Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: SpaceX (Commercial)
• Rocket: Starship V3 — Starship family

Mission

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.

• Type: Communications
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Launch Site

• Pad: Orbital Launch Pad 2
• Location: SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
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Program

• SpaceX Starship — The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry. (Wikipedia)
• Starlink — Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by American aerospace company SpaceX (Wikipedia)