# Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 13 Success!

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-test-flight-13-success/6407>\
**Category:** The Happening World\
**Tags:** blue-origin, northrop-grumman, skyroot-aerospace, marcus-house, spacex\
**Created:** [25 July 2026 12:43 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-test-flight-13-success/6407 "2026-07-25T12:43:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/pturmel/32/111_2.png) [@pturmel](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [25 July 2026 12:43 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-test-flight-13-success/6407/1 "2026-07-25T12:43:24Z")

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Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 13 Success!

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hF3CHBq56DA/maxresdefault.jpg "Massive Surprises From Starship Flight 13! 🤯") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF3CHBq56DA)

Highlights:

- Review of abort/scrub a week ago.

- Weather scrub this Thursday. Fantastic clear weather yesterday.

- Deliberate extra stress on ascent. Moving much faster at 1-minute compared to TF12.

- Hot stage and flip nominal, but not clearly shown in stream. Post-flight video released.

- Boostback had all engines participating as expected, but SpaceX reported it ended slightly early.

- Hard spashdown, missing some engines on landing burn.

- Second stage engines behaved nominal throughout.

- Starlink V3 sacrificial satellites deployed. Some with spotlights and cameras to inspect Ship 40 heat shield status.

- All satellites deployed their solar panels and tested their thrusters.

- Engine relight success.

- Ship did **NOT** explode after splashdown!

- Next flight might be soon!

- Falcon 9: Northrup-Grumman MRV-MEP (with expended stage 1), Starlink 17-39

- Blue Origin pad salvage progress/update.

- India’s new private Skyroot Aerospace Vikram-1 Aagaman mission. A bit bigger than Rocket Lab’s Electron. Complete success.

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**Author:** ![TrinityWaters](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/trinitywaters/32/85_2.png) [@TrinityWaters](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/TrinityWaters)\
**Post date:** [25 July 2026 21:14 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-test-flight-13-success/6407/2 "2026-07-25T21:14:35Z")

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With the exception of the booster engine relights, which I’m sure they will solve, this test flight was a huge success and big fun to watch!