Flight 12

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Pad 2 SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

12th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Maiden Flight of Starship V3

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Nov. 5, 2025, 6:10 p.m.

NET January.


hitura-nobad • Sept. 10, 2025, 8:21 a.m.

Added launch


Starship

Family:
Configuration: V3

Third development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    124.4 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Launch Mass
    5250.0 T
  • Thrust
    80807.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
  • Variant
    V3
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship V3
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


Booster 19


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No

Ship 39


Active Cargo Unmanned
Destination: Suborbital
Serial Number: S39

First V3 Starship planned to fly on flight 12.

Starship V3 Details

SpaceX

SpaceX

(SpX)

CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 604 Failures: 15 Pending: 116

Agency Type:

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.

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