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

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

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.

Mission type: Communications · Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Rocket: Starship · Provider: SpaceX

Timeline

Times are relative to liftoff (T 0:00) and follow the current launch time.

  1. 50 minutes before liftoff: GO for Prop Load Launch director verifies go for propellant load
  2. 36 minutes 33 seconds before liftoff: Stage 1 LOX Load Start of liquid oxygen loading in the first stage
  3. 35 minutes before liftoff: Stage 1 LNG Load Start of liquid methane loading in the first stage
  4. 34 minutes 13 seconds before liftoff: Stage 2 LOX Load Start of liquid oxygen loading in the second stage
  5. 34 minutes 11 seconds before liftoff: Stage 2 LNG Load Start of liquid methane loading in the second stage
  6. 21 minutes 40 seconds before liftoff: Engine Chill Start of engine chilling
  7. 2 minutes 50 seconds before liftoff: Stage 1 Propellant Load Complete End of propellant loading in the first stage
  8. 2 minutes 10 seconds before liftoff: Stage 2 Propellant Load Complete End of propellant loading in the second stage
  9. 30 seconds before liftoff: GO for Launch Launch director verifies go for launch
  10. 17 seconds before liftoff: Flame Deflector Activation Activation of the flame deflector ahead of engine ignition
  11. 3 seconds before liftoff: Ignition Start of the engine ignition sequence
  12. at liftoff: Liftoff First upwards movement of the rocket
  13. at liftoff: Excitement Guaranteed Excitement guaranteed
  14. 58 seconds after liftoff: Max-Q Maximum dynamic pressure
  15. 2 minutes 20 seconds after liftoff: MECO Cut-off of the main engine
  16. 2 minutes 22 seconds after liftoff: Stage 2 Separation Separation of the second stage from the first
  17. 2 minutes 27 seconds after liftoff: Booster Boostback Burn Startup Start of the booster boostback burn
  18. 3 minutes 7 seconds after liftoff: Booster Boostback Burn Shutdown End of the booster boostback burn
  19. 6 minutes 35 seconds after liftoff: Stage 1 Landing Burn Start of the first stage landing burn
  20. 7 minutes 1 second after liftoff: Stage 1 Landing Landing of the first stage
  21. 8 minutes 11 seconds after liftoff: SECO-1 First cut-off of the second engine
  22. 25 minutes 28 seconds after liftoff: Orbital Insertion Burn Start The spacecraft ignites it's engines to insert itself into orbit
  23. 25 minutes 47 seconds after liftoff: Orbital Insertion Burn End The spacecraft cuts its engines after inserting itself into orbit
  24. 34 minutes 18 seconds after liftoff: Payload Deployment Sequence Start Start of the payload deployment sequence
  25. 1 hour 4 minutes 50 seconds after liftoff: Payload Deployment Sequence End End of the payload deployment sequence.
  26. 8 hours 52 minutes 18 seconds after liftoff: Deorbit Burn Start Start of the ship's deorbit burn
  27. 8 hours 52 minutes 29 seconds after liftoff: Deorbit Burn End End of the ship's deorbit burn
  28. 9 hours 28 minutes 52 seconds after liftoff: Atmospheric Entry Start of the atmospheric re-entry
  29. 9 hours 47 minutes 30 seconds after liftoff: Starship Transonic Starship passing through the transonic regime
  30. 9 hours 48 minutes 7 seconds after liftoff: Starship Subsonic Starship reaches a subsonic velocity
  31. 9 hours 50 minutes 11 seconds after liftoff: Starship Landing Burn Start of the Starship orbital stage landing burn
  32. 9 hours 50 minutes 13 seconds after liftoff: Landing Flip Flip maneuver to set the orientation for landing
  33. 9 hours 50 minutes 21 seconds after liftoff: Starship Landing Burn Shutdown Ship landing burn engine(s) shutdown
  34. 9 hours 50 minutes 28 seconds after liftoff: Starship Landing Burn Shutdown Ship landing burn engine(s) shutdown
  35. 9 hours 50 minutes 30 seconds after liftoff: Starship Landing Landing of the Starship orbital stage

Launch pad

Orbital Launch Pad 2, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA · View on map (opens in new tab)

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SpaceX Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)