{"id":823690,"date":"2026-07-25T21:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823690\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:35:15","slug":"spacex-starship-hits-key-milestones-in-flight-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823690\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Starship hits key milestones in Flight 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrzg25p800103b6ssz9yn3vs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            SpaceX says the Starship flying today\u2019s mission has 20 Starlink satellites on board, the first of the latest version of the internet-beaming satellites that will reach space.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrzg27u400123b6suhuq2kgn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But they won\u2019t stay in orbit: The satellites \u2014 like Starship itself \u2014 will be on a suborbital trajectory, which means they\u2019re expected to burn up in Earth\u2019s atmosphere upon reentry.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrzg27u500133b6s0e904etn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Each of the satellites will be folded flat and ejected from a narrow slit in Starship\u2019s side, which acts as a sort of high-tech Pez dispenser.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrzg27u500143b6sh54z5cl3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            SpaceX has attempted to test this deployment with dummy satellites on each of the last six test flights. But today\u2019s mission will have actual Starlink V3 satellites that will deploy solar panels and antennas. They\u2019ll briefly attempt to connect to the company\u2019s existing Starlink network using lasers.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrzg27u500153b6sfrwq5n1w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And before their demise, about 20 minutes after deployment, the Starlink satellites will aim to collect some data about Starship: \u201cSix of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship\u2019s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX says the Starship flying today\u2019s mission has 20 Starlink satellites on board, the first of the latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-823690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}