Up early this morning to watch Starship flight 14. Eighteen years to the day since SpaceX‘s Falcon first achieved orbit, today so did Starship, and it deployed 26 large third-generation Starlink satellites.
Superheavy Starship is the world’s largest launch vehicle, by far, and is designed to be completely reusable. Much work remains to perfect it, but today’s flight was a major milestone. If successful, the program should revolutionize spaceflight.
Superheavy Starship launches from Starbase, Texas, 2026 September 28.
Orbital 124-meter Starship deploys folded Starlink satellites from its PEZ-like dispenser (photographed from one of the deployed satellites).
Thanks, Mark! I enjoy reading your posts as well.