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SpaceX Starship: The Giant Rocket Poised to Change Space Travel Forever (2025 Update)

Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable rocket system about 120 meters tall, with 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster and 6 Raptors on Starship, delivering roughly 74 MN of thrust. The first orbital-class flight occurred on April 20, 2023 from Starbase with Ship 24 atop Booster 7, cleared the pad but failed to separate stages and was terminated, yet SpaceX called it a success for pad clearance. On November 18, 2023 (Flight 2), SpaceX conducted hot staging with a 33-engine Super Heavy (B9), achieved stage separation, but the booster exploded on return due to a clogged fuel filter

24 August 2025

All the Ways You Can Go to Space: Commercial, Government, and Emerging Opportunities

In July 2021, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo carried a full crew above 80 km. In 2023, Virgin Galactic began commercial service for private space tourists. Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital flights cross the Kármán line at about 100 km and last 10–15 minutes. The first Blue Origin seat was auctioned for $28 million, with routine prices in the few hundred-thousand-dollar range. SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission in September 2021 was the first all-civilian orbital flight, with a four-person crew trained for about six months. Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission in April 2022 carried three private customers paying about $55 million per seat for a

14 August 2025

Commercial Space · Emerging Technologies · Government Programs · NASDAQ:SPCE · Opportunities · Space · Space Exploration