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Starship Development Thread July 2026 (sh.itjust.works)
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SpaceX Starship page

FAQ

  1. When next launch? (Flight 13) Unknown, likely NET July.
  2. When previous launch? (Flight 12) Starship flight 12 launched on 2026-05-22 at 22:30:24 UTC.
  3. What was the result? Successful liftoff. Booster boostback burn is incomplete, and landing burn fails. Ship experiences an R-vac out shortly after stage separation, but limps to orbit on 5/6 engines. In-space raptor relight is cancelled, but payload deployment is nominal. Ship reentry, landing burn, and splashdown are nominal.

Previous Flights

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  • Flight 1: S24 and B7. First full stack launch, RUD before stage separation.
  • Flight 2: S25 and B9. Successful stage separation, booster RUD during boostback burn, ship RUD shortly prior to scheduled SECO.
  • Flight 3: S28 and B10. Booster performs a successful boostback burn, but experiences RUD during landing burn. Ship makes it past SECO, but loses attitude control and is destroyed on reentry.
  • Flight 4: S29 and B11. First successful booster water landing. Ship survives reentry despite burn-through on forward flap, and performs a successful water landing.
  • Flight 5: S30 and B12. First booster catch with chopsticks. Ship performs successful water landing.
  • Flight 6: S31 and B13. Booster offshore divert due to damage to catch tower during launch. Ship performs successful water landing.
  • Flight 7: S33 and B14-1. First V2 Ship launch. Harmonic oscillation on ship causes RUD before SECO. Booster is caught by chopsticks.
  • Flight 8: S34 and B15-1. Engine failure on ship causes RUD before SECO. Booster is caught by chopsticks.
  • Flight 9: S35 and B14-2. First booster reflight. Ship makes it past SECO, but loses attitude control and is destroyed on reentry. Booster RUD upon landing burn startup prior to planned splashdown.
  • Flight 10: S37 and B16. All mission objectives fulfilled. First V2 ship to make it through reentry to landing burn and splashdown. First successful deployment of Starlink simulators. Booster successfully tested landing without one centre engine, using an engine on the middle ring to compensate.
  • Flight 11: S38 and B15-2. All mission objectives fulfilled. Ship performs successful landing burn and splashdown, despite intentional missing tiles on heatshield. Second successful deployment of Starlink simulators. Booster successfully tested a 13-5-3 engine landing profile.
  • Flight 12: First V3 launch. Successful liftoff. Booster boostback burn is incomplete, and landing burn fails. Ship experiences an R-vac out shortly after stage separation, but limps to orbit on 5/6 engines. In-space raptor relight is cancelled, but payload deployment is nominal. Ship reentry, landing burn, and splashdown are nominal.

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2026-04-27 SpaceX Starship Update Video

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Vehicle Status

*As of 2026-07-01

Ship Location Status Comments
S39 (Ship v3 SN1) Indian Ocean Destroyed Stacking took place from Aug 16th through Nov 15th. Aft flaps installed Jan 19th and 20th. Cryo tested at Massey's Feb 26th through Mar 8th. Static fired on Apr 14th. Stacked on B19 May 9th. Wet dress rehearsal May 11th. Cryo tested at Massey's May 16th. Partial WDR May 20th. Launched May 22nd.
S39.1 (test tank) Massey's Testing
S40 Massey's Static fire testing Stacking took place from Nov 12th through March 2nd. Cryo testing from May 3rd through May 6th. Engine testing Jun 24th through 26th.
S41 Megabay 2 Pending engine install April 17th: Pez Dispenser moved into MB2. April 20th: Nosecone+Payload Bay stack N:3 moved into MB2 and later that day lifted over the Pez Dispenser. Later that day the Pez Dispenser was installed. April 21st: Forward Dome section FX:4 moved into MB2. April 28th: Common Dome Section CX:3 moved into MB2. May 2nd: Section A2:3 moved into MB2. Cryo testing Jun 28th to present.
S42 to S46 Starfactory Nosecones under construction plus tiling January 19th: Photos of nosecones inside the Starfactory (note that S44 isn't visible because it's been moved elsewhere). January 28th: Latest photos of the nosecones
Booster Location Status Comment
B18.1 Massey's Testing
B18.3 Massey's Testing
B19 Gulf of Mexico Destroyed Stacking took place from Nov 25th through Dec 23rd. Cryo tested Feb 1st through Feb 9th. 10-engine static fire Mar 16th, 33-engine static fire Apr 15th. Wet dress rehearsal Apr 16th. 33-engine static fire May 7th. Wet dress rehearsal May 11th. Partial WDR May 20th. Launched May 22nd.
B20 Megabay 1 Pending static fire Stacking took place from Feb 5th through Apr 30th. Cryo tested Jun 6th through Jun 8th.
B21 Megabay 1 Stacking Stacking began Jun 4th, completed Jun 28th.
B22 Megabay 1 Stacking After B18's failure, Mark Federschmidt (one of the members of the Starship booster team) made some tweets which mentioned B19 to B22 being under construction (meaning sections inside the Starfactory). Stacking started Jun 29th.

Resources

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EagerSpace: What if SpaceX never existed (youtu.be)
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Ship 40's flawless flight promotes next mission catch potential - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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[Sandra Erwin] SpaceX wins $1.6 billion in launch orders for military satellite networks (spacenews.com)
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Article textSandra Erwin

4–5 minutes

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX two launch task orders worth $1.6 billion to deploy military satellite constellations, marking the largest publicly announced batch of missions yet under the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 program.

The award covers 18 Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California through the end of 2027 in support of the Space Based Sensing and Targeting portfolio, a collection of satellite programs intended to improve how the military detects, tracks and communicates information about threats in near real time.

The task orders reinforce SpaceX’s central role in the military’s next-generation satellite networks. Beyond providing the launches, the company is building two of the portfolio’s largest satellite systems under separate multibillion-dollar contracts, giving it responsibility for both placing the constellations in orbit and supplying key elements of the architecture itself.

Space Based Sensing and Targeting is one of the Space Force’s newly established acquisition portfolios. It oversees the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer, a constellation of infrared satellites designed to detect and track advanced missile threats; the Space Data Network Backbone, an optically linked communications network being built by SpaceX to move large volumes of military data across the Joint Force; and the Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator program, another SpaceX-led constellation intended to track aircraft and other airborne targets from orbit.

SpaceX previously received contracts worth $2.29 billion for the Space Data Network Backbone and $4.16 billion for the Airborne Moving Target Indicator system.

The launch award is the largest publicly disclosed order under National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1, the Space Force’s commercial-style procurement program for lower-risk national security missions that allows pre-qualified providers to compete for individual launch orders without completing the military’s most demanding certification process.

The contract also follows the Space Force’s decision earlier this month to raise the Phase 3 Lane 1 contract ceiling to $17 billion from $5.6 billion, reflecting expectations that military launch demand will grow substantially faster than originally anticipated.

The schedule itself is notable. Completing 18 launches by the end of 2027 will require a sustained campaign averaging roughly one mission a month from Vandenberg, depending on the timing of satellite deliveries.

That cadence also highlights the gap between the number of companies eligible to compete for national security launches and those capable of executing them today.

Seven companies currently hold positions on the Lane 1 contract vehicle. For now, SpaceX remains the only company with the combination of launch frequency, operational Falcon 9 rockets and West Coast infrastructure needed to support a campaign of this scale.

Col. Eric Zarybnisky, the Space Force’s acting portfolio acquisition executive for space access, said the awards also demonstrate how quickly the Lane 1 contracting approach can move. He said the service completed the procurement in roughly two months from identifying the requirement to making the award, including a month for industry to prepare proposals.

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[Eric Berger] Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a "dead end" for rapid reuse (arstechnica.com)
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NROL-95 Launch Thread (sh.itjust.works)
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2026-07-30, 07:09:01 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2026-07-30, 03:09:01 (EDT) | | Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA | | Booster | B1096-7 | | Landing | LZ-2 | | Payload | NROL-95 | | Customer | NRO | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to LEO |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-ScMofSZKQ | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cokZJ3XQW0 | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QchKzHqvOM | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80_iNvh9uYA | SpaceX | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/@thespacedevs/videos

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 41st launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 8 days, 9:54:01 turnaround for SLC-40

☑️ 75 days, 9:03:20 turnaround for B1096

☑️ 18th landing on LZ-2

☑️ 648th Falcon Family Booster landing, 659th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 88th Falcon 9 mission this year, 671st overall

☑️ 91st SpaceX mission this year, 701st overall (excluding Starship test flights)

☑️ 91st SpaceX launch this year, 710th overall (including Starship test flights)

Mission info

NROL-95 is a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, suspected to be a next-generation Naval Ocean Surveillance System satellite.

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Starship HLS mockup interior. (cdn.masto.host)
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Starship HLS mockup interior.

Originally posted on Twitter by someone else. The post has since been removed.

@spacex #SpaceX #Starship #Artemis

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[Stephen Clark] SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight (arstechnica.com)
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Scott Manley's video of Flight 13: Where's The Kaboom? (youtu.be)
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Starship Flight 13 Launch Thread (Take two! (and three)) (sh.itjust.works)
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2026-07-24 22:45:00 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2026-07-24 17:45 (CDT) | | Launch Window (UTC) | 2026-07-24 22:45 to 2026-07-25 00:15 (1 hour 30 minutes) | | Launch site | Pad 2, Starbase, Texas, USA. | | Booster | B20 | | Ship | S40 | | Booster landing | Gulf of Mexico | | Ship landing | Indian Ocean |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EnOQCjgq4E | | Everyday Astronaut | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pR0eOj9hK0 | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0Xu1RT8oc | | NASASpaceflight | Stakeout Stream, Stakeout Stream (scrub), Launch Stream | | Avid Space | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIISBLdIxE | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvbdTQNJsHA | | VideoFromSpace | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjAvEuIZDrA | | International Rocket Launches | https://www.youtube.com/@IntRocketLaunch/streams (scrub) | | SpaceX | | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/@thespacedevs/videos |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 2nd launch of Starship version 3

☑️ 2nd launch from Pad 2

☑️ 63 days, 00:14:36 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 2nd Starship Full Stack launch this year, 13th overall

☑️ 89th SpaceX launch this year, 699th overall (excluding Starship hops)

☑️ 89th SpaceX launch this year, 708th overall (including Starship hops)

Mission Details

Thirteenth flight of Starship and Super Heavy. The booster’s primary test objective will be executing a successful launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and landing burn at an offshore landing point in the Gulf. There have been several modifications to hardware and software to address issues seen on the previous flight.

The Starship upper stage’s primary objectives include the deployment of 20 Starlink V3 satellites, a relight of a single Raptor engine while in space, and another controlled entry, descent, and splashdown in the Indian Ocean. There have also been several modifications to Starship’s propulsion system to address the engine out issue experienced on the previous flight.

Timeline

| Time | Event | |

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| | 00:50:00 | SpaceX Flight Director conducts poll and verifies GO for propellant load | | 00:37:30 | Ship LOX (liquid oxygen) load underway | | 00:37:00 | Booster LOX load underway | | 00:35:25 | Booster fuel (liquid methane) load underway | | 00:34:48 | Ship fuel load underway | | 00:21:30 | Raptor begins engine chill on booster and ship | | 00:02:50 | Booster propellant load complete | | 00:02:10 | Ship propellant load complete | | 00:00:30 | SpaceX flight director verifies GO for launch | | 00:00:17 | Flame diverter activation | | 00:00:03 | Booster engine startup command | | 00:00:00 | Excitement guaranteed | | 00:00:00 | Liftoff | | 00:00:58 | Max Q (moment of peak aerodynamic stress on the rocket) | | 00:02:18 | Super Heavy MECO (most engines cut off) | | 00:02:21 | Hot-staging (Starship Raptor ignition and stage separation) | | 00:02:25 | Super Heavy boostback burn start | | 00:03:03 | Super Heavy boostback burn shutdown | | 00:06:27 | Super Heavy landing burn start | | 00:06:53 | Super Heavy landing burn shutdown | | 00:08:05 | Starship engine cutoff | | 00:16:40 | Payload deploy demo start | | 00:27:39 | Payload deploy demo complete | | 00:38:58 | Raptor in-space relight demo | | 00:47:30 | Starship entry | | 01:02:23 | Starship is transonic | | 01:03:01 | Starship is subsonic | | 01:05:01 | Landing burn start | | 01:05:03 | Landing flip | | 01:05:12 | Landing burn 3 to 2 engines | | 01:05:19 | Landing burn 2 to 1 engine | | 01:05:21 | An exciting landing! |

Link to Starship Dev thread

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Starlink Group 17-51 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 17-51 launch out of SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is currently scheduled for 2026-07-25 15:51:21 UTC, or 2026-07-25 08:51:21 local time (PDT). Booster 1100-8 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

Webcasts:

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[Bloomberg] SpaceX Is Turning Away Falcon Customers in Major Bet on Starship (www.bloomberg.com)
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Mirror

Article textSana Pashankar, Edward Ludlow

SpaceX has started to turn away satellite operators seeking dedicated rides to orbit aboard its staple Falcon 9 rocket beyond 2028, people familiar with the matter said, underscoring the massive bet Elon Musk is making on its unproven Starship.

Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence juggernaut has also stopped building some non-reusable components for the Falcon family, such as the rocket’s massive upper stage, said one of the people.

SpaceX is currently not taking future reservations for its Falcon 9 rideshare program, in which multiple satellite operators hitch a ride to orbit on a single rocket, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information is confidential.

SpaceX’s plans could change for a number of reasons, including development setbacks with the futuristic Starship vehicle, the people said. The company is likely to still use the Falcon 9 for launches for the Department of Defense and NASA, some of the people said.

Representatives for SpaceX, the Pentagon and NASA didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

SpaceX has publicly stated that it intends to offramp its Falcon 9 rocket for Starship, but has not disclosed a timeline. When the company does take the step, it will mark one of the most significant strategic shifts in its launch business in decades. It’s also a major undertaking, requiring SpaceX to push through development setbacks and cement the technology leaps needed to bring the long-delayed vehicle to market in the span of about a year and a half.

Delays with Starship have contributed to a stock selloff that has seen the shares fall below the $135 price at its history-making initial public offering last month. SpaceX rose 2.6% and closed at $118.24 in regular trading on Thursday, but remains down about 24% over the last month.

For years, SpaceX has commanded a near-monopoly on sending people and cargo to orbit using Falcon 9, the most prolific launch vehicle in the world. The Falcon 9 slashed the cost of getting to space and enabled the growth of large-scale satellite networks, including SpaceX’s Starlink.

Starship is central to Musk’s ambitions to put data centers in space, expand the Starlink communications network and send humans to the moon and Mars. But it is not yet operational and has so far faced a testing cycle marred by explosive setbacks, malfunctions and delays. SpaceX delayed its scheduled test flight on Thursday for the second time in about a week.

If Starship is not ready to launch commercial missions by the end of 2028 and the company doesn’t revert to the Falcon family, it would slash access to orbit for the many space companies that rely on SpaceX to get to space amid a global heavy-lift rocket shortage.

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Nice eulogy to B1069 from VP of launch Kiko Dontchev (sh.itjust.works)
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https://x.com/TurkeyBeaver/status/2079749267384660310

🫡 to Booster 1069

We refer to 1069 as the OG tippy rocket. It lived a long and fruitful life after it came about as close as you can get to being lost on its first mission. On that mission, CRS-24, it landed in rough seas and immediately had severe uneven leg loads, causing it to “tip.” We spent the next two hours watching the rocket on camera literally dance from side to side on the droneship. Through the incredible skill of our @SpaceX recovery team and a decent amount of luck, we were able to pin the rocket against the droneship tow board and blast wall with the octagrabber jammed under the engines. Somehow, against all odds, the team got 1069 home. We replaced all nine engines that were damaged in the process… and then it flew another 31 successful missions!!! 🚀

Never. Give. Up.

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[Sandra Erwin] SpaceX launches Northrop mission to extend the life of aging satellites (spacenews.com)
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Article textSandra Erwin

5–6 minutes

WASHINGTON — SpaceX on July 21 launched a Northrop Grumman robotic spacecraft designed to extend the lives of multiple satellites by installing propulsion modules in geostationary orbit.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Mission Robotic Vehicle, or MRV, and three Mission Extension Pods lifted off at 5:15 p.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The four spacecraft, developed by Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics subsidiary, were launched toward geosynchronous transfer orbit and will use their own propulsion systems to reach geostationary orbit, about 22,000 miles above Earth.

Because the mission required the booster’s full performance to send the MRV and three pods toward geostationary orbit, SpaceX did not attempt to recover the first stage, ending its service after a record 32 flights.

Once they reach GEO, the three pods will position themselves near the satellites they are intended to service. MRV will retrieve each pod in turn, approach a customer satellite and use its two robotic arms to install the pod on the spacecraft. It will then back away and repeat the process for the other two customers.

The mission is intended to demonstrate a more scalable form of satellite servicing than Northrop’s earlier life-extension vehicles, which remain attached to a single client for years. MRV is designed to install hardware on one satellite and then move on to others, allowing the same vehicle to perform repeated servicing missions over an expected operating life of about 15 years.

The three pods are under contract to commercial satellite operators Intelsat, which ordered two, and Australia’s Optus, which purchased the first.

MRV does not refuel the satellites. Instead, it attaches a Mission Extension Pod to the structural ring on the aft end of a spacecraft that originally connected it to its launch vehicle. The pod remains in place after MRV departs and uses its own electric thrusters to help maintain the satellite’s orbital position and manage its attitude-control system.

That can allow a satellite running low on fuel to continue operating even though no propellant is transferred into its tanks. Northrop estimates that a pod can extend the useful life of a typical geostationary communications satellite by roughly six years.

Northrop’s SpaceLogistics has already conducted life-extension missions with two Mission Extension Vehicles, MEV-1 and MEV-2. The two vehicles have completed three dockings, in 2020, 2021 and 2025, with satellites operated by Intelsat and Optus.

The robotic system originated under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program, known as RSGS. DARPA began the program in 2016 to combine government-developed robotic technology with a commercially owned and operated servicing spacecraft.

Space Systems Loral was selected as the original industry partner in 2017 but withdrew two years later. Northrop’s SpaceLogistics took over the commercial side of the project in 2020.

DARPA funded development of the robotic payload, including the arms, while Northrop financed the spacecraft and the work needed to turn the government technology into a commercial service.

The U.S. Space Force has said it plans to seek access to MRV once the spacecraft becomes operational, treating it as a commercial resource that government customers could call upon when needed. Northrop has not publicly disclosed any government contracts to purchase MRV services.

After completing the first three pod installations, Northrop plans to launch additional Mission Extension Pods for future customers while keeping MRV in orbit to retrieve and install them.

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MRV-1 launch thread (Final flight of B1069) (sh.itjust.works)
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2026-07-21 21:15:00 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2026-07-21, 17:15:00 (EDT) | | Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA | | Booster | B1069-32 | | Landing | No | | Payload | MRV-1, MEP | | Customer | SpaceLogistics | | Target orbit | GTO |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhu74LtIb0 | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h4gxuQ9lPA | | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO71XO4lceM | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id7eE__RgkQ | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2079673073712660674 | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKgy0UbBZrk |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 40th launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 7 days, 12:04:48 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 81 days, 03:08:50 turnaround for B1069

☑️ 86th Falcon 9 mission of 2026, 669th overall

☑️ 88th SpaceX mission of 2026, 698th overall (excluding Starship hops)

☑️ 88th SpaceX launch of 2026, 708th overall (including Starship hops)

Mission info

MRV-1

MRV (Mission Robotic Vehicle) is a satellite servicing payload being built by the Northrop Grumman-owned company SpaceLogistics. It is designed to attach up to 30 MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) to satellites in GEO over the course of its life.

MEP (Mission Extension Pods)

MEPs (Mission Extension Pods) are 400kg spacecraft designed to be captured by the MRV and then attached to a customer's satellite. A single MEP can extend a 2,000kg satellite's service life by up to 6 years. 2 of the MEP's will service satellites for Intelsat, while the third will service a satellite for Optus.

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Starlink Group 17-39 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 17-39 launch out of SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is currently scheduled for 2026-07-21 14:49:34 UTC, or 2026-07-21 07:49:34 local time (PDT). Booster 1082-23 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

Webcasts:

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SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start (arstechnica.com)
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Elon Musk's Starlink releases smaller and lighter V5 residential kit — offers speeds of up to 375 Mbps and almost half the power consumption of V4 (www.tomshardware.com)
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Unsure if this is acceptable to post here as the article reads somewhat like an advertisement. (I also saw articles on this from Mashable, Engadget, PCMag, Glitchwire, etc.) If anyone dislikes this, I am happy to remove the post.

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Starship Flight 13 Launch Thread (sh.itjust.works)
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2026-07-16 22:45:00 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2026-07-16 17:45 (CDT) | | Launch Window (UTC) | 2026-07-16 22:45 to 2026-07-17 00:15 (1 hour 30 minutes) | | Launch site | Pad 2, Starbase, Texas, USA. | | Booster | B20 | | Ship | S40 | | Booster landing | Gulf of Mexico | | Ship landing | Indian Ocean |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubVe02oNDww | | Everyday Astronaut | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r31rEkUUaA | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ6-A4iZFWU | | NASASpaceflight | Stakeout Stream, Launch Stream | | Avid Space | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R_8Jw342aA | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beKsuJUsiWk | | VideoFromSpace | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXHd014xLjQ | | International Rocket Launches | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAEKNQ65m4A | | SpaceX | | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/@thespacedevs/videos |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 2nd launch of Starship version 3

☑️ 2nd launch from Pad 2

☑️ 55 days, 00:14:36 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 2nd Starship Full Stack launch this year, 13th overall

☑️ 87th SpaceX launch this year, 697th overall (excluding Starship hops)

☑️ 87th SpaceX launch this year, 706th overall (including Starship hops)

Mission Details

Thirteenth flight of Starship and Super Heavy. The booster’s primary test objective will be executing a successful launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and landing burn at an offshore landing point in the Gulf. There have been several modifications to hardware and software to address issues seen on the previous flight.

The Starship upper stage’s primary objectives include the deployment of 20 Starlink V3 satellites, a relight of a single Raptor engine while in space, and another controlled entry, descent, and splashdown in the Indian Ocean. There have also been several modifications to Starship’s propulsion system to address the engine out issue experienced on the previous flight.

Timeline

| Time | Event | |

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| | 00:50:00 | SpaceX Flight Director conducts poll and verifies GO for propellant load | | 00:37:30 | Ship LOX (liquid oxygen) load underway | | 00:37:00 | Booster LOX load underway | | 00:35:25 | Booster fuel (liquid methane) load underway | | 00:34:48 | Ship fuel load underway | | 00:21:30 | Raptor begins engine chill on booster and ship | | 00:02:50 | Booster propellant load complete | | 00:02:10 | Ship propellant load complete | | 00:00:30 | SpaceX flight director verifies GO for launch | | 00:00:17 | Flame diverter activation | | 00:00:03 | Booster engine startup command | | 00:00:00 | Excitement guaranteed | | 00:00:00 | Liftoff | | 00:00:58 | Max Q (moment of peak aerodynamic stress on the rocket) | | 00:02:18 | Super Heavy MECO (most engines cut off) | | 00:02:21 | Hot-staging (Starship Raptor ignition and stage separation) | | 00:02:25 | Super Heavy boostback burn start | | 00:03:03 | Super Heavy boostback burn shutdown | | 00:06:27 | Super Heavy landing burn start | | 00:06:53 | Super Heavy landing burn shutdown | | 00:08:05 | Starship engine cutoff | | 00:16:40 | Payload deploy demo start | | 00:27:39 | Payload deploy demo complete | | 00:38:58 | Raptor in-space relight demo | | 00:47:30 | Starship entry | | 01:02:23 | Starship is transonic | | 01:03:01 | Starship is subsonic | | 01:05:01 | Landing burn start | | 01:05:03 | Landing flip | | 01:05:12 | Landing burn 3 to 2 engines | | 01:05:19 | Landing burn 2 to 1 engine | | 01:05:21 | An exciting landing! |

Link to Starship Dev thread

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Tranche 1 Transport Layer E launch thread (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2026-07-16 20:32:27 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2026-07-16, 13:32:27 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1103-4 | | Landing | Of Course I Still Love You | | Payload | 21 satellites | | Customer | Space Development Agency / USSF | | Target orbit | Polar Orbit |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0agOywbDIU | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLAfNp2CtrY | | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYpQwwf1XNw (combined with Starship stream) | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufOqrUfRKFU | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2077851076032876714 | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FWEeOWY4Bs |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 45th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 2 days, 19:04:10 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 212th landing on OCISLY

☑️ 27 days, 11:41:42 hours turnaround for B1103

☑️ 645th Falcon family booster landing, 656th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 84th Falcon 9 mission of 2026, 667th overall

☑️ 86th SpaceX mission of 2026, 696th overall (excluding Starship hops)

☑️ 86th SpaceX launch of 2026, 705th overall (including Starship hops)

Mission info

Tranche 1 Transport Layer E (T1TL-E)

Tranche 1 Transport Layer E is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites.

The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs), which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage, and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth, and fault tolerance.

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Starship Flight 13: Potentially the final Suborbital Flight - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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Eager Space: Starship changes the rules for commercial payloads (youtu.be)
submitted 2 weeks ago by doomi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
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SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week (arstechnica.com)
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SpaceX launches a flight-proven Falcon booster for 600th time (spaceflightnow.com)
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Starlink Group 10-45 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 10-45 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for 2026-07-14 09:10:12 UTC or 2026-07-14 05:10:12 local time (EDT). Booster 1080-28 to land on A Shortfall Of Gravitas.

Webcasts:

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