Range Chart Desk · Flight 14

First orbit. First working V3s.

Starship Flight 14 is targeting Monday Sep 28 with a 75-minute window opening 8:15 AM Eastern — the first Starship orbital flight, carrying 26 Starlink V3 satellites that will actually serve customers. OrbitPad is the watch desk: countdown, friend timezones, mission strip, saveable plans, shareable URL, export card.

Blueprint range chart of Earth with Starship orbital arc

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Mission timeline

Starlink V3 payload

26 Starlink V3 — first insert that serves customers.

Downlink~1 Tbps~10× V2

Uplink~160 Gbps~22× V2

Altitude~171 mi~6 orbits / ~10 h

Named watch plans

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Why Flight 14 matters

Every Starship flight so far has been a test. Flight 14 is the first one aiming for a real orbit — roughly six loops at ~171 miles — and the first to put Starlink V3 birds on station that will talk to customers. Prior V3 work flew arrays then burned them; this pad is operational insert.

The booster is planned for a Gulf splashdown (no tower catch), the ship for a Pacific deorbit near Chile after the work is done. Watch on the SpaceX X livestream. OrbitPad keeps the window, the friend clocks, and your named plan in one chart so you can reopen it the morning of.

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Snapshot: —

ALT · 171 mi ORBITS · 6 PAYLOAD · 26 V3 NET · SEP 28

Approximate Flight 14 arc — Starbase lift, Gulf splash, Chile Pacific deorbit. Schematic only.