Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
SpaceX · Starship V3 · SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Liftoff
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.
Upcoming launches
- Go for LaunchJellyfish likelyBandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Go for LaunchJellyfish possibleMartian Moons eXploration (MMX)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries · H3-24 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Go for LaunchStarlink Group 15-15
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Go for LaunchUnknown Payload
Galactic Energy · Ceres-1S · Haiyang Oriental Spaceport
- To Be ConfirmedWe're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360)
Rocket Lab · Electron · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Go for LaunchUnknown Payload
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 8A · Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
- To Be ConfirmedUnknown Payload
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 4B · Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- Go for LaunchStarlink Group 15-16
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- To Be DeterminedAmazon Leo (LV-01)
United Launch Alliance · Vulcan VC6L · Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- To Be DeterminedIRNSS-1L (NVS-03)
Indian Space Research Organization · GSLV Mk. II · Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- To Be DeterminedFlight 2
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 12A · Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
- To Be DeterminedAayulSAT-1A & others
Indian Space Research Organization · SSLV · Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
Recent results
- USSF-481 — Launch Successful
- 10 satellites — Launch Successful
- Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35 — Launch Successful
- Starlink Group 15-25 — Launch Successful
- SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A — Launch Successful
- SatNet LEO Group 27 — Launch Successful
- NeonSat-2 to 6 — Launch Successful
- NROL-97 — Launch Successful
- Transporter 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) — Launch Successful
- Crew-13 — Launch Successful