Starship Flight 14: Ship 41 on the pad for Monday

SpaceX rolled Ship 41 to the launch pad at Starbase on Wednesday, then posted video of stacking Starship ahead of Flight 14. Later that night it posted sunrise photos and said opportunistic full stack testing is planned ahead of the launch, which is on track for Monday, Sept. 28, pending regulatory approval.

Elon's Monday note quote-posted the pad move. The line was short: preparing for launch on Monday.

The public NET was already Monday. On Sept. 15 SpaceX moved Flight 14 off an earlier target around Sept. 22. Wednesday's posts add a named ship on the pad and a plan for full stack testing before that window.

The Flight 14 launches page still describes the same attempt. SpaceX lists a 75-minute window opening at 7:15 a.m. Central (8:15 a.m. ET) on Sept. 28. The page frames the flight as Starship's first planned orbital insertion: about 275 km altitude, roughly six orbits over a nearly 10-hour mission, and a splashdown in the Pacific west of Chile.

Payload language on that page is unchanged. SpaceX says this would be the first time it plans to deploy Starlink V3 satellites into the constellation. The card lists 26 V3 satellites at 1 Tbps of downlink capacity each, 26 Tbps of capacity added on this mission alone. SpaceX's Flight 13 mission page said that July test deployed 20 V3 satellites, made radio and laser contact, then those birds demised on a short-lived path.

Super Heavy's listed objectives are ascent, stage separation, boostback, and a landing burn at an offshore point in the Gulf of America. SpaceX says this booster has hardware changes to improve engine filtering and software changes aimed at relight reliability. None of that is a flown result.

The hedge in the sunrise update is still regulatory approval. Full stack testing is planned. SpaceX did not say the stack had already been static-fired as a unit, and it did not clear a final T-0 inside the Monday window. The stacking post is the video of that work.

Confirmed

• SpaceX: Ship 41 moved to the launch pad at Starbase.
• SpaceX: stacking Starship ahead of Flight 14.
• SpaceX: opportunistic full stack testing planned; launch on track for Monday, Sept. 28, pending regulatory approval (sunrise update).
• Elon, quote-posting the pad move: preparing for launch on Monday (Elon's Monday note).
• Flight 14 launches page: 75-minute window from 7:15 a.m. Central on Sept. 28; first planned orbit insert near 275 km; about six orbits; 26 Starlink V3 at 1 Tbps each.

Not confirmed

• Final go/no-go, exact T-0 inside the window, and whether full stack testing actually runs.
• Orbit insertion, V3 deploy into the constellation, and booster landing-burn outcome.
• Whether every V3 bird on this stack is the same hardware that flew the Flight 13 contact test.

What to watch

• SpaceX Flight 14 page and range calls through Monday.
• Whether full stack testing is posted as complete.
• Post-flight notes on orbit insert, V3 contact, and booster splashdown if the window holds.