Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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 targets a new launch attempt as soon as Monday.
Japan's JAXA finally flies its Starhopper-style RV-X reusable test vehicle on a successful 40-second hop, Rocket Lab completes a full-duration vacuum Archimedes engine burn with striking blue methane flames for Neutron, and ISRO advances India's Gaganyaan crewed mission with key qualification tests on parachutes, uprighting systems, and separation hardware.
We also cover Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander assembly for its second mission, Relativity Space's Terran R progress, PLD Space Miura 5 tank tests, NASA's Dragonfly and DAVINCI updates, Blue Origin's Blue Ring developments, the Soyuz MS-29 crew arrival at the ISS, multiple Starlink launches, and more.
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🤵 Hosted by Elysia Segal.
🖋️ Written by Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera & Martijn Luinstra.
🎥 Footage from: Patrick O'Laughlin, Starbase Live, JAXA, Rocket Lab, ISRO, PLD Space, Relativity Space, NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Volta Space Technologies, ESA, ispace, DLR, NASA Goddard/Johns Hopkins APL, NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman, NASA Goddard, NASA, MSSS/NASA, JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Kevin M. Gill, Roscosmos, Northrop Grumman, Skyroot Aerospace, OrienSpace, CCTV.
✂️ Edited by Ryan Caton.
💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed).
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#Starship #SpaceX #ThisWeekInSpaceflight #RocketLab #NeutronRocket #JAXA #Gaganyaan #BlueGhost #SpaceNews #LunarLander
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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 targets a new launch attempt as soon as Monday.
Japan's JAXA finally flies its Starhopper-style RV-X reusable test vehicle on a successful 40-second hop, Rocket Lab completes a full-duration vacuum Archimedes engine burn with striking blue methane flames for Neutron, and ISRO advances India's Gaganyaan crewed mission with key qualification tests on parachutes, uprighting systems, and separation hardware.
We also cover Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander assembly for its second mission, Relativity Space's Terran R progress, PLD Space Miura 5 tank tests, NASA's Dragonfly and DAVINCI updates, Blue Origin's Blue Ring developments, the Soyuz MS-29 crew arrival at the ISS, multiple Starlink launches, and more.
⚡ Become a member of NASASpaceflight's channel for exclusive discord access, fast turnaround clips, and other exclusive benefits. Your support helps us continue our 24/7 coverage. Click JOIN above to get started.⚡
🤵 Hosted by Elysia Segal.
🖋️ Written by Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera & Martijn Luinstra.
🎥 Footage from: Patrick O'Laughlin, Starbase Live, JAXA, Rocket Lab, ISRO, PLD Space, Relativity Space, NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Volta Space Technologies, ESA, ispace, DLR, NASA Goddard/Johns Hopkins APL, NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman, NASA Goddard, NASA, MSSS/NASA, JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Kevin M. Gill, Roscosmos, Northrop Grumman, Skyroot Aerospace, OrienSpace, CCTV.
✂️ Edited by Ryan Caton.
💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed).
🔍 If you are interested in using footage from this video, please review our content use policy: nasaspaceflight.com/content-use-policy
#Starship #SpaceX #ThisWeekInSpaceflight #RocketLab #NeutronRocket #JAXA #Gaganyaan #BlueGhost #SpaceNews #LunarLander
LDAPAABJRG2UMCU3
