List of Super Heavy boosters
Since April 2023, Super Heavy has been launched 9 times, with 4 successes and 5 failures. Starship, the vehicle Super Heavy composes when combined with the Starship spacecraft, has been developed with the intention of lowering launch costs using economies of scale. SpaceX aims to achieve this by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, increasing launch frequency, creating a mass-manufacturing pipeline and adapting it to a wide range of space missions. Starship is the latest project in SpaceX's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars.
There are currently three planned versions of Super Heavy: Block 1 (also known as Version 1 or V1), Block 2, and Block 3. As of March 2025, 6 Block 1 vehicles and 3 Block 2 vehicles have flown. The Super Heavy booster is reusable, and is recovered via large arms on the tower capable of catching the descending vehicle. As of May 2025, 1 booster has been refurbished and subsequently flown at least a second time, though 3 boosters, Booster 12, 14, and 15, have been recovered after flight, with Booster 12 having damage to one of its chine sections, and Booster 14 being reused.