SpaceX's Genius Solution to FIX Starship Booster V3's 90° Flip Problem, Launching This Week!

SpaceX's Genius Solution to FIX Starship Booster V3's 90° Flip Problem, Launching This Week!
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0:00 Launch Countdown
0:37 Schedule Update
2:27 Booster Upgrades
7:16 Ship Modifications
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SpaceX's Genius Solution to FIX Starship Booster V3's 90° Flip Problem, Launching This Week!
Unbelievable! Starbase Texas is currently hotter than a French summer. Obviously, it's not because of the weather, but due to the heat of what SpaceX is up to. SpaceX has just confirmed that Starship Flight 13 will launch this week. Absolutely epic!
This will be a history-making launch and serve as a turning point for future flights, because SpaceX and Elon Musk have introduced genius solutions to overcome the chain of issues from the previous flight—most notably, upgrading the entire hardware structure of their Super Heavy Booster V3.
So, what exactly has SpaceX changed, and will these new solutions actually work? Let's find out.
SpaceX's Genius Solution to FIX Starship Booster V3's 90° Flip Problem, Launching This Week!
Is anyone here a SpaceX fan, a Starship fan, or simply obsessed with rockets? If you are, drop a number one in the comments, because this next piece of news might keep you awake tonight.
SpaceX has officially announced a real target date for Starship Flight 13, the thirteenth flight of the largest rocket ever built. Every time this monster launches, millions of people tune in to watch, including you and me.
As SpaceX puts it, “Starship’s thirteenth flight test is preparing to launch as early as Thursday, July 16.”
The 90-minute launch window will open at 5:45 PM Central Time. So, if you are thinking about making the trip, start preparing some food and drinks for a little Texas picnic while you watch this monster roar to life and climb into the sky. It could be an unforgettable experience, perhaps the closest thing our generation has to watching a Saturn V send Apollo toward the Moon.
But hold on. July 16 is only a NET date. The launch could still slip by another day or two.
SpaceX's Genius Solution to FIX Starship Booster V3's 90° Flip Problem, Launching This Week!
And don’t be too disappointed if that happens, because SpaceX has a perfectly good reason to remain cautious.
After Booster 20 completed its static fire, SpaceX began preparing to lower it from Pad 2 and return it to the Mega Bay 1. That was when the team discovered a problem with one of the enormous actuators controlling the chopsticks.
With Flight 13 rapidly approaching, the team moved immediately. They disconnected the entire actuator, lowered it from the tower, and replaced it with another unit within hours. The work is expected to be completed by July 13, after which SpaceX will almost certainly conduct additional chopstick tests.
If those tests reveal another issue, a short delay would hardly be surprising.
I’ll post any new updates in the comments below this video, so make sure you subscribe to the channel and check back before launch.
Now we come to the most important part of this episode: what will SpaceX do to prevent Booster 20 from repeating the failures that ruined Booster 19's return?
On the official Flight 13 mission page, SpaceX briefly explained what happened and what will change. The company wrote: "The Super Heavy on this upcoming flight has hardware modifications to improve re-light reliability, along with updates to engine alarms and aborts to match the conditions seen in the multi-engine flight environment."
Put simply — Booster 20 has received hardware changes to make engine relights more reliable, and the abort logic has been updated to better reflect what a large cluster of engines actually experiences in flight. But SpaceX did not explain exactly what changed. So how could a tiny difference in engine startup timing send a massive booster flipping 90 degrees in the wrong direction?
To answer that, we need to go back to the hot-staging sequence of Flight 12.
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