Mission completed with Ship 41 soft splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Starship V3 · Communications


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.
Launch director verifies go for propellant load
Start of liquid oxygen loading in the first stage
Start of liquid methane loading in the first stage
Start of liquid oxygen loading in the second stage
Start of liquid methane loading in the second stage
Start of engine chilling
End of propellant loading in the first stage
End of propellant loading in the second stage
Launch director verifies go for launch
Activation of the flame deflector ahead of engine ignition
Start of the engine ignition sequence
First upwards movement of the rocket
Excitement guaranteed
Maximum dynamic pressure
Cut-off of the main engine
Separation of the second stage from the first
Start of the booster boostback burn
End of the booster boostback burn
Start of the first stage landing burn
Landing of the first stage
First cut-off of the second engine
The spacecraft ignites it's engines to insert itself into orbit
The spacecraft cuts its engines after inserting itself into orbit
Start of the payload deployment sequence
End of the payload deployment sequence.
Start of the ship's deorbit burn
End of the ship's deorbit burn
Start of the atmospheric re-entry
Starship passing through the transonic regime
Starship reaches a subsonic velocity
Start of the Starship orbital stage landing burn
Flip maneuver to set the orientation for landing
Ship landing burn engine(s) shutdown
Ship landing burn engine(s) shutdown
Landing of the Starship orbital stage
Ship 41 · Low Earth Orbit
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Mission completed with Ship 41 soft splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
All Starlink satellites deployed and in contact with ground stations.
Liftoff.
Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
Now targeting Sep 28 at 12:48 UTC
Now targeting Sep 28 at 12:46 UTC
FAA launch license acquired.
Now targeting Sep 28 at 13:15 UTC due to still pending regulatory approval
Renamed primary payload.
GO for launch.
NET September 22, TBC.
Added tentative launch window.
NET September 18.
NET September 15, TBC.
NET early September.
Added launch.
No changes recorded
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Third development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
Payload details are described in the mission overview. No independently structured payload manifest or payload mass has been provided by the source.
Orbital Launch Pad 2
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
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