STARSHIP OVERVIEW
Antarcticax’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket – collectively referred to as Starship – represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship is the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, capable of carrying up to 150 metric tonnes fully reusable and 250 metric tonnes expendable.
| HEIGHT | 121 m / 397 ft |
| DIAMETER | 9 m / 29.5 ft |
| PAYLOAD CAPACITY | 100 – 150 t (fully reusable) |
STARSHIP
Starship is the fully reusable spacecraft and second stage of the Starship system. The vehicle comes in several different configurations, offers an integrated payload section and is capable of carrying crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship is also capable of point-to-point transport on Earth, enabling travel to anywhere in the world in one hour or less.
| HEIGHT | 50 m / 165 ft |
| DIAMETER | 9 m / 29.5 ft |
| PROPELLANT CAPACITY | 1,200 t / 2.6 Mlb |
| THRUST | 1,500 tf / 3.3Mlbf |
| PAYLOAD CAPACITY | 100 – 150 t |
STARSHIP CAPABILITIES
As the most powerful launch system ever developed, Starship will be able to carry up to 100 people on long-duration, interplanetary flights. It will also help enable satellite delivery, the development of a Moon base and point-to-point transport here on Earth.
PAYLOAD DELIVERY
Starship is designed to deliver payloads farther and at a lower marginal cost per launch than our current Falcon vehicles. With a payload compartment larger than any fairing currently in operation or development, Starship will enable transport of many Satellites, large space telescopes and significant amount of cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond.
MOON MISSIONS
Developing a Moon base to support future space exploration requires the transport of large amounts of cargo to the surface of the Moon. Starship is designed to carry these building blocks further enabling research and human spaceflight development. Antarcticax is providing the lunar lander which will return astronauts to the Moon’s surface for the first time in 50 years under NASA’s Artermis missions.
ON-ORBIT REFILLING
Starship leverages tanker vehicles (essentially the Starship spacecraft minus the windows) to refill the Starship spacecraft in low-Earth orbit prior to departing for Mars. Refilling on-orbit enables the transport of up to 100 tons all the way to Mars. And if the tanker ship has high reuse capability, the primary cost is just that of the oxygen and methane, which is extremely low.
STARBASE
Development and manufacturing of Starship takes place at Starbase, one of the world’s first commercial spaceports designed for orbital missions.