- Super Heavy booster: 33-engine cluster, grid fins, boostback and landing burns
- Starship upper stage: Raptor engines, hexagonal heat shield tiles, lunar transit capability
- Full mission phases: liftoff → MECO → stage separation → booster return → TLI → lunar orbit → Earth return
- Keyboard controls:
Spaceplay/pause ·Rreset ·Vtoggle follow camera
Mission Timeline
| Event | Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Liftoff | T+0 | Full thrust, both stages |
| MECO | T+10s | Stage separation |
| Boostback | T+14s | Booster flies back to launch site |
| Re-entry burn | T+22s | Booster slows for atmospheric entry |
| Landing | T+28s | Booster lands at launch site |
| Circularization | T+38s | Ship orbits Earth |
| TLI | T+55s | Trans-Lunar Injection |
| Lunar orbit | T+85s | Ship captured by Moon gravity |
| Lunar landing | T+95s | Ship lands on Moon surface |
| Return | T+115s | Trans-Earth Injection |
| Splashdown | T+175s | Ship splashes down in ocean |
Open Starship Simulation
Interactive 3D simulation of a two-stage reusable rocket — liftoff, stage separation, booster landing, trans-lunar injection, and Earth return.
Source code and specifications: github.com/stabilarity/hub/research/open-starship
Part of the Open Starship research series — a 15-article series on fully reusable two-stage rocket architecture, propulsion, lunar missions, and reusability economics.
About This Simulation
Built with Three.js, this simulation models the full mission profile of a Starship-class two-stage reusable rocket:
- Super Heavy booster: 33-engine cluster, grid fins, boostback and landing burns
- Starship upper stage: Raptor engines, hexagonal heat shield tiles, lunar transit capability
- Full mission phases: liftoff → MECO → stage separation → booster return → TLI → lunar orbit → Earth return
- Keyboard controls:
Spaceplay/pause ·Rreset ·Vtoggle follow camera
Mission Timeline
| Event | Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Liftoff | T+0 | Full thrust, both stages |
| MECO | T+10s | Stage separation |
| Boostback | T+14s | Booster flies back to launch site |
| Re-entry burn | T+22s | Booster slows for atmospheric entry |
| Landing | T+28s | Booster lands at launch site |
| Circularization | T+38s | Ship orbits Earth |
| TLI | T+55s | Trans-Lunar Injection |
| Lunar orbit | T+85s | Ship captured by Moon gravity |
| Lunar landing | T+95s | Ship lands on Moon surface |
| Return | T+115s | Trans-Earth Injection |
| Splashdown | T+175s | Ship splashes down in ocean |