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Booster 21 put on a spectacular display with the planned triggering of the Flight Termination System following a soft-splashdown in the Gulf. 📸: @NASASpaceflight

Bots are set! The @NASASpaceflight field team has been out all day to prepare for Flight 14! This will be a stream you don’t want to miss! piped.video/live/9gDxG-pm1Zo…

The stage is set, Field team is Go for launch Flight 14 window opens at 7:15 a.m. CDT Monday. @NASASpaceflight

The sunset before ORBIT! From @NASASpaceflight's AntCam. Watch Live: nsf.live/starbase

Sunset at Starbase with Starship on the pad as it awaits its Inaugural Orbital Flight Test. 📸: @NASASpaceflight

STARSHIP FLIGHT 14 TRANSITS THE SUN!!! Look at those shockwaves! 📸 - @NASASpaceflight LIVE COVERAGE CONTINUES: piped.video/live/9gDxG-pm1Zo…

Liftoff of Starship Flight 14!

The booster met its fiery end, as expected, but this mission is far from over, as STARSHIP JUST WENT ORBITAL. @NASASpaceflight

Ship 41 just became the first Starship to reach orbit. Historic moment for the Starship Program @NASASpaceflight

LAUNCH SUCCESSFUL! Amazing morning launch from Starship, the very first to become orbital. @NASASpaceflight

Time-lapse of the SpaceX S41 & B21 launch from fueling to launch. piped.video/watch?v=9gDxG-pm… @NASASpaceflight

Super Heavy coming in hot creating some incredible shockwaves as it goes subsonic prior to landing in the Gulf. 📸: @NASASpaceflight

The occasional clouds allowed the shockwaves of Booster 21 to be visible at times throughout reentry. Incredible to think of the scale and just how fast the booster is moving! @NASASpaceflight

Flight 14 (2026-09-28) | Written by @KangasSpaceroo & @Space_Mr_Banana What. A. Flight. Starship has successfully reached orbit, 18 years after SpaceX’s first rocket, Falcon 1 reached orbit. Pre Flight Following successful independent test campaigns, Booster 21 and Ship 41 would roll to the pad on September 20th and 22nd respectively ahead of a flight attempt on September 28th. On the 24th a Wet Dress Rehearsal was performed ahead of flight. Flight Day The launch day would begin bright and early with the stabilizer arms on the chopsticks opening at around T-6 hours, or roughly 1:15 am Central Time. A couple of hours later, the chopsticks would fully open to their launch positions ahead of flight. At just before 5:30 am, SpaceX announced that the flight would be delayed into the window by around 30 minutes to allow for lighting conditions to improve at the landing sites. Propellant load would begin successfully at just before 7:20 am with all four tanks in propellant fill by 7:30. At last, at just before 7:50 am, Starship Flight 14 would lift off from Pad 2. Booster 21’s ascent would be nearly completely flawless apart from one engine shutting down on ascent. Following a successful flip and beginning of boostback, a second engine would shut down. Both of these engines were on the middle ring of engines. Booster 21 would successfully make it all the way down through to its landing burn. During the landing burn only 11 of 13 engines would ignite, with the two that didn’t ignite being the two that previously failed during ascent and boostback. Booster 21 successfully splashed down before FTS detonated and destroyed the booster. Well done, Booster 21. Ship 41 successfully lit all six of its engines but would lose an RVac during ascent. Initially SpaceX announced that Ship 41 would not be heading to orbit today, with the 26 Starlinks also not being deployed. However, shortly after that announcement, Dan Hout announced that teams are still looking at data to determine if Ship 41 would still go into orbit. After a tense nearly 10 minutes, SpaceX announced that Ship 41 would indeed go to ORBIT. Following a successful SES-2 and subsequent SECO-2, Ship 41 was successfully in a 266 x 277 kilometers. Ship 41 would successfully deploy its 26 Starlink satellites with all 26 connecting into the system. Around 20 minutes after deploying the last Starlink satellite, SpaceX announced that Ship 41 would be returning early to just north of Hawaii. This flight being the first ORBITAL Starship flight likely had extremely conservative limits on all of the ship’s systems which pushed the team to bring Ship 41 home early. Hopefully we will receive information shortly about why we came home early. Ship 41 would successfully complete its deorbit burn at around T+2 hours 12 minutes and would begin its entry interface about 30 minutes later. Flaps would gain control at around T+2 hours 46 minutes. Peak heating would occur about T+2 hours 55 minutes. After a pretty smooth reentry Ship 41 successfully passed through both peak pressure and transonic phases. At T+3 hours and 8 minutes it lit up the three sea-level engines for the landing burn before going down to two engines for the final splashdown. Upon soft splashdown and tip over Ship 41 did not survive like its predecessor Ship 40 did. It seems that it was a very lucky ship. Starship flight 15 promises to be very exciting, with it likely being another orbital flight, and maybe even including some catches, only time will tell. 📷 SpaceX Official Broadcast

Starship has landed Successful soft splashdown before exploding on tip over 📷 SpaceX Official Broadcast

Ship 41 is approaching landing just north of Hawaii 📷 SpaceX Official Broadcast

Ship 41 has entered peak heating

Starship is reentering the atmosphere

Ship 41 has begun reentry 📷 SpaceX Official Broadcast