--- title: Starship flight 13 worked. Next up: catching the ship. description: SpaceX's 13th Starship test flight successfully deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites, reignited a Raptor engine in space for the first time, and landed the upper... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/starship-flight-13-worked-next-up-catching-the-ship--barljosar twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Starship flight 13 worked. Next up: catching the ship. | daily.dev og:description: SpaceX's 13th Starship test flight successfully deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites, reignited a Raptor engine in space for the first time, and landed the upper... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/starship-flight-13-worked-next-up-catching-the-ship--barljosar og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/baRlJOSAr.png og:image:alt: Starship flight 13 worked. Next up: catching the ship. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Starship flight 13 worked. Next up: catching the ship. **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SpaceX's 13th Starship test flight successfully deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites, reignited a Raptor engine in space for the first time, and landed the upper stage intact in the Indian Ocean — providing the first clean heatshield data from a surviving vehicle. The Super Heavy booster failed its landing burn and hit the Gulf hard. Elon Musk announced the next flight will attempt to catch the ship with the launch tower, a milestone that could enable turnaround in days rather than months. The booster failure remains the one unresolved box, while SpaceX faces investor skepticism following its IPO. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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