SpaceX Starship update 2024

On April 4th at Starbase, Texas SpaceX CEO and lead designer Elon Musk provided an unannounced update of SpaceX's Starship architecture. Here are slides and animations from his presentation.

Full presentation:

Slides from the presentation

Starship v1, v2 and v3 specifications:

Thrust comparison of Raptor v1, v2 and v3:

First Mechazilla launch tower pairs at Starbase, Texas and Cape Canaveral, Florida:

Super Heavy landing animation:

Mass to Orbit comparison of Falcon rockets and Starship:

Offshore Starship launch sites:

Starship destinations:

Artemis Base Camp in the Lunar South Pole region:

Mars return trip sequence:

Earth-Mars trasfer orbits:

Landing site and Infrastructure requirements for Mars Base Alpha:

The scale needed for Mars colonization:

Starship fleet approaching Mars:

Mars Base Alpha:

Starbase, Texas:

Elon Musk in front of Starship prototypes at Starbase, Texas:

Elon's previous Starship presentations:

• Starship update 2022 (February 2022)
• Starship update 2019 (September 2019)
• Big Falcon Rocket v2018 (September 2018)
• Big Falcon Rocket v2017 (IAC, September 2017)
• Interplanetary Transport System (IAC, September 2016)