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Starship

The Starship program is SpaceX’s effort to build a fully reusable launch system, tested in a series of numbered flights from Starbase, Texas. Each flight on this site, from Starship Flight 1 in April 2023 onward, has a page of its own. Wikipedia counts 14 launches by 28 September 2026, nine of them successes and five failures. The tests aim at landing both stages, catching them at the launch tower, and refuelling a Starship in orbit. SpaceX first spoke of crewed Mars missions, then revised the plan to put returning people to the Moon first, in support of NASA’s Artemis programme.

Events

  • 28 September 2026

    Starship Flight 14

    Thirty-three engines lifted the stack, and one of the ship's engines shut down early. That decided the flight: SpaceX first chose not to commit to orbit, then polled again and gave a go.

    8 videos
    • CNET
    • Everyday Astronaut
    • Scott Manley

  • 24 July 2026

    Starship Flight 13

    Flight 13 was the second flight of Starship V3. The first attempt aborted at ignition, and SpaceX explained on the webcast that the pad abort came on four engines.

    4 videos
    • Everyday Astronaut
    • VideoFromSpace
    • Scott Manley

  • 26 August 2025

    Starship Flight 10

    SpaceX's own recap is short and gives the sequence rather than the detail: countdown and propellant close-out, liftoff, stage separation, engine cutoff and preparation for a payload deploy, and a relight demonstration.

    1 video
    • SpaceX

  • 7 March 2025

    Starship Flight 8

    The flight repeated two things that had worked before: hot staging and a booster catch. It also repeated the loss of the ship.

    1 video
    • The Launch Pad

  • 19 November 2024

    Starship Flight 6

    The point of the flight was to repeat the Flight 5 success and prove the ship could relight an engine in space, which a return from orbit would need.

    1 video
    • SpaceX

  • 13 October 2024

    Starship Flight 5

    Catching a booster that weighs hundreds of tonnes with a pair of steel arms had never been done. The decision to try came after the boostback burn and was left to the last minute: the catch depended on health checks of the tower and the booster.

    2 videos
    • SpaceX
    • look what's inside

  • 20 April 2023

    Starship Flight 1

    Thirty-three Raptor engines on the booster, six on the ship, and one goal that SpaceX named for the day: clear the pad. A first attempt on the Monday was stood down when a pressurisation valve on the booster froze.

    2 videos
    • SpaceX

  • Starship Super Heavy Booster 9 static fire

    1 video
    • SpaceX

  • Starship Flight 12

    V3 brings Raptor 3 engines, a new pad and an earlier max Q and stage separation. The first launch attempt was scrubbed because of a pin on the ship's quick-disconnect arm, and the flight came the next day.

    4 videos
    • Everyday Astronaut
    • SpaceX

Videos on this topic

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  1. Starship Flight 1: Pad Cleared, Then Tumble Ended the Test

    SpaceX

  2. Starship Flight 1: S24 and Super Heavy B7 Lift Off from Starbase

    SpaceX

  3. Starship Booster 9 Static Fire: 2.74 Seconds, Four Engines Out

    SpaceX

  4. Super Heavy Booster 9 Fires 33 Raptors in Second Static Fire

    SpaceX

  5. Starship Flight 5: Super Heavy Booster Caught on First Attempt

    SpaceX

  6. Starship Flight 6: Engine Relight, Aborted Catch, Ship Splashdown

    SpaceX

  7. Starship Flight 8: Booster Caught, Then the Ship Loses Engines

    The Launch Pad

  8. Starship Flight 10: Launch from Starbase and Objectives Met

    SpaceX

  9. Starship V3 Flight 12: Pad 2, Raptor 3, Booster 19 and Ship 39

    Everyday Astronaut

  10. Starship Flight 12: Countdown to the First V3 Launch from Pad 2

    Everyday Astronaut

  11. Starship Flight 12: First V3 Launch, Booster Loss and Engine Out

    Everyday Astronaut

  12. Starship Flight 12: Inside the Final Days Before the First V3

    SpaceX

  13. Starship Flight 13 Scrub: Booster Abort at Startup on Pad 2

    Everyday Astronaut

  14. Starship Flight 13: Booster Splashdown and Ship Orbit Insertion

    VideoFromSpace

  15. Starship Flight 13: Pad Abort Cause and 20 Starlink V3 Satellites

    Everyday Astronaut

  16. Starship 40 Reaches Christmas Island: Damage and the Trip Home

    Scott Manley

  17. Starship Ship 40: Towing a Floating Rocket Across the Indian Ocean

    SpaceX

  18. Why Starship V3’s Super Heavy Booster Has Only Three Grid Fins

    Everyday Astronaut

  19. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and 26 V3 Starlink Satellites

    CNET

  20. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and 26 Starlink V3 Deployed

    Everyday Astronaut

  21. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and Starlink V3 Deployment

    The Space Race

  22. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit, 26 Starlink V3s and an Early Return

    Scott Manley

  23. Starship Flight 14: Orbit, 26 Starlink V3 Satellites, Early Deorbit

    NASASpaceflight

  24. Starship Flight 14: Sun Transit, Booster Descent and FTS Blast

    NASASpaceflight

  25. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and 26 Starlink V3 Satellites

    Beyond The Space

  26. Starship Flight 14: How V3 Reached Orbit and Deployed 26 Satellites

    Curiously Brief

  27. Starship Flights 1 to 14: How Build-Fly-Fail-Fix Reached Orbit

    Beyond Liftoff

  28. Starship’s 33 Raptor Engines: Four Reasons Behind Super Heavy

    Celebrity Files

  29. How Starship’s Tower Catches Super Heavy: Flight 5 and After

    look what's inside

  30. Why Starship’s Heat Shield Uses Hexagonal Tiles and Full Reuse

    Farzad
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All the videos

  1. Starship 40 Reaches Christmas Island: Damage and the Trip Home

    Mission explainerScott Manley · 16:46

    Mission: Starship Flight 13 (2026)

  2. Starship Flight 14: Sun Transit, Booster Descent and FTS Blast

    Launch coverageNASASpaceflight · 12:52

    Mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)

  3. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit, 26 Starlink V3s and an Early Return

    Mission explainerScott Manley · 27:00

    Mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)

  4. Starship Flight 14: Orbit, 26 Starlink V3 Satellites, Early Deorbit

    Launch coverageNASASpaceflight · 25:49

    Mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)

  5. Starship Booster 9 Static Fire: 2.74 Seconds, Four Engines Out

    Launch coverageSpaceX · 7:46

    Mission: Starship Super Heavy Booster 9 static fire

  8. How Starship’s Tower Catches Super Heavy: Flight 5 and After

    Mission explainerlook what's inside · 11:13

    Mission: Starship Flight 5 (2024)

  11. Starship Flight 12: First V3 Launch, Booster Loss and Engine Out

    Launch coverageEveryday Astronaut · 2:23:01

    Mission: Starship Flight 12

  12. Starship Flight 14: How V3 Reached Orbit and Deployed 26 Satellites

    Vehicle explainerCuriously Brief · 25:00

    Mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)

  13. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and 26 Starlink V3 Satellites

    Mission explainerBeyond The Space · 26:09

    Mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)

  14. Starship V3 Flight 12: Pad 2, Raptor 3, Booster 19 and Ship 39

    Vehicle explainerEveryday Astronaut · 16:07

    Mission: Starship Flight 12

  15. Starship Flight 12: Countdown to the First V3 Launch from Pad 2

    Launch coverageEveryday Astronaut · 2:04:34

    Mission: Starship Flight 12

  16. Starship Flight 13 Scrub: Booster Abort at Startup on Pad 2

    Launch coverageEveryday Astronaut · 1:53:06

    Mission: Starship Flight 13 (2026)

  17. Starship Flight 13: Pad Abort Cause and 20 Starlink V3 Satellites

    Launch coverageEveryday Astronaut · 3:12:31

    Mission: Starship Flight 13 (2026)

  18. Why Starship V3’s Super Heavy Booster Has Only Three Grid Fins

    Vehicle explainerEveryday Astronaut · 15:22

  19. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and 26 Starlink V3 Deployed

    Launch coverageEveryday Astronaut · 4:23:55

    Mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)

  20. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and 26 V3 Starlink Satellites

    Launch coverageCNET · 15:13

    Mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)

  21. Starship Flight 8: Booster Caught, Then the Ship Loses Engines

    Launch coverageThe Launch Pad · 15:43

    Mission: Starship Flight 8 (2025)

  22. Starship Flight 13: Booster Splashdown and Ship Orbit Insertion

    Launch coverageVideoFromSpace · 9:38

    Mission: Starship Flight 13 (2026)

  23. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and Starlink V3 Deployment

    Mission explainerThe Space Race · 14:39

    Mission: Starship Flight 14 (2026)

  24. Starship Flight 12: Inside the Final Days Before the First V3

    DocumentarySpaceX · 34:16

    Mission: Starship Flight 12

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