Starship | SpaceX HLS LEO Demo

Human Exploration

Time to liftoff

Targeting June 2027

Target Window

June 2027

Exact time to be confirmed

Net Precision

Month

— Mission

SpaceX HLS LEO Demo

Low Earth Orbit· LEO

The Starship HLS pathfinder spacecraft in support of NASA's Artemis III mission in Low Earth Orbit will be a Version 3 vehicle equipped with a docking mechanism, but with no crew cabin or environmental control systems on board. This Starship HLS will launch after the Artemis III Orion has launched into LEO aboard SLS, and has completed its demonstrations with Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander. Once docked, Orion and Starship will spend about a day connected for checkouts and testing.

— Rocket

Starship

Starship (unknown version)

Length: 124.4 m
Diameter: 9 m
Launch Mass: 5,000 t
LEO Capacity: 100,000 kg

Launches

Success

Failures

— Launch Provider

Commercial

SpaceX

Est. 2002 · CEO: Elon Musk

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.

736

Total

721

Success

133

Pending

Starship | SpaceX HLS LEO Demo

SpaceX HLS LEO Demo

Starship

Launch Complex 39A Starship Pad

SpaceX