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Elon Musk's Starship Tries Again Today After Engine Abort, Weather Scrub: What Prediction Markets Say About Flight 13
['Daragh Thomas', 'July', 'Min Read']
Yahoo Finance
Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp., aka SpaceX, will attempt to launch Starship for the third time in nine days this evening, after an engine abort on July 16 and a weather scrub on Thursday kept the rocket grounded.
Neither stage will be recovered, with the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage targeting controlled splashdowns in the Gulf of Mexico and Indian Ocean.
Traders price a 72% chance of a controlled Starship splashdown, meaning the ship survives reentry and comes down where SpaceX aims it.
Starship will attempt to deploy 20 V3 Starlink satellites, next-generation broadband units that are reportedly too large to fly on Falcon 9.
Starlink already generates the bulk of SpaceX's revenue, but the bigger V3 satellites that would expand the network's capacity can only reach orbit on Starship.