Starship (Full stack)
124 m (406.8 ft)
Height of Ship plus Super Heavy
SpaceX's giant rocket: the Ship on top of the Super Heavy booster. 124 m (407 ft) tall stacked: taller than the Saturn V.
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How big is that?
124 m is 2.5 times an Olympic pool and 38% of the Eiffel Tower.
Starship is the 10th smallest of the 39 Cosmic Scale objects, and the 36th largest of the 109 objects across all three SizeItUp games.
Closest in size from the other games: American football field (NFL) (Classic), 109.728 m long and Great Pyramid of Giza (Today) (Classic), 137.5 m tall.
Size comparison
To scale, smallest to largest: Starship in orange beside the Cosmic Scale objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs Starship |
|---|---|---|
| International Space Station (Seen from above)The orbiting laboratory, measured along its solar-array truss. | 109 m long | 88% of the size |
| Saturn V (Moon rocket)The rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the Moon. | 111 m tall | 90% of the size |
| Starship (Full stack) | 124 m tall | – |
| Bennu (Asteroid)The spinning-top asteroid NASA's OSIRIS-REx brought samples back from. | 484 m across | 3.9× bigger |
| Mount Kilimanjaro (Earth)Africa's highest mountain, measured above sea level. | 5,895 m tall | 48× bigger |
In other units
| Metres | 124 |
|---|---|
| Kilometres | 0.124 |
| Feet | 406.8 |
| Yards | 135.6 |
How it's measured
Height of Ship plus Super Heavy. SpaceX (revised as the vehicle changes).
Sources
- spacex.com: HEIGHT 124 m / 407 ft.
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Could you have guessed it by eye?
Starship is one of the objects in Cosmic Scale, a daily size comparison game: you stretch a shape to the size you think is right beside one you know.