Thirteen Starship flights, zero orbits. Tuesday is the one that counts.
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Thirteen Starship flights, zero orbits. Tuesday is the one that counts.
Starship Flight 14 lifts off no earlier than Tuesday 22 September, aiming for orbital insertion for the first time and carrying 26 Starlink V3 satellites.
Key Takeaways
- Flight 14 is the first Starship mission targeting true orbital insertion, at roughly 275 km across about six orbits.
- The payload is 26 Starlink V3 satellites, making this the first Starship flight to carry revenue rather than test instrumentation.
- Each V3 adds around 1 Tbps of constellation capacity, so 26 Tbps from one launch, roughly ten times a Falcon 9 Starlink mission.
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