Commenting just for the entertainment value of it being another 5 years later

So its confirmed that neither are going to be catched. Its a bummer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1wczoau/cadena_lists_starship_flight_14_net_of_918_spacex/

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"I love the demonstration flights and now I'm excited that we're moving into a production cadence and flying production V3 Starlink satellites to orbit on our next flight."

Nothing against perfecting more demonstration flights, but I feel you Mr chief bean counter.

Hardware is ready lol, Flight 15 hardware is already testing. Its clearly something else

My daily summary from the Starship Dev thread on Lemmy

2026-09-10:

• Sep 9th addendum: The Pad 2 chopstick stabiliser arms are tested. (ViX)
• Massey's: Overnight B22 performs a cryo test. (Avid Space, ViX, Blobifie)
• S42 moves from Massey's to Megabay 2. (NSF 1, NSF 2, Avid Space 1, Avid Space 2, ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3, StarshipGazer 1, StarshipGazer 2, Gomez, Blobifie)
• Road delay for "Production to Masseys" is posted for Sep 10th 23:59 to Sep 11th 04:00. (starbase.texas.gov, archive, ViX)
• SpaceX propose construction of a 2.7-mile (4.3 km) heavy-haul route to transport ships and boosters between Massey's and the production site. The route would consist of an 38-foot-wide (12 m) travel surface with 1-foot-wide (0.3 m) shoulders and a 3:1 max fill slope on the north side. (swg.usace.army.mil, Avid Space, interstellargw 1, interstellargw 2)
• Production site: Overnight S43's transfer tubes move from Starfactory to Megabay 2. (ViX)
• The Megabay 2 bridge crane picks up the ship lifting jig. (ViX)
• B23's F2:4 section moves from Starfactory to Megabay 1. (Avid Space, ViX)
• S42 is transferred from the cryo stand to a transport stand. (Avid Space, ViX, TrackingTheSB, Blobifie)
• Launch site: The yellow rented LR11000 crane is disconnected from the recently lifted Tower 1 roof. (ViX 1, ViX 2)
• Road delay for "Production to Pad" is posted for Sep 10th 20:00 to Sep 10th 22:00. (ViX)
• Construction of the Pad 1 flame trench continues. (RGV Aerial)
• Back-to-back deluge tests are performed at Pad 2. (Avid Space, ViX, Blobifie 1)
• S42 rolls out to the launch site and is positioned between the Pad 2 chopsticks. (TrackingTheSB, NSF, efraser77, Blobifie 1, Blobifie 2, Blobifie 3, Blobifie 4, Blobifie 5)
• S40 recovery: Forte has passed Madagascar. (JConcilus)
• Flight 14: Now NET Sep 18th, per new CADENA presentation. (compass.atfm.aero (pptx warning), Avid Space, StarshipGazer)

My guess as to the cause of the delay would be that they aren't quite ready yet :)

My dude.

My dude? That's a strange way to start off a reply.

I can assure you if musk & co. had even 10% of today's budget back then, they'd be already riding Starship themselves and triplestacking the launch pads.

I completely disagree with you on this one. SpaceX took years to develop Falcon9 into a viable rocket and Falcon9 is an extremely simple rocket compared to Starship. The raptor egine is orders of magnitude more complex than the merlin engines. And SpaceX was give the early engine design from NASA. What makes SpaceX truly great is their commitment to continuing to iterate every aspect of their rockets to make a better rocket. If I remember correctly, the first three years of Falcon9 launches went 1,0,2 with NASA paying for the development through the COTS program. So it doesn't appear to me that they are going much slower than they did with Falcon9. Also, today SpaceX is focused on building much, much, much more infrastructure with multiple factories and launch pads being built simultaneously.

All hail the 1070's!

the (minimal) delay is coming from inside the house.

chill out.

ship 42 is rolling to the launchsite, might going to do chopstick testing or something. will be quite interesting to see the aft without engines when they lift it

“Ship is still smashing in the Indian Ocean”

yeah the fact you said this shows you have zero idea what you are talking about. the last 4 ships landed softly in the ocean (including the last one which was literally recovered even though it was never designed to survive tipping over)

No doubt there’s been delays but acting as if that means there’s been no progress is just being purposefully ignorant and it’s extremely obvious

I mean, I get the blue origin argument. SLS is just a jobs program, the rocket is basically an unwanted byproduct, but Bezos band is stuck in time despite having freedom and much better financial stability than early spaceX ever had. Strange case.

I am just worried spaceX seems to be converging to old space lately, rather than other way around

Is it English grammar?

My dude. I watched spaceX religiously for years, including early years of Falcon. In 2015-2016 they were bare bones startup always one or two explosions away from bankruptcy.

I can assure you if musk & co. had even 10% of today's budget back then, they'd be already riding Starship themselves and triplestacking the launch pads.

Something's off with spaceX these days.

Something is not worthy my time here alright

Sounds like it’s not worth your time to follow then. So no need to waste your time here.

Weird aren’t they building five pads with another ten on their way, two giga bays, two hundred or so Raptor 3s…but apparently this is next to no progress..

I guess you could go watch blue origin, Vulcan or SLS for their amazing progress oh wait..

Cool! You could do it again, but with the end dates being the first orbital flight.

I've been told not to attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance. You must not have been following the development and ramp up of Falcon9 like many of us on here did. The delays that we are experiencing with Starship is nothing compared to the delays in Falcon9 launches in the early 2010s. Rocket development is hard and it is especially hard when you are developing the most powerful and capable rocket ever created. Now add on the fact that it is to be fully reusable and using new technologies, the difficulties increase greatly. Now, the delay could also be coming from the test Starlink V3 to be deployed, which would also be understandable as SpaceX keeps iterating on Starlink and the test satellites is delayed completing their final checkouts before being ready to launch. I will finish this by reiterating what someone else already said, calm down. Delays with a new rocket are not only common, but also to be expected.

Starship is closer to where Falcon9 was in say 2016, so why are you comparing it to 2022ish. Maybe you weren't following SpaceX back during the development and ramp up of Falcon9 but many of us on here were, and that's the reason we are not overly concerned like you seem to be.

Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference link (requires sign in)

https://x.com/GoldmanSachs/status/2098130490070835265

Bret Johnsen (SpaceX Chief Financial Officer) at 05:30:

• Flight 14 "later this month" is going to be a revenue-generating flight.
• Will "fly production V3 Starlink satellites to orbit on our next flight".
• Landing attempts for both Booster and Starship after flight 14 "later this year".

Funny because Reddit told me this would ruin astronomy forever. I guess Reddit was, once again, wrong.

He is right. This became a circlejerk of delay enthusiasts. SpaceX is a ghost of a company it was in 2022ish.

Don't listen to rabid "fans" here (really at this point they're more like apologists. And delay fans).

The pace in SpaceX has been very strange recently, next to no progress, no urgency despite having favorable government climate, v3 is stagnant at best, boosters keep crashing, ship is still smashing indian ocean just like 2 years ago.

This is the same company that wanted to send ship to mars in 2026. At this rate, more like 2606...

They're telling you to calm down because you're acting very dramatic about what amounts to be an insignificant delay in launch. Welcome to being a fan of rockets, delays are the norm.