{"id":858805,"date":"2026-09-24T09:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858805\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:44:15","slug":"spacex-stack-starship-and-super-heavy-for-first-orbital-flight-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858805\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX stack Starship and Super Heavy for first orbital flight \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260923_Starship_Flight-14_stacked.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"382\"  \/>SpaceX\u2019s Starship-Super Heavy rocket stacked at Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas, ahead of the Starship Flight 14 mission. Image: SpaceX via video<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX assembled a Starship-Super Heavy rocket on the launch pad at Starbase in south Texas early Wednesday as it awaited approval for the vehicle\u2019s first orbital flight.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of Starship Flight 14 could come as soon as Monday, Sept. 28, but first SpaceX needs to receive regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).<\/p>\n<p>The rocket\u2019s Starship upper stage, designated Ship 41 or S41, began its journey from production site about three miles west of the pad at around 7:45 p.m. CDT (0045 UTC) Tuesday night. Nearly 5.5 hours later, the 52-meter-tall (171 ft) ship was lifted by the launch tower\u2019s chopsticks and carefully placed atop Super Heavy booster B21.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Stacking Starship ahead of Flight 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jLsgN2jj6d\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jLsgN2jj6d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/2102820322915353038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the 124-meter-tall (407 ft) rocket assembled, SpaceX might conduct a fueling test of the full vehicle, known as a Wet Dress Rehearsal or WDR. Although, as of Wednesday morning, the City of Starbase has not annnounced any beach access or road closures.<\/p>\n<p>A temporary flight restriction (TFR) at Starbase was put in place by the FAA on Tuesday afternoon. It lasts from Sept. 23 through Oct. 7 for up to 10,000 feet above ground level.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming approval from the FAA, SpaceX could launch Flight 14 as soon as 7:15 a.m. CDT (1215 UTC) on Sept. 28 on a nearly 10-hour mission that will see the deployment of 26 next generation Version 3 Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The following video encapsulates what SpaceX is trying to accomplish with this mission and the impact the company hopes it will achieve.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starship-Super Heavy rocket stacked at Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas, ahead of the Starship Flight 14 mission.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-858805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}