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Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
SpaceX · Starship V3
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Launch window 12:15–13:30 UTC.
The mission
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.
Vehicle and site
- Rocket
- Starship V3
- Family
- Starship
- Mission
- Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
- Mission type
- Communications
- Pad
- Orbital Launch Pad 2
- Location
- SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
- Coordinates
- 25.9968°, -97.1580°
Third development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
- Launches to date
- 735
- Successful
- 720
- Failed
- 15
- Consecutive successes
- 220
Watch and read
- SpaceX Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
- Starship Flight 14
- Watch Live: SpaceX Starship heads for orbit on 14th flight
- SpaceX Starship Flight 14 - Launch & Booster Splashdown - LAUNCH STREAM
- [4K] Watch the FIRST Orbital Starship Mission!!!
- spacex.com
- Starship V3 on Wikipedia
- Orbital Launch Pad 2 on Wikipedia
Schedule from Launch Library 2, rebuilt hourly. Dates slip: a time given to the minute is a target, not a promise, and this page reflects the schedule as it stood at the last build. All upcoming launches.