Watch How A SpaceX Starship And Super Heavy Booster Launches In Slow Motion
Watch how a SpaceX Starship and its Super Heavy booster launches in slow motion and the flight in real-time.
Also the Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly in slow motion.
Footage courtesy SpaceX | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
Also the Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly in slow motion.
Footage courtesy SpaceX | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
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02:34 As the velocity increases, the density of the atmosphere is decreasing.
02:39 Lessening stress on the vehicle. The call out, Max Q now.
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02:49 Continuing to watch the first stage as we head down range.
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02:59 100 seconds into flight.
03:04 Our next major activity is going to be shutdown out of the first stage.
03:09 Houston tracking station now acquiring the vehicle.
03:14 With shutdown we will get separation of Starship from Super Heavy and ignition of the Starship engines.
03:19 When Starship separates, we light up six engines in a staggered sequence.
03:24 If all goes well, those six engines will burn for almost six and a half minutes.
03:29 Onboard view from Starship.
03:34 And there's views of the Raptor engines on the second stage as we prepare for stage separation.
03:39 Now after stage separation, the first stage will flip and begin a boost back maneuver for landing in the Gulf.
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03:54 Continuing to fly.
03:59 Two minutes, 40 seconds. Let's get ready for main engine cutoff.
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04:09 Beginning the flip for stage separation.
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04:44 As of right now, we are awaiting stage separation.
04:49 Where Starship should separate from the Super Heavy booster.
04:54 Yeah, Kate, right now it looks like we saw the start of the flip,
04:59 but obviously we're seeing from the ground cameras the entire Starship stack continuing to rotate.
05:04 We should have had separation by now. Obviously this does not appear to be a nominal situation.
05:11 Yeah, it does appear to be spinning, but I do want to remind everyone that everything after clearing the tower
05:18 was icing on the cake.
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