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IFT-13 Test Flight Launch For SpaceX Starship 40 & Heavy Booster 20 @rumblevideo @Twitch @YouTube 07.16.2026 Broadcast 🎥🎬
SpaceX Starship Launch Aborted on the Pad at the last moment . . . .
via AP 7:08 PM EDT, July 16, 2026
SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket came within a few seconds of blasting off on a test flight Thursday, but some of the engines failed to start triggering a launch abort.
Elon Musk’s company said it will have to figure out what went wrong before making another attempt to send Starship on a space-skimming flight halfway around the world. It was supposed to be the 13th flight for Starship, which at 407 feet (124 meters) tall with 33 main engines is the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket.
Twenty of SpaceX’s newest and most advanced Starlinks were on board Starship for release during the planned hourlong flight. The internet satellites were going to try communicating with Starlinks already in orbit while taking photos of Starship’s heat shield. Neither the first-stage booster nor spacecraft were meant to be recovered, with both ending up in the sea.
NASA is counting on Starship to land its astronauts on the moon in the next few years.
SpaceX's 13th Integrated Fight Test (IFT-13) Launch Today 07.16.2025
Test Flight will be taking place today & we'll be livestreaming the event on Rumble @rumblevideo. We'll be livestreaming around 6:15 PM or 6:30 PM or there abouts . . . .
SpaceX's Starship megarocket will take to the skies again today (July 16), and you can watch the thundering action live.
Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today — the 57th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Apollo 11 moon mission, by the way — during a 90-minute widow that opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT; 5:45 p.m. local Texas time). It will be Starship's 13th flight overall and its second mission of 2026.
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