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Apr 06, 2026
A violent Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of a Starship component was captured on camera at SpaceX's Boca Chica facility. Starbase observer Zack Golden described it as among the most dramatic RUDs se...
Mar 28, 2026
Starship Flight 12, the maiden flight of V3 with Raptor 3 engines, has slipped from Musk's early-April target to a late April window. Booster 19 completed a 10-engine static fire on Pad 2 on March ...
We model Starship's cost per kilogram under two recovery modes and map the results against the launch cost thresholds from our orbital compute crossover analysis. The finding: booster reuse, already demonstrated, gets Starship more than halfway to the base case. Ship reuse, which SpaceX is sequencing toward with V3, crosses that threshold on the first reflight.
Starship cost/kg and orbital compute cost scenarios
Mar 18, 2026
SpaceX conducted the first static fire test of the next-generation Super Heavy V3 booster at Starbase, Texas on March 18, 2026, simultaneously marking the activation of Launch Pad 2 (Pad B). The te...
Mar 10, 2026
Voyager disclosed that Starlab has a$90.0 million commitment for one future launch service on board Starship. The filing does not disclose Starlab’s mass. Using SpaceX’s published Starship payload ...
Mar 10, 2026
SpaceX has moved through an important stretch of preflight work on Ship 39 ahead of Flight 12, including cryogenic proof testing, while Booster 19 advances in what would be the first integrated fli...
Feb 27, 2026
SpaceX moved Ship 39, its first V3 Starship upper stage, to the Massey’s test site for cryogenic proof testing, a gating step before Flight 12. Reporting indicates SpaceX is also using new test inf...
Jan 26, 2026
Elon Musk said on X that the next Starship launch is expected in roughly six weeks, pointing to a March window for Starship Flight 12. All eyes will be on this mission, with most of the step-change...
Jan 15, 2026
Elon Musk reiterated that Starship could be launching more than once per hour within ~3–4 years, implying up to ~10,000 launches per year if fully operational. At a notional ~100t payload per fligh...
Jan 04, 2026
Elon Musk said on X that SpaceX could manufacture as many as 10,000 Starships per year, responding to commentary on the scale of its new Gigabay infrastructure at Starbase. The statement materially...
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