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How tall is SpaceX's Starship?

Starship · Full stack: Super Heavy booster + Starship upper stage (Version 3)

Full-stack height
≈ 124 m 407 ft approx.
Diameter
9 m 29.5 ft
Super Heavy booster height
≈ 72 m 240 ft approx.
Starship (ship) height
≈ 52 m 170 ft approx.
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Zoom out from an average adult to SpaceX's Starship

SpaceX's Starship is too big to show next to an average adult in one picture, so here it is in 2 steps. Each step is drawn to its own scale and zooms out from the step before.

  1. Step 1 of 2 Human → Megalodon

    A megalodon is about 8.6–15 times as long as an average adult is tall.

    Human, Megalodon drawn to the same scaleHuman: height 1.61–1.75 m. Megalodon: maximum length (estimates) 15–24.3 m.Human: 1.61–1.75 mMegalodon: 15–24.3 mMegalodon15–24.3 mHuman1.61–1.75 m
    Step 1: Human and Megalodon at the same scale.

  2. Step 2 of 2 Megalodon → Starship

    SpaceX's Starship is about 5.1–8.3 times as tall as a megalodon is long.

    Megalodon, Starship drawn to the same scaleMegalodon: maximum length (estimates) 15–24.3 m. Starship: full-stack height ≈ 124 m.Megalodon: 15–24.3 mStarship: ≈ 124 mStarship≈ 124 mMegalodon15–24.3 m
    Step 2: Megalodon and Starship at the same scale.

Dimensions

MeasurementMetricImperialNotesSource
Full-stack height ≈ 124 m ≈ 407 ft Super Heavy plus Starship, Version 3 (SpaceX also gives 407 ft); earlier versions were slightly shorter. Approximate [1]
Diameter 9 m 29.5 ft Body diameter of booster and ship (29.5 ft) [1]
Super Heavy booster height ≈ 72 m ≈ 240 ft Super Heavy first stage, Version 3 (236 ft). Approximate [1]
Starship (ship) height ≈ 52 m ≈ 170 ft Starship upper stage/spacecraft, Version 3 (171 ft). Approximate [1]

About SpaceX's Starship

Starship is SpaceX's fully reusable launch system: a Super Heavy first-stage booster with the Starship spacecraft stacked on top as the upper stage. SpaceX's site gives the stack as 124 m tall and 9 m in diameter, with a 72 m booster and a 52 m ship, and uses Version 3 (V3) footage for these sections. SpaceX launched V3 in May 2026 on the 12th Starship test flight, and Scientific American called it the tallest and most powerful rocket ever built.

  • SpaceX gives Super Heavy's propellant capacity as 3,650 t and its thrust as 8,240 tf (18.1 Mlbf), from 33 Raptor engines. [1]
  • SpaceX gives the Starship upper stage's propellant capacity as 1,600 t, and says the system is designed to carry more than 100 metric tonnes to orbit when fully reusable. [1]
  • Scientific American reported on 22 May 2026 that fully stacked, Starship V3 is 408 feet (124 meters) tall with about 18 million pounds of thrust, on the 12th Starship test flight. [2]
  • Before its debut, V3 was expected to stand about five feet taller than Starship V2. [3]

How many fit?

  • ≈ 74 × Human · height lined up end to end match the Starship · full-stack height
  • ≈ 2.5 × Olympic swimming pool · length lined up end to end match the Starship · full-stack height

Counts divide one sourced figure by another. "End to end" uses each object's main measurement; weight and volume rows appear only when both figures are sourced.

How it compares

  • 74× SpaceX's Starship is about 74 times as tall as an average adult. See side by side
  • 2.5× SpaceX's Starship is about 2.5 times as tall as an Olympic swimming pool is long. See side by side
  • 1.7× SpaceX's Starship is about 1.7 times as tall as a Boeing 747 is long. See side by side
  • 1.1× SpaceX's Starship is about as tall as the tallest coast redwood. See side by side
  • 1/1.5 The Gateway Arch is about 1.5 times as tall as SpaceX's Starship. See side by side
  • 1/2.2 The Titanic is about 2.2 times as long as SpaceX's Starship is tall. See side by side

Factors compare the full-stack height of SpaceX's Starship with each object’s own main measurement (height for a human). Where a size varies, the factor is given as a range.

Notes on these figures

  • spacex.com/vehicles/starship renders its content with JavaScript, so a plain page fetch returns no text. The figures were read from the page's own content bundle served by spacex.com, whose section videos are labelled V3.
  • SpaceX's figures are rounded to whole metres (72 m + 52 m = 124 m). SpaceX gives the full stack as 407 ft; Scientific American gives 408 ft (124 m).
  • Starship's dimensions have changed between versions (V1, V2, V3), and the heights here are for Version 3. Exact V1 and V2 heights could not be confirmed from a fetched authoritative page.
  • SpaceX does not state a liftoff mass, so none is recorded. Adding up the propellant capacities would only be an estimate and was not done.

Sources

  1. SpaceX, Starship. Accessed 24 September 2026.
  2. Scientific American, SpaceX launches Starship V3—the world's most powerful and tallest rocket ever. Accessed 24 September 2026.
  3. Payload, What to Expect from Starship V3. Accessed 24 September 2026.

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