{"id":5487,"date":"2026-07-25T07:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/25\/spacexs-starship-rocket-achieves-soft-splashdown-in-13th-test-flight-deploying-advanced-starlink-v3-satellites-post-ipo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:09:43","slug":"spacexs-starship-rocket-achieves-soft-splashdown-in-13th-test-flight-deploying-advanced-starlink-v3-satellites-post-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/25\/spacexs-starship-rocket-achieves-soft-splashdown-in-13th-test-flight-deploying-advanced-starlink-v3-satellites-post-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Achieves “Soft Splashdown” in 13th Test Flight, Deploying Advanced Starlink V3 Satellites Post-IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX successfully conducted its 13th Starship test flight, which included the deployment of 20 new Starlink V3 satellites and marked the first launch since the company’s IPO. While the Super Heavy booster had a “hard splashdown,” the Starship spacecraft achieved a “soft splashdown” in the Indian Ocean, providing valuable data. This crucial flight is vital for SpaceX’s ambitions to expand its Starlink network and future lunar and Mars missions, despite recent challenges including a significant drop in its stock price post-IPO.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX successfully conducted its 13th Starship test flight, which included the deployment of 20 new Starlink V3 satellites and marked the first launch since the company’s IPO. While the Super Heavy booster had a “hard splashdown,” the Starship spacecraft achieved a “soft splashdown” in the Indian Ocean, providing valuable data. This crucial flight is vital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108335458-17841325031784132500-47180149153-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1784132502&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-technology","rifnote_country-united-states","rifnote_executive-elon-musk"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108335458-17841325031784132500-47180149153-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1784132502&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}