When Will Starship Flight 15 Really Launch?
SpaceX is planning to grow Starship in three states at once: Starbase Louisiana, a bigger campus at the Kennedy Space Center, and more launches from Starbase. And the Flight 15 booster has fired all 33 engines, so what is still missing before it flies?Also: why Elon Musk talks about 20 or more launch towers in Louisiana, a Starship test stand planned for Florida, a ship static fire on our own camera, our estimate for the Flight 15 date, and Europe's Argonaut Moon lander.
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Sources for this episode
- Louisiana Economic Development, SpaceX: https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/spacex
- SpaceX Q3 2026 earnings webcast replay: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2112559638579499258
- NASA, draft environmental assessment for the SpaceX campus expansion at Kennedy (Oct 13): https://netspublic.grc.nasa.gov/main/20261013_SpaceX%20Campus%20Expansion%20Preliminary%20Draft%20PEA.pdf
- FAA Starship page: https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_starship
- NASA, Artemis Acceleration briefing: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-discuss-artemis-acceleration-status-of-upcoming-moon-missions/
- SpaceX on the Flight 15 booster static fire (Oct 25): https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2114444137067844004
- ESA, Argonaut lander contract: https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/ESA_s_first_lunar_lander_to_be_built_by_Thales_Alenia_Space-led_consortium
- ESA, Argonaut lunar lander programme: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/Argonaut_Europe_s_lunar_lander_programme
- ESA, Meet Argonaut (Oct 21): https://x.com/esaspaceflight/status/2112846667074384119
- ESA, Argonaut Mission 1 payloads: https://explorationscience.esa.int/event/argonaut-mission-1-payloads-day/
- ESA, Moon crane: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/10/Moon_crane_to_take_a_load_off_lunar_landers
- SpaceX, Moon: https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/moon/
Credits for this episode
- SpaceX, NASA, ESA and Blue Origin (footage and images), including SpaceX Q3 2026 earnings webcast clips of Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell
- Airbus (EL3 lander presentation video)
- Thales Alenia Space (Argonaut lander image)
- DLR and ESA (LUNA facility photo)
- NASASpaceflight on X (footage): https://x.com/NASASpaceflight
- SpaceNotices on X (FAA planning slide): https://x.com/SpaceNotices
- Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (Musk X Takeover clip)
- SkyFi (satellite image)
Chapters
0:00 Starship Grows in Three States
1:06 Starbase Louisiana: 10 Pads or 20+ Towers?
2:44 SpaceX Wants 400 More Acres at Kennedy
4:28 Launch Complex 39A and Flight 16
5:46 Flight 14's Raptor Fix
6:43 The Flight 15 Booster Fires 33 Engines
7:11 What Flight 15 Still Needs
8:02 Our Flight 15 Date Estimate
10:08 Europe's Argonaut Moon Lander
12:11 Mission 1 and the Moon Crane
13:10 How Argonaut Compares to Starship Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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