SpaceX Starship Flight 13 succeeds amid six successful launches

The week of 19‑26 July 2026 recorded six orbital and sub‑orbital launches, all successful. SpaceX flew Starship Flight 13 from Starbase, meeting its sub‑orbital test objectives after two prior delays. The same period featured a Falcon 9 Starlink batch from Vandenberg, a Long March 3B/E Tianlian relay satellite for China, and missions Kinetica 1 and Gravity‑1 delivering small‑satellite constellations.

For the following days, three Chinese launches are scheduled: a Long March 7A from Hainan, a Long March 6A from Taiyuan, and a classified payload. SpaceX will launch Starlink groups 17‑52 and 17‑53 from Vandenberg, and the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office will lift its classified NROL‑95 payload on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral.