The following list includes all planned, announced and past launches of the operational starship, not including any test flights. The article Test Launches provides an overview of all suborbital and orbital test launches. Some missions have not been updated for a long time and their status is unclear.
Planned[]
| Date | Vehicle | Mission | Notes | Announcment Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NET 2027 | Starship Cargo | Superbird-9 | Superbird-9 is a SKY Perfect JSAT's fully flexible HTS (High Throughput Satellites) mounted the payload missions to be configured and combined to match end-user needs. The communication satellite will be based on Airbus’ standardised OneSat product line. Superbird-9 is planned to be launched by SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle in 2024 to geosynchronous transfer orbit.[1][2] | 18 August 2022 |
| NET 2025 | Starship HLS and Cargo (refueling) | HLS Demo | NASA demonstration mission for the Human Landing System prior to Artemis 3, announced in April 2021. Includes refueling and landing vehicles. | |
| TBD | Starship Crew Variant | Third Polaris Prgram[3] Flight | On behalf of Jared Isaacman, last flight of planned Polaris Program and first crewed mission of Starship.[4] "The program will consist of up to three human spaceflight missions that will demonstrate new technologies, conduct extensive research, and ultimately culminate in the first flight of SpaceX’s Starship with humans on board."[5] | 14 February 2022[5] |
| NET 2026 | Starship HLS and Cargo (refueling) | Artemis III | Human Landing System vehicle for Artemis Program. Date is dependent on many NASA Artemis program and SpaceX Starship development contingencies. On 6 June 2023, Jim Free announced that NASA has concerns about SpaceX's and NASA's ability to meet the December 2025 date for Artemis 3 as the have a "significant number " of launches to go before that mission.[6] | |
| NET 2028 | Starship HLS and Cargo (refueling) | Artemis IV | Human Landing System vehicle for Artemis Program. Date is dependent on many NASA Artemis program and SpaceX Starship development contingencies. | |
| NET mid-2026 | Starship HLS | Astrolab | "Today we announce a launch agreement with SpaceX - Our FLEX rover is headed to the Moon aboard a Starship landing system as soon as mid-2026. Once it completes its mission, FLEX will become the largest and most capable rover to ever travel to the [moon]"[7]The Flex rover is being developed by three companies. Venturi Monaco, Venturi Lab S.A. in Switzerland and Venturi Astrolab in Hawthorne US. Monaco-based company Ventury group. Venturi Lab designs solar cells, flexible wheels and electric control systems while Venture Astrolab designs the architecture of the rover, develops the software, builds the rover and will test it.[8] [9] [10] | 31 March 2023 |
| TBD | Starship Crew Variant | ? | Second mission around the moon, with Dennis and Akiko Tito announced as crewmembers1 | 12 October 2022 |
| TBD | Cargo Starship | Starlab | Launch of Starlab space station, which is being developed by Voyager Space and Airbus.[11] | 31st of January 2024 |
1: On 12 October 2022, SpaceX announced that Dennis and Akiko Tito will be the first two crewmembers on Starship's second commercial flight around the moon (after the dear moon mission). During this mission, which will last for a week, Starship will travel to the moon, "fly within 200 km of the Moon’s surface, and complete a full journey around the Moon before safely returning to Earth. This mission is expected to launch after the Polaris Program’s first flight of Starship and dearMoon."[12] [13]
Proposed[]
Jarrod McLachlan from SpaceX announced on 9 August 2022, that they are working on rideshare configurations for Starship, but nothing there was nothing concrete to announce to date.[14]
On 14 September 2022, Northrop Grumman executive Rob Hauge announced an agreement with SpaceX to potentially launch robotic spacecraft that extend the life of satellites in orbit. However, he said that Starship, going to be an "awesome capability", is "not there yet", especially as it will need to do orbital refueling to reach GEO.[15]
Cancelled[]
Only one mission has currently been cancelled on Starship, which was dearMoon
| Date | Vehicle | Mission | Notes | Announcment Date | Cancellation Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Originally planned for 2023, subsequently indefinitly delayed in late 2023 prior to cancellation | Starship Crew Variant | dearMoon | The dearMoon project—an aspirational plan for a flyby loop around the Moon in 2023.[16] The crew was announced on 08 December 2022, the selection including notably Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut.[17][18]. | 17 September 2018 | 01 June 2024[19] |
References[]
- ↑ https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-03-sky-perfect-jsat-signs-contract-with-airbus-to-build-superbird-9
- ↑ https://www.skyperfectjsat.space/en/news/detail/sky_perfect_jsat_signed_launch_service_contract_for_superbird-9_satellite_with_spacex.html
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_program
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/14/jared-isaacman-polaris-spacex-starship-inspiration4/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://www.spacex.com/updates/index.html
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1666445467196981250
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Astrolab_Space/status/1641802600331767808
- ↑ https://www.venturi.com/en/venturi-and-space/
- ↑ https://www.srf.ch/news/wirtschaft/schweizer-mondfahrzeug-von-freiburg-auf-den-mond-raumfahrzeug-fliegt-2026-ins-all
- ↑ https://frapp.ch/de/articles/stories/freiburger-unternehmen-entwickelt-ein-mondfahrzeug
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Starlab_Space/status/1752694395776663876
- ↑ https://www.spacex.com/updates/index.html
- ↑ https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1580187420015722496
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1557034116960268288
- ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/14/northrop-executive-spacex-starship-has-potential-but-not-ready-yet.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200211143203/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu7WJD8vpAQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-XXSdcsBLU
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFIuzormhYU
- ↑ https://twitter.com/dearmoonproject/status/1796759847817625933