Wieder einmal hat SpaceX einen neuen Rekord für die höchste jemals gebaute Rakete aufgestellt | SpaceX hat am Montag einen wichtigen Meilenstein auf dem Weg zur Einführung einer neuen Version von Starship erreicht.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/spacex-completes-fueling-test-setting-stage-for-first-launch-of-starship-v3/
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>For the third time in three years, SpaceX has stacked a new version of its enormous Starship rocket on a launch pad in South Texas, just a few miles north of the US-Mexico border. The newest-generation Starship, known as Starship Version 3, is taller and more powerful than the ones that came before it.
>The upgrades on Starship are numerous. Perhaps the most notable changes are higher-thrust, more efficient Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage, a new reusable lattice-like structure at the top of the booster for hot staging, and three—not four—modified grid fins to help bring the first stage back to Earth for recovery and reuse.
>If all goes according to plan, this is the version of Starship that SpaceX will use to begin experimenting with in-orbit refueling, a capability engineers must master before sending ships anywhere farther than low-Earth orbit. In the near-term, refueling will enable Starships to fly to the Moon to serve as landers for NASA’s Artemis program. Starship remains an iterative development program, and new versions are in the pipeline, but Starship V3 should mark a step toward SpaceX actually using Starships in space, rather than solely proving they can get there and get home.
>But SpaceX must first do just that with Starship V3. The company has not officially announced a target launch date. Airspace and maritime warning notices released in the last few days suggested the upgraded rocket could lift off as soon as Friday evening from SpaceX’s Starbase launch site on the Gulf Coast east of Brownsville, Texas, but that was before a day-and-a-half delay in launch preps over the weekend.
>A fresh set of maritime warnings issued late Monday indicated SpaceX is now targeting a launch attempt on Tuesday, May 19.
Is this the orbital refuling v3 or was that gonna be v4 ?
Lets hope it works this time around.
I would love to be excited for SpaceX. But it has this weird musk lingering around it.
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I am becoming more and more sceptical that Starship will ever be a functional solution.
It still hasn’t taken any meaningful payload to space and nor has it reached orbit. The idea that the next step would be in orbit refuelling is for the birds.
Surely we would need multiple successful orbital launches and proof that it can take a payload before talking about that?
It all smells of broken Musk promises.
We get it you dont like Musk, thats great. Now that you made yourself feel relevant. Let talk about how awesome this is.
The obsession over Elon and the mindless bashing of everything he’s involved with in the comments of these subs are pathetic.
ok let me know when they stop exploding
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|[BO](/r/Space/comments/1taypsy/stub/old3kxj „Last usage“)|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
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|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1taypsy/stub/oldci8o „Last usage“)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
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|[SECO](/r/Space/comments/1taypsy/stub/oldcs7p „Last usage“)|Second-stage Engine Cut-Off|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1taypsy/stub/olcz8c2 „Last usage“)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
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|[Raptor](/r/Space/comments/1taypsy/stub/olco61d „Last usage“)|[Methane-fueled rocket engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)) under development by SpaceX|
|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1taypsy/stub/olct5r4 „Last usage“)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1taypsy/stub/old4rko „Last usage“)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
|[apogee](/r/Space/comments/1taypsy/stub/oldcs7p „Last usage“)|Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)|
|[iron waffle](/r/Space/comments/1taypsy/stub/olco61d „Last usage“)|Compact „waffle-iron“ aerodynamic control surface, acts as a wing without needing to be as large; also, „grid fin“|
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I’d wonder what Elon is compensating for, but we already know.
The post makes it seem like the important milestone was the rocket height.
Tallest rocket, yet nothing to show for it. Meanwhile the other space agencies are already doing moon missions.
At least Starship has a little more to show for itself than the Hyperloop.
Is rocket height important in any way?
rocket height sounds about right, i am amazed so many people are swolling it up for more than two decades now
Not surprised to see that they are focussing on size.
It’s musk’s company after all