Tonight: SpaceX will take another shot at launching Starship on Flight 13 from Boca Chica, Texas. The 1 hour 30 minute launch window opens at 6:45 PM EDT/22:45 UT for a sub-orbital flight over the Gulf of Mexico, and an Indian Ocean splashdown. https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/8279/

Watch for a boost back and landing burn over the Gulf, a single Raptor engine relight in space, and testing of key modifications on tonight’s Starship launch. This launch also includes the deployment of 20x v3 Starlinks. https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/16/live-coverage-spacex-to-deploy-first-starlink-v3-satellites-on-suborbital-starship-super-heavy-flight/

We’ll be watching Starship Flight 13 on NSF’s channel… because why give the grave of the former bird-site any love? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYpQwwf1XNw

Early estimates (Thx Marco Langbroek) suggest tonight’s Starship launch with the first batch of larger v3 Starlinks will put them in a 27 degree inclination orbit: https://www.langbroek.org/launchtower.html