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SpaceX Flies Starship Flight 13, First Test Since Its IPO

Starship's Thursday window at Starbase, Texas runs 90 minutes, testing an in-space engine relight and releasing 20 Starlink satellites.

  • Super Heavy booster is expected to land in the Gulf of Mexico after separation.
  • SpaceX calls Version 3 "a clean-sheet design," per engineering director Charlie Cox.
  • Flight 12 lost a Raptor engine and had booster trouble returning to Earth.

Why it matters: Selling shares in June turned every future launch failure into a cost the public itself will bear.

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