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.