Three Completed SpaceX Super Heavy Starships

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SpaceX showed off three fully complete Super Heavy Booster and Starships. They each have double the thrust of the Saturn V. There is a fourth Super Heavy Starship that is nearing completion. They are all standing in the Starbase Megabay.

Previously, SpaceX has shown the completed Starship upper stages.

ChromeKiwi has shown a diagram of the rocket stands that are holding the Super Heavy Boosters.

The Saturn V program that launched 9 lunar astronaut crews and Skylab had half of the thrust of these rockets. The Saturn V rocket program cost $50 billion in today’s dollars and had about 13 rockets built.

The SpaceX Starship program has cost about $10 billion so far and is making rockets and built factories for the mass production of rocket engines and completed rockets.

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10 thoughts on “Three Completed SpaceX Super Heavy Starships”

  1. Here’s a thought, if Starship has 2x the thrust of Saturn V, then why do we need to refuel in orbit to go to the Moon?

    • 1.) 50-100 tons engineering/ construction payload onto the lunar surface, vs. a 5 tons LEM docking with the CSM before going home with a few hundred kilos of rocks.

      2.) Reusable once a LOX generation facility is set up on the lunar surface.

      3.) It is done from a COTS vehicle, that Congress cannot assign subcontractors for.

  2. Why building so many if the FAA allow one flight every 6 months ? The problem is the obsolete FAA, FDA and so on….

    • There has been talk about expanding permits to allow roughly double the launches out of Bocca, and of course launching starship from the KSC.

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