Daniel Fischer

Sneak peak at the outstandingly beautiful Total #SolarEclipse over Sahagún, Spain, 1/2 hour ago: see The eclipse from Sahagún, Spain - see https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid022gFRLYWiWUcgqqTH9dGajFhpXVjTNQ8p39h264ry4oDmMP2ySsUZ26tTQPbVsewLl for 33 quickly processed timesteps.

Some more #Starship visuals from test flight 13, all stills from video clips released some days later. See more and links to the sources in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/744-meter-die-engste-passage-eines-asteroiden/ ("Viele neue Visuals ...")!

The #Starship is still floating in the Indian Ocean after test flight number 13: https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/2082186802912207064. It has travelled some way already: https://nitter.net/mcrs987/status/2082202679657349249. And it has just been decided to send a boat to recover it: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/2082244164197183805

The departure of the latest #Starship as seen from the booster falling behind - a rotated still from the clip https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2080826996490199070 released after the flight.

The splash-down of the #Starship itself was just the opposite: for the first time it stayed intact and floated in the Indian Ocean, allong detailled inspection of the heat tiles - more screencaps in the thread https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mrgohbrov22r

Some screencaps of the #Starship 13 test flight, more in the thread https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mrgigiliy22r - the Starship itself has performed flawlessly so far, deploying 20 doomed Starlink satellites and relighting an engine, but the booster lit only 5 instead of 13 engines and crashed harder into the Gulf of Mexico than planned.

10 minutes til the planned launch of #Starship 13 - original webcast on https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1AJEmmYdMDnJL

"Now targeting Friday, July 24 for Starship’s thirteenth flight test, due to weather," SpaceX xeeted minutes ago: "A key objective for the flight test is to get clear imagery from the ground of Starship’s heatshield as it flies at a higher dynamic pressure during ascent, which won't be possible with today's weather conditions. Visibility is forecast to be ideal for a Friday attempt." #Starship

And in https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2077906757641183445 another #Starship 13 update: "To be confident of a good flight, 2 Raptors will be removed & replaced. Most probable launch timing is early next week."

"Some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort," says https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2077890013841310149 and this screencap of that very moment confirms this: four hadn't come alive. "Now offloading propellant," the Xeet continues: "Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days" - so certainly not another #Starship 13 launch attempt after 24 hours.

The launch of #Starship 13 was aborted right at t zero - leading to a scrub for today, the rocket is already being detanked. No information on when the next attempt can happen.

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@AstroDave/116930089360556295

SpaceX's original webcast of the #Starship 13 test from 22:10 UTC on https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1MKgNNXAZdmxL