SpaceX Starship

SpaceX proposes up to 435 annual Starship-Super Heavy launches from Texas in a draft environmental review released by the FAA on Oct. 14.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Japanese space transportation provider Ispace has begun talks with potential customers to sell lunar payload capacity it has secured on a future SpaceX Starship mission to the Moon.

The Starship spacecraft that SpaceX launched for a suborbital flight test nearly 11 weeks ago returned to the company’s Starbase, Texas, complex on Oct. 7.

Starship-Super Heavy operations are ramping up in Florida.

After a decade in development, SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy transport reaches orbit for a test run.

SpaceX plans at least one more flight test of its Starship-Super Heavy launch system from Starbase, Texas, before the program launches from Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX capped a decade of development with the first orbital flight of its planned reusable deep-space transport.

The FAA has issued SpaceX the license for the orbital debut of the Starship-Super Heavy launch system.

SpaceX has assembled the next Starship-Super Heavy vehicle at its Starbase, Texas, launchpad in advance of a possible flight on Sept. 28.

SpaceX on Sept. 18 backed off plans to launch its first orbital Starship-Super Heavy flight test until Sept. 28, six days later than previously targeted.

SpaceX prepares Starship’s first orbital attempt, advancing reusable launch technology and lunar ambitions.

SpaceX is targeting Sept 22 for launch of its first orbital Starship-Super Heavy flight test, with a targeted mission duration of nearly 10 hr.

SpaceX's Starship heavy-lift system is entering a new chapter, with the next flight set to generate revenue on the mission.

FAA expands Starship's operating envelope, approving wider airspace closures and a new Pacific contingency splashdown site.

SpaceX plans to begin construction next year on a massive new spaceport in Louisiana that includes 10 launch and landing complexes for its Starship-Super Heavy launch system.

Following reports in May that SpaceX was interested in acquiring land in Louisiana for its Starship program, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and the state’s economic development agency plan an announcement Aug. 25 that is expected to confirm the project.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk projects the first reflight of a Starship upper stage within the coming months as the launch service provider looks to demonstrate full reusability of its heavy-launch system.

Three weeks after an unexpectedly soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean, a SpaceX Starship spacecraft has been towed to the waters off Christmas Island for additional post-flight analysis.

SpaceX will drastically pick up the pace of Starship flights, CEO Elon Musk says.

A successful flight and soft landing put the Starship on the cusp of orbital flight.

SpaceX has begun recovering its first flown Starship V3 after a successful suborbital test and splashdown.

SpaceX conducted a successful, full-duration flight test of its Starship-Super Heavy launch system on July 24.

An unknown technical issue nixed the launch of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship-Super Heavy system in the final second before liftoff on July 16.

The FAA has closed its mishap investigation into SpaceX’s last Starship-Super Heavy flight test, clearing the company for another attempt to demonstrate its next-generation reusable superheavy lift system as early as July 16.