Editing Spacecraft (section)

=== Other ===
Some spacecraft do not fit particularly well into any of the general spacecraft categories. This is a list of these spacecraft.

==== SpaceX Starship ====
{{Main|SpaceX Starship (spacecraft)}}
Starship is a spacecraft and [[Upper stage|second stage]]<ref name="StarshipHomepage">{{cite web |title=SpaceX - Starship |url=https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/ |access-date=November 29, 2023 |website=[[SpaceX]] |quote=Starship is the fully reusable spacecraft and second stage of the Starship system.}}</ref> under development by American aerospace company [[SpaceX]]. Stacked atop its booster, [[SpaceX Super Heavy|Super Heavy]], it composes the identically named [[SpaceX Starship|Starship]] [[Super heavy-lift launch vehicle|super heavy-lift]] [[space vehicle]]. The spacecraft is designed to transport both crew and cargo to a variety of destinations, including Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and potentially beyond. It is intended to enable long duration [[Interplanetary spaceflight|interplanetary]] flights for a crew of up to 100 people.<ref name="StarshipHomepage" /> It will also be capable of point-to-point transport on Earth, enabling travel to anywhere in the world in less than an hour. Furthermore, the spacecraft will be used to [[Orbital propellant depot|refuel]] other Starship vehicles to allow them to reach higher orbits to and other space destinations. [[Elon Musk]], the CEO of SpaceX, estimated in a tweet that 8 launches would be needed to completely refuel a Starship in [[low Earth orbit]], extrapolating this from Starship's payload to orbit and how much fuel a fully fueled Starship contains.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Musk Says That Refueling Starship For Lunar Landings will Take 8 Launches (Maybe 4) |date=18 August 2021 |url=https://www.universetoday.com/152220/musk-says-that-refueling-starship-for-lunar-landings-will-take-8-launches-maybe-4/}}</ref> To land on bodies without an atmosphere, such as the Moon, Starship will fire its engines and thrusters to slow down.<ref name="Foust-2021">{{Cite web |last=Foust |first=Jeff |date=6 January 2021 |title=SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics Compete to Build the Next Moon Lander |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/spacex-blue-origin-and-dynetics-compete-to-build-the-next-moon-lander |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129041255/https://spectrum.ieee.org/spacex-blue-origin-and-dynetics-compete-to-build-the-next-moon-lander |archive-date=29 November 2021 |access-date=29 November 2021 |work=[[IEEE Spectrum]] |language=en}}</ref>

==== Mission Extension Vehicle ====
{{Main|Mission Extension Vehicle}}
The Mission Extension Vehicle is a robotic spacecraft designed to prolong the life on another spacecraft. It works by docking to its target spacecraft, then correcting its orientation or orbit. This also allows it to rescue a satellite which is in the wrong orbit by using its own fuel to move its target to the correct orbit. The project is currently managed by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems. As of 2023, 2 have been launched. The first launched on a [[Proton (rocket family)|Proton]] rocket on 9 October 2019, and did a rendezvous with [[Intelsat 901|Intelsat-901]] on 25 February 2020. It will remain with the satellite until 2025 before the satellite is moved to a final graveyard orbit and the vehicle does a rendezvous with another satellite. The other one launched on an [[Ariane 5]] rocket on 15 August 2020.