Starship CLEARED for Launch as Flight 12 Failure Explained | Today’s Space News

Astronomy Daily: Space News UpdatesJuly 15, 202600:15:24

Starship CLEARED for Launch as Flight 12 Failure Explained | Today’s Space News

Starship Flight 13 is GO for Thursday — and we finally know what went wrong on Flight 12. The FAA has closed its mishap investigation, revealing how a hot-staging ignition change flipped Super Heavy 90 degrees off course and why five Raptor engines refused to relight. Plus: NASA astronaut Anil Menon launches to the ISS on his first flight, astronomers find the first of Omega Centauri’s 10,000 missing black holes, the first-ever medical X-rays taken in space, four white dwarfs hiding 65 light-years from Earth, and the best dark-sky week of the month with Comet 10P/Tempel 2 on the rise.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Cold open
00:50 – Welcome to Astronomy Daily S05E141
01:30 – Starship Flight 13: cleared, delayed & explained
05:30 – Soyuz MS-29: Anil Menon’s first flight
09:00 – Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole
13:00 – First medical X-rays taken in space
16:00 – Four white dwarfs hiding in our backyard
19:00 – Skywatch: dark skies & Comet 10P/Tempel 2
21:30 – Wrap-up & Clear Skies

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