{"id":239480,"date":"2026-06-23T06:05:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/spacex-is-hiding-something-starship-update"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:05:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:05:57","slug":"spacex-is-hiding-something-starship-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/spacex-is-hiding-something-starship-update","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Is HIDING Something! | Starship Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sAyOu_OXbBM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX continued preparing for Starship Flight 13 this week with an incredible series of Pad 2 deluge tests, ongoing work at the Gigabay, Launch Pad 1 refurbishment, LC-39A proof testing, SLC-37 construction, McGregor Raptor testing, and activity across Massey\u2019s Test Site.<\/p>\n<p>This week we take a closer look at the massive water deluge system that will support future high-cadence Starship operations, progress on Florida\u2019s launch infrastructure, and the mysterious covered structure at McGregor that continues to spark speculation.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80 In this episode:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pad 2 conducts an unprecedented series of deluge tests \u2022 Gigabay construction reaches another milestone \u2022 Pad 1 launch mount refurbishment continues \u2022 LC-39A \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX continued preparing for Starship Flight 13 this week with an incredible series of Pad 2 deluge tests, ongoing work at the Gigabay, Launch Pad 1 refurbishment, LC-39A proof testing, SLC-37 construction, McGregor Raptor testing, and activity across Massey\u2019s Test Site. This week we take a closer look at the massive water deluge system that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}