Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) CEO Elon Musk hailed the commercial space flight company’s Starship rocket after its successful 13th flight test over the weekend.
Elon Musk Touts Higher Acceleration
On Saturday, user Adrian Dittman took to the social media platform X, sharing a video of the Starship V3 rocket’s launch from the company’s headquarters in Starbase, Texas and saying that the ship had become faster.
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Musk responded to Dittman, confirming the user’s take. “This flight intentionally had much higher acceleration,” Musk said, “to test how well the heat shield tiles would remain attached at high dynamic pressure,” the billionaire added. “Test was successful,” Musk said.
This flight intentionally had much higher acceleration to test how well the heat shield tiles would remain attached at high dynamic pressure.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2026
Test was successful.
SpaceX said that the Starship rocket successfully deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites in orbit before it “guided itself using its four flaps to the pre-planned splashdown zone in the Indian Ocean.”
Moon Has No Tipping Worries
On Saturday, user @SpaceNews92 touted Starship V3 Rocket’s enhanced structure and its mass distribution as having solved the risk of rocketships tipping over on the Moon’s surface, which is uneven and riddled with gradients.
Musk responded to the user, saying that “landing and remaining stable” on any surface on the Moon was easier when compared to achieving the same on Earth, “as there is no wind on the Moon,” he said.
Landing and remaining stable on any flat surface on the Moon is much easier than Earth, as there is no wind on the Moon
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2026
Ross Gerber Backs SpaceX
The news comes as investor Ross Gerber of Gerber Kawasaki backed SpaceX despite the stock recording sharp declines and currently trading well below its IPO price of $135/share at approximately $114. Gerber said that the company was doing “incredible” things and urged investors not to bet against the company.
SpaceX, since its IPO in June, has experienced volatility and reached a high of $225/share at one point. SpaceX’s IPO also resulted in Musk becoming the world’s first-ever trillionaire, but recent declines in both SpaceX and Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) have resulted in the CEO losing hundreds of billions of dollars, as well as the trillionaire title.
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