As per the company, "the Starbase team plans to have the next Super Heavy booster stacked in December, which puts it on pace with the test schedule planned for the first Starship V3 vehicle and associated ground systems." SpaceX then announced that Starship V3's maiden flight is still expected to happen early next year. "Starship's twelfth flight test remains targeted for the first quarter of 2026," the company wrote in its post on X.