Starbase, Texas — July 25, 2026 Just hours after Starship’s highly successful 13th flight test concluded with an intact soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that the company is preparing to attempt the first-ever catch…
The Thermal Crucible: Why Raptor V3 Demands a Radical Cooling Solution The Starship V3’s Raptor engine represents the zenith of full-flow staged combustion rocket engineering, delivering an extraordinary 330 tonnes of thrust at sea level. However, this immense power generation…
Accelerating the Cadence: Ship 40 Breathes Fire at Starbase Barely a month after the debut of the Version 3 (V3) Starship architecture on Flight 12, SpaceX has rapidly shifted its industrial momentum toward the upcoming Flight 13 campaign. On June…