John Gustafson

Starship Flight 14 fun facts: - 275km orbit, nominal mission is ~6 orbits of Earth - 26 @Starlink v3 satellites to be deployed, 3 of the 26 have cameras for imaging Ship 41's heatshield - First Heatshield Tile Re-use (!!!) More details: - Initially inserting into sub-orbital trajectory, Ship 41 will only perform a second burn for orbit-insertion if everything looks good - There will be multiple checks during flight, if something doesn't look good, Ship 41 will do an early de-orbit burn and return to the Indian or Pacific Ocean. - Nominal mission splashdown in the Pacific Ocean area near Chile - Multiple heatshield improvements will be tested, some derived from data gathered from Ship 40's side quest to Christmas Island - Two of Ship 40's tiles will be flown on Ship 41, demonstrating Tile Re-use (!!!) - Super Heavy Booster will again try a soft, on-target splashdown in the Gulf, as expected - On Flight 13 (previous mission), Super Heavy boostback ended prematurely due to ice clogging on the three center Raptor 3 engines - Booster 21 has hardware changes to improve filtering ahead of Flight 14