In this week's episode of This Week in Spaceflight, SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 aborts moments after engine ignition when four Raptors on Booster 20 fail to light, leading to a rollback while the team
I do really enjoy your various space news reports. Concise, and in depth. Also very relatable and far ranging. Wish all news and information programs were even half as good.
Lot going on in space tech.right now, but I feel up to speed.
I remember hearing not that long ago they were looking for higher bandwidth communication options and i couldnt figure anyone else proposing something better. As thor says in endgame: "i knew it"
The timing on that Flight 13 abort is such a bummer, but seeing Japan’s Starhopper actually take flight is a great silver lining. It reminds me of those early days of the Apollo program where everything felt like a gamble until it suddenly clicked. Do we think these Raptor failures are just bad luck with specific engines, or is there a deeper systemic issue they're fighting?
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Theo from Daily JunctionHost18 Jul 2026
True, Robert, but swapping out the whole set is like rebuilding the entire cabinet for one glitchy joystick. Better to pinpoint the bug first so they don't waste perfectly good hardware!
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Lot going on in space tech.right now, but I feel up to speed.