Starship (SpaceX)
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Starship (SpaceX) is SpaceX’s fully reusable, next-generation super heavy-lift launch system designed to carry large payloads and crews to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SpaceX Starship program | 4 |
| SpaceX Starship | 3 |
| Starship (SpaceX) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11693118 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Starship (SpaceX) Context triple: [ITS (Interplanetary Transport System), relatedConcept, Starship (SpaceX)]
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SpaceX
SpaceX is a private aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company that designs, builds, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, pioneering reusable launch technology.
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B.
Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is a private aerospace company best known for its Electron small-lift launch vehicle and frequent commercial satellite launches to low Earth orbit.
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C.
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is a commercial spaceflight company that aims to provide suborbital space tourism and research flights using reusable spacecraft.
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D.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a private American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company focused on developing reusable rockets and advancing commercial space travel.
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E.
NASA and SpaceX
NASA and SpaceX are key American space organizations—one a government agency and the other a private aerospace company—that collaborate and operate launch facilities for a variety of military, scientific, and commercial missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Starship (SpaceX) Target entity description: Starship (SpaceX) is SpaceX’s fully reusable, next-generation super heavy-lift launch system designed to carry large payloads and crews to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
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A.
SpaceX
SpaceX is a private aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company that designs, builds, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, pioneering reusable launch technology.
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B.
Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is a private aerospace company best known for its Electron small-lift launch vehicle and frequent commercial satellite launches to low Earth orbit.
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C.
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is a commercial spaceflight company that aims to provide suborbital space tourism and research flights using reusable spacecraft.
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D.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a private American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company focused on developing reusable rockets and advancing commercial space travel.
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NASA and SpaceX
NASA and SpaceX are key American space organizations—one a government agency and the other a private aerospace company—that collaborate and operate launch facilities for a variety of military, scientific, and commercial missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fully reusable launch system
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super heavy-lift launch vehicle ⓘ two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
BFR
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Big Falcon Rocket ⓘ Starship-Super Heavy ⓘ
linked to:
Super Heavy booster
|
| announcedBy |
Elon Musk
ⓘ
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ⓘ
linked to:
Elon Musk
|
| announcedYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| companyProgram | SpaceX Mars colonization program ⓘ |
| consistsOf |
Starship upper stage
ⓘ
Super Heavy booster ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| designer | SpaceX ⓘ |
| developmentLocation |
Hawthorne, California (design and engineering)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawthorne, California
Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas ⓘ |
| diameter | about 9 meters ⓘ |
| engineType | Raptor ⓘ |
| firstOrbitalTestFlightDate | 2023-04-20 ⓘ |
| firstOrbitalTestFlightOutcome | vehicle lost in flight termination ⓘ |
| firstStageEngineType | Raptor ⓘ |
| firstStageName |
Super Heavy
ⓘ
linked to:
Super Heavy booster
|
| firstStageRecoveryMethod | catch by launch tower arms (planned) ⓘ |
| fourthIntegratedFlightTestDate | 2024-06-06 ⓘ |
| fuelType | methalox ⓘ |
| heightWithBooster | about 120 meters ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
cargo transport to Mars
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cargo transport to low Earth orbit ⓘ cargo transport to the Moon ⓘ crew transport to Mars ⓘ crew transport to low Earth orbit ⓘ crew transport to the Moon ⓘ interplanetary transport ⓘ point-to-point suborbital transport on Earth ⓘ |
| landingMethod | propulsive landing ⓘ |
| launchServiceProvider | SpaceX ⓘ |
| launchSite | Starbase ⓘ |
| launchSiteLocation | Boca Chica, Texas ⓘ |
| manufacturer | SpaceX ⓘ |
| material | stainless steel ⓘ |
| missionRole | lunar lander variant for Artemis III (planned) ⓘ |
| notableMissionPlanned |
dearMoon circumlunar mission (status uncertain)
ⓘ
linked to:
dearMoon circumlunar flight
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| orbitCapability |
Mars transfer orbit
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cislunar space ⓘ low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| previousName | Mars Colonial Transporter ⓘ |
| primaryContractor | SpaceX ⓘ |
| propellantType |
liquid methane
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liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| reusability |
designed for full first-stage reuse
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designed for full second-stage reuse ⓘ |
| secondIntegratedFlightTestDate | 2023-11-18 ⓘ |
| secondStageName | Starship ⓘ |
| secondStageRecoveryMethod | propulsive vertical landing ⓘ |
| selectedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| selectedFor |
NASA Artemis Human Landing System
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linked to:
Starship Human Landing System
|
| status | in development ⓘ |
| targetPayloadToLEO |
>100 metric tons
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up to ~150 metric tons (expendable configuration) ⓘ ~100–150 metric tons (reusable configuration) ⓘ |
| thermalProtectionSystem | heat shield tiles on windward side ⓘ |
| thirdIntegratedFlightTestDate | 2024-03-14 ⓘ |
| upperStageCrewCapacity | up to 100 people (design goal) ⓘ |
| upperStageEngineType |
Raptor Vacuum
ⓘ
linked to:
Raptor vacuum engine
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Starship (SpaceX) Description of subject: Starship (SpaceX) is SpaceX’s fully reusable, next-generation super heavy-lift launch system designed to carry large payloads and crews to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Starship SN8 prototype
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subject linked to:
Starship SN8 prototype
linked to: Starship (SpaceX)
linked to: Starship (SpaceX)
linked to: Starship (SpaceX)
linked to: Starship (SpaceX)