---
title: "Elon Musk’s New Photo Shows Staggering Size of SpaceX’s Starship"
description: "SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shown off the latest view of the space company's Starship spacecraft — and it's enormous."
date: "2022-06-15"
modified: "2022-06-15"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-new-photo-size-spacex-starship"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Space"
  - "SpaceX"
  - "Starship"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "SpaceX"
  - "Starship"
  - "the digest"
---

# Elon Musk’s New Photo Shows Staggering Size of SpaceX’s Starship

![SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shown off the latest view of the space company's Starship spacecraft — and it's enormous.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/elon-musk-new-photo-size-spacex-starship.png>)
*\<em\>Image: SpaceX\</em\>*

## Starship Heights

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shown off the latest view of the space company's gigantic Starship spacecraft — and it's honestly so enormous that we're struggling to wrap our heads around just how tall it is.

The image taken from the top of the company's High Bay tower shows the monstrous spacecraft prototype, dubbed SN24, being worked on by teams hundreds of feet below.

Just on its own, the prototype stands at 165 feet tall, roughly the equivalent of a ten story building. When stacked on top of its Super Heavy booster, the rocket will stand at almost 400 feet tall, making it the [world's tallest rocket](<https://www.space.com/elon-musk-shows-off-starship-sn20-super-heavy-stack-february-2022#:~:text=The%20company%20will%20launch%20the,feet%20(70%20m)%20tall.&text=The%20Starship%20currently%20on%20SpaceX%27s,is%20known%20as%20Booster%204.>).

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1536896085557399552

## Orbital Test Flight

The prototype is also covered in hexagonal heat shield tiles that will allow it to reenter the Earth's atmosphere during its maiden voyage, [hopefully in a few months' time](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-starship-next-month>).

Given that the Federal Aviation Administration is now asking the company to [make a long list of changes](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/faa-spacex-starship-orbit>) to its launch site to protect the surrounding environment, it's possible the launch will take some time.

We**'ll** likely see more of SN24 from Musk ahead of the prototype's inaugural test flight — and we can't wait for SpaceX to finally light it up.

**More on Starship:** *[NASA Afraid SpaceX's Rocket Will Explode and Blow Up Other Stuff Near It](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-spacex-rocket-explode>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

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