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Welcome to Edition 9.04 of Rocket Report! We waited an extra week for SpaceX to get its 13th Starship test flight off the ground. A second final abort on July 16 prompted engineers to return the booster to its home base in South Texas to replace the engines. The Starship is now back on the launch pad. Liftoff is set for Friday evening. A flawless launch and reentry will put SpaceX on the cusp of spaceflight later this year. Ars will have a follow-up article after the flight test is complete.
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India’s first rocket reaches orbit. Indian officials celebrated the first flight of Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 rocket, India’s first satellite launch, as a “success” on Saturday after it climbed 280 kilometers after liftoff from an island in the Bay of Bengal. Ars reports. Vikram-1 lifted off from India’s launch pad on the island of Sriharikota at noon local time. The launch was delayed more than half an hour to resolve a last-minute technical issue. The countdown resumed, culminating in the order to launch the Vikram-1 solid booster first stage to propel the rocket from launch.
