SpaceX Reveals New Starship Launch Date to Make History in ORBIT! Never Done Before
SpaceX Reveals New Starship Launch Date to Make History in ORBIT! Never Done Before
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0:00 Flight 13
0:32 Rocket Investment
3:48 Ship Integration
7:27 Booster Bottleneck
10:43 Flight Profile
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SpaceX Reveals New Starship Launch Date to Make History in ORBIT! Never Done Before
If you had more money than anyone else on Earth — like, legitimately the richest person alive — what would you do with it? Retire in absolute luxury? Sip cocktails on your own private island, zero responsibilities, pure bliss? And sure, it wouldn't be anything like Little Saint James... but Elon Musk? He looked at that same mountain of money and said: "Let's build a rocket."
According to SpaceX's IPO financial filings, the company has spent over $15 billion developing Starship — and that figure becomes almost absurd when you hold it next to Falcon 9, which cost roughly $400 million to develop. That's not a rounding error. That's a completely different universe of investment.
SpaceX Reveals New Starship Launch Date to Make History in ORBIT! Never Done Before
So why does he keep going? Why keep pouring money into this? Because Starship isn't just another rocket. Starship is how humanity changes its relationship with space forever. Falcon 9 moves satellites. Starship moves civilizations. That's the difference — and that's why Musk keeps pushing.
And that momentum? It's not slowing down for anyone.
After Flight 12, the FAA acknowledged there had been an anomaly with the booster during the flyback phase — but instead of immediately opening a mishap investigation and making life difficult for SpaceX the way they have in the past, the agency simply put out a statement saying they were "assessing the operation" and that "a mishap determination has not been made at this time." It almost feels like the FAA has finally started to grasp just how significant Starship really is.
And before the dust had even settled on that flight — less than a week later — official details about Flight 13 were already starting to surface. What we found was more interesting than anyone expected.
SpaceX filed a Special Temporary Authority — or STA — with the FCC for Starship Test Flight 13. And here's the part that'll make you do a double take: they filed it two months ago. You did not mishear that. While the rest of us were still watching Flight 12 replays, SpaceX was already meticulously planning the next one.
SpaceX Reveals New Starship Launch Date to Make History in ORBIT! Never Done Before
The authorized window? May 29, 2026 through November 29, 2026 — a full six-month launch window. So the launch is confirmed somewhere inside that range. Could be June, could slide into July — we'll break that timeline down in just a moment. But honestly? The when is almost secondary to the what — because the flight profile is where things get really interesting.
The flight profile — and this is the part worth paying close attention to:
Super Heavy's configuration will be similar to Flight 12 — it'll splashdown in the ocean again. But Ship? She is going orbital. Full orbital flight. And this is a historic first — this is the very first time SpaceX has ever requested radio frequencies for a full orbital Ship profile.
That's not just an incremental step forward. That is a statement.
Are you as hyped as I am right now? If yes — drop a "Go 13!" in the comments below. Let's see it.
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