🏳️‍🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex)

SpaceX has set the target launch date for Starship's 13th flight. NSF's @_MaxQ_ breaks down all the Starship news you need to know before the flight. Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=ZDuPUR…

So how about that double rollout at Starbase eh, really cool

Starship Flight 13: Booster 20 at the pad and the chopsticks are rising ahead of placing the vehicle on Pad 2's OLM. nsf.live/starbase

Booster 20 is departing for the launch pad for the final time ahead of Starship Flight 13. @NASASpaceflight

Starship Flight 13: Booster 20 is on its way to Pad 2 for launch on Thursday. Live on X and YT: youtube.com/watch?v=oafdMt…

Booster 20 has departed the Production Site and is en route to Pad 2 ahead of Starship’s thirteenth flight test in Starbase, Texas. The targeted 90-minute launch window opens this Thursday at 5:45pm local time. 📸 - @NASASpaceflight Follow the roll here: youtube.com/live/oafdMtNPV…

Starship Flight 13: Mega Bay 1 doors opening ahead of Booster 20 rollout to Pad 2 for launch. nsf.live/starbase - and live commentary on a dedicated stream when it enters Highway 4.

Ship 40 sitting outside of the Megabay waiting for it's payload ahead of Flight 13. This might be the last vehicle we will see through the Gigabay construction before the final cladding is installed. 📷@NASASpaceflight | 🎥nsf.live/starbase

The team behind the launch — focused and ready. ✔️ Inside Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center, flight controllers supported today’s launch of @NASA astronaut Anil Menon aboard the Soyuz MS‑29 spacecraft. Teams monitored systems, tracked the ascent, and coordinated communication as Menon and his crewmates lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to begin their journey to the International @Space_Station. Mission Control will continue providing real-time operations support through the crew’s arrival as part of Expeditions 74 and 75.

Parked it. Soyuz MS-29 docks with the ISS with three new crewmembers.

@ApolloFalc9 @WizZifnab They would need to develop a new one for something the size of Neutron

@Alexphysics13 @WizZifnab Plus RL can likely use kick stages on their upper stages.

More and more often I’m seeing a whole lot of people thinking that Neutron is fully reusable and I think the whole reason is because the upper stage isn’t visible and they completely forget it’s there and it’s expendable

@WizZifnab This upper stage will give about 70-80% of the delta-v needed to reach orbit. Quite a lot of delta-v to just be a "kick stage". It's a proper upper stage that you just can't see. It's big and it gives a big boost.

@WizZifnab It's a wider and longer upper stage than the Centaur upper stage on Atlas V. It's nowhere near the size of what one would call a kick stage. Kick stage is more for something that's almost or already in orbit and needs another small boost.

@spaceaotearoa Reusability is reusability. If I throw away something, I ain't reusing it therefore it's expendable. It's a very simple and easy to understand term. It's not related to cost, it's related to use. You use it once, it's a single-use item. You use it more than once, it's reusable

@Alexphysics13 It depends how you view reusability, in terms of cost for medium lift it will eventually be best in class.

LAUNCH! Epic drone view!

T-minus eight days until the launch window begins for our Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites payload. 🛰️ Two highly nimble robotic arms made by the @USNRL will travel to geosynchronous orbit via the @northropgrumman Mission Robotic Vehicle. 📸 Northrop Grumman

Launching on Falcon 9 next week

One hour to the launch of Soyuz MS-29 with a crew of three to the ISS. nasaspaceflight.com/2026/07/soyuz-… By Justin Davenport.

@mcrs987 @HipernovaStar @T_De_La_Rosa I don't see anywhere in the document where they show a Starbase launch to Starbase landing entry trajectory

@Alexphysics13 @HipernovaStar @T_De_La_Rosa I'm aware of that, both the eastern range and Starbase launch to Starbase landing entry trajectories are identical in the graphics they published

Messing around with the recent environmental assessment information published earlier today for ship contingency landing zones. If my extrapolation is near-correct it looks like the first orbital flight will go into a ~48.7º profile, only two orbits and it's down in just about three hours

@mcrs987 @HipernovaStar @T_De_La_Rosa The document instead what it says is that SpaceX is asking to expand the existing contingency areas that were previously approved for that kind of low inclination reentry profile. If you look at the one for Hawaii they're adding just the tiny blue portion there in the middle

@mcrs987 @HipernovaStar @T_De_La_Rosa SpaceX already has a previously-approved return trajectory for a low inclination orbit, hence why it's not even represented in the document when referring to Starbase-to-Starbase flight profiles which are the ones that correspond to the Hawaiian and Central Pacific locations.