Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 →

Starship’s cargo bay delivers 1,000+ cubic meters of usable volume The entire International Space Station has a pressurized volume of 1,005 m³ It took 42 assembly flights and over $150 billion across 13+ years to build Starship can deliver more volume than the entire ISS in a single flight For context, a single payload bay can hold: → The interior volume of a massive 5-bedroom house → The volume of 20+ standard shipping containers → Entire space station modules (fully assembled) → Over two dozen Cybertrucks → Multiple Boeing 737 fuselage sections → 100+ large satellites with room to spare And it is 18 meters tall....meaning you can stack an entire 5-story building inside it And it is fully reusable. Launch the next massive telescope. Or an entire space station. Or the next Mars habitat All possible in a single flight This is why Starship is pure engineering magic

Starship has a side hatch that works like a PEZ dispenser SpaceX literally calls it the “PEZ dispenser” Flat satellites are stacked vertically inside. A small side hatch opens and a motorized track pushes them out one at a time - exactly like a PEZ dispenser. After one deploys, the next drops into position and repeats Right now, launching satellites means: → Expensive rockets or long waits for rideshares → $50–200 million per launch → One or a few satellites at a time With Starship’s PEZ dispenser: → Dozens per launch (up to 60+ Starlink V3) → Projected $10–30 million per launch (fully reusable) → Targeting well under $100 per kg Current rideshare prices sit at ~$7,000 per kg on Falcon 9 and are significantly higher with other providers Starship is projected to bring that cost down to well below $100 per kg, a potential 10–100x cost reduction depending on flight rate and reuse The satellite industry spent 60 years building around expensive, infrequent launches SpaceX just turned the entire model into a high-volume vending machine

Starship continues to simultaneously be the fastest path to returning humans to the surface of the Moon and a core enabler of the Artemis program’s goal to establish a permanent, sustainable presence on the lunar surface →