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Starship Flight 13 Deploys First Starlink V3 Satellites, Space Brief 25 Jul 2026
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Fusion42 · 25 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 successfully deployed the first functioning Starlink V3 satellites to orbit on 24 July 2026, with both booster and ship landing intact—marking a milestone in operational payload delivery. Starlink V3 is the larger satellite bus that only Starship can carry, and deployment ramps up a critical bottleneck in SpaceX's constellation expansion.
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If you sell anything to satellite operators or depend on them as customers—antennas, power systems, thermal management, software—your addressable market just got bigger and cheaper. Starlink V3 is twice the capacity in the same launch slot; expect SpaceX to flood the market with satellites, and everyone building ground infrastructure to follow.
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