Transport & space · May 2026

Starship V3 debut

The larger Raptor 3 Starship flies from a new pad.

The first Block 3 Starship flew from Pad 2, and the ship splashed down after 66 minutes, but the booster crashed when only one engine relit and the FAA grounded the vehicle. V3 is designed to lift more than 100 t to low Earth orbit.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia Source

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

Starship Flight 10 2025

What it led to 1

Starship deploys working satellites 2026

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Objects launched into space Latest: 4.51k per year (2025) Source: Our World in Data

Payloads in low Earth orbit Latest: 14.5k objects (2025) Source: Our World in Data