Space desks hold a Sunday watch ahead of SpaceX Starship Flight 14, targeted for Monday with a roughly 75-minute window that opens at 8:15 a.m. Eastern (7:15 a.m. Central) from Starbase Pad 2 in South Texas. If Monday slips, SpaceX has listed backup beach-closure days on Sept. 29 and 30 with the same morning timing expected.

Flight 14 is framed as Starship’s first orbital attempt after 13 suborbital tests. Space.com and SpaceX say the Ship aims for about 275 kilometers altitude, roughly six orbits over nearly 10 hours, then a Pacific splashdown west of Chile. The Super Heavy booster is expected to soft-land in the Gulf of Mexico; no tower catch is planned on this flight. The mission is also billed to deploy 26 operational Starlink Version 3 satellites — a first for Starship after Flight 13’s suborbital V3 demo in July. SpaceX says each V3 bird adds about 1 Tbps of capacity in the company’s framing and ties orbital success to the longer path toward an Artemis lunar lander later this decade.

FAA launch authorization for Flight 14 was reported late Saturday after an earlier Sept. 24 target slipped on licensing timing. Wet dress and restack work kept Ship 41 and Booster 21 ready into Sunday. How to watch: SpaceX’s webcast is listed about 30 minutes before liftoff on spacex.com and X — about 7:45 a.m. Eastern if the window opens on time — with Space.com planning to simulcast. Weather and range remain the scrub variables inside the window.

Accounts agree the Monday morning ET window and first-orbit / Starlink V3 goals. They differ only on whether weather, range, or a technical hold forces a slide to the Sept. 29–30 backups.