TradingKey – SpaceX (SPCX) announced on September 15 local time that the 14th Starship test flight will take place as early as September 22, aiming to put the spacecraft into Earth’s orbit for the first time.

According to the plan released by SpaceX, the approximately 407-foot-tall Starship system will lift off from Starbase in Texas. The upper-stage spacecraft is expected to enter an orbit approximately 275 kilometers high and complete six orbits around Earth, with the entire mission lasting nearly 10 hours before making a controlled splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Previous tests primarily used suborbital trajectories; if this mission succeeds, it will mark Starship’s official transition to an orbital testing phase closer to commercial…