Starlab

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Low Earth Orbit Launch Complex 39A Starship Pad Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Private space station developed by a joint venture between Voyager Space and Airbus.

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Starship

Family:
Configuration:

Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    120.0 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    5000.0 T
  • Thrust
    72000.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    21000.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

SpaceX

SpaceX

(SpX)

CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 505 Failures: 15 Pending: 117

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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Starlab—with half the volume of the ISS—will fit inside Starship’s payload bay

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Starlab, meet Starship: Private space station buys SpaceX launch for later this decade

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Starlab Set to Launch on SpaceX’s Starship

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