SpaceX Starship Flight 13. SpaceX attempts another test flight. Many people will look to the skies Thursday night as SpaceX prepares a test flight for their starship [on July 24, 2026]. Ken Kremer, research scientist and founder of Space UpClose breaks down what needs to happen for a successful test flight, and where SpaceX should focus their launches next in this live interview with Ken Kremer on Fox 13 Tampa Bay on July 23, 2026. Another topic was the July 21 launch of Northrop Grumman MRV-MEP satellite rescue mission. Fox 13 also featured several of Ken’s prelaunch and launch photos. Screenshot: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/Fox 13 Tampa Bay. Video: https://www.fox13news.com/video/fmc-1b1lssubyt54u6wtTITUSVILLE, FL – On July 23, I was interviewed live on FOX 13 Tampa Bay about the 2nd attempt to launch the 13th SpaceX Starship test flight from Starbase, Texas shortly before the then planned liftoff on July 23.
Bad weather intervened and SpaceX then rescheduled the liftoff to July 24
The first attempt to launch Starship 13th test flight was scrubbed at T-Zero with an last moment ignitions abort called by the flight computers when 4 of the 33 first stage Super heavy Raptor version 3 engines failed to ignite during the final ignition sequence.
SpaceX Starship Flight 13. SpaceX attempts another test flight. Many people will look to the skies Thursday night as SpaceX prepares a test flight for their starship [on July 24, 2026]. Ken Kremer, research scientist and founder of Space UpClose breaks down what needs to happen for a successful test flight, and where SpaceX should focus their launches next in this live interview with Ken Kremer on Fox 13 Tampa Bay on July 23, 2026. Another topic was the July 21 launch of Northrop Grumman MRV-MEP satellite rescue mission. Fox 13 also featured several of Ken’s prelaunch and launch photos. Screenshot: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/Fox 13 Tampa Bay. Video: https://www.fox13news.com/video/fmc-1b1lssubyt54u6wtThe limit is 3 or 10% and then 4 engines out is unacceptable and an abort condition before the rocket is released from the pad for liftoff
SpaceX replaced several Raptors and did additional engine testing on a test stand
In addition to the upcoming test flight 13 we discussed why I believe SpaceX should focus on the human lander for NASA not Starlinks, and the race for the moon with China.
Starship Test flight 13 does not advance NASA’s Artemis in that there is no further testing or development of the cryogenic propellent transfer essential to enable the human lunar lander version of Starship
Watch my complete live interview on Fox 13 Tampa Bay on July 23, 2026
Caption: SpaceX Starship Flight 13. SpaceX attempts another test flight. Many people will look to the skies Thursday night as SpaceX prepares a test flight for their starship [on July 24, 2026]. Ken Kremer, research scientist and founder of Space UpClose breaks down what needs to happen for a successful test flight, and where SpaceX should focus their launches next in this live interview with Ken Kremer on Fox 13 Tampa Bay on July 23, 2026. Another topic was the July 21 launch of Northrop Grumman MRV-MEP satellite rescue mission. Fox 13 also featured several of Ken’s prelaunch and launch photos. Screenshot: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/Fox 13 Tampa Bay. Video: https://www.fox13news.com/video/fmc-1b1lssubyt54u6wthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/space-exploration/spacex-attempts-another-test-flight/vi-AA28xN3w?ocid=BingNewsVerp
Caption: SpaceX Starship Flight 13. SpaceX attempts another test flight. Many people will look to the skies Thursday night as SpaceX prepares a test flight for their starship [on July 24, 2026]. Ken Kremer, research scientist and founder of Space UpClose breaks down what needs to happen for a successful test flight, and where SpaceX should focus their launches next in this live interview with Ken Kremer on Fox 13 Tampa Bay on July 23, 2026. Another topic was the July 21 launch of Northrop Grumman MRV-MEP satellite rescue mission. Fox 13 also featured several of Ken’s prelaunch and launch photos. Screenshot: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/Fox 13 Tampa Bay. Video: https://www.fox13news.com/video/fmc-1b1lssubyt54u6wtIn closing we also discussed the Falcon 9 launch on July 21 of the MRV MEP robotic satellite rescue mission built by Northrop Grumman Corporation.
SpaceX Starship Flight 13. SpaceX attempts another test flight. Many people will look to the skies Thursday night as SpaceX prepares a test flight for their starship [on July 24, 2026]. Ken Kremer, research scientist and founder of Space UpClose breaks down what needs to happen for a successful test flight, and where SpaceX should focus their launches next in this live interview with Ken Kremer on Fox 13 Tampa Bay on July 23, 2026. Another topic was the July 21 launch of Northrop Grumman MRV-MEP satellite rescue mission. Fox 13 also featured several of Ken’s prelaunch and launch photos. Screenshot: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/Fox 13 Tampa Bay. Video: https://www.fox13news.com/video/fmc-1b1lssubyt54u6wtSeveral of my prelaunch and launch photos of SpaceX Falcon 9 at pad 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as well as me setting remote cameras were also featured in the interview.
SpaceX Starship Flight 13. SpaceX attempts another test flight. Many people will look to the skies Thursday night as SpaceX prepares a test flight for their starship [on July 24, 2026]. Ken Kremer, research scientist and founder of Space UpClose breaks down what needs to happen for a successful test flight, and where SpaceX should focus their launches next in this live interview with Ken Kremer on Fox 13 Tampa Bay on July 23, 2026. Another topic was the July 21 launch of Northrop Grumman MRV-MEP satellite rescue mission. Fox 13 also featured several of Ken’s prelaunch and launch photos. Screenshot: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/Fox 13 Tampa Bay. Video: https://www.fox13news.com/video/fmc-1b1lssubyt54u6wt
Two of my Starship launch photos were also featured
SpaceX says they have made several upgrades in response to the issues seen on flight 12 when the boost back firing of the first stage engines failed and the upper stage raptors did not relight
Watch my complete live interview on Fox 35 Orlando on July 22, 2026 – here including on Youtube:
Caption: Take Two for Starship 13: Starship 13 to launch July 23 after last-minute scrub. SpaceX is targeting a July 23 launch for the 13th test flight of Starship. The previous launch, scheduled for July 16, was scrubbed last minute due to several engines failing to ignite during the final ignition sequence. FOX 35’s Marlisa Goldsmith speaks with Ken Kremer, the Founding and Managing Editor, Space UpClose, about Starship’s past, present and future – as well as the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of MRV-MEP mission on July 21, 2026. Screenshot: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/Fox 35 Orlando. Video: https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/fmc-lwemqxj6fxz5fkb3
Take Two for Starship 13: Starship 13 to launch July 23 after last-minute scrub. SpaceX is targeting a July 23 launch for the 13th test flight of Starship. The previous launch, scheduled for July 16, was scrubbed last minute due to several engines failing to ignite during the final ignition sequence. FOX 35’s Marlisa Goldsmith speaks with Ken Kremer, the Founding and Managing Editor, Space UpClose, about Starship’s past, present and future – as well as the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of MRV-MEP mission on July 21, 2026. Screenshot: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/Fox 35 Orlando. Video: https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/fmc-lwemqxj6fxz5fkb3
Watch my complete live interview on Fox 35 Orlando on July 16, 2026 recorded for the initial launch attempt – here including on Youtube:
Caption: The 13th SpaceX Starship rocket is launching tonight [July 16, 2026] in Boca Chica, Texas — a little over a month after the mixed success of #12. FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer speaks with Ken Kremer, Founding and Managing Editor of Space UpClose, about Starship’s history and its potential future
The 13th SpaceX Starship rocket is launching tonight [July 16, 2026] in Boca Chica, Texas — a little over a month after the mixed success of #12. FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer speaks with Ken Kremer, Founding and Managing Editor of Space UpClose, about Starship’s history and its potential future. Screenshot: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/Fox35 Orlando. Video: https://youtu.be/HYpTDUCNrUI?si=67hbLbqfa55APohR. Note: Liftoff scrubbed due to engine issueI have witnessed 2 Starship launches from a far distance
Starship Test Flight 8 exploded inflight on March 6, 2025 while I was watching from a Cruise Ship in the Carribbean near Grand Cayman island.
The 2nd was the more successful test flight 11 launched on October 13, 2025 as I watched from Titusville, FL
See my photos below.
Recent Ken Kremer TV interviews about Starship and more
Dr. Ken Kremer of Space UpClose interviewed by WESH 2 NBC Orlando on 21 July 2026 about the second attempt to launch Starship Test Flight 13 following ignition abort during 1st attempt . Screenshot: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com/Wesh 2 NBC Orlando
Watch for Ken’s continuing onsite coverage of NASA, SpaceX, ULA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and more space and mission reports direct from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Stay tuned here for Ken's continuing Earth and Planetary science and human spaceflight news. Dr. Kremer is a research scientist and journalist based in the KSC area, active in outreach and interviewed regularly on TV and radio about space topics. Ken’s photos are for sale and he is available for lectures and outreach events.
NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER PRESS SITE, FL- NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the agency’s cutting edge new dark universe seeking space telescope, namely the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, as we watched on a sunny Sunday sunrise Aug. 30, on site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Press Site on the Florida Space Coast. Roman is has now begun a three-month,
NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER PRESS SITE, FL- Shortly after NASA’s groundbreaking new space telescope, namely the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, I was interviewed by Fox 35 Orlando about the launch, what its was like, and the goals and science planned for Roman – on site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Press Site on the Florida Space Coast. Roman is
