Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)

VEHICLE

Starship V3

PROVIDER

SpaceX

PAD

Orbital Launch Pad 2

LOCATION

SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

NET

2026-09-28 12:48 UTC

WINDOW

2026-09-28 12:15 UTC → 13:30 UTC

ORBIT

Low Earth Orbit

LL2 STATUS

Launch Successful

14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3 and the first Starship flight to deploy satellites (a group of Starlink satellites known as Starlink Group 31-1) into stable Low Earth Orbit. The ship is expected to fly at an altitude approximately 275 km above Earth and complete approximately 6 orbits around the planet for nearly 10 hours, with splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile. The booster’s primary test objective on Flight 14 will be executing a successful launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and landing burn at an offshore landing point in the Gulf. Starship will deliver 26 Starlink V3 satellites to orbit for the first time, which aim to greatly expand the network's capacity and user speeds. Each Starlink V3 satellite will add 1 Tbps of capacity to the constellation.

Official outcome: Launch successful

Our final pre-flight call was GO at 90% confidence, T-30m - and it was right.

✓ Call matched the outcome

Scoring rule: a launch that reached flight means the countdown proceeded, so a GO or HOLDING call is right and a SCRUB call is a false alarm. Only the last call made before T-0 counts.