The launch is scheduled for 8:15 AM ET (7:15 AM local time) on Monday from Starbase, Texas, following the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granting a "SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Flight 14 Launch and Reentry Operations" license on September 26. Starship is crucial to SpaceX's expansion plans, with the company relying on the giant rocket to scale its Starlink business, which was its largest and only profitable division in Q2.