# @benzinga on YouTube

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- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=OJjtYnwBt5E
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-28T18:29:29.000+00:00
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SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, after an engine failure nearly ended the attempt minutes after liftoff.
Starship Flight 14 lifted off from Starbase, Texas, at 8:48 a.m. ET. One of the six Raptor engines on the upper stage shut down early, and SpaceX spokesperson Dan Huot initially told livestream viewers the ship would not reach orbit. Minutes later, engineers confirmed Starship could still attempt its orbital insertion burn. About 25 minutes after launch, the ship fired a single Raptor engine and became the first Starship ever to reach orbit. All 13 previous Starship test flights were suborbital.
Starship then deployed 26 production Starlink V3 satellites, its first operational payload. SpaceX says each V3 is built for about 1 terabit per second of downlink capacity, roughly 10 times a V2 Mini, so this batch could add about 26 Tbps to a network of roughly 11,000 satellites. SpaceX says a mature Starship could carry about 60 V3s per launch, more than 20 times the capacity a single Falcon 9 Starlink mission adds. CFO Bret Johnsen told investors at a Goldman Sachs conference earlier this month that Flight 14 would be Starship's first "revenue-generating flight."
The flight did not go fully to plan. SpaceX had targeted six orbits over nearly 10 hours with a Pacific splashdown off Chile, but the company reportedly decided to cut the mission short after a couple of laps and bring the ship down north of Hawaii about three hours after liftoff. No reason was given.
Why it matters for SPCX investors: Pivotal Research analyst Jeffrey Wlodarczak, who rates SpaceX a buy, wrote that the investment case at a roughly $2 trillion enterprise value "rests almost entirely" on Starship reusability, meaning 20 to 50 flights per ship with fast, cheap refurbishment. Reaching orbit and delivering real satellites is a major step, but a controlled reentry and splashdown is what moves Starship closer to a vehicle that can fly again. SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion developing Starship, which is also central to NASA's Artemis moon program. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman congratulated SpaceX on reaching orbit.
Video contains content via X users: @SpaceX, @StockMKTNewzcc, @Starlink, @niccruzpatane, @StarFleetTours, @MarsUniversityX.
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