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[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon Heavy lifts off from pad 39A in Florida for the 13th time!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship soared on the second flight of the next generation, deploying advanced Starlink satellites for the first time and providing priceless data as it travelled through air, space, and sea → https://t.co/Rp7VwBzpWx

[Dima Zeniuk @DimaZeniuk]

Starship Flight 13 goals:

• Deploy 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time

• Test Starlink V3 solar arrays, antennas, and laser communications in space

• Execute launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and offshore landing burn for Super Heavy

• Test Super Heavy hardware and software upgrades to improve engine re-light reliability

• Perform an in-space Raptor engine re-light

• Demonstrate Starship propulsion system upgrades to improve engine reliability

• Conduct a controlled reentry, descent, and splashdown in the Indian Ocean

• Use six Starlink V3 satellites to image Starship’s heat shield during flight

• Evaluate upgraded heat shield tiles, attachment methods, and load-sensing tiles for future reusability

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship is intact, floating in the ocean and transmitting telemetry!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship is executing a banking maneuver that mimics the final approach it would take when returning to Starbase for a catch on a future mission

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the 13th flight test of Starship!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The @Starlink team successfully made contact with all 20 V3 satellites

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship is reentering Earth’s atmosphere ahead of splashdown in the Indian Ocean

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Super Heavy has splashed down in the Gulf of America!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship has successfully ignited one of its Raptor engines while in space, testing a maneuver that will be needed on future orbital missions

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship’s Raptor engines ignite during hot-staging separation. Super Heavy is boosting back towards its splashdown site in the Gulf of America

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship’s ascent burn is complete and is now coasting through space

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

View of Earth from Falcon 9's second stage

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Falcon 9 launch 24 @Starlink satellites to orbit from California
https://t.co/8kRdk04h4X

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Background on the Starship story

[Tesla Robotaxi @robotaxi]

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