Story thread
Starship Flight 13 window
Current state
July window through pad abort, propellant offload, two-Raptor swap, and early-next-week retarget. Not the separate Florida pad path beat.
What to watch: SpaceX pad notice or Elon update for early-next-week retry.
Latest package: Starship Flight 13 abort: 2 Raptors to be swapped; next try early next week
1 story · 6 claims · 3 statements · beam42.space/threads/starship-f13-window
Chronology
Related desk items, primary claims, and significant statements, oldest first. This page is the home for the multi-fragment event.
- ClaimSlippedElon Musk on X
“Next Starship launch aiming for Thursday”
Thursday NET did not produce a liftoff; attempt aborted on the pad.
- ClaimSlippedElon Musk on X
“Starship still tracking to fly tomorrow”
Same-week ops posted automatic launch abort; next-day track did not hold.
- StatementElon Musk on X
“Starship still tracking to fly tomorrow”
Same-day confirm that the Flight 13 / next Starship attempt still tracks for July 16.
- ClaimSupersededElon Musk on X
“Starship launch window opens at 5:45pm Texas time”
Window-open claim superseded by abort status in the same attempt thread.
- StatementElon Musk on X
“Starship launch window opens at 5:45pm Texas time”
Flight 13 same-day window call: opens 5:45pm Texas time as SpaceX streams the attempt (Jul 16).
- ClaimDeliveredSpaceX on X
“Standing down from today's flight test attempt.”
Company stand-down posted for the Jul 16 attempt; no liftoff.
- ClaimOn trackElon on X
Ops status after abort; next attempt framed as hopefully in a few days.
- StatementElon Musk on X
Flight 13 automatic abort: engines did not start; propellant offload; next try hoped for in a few days (Jul 16 2026).
- ClaimOn trackElon on X
Two-Raptor swap before next attempt; early-next-week timing is most probable, not a hard pad commit.
- StoryDevelopingBeam42
Starship Flight 13 abort: 2 Raptors to be swapped; next try early next week
Engine-start abort and two-Raptor swap reset the Flight 13 window.