SpaceX is now targeting July 23 for its 13th Starship test flight after an interim July 20 window slipped, following the July 16 launch abort that halted the countdown at T-0 when four of Super Heavy's 33 Raptor engines failed to ignite. Engineers removed and replaced two Raptors on the booster before the next attempt. The mission - the second flight of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle - aims to deploy 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time on a suborbital trajectory, six of them carrying cameras to inspect the ship's heat-shield tiles before reentry.
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