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SpaceX completes Starship Flight 13 with first intact Starship water landing

SpaceX flew the 13th Starship test flight, culminating in the first time an intact Starship was put in the water. The milestone follows earlier flight attempts as SpaceX works through iterative Starship test objectives toward reusable operations.

Discovered 2026-07-26T18:36:46.983428-07:00 | 2026-07-26T18:36:46.983428-07:00

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What Hype is tracking

  • Starship Flight 13 delivers a key reusability data point: an intact Starship was recovered by water landing, directly testing guidance, control, and recovery sequence performance.
  • The milestone is part of SpaceX’s fast-iteration test cadence (Flight 13), signaling progression from repeated flight failures toward repeatable end-to-end mission outcomes.
  • For commercial and government customers tracking timeline risk, an intact water-landing outcome narrows technical uncertainty around future Starship operational viability.

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2026-07-26T18:36:46.983428-07:00
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2026-07-26T19:09:15.883490-07:00
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