Starship Flight 14 — Live Telemetry

Flight replays

Replay Flight 14Replays Flight 14 from a minute before liftoff to the moment Ship 41 came down, using the live data recorded on launch day. SpaceX published this flight every 30 seconds rather than every 10, so the readouts update in 30 second steps. You can play/pause, change speed, scrub through the timeline, and lay Flight 13 over it with Compare with Flight 13 below. To watch the whole recording, from ten minutes before propellant loading, turn on Show raw data during replays under Experimental.

Replay Flight 13Replays Flight 13 from a minute before liftoff to Ship 40’s first position on the water, using the live data recorded from Ship 40 on launch day. The clock, all charts, maps, and readouts will replay the real-time data. During replays, you can play/pause, control speed, and scrub through the timeline. Show raw data during replays under Experimental plays the whole recording instead, from ~T-50 to ~50 minutes after splashdown.

Compare with Flight 13

Compare with Flight 13Draws Flight 13 as a dashed line under Flight 14 on the altitude, speed, vertical speed, downrange and flight profile charts, and its flown path on the ground track and the 3D globe. It shows while Flight 14 is on screen, in its replay or after the flight.

Line the flights up atLiftoff puts both flights on the same clock, to compare the climbs. Entry slides Flight 13 along so both pass 100 km on the way down together, to compare the reentries. Landing slides it so both reach the water together. Neither ship’s data caught the touchdown itself, so for both flights that moment is worked out the same way, from the last position above 100 m and how fast it was falling.

Flight 14 simulation

Simulate Flight 14Like a replay, this will simulate the entire Flight 14 mission. All data, trajectories, and readouts are displayed from a full Flight 14 simulation estimated from both real recorded data from Ship 40 during Flight 13, the official published mission timeline from SpaceX, and the FAA NOTAMs and NOTMARs. During the simulation, the position of the Earth’s terminator line will be correctly placed to the opening of the window on the September 28th primary launch date; this means that all mission events and flight paths will be fairly accurate to the genuine position on launch day, for example, the de-orbit burn will be visible over South Asia at night time!

Units

Measurement unitsWhich units the pad weather in the advanced console is shown in. Metric gives degrees Celsius and kilometres per hour, Imperial degrees Fahrenheit and miles per hour. The mission telemetry is always metric.

Interface

Simplified viewStrips the dashboard back to the essentials: the headline readouts, the map and the main charts, without the dense technical console. Off by default, so the console is what you get: the whole page tightens up, every readout is set in the same fixed-width face, and five extra panels and six extra charts appear. Those extra numbers are worked out from the vehicle’s position and the time it was reported, and nothing else. Some of them describe the air the ship is flying through, which the vehicle does not report; those come from a standard model of the atmosphere and are marked modelled.

Local data

Reset local storageClears this browser’s saved flight trace and preferences, then reloads. Press and hold for 5 seconds to confirm.

Press & hold to reset

ThemesColour scheme for the whole site, including the charts, map and 3D globe. The high contrast options use stronger text, brighter chart lines and clearer gridlines, which help in bright sunlight or on a dim screen. The rest are there for the look of the thing: two drawn around the Departure Mono typeface, a green phosphor screen, a blueprint, and a printed flight log. Night vision is red on black, for watching a launch outdoors in the dark without losing your night sight, and it dims the map to match. Whichever you pick, the text and the chart lines are held to the same readability as the originals.

TypefaceWhich typeface the whole site is set in. Departure Mono is a pixel face with a lo-fi technical feel, and it is the one the two Departure themes are drawn around, so picking either of those switches to it for you. Set it yourself here at any time and it stays put whatever theme you choose after.

Corner styleThe shape of every rounded corner on the site, from the cards down to the buttons. G1 is a plain circular curve and is what the site has always used. G0 squares everything off. G2 is a smoother curve that eases into the straight edge instead of turning on to it; some browsers cannot draw that shape yet and will show a slightly softer version of G1 instead.

Map style

Night sideShows the real day/night divide on the ground track map and the 3D globe. This is accurate to real time, however, when playing replays, this will match up to the true day/night on launch day at that time in flight! This only works with the Satellite map style.

Live cloudsReal cloud cover from weather satellites on the 3D globe, updated every three hours. Each picture takes a while to arrive, so what you see is usually one to three hours old. Clouds near the poles aren't covered. This only works with the Satellite map style.

Starlink V3 satellitesShows the 26 Starlink V3 satellites Flight 14 carried to orbit, on the ground track map and the 3D globe, each with a fading trail one orbit long. Their positions are worked out from the orbit data SpaceX publishes, so they are a close model, not live telemetry. Click one on the map to see its last day of orbit and pick it out on the Starlink charts.

Ship sizeHow big the ship is drawn on the 2D ground track map and the 3D globe.

Ground track on the 2D mapWhat the 2D ground track map does when a flight path goes orbital. Repeating lets the path carry on past the edge, onto the next copy of the map, which is the clearest way to read a single pass over the Pacific. One world brings every lap back onto the same map, stacked, which is the only way to see six orbits at once. Automatic uses the repeating view until a flight outgrows it.

Trajectory timelineHow much of the flight the timeline along the bottom of the Trajectory tab shows at once.

Keep my typeface and corner styleEach theme comes with a typeface and corner style it was drawn around, picking a theme normally switches to them. Turning this setting on keeps whichever typeface and corner style you have chosen here, no matter the theme you pick afterwards.

Show all hazard areasTurns on every closed airspace and shipping warning below in one go. It switches itself off if you hide any one of them.

Closed airspace

Shipping warnings

Trajectory

Impact point traceDraws a dotted line on the ground tracks showing where any vehicle debris would come down during an instantaneous RUD at that moment. This will work for both live, replay, and simulated views.

Provisional TLE

A two-line element set for the ship, worked out on this page from the positions SpaceX publishes, for loading into your own tracking app. It is a model of those positions, not an official element set: nobody has tracked the ship to produce it, and it is only good for the time it says.

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Element set

Epoch: —
Use until: —
Next update: —
Likely error: —
Inclination: —
Ascending node: —
Eccentricity: —
Arg. of perigee: —
Mean anomaly: —
Mean motion: —
Period: —
Fitted from: —

Using it

Paste all three lines into any app that reads TLEs. A new set is worked out every 15 minutes while the ship coasts, so come back for a fresh one rather than running an old one forward. Each set stops being valid at the time shown, and every set stops at the deorbit burn, when the ship leaves this orbit on purpose. The likely error is how far the real ship could be from the predicted position, 19 times out of 20. It carries the placeholder catalogue number 99999, because the ship has no number of its own.

Streamer modeFor putting the dashboard on a live show, through a browser source in OBS or a captured window. It turns on the options below and a set of keyboard shortcuts, and keeps the Flight 14 welcome card from appearing over the dashboard.

Setup guideStep by step, with pictures: adding the dashboard to OBS, choosing views and matching the delay to the webcast.

Open guide

StarDash · Flight 14StarDash is designed to be a data dashboard for Starship flights. It was originally a weekend project playing around with the various data sources SpaceX publishes through their website, and has since grown into a full suite of tools and visualisations.

Although the primary source of data is accurate from-vehicle, some areas of data are either derived or estimated from the info published before flight, or from past launches; I can’t promise that every number will be 100% accurate but with more flights and source data to inform the way this all works, I’ll keep on improving this site as best I can!

Contact

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StarDash is developed by me as a personal project, there is a small monthly hosting bill to keep the site up and running.This site has no ads, no accounts, and is completely free to use; this will always be the case, but if you have enjoyed playing around or watching a flight here and want to support the project, there is a link to Buy Me a Coffee below!

Alongside StarDash, I design and create scale models of the vehicles on this dashboard, including the V3 ship and booster flying on Flight 14. If you want one, there is a link below too!Thanks to all of you, no matter if it’s through financial support, sending over bug reports or feature requests, sharing the project, or even commenting, it means the world!Josh :)

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Flight 14

Mission Events flight 14 sequence · SpaceX

Orbital State derived, median-7

State Vector ECEF / WGS84

Air Data modelled

Sonic Boom modelled · geometry only

Geometry derived

Time display cursor

Sonic Boom modelled · geometry only

Geometry derived

Time cursor · nautical subpoint

Envelope measured

Propellant Load prelaunch

Downrange Distance vs Altitude flown path

Altitude vs Time

Speed vs Time

Flight Profile — Altitude vs Speed

Ground Track flown

Vertical Speed & Axial Acceleration vs Time

Detected Events auto

Downrange Distance vs Time great-circle from pad

Dynamic Pressure & Mach vs Time modelled atmosphere

Stagnation Heating vs Time Sutton-Graves proxy

Specific Orbital Energy vs Time flat = coasting

Apogee & Perigee Altitude vs Time osculating two-body, median-7

Flight Path Angle & Heading vs Time from the velocity vector

Cross-range & Slant Range vs Time to the launch site

Starlink V3: Orbit-Average Height vs Time km, from each orbit data update

Starlink V3: Place in the Train vs Time km ahead of the group's middle

Starlink V3: Height vs Place in the Train now, one dot each

Starlink V3: Passes Overhead next 48 h, above 10°