Starship To MARS in 2 YEARS? | Starbase Update

Starship Flight 5 is poised to be SpaceX's most exciting and ambitious test flight yet, with a major objective—catching a booster mid-flight! SpaceX has been hard at work preparing the chopsticks for this historic moment. In this update, we’ll dive into SpaceX’s progress, including engine tests for Ship 31, the relocation of Starhopper, and Elon Musk’s latest tweets about Starship’s mission to Mars. Get ready for all the latest updates as SpaceX moves closer to launching Flight 5 and beyond!

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🖊️ Written by Ryan Weber
🎥 Video from BocaChicaGal, Julia Bergeron, Jack Beyer, Starbase Live, McGregor Live, Sean Doherty, SpaceX, NASA, John Kraus/Polaris Program.

L2 Boca Chica (more clips and photos) from BC's very early days to today.

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[timwildauer]

The narrated updates are so much more fun. Please keep doing those!

[VerTProductionss]

I'm still in slight disbelief that they are actually going for the booster catch. That is going to be absolutely wild to see.

[anonymoususer]

7:40 This tripped me up lol, "wtf 20 minutes gone already?"

[marcelkernfx]

Very ambitious! I think 4 years uncrewed to Mars is more realistic with all the challenges they have to solve first. Crewed in 12-16 years.

[aq_ua]

I think about flight 5 every day at this point. Imagine all the amazing angles we're gonna get of the catch attempt.

[karlwest]

Hopefully in October you'll be able to update your intro sequence with a successful booster catch!

[Mitsuolevel]

Why does jack voice so soothing, also so exciting we are getting close to orbital launches

[jswebbproductions]

love the tone of your updates when indoors!! great job Jack as always

[ukaszm]

7:48 they got me in the first half, not gonna lie 😂

[dominicbendinelli]

5 years since Hoppy flew?! Man, I am feeling old now!

[CoffeeMonster]

Crewed Mars landings in 4 years is a total fever dream, probably more like 10+ years, possibly with another type of ship completely

[RandomLuminosity]

i remember when a few visionaries suggested the catch method for F9 on the NSF forums and most of us poo poo'd the idea. Now we are going to see an even larger vehicle be caught. Gotta love SpaceX

[SeismicEvent]

Wow. Five years, then humans to Mars, hopefully in my remaining years on Earth.
I'm so glad I can witness these monumental events in my lifetime

[Bqd]

Jack amazing upadate. Thanks for all you do, as well as the whole NSF Team.

[MrKellymcilrath]

Thanks again Jack for another awesome Starbase Update! & thank you NSF!

[eclecticllama]

Starhopper can never be scrapped. It’s a museum piece of the future. Whether that is inside spacex HQ or in the Smithsonian. ❤

[rockets-dont-makegood-toas]

Honestly 2026 sounds reasonable for a single pathfinder. I mean all it'd cost them is one mars starship and a full tanks worth of refueler flights, so just sending one to see what happens isn't a stretch. It'll almost certainly get to mars, but there's a very good chance it'll fail to land, which is fine, because it's a single uncrewed test flight.

[bcrisp]

Thanks NSF for the update! I appreciate all the work that goes into each episode! Great work!

[jasonk]

2 years is not happening and im confident about that. still have little infrastructure for starship, no teven at starship v2 just yet, still yet to catch a boother (for now), still yet to catch a ship, still yet to test ship-ship fuel transfer, still yet to definitively solve the boil off, still yet to solve the heat shield (for now), still yet to solve fuel ice build up, still yet to even make a seperate launch platform; certainly not infrastructure for multiple refuelling ships and depot, still yet to finish the first star factory, still yet to get starship v3 (for now), still yet to test raptor re light in space (for now), still yet to see starship v3, still yet to see HLS besides a mockup, and still yet to even somewhat develop ISRU technology for starship to actually return

[TotesRandom]

Because Elon Musk's predictions have been SO ACCURATE in the past. He said Starship would be flying to the moon by now.