SpaceX scrubs Starship Flight 13 launch after engine ignition hiccup
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SpaceX scrubbed Starship Flight 13 at T-0 after some Raptors failed to ignite, triggering an automatic launch abort; the next attempt is expected in a few days. Flight 13 is a suborbital test of Starship V3 carrying 20 functioning Starlink V3 satellites to validate deployment, solar arrays, antennas, and comms tests ahead of future orbital missions.
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