Starship Flight 13: Satellite deployment succeeds despite hard booster splashdown

SpaceX’s Starship flew from Starbase on flight 13, with the Super Heavy booster making a hard splashdown in the Gulf after five engines failed to relight, while the upper stage deployed 20 Starlink satellites and completed a soft water landing in the Indian Ocean, marking a key step toward NASA’s Artemis moon missions and future crewed Mars voyages.