Starship V2
Photo Credit: SpaceX
Second-generation second stage of the two-stage Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle. It features a thinner forward flap design, flaps that are positioned more leeward, a 25% increase in propellant capacity, integrated vented interstage, redesigned avionics, two raceways, and an increase in thrust.
- Height: 52.1 m
- Diameter: 9 m
- Human Rated: No
- Maiden Flight: 1/16/2025
- Payload Capacity: 35000 kg
- Flight Life: Never used for orbital flights.
- Spacecraft Flown: 5
- Total Launches: 5
- Successful Launches: 2
- Failed Launches: 3
- Attempted Landings: 5
- Successful Landings: 2
- Failed Landings: 3
History
The second-generation Starship upper stage was introduced on flight 7.
Agency
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
