When stacked and fully fueled, Starship has a mass of approximately 5,000 t (11,000,000 lb), a diameter of 9 m (30 ft) and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). The rocket has been designed with the goal of being fully 展开

Payloads are planned to be integrated into Starship at a separate facility and then rolled out to the launch site. Super Heavy and Starship are then to be stacked onto their launch mount and … 展开

SpaceX develops the Starship primarily with private funding. SpaceX Chief Financial Officer Bret Johnsen disclosed in court that SpaceX has invested more than $3 billion into the 展开

Starship vehicles have been launched 5 times for flight tests over 2 years, resulting in 3 successes ( 60%), and 2 failures. Starship Block 1 has been launched five times between April 2023 to October 2024, and will be replaced by Block 2 ships after another flight. Block 1 … 展开

On April 4, 2024, Elon Musk provided an update on Starship at Starbase, where two new versions of Starship were announced, Block 2 and Block 3.
Block 1
As of October 13, 2024, Block 1 has been used for all 5 展开

Early design concepts (2012–2019)
In November 2005, before SpaceX had launched its first rocket the Falcon 1, CEO Elon Musk first mentioned a high-capacity rocket concept able to launch 100 t (220,000 lb) to low Earth orbit, dubbed the BFR. Later in 2012, Elon … 展开

Starlink
SpaceX plans to use Starship to launch the second generation of satellites for SpaceX's 展开