Starship Flight 13 Scrubbed by Tropical Storm Bertha, X Report 24 Jul 2026
Tropical Storm Bertha delays Starship Flight 13 to Friday; NASA swaps SunRISE to Falcon Heavy; Google reveals $94.1B SpaceX stake.
Tropical Storm Bertha delays Starship Flight 13 to Friday; NASA swaps SunRISE to Falcon Heavy; Google reveals $94.1B SpaceX stake.
SpaceX delays Starship Flight 13 to July 24+ for Booster 20 testing as legal fights over Starbase land swap intensify.
SpaceX's Starlink 17-39 mission aborted at Vandenberg on July 20, mirroring Starship Flight 13's July 16 abort at Starbase.
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 will deploy 20 V3 Starlink satellites during suborbital test from Starbase on July 23. Neither booster nor ship will be recovered.
This week: SpaceX launched 21 SDA missile-tracking satellites, Soyuz MS-29 carried a new crew to the ISS, and Europe's space spending rose 12%.
Four Raptor engines failed to ignite at T-0, scrubbing Starship Flight 13 on July 16; SpaceX now targets July 20 for next attempt.
Four Raptor engines failed to ignite, scrubbing Starship Flight 13 at Starbase; SpaceX also launched 21 SDA satellites from Vandenberg.
Starship Flight 13 launches first Starlink V3 satellites as SpaceX nears 10,839 working satellites in orbit across the Starlink fleet.
SpaceX readies Starship Flight 13 for July 16 launch to deploy first Starlink V3 satellites as Falcon 9 logs its 600th booster reuse.
SpaceX targets July 16 for Starship Flight 13, testing V3 fixes and deploying functioning Starlink satellites for the first time.
SpaceX targets July 16 for Starship Flight 13 from Starbase, aiming to fix Flight 12 issues and deploy working Starlink satellites.
SpaceX completed a full 33-engine static fire on Booster 20, the longest duration test to date. The milestone clears a major hurdle before the next Starship flight attempt.
Booster B1067 hit 36 flights on July 9, while SpaceX files to expand Starlink to 100,000 satellites at 4,400 lbs each.
Booster B1067 sets a new Falcon 9 reuse record on its 36th flight, lifting Starlink 10-42 from Cape Canaveral at 5:25 a.m. EDT.
SpaceX is pushing to launch Starship from Cape Canaveral before end of 2026, with contractors ramping work at LC-39A.
Starship update July 2026: Flight 13 completed a full six-Raptor static fire as SpaceX targets its first Cape Canaveral Starship launch by year's end.
SpaceX ignited all 6 Starship engines for a full minute at Starbase, while a Falcon 9 added 24 more Starlinks from Vandenberg on July 1.
Starlink mobile service is planned for the US as SpaceX fires Ship 40's single Raptor in a prelaunch test, with 10,689 Starlink satellites working.
Starlink shifts to monthly hardware rental fees while SpaceX preps Booster 20 for Flight 13 — 10,558 satellites now operational worldwide.
FAA grounds Starship pending a mishap investigation into the V3 debut flight; return to flight hinges on FAA sign-off. Starlink 10-53 added 29 sats.