# Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14): launch

> Starship V3 by SpaceX from SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA. Flown: Success.

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- Data as of: 2026-10-13 03:00 UTC (last Launch Library 2 sync)
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## Facts

- Launch: Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
- Mission: Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
- Provider: SpaceX
- Rocket: Starship V3
- Pad: SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
- Country of the launch site: USA
- Date (UTC): Mon, Sep 28, 12:48 UTC (2026-09-28T12:48:59.000Z)
- Launch window: 2026-09-28 12:15 UTC to 2026-09-28 13:30 UTC
- Status: completed (Launch Library 2: Success)
- Outcome: Success
- Real slips recorded: 3 (13 days in total); other date moves (placeholder rolls, firmings), not slips: 1

## Mission description

Quoted from Launch Library 2: 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.

## Date history

"Seen live" means our sync saw the change when it happened; "caught up late" means Launch Library 2 made it earlier, on a day we do not know, and it is never counted as a slip.

| Observed | From | To | Kind | Shift (days) | Observation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-09-08 | Sep 30, 2026 (placeholder) | Sep 15, 2026 | Firmed | -15 | seen live |
| 2026-09-10 | Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | Slip | 3 | seen live |
| 2026-09-11 | Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | Same-day change | 0.5 | seen live |
| 2026-09-14 | Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | Slip | 4 | seen live |
| 2026-09-17 | Sep 22, 2026 | Sep 28, 2026 | Slip | 6 | seen live |
| 2026-09-28 | Sep 28, 2026 | Sep 28, 2026 | Same-day change | 0 | seen live |

## Sources

- [Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs](https://thespacedevs.com): launch names, providers, rockets, pads, dates and status
- [SpaceNexus Launch Ledger (our own record of every date change)](https://spacenexus.us/launch-slips/method)
- [Mission information (link from Launch Library 2)](https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14)

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