NASA revealed NEW Inside Starship HLS Design Upgrade & Testing...

NASA revealed NEW Inside Starship HLS Design Upgrade & Testing...
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NASA revealed NEW Inside Starship HLS Design Upgrade & Testing...
NASA just dropped a major update on Starship HLS — and there's a detail in here nobody saw coming.
Forget the bright, shiny white spacecraft we're used to seeing.
This new HLS looks completely different. Heat shield tiles. Flaps. Is this actually the v3 design? Not exactly — because it's also got something else: a docking port built right into the nose.So what is this new Starship HLS design NASA just revealed — and what makes it so different?
Let's find out.
NASA revealed NEW Inside Starship HLS Design Upgrade & Testing...
On July 15th, NASA published a detailed breakdown of exactly how Artemis 3 is going to work, and there's a part in there that I think is worth talking about.
So here's the plan: Within a relatively short window, three heavy-lift rockets will lift off from three separate launch pads. Blue Origin goes first, sending Blue Moon into orbit. Then SLS launches — carrying four actual astronauts aboard Orion, so yes, real people are on this flight. SpaceX's Starship goes up last.
From there, Orion has to find Blue Moon, dock with it, undock, then go find Starship, dock again — and only then bring the crew home. The reason for this order comes down to what each vehicle actually offers. Blue Moon has a real crew cabin, so the astronauts can go inside, move around, and gather actual data on the habitat environment. Starship, on the other hand, has no crew cabin — which sounds strange, right?
NASA revealed NEW Inside Starship HLS Design Upgrade & Testing...
And here's where it gets interesting. SpaceX isn't bringing the familiar white Starship HLS up to orbit. As NASA themselves put it, SpaceX plans to use their latest version of Starship — called Version 3 — the basis of the future HLS. So what shows up is essentially a standard Starship V3: steel hull, black heat shield tiles, control flaps — but with one key addition: a docking port mounted right at the nose.
The most significant part, though, is what happens after docking. Starship takes over primary control of the entire combined stack. And this isn't just a handoff on paper. Starship is dramatically larger and heavier than Orion, with a completely different mass distribution and rotational inertia. Every maneuver — every attitude hold, every small orbital correction — sends forces through that docking port. The software has to be precise enough that it doesn't cause the stack to oscillate, overstress the connection, or push Orion into an unsafe attitude.
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