SpaceX Starship's next launch 'probably 3 to 5 weeks' away, Elon Musk says. "Objective is for the ship to get past max heating, or at least further than last time." We're likely still a month or so away from the next launch of SpaceX's Starship megarocket.During its first two test flights last year, Starship exploded before making it to orbit—around four and 12 minutes after launch, respectively. Thursday's third attempt marked the spacecraft's longest flight so far. SpaceX will review the data from the flight before preparing for future, more frequent launches.SpaceX considers the Starship system crucial to its founding mission: to carry humans to Mars for the first time. And critically, NASA has chosen Starship as the landing vehicle that will ferry its astronauts to the lunar surface on the Artemis III mission slated to take off as soon as September 2026.

What is the future of Starship : If all goes according to plan, Starship will put astronauts down on the moon for the first time on the Artemis 3 mission, which is tentatively scheduled to lift off in September 2026. A lot more work, and many more test flights, will be needed to get Starship ready to carry astronauts in deep space.

Will Starship fly to Mars

Topline. SpaceX's Starship rocket will be on Mars by the end of the decade and a future version will travel between the stars, billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday, days after the company celebrated major progress after the rocket's third test flight as it works with NASA to return astronauts to the moon.

Will Starship survive reentry : SpaceX later confirmed that Starship did not survive reentry. The test-until-you-fail process will continue for SpaceX, using lessons learned from the success and failures on this latest flight.

At T+7:05, a planned vent of liquid oxygen caused several explosions and fires. This led to a loss of communication between the flight computers, shutdown of all engines, and ultimately triggered the FTS.

The explosion was caused by a venting of liquid oxygen, he added — and there was liquid oxygen left to vent only because Starship wasn't hauling any satellites that day. "We normally wouldn't have that liquid oxygen if we had a payload," Musk said in the update, which he gave at Starbase to a crowd of SpaceX employees.

Is Starship 100% reusable

The maximum thrust of the Saturn V rocket that took NASA astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program was relatively paltry: 7.6 million pounds. An even more transformative feature of Starship is that it is designed to be entirely reusable.However, if Payload is correct about it costing $35 million to build a single Starship, this would mean that even with fuel expenses of $1 million per launch, each Starship should only need to fly about four times to get the average cost to SpaceX per flight down to $10 million.SpaceX's Starship rocket will be on Mars by the end of the decade and a future version will travel between the stars, billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday, days after the company celebrated major progress after the rocket's third test flight as it works with NASA to return astronauts to the moon.

Taking a look at Starship's costs.

However, Starship is still very much a development program, and Payload estimates it currently costs around $90 million for SpaceX to build a fully stacked Starship rocket. The vast majority of this cost goes toward the rocket's 39 Raptor engines and labor expenses.

Can Starship fly to the moon : Starship HLS (Human Landing System) 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.

Can Starship reach the moon : Starship is the landing system that will bring astronauts to the lunar surface with the Artemis 3 mission, no earlier than 2026.

Why did Starship 3 fail

During the test, multiple first-stage engines failed and the rocket began to tumble. Engineers activated a self-destruct mechanism while the ship was in mid-air.

Between 2006 and 2008 SpaceX had three failed launch attempts that threatened to end the company. In 2006, SpaceX's first launch attempt failed as a result of a fuel leak and resultant fire. A later review of the launch vehicle found that a fuel-line nut had corroded due to nearby ocean spray.The Starship spacecraft is considered 'lost', broken apart by the stress of coming back to Earth. But SpaceX considers its spectacular test flight a win.

Is SpaceX Starship a failure : The space travel company SpaceX has completed its most successful test yet of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket — but as the unmanned rocket completed its flight, it was destroyed upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.