Starcore is the name of a series of a fictional spacecraft in the Marvel Universe

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Starcore One was an orbiting laboratory satellite space station designed by NASA physicist Dr. Peter Corbeau. It first appeared in Hulk

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#148 (Feb 1972) and was created by Archie Goodwin

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 and Herb Trimpe

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. Starcore was financed, launched, and manned under United Nations auspices, and primarily used for scientific observation of the sun. The station is notable for detecting the activities of Dark Phoenix

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 in Earth's solar system. The station was destroyed by instabilities caused by a Shi'ar

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Starcore Command was a control facility for the Starcore program, built after the destruction of Starcore One, and contracted to Stark Enterprises. It first appeared in Iron Man

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Starcore Station was the successor to Starcore One. It first appeared in X-Men Unlimited #13.