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STARSHIP YACHT CHARTER

43.59m  /  143'   van mill   1988 / 2020.

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• Large exterior spaces for dining and socializing
• Loaded with water toys and tenders
• Flexible cabin configuration to meet the specific needs of guests

Superbly refit, superyacht STARSHIP treats charter guests to a fantastic cruising experience

The 43.59m/143' 'Starship' motor yacht built by shipyard Van Mill is available for charter for up to 12 guests in 5 cabins. This yacht features interior styling by Procasa.

Motor yacht Starship boasts a wealth of convivial spaces, perfect for luxury yacht charters with families of friends, offering ample opportunities to kick back and relax, or enjoy the water on the yacht's array of water toys, the choice is yours.

Guest Accommodation

Starship is great for families thanks to her child-friendly setup. Built in 1988, She offers guest accommodation for up to 12 guests with a layout comprising a master suite, two VIP cabins, one double cabin and one twin cabin. There are 7 beds in total, including 3 king, 1 queen, 1 double, 3 singles and 1 pullman. She is also capable of carrying up to 9 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht charter experience.

Onboard Comfort & Entertainment

Keeping comfortable and entertained on Starship is easy thanks to the available amenities such as a gym with all the latest equipment to maintain your fitness routine. Retreat to the deck jacuzzi and soak up the scenery.

Whatever your activities on your charter, you'll find some impressive features are seamlessly integrated to help you such as Wi-Fi connectivity, allowing you to stay connected at all times, should you wish. You can stay comfortable on board whatever the weather, with air conditioning during your charter.

Performance & Range

Built with a aluminium hull and aluminium superstructure, she benefits from a semi-displacement hull to provide exceptional seakeeping and impressive speeds. Powered by twin Caterpillar engines, she comfortably cruises at 10 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 17 knots with a range of up to 3,201 nautical miles from her 52,990 litre fuel tanks at 12 knots. Her low draft of 1.96m/6'5" makes her primed for accessing shallow areas and cruising close to the shorelines. Starship features at-anchor stabilizers providing exceptional comfort levels.

Starship knows a thing or two about fun on the water, with an extensive selection of action packed water toys and accessories for you and your guests to enjoy whilst on charter. Principle among these are waterslides for hours of fun for all ages. Guests can experience the thrill and adventure of riding one of the five Yamaha VX 110 Deluxe WaveRunners. In addition there are towable toys offering fun and adventure. If that isn't enough Starship also features waterskis, a seabob, wakeboards, kayaks, WindSurfers. When it comes to Tenders, Starship has you covered - with three tenders, including a 11.58m/38' Intrepid Tender.

Based in the magical waters of the Caribbean all year round Starship is ready for your next luxury yacht charter. Let Starship Discover the magical places, food and experiences of the the Caribbean.

Motor yacht Starship is an outstanding pedigree yacht that delivers on all fronts for superlative luxury yacht vacations.

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For your relaxation and entertainment Starship has the following facilities, for more details please speak to your yacht charter broker.

Starship is reported to be available to Charter with the following recreation facilities:

• 1 x 11.58m  /  38' Intrepid Tender with 3 x Mercury 275 HP engines plus fishing gear, full cabin and SAT TV
• 1 x 5.49m  /  18' Novurania Tender with 1 x Yamaha 115 HP engine
• 1 x 12.19m  /  40' Intrepid Tender with 3 x 350 HP engines

For a full list of all available amenities & entertainment facilities, or price to hire additional equipment please contact your broker.

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Starship is reported to be available to Charter with the following on board wellness facilities:

• Elliptical Machine
• Free Weights

For a full list of all available amenities & entertainment facilities, or price to hire additional equipment please contact your broker.

'Starship' Charter Rates & Destinations

Summer Season

May - September

$120,000 p/week + expenses

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October - April

$150,000 p/week + expenses

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Set sail on the waterways of Tampa Bay and Clearwater with Yacht StarShip and delight in a different kind of dining experience! When you come aboard our yachts, you can expect unmatched service, exquisite views and delicious, freshly-prepared dishes. Experience stunning Clearwater sunsets or the bright city lights of Downtown Tampa as you sip and savor your way through our upscale cuisine and cocktails. 

Yacht StarShip’s fleet of four luxury yachts are perfect for any size event from 25 – 600 guests and feature top quality service, breathtaking views, entertainment, and award-winning cuisine. Our all-inclusive event packages make planning easy seabreezy. Whether you want to tie the knot on a yacht, or create a sea of memories with a social celebration, our dedicated crew is here for you.

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Yacht STARSHIP is a 143-foot classically-designed motor yacht built and launched by Dutch shipyard Van Mill in 1988. Her naval architecture is a collaboration between Pieter Beeldsnijder Design and Murray & Associates.

The yacht underwent a multi-million dollar refit in 2004 which recaptured her glory days. In 2015, the yacht received another multi-million dollar refit. She was last refitted in 2017 and has been beautifully maintained and consistently upgraded since.

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Starship boasts a beautiful interior that makes use of exquisite marbles, rich polished woods and rich soft furnishings. Her impressive large main foyer, with its marble floors and spiral staircase, sets the tone for the rest of the yacht, with its large and generous spaces and classic styling.

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Starship’s  interior layout sleeps up to 12 guests in 5 rooms, including a master suite, 2 VIP staterooms, 1 double cabin, 1 twin cabin and 1 pullman bed. She is also capable of carrying up to 9 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience. Timeless styling, beautiful furnishings and sumptuous seating feature throughout to create an elegant and comfortable atmosphere.

Starship’s impressive leisure and entertainment facilities make her the ideal charter yacht for socializing and entertaining with family and friends.

Air Conditioning, WiFi connection on board, Deck Jacuzzi, Gym/exercise equipment, Stabilizers at Anchor, Tenders, Wave runners, Motor scooters, Sailboards, Water skis, Dive compressor, Exercise Equipment and much more allows clients the utmost comfort and enjoyment while on charter.

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Here’s why spacex’s competitors are crying foul over starship launch plans, competitors have tried and failed to keep spacex from establishing launch sites before..

Stephen Clark - Jul 5, 2024 6:43 pm UTC

United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin are worried about SpaceX's plans to launch its enormous Starship rocket from Florida.

In documents submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration last month, ULA and Blue Origin raised concerns about the impact of Starship launch operations on their own activities on Florida's Space Coast. Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space company, urged the federal government to consider capping the number of Starship launches and landings, test-firings, and other operations, and limiting SpaceX's activities to particular times.

Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, called Blue Origin's filing with the FAA "an obviously disingenuous response. Not cool of them to try (for the third time) to impede SpaceX’s progress by lawfare." We'll get to that in a moment.

The FAA and SpaceX are preparing an environmental impact statement for launches and landings of the Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), while the US Space Force is working with SpaceX on a similar environmental review for Starship flights from Space Launch Complex 37 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

These reviews likely won't be complete until late 2025 , at the earliest, and only then will SpaceX be cleared to launch Starship from Florida. SpaceX also must construct launch infrastructure at both sites, which could take a couple of years. This is already underway at Launch Complex 39A.

Big rocket with a big footprint

During the environmental review process, the FAA should weigh how regular flights of the reusable Starship—as many as 120 launches per year, according to TechCrunch —will affect other launch providers operating at Cape Canaveral, ULA and Blue Origin said. SpaceX's final proposed launch cadence from each site will be part of draft environmental assessments released for public comment as soon as the end of this year.

SpaceX plans to launch Starlink satellites, customer payloads, and missions to support NASA's Artemis lunar landings from the launch pads in Florida. Getting a launch pad up and running in Florida is one of several schedule hurdles facing SpaceX's program to develop a human-rated lunar lander version of Starship, alongside demonstrating orbital refueling .

Starship-Super Heavy launches and landings "are expected to have a greater environmental impact than any other launch system currently operating at KSC or CCSFS," Blue Origin wrote. In its current configuration, Starship is the most powerful rocket in history, and SpaceX is developing a larger version standing 492 feet (150 meters) tall with nearly 15 million pounds (6,700 metric tons) of propellant. This larger variant is the one that will fly from Cape Canaveral.

"It’s a very, very large rocket, and getting bigger," wrote Tory Bruno, ULA's CEO, in a post on X . "That quantity of propellant requires an evacuation zone whenever fueled that includes other people’s facilities. A (weekly) launch has injurious sound levels all the way into town. The Cape isn’t meant for a monopoly."

At SpaceX's privately owned Starbase launch site in South Texas, the evacuation zone is set at 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) when Starship and Super Heavy are filled with methane and liquid oxygen propellants. During an actual launch, the checkpoint is farther back at more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the pad.

"The total launch capacity of the Cape will go down if other providers are forced to evacuate their facilities whenever a vehicle is fueled," Bruno wrote.

We don't yet know the radius of the keep-out zones for Starship operations in Florida, but Blue Origin wrote that the impact of Starship activities in Florida "may be even greater than at Starbase," presumably due to the larger rocket SpaceX plans to launch from Cape Canaveral. If this is the case, neighboring launch pads would need to be evacuated during Starship operations.

Purely based on the geography of Cape Canaveral, ULA seems to have the bigger worry. Its launch pad for the Vulcan and Atlas V rocket is located less than 2.2 miles (3.5 kilometers) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A). SpaceX's proposal for up to 44 launches from LC-39A "will result in significant airspace and ground closures, result in acoustic impacts felt at nearby operations, and potentially produce debris, particulates, and property damage," ULA said.

ULA said these hazards could prevent it from fulfilling its contracts to launch critical national security satellites for the US military.

"As the largest rocket in existence, an accident would inflict serious or even catastrophic damage, while normal launch operations would have a cumulative impact on structures, launch vehicle hardware, and other critical launch support equipment," ULA said.

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SpaceX’s Starship may mess up the lunar surface

By Andrew Paul

Posted on Jul 9, 2024 3:10 PM EDT

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NASA’s Artemis astronauts are currently slated to land on the moon in 2026 aboard SpaceX’s massive Starship . According to researchers, however, relying on a 15-story-tall spacecraft with 16.7 million pounds of thrust may not be the best idea—especially if humans hope to study and use potential water reserves underneath the lunar surface.

Although its reusable stage has yet to successfully return intact , SpaceX’s Starship appears on track to eventually pull off the necessary feat . But each of the four test launches have come with hefty impacts near the Texas launchpad. Upon liftoff, Starship’s 33 Raptor engines have already blasted massive craters into the ground, shattered windows, destroyed vehicles, and generated huge plumes of dust and debris. 

In a paper published in The Planetary Science Journal , researchers at the Space Science Institute, NASA, Johns Hopkins University, and DeepSpace Technologies argue the power needed to land Starship’s 164-feet-tall upper stage (its 226-feet-tall lower stage detaches after leaving Earth’s orbit) could contaminate portions of the lunar surface before its passengers even step foot onto the moon. More specifically, it could foul up any icy cold traps located across the moon’s permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs, near the lunar south pole.

[Related: SpaceX’s fourth Starship launches .]

Previous data collected during NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) indicates water frost could compose somewhere between 1-to-2 percent of PSR surface soil. As Space.com noted on June 9, further analysis suggests as much as 60 tons of water may reside deeper within these areas—sizable reserves that astronauts could harvest for drinkable water, oxygen, and hydrogen rocket fuel.

But experts will need to study any lunar surface frost before anyone can confirm the existence of these underground PSR ice reservoirs. Past NASA observations from neutron spectrometers suggest at least some ice is down there, although it could also come from other sources such as water migration by way of solar wind, or even mini-meteoroids. 

Studying the surface frost’s formation would be key to understanding water dynamics on the moon. Using exospheric modeling and other analysis, however, researchers estimate Starship’s rocket-powered landing plumes from its upper stage may make a mess by generating over 10 tons of water and icy particles that mixes with the existing frost. What’s more, it may only take four Starship lunar landings to generate as much, or more, existing surface frost in PSRs—basically rendering any future analysis impossible at those sites.

“This anthropogenic contribution could possibly overlay and mix with the naturally occurring icy regolith at the uppermost surface,” the team writes in its study . “A possible consequence is that the origin of the intrinsic surficial icy regolith, which is still undetermined, could be lost as it mixes with the extrinsic anthropogenic contribution.”

To put matters into perspective, researchers examined the potential disruptions caused by the Apollo missions’ much smaller lunar landers after analyzing their own plumes. In their findings, such craft would only add less-than-one percent of water to existing frost. That’s approximately 30 times less human-generated contamination than a potential Starship landing.

As NASA and SpaceX inch closer to return humans to the moon, researchers suggest employing existing and upcoming equipment to further investigate the possible situation. Aside from examining the before-and-after of a Starship landing (possibly even a test landing on the lunar surface), NASA could also direct its upcoming Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to record a Starship moon landing in real time. Such considerations could be vital to ensuring humanity doesn’t trash the moon (or beyond) like it’s currently doing here on Earth.

Popular Science has reached out to NASA and the paper’s authors for comment.

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SpaceX test-fires Super Heavy Starship booster ahead of 5th flight (video)

The launch could take place in just a couple weeks.

Super Heavy is breathing fire once again.

SpaceX ignited the engines on its Super Heavy booster yesterday (July 15), ahead of Starship's next integrated flight test (IFT), expected in the next few weeks. IFT-5 will be fifth launch of Starship's fully-stacked vehicle, and its most ambitious to date.

The spacecraft has been contracted by NASA as the lunar lander for its Artemis 3 mission , and has also been touted by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as eventually being capable of flying humans to Mars .

The 233 foot (71 meter) booster was rolled to the launchapd at SpaceX's test site on July 9, ahead of yeaterday's full-duration "static test fire," at the company's Starbase facility, in Texas. With Super Heavy secured to launchpad, the rocket's 33 Raptor engines fire at full thrust for about 20 seconds in video captured and shared by SpaceX in a post on X.

Full duration static fire of Flight 5 Super Heavy booster pic.twitter.com/8rF9KUdMUD July 15, 2024

Each of Starship's four test flights has gone farther and accomplished more than its predecessor, with the rocket's the most recent launch in June being hailed as a complete success. That launch saw Starship and its Super Heavy booster both return , as planned, for controlled ocean splashdowns. Now, hoping to build on that success, SpaceX will attempt to reach even further on Starship's fifth flight.

Related: SpaceX rolls Starship Super Heavy booster to launch pad ahead of 5th test flight (video, photos)

Starship is designed to as a completely reusable system. Like the first-stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster, Super Heavy is designed with grid fins to help control its reentry through the atmosphere, but unlike the current workhorse of SpaceX's fleet, when Super Heavy returns to land, the plan is for it to fly straight back to the pad where it launched. 

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The Starship launch tower features two massive "chopstick" arms that are designed to catch Super Heavy by its grid fins, as the booster arrests its momentum to a momentary standstill in midair to sucumb to the chopsticks' tender embrace. This way, in the efforts of rapid refurbishment, the booster is already where it needs to be in order to launch again. 

—  SpaceX teases catching Super Heavy booster with 'chopsticks' on upcoming Starship test flight (video)

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During its fourth flight, though Super Heavy's landing burn over the ocean was nowhere near its launchpad in Starbase, Texas, SpaceX closed the launch tower's chopstick arms in conjunction with the booster's water landing, seemingly to test the system's timing and capabilities. Now, they're going to try it for real. Following the success of IFT-4, Musk wrote in a post on X, "aiming to try this in late July!" in response to a video featuring an animated Super Heavy booster catch.

As for when the next Starship launch will take place, on July 5, Musk said " four weeks ," in a post on X. That timeline would put the launch around Aug. 2, however the rocket billionaire's estimates are often optimistically hopefull. So, at the earliest, we may see Starship IFT-5 liftoff around the beginning of August.

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Josh Dinner is Space.com's Content Manager. He is a writer and photographer with a passion for science and space exploration, and has been working the space beat since 2016. Josh has covered the evolution of NASA's commercial spaceflight partnerships, from early Dragon and Cygnus cargo missions to the ongoing development and launches of crewed missions from the Space Coast, as well as NASA science missions and more. He also enjoys building 1:144 scale models of rockets and human-flown spacecraft. Find some of Josh's launch photography on Instagram and his website , and follow him on Twitter , where he mostly posts in haiku.

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