Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Starship Flight 13 is the second flight of the V3 Starship, Superheavy and of course the V3 Raptor Engines. Flight 12 had both the Ship and booster affected by engine issues, and flight 13 was scrubbed after its first attempt due to engines not lighting on the pad.

After destacking and replacing a couple of engines they returned to the pad a week later and had a much more successful flight, and miraculously the Starship didn't explode. Starship was always expected to explode after touchdown in the ocean because when something this tall falls over it creates forces that are incompatible with the tanks structure. Somehow it survived.

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0:00 Intro
1:56 The First Scrub
4:18 Impact
6:37 Liftoff
8:49 Staging
11:00 Booster Crash
12:12 Orbit
13:28 Starlinks
15:54 Engine Test
17:25 Entry
19:23 Belly Flop
21:01 Tile Inspector