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mindlessobserver said:
Flight 13 of Starship is scheduled for "sometime" in June. But what they intend to do with it hasn't been announced yet.
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They applied for with the FCC for flight 12 and 13 at the same time, the application was nearly identical except for one single line.

Flight 12:
"Application includes a sub-orbital first stage booster and a second stage."

Flight 13:
"Application includes a sub-orbital first stage booster and an orbital second stage."

So their plans are definitely for an Orbital second stage in flight 13. The second stage performed almost as good as you could expect, so I would say they might still push for it. The Raptor relight is the only experiment that was skipped, but they still were able to light them as expected on the landing burn off of the header tanks. I believe the header tank design is the same as V2, and that's a flight proven system already.

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