According to reports, SpaceX (SPCX.US) plans to launch its massive Starship rocket early on Monday local time, aiming to send the spacecraft into orbit for the first time.

According to information from SpaceX's official website, the launch window for this mission lasts 75 minutes, opening at 8:15 AM Eastern Time (7:15 AM local time at Starbase, Texas), with the launch site set at the company's self-built facility, Starbase, in Texas. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed via email that it issued the "SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Flight 14 Launch and Reentry Operations License Authorization" on September 26.

With the 14th Starship test flight, Elon Musk's aerospace and defense company also plans to deploy 26 new Starlink V3 satellites.

It is understood that Starship is the core vehicle of SpaceX's expansion strategy. The company is counting on this massive rocket to scale up its Starlink (connectivity business), which as of the second quarter was SpaceX's largest and only profitable segment. SpaceX currently has approximately 11,000 active satellites in orbit, while competitor Eutelsat OneWeb has only about 650.

During SpaceX's August earnings call, Musk stated: "It'm not impossible that Starlink will at some point carry the majority of global internet traffic, at least in the countries where we are authorized to operate, which represent the vast majority."

SpaceX successfully went public in June, setting a record for the largest IPO ever, and currently has a market value of approximately $2 trillion.

SpaceX designed the Starship Super Heavy rocket and booster to support full reusability, capable of delivering more payload to orbit at lower cost, surpassing the performance of all previous spacecraft.

The previous 13 test flights were not aimed at orbital insertion, but with the 14th test flight, SpaceX hopes Starship can complete a flight around the Earth. The company is also preparing for a major NASA test flight of Starship next year and intends to use this rocket to send American astronauts to the lunar surface.

SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell said earlier this month at the All-In Summit that the company also plans to use Starship to "send supercomputing into space," placing "AI computing satellites" into orbit by 2027.

This batch of brand-new V3 satellites is manufactured at SpaceX's Redmond, Washington factory, and the solar panels they carry have twice the power generation capacity of the previous generation. The satellites are larger and more powerful, capable of providing Starlink users with faster data transmission rates than the previous generation.