Truly good event game past the 40 second hold
Play director Ty Huntington telling the team we are go for launch
So 20 seconds to go. Let's listen in. Two minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, seven, four, three, two, three, one, two, one, two, five
30 seconds
30 seconds into flight. 30 seconds into flight, we are feeling the rumble
We are seeing 33 at a 33 Raptor engines ignited on the
Super heavy booster. Booster and ship, avionics power and telemetry nominal. Acquisition of single Corpus Christi
Continuing to get good call-outs, our trajectory looking nominal, systems looking nominal
Just amazing to see all 33 lit up once again. This point we've already passed through MaxCube, that maximum dynamic pressure
passing supersonic so we're now moving faster than the speed of sound getting those on board views
from the ship cameras now the next major milestone is going to be a hot staging maneuver again we're
going to be doing that in just about 90 seconds to do that we're going to shut down all but the
three center raptor engines on super heavy that'll be our miko our most
engines cut off and then the clamps holding the two stages together are going to release starship second
stage will ignite its engines the arvax first the sea levels right after that the sea level engines
will be splayed or just kind of pointed out at about a 15 degree angle so if you look close we get good
tracking you might be able to see those center right after and so those six engines will push starship
off of the booster. All right counting down now We going to be coming up right around the three mark on that hot staging maneuver
Again, we'll see the booster engines start to shut down. You'll see all but three lights go out in the middle
And then we'll see the engines ignite on ship pushing it away. And that will start carrying the ship into space
Booster will start to do its flip and then move in. the boostback burn setting it up before eventually flash down in the Gulf of Mexico
Boosters now. Hot staging confirmed
Boosters now making its way back, seeing six engines ignited on ship on ship
we got a starship on its way to space and a booster on the way back to the Gulf
Oh, man. I need a moment to pick my jaw up from the floor because these views
are just stunning. These are live views from Starship. First stage is currently performing
the bus... Good there, news informing us at the second stage or the ship, everything looking good, nominal there
First stage is currently performing the boost back burn, expecting that to last about one minute
That boost back burn... That boost back burn propels the booster back towards the coast, taking it to a landing in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico
We're only using the super heavy booster's 13 center engines from here on out
Whenever they relight, you'll be able to see that in the left bottom corner
Those are the ones that can gimbal. In other words, they move and change direction in order to change the thrust to steer the first stage back to Earth
Wow, these are just incredible views coming to us. Everything is looking good for both the first stage on the left-hand side of your screen or the super heavy booster
as well as on the right-hand side of your screen, that is Starship, or we also refer to that as the ship
Now the boostback burn was the first of two burns required to return it to Earth
The next one will be the landing burn where all 13 center engines will initially ignite
and then transition into a three engine burn to help slow it down
Just as a reminder of the stage one test objectives, we're looking for controlled ascent
which we have so far stage separation which gorgeous We cruised right through it as well as Beables on a nominal trajectory Good news there telling us that the path that Starship is on is good
Now, Starship's second stage is still firing its engines, and as you heard, following planned flight path
the ship objectives, we're looking for hot staging. Again, cruised right through that. We're looking to demonstrate controlled ascent as well as orbital insertion
Now, the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. shows the ship engine graphics, so be sure to keep an eye on those
Yeah, Kate, like this is just a phenomenal test so far. Super Heavy is performing beautifully today
It's on its return leg of the journey. Ship continuing to burn its six engines, those larger circles, the Raptor vacuum engines
the inner circles, the Raptor sea level engines. We're about 30 seconds away
away, just under 30 seconds away. So the start of the boostback burn
Excuse me, the landing burn on the booster. You can see the grid fins rotating
Those neprosonic grid fins are guiding us through the atmosphere back towards our splashdown site
Again, we're going for a hard, for a splash down, a soft splash down
So for landing burn, we're going to expect to see the 13thousand center engines light, rapidly bring down the booster's velocity, and then just the three in the center
for splashdown. Let's see if that'll work. We're getting a few, a few engines
we can get some other video of that. Now, this is a test objective today. It is still something
that we're attempting to learn. And to make it that far, to demonstrate the controlled reentry
up to that point, is pretty darn good. Ship continuing to look nominal with its ascent burn
This burn lasting about six minutes total. And we're expecting that this burn will
end just after T plus eight minutes, about a minute from now. So far, though, I mean
congrats to the team. Making it this far as farther that we've gone on flight, too. Just
wonderful views and great engine performance from the vehicles So far we hit controlled ascent We in the middle of that right now We demonstrated the hot staging Kate as you said cruised through that We demonstrated controlled entry of the booster
Just stopped a little short of the engine relay, but hey, that's something we can learn for the next one. Yeah
Now, that view that we just had moments ago was a live shot of Star Command
There you see it again. This is our mission control center at Star Base, where vehicle operators are standing by
Now, the next milestone coming up is in less than a minute
At that point, ship will, or I'm sorry, actually it already has. There we go
As you heard there by the callout and from the crowd behind us
Starship, Mariner, Open and Search, Army. Starships, six Raptor engines have success
successfully shut down. We heard a call out for nominal orbital insertion, which is incredible
Look at these views, Dan. I'm just completely blown away right now
What a day. Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team. I mean, this flight pretty much just started, but we're farther than we've ever been before
We've got a starship, not just in Zah, space, but on its coast phase into space
Just to recap where we've come, and it's only been nine and a half minutes
How has it only been nine and a half minutes? We lifted off right on time at 825 a.m
We didn't have to hold at our gate at all. We had 33 at 33 Raptor engines open up and light and get us through a nominal ascend
Another successful hot stage, all six engines on the ship propelling us into
orbit. We did see a, what looked like a nominal boost back burned. And then we did make it
all the way to the landing burn this time. Didn't light all the engines that we expected and we did
lose the booster. We'll have to go through the data to figure out exactly what happened, obviously
So be on the lookout for information about that. But wow, a ship in space, we've got a bunch of
as we said, ambitious objectives ahead of us over the next couple of minutes and pretty much over the next
hour where we're going to really, we've got the ship in space, we're now going to take advantage of this
and try and learn as much as possible about some of the other systems, including that first ever
Raptor relight in space, so it's just going to be incredible. So all of that's still to come
The mission just started, but wow, what a lift off, what a hot stage, what an amazing sight to see
starship there in outer space