Coach Phillip Ketterman

Starship and its heatshield are healthy as the vehicle continues to orbit Earth after a spectacular start to its mission nearly 7 hours ago. Teams are continuing to monitor systems ahead of a planned return to launch site catch at Starbase ~22.5 hours after launch

Ship 42 moves to the Starbase pad ahead of launch

More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space. Watch “Go For Orbit” and experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet

Ship 42 static fires complete. The Starship preparing for Flight 15 performed a full duration, six-engine static fire, and fired a single Raptor engine to simulate a deorbit burn

Full duration 33-engine static fire for the Super Heavy booster preparing for Flight 15

Starship's first orbital flight delivered 26 Starlink V3 satellites to space

Hot-staging on Starship Flight 14

On track for Starship’s 14th flight. The 75-minute launch window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT. Live coverage of the mission begins ~35 minutes before launch

Sunrise at Starbase. Opportunistic full stack testing is planned ahead of Flight 14's launch, which is on track for Monday, Sept. 28, pending regulatory approval

Stacking Starship ahead of Flight 14

Ship 41 moved to the launch pad at Starbase

Full duration 33-engine static fire with the Super Heavy booster preparing for Flight 14

Starship has now been loaded onto a semi-submersible ship to begin the several month journey back to Starbase. Congratulations to the entire SpaceX Recovery team for battling through challenging conditions to give our engineers access to a wealth of data to continue rapidly developing Starship

SpaceX engineers spent several days inspecting Ship 40 in the waters off Christmas Island. They collected heatshield samples and gained vital insight into how the vehicle handled reentry with improvements now planned on future vehicles