Starship

Starship is SpaceX's next-generation launch system: a stainless-steel upper stage (also called 'Starship') stacked on a 'Super Heavy' booster, both powered by SpaceX's methane-fuelled Raptor engines and both designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. Standing roughly 120 metres tall when stacked, it is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.

It is being developed to deliver very large payloads to orbit, deploy next-generation Starlink satellites, serve as the crewed lunar lander for NASA's Artemis programme, and ultimately enable crewed missions to Mars. As of 2026 it remains in an iterative flight-test campaign, having flown a series of integrated flight tests and demonstrated a tower 'catch' of the Super Heavy booster.