SpaceX Starship SN5 150m hop

On August 4, 2020 SpaceX's prototype Starship SN5 successfully performed 150 meter hop with one Raptor Engine at SpaceX's launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.

Starship Super Heavy is a fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle and spacecraft currently developed by leading New Space company SpaceX.

Space illustrator Tony Bela captured the path of the flight in the sky from LabPadre's Sapphire Cam:

SpaceX Starship fleet orbiting Earth by Dale Rutherford

Picture of the Day 29/7/2020 - SpaceX's Starship fleet consisting of several crew and cargo Starships orbiting Earth and preparing to depart for Mars by Scottish photographer & designer Dale Rutherford. More of his art here.

How SpaceX Mars Colony could look like in a few decades

Polish 3D artist Andrzej Pawelec has created his concept how SpaceX's Mars Colony could look like in a few decades with thousands of inhabitants. Here is detailed animation and drawings of his concept:

Cutaway diagram of SpaceX Lunar Starship

Unofficial cutaway diagram of SpaceX's Lunar Starship interior by Rocket Posters. The Lunar Starship is lunar optimized version (for NASA's Artemis program) of the fully reusable super heavy-lift spacecraft - Starship - currently developed by leading NewSpace company SpaceX.

SpaceX Starships at Mars Base Alpha by Konstantin Ermolaev

CG creator Konstantin Ermolaev has created his vision of SpaceX's early Mars Base Alpha in a Martian crater. Here are several of his renders with three Starships landed at the base. More of his art here.

SpaceX Starship on Mars by Dale Rutherford

SpaceX's Starship on Mars by Scottish photographer & designer Dale Rutherford. More of his art here.

Starship approaching Mars:

SpaceX 18m Starship vs 12m Starship (ITS) vs 9m Starship

Three sizes of SpaceX's Starship side by side by Scottish photographer & designer Dale Rutherford:

• 18m diameter Starship hinted by Elon Musk as the possible next generation Starship (in artist's vision it's not supposed to land on planets so no fins and legs);
• 12m diameter Starship version (ITS) presented in 2016;
• 9m diameter current Starship design.

Boarding SpaceX Starship by Roger Bootsma

Video animation of a boarding walkway to SpaceX's Starship by Austrian 3D environment artist Roger Bootsma. More of his art here.

SpaceX Starship on launch pad by Gravitation Innovation

Picture of the Day 9/5/2020 - SpaceX's full stack Starship Super Heavy on launch pad on Earth by Gravitation Innovation.

NASA selects SpaceX's lunar optimized Starship for Artemis program

Today NASA announced that three US companies - SpaceX, Blue Origin & Dynetics - will develop the human landers that will land astronauts on the Moon beginning in 2024 as part of the Artemis program. And SpaceX shared some renders of the "lunar optimized Starship" which is developed "to transport crew between lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon". SpaceX added that "a lunar optimized Starship can fly many times between the surface of the Moon and lunar orbit without flaps or heat shielding required for Earth return. With large habitable and storage volume, Starship is capable of delivering significant amounts of cargo for research and to support robust operations on the lunar surface to enable a sustainable Moon base."

SpaceX Super Heavy landing burn by Roger Bootsma

Picture of the Day 19/4/2020 - Landing burn of SpaceX's Super Heavy (the booster stage of the Starship) by Austrian 3D environment artist Roger Bootsma. More of his art here.

SpaceX Starship fleet leaving Earth by Roger Bootsma

Video animation with SpaceX's fleet of 100 Starships leaving Earth's orbit to colonize Mars by Austrian 3D environment artist Roger Bootsma. More of his art here.

Every iteration of SpaceX Starship from 2016 to 2019

Finnish 3D artist Kimi Talvitie has created a side by side comparison of every iteration of SpaceX's Starship from its unveiling in September 2016 to the latest design presented on September 2019. More of Kimi's art here.

1. 12m diameter carbon fiber Interplanetary Transport System (September 2016)
2. 9m diameter carbon fiber Big Falcon Rocket (September 2017)
3. 9m diameter carbon fiber TinTin-style Big Falcon Rocket (September 2018)
4. 9m diameter stainless steel TinTin-style Starship (December 2018)
5. 9m diameter stainless steel Starship (September 2019)

SpaceX Starship landing on the Moon - video animation by Hazegrayart

Video animation of SpaceX's Starship traveling to and landing on the Moon by HazeGrayArt who is known for his superb animations of both real and paper rockets, spacecraft and aircraft on his YouTube channel. He has also made animations of the previous iterations of Starship - Tintin-style BFR v2018 and delta-winged BFR v2017 - landing on Mars; and BFR v2017 landing on the Moon.

Speculative internal structure of SpaceX redesigned Starship by William Falconer-Beach

William Falconer-Beach, a young graphic designer from New Zealand, has made some renders with possible internal structure of SpaceX's redesigned Starship. More of his Starship renders here.

Full stack Starship Super Heavy:

More speculative internal layouts of Starship by SpaceX fans:

• Cutaway diagram of SpaceX's Lunar Starship by Rocket Posters
• SpaceX's Starship interior concept for 100 passengers by Rick Kiessig & Michel Lamontagne
• SpaceX's Starship interior concept by Jim Murphy
• Speculative internal layout of SpaceX's Starship by Michel Lamontagne
• Cutaway diagram of SpaceX's Starship by Julian Schindler
• Cutaway diagram of SpaceX's Big Falcon Ship by Nick Oberg

Poster of SpaceX Starship entering Mars' atmosphere by Gravitation Innovation

Poster of SpaceX's Starship entering Mars's atmosphere to slow down before landing by Gravitation Innovation.

SpaceX Starship orbiting Earth by Gravitation Innovation

Picture of the Day 3/1/2020 - Impressive render with the new design of SpaceX's Starship orbiting Earth by Gravitation Innovation. More to come.

A pair of Tesla Cybertrucks guarding SpaceX Starship launch by ATOM

A pair of Tesla Cybertrucks guarding SpaceX Starship launch by French YouTuber and visual effects artist ATOM (Eric Tualle). More of his art here.

Poster of Tesla Cybertruck at Schiaparelli Crater on Mars

Poster of Tesla Cybertruck, pressurized edition, near a human base at Schiaparelli Crater on Mars by American video game concept artist Darren Bacon. More of his art here. Note a SpaceX cargo Starship (the 3-legged Tin Tin edition) on launch pad at the base.

HD quality official render of SpaceX cargo Starship unloading on the Moon

3 weeks ago SpaceX's Principal Mars Development Engineer Paul Wooster gave a presentation "SpaceX's Plans for Sending Humans to Mars" at 22nd Annual Mars Society Convention. In the presentation there was a new render of the redesigned SpaceX's cargo Starship unloading some NASA rovers on Lunar surface. Unfortunately no one was able to capture a decent quality image of the render then. Yesterday the render was posted on NASA's web page in high quality:

The post reveals that SpaceX is one of companies taking part in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative which "allows rapid acquisition of lunar delivery services for payloads that advance capabilities for science, exploration, or commercial development of the Moon. Investigations and demonstrations launched on commercial Moon flights will help the agency study Earth’s nearest neighbor under the Artemis program. As its next step in exploration, NASA is preparing to send the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024, establish sustainable lunar exploration by 2028, and plans to send astronauts to Mars in the mid-2030s."