FAA Advisory Sets Starship Flight 14 Window for Sept 18, a Few Days Past Prior Target

An FAA Space Operations Advisory reported Sept 11 set a two-hour Starship Flight 14 launch window for Sept 18, 2026 (12:15-14:14 UTC) from Starbase, Texas, with the same window held Sept 19 as backup — a few days later than the Sept 15 no-earlier-than date SpaceX had cited in its Aug 31 FCC filing. The FAA has already issued a Finding of No Significant Impact and Record of Decision for the flight, clearing the main environmental review hurdle; the outstanding item is FCC Special Temporary Authority (filed Aug 31) to transmit with the roughly 20 operational Starlink V3 satellites aboard, which SpaceX requested be approved by Sept 15. Coverage stressed the FAA advisory is 'an operational planning checkpoint, not a guaranteed date' and that SpaceX had not officially confirmed Flight 14 as of Sept 12, 23:25 UTC. Separately, the next Starship pairing (Ship 42 / Booster 22, for a future Flight 15) began testing at Massey's test site.