Starship Flight 14, orbit by orbit

Liftoff from Starbase is targeted for 28 September 2026, 12:15 UTC (5:45 pm IST), pending regulatory approval. SpaceX plans about six orbits at roughly 275 km over nearly ten hours.

All six orbits

Orbit	Mission time	Closest South India point

Select a row to jump to that pass. Each orbit is one 90-minute revolution counted from liftoff.

Model settings

Orbit inclination SpaceX has not published the final inclination. Range extended to 35 degrees. At 33 degrees, Orbit 3 makes the closest pass over South India.

Liftoff time in the window Changes clock times and day/night shading only. The ground track over the Earth stays the same.

How this was worked out

The path is a circular 275 km orbit with the Earth turning beneath it (about 22.5 degrees of longitude per orbit) and J2 drift of the orbit plane included.
The ship leaves Starbase heading south-east through the Florida Straits, as earlier flights did. Checked against Flight 11: this plane passes within about 130 km of that flight's Indian Ocean splashdown point.
After 9 hours 40 minutes the model puts the ship over the south-east Pacific near 26 degrees south, matching SpaceX's "west of Chile" splashdown.
Ascent and the coast to the orbit-raising burn (dashed, before about T+40 min) and the final deorbit and reentry (hatched) are approximations, not real trajectories.
Pass times are model estimates and could move by a few minutes. SpaceX says Mission Control may cut the flight to two or five orbits if the ship isn't healthy.
The coastline is a hand-built low-resolution outline, so treat city-to-coast distances as approximate.