Felix Schlang at What About It? reports on the official SpaceX Starship roadmap for 2023-2028.
2024 cargo with SpaceX (starlinks to orbit obviously)
2024 Q3 first recovery of booster and the upper stage. Mechazilla Catches
A screen capture of rendering animations made in TijnM youtube video which is embedded below
2025 on orbit fuel storage fuel depots. open up the moon and beyond missions
SpaceX Fuel Depot.#SpaceX #Starship pic.twitter.com/xWpb5AAeT6
— Erc X (@ErcXspace) November 20, 2021
2026 in orbit satellite tuneups
2027 manned missions possible. could stick with crew dragon to get to orbit before transferring to Starship.
2028 Starship space stations can start
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Three things: (1) Deep space travel at speeds anticipated in present rocket engines and near future power design increases must have deflector capability. Advanced radar on board a ship might steer a ship from impact but not all the time. Constant deflection must be part of any deep space ship.
(2) Radiation exposure stands as an equal danger to collision. We must develop an impenetrable Radiation shield.
(3) Any deep space ship must have great size to carry survival equipment and engine parts as well as electronic needs. This great size also gives humans room to move around and shake boredom from their psyche and physical well being.
Just saying..
Seems a bit longer than foretold a few years back, but let’s recall these things ramp up quickly at SpaceX’s.
Crew Dragon also was a bit protracted, but now it’s the main (and so far only) active crew launch vehicle for NASA, with a bit of private missions too.