SpaceX Files FCC Paperwork Pointing Starship Flight 14 to Orbit
September 2, 2026
SpaceX has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to fly Starlink terminals during Starship's fourteenth flight test, and the filing describes a mission built around an actual orbital insertion. It would be the first time the program has attempted to reach orbit, a threshold no Starship flight has crossed. Every Starship flight so far has flown a suborbital arc that ends with the ship reentering the atmosphere within the same hour it launches. That includes Flight 13, which