After a T-0 abort and a weather scrub, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 finally flew on 24 July — and stuck its softest ocean splashdown yet, while deploying the first-ever real Starlink V3 satellites. On this Weekend Wrap we give the full flight the depth it deserves, then round up three more of the week’s biggest stories: the strongest evidence yet for a moon beyond our solar system, a robotic “mechanic” heading to geostationary orbit to rescue ageing satellites, and how the Moon’s far side has been quietly recording Earth’s magnetic field. We close with a both-hemispheres skywatch — the Buck Moon, the Delta Aquariids, and the can’t-miss 12 August double bill of a total solar eclipse and the Perseids.
Chapters
00:00 Cold open & headlines
01:30 LEAD — Starship Flight 13 flies
09:00 Exomoon candidate at CD-35 2722
11:45 MRV-MEP satellite servicing
14:30 Chang’e-6 & the Moon’s far side
17:15 Skywatch (both hemispheres)
20:45 Sign-off
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