SpaceX has officially announced that they are targeting Thursday, July 16th at 6:30 PM ET for their 13th Starship test flight, and the second V3 test flight.
The upcoming flight will aim to complete similar objectives targeted on the previous flight test, which debuted the Starship and Super Heavy V3 vehicles, while also carrying next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time.
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 of America. There have been several modifications to hardware and software to address issues seen on the previous flight.
As usual, legacy media is misrepresenting the situation.
I just asked Tesla & SpaceX to try out Grok 4.5 to see if it solves their task, not use it no matter what!
They should continue to use other AI models if those models outperform Grok.
SpaceX doesn't catch the booster just for the optics, it does so to put it back on the launch pad immediately after landing, refuel it, and launch it again within a few hours.
The Chinese system can't do this. Its only advantage is eliminating the mass of the landing gear from the rocket, thereby increasing payload capacity to orbit.
Just built this space battle game with Grok 4.5 in Grok Build, and it absolutely nailed it
I literally gave it a simple two-line prompt, asked it to research the idea and build the game, and it did the rest
A few back-and-forth tweaks, and took a free low-poly spaceship model, and Grok handled the integration surprisingly well....even the sound effects
Now I can’t stop playing it. It’s actually super fun.
Grok just got even more addictive…
Starship's launch clamps might be the most satisfying machine in the entire space industry. They are just so perfectly synchronised and so smooth. It's just beautiful.
Tesla has released a new video of them tearing down the Model S and Model X production lines at Fremont ahead of the installation of the Optimus lines.
When fully ramped, this space will be able to produce 1 million Optimus robots per year.