Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
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.
Third V3 Starship to fly with various enhancements, to be used on the 14th Starship test flight, the first Starship flight to deploy satellites into stable Low Earth Orbit.
Third development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
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Mission Profile
Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14) is a Starship V3 mission operated by SpaceX set to lift off from Orbital Launch Pad 2, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA on September 28, 2026. The flight is tasked with delivering its payload on a communications mission to Low Earth Orbit. The mission flies on first stage Booster 21. This launch adds to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, the low-Earth-orbit network that delivers broadband internet to users worldwide; each batch is identified by its orbital group (here, Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)).