean success[ii]
  •   Tower success
  •   No attempt

Ship landings

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2
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4
2023
2024
2025
2026
  •   Precluded
  •   Ocean failure
  •   Tower failure
  •   Ocean success[ii]
  •   Tower success
  •   No attempt

Booster Version

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4
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2024
2025
2026

Ship Version

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2026



  1. ^ SpaceX declared both launches a success
  2. ^ a b Any controlled flight to water, no recovery

Past launches

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2023

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  1. ^ a b SpaceX declared success[13][14]

2024

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Future launches

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Future launches are listed chronologically when firm plans are in place. Launches are expected to take place "no earlier than" (NET) the listed date.

2025

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In a talk in November 2024 from Kathy Lueders, Starbase General Manager, she announced that SpaceX wants to catch a Starship upper stage sometime in the next 6 months and have 25 launches in 2025.[36]

2026

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2027 and beyond

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See also

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References

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