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Liftoff Time
No Earlier Than 1st Quarter, 2028
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Starship HLS will be launched to low-earth orbit, where it will dock with and refuel from a Starship propellant depot. From there it will undock and perform a trans-lunar injection burn. It will loiter until an Orion spacecraft crewed with four astronauts as part of the Artemis IV or Artemis V mission arrive, at which point the two spacecraft will dock, two astronauts will transfer into Starship HLS, undock again and descend to the Lunar surface. The two astronauts will spend several days on the surface, after which HLS will lift off, rendezvous and dock with Orion once more, completing its mission.
Lunar orbit


Agency
SpaceXRocket
Diameter: 9m
Height: 124.4m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 200,000 kg
Liftoff Thrust
80,800 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 9m
Stages
2
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA