Talk:Starship flight 14

Create article

Create starship flight 14 page as it’s less than 10 days away from launch — Preceding unsigned comment added by ᕤ (talk • contribs) 09:56, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

 Done It was done today. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:21, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Questionable sourcing…

A lot of the flight 14-specific content here is sourced to Youtube videos of questionable reliablity. I'm hesitant to approve as New Page Patroller until that is fixed.-- Carwil (talk) 19:40, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

B21 Static fire campaign testing rollout

Update article to show that b21 has rolled to the pad for testing, and ship 41 is done with its testing. Ax4247 (talk) 23:47, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

We need to update page to show b21 is finished with testing, but I am worried about sources Ax4247 (talk) 01:09, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

Flight 13 aftermath section?

There's no precedent for a section like this to be included in the article of the next flight, and any relevant information from it can be included in other sections of the page.

If there's a consensus to keep then fair enough, but I personally don't know why this section's there. LonghairSpaceHistoryGuy (talk) 22:33, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

I see the section has been deleted so this is probably no longer relevant. LonghairSpaceHistoryGuy (talk) 18:24, 2 September 2026 (UTC)

Move page name

Should we move "Starship flight test 14" to "Starship flight 14"? SpaceX calls it "Starship Flight 14" and not "Starship fourteenth Flight Test" as they always did, probably meaning the end of starship test flights Starship V2 (talk) 05:42, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

Same deal with flight 13 and flight 12 and flight 11. Its a flight test. or maybe a orbital flight test Jabba550  | ✉ in solidarity 10:39, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

no, that's a change in thr official name. Sx calls it flight 14 Starship V2 (talk) 16:04, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

this Cube1ber (talk) 18:08, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

SpaceX officially calls it Flight 14 whereas all previous flights where “Flight Test N” Cube1ber (talk) 18:09, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

Requested move 18 September 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Withdrawn Jabba550  | ✉ in solidarity 09:29, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

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(non-admin closure)

Starship flight 14 → Starship flight test 14Starship flight test 14 – Follow naming of other flights, Not a operational flight yet per SpaceX's goal for operation of full reusability. Jabba550  | ✉ in solidarity 10:37, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

Support. As per convention. Pygos (talk) 17:19, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

Oppose as per SpaceX naming Starship V2 (talk) 17:21, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

SpaceX officially have called it Flight 14, whereas they called all previous flights “Flight Tests” on official website Cube1ber (talk) 18:09, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

thank you Starship V2 (talk) 18:36, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

That is very interesting indeed. Thank you for the information. Pygos (talk) 19:01, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

Question: If it isn't a flight test, then isn't it Flight 1? ☆ Bri (talk) 19:16, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

idk but on the website SpaceX labelled it as Flight 14 whereas all previous flights were Flight Test X Cube1ber (talk) 19:43, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

Oppose. SpaceX have called it Flight 14 (on the website) compared to all previous missions being titled Flight Test X

read this https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13 and https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-1 and https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-2 and https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-3 and https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-4 etc.

vs https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14 Cube1ber (talk) 19:46, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

that's a fact, no debate needed, it is flight 14 and stop finished Starship V2 (talk) 20:12, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

Oppose. According to spacex's website, the official name is Flight 14, compared to past flights which have the words Flight Test in the name. Unknownplayr7 (talk) 23:17, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

How to oppose Ax4247 (talk) 02:26, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

I mean I suppose we could already basically arrive at a consensus to not proceed with the title change at this point, although perhaps it would be up to a more senior editor to much such a judgment. I would be curious if there were any stated reasons in the official document regarding this nomenclature change, although I would presume it is due to the fact of a planned nonsuborbital trajectory and release of fully functional Starlink satellites. Pygos (talk) 02:39, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

I think it is due to FAA rules disallowing operational payloads from Test Flights Cube1ber (talk) 07:50, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

You just bold the word oppose, Like this! Unknownplayr7 (talk) 02:40, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Withdraw I have had ample evidence to prove the name change isn’t necessary. And request a quicker close Jabba550  | ✉ in solidarity 16:40, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Oppose per SpaceX website and deployment of operational payloads. Would appear to be WP:COMMONNAME as well. LonghairSpaceHistoryGuy (talk) 16:04, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

can just delete the content, I can do it if you want Starship V2 (talk) 17:23, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Per Wikipedia:Requested_moves#Closing a requested move this might be closed early if there is nobody left still favoring the move. But User:Pygos voted in Support above and hasn't formally withdrawn that vote. EdJohnston (talk) 19:40, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

'''Withdraw''', per above reasoning Pygos (talk) 19:42, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

You should put a Strikethrough through your vote to make it clear you have withdrawn it, to do this enlclose it with <s.> and </s.> without the . Jabba550  | ✉ in solidarity 13:14, 21 September 2026 (UTC)