Starship
Flight 14
The first planned orbital attempt.
Window opens in
Window open
Countdown is to window open, not confirmed liftoff. Pending regulatory approval.
Orbit
First to send Starship into orbit around Earth
Flight tests until this point have flown passively safe suborbital trajectories. This is the next phase.
SpaceX · Flight 14 brief
The window
As soon as Monday, September 28
SpaceX is targeting Starship Flight 14 as soon as Monday, September 28, 2026, pending regulatory approval. The 75-minute launch window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT (12:15 UTC). Backup is the following day, same window hours, unless SpaceX updates otherwise.
- NET
- 28 September 2026
- Backup
- 29 September 2026
- Opens
- 7:15 a.m. CT · 12:15 UTC
- Length
- 75 minutes
- Site
- Pad 2, Starbase
- Status
- Pending regulatory approval
The schedule is dynamic and likely to change. Confirm on the SpaceX mission page and @SpaceX before committing to a watch time.
Vehicle
Revolutionizing space technology
Starship and Super Heavy are a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
The brief
275 km. Six orbits. Twenty-six V3s.
Taken from SpaceX’s public Flight 14 mission page. This page does not invent status, weather, or hardware health.
- 275 km Target altitude
- ~6 Earth orbits
- 26 Starlink V3 satellites
- ~10 hr Mission duration
Starship’s initial orbital mission is expected to fly at an altitude approximately 275 km above Earth and complete approximately six orbits around the planet over the course of a nearly 10-hour flight, with splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Chile.
This will also mark the first time SpaceX plans to deploy Starlink V3 satellites into the constellation. Each V3 is described as adding 1 Tbps of capacity — 26 Tbps on this mission alone.
Super Heavy’s objectives cover launch, ascent, hot-staging, a boostback burn, and a landing burn at an offshore point in the Gulf. Starship’s include the first orbital insertion maneuver, deployment of 26 Starlink V3 satellites, a single-Raptor deorbit burn, and a controlled reentry, descent, and splashdown.
Starship will only execute a burn to enter orbit after the flight control team has ensured there is sufficient redundancy on hardware critical to the subsequent deorbit burn.
Pad 2 · Starbase
The flight
Launch, hot-staging, insertion, deploy, deorbit, splashdown. All times approximate.
Profile
Flight 14 trajectory
Official SpaceX infographic. Approximate times from the public mission page.
Countdown
All times approximate
- Flight Director poll · GO for propellant load
- Flight Director verifies GO for launch
- Booster engine startup command
- Excitement guaranteed
Flight
All times approximate
- Liftoff
- Hot-staging
- Super Heavy landing burn shutdown
- Orbital insertion burn start
- Payload deploy start
- Payload deploy complete
- Deorbit burn start
- Starship entry
- An exciting landing
Updates
Official word, from SpaceX
Schedule, weather, and the webcast live here. This page does not invent status.
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Webcast
Watch with SpaceX
A live webcast is planned about 30 minutes before liftoff, with coverage intended through splashdown. As with all developmental testing, the schedule is dynamic.