SpaceX's Next Starship Launch Will Generate Revenue -- Sort Of
SpaceX is preparing to launch Starship Flight 14, marking its first orbital flight and its first revenue-generating mission. The flight will attempt to orbit Earth six times and deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites.
Why it matters
This represents a major milestone in commercial spaceflight, transitioning SpaceX's heavy-lift Starship system from an R&D test phase into active commercial deployment.
SpaceX plans to launch Starship Flight 14 on Monday, Sept. 28.
This will be the first orbital flight for Starship.
SpaceX's CFO says it will also be Starship's first "revenue-generating" flight.
This is the week, and Monday is the day. After 13 test flights in which its Starship flew intentionally suborbital paths that never quite orbited the Earth, SpaceX is scheduled on Sept. 28 to attempt to send Starship on a trip all the way around the Earth for the first time.
It might also generate some revenue for SpaceX.
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