# Weekly Space Report: Orbital Starship!

**URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-orbital-starship/6471
**Category:** The Happening World
**Tags:** spacex, marcus-house
**Created:** [3 October 2026 13:33 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-orbital-starship/6471 "2026-10-03T13:33:28Z")
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#### Post date: [3 October 2026 13:33 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-orbital-starship/6471/1 "2026-10-03T13:33:28Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/G8UPwhw77TU/maxresdefault.jpg "Massive Surprises From Starship Flight 14! 🤯") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8UPwhw77TU)

{Published Tuesday}

Highlights:

- TF14 Recap: Orbital success! (A few bumps along the way.)

- One booster raptors out on ascent.

- Two booster raptors out on boostback.

- Switched programmed raptrors for booster landing burn to avoid problem engines. Successful soft splashdown.

- Ship lost one vacuum raptor shortly before end of ascent burn. Other five ran slightly long to compensate. But slill slightly short of orbital insertion speed.

- Initial announcement that orbital insertion would be called off. Reversed after a few minutes, and insertion burn was successful.

- Starship dispensed 26 Starlink V3 Group 31-1. (Pays for the entire mission, and then some.)

- Cool views of Starship from last few satellites.

- Discussion of on-orbit endurance with fuel onboard.

- First optional water landing target chosen after 1½ hour into the mission, due to concern over the one engine failure.

- Successful soft water landing near Hawaii, but ship did not survive the post-landing flop into the water.

I read elsewhere that the 26 V3 Starlinks on this one mission are comparable to the capacity of the V2 minis of **twenty** Falcon 9 launches. And that Starship is expected to normally carry **60** V3 Starlinks at a time.