Starship

Starship is SpaceX’s fully reusable, two-stage launch system, built and flown from Starbase in Texas. The Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage both burn liquid methane and oxygen in Raptor engines. The plan is for both to come back to the launch site, and for the upper stage to work as a spacecraft carrying crew and cargo, refuelled in orbit for flights beyond Earth orbit. Its first flight, Starship Flight 1, was in April 2023. Wikipedia counts 14 launches as of 28 September 2026, nine of them successful and five failures. SpaceX is aiming it at the Moon first and then Mars.

Events

28 September 2026

Starship Flight 14
- Starship, Super Heavy
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
- Starship, Super Heavy
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
- Starship
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
- Starship, Super Heavy
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
- Starship
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
- Starship, Super Heavy
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
- Starship, Super Heavy
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
- Starship, Super Heavy
1 video
- SpaceX
International Space Station deorbit
- Cargo Dragon, Falcon 9, Soyuz, Space Shuttle, Starship
1 video
- The B1M
Starship Flight 11
- Starship, Super Heavy
1 video
- The Launch Pad
Artemis III
- New Glenn, Orion, SLS, Starship, Vulcan
- Randy, Luca, Frank, Andre
Artemis III was meant to be the landing. By 2026 the lunar landers were not ready and the Gateway station that Orion was to meet had been dropped, so NASA rebuilt the mission around what could fly in 2027.
3 videos
- NASA
- The Space Race
- Cosmic Enigma
Starship Flight 12
- Starship, Super Heavy
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