When will Starship reach orbit for the first time?

SpaceX has pushed Starship’s Flight 14 to September 28, and this one is different: the plan calls for six full Earth orbits over about 10 hours, plus deploying the first real Starlink V3 satellites — making it the first commercially useful Starship mission, not just a test flight. Why it matters: Starship only pays for itself if it can haul real cargo to orbit and come back; a successful orbital mission with paying payloads is the moment the economics flip from experiment to infrastructure. Watch whether the ship survives reentry — that’s been the hard part.