SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]
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#2Seems like the booster landing burn did not light all the engines and so it crashed into the water.
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#3You can also track the progress in text: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/24/science/live-news/spacex-star...
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#4Seems like the booster landing burn did not light all the engines and so it crashed into the water.
The “chopstick” catcher arrangement seems awfully fragile. Would the ground equipment have survived this if it had been a real catch?
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#6Seems like the booster landing burn did not light all the engines and so it crashed into the water.
The “chopstick” catcher arrangement seems awfully fragile. Would the ground equipment have survived this if it had been a real catch?
Yes, because it would have landed a few hundred meters out from the chopsticks. It swings in towards the catcher as part of its slowdown. If it doesn't slow down, that doesn't happen.
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#7Seems like the booster landing burn did not light all the engines and so it crashed into the water.
The “chopstick” catcher arrangement seems awfully fragile. Would the ground equipment have survived this if it had been a real catch?
They generally initiate landing aiming just off shore and only adjust to the landing pad after everything is nominal. So yes.
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#8Seems like the booster landing burn did not light all the engines and so it crashed into the water.
It was going in the water anyway, but yeah, it touched visibly faster than it should have.
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#9Seems like the booster landing burn did not light all the engines and so it crashed into the water.
The actual objective was to crash very slowly into the water, and to that end, I believe they planned for about 13 out of 33 to light for the "landing burn". But only about 5 lit up at that time, giving them a higher-speed crash-landing. However, the landing site was exactly where they needed to be, and done in complete safety, so that is good.
They had been explaining the post-ignition abort from last week, and showed how 4 out of 33 engines had failed to light on the first stage. This was due to some kind of pump malfunctions. They said that if 1 or 2 fail, it's OK to launch, but more than 2 is an automatic abort. So they were able to replace the finicky motors and fully test them out.
Who knows what caused the underthrust for the landing burn, but at least all 33 engines were operational at launch, and they got plenty of data from this test run, and all Starlink v3 satellites have been deployed successfully for their "suborbital speedrun", so this test flight is doing really awesome!
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#10Seems like the booster landing burn did not light all the engines and so it crashed into the water.
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