Job

Starship tanker + LEO propellant depot architecture

Built in-house by SpaceX · Artemis III

Public HLS architecture: Starship tanker flights refill a propellant depot in Earth orbit so the HLS lander can load cryogenic CH4/LOX before trans-lunar injection.

The long name is Starship HLS / lunar cargo architecture.

Schematic

The booked flights are Artemis III and Starship Lunar Cargo.

Who built it

Flights

Artemis IIINET late 2027 · HLS test articles (Blue Moon MK2 pathfinder + Starship V3)

Cargo

Sources