SpaceX's next Starship launch will lift off on Sept. 22 and aim to reach orbit for 1st time

We now have a launch date for Starship's most ambitious mission to date.

SpaceX announced today (Sept.

15) that it's targeting Sept.

22 for the first orbital flight of Starship , the fully reusable megarocket that the company is developing to help humanity settle the moon, Mars and more.

Liftoff, from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas, will occur during a 75-minute window that opens at 8:15 a.m.

EDT (1215 GMT and 7:15 a.m. local Texas time).

You can watch it live here at Space.com when the time comes.

SpaceX is targeting Sept.

22 for Starship's first-ever orbital launch, a landmark flight that will deploy 26 Starlink satellites and last about 10 hours. (Image credit: SpaceX) Starship Die Cast Rocket Model Was $47.99 Now $39.99 on Amazon .

Even if you can't see SpaceX's Starship in person, you can score a model of your own.

Standing at 13.77 inches (35 cm), this is a 1:375 ratio of SpaceX's Starship as a desktop model.

The materials here are alloy steel and it weighs just 225g.

View Deal The upcoming flight will be the 14th overall for Starship, which debuted in April 2023 and has flown twice so far in 2026.

But the 408-foot-tall (124-meter-tall) vehicle's first 13 jaunts were all suborbital, so Flight 14 will be a landmark.