[4K] Watch the FIRST Orbital Starship Mission!!! | Live [Started streaming 2 hours ago]

YouTube ^ | September 28, 2026 | Everyday Astronaut

[SunkenCiv]

SpaceX is targeting Starship Flight 14 NET Monday, September 28, 2026 at 7:15 a.m. CT (12:15 UTC). This will be the FIRST orbital launch attempt of Starship with Ship 41 and Booster 21, carrying the first operational batch of 26 Starlink V3 satellites on a roughly 10-hour mission of about six orbits at around 275 km before a Pacific Ocean splashdown. Booster 21 will splash down in the Gulf after boostback, making this a major step from prior suborbital tests toward sustained orbit, payload ops, and eventual full reuse. 

[4K] Watch the FIRST Orbital Starship Mission!!! | Live 
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; everydayastronaut; spacex; starlink; starship; timdodd

[SunkenCiv]

PLAYBACK!

Blastoff! SpaceX Starship launches to orbit for first time, booster splashes down | 13:34 
VideoFromSpace | 2.14M subscribers | 3,184 views | September 28, 2026

[SunkenCiv]

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[rlmorel]

Thank you for posting this. Darn it, I had it in my calendar with a reminder, but the reminder didn’t trigger it. Crud. I wanted to watch it live. Darn it.

[GenXPolymath]

SpaceX succeeded!

26 Starlink deployed in orbit and all 26 Starlink V3 have been contacted , they are functional and heading to their slots in the shell via argon ion engines.

They are going to deorbit at the first op point rather than do six orbits they lost a Raptor 3 vac on the way up about 39 sec from MECO so they don’t want to risk letting ship stay in orbit where they could not do a deorbit burn so they will do it at first op over the Pacific and splashdown north of Hawaii vs off Chile as planned they cleared an area north of Hawaii just for this in advance so the FAA has already made sure no aircraft are in the area and the Coast Guard really the Navy has told marine traffic to get out of the splashdown zone.

Superheavy lost one R3 on boost and two didn’t light on boost back but they have so much redundancy it did its full boost back and landing burn on 11 then as planned 5 then 3 to a tower catch like hover and soft splashdown off the Texas coast they will probably fish it out later.

The key point is they have now proven in expendable mode they can put 50+ tonnes into orbit that puts it in the heaviest class of rockets ever made and they only took 26 or the 60 V3 it holds next time 50-60 go up a full yeet.

Each V3 they put up is a full terabyte of network capacity so 26 terabytes just got added to the global net no other company is making birds at this scale they said their factory in Washington is making more birds than anyone else combined.

It’s live now, the deorbit should be right after the 2 hour mark its crazy how much gas is venting off of ship every gram of that is lost to space as CH4 and O2 are both light enough at orbital altitude to be kicked to deep space by solar wind and ionizing rays. Fortunately earth is big and more O2 comes out the mantle every day via volcanoes as CO2 even at 30 launches per day mass loss to space is trivial vs the volcanic replenishment rates

[SunkenCiv]

I didn’t use a calendar reminder, I just had my head stuffed up there. [blush]

[SunkenCiv]

I tuned in around the 35 minute mark, which was a bit into the Starlink launches, and heard the crowd reaction to most of those. Around 43 minutes the narrator noted that they were already getting laser signal from three of the Starlink sats!

[GenXPolymath]

Also note the music this is a young company , they play EDM during launches 100% millennals and GenZ the GenX if even there are the old folks.

[rlmorel]

LOL, I no longer trust my stuffed head! But thank you for posting it...at least now, I can try to watch the return to Earth-a historic moment for sure if they pull it off.

[Red Badger]

Heard on radio that one engine failed but the ship still made it!..........

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! Tim Dodd agreed with one of his live chat people that it’s weird that they still have an engine failure. AND YET, orbit was achieved, the sats are in their correct orbits and apparently all functioning, and there’s not apparent impediment to the deorbit burn. It’s almost as if they know what they’re doing at SpaceX. 😁

[SunkenCiv]

They are pretty much dancing during these launches, so...

[SunkenCiv]

I missed the splash of the superheavy, assuming that there was a live feed for that.

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starship-megarocket-flight-14-orbital-launch-success

[snip] “During liftoff, one of the six engines on the Starship upper stage went out, raising doubt on whether SpaceX would attempt to reach orbit after all. SpaceX spokesperson Dan Huot even announced it was called off, only to reverse course as flight controllers decided to press ahead.

“We are not giving up yet,’ Huot said. ‘We will continue to hang out ... edge of your seat.”

And the call came just a few minutes later: Starship was go for orbit. About 25 minutes after liftoff, SpaceX’s Ship 41 fired a single Raptor engine briefly to enter orbit. [/snip]

[Red Badger]

NASA would never have done this.

They would have pressed the self-destruct button...............

[GenXPolymath]

They just configured deorbit

8 seconds to bring it down crazy how close they were to orbit all the other flights it took 20 seconds to orbit burn the whole stack and 8 sec to deorbit.

[beef]

it seems to me that there was a lot more than the normal amount of debris floating around when the reached orbit. It reminded me of an earlier flight where they had all this stuff floating around inside the then empty payload bay. It turned out they had a leak, so I am wondering if they are leaking something and for that reason they are coming back early. Just a thought. It is extremely important that this not come down where it is not predicted to. Even if there is no one hurt, or even no damage, they will crucify Elon Musk. The hate for him is off the charts.

[GenXPolymath]

They also said all 26 have made contact via gateway , lasers and now user terminals on the ground that’s nuts they are already functional less than an hour after hitting orbit. No one does this flat out no one not the chicoms not the Russians no one.

[beef]

Thy actually were technically in orbit, it was just that the perigee was inside the atmosphere.

[SunkenCiv]

Videofromspace playback vid, around the 7 minute mark, landing burn (splashdown).

[GenXPolymath]

They were venting a large about of gasses those freeze in space to ices almost instantly. Thst needed the full load of fuel to get to orbit and since they held reserves for 10 hours of orbit boil off but are coming home in under 3 they must vent all that reserved prop off or they will be heavy on splashdown. I would expect much more venting and floating ice in this case.

Oh and deorbit took 8 seconds of burn its done starship is unavoidably heading for the north Pacific Newton is in the wheel now.