π SpaceX Starship Flight 13 Nails Its First Soft Splashdown Since the Company's IPO
Starship Flight 13 launched from Texas yesterday carrying 20 of the most advanced Starlink satellites ever built, overcoming a prior engine abort and delays from Tropical Storm Bertha. The upper stage survived reentry and splashed down intact in the Indian Ocean β giving SpaceX its first clear post-flight view of an undamaged heatshield. It's also the first Starship test flight since SpaceX's IPO earlier this summer. Are you tracking Starship's progress toward NASA's Artemis lunar missions?