SpaceX Looks Toward Starship Flights From Kennedy Space Center

Irene Klotz October 07, 2026

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on launchpad — A Falcon Heavy rocket launched on Oct. 1 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, which also will be used for Starship-Super Heavy missions. The launch was SpaceX’s third Falcon flight of the day.

Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX plans at least one more flight test of its Starship-Super Heavy launch system from Starbase, Texas, before the program lifts off from Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39A. “We have a lot of work that we need to go execute on [for] Starship,” Julianna Scheiman, director of SpaceX...

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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