Starship Flight 15

NET December 2026

Mission brief

What is happening

SpaceX is launching Flight 15 on a Starship V3 from Orbital Launch Pad 2 at SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA. It is a test flight heading to Low Earth Orbit.

Why it matters

Test flights exist to find out what a vehicle can do, so an outcome short of complete success can still be a useful result for the programme.

What stands out

Test flight

At a glance

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Payload: Flight 15
Mission type: Test Flight
Rocket: Starship V3
Provider: SpaceX
Launch site: Orbital Launch Pad 2
Programme: Starlink, SpaceX Starship

15th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle and 4th flight of Starship V3.

Schedule confidence

LOW

Treat this date as provisional.

Why does RocketRune rate it this way?

Only a target quarter has been announced.
The provider has not committed to this date.
No schedule changes recorded since RocketRune began tracking this launch.

This is a RocketRune assessment of how firm the published schedule is, not a prediction of launch success. It is calculated from the date precision and status published by the launch provider, plus the schedule changes RocketRune has recorded for this mission.

Launch site: Orbital Launch Pad 2, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Vehicle: Starship V3
Provider: SpaceX
Orbit: LEO
Payload: Flight 15
Status: To Be Determined
Vehicle height: 124.4 m
Liftoff thrust: 80,807 kN
Vehicle type flights: 2
Vehicle type success rate: 100.0%

Programme

Starlink, SpaceX Starship

What changed

SEP 13 · 6:33 AM UTC
Adding launch
Launch Library note·Source

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