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Starship HLS. Starship HLS [a] is a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back. It is being designed and built by SpaceX under the Human Landing System contract to NASA as a critical element of NASA's Artemis program to land a crew on the Moon.
Nomenclature. SpaceX calls the entire launch vehicle "Starship", which consists of the Super Heavy first-stage booster and the ambiguously named Starship second-stage. To avoid confusion, "Starship" in this article on the flight testing phase (2019–2024) means the second-stage, while the complete launch vehicle will be referred by the particular prototype booster and ship serial number.
Super Heavy is the first stage of the SpaceX Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle, which it composes in combination with the Starship second-stage. As of 2024, Super Heavy prototypes are being flight tested. Super Heavy flew for the first time on April 20, 2023, during the first orbital launch attempt of the Starship rocket.
SpaceX is now targeting 8.20am local time, or 2.20pm in the UK, it has said in a tweet. Tim Peake says launch will ‘herald a new era of deep space exploration' Monday 17 April 2023 11:50 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -SpaceX has started selling satellite lasers, which are used for speedy in-space communications, to other satellite firms, company President Gwynne Shotwell said at a ...
SL: 327 s (3.21 km/s) vac: 380 s (3.7 km/s) [2] Propellant. CH 4 / LOX. Starship is a spacecraft and second stage [3] under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Stacked atop its booster, Super Heavy, it composes the similarly named Starship super heavy-lift space vehicle.
SpaceX subsequently switched to developing a powered descent landing system. A description of the reusable launch system was outlined in September 2011. SpaceX said it would attempt to develop powered descent and recovery of both Falcon 9 stages—a fully vertical takeoff, vertical landing rocket. The company produced an animated video of the ...
June 6, 2024 at 11:13 AM. SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket completed its first full test flight Thursday, returning to Earth without exploding after blasting off from Texas. It was the fourth ...