2nd Attempt: IFT-12 Test Flight For SpaceX Starship 39 & Heavy Booster 19 05.22.2026 Broadcast 🎥🎬

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[00:07:01]And hello and good early evening on this May 22nd, 2024.

[00:07:09]the second attempt of uh the um launching of the test flight number 12 for Starship 39 and heavy booster 19. And I'm Rich Roberts, Fireman Rich, your u who wants to watch this online. And uh uh we tried get they tried getting along. SpaceX tried getting um the uh flight off yesterday, but uh could not uh let me see what my audio sounds like here real quick. Okay, we got good audio. But um and it seemed like uh you had the the Starship with the heavy booster and on top there's mega arms that's used for catching. Those were off to the side, but there's a arm that was attached. I guess they had a hydraulic problem and a sensor sort of bugged out there towards the end. So, they've done some work overnight, I guess. And the um the uh spacecraft is on the pad as far as that goes. And uh there it is right there. Um it looks like um I guess from all reports from what I'm seeing right now the um we in about 10 minutes 10 minutes 40 40 seconds the uh the loading of both the booster and ship will be complete and we got 12 minutes to go for uh go or no go. And uh but uh there's our shot uh as far as that goes. Uh we do have um SpaceX is on the space.com which we'll be going to shortly. This is from the uh folks from NSF NASA a feed from NASA spaceflight. No association with NASA.

[00:08:52]Okay. These are the guys that are they're there year round watching the site there at uh uh down there at uh um for spa the SpaceX complex. And um but uh the um we're going to go to SpaceX just before the uh and here is um their other camera view that they have.

[00:09:14]We'll share that. Has multiple views and stuff. And you can see the uh frosting on the uh heavy booster 19. And this is going to be a suborbital flight that will take off uh down there in Texas at SpaceX's uh launch facility. and we'll go um halfway around the world to where it will um land in the Indian Ocean on the Western Australian coast. Uh right now we're we're looking at the new launchpad 2 where the uh uh Starship 39 and Heavy Booster are sitting at and we're down uh that says five minutes, but uh it should be less than that. Let me check the other feeds here. Yeah.

[00:09:55]Okay, we're at 11:13. So uh we're right around the same time. Okay. So, um um let's see. Currently, yeah, we're right on schedule there as far as uh getting it down to uh the uh the the time of the launch. So, uh there we are. Distant shot there. They've got various different camera views. That's what's great about NSF or uh did I say it right?

[00:10:24]Yeah. NSF. NASA NASA Space Flight.

[00:10:27]Again, no association with NASA. It's just in uh so give them a follow on YouTube, folks, as and uh so we're down to 10 minutes and counting. And um we're going to go ahead and uh uh watch the launch. I'm a big space nut, so I'm I'm I'm pretty excited about this. Um we they there was a um a celebrity entertainer that came in yesterday uh at the launch at about the se just be just under the seven minute mark Cardi B and I think she's the one I just I'm just making fun here but I think she jinxed it. Um I I I I just think that was odd. I just have to mention that again. Is this a um I have a Monday, Wednesday, Friday morning broadcast and I sort of mentioned that this morning on the um the Friday morning coffee broadcast that I do at uh 6 to 8 Eastern time here on the um uh the live streams where we've got uh six people total. We got three people on Rumble. Thank you, Rumble. Rumble rocks.

[00:11:33]Greatly appreciate it. And uh um as far as that goes and uh uh we have one person on uh Twitch and one person on locals and one person on YouTube. Those are the four channels I I broadcast on.

[00:11:49]If you want to see where else I'm at on these social media feeds, just Google Fireman Rich and you'll see where else I'm at as far as that goes. So, we're uh so we're down to um we're down to 9 minutes and counting. And uh I'm pretty excited. We're going to stay with the whole flight throughout. And uh of course, the people there at NSF uh they they've been there all day long. And uh but I'm pretty pretty excited. Uh so, let me uh bring this one up here. As far as the uh you can see the arm there just below the mega arms. That's the and where it's attached to the Starship um Starship 39 version three. Now, this is a version three. You can see that um that arm has to um maintain a connection up until like the last moment and I guess at the last moment yesterday they got up down to the countdown started going from 40 and it went down to about 28 then it bounced back up to 40. So to me that I think a lot of us have seen these is like that's not really too good to see something's going on. So there was a sensor or something wasn't jing on a hydraulic pin or something like that.

[00:13:03]And um but the the flight itself um let's see uh um let's see what we got here.

[00:13:18]Yeah, this uh they report uh SpaceX reports all systems are go uh as fueling continues for uh Starship flight 12 test flight for the next generation of V3 rocket. The fuel process will continue till just minutes before liftoff to top off the giant uh Starship uh with its liquid methane and liquid oxygen. Uh for Starship version 3, SpaceX has grad upgraded the fuel transport tube inside the giant superheavy booster. That's super heavy booster number 19 to better deliver propellant uh to the 33 Raptor engines that are on the first stage. So uh that's u an update there. Let's see.

[00:14:02]That's 613. So the latest updates are right up here then.

[00:14:07]So, let's uh 620.

[00:14:12]Um, SpaceX is down under um under 10 minutes away from the planned launch.

[00:14:19]Um, it plans on launching at 6 uh well, it'll be 5:30 p.m. Central time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern time. SpaceX says and understands and has addressed the hydraulic pin issue that prevented uh flight 12 launching yesterday. It should have it shouldn't happen again. SpaceX spokesman said the in in the Indian Ocean. A space re-entry team is waiting to observe the re-entry of uh to Earth of the Starship version 3 upper stage.

[00:14:48]The team has developed a series of camera carrying buoys to try and captured live video of the landing. So that should be pretty exciting to see.

[00:14:57]So um uh let's go ahead and see what we have here on the audio here, folks. So stand by. astronauts. You couldn't have had better uh better ambassadors for humankind to the stars and they really brought us all along for 10 days and we're getting ready for what comes next.

[00:15:13]We're going to start stacking Artemis 3.

[00:15:15]We got a lot of the hardware in the VAB already. We're hoping to even get out to the pad before the end of the year, do another wet dress. So, >> all right.

[00:15:21]>> And uh we're looking forward to seeing this thing fly because uh hopefully at some point in the not too distant future, we're gonna we're We're excited to be part of this entire Artemis program. Uh really excited to see Starship, you know, sending people to the moon, all of the different pieces working together. It's going to be a really exciting future.

[00:16:44]>> Oh, absolutely. Well, thanks for having me here. It's great uh great to see everybody again. And I know a lot of hard work leads up to a moment like this. So, uh, we're all rooting for you and, uh, we're looking forward to meeting up next year in Earth orbit.

[00:16:55]>> All right, man. Well, I'll let you jump back in there. Got about four minutes to go. Toss it back down to Kate and Jake.

[00:17:04]>> Okay, we're going to go to some camera feeds here and uh, uh, share here. We're down to uh, less than four minutes, under four minutes to go right now. So, uh, here's a and, uh, and as far as the, uh, we got three minutes.

[00:17:23]We're they're still loading the the the fuel.

[00:17:28]We still got a minute, less than a minute for the, uh, booster 19 to be filled up and then a minute and a half for ship. And then we got 3 minutes to go for a go, no go. And, uh, we'll see how that takes as far as that goes.

[00:17:42]We're down to 3 minutes and 35 seconds as far as that goes. And uh we'll keep tabs on that. And um let's see. Uh and we'll go back to uh let me refresh this to one more time before we go. And uh we'll bring this camera view back into play from space.com and we'll see what they have to say here.

[00:18:13]>> Quiet countdown today. We are looking at a green range. Still not tracking any issues with our weather with the vehicle or with the pad for a launch. We are now getting into the phase where we're closing out prop load on the ship and then booster is going to close out in about 15 seconds or so. Once we're fully done with this, you're looking at 11 12 million plus pounds of liquid propellant on board Starship and Super Heavy. We're going to get the pad itself ready, push back all of the propellant that's in those lines running from the farm to the launch mount. Uh just kind of harden the area and get it ready for launch. We're going to peek inside hopefully, see the engines do a little wiggle as we do our final steering check. That'll happen at Tminus 100 seconds. And then after we get through T minus 40, if you tuned in yesterday, you're very familiar. If we need to hold, we can go into what's called rapid recycle essentially where we can hang out at T minus 40 seconds.

[00:19:09]It's built in. We're only going to hold if there's an issue. Not currently tracking one. They can pop up after we pass T-minus 40.

[00:19:48]priming for launch while the ship's engines begin their ascent bleed profile and arms the automatic flight safety system.

[00:19:55]>> Yeah. Yeah. And once we pass t-minus 40 seconds, we still have the ability to rapidly recycle the count under certain conditions. Back to t-minus 40 seconds.

[00:20:06]>> Looks like we might be getting some engine wiggles here. As Dan mentioned earlier, >> set. We're down to a minute and a half.

[00:20:11]>> Allow us to check out the thrust vector control actuators on these engines.

[00:20:17]>> It's important to make sure that they can steer.

[00:20:20]>> Yeah, that's definitely right. And the flame diverter on pad 2 activates at around tminus 7.

[00:20:37]>> Can we have a hold?

[00:20:38]>> She say, >> "Yeah."

[00:20:40]>> Okay, we're in a hold >> once again.

[00:20:43]Once again, waiting for the for the push backs. So, it might be reset really quickly here.

[00:20:51]Just like yesterday, remember I heard the vent and the clock is rolling.

[00:20:56]>> There we go. Clock is running for launch.

[00:21:00]>> Here we go, folks.

[00:21:00]>> Standby for the detonation suppression system.

[00:21:04]>> Launch.

[00:21:05]>> That's what we want to hear. SpaceX are go for launch. We're going to stand by for the deluge. That'll be a really obvious thing. And then of course that ignition and top deck going off.

[00:21:14]Starship V3 might be about to fly.

[00:21:16]There's the wear vent.

[00:21:18]>> There comes the deluge. There's the del.

[00:21:20]>> Let's look for There's the top deck. We should be seeing ignition.

[00:21:25]>> I see the delage. I see no flames. Oh, there we go.

[00:21:28]>> There's ignition.

[00:21:28]>> We have ignition.

[00:21:32]>> And I believe we have liftoff of Starship version 3.

[00:21:50]30 seconds max.

[00:22:00]10 seconds. Max Q.

[00:22:11]She's off and running, folks. There we go.

[00:22:18]Starship version 3 is airborne and we are headed to space under the power of 33 Raptor Three.

[00:22:54]Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Wow.

[00:23:13]It's on its way, folks. It's on its way.

[00:23:16]>> Mo, most engines cut off. So, we're going to shut down all but five of the Raptor engines on the booster.

[00:23:25]And then after that happens, we're going to ignite the six engines on ship while it is still attached.

[00:23:33]We have clamps that hold the two together. Those are going to retract inside of that hot stage ring.

[00:23:39]>> Kind of protect them.

[00:23:42]Like we had one of the engines go out.

[00:23:45]Still flying on 32 of the Raptor engines. But again, once we get the hot staging, those six engines on the ship are going to ignite, we're going to do it in a little bit different of a of a sequence on version three. Essentially, those three ARVAC engines will ignite first, almost immediately after, just one of those central engines is going to ignite, and that's going to give the booster a bit of a kick, sending it in a known direction, followed shortly after by the other two.

[00:24:22]We're through mo separation.

[00:24:33]>> There you go. Successful hot staging separation.

[00:24:37]>> Here we go. Booster booster 19. Not seeing as many booster engines ignite as we expected for boost, >> but we are seeing six good engines lit on ship.

[00:24:48]>> It looks like we just had an early boost back shut down. Again, a reminder, the booster was planned to essentially head into the Gulf uh for a splashdown, but it has shut its engines down early on into boost.

[00:25:04]You can see right above the number S39 >> and we just see one of the ARVAC. So we're now running on five engines on >> this camera view, folks. Great.

[00:25:16]>> We do have engine out capability. So it's going to continue into its ascent.

[00:25:23]>> Uhoh, the engines offer on the left.

[00:25:27]>> Main engines are out here. So see what happens.

[00:25:29]>> Avionics power. We are not planning on bringing the booster back for this flight as this was the very first time.

[00:25:45]All right, so we're about 3 minutes 50 seconds into today's flight. Uh just a reminder, the the ship planned to burn its engines uh for about 8 minutes and change. Uh about 8 minutes and 11 seconds was our planned timeline for today. Uh that could shift slightly as we do have one engine out running on one fewer Arvacs.

[00:26:15]Again, continuing to watch. So booster did not complete its boost back burn. We would not see all of the engines ignite that we expected.

[00:26:24]Are continuing to get some views from it though. that's going to make a splash down somewhere in the in the Gulf.

[00:26:31]Reminder, we clear air, sea space, everything uh for these launches.

[00:26:48]All right, so we are coming up on T + 5 minutes.

[00:26:55]Ship continuing to fire. Five of the six.

[00:27:03]Standing by for callouts. Making sure ship's on its planned trajectory. Again, we are planning a suborbital trajectory for the ship today.

[00:27:15]Booster giving us some views as it continues to make its way back down towards the water.

[00:27:24]Okay, the picture on the left a little over five and a half minutes in flight.

[00:27:29]Kate, Jake, you guys with me? Looks like booster starting to come in hot.

[00:27:32]>> Like it's a static.

[00:27:33]>> Yeah, we had a the opportunity to stand outside to watch and wow that was incredible.

[00:27:40]>> Yeah, that was really loud, really shaky and I was actually surprised how fast the booster got off the pad or the whole stack. That was that was quite incredible.

[00:27:48]>> Absolutely. So, we have views here from the booster coming back down, making its way into the Gulf.

[00:27:56]Pretty cool to see.

[00:27:57]>> Healthy chamber pressures on five out of six ship engines.

[00:28:00]>> Great news there for Starship.

[00:28:06]>> So, we're watching booster 19 come back.

[00:28:09]It's going to land in the G.

[00:28:10]>> Once again, we were not going to bring the super heavy booster back to the tower. We were planning on having it land in Camera lost. Now we're back to Starship. Starship has a camera. Okay.

[00:28:25]>> And it looks like the booster ended its mission there in the Gulf, but we've got a ship still flying. Great to see that.

[00:28:33]Still have five out of six engines there on S39.

[00:28:36]>> Yes, we also heard good chamber pressures as well on those engines that are lit. We do have engine out capability. We do see that we have one of the Arvac, one of the Raptor vacuum engines that is currently out, but that's okay. Ship is continuing on.

[00:28:52]Amazing views of planet Earth there in the background.

[00:28:58]>> Yeah, I love the S39 decal there. That just gives the gives the ship a little bit of character. And again, all these great views brought to you by Starlink, of course.

[00:29:07]>> Starship 39 in flight.

[00:29:15]Yeah, obligatory shout out to the entire Starship avionics camera electronics team did a whole lot of work to to get these upgraded cameras.

[00:29:26]A look inside of the ship skirt. You can see those three center engines ignited.

[00:29:30]The Arvacs continuing to fire as well.

[00:29:33]We did we did see at least a couple engines fire up on booster for that landing burn before we lost contact with it.

[00:29:41]We should have just a little over 20 seconds to go. We'll see if the burn extends a little bit uh for the engine out. Essentially, you can run your engines a little bit longer or throttle up a little bit more to account for the the one engine not being lit. So, right now, we are standing by for SECO.

[00:30:12]So, we got some great views here right now. Uh, Starship 39 doing it suborbital flight here. Booster 19, >> heavy booster 19 is in the Gulf. Um, didn't get any pictures or video of it uh um touching down. But >> engines still burning on.

[00:30:32]>> All the emphasis now is on Starship 39.

[00:30:35]We get We're getting some great camera views here. Some great camera views as far as that goes, folks.

[00:30:48]We are coming up on T + 9 minutes.

[00:31:06]and starting to see shut down.

[00:31:10]Arvacs have shut down. Sea levels have shut down.

[00:31:23]>> Some definitely some better camera views from previous launches. an update on the ship orbit insertion, but we have shut down again. We did run longer as we were engine out. We were flying with five of those six Raptors pretty much the whole time.

[00:31:41]>> Ship FTS.

[00:31:42]>> Look at that view, folks. Look at that view.

[00:31:56]All right. Well, we definitely got a ship in space right now.

[00:32:01]>> That's for sure.

[00:32:03]Yes, sir.

[00:32:08]Very happy workers there.

[00:32:19]As you can see, the teams are incredibly excited to see Starship there in space.

[00:32:25]We are awaiting the call out of nominal uh uh insertion. So, we're going to stand by for that. We can see the flaps uh moving here, actuating, but wow, the the cheers here in the lobby are certainly almost as loud as liftoff was.

[00:32:40]>> Yeah. Yeah, man. Lot of action going on.

[00:32:44]And you know, we said it at the top of the show, excitement guaranteed. And we're only 11 minutes in. We still have a lot more to go here on the mission today. So, uh, all objectives are done on the booster. So, now all eyes are on the ship as we get ready for our in space objectives.

[00:33:01]>> Exactly. So, like I said, we're still standing by to hear the call out for nominal orbital insertion, but we've got a few minutes uh before the next milestone. So, we're going to continue.

[00:33:12]We've got some amazing views here of the ship. Wow. It's just that this is our planet. This is our home.

[00:33:25]I'm noticing on the gauge that's on the lower left there, the uh >> as a reminder, the objectives for ship today not only included the separation that we saw, but we're also planning to deploy 20 Starlink simulator satellites as well as two Dodger dog satellites. That's what our internal teams refer our to as our our newer satellites.

[00:33:51]We saw a preview of those earlier. We should see those deployments here in a little bit.

[00:33:56]>> We're also hoping to perform uh a relight of a Raptor engine as well.

[00:34:01]>> Yep, that's exactly right. And the relight will look a little bit different this time. We're hoping to get a little bit of a longer duration. Of course, we got to see once we get there. And uh that relight won't actually be changing our orbit necessarily, but we're doing it more so as a technology demonstration.

[00:34:22]So the Starship is going roughly uh 16,420 miles per hour right now at that particular kilometer per hour to try the uh so it's going 16,000.

[00:34:34]>> For those of you that maybe just recently tuned in, you missed a a a pretty exciting almost 13 minutes. Uh we had a liftoff uh pretty much on time almost right exactly at 5:30 p.m. We did have a brief hold at the t-minus 42nd period but we were able to proceed through that and we saw a gorgeous liftoff. Uh Jake and I were able to stand outside and witness that with all of our colleagues and what a moment.

[00:35:02]I'll tell you what, it is a heck of a lot louder here than it was at Ad Astra.

[00:35:08]>> Absolutely. And um a couple things I noticed on the way uphill today on the ship. So uh obviously it looks like we lost one of the RVACs on the way, but um that is a good way to demonstrate our potential engine out capability there.

[00:35:22]So exactly. And I think we actually saw the three gimbling engines kind of gimble over a little bit to compensate for that offset and thrust. So that was really cool. That's something I know the team's been uh we've analyzed that since flight one all the way back. So, um, it's something that we've thought about quite a bit and, uh, it was kind of cool to see it in action in in real life today.

[00:35:42]>> Yeah, absolutely.

[00:35:44]If you couldn't tell, Jake is on the Raptor team.

[00:35:46]>> Yeah. But one, uh, one non-Raptor thing I noticed also back on the uh, when we had the shot of the aft flaps, uh, it's it's a little little weird. We have tiles on the leeward side. So, uh, not on the side where we're going to see heating. And you might be asking, why are we putting tiles there? I had the same question actually. Act actually. So I talked to some of our heat shield engineers the other day and we're actually running Yeah. Here's the shot right here. Great. So the fact that we're seeing all these tiles still on the flap right now is really good because that actually was one of our experiments where we wanted to test different connection methods uh on the way uphill on ship. So actually a scent.

[00:36:27]So it looks like most if not all the tiles are still hanging on there. So that's actually a really good data point.

[00:36:32]>> Looks pretty good to me. Now once again this view is from the side of Starship which is uh basically the second stage of the Starship vehicle as a whole. This is one of the flaps on the vehicle that helps to control its position and attitude as it is orbiting and also helps to control during re-entry as well. That's a critical phase. Um I mentioned earlier that we're hoping to deploy those Starlink satellite uh simulators as well as um perform an inspace relight of a Raptor engine. If all of that goes well, we will be targeting a soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean. We heard from Seren on the recovery team a little bit earlier.

[00:37:15]They are standing by waiting uh to >> and that will be in the Indian Ocean off the west co west coast of Australia.

[00:37:23]um the landing and uh we lost our camera view. Um the the spacecraft right now, Starship uh 39 is traveling 26 thou or going 16,300 mph. It's at an altitude of 170 and we lost our our feed.

[00:37:44]So I'm not sure what's going on with that.

[00:37:48]So, let's go ahead and uh we'll we'll back this out and we'll wait to have we uh we lost some camera.

[00:37:57]That's not a good sign. Um let's see. Let's see what we have on the other feeds here.

[00:38:04]And uh 16 minutes NASA flight >> now headed towards the other side of the planet and then a splash down.

[00:38:16]>> We got our camera back. camera.

[00:38:18]>> It's going to start to get darker. We're heading into an orbital sunset. Um, so we're gonna we're going to have darkness for a little bit and then it'll brighten up once we're on the other side of the planet and hopefully looking at some uh some good daylight when we reenter into the Indian Ocean.

[00:38:47]Looks like it's almost driving through some fog. I don't know if that's a light that's shining.

[00:38:53]Um, but if that or else that's just a camera that it's got to be the camera flickering, the pixels on the camera and stuff like that that uh but it uh >> All right, so we're a little over 17 minutes into flight. If you're just now catching up with us, uh we did see a liftoff right at the top of our window.

[00:39:16]Uh Super Heavy getting off the pad, initially lighting all 33 of those Raptor engines. Got through a successful hot staging. Initially lit six engines on ship. Had one Arvac go out on the way uphill, but still able to make it into space.

[00:39:31]And right now we're trying to see if we are going to get into payload deploy still. And the aircraft or the spacecraft is 114 miles above the Earth >> coming up right on the part of the timeline when we were expecting >> inside a starship to um >> I see a door opening >> correlates to um let's see 185.

[00:39:51]>> Looks like Hal didn't wait. Pez door is open. Just a reminder deployables in the payload bay today. 20 of those Starlink mass simulators and then two are our Dodger dogs like internally sitting up their modified V2 Starlink satellites.

[00:40:13]>> Those are going to be testing a bunch of components that we're planning to fly on uh Starlink V3 and we've also got them outfitted with a number of cameras for another tech demo that we're trying out on this flight.

[00:40:29]We definitely are looking for a way that we can look at uh Starship's heat shield while it's still in space. You can kind of only see so much from the cameras and the flaps. You can't see everything kind of on the underbelly. And one of the only ways you can do that is if you got something else flying near it. So, uh, we're going to attempt to, uh, our final two satellites going out the door have a suite of cameras on them that are going to be looking back at the ship. We're going to be in nighttime. And so, we've got, sounds like we're getting into payload deploy. We'll be at nighttime. They've got some powerful uh, flashlights on them to try and illuminate the ship's heat shield while we fly away from it. So, oh, we see some Pez motion.

[00:41:35]There it goes. They're sending one of them out to space.

[00:41:41]Hugh. Hugh.

[00:41:54]two down, 20 to go.

[00:42:02]As a reminder, that's that's one of the things that we upgraded in version three. Kind of gave the a little soup up to the the PEZ dispenser. So, those satellites going to move out a little bit quicker than they did on previous uh Starship flight tests.

[00:42:20]So, first two out the door, two more on their way out.

[00:42:43]All right, four down, 18 to go.

[00:42:53]Flexing my basic math skills here today.

[00:42:56]Again, the majority of this stack, 20 of these 22 satellites, they're essentially just mass simulators. So, they're roughly the same size as those Starlink V3 sets that we're hoping to fly later this year.

[00:43:23]And from this top down view, so you're looking down at the stack, those two satellites you see on the very top that they'll look very different. They've got solar arrays. They've got a bunch of other deployables on them that we're going to be testing out that are going to be V3 tech. And they've got uh three engineering cameras and then one other camera that's hopefully going to be giving us some views of Starship in space.

[00:43:50]But we will we will see how that works.

[00:43:52]Again, this very much a tech demo. We're going to deploy those. The satellite's going to kind of try and turn everything on, look back at Starship. And the primary reason we're trying to do this is to get some views of the heat shield.

[00:44:11]>> All right, two more out the door.

[00:44:14]>> Two more out the door. And I think that counts or that comes up to eight total.

[00:44:24]>> As you can tell, the teams are stoked to see this demonstration happening. Uh it's it's pretty incredible to see this happening live from space. Now, as we noted earlier in the show, but worth repeating, this Starship version 3 is built to deploy up to 60 of Starlink's more advanced V3 satellites.

[00:44:45]Everything's V3 designed to offer 60 terabs per second of down link capacity per satellite. Now that is 20 times more than each Falcon 9 does today.

[00:44:58]Incredible.

[00:45:00]All right, I think that's number 10 going out the door.

[00:45:06]>> Yeah, there it goes.

[00:45:12]So yeah, the camera view you have on your left screen there is basically right at the bottom of the payload volume. So the kind of dome-shaped uh structure you see there is that's actually the top of the fuel tank.

[00:45:29]Then the camera view that you have on the right is an external camera that we have positioned so that you can see basically the light through the open PEZ dispenser door um that you see that's that sliver of light. We can see the Starlinks uh here deploying as each one comes through.

[00:45:54]>> Pretty exciting stuff here. This is going to be a new wave. We have 20 satellites simulator satellites.

[00:46:02]Two of these specially modified um as we call them dodger dogs here around here.

[00:46:08]Uh those as Dan mentioned earlier they have some V3 tech on them, some solar arrays and uh those will be the last two that will be deployed today.

[00:46:18]>> They will they will also have some cameras. I don't know with the darkness we're in the darkness of the earth right now. I think Dan called him turbocharged or supercharged uh PEZ dispenser. Uh it's definitely coming out much faster than our previous flights. So that is problems and stuff going here in this operation right now.

[00:46:40]>> And especially once we, you know, fill Starship up all the way with around 60 or so of these Starlinks, being able to deploy them fairly expediently, >> uh, you know, is going to be important for design the overall mission profile.

[00:46:54]>> Yeah.

[00:46:56]Now, fans of Starship may know that Starlink enables lots of unprecedented views both from space as we see here and on Earth. In addition to the dozens of cameras on Starship itself, we also have mobile Starlink camera kits deployed in the Indian Ocean.

[00:47:13]>> Those are on buoys.

[00:47:15]>> Yes. Starlink also connects our aerial cinematography units on the ground at Starbase Australia and at other strategic camera spots around Texas.

[00:47:25]It's all part of how it all comes together.

[00:47:28]>> I think we're getting down to the incredible story of Starship. Let's get some camera views of some sort. Yep.

[00:47:34]>> You can see on the right the camera view. There's one going out the the lit sat.

[00:47:38]>> We're getting low.

[00:47:41]Looks like we got two more of those simulators to go out >> and then it will be time >> for our dogs.

[00:47:52]Just a couple of updates while we continue to watch payload deploy. Did get confirmation we're going to be skipping >> that relight of the Raptor engine.

[00:48:02]>> Um just due to everything that we saw on the way uphill. Uh those sea level engines, we're going to use them for a landing burn though. They are still capable uh to be used for that. So we'll still look to do a controlled landing in the Gulf, >> but no in space relay. That previous uh shot was looking down through the the inside of the >> I think that's 19 and 20 camera view >> and then coming up are our Dodger dogs.

[00:48:36]So these are modified V2 Starlink satellites.

[00:48:40]>> These are the two. Okay, >> we do have a number of cameras on these that are going to attempt to look back at Starship. We're not going to get this video in real time, but we're going to try and turn it around if we do get some video down. So, we don't worry if we get views of Starship from these satellites, we will be sharing.

[00:49:05]And these these will be exciting because again, they're really a tech demo getting our chance to test out some of the the technologies for version three.

[00:49:20]All right, I think that's 18 and 20. My basic math skills are failing then. All right, here we go.

[00:49:32]We'll see what kind of camera view we get.

[00:49:41]The altitude that says off to the left 190, that's actually standing by 118 miles.

[00:49:47]>> Basically to serve the first Dodger dogs to low Earth orbit and run out the door.

[00:50:06]And from this view, you can kind of see on the right side of the satellite, you see some bright white spots. Those are our flashlights beneath them. The camera is going to attempt to look back and image Starship's heat shield as it flies slowly away from the vehicle.

[00:50:23]And there it goes.

[00:50:30]Wow.

[00:50:32]Let there be light.

[00:50:35]Yeah. Yeah, it almost looks like the light is just shining right at us there.

[00:50:45]>> If you couldn't tell, we're pretty excited.

[00:50:47]>> Yeah, >> it is always sunny in space.

[00:50:51]>> Always sunny in space. And that looks like an empty payload bay. So, sure does.

[00:50:56]>> That's exactly what you want to see there. That's great.

[00:50:59]>> So, yeah, with payload deploy complete.

[00:51:02]Oh, you can see the door closing there.

[00:51:04]All right, there we go. So, yeah, with payload deploy complete, Starship will now close it.

[00:51:16]>> Yeah, Starship, uh, we closed the payload door and we're going to continue to coast around Earth all the way to the Indian Ocean. So, still a lot of major events to come today. Sounds like we're not going to hit that Raptor relight um based on what Dan was saying. But after that, of course, we'll have the atmospheric re-entry and splashdown. And with that, we're going to go on another quick coast.

[00:51:38]>> So, sit tight, enjoy some amazing space views and the space jams, of course. And we'll be back in a few minutes for Raptor relight. Excuse me, not for the relight, but we'll be standing by for uh atmospheric re-entry.

[00:52:05]Okay. So, there's a flap of um the Starship 39.

[00:52:14]And uh we're seeing they're not going to start the uh restart one of the engines, but uh um let's go over to the uh NSF NSF folks here and see what they have to say about it as far as commentary here.

[00:52:36]So, let me bring that up.

[00:52:38]a reusable first stage and a reusable second stage with new thermal protection uh modern uh advances in in compute power and uh precision navigation and control. The the I mean this this is our science future that you're looking at.

[00:52:55]Uh this is this is not a a Robert Heinland book uh or an Arthur C. Clark book. I mean this this is this is what they had dreamed of and and what most of us have dreamed of for a long time.

[00:53:08]of really taking humanity to the stars.

[00:53:11]>> Absolutely.

[00:53:12]>> You can see they're rotating the ship >> in the in the graphic at the bottom right. And this light is actually from the satellites. They're they're shining this really bright light on the on the starship because obviously right now they're in nighttime orbital nighttime.

[00:53:27]There shouldn't be any sun out there.

[00:53:28]This is just like the satellites themselves, right? So, was that dot that we saw by the flap, was that the moon or was that one of the lights from the satellites?

[00:53:37]>> I think it was one of the satellites.

[00:53:38]Yeah, one of the lights from that.

[00:53:40]>> And it's rotating the ship. And so, they're they're able to image the whole of the of the heat shield at the bottom.

[00:53:47]Wow, that's that's bonkers. I wonder how powerful this this light is.

[00:53:53]>> I mean, that was part of one of their purposes, wasn't it? to be able to send up these two extra these these dodger dogs as they called them um to make sure that they could get the images they want of the heat shield which is exciting to see that this is going to plan for them >> and engineering data if you if you think back to Colombia >> uh had damage to the to the leading edge wing and and we didn't even really know it or at least we didn't know the extent of it uh before those astronauts re-entered the earth. So uh your heat shield is literally uh millimeters or very small number of inches between uh thousands of degrees of hot gas plasma uh directly blowtorrching against the spaceship and what amounts to aluminum underneath. Uh so you really have to understand what the condition of those heat shields are.

[00:54:44]>> Okay, those are the commentators there at >> returns and has a problem. You want to know what the condition of those thermal tiles were before you tried to reenter.

[00:54:53]So, >> what do we got going?

[00:54:54]>> To be able to have access to this kind of engineering data just continues to push.

[00:54:59]>> Go ahead and drop that right there.

[00:55:05]Okay. So, um I'm just checking the speed and the altitude here of um what do we have here? Basically, Starship is over the still in the Atlantic and over uh getting ready to fly over the southern tip of Africa from what it shows right there.

[00:55:29]So, we're going to go back to starship here or space.com um which has the basically the same map there, but we'll keep it on that page.

[00:55:41]And, uh that's the general loca. That's a location right there. So 26400 it's it's going 16,300 miles still and um they they've got it in kilometers and it looks like the altitude is dropping a little bit. We're at 170 kilometers above the Earth which is 105. So it's dropped like 10. It's starting to come down, I guess, as it's passing over the southern tip of Africa just by the speed indications there on the u on the lower right. They're do they have them in kilometers, but I'm I'm changing them out here on u on the u uh into miles per hour. So, uh, this is, uh, we're cruising through getting ready to fly over, um, the southern part of Africa and be starting to come down.

[00:56:35]It's a suborbital flight, so it's not fully orbital. There's been, from what I've seen, from my standpoint, there's been a few issues. They had uh, and booster 19, heavy booster 19 on liftoff, they had one of the uh, the engines there, the Raptor engines, um, that u wasn't lit. And they also had one of the uh one of the three larger uh engines uh on the Starship 39 that wasn't. So, I'm I'm just wondering if um not able to u that one engine didn't light uh is the reason why they didn't do because they do some testing and one of the the test benchmarks that they have is once they're in space they have to uh once they shut their engines down is to turn one of the engines back on and pretty much to demonstrate that they're they're capable of maneuverability right now. So basically just the inertia speed on on um launch as it gets up into space it's gliding around um but gravity is slowly bringing it down because we're at an altitude of 162. So that's showing a degrading of u the altitude. So 162 kilometers above the earth. It's at 100 miles above the earth. So it's starting to uh come down u noticeably as far as that goes. and uh and the speed is picking up now. So where when it was launching it seemed like the altitude was gaining and the speed was going lower. So now it's it's on its uh return time because you can see that the I'm just noticing this is as far as those numbers from an observer, you know, viewers aspect that the altitude is slowly declining where the speed is slowly increasing. So that would indicate it's it's probably making a return back to the Earth. So um but we're still in a good flight right now.

[00:58:32]And um uh the big test is when a um hopefully we get a camera view once it comes down and does a soft touchdown where they'll probably try and you know they'll be lighting the engines to uh keep it from u doing a um oh they had a term for it. I can't think of the term.

[00:58:52]um as far as a breakup and stuff like that of the the ship there.

[00:58:58]And the main thing as far as upon re-entry is this uh the heat shields. We probably hopefully the camera views will uh will hold to where once it starts coming in we're starting to see some orange air.

[00:59:11]So, and we're at 153 kilometers above. So, or no 153. So 153 is uh we're down to 95. So we're dropped uh in the last minute five uh 5T. So um and they're showing the inside of the uh Starship 39 in in the belly of the beast. Oh, that's the one. Oh, that's the one satellite that uh that left.

[00:59:43]Okay, there's a view from the satellite that left. And that little hose that's right off to the left, top left, that's one of those uh fuel point points they have. They have four of those. One top, there's one below. Wow, look at that view. That is something. Do we have any audio on this?

[01:00:02]Oh, it's just music. They're just showing it.

[01:00:07]That's something.

[01:00:13]And let's see, currently SpaceX uh Starship version 3 upper stage ship Starship 39 has successfully deployed all 22 of its dummy Starlink uh satellites. The process appears to be going smoothly smoothly and much faster than previously previous payload deployments. Starship has a narrow slit in the payload bay that we saw right there and we're seeing it again as far as as we watch it.

[01:00:41]Well, we did see that um the so-called Dodger dogs are and that's the one we saw leaving are models of SpaceX next generation Starlinks to fly on Starship.

[01:00:52]They turn on flashlights to look back at the ship in attempt to photograph its heat shield. As Starship or Starlink lights turn on, more cheers were ringing out. Starship 39 is now coasting um in an in a coast period uh ahead of re-entry around 7:35. So it's 7:10 right now. So that's in about 25 minutes Eastern time. SpaceX has decided to forego the in space Raptor engine relight and that's primarily because uh there might be an issue. You know, this is a test flight, so you're going to have things they're going to do and things they're not going to do.

[01:01:37]So, if it's making, let's see, what are we at? We're at 130 138 on altitude. So, it is dropping and our speed is increasing.

[01:01:49]So 138 is uh 85 miles above. So it's making entry. So we should be starting to see the heat shields. And that might be the orange glow there. That might be uh the heat buildup your engine. It was not needed >> u for our trajectory or anything. We are on this suborbital trajectory to splash down in the Indian Ocean. We are we are going to attempt a landing burn. Uh we'll see how they perform when we get there. And just a reminder, we're going to be we are going to be stressing the ship on the way in. We're going to intentionally do a maneuver where we're going to kind of pitch the nose up and deploy those a those bottom flaps uh to really put a lot of pressure on them.

[01:02:45]So, we'll see how it does through that maneuver and then we'll be doing kind of a final banking turn before we get to a landing burn. So, all that coming up in a few minutes. The light show should start beginning real soon.

[01:03:04]Okay, there we have it. The uh the light show is probably starting right now. We're getting ready to be seeing as a re-entry. You're seeing some flashes of orange. Uh want to say hi to um our good friend Deplorable on the Rumble. Hello. Good evening to you, sir.

[01:03:22]Glad to have you here coming in from Bradford, Pennsylvania. And Deplorable, for those people that are watching, is one of my regular viewers. So glad to have you here, Deplorable. And it looks like the the heat buildup on the shields, as you see the orange glow, that's on the the heat shields themselves. So, um you can see we're at 124 kilometers up from altitude, which uh it's dropping steady. It's at 77 uh miles above the Earth now. And the speed is going faster now as we're coming down. 26 628.

[01:04:00]Let's see. 26 628 and it's going 26.

[01:04:11]What was that number again? I can't read. 26 635 26 635.

[01:04:21]And that's approximately 16,500 miles it's going now. So, it's dropping in altitude, but it's picking up on speed.

[01:04:29]And the glow there is the re-entry.

[01:04:36]And let's see if we got any audio. No, they still got the music. So, but it's dropping down. So, we should be seeing um pretty much uh the plasma buildup on the heat shields on the bottom portion.

[01:04:52]And I've seen previous um flights where uh the view that they show where the flap the flap was just hanging on. by a thread, but it's still we're still operational though. So, uh, this is some exciting stuff to be watching here and we're an hour into the broadcast and I do appreciate the views. We got four people on Rumble. Thank you very much.

[01:05:12]We got uh, one person on uh, Twitch, one person on uh, on um, locals. Wow, we got 12 people on YouTube. Thank you, YouTube. Holy criminy. We got 12 folks.

[01:05:26]Thank you very much. Look at that number. 12. Wow. I think that's the most I've ever had on YouTube. Thank you very much, YouTube. Greatly appreciate it.

[01:05:39]And uh the glow right there, that's that's the heat shield starting to uh do what it's supposed to do, protect the undercarriage, underbelly of the uh Starship 39 as it's coming back in. Uh we're at 108 kilometers above the Earth, which is uh approximately 67 miles above the Earth right now.

[01:06:04]So it is making a a re-entry and there's some plasma buildup at the end the other end of the Starship.

[01:06:16]And it's pretty cool seeing the uh the start the S39. That's the the number designated for this. This is a version three. So this is a brand new uh new version, first of its kind there with the upgrades from all the they had the the original first version and version two, but this is the first version three that's made it into uh the outer limits or into outer space there on the outer atmosphere for a suborbital flight as it's uh making its way down.

[01:06:51]It's probably on the other side of the south south of portion of Africa coming over the Indian Ocean now.

[01:07:00]But we do have the plasma buildup now.

[01:07:08]And there's the flap right there. They have heat shields on the other side as a the benchmark, but um I've seen in previous flight that that flap right there has has gotten a little deteriorated in previous flat previous flights. So they've got some some outstanding camera views on this particular u uh flight there.

[01:07:31]Test flight number 12 it is. So they've this is the 12th one they've launched.

[01:07:43]I want to thank very much up to 15 viewers. I'm just noticing that number 15 viewers or no 13 viewers. I can look at my glass, but still it's uh we're we got quite a few YouTube viewers. And thank you very much, YouTube. Appreciate it. And uh we've got five people on Rumble, one person on local, and one person on Twitch. So for a total of 19 folks, thank you very much. Greatly appreciated. I am a space nut. I love I love watching these flights. The This is the future of spaceflight. this and as well as the Aremis uh program that NASA has.

[01:08:22]It'll be interesting to see what uh Blue Origin does as far as um they have launched they have a couple of rockets they have launched but they're not as active as SpaceX is.

[01:08:36]So you can see the plasma buildup. Let's see if we got any audio from uh the space SpaceX folks here.

[01:08:45]No, still got music over. Oh, okay. Over on the right, the lower right corner, I guess there is a um we're over Madagascar. So, um I just noticed that on the u I'm sort of focused in on the speed and the uh um the speed and the u altitude. But over on the right, it gives you the orientation of uh the starship as it's coming in along with the globe as far as that goes. Let me make this a little bit bigger so you can see that a little bit better. So there we go. And um and it's um it's sort of angled up as it's coming in and uh those heat shields are taking effect. You can see the glow.

[01:09:31]That's the plasma buildup on the bottom portion that's causing that glowing.

[01:09:35]And um the heat shields, they're they're pretty expensive on the heat shields this time around. Um just seems like they covered a lot more area, more intense. So um the little globe there is showing up. They're they're off in the middle of the Indian Ocean now coming down towards the uh it'll be probably about I I think uh in past flights they've been about 1,00 to,500 miles off of the west coast of uh of Australia.

[01:10:12]>> So let's see what we got here for an update.

[01:10:16]Welcome back to Starship Flight 12, the first test flight of Starship version 3.

[01:10:22]>> As Dan mentioned earlier, we were able to make contact with the modified satellites just shortly after deployment. And as you may have seen, we got some sweet views of those sats looking back at the ship. Pretty cool to see.

[01:10:36]>> Yeah, those views were incredible.

[01:10:38]>> Now, as you see on your screen, currently the ship is re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. This is the plasma starting to build up on the exterior of the vehicle. Now, we do not plan to recover the spacecraft today, but rapid and reliable reusability is the ultimate goal.

[01:10:53]>> Yeah, that's right. And re-entry is a critical phase of flight, and we need information on how the ship systems perform. Re-entry is an extremely demanding portion of flight where we essentially have to scrub all of the energy we use to launch the rocket back off in reverse. So the 18 million pounds of thrust that we had off 33 of those Raptor engines, >> just a little, >> just a little, we're now and then another, you know, several minute burn on the ship, we're now basically undoing all that energy here, uh, via aerodynamic braking essentially.

[01:11:28]And of course, Starlink is a big part of it as that's what allows us to actually gather this data and show these live views.

[01:11:39]And again, the data gathering is really the main reason why we're doing these flight tests. So, Starlink provides us just one more path to collect that data that ultimately allows us to rapidly iterate Starship's design. Now, if ship manages to make it all the way through re-entry, we'll collect valuable data on the spacecraft flying through the Earth's atmosphere at these hypersonic speeds, uh, which is basically more than five times the speed of sound. Now, we do anticipate that it might be a little bit of a spicy re-entry. So, we'll see how far we get. Re-entry is typically a portion of flight where we don't have communications with the spacecraft because it's re-entering at or around orbital velocity roughly 8 kilometers per second. Uh, or for those of us that think in other units, roughly 5 miles per second. At those speeds, the spacecraft is moving through the atmosphere and it creates that plasma field that we saw uh forming around the vehicle.

[01:12:36]>> Yeah. And although the plasma looks really cool, uh it does distort some communication frequencies. So, it's not uncommon to experience brief blackouts in communication.

[01:12:51]I just think it's >> of course thinking long term here.

[01:12:54]Starship is designed to land on Mars where there are no runways or other humans to help out.

[01:13:00]>> That's why we're going with the propulsive landing instead of a more traditional means like parachutes.

[01:13:07]Propulsive landing. Not only again is it more cool, but it enables a rapid uh a more rapidly reasonable uh rocket.

[01:13:15]>> Yeah. Now, we should hear some call outs as the ship makes its way back to Earth.

[01:13:21]When we hear entry max heating and entry max Q, that means the ship has made it through the maximum heating and aerodynamic loads that it will experience as it's as it returns. So, if we make it through those, we're doing pretty well.

[01:13:36]>> Yeah.

[01:13:37]And you can see in the bottom left right now we're at 23 and a half,000 kilometers per hour uh speed. That's just crazy number to think about. Um but as we keep progressing the mission, we are going to hear a call out when the ship is transsonic and then subsonic.

[01:13:58]So transsonic refere ref refers to the period of flight where the velocities of air flow surrounding and flowing past the vehicle are concurrently below at and above the speed of sound kind of in that Mach 0.8 to 1.2 range. And for reference commercial jets have a range of cruising speeds but mostly fly around Mach 74 to Mach 85.

[01:14:27]And after we hear the call out that Starship is transsonic, we should hear the call out when Starship is subsonic.

[01:14:34]This refers to speeds that are much less than the speed of sound. So at this point in the flight, ship's velocity will be slowing down.

[01:14:45]Now we definitely have a crowd still here in the lobby of uh SpaceX headquarters down here at Starbase, Texas. Everyone is, you know, loves watching ship re-entry. It's always such amazing colors. It This must be what it feels like to be one of those uh praying mantis shrimp or mantis shrimp. I'm not remember exactly what the name is, but the ones that see and billions of colors. This is the closest I feel to being one of those.

[01:15:15]>> Yep. Yep. I think one other thing that's cool to point out right now is uh look in the bottom right, you can see where we are on a globe there. We're squarely in the Indian Ocean already and we've only been flying for 53 minutes. So, pretty crazy. We went all the way from Texas to the Indian Ocean in less than an hour.

[01:15:35]>> Yeah, she flies pretty fast.

[01:15:37]>> She flies very fast.

[01:15:52]All right. So, the light show continuing. We are through the period of peak heating and we'll be looking at the peak pressure coming up in the next couple of minutes. The next 10 minutes are probably going to be the spiciest of entry today. As a reminder, we are going to be doing uh some stress work on this ship where we're going to do a maneuver where we kind of uh kick the nose up to fully deploy those a flaps >> uh to really test of the structural strength of that part of the ship. We did that on one previous flight test on version two.

[01:16:28]We're going to try and do that today.

[01:16:29]This is where the most >> since we did the inspace burn, we're carrying a little bit of extra propellant in our header tanks up in the nose and so that's going to put a little bit of extra stress on those forward flaps as we come in. So, we will see if they're able to hold through through that re-entry. Um, so that will be another watch item. We did skip that in space burn. Uh but we are expecting at least two of those sea level engines to try and ignite for a landing burn. Um we entered the entry period in a good attitude. Um so hopefully making our way to the targeted splashdown point. We've got that Starship recovery team standing by and we should be about 10 minutes away from splashdown. So lot of excitement over the next couple of minutes. Kate and Jake, let's see how Starship holds up on the way in.

[01:17:27]>> Yeah, and we just heard on the nets there that engine chill has started. So, essentially what that means is we are prepping the landing engines by getting them down to temperature ahead of that landing burn later in the mission here.

[01:17:47]And on a lot of our previous flight tests, we've been removing a bunch of the tiles. If you've watched those, we were really intentionally trying to push ship beyond its limits. Uh on the last flight, we even had uh basically a hole get punched into the liquid oxygen tank that you could see when we did the landing burn into the ocean and this ship was still able to make it. Uh but right now we're we're really going to be testing the structural strength of these flaps on the way in. And we're this is a flight test. We're trying to intentionally find where our limits are.

[01:18:21]And in this view, you're looking at a whole bunch of tiles. I think Jake talked about it earlier. We bonded some additional tiles to uh the the leeward or kind of the metal.

[01:18:32]>> We saw those tiles on the top side of the of uh the flap there. But uh just give you the latest Starships uh SpaceX Starship version three number 39 is beginning re-entry with plasma blooming around the flaps. It should make water landing and splash down in the ocean if all goes to plan. And uh there's a couple things that haven't gone to plan and that is the u um the relight of the uh engine. So let's go ahead and get back to the commentary here. Les than 60 km.

[01:19:15]>> It's roughly 35 miles above the Earth right now.

[01:19:20]>> All right, we're about 8 minutes away from our targeted landing and splashdown time. Again, this is when the ship's going to start really ship is approaching the end of the peak heating region.

[01:19:33]Just heard the call out getting to the end of the peak heating. So the the highest temperature sh the starship's going to see during its re-entry.

[01:19:54]>> You can see off to the left just uh right where that bump is off to the left. one of those white is attached to the forward flap on Starship. So, we're actually experiencing the articulation of that hardware helping to steer the ship down for its precise landing in the Indian Ocean.

[01:20:18]>> Yep. That is just a really cool uh kind of cool piece of perspective there. I know some people say it makes them a little seasick, but I definitely love it. makes it feel like you're, you know, you're really riding along with the ship on the way down.

[01:20:33]>> Yeah. And aside from just looking cool, all these camera views providing just really critical data on how the heat shield, how the flaps themselves are holding up. It's why we've got these in the flaps and then all scattered all around the ship so you can see how they hold up. There's some internal to the vehicle too that and we're getting all of this video back via Starlink even as we're just enshrouded in plasma. We're able to operate at a high enough frequency to punch through. And that is blue ocean and sunlight you're seeing just beyond the flap. So, we are coming down into daylight hopefully splashing down in the next six minutes or so in the in the Indian Ocean. Uh we've we've still got a couple of maneuvers lined up where we're going to be really stressing the flaps on the ship. So >> ship has passed through the peak heating region. External temperatures are coming down.

[01:21:29]>> Wow, that is incredible news. As Dan mentioned, we were expecting this re-entry to be super spicy. Uh but excellent news that we're now past that period of peak heating and that now the external temperatures are starting to decrease.

[01:21:47]those heat shield tiles there on the belly of the ship really doing a ton of work to burn off all of that inertia that the vehicle had uh prior to re-entering the atmosphere.

[01:22:03]>> Yeah. And you can tell by the Gmemeter down on the bottom right that we're starting to pick up a couple more G's here. So, we're definitely entering the thicker part of the atmosphere where we're scrubbing off all that energy.

[01:22:15]like Kate's saying.

[01:22:22]>> All right, just about five minutes or so to go. We're coming up shortly on the the maneuver where we're going to it's affectionately called the the flap slap where we're going to kind of pitch the nose up on the ship and you're going to see those a half flaps, the ones in the very bottom, fully deploy.

[01:22:44]Ship is at peak dynamic pressure >> and we're now at peak pressure.

[01:22:54]>> Ship flap load test has started.

[01:23:00]>> Those flaps, that flap looks like an excellent condition right now compared to previous flights from what I've seen.

[01:23:06]Yeah, it's just uh it's moving around.

[01:23:08]Um they they haven't lost any tiles.

[01:23:11]this particular picture we're looking at right now, you see that little white one in the lower right hand corner.

[01:23:16]>> Looks like it's holding.

[01:23:17]>> It seems like the the heat shield is uh the heat tiles.

[01:23:21]>> Again, the intent of that was to put just a lot of extra stress on those a flaps. We are expecting the forward ones too to see a little bit of extra stress as we've got more propellant in our header tank. So, the area right at the very nose of >> SHO test is complete.

[01:23:40]>> And we're through that test.

[01:23:42]>> There we go. And we just did that test at Mach 7, just for reference there. So, we are still going incredibly fast.

[01:23:50]>> Wow, that's something.

[01:23:57]>> All right, we are just about three and a half minutes or so away from our targeted landing burn. Again, we're expecting to try and see two of these Raptor engines light for the landing burn. Normally, we plan for three, but we're going to give it a try with two.

[01:24:17]>> Hopefully, we've got starting the RTLS banking maneuver.

[01:24:25]>> And that right there. So, we're starting a a banking maneuver. And essentially what that is is when we come back to Starbase or when we plan to come back to Starbase, the trajectory is designed so we'll essentially swing out over the Gulf and do a swoop maneuver to then come back to the towers for catch. And so we are doing that exact same maneuver as we head towards our targeted splash down in the Indian Ocean.

[01:24:57]>> Yeah. Yeah, and that call out there that we heard, uh, RTLS stands for return to launch site. So, definitely a pretty cool thing we're demoing here on the ship, you know, as in the future we are going to be trying to bring the ship back to the launch site, which is going to be absolutely insane.

[01:25:14]>> Absolutely. But, of course, we want to test out these maneuvers, these principles prior to actually bringing the hardware back to the pad. This is the same reason why we were um you know intentionally not trying to bring the booster back to the pad. So we're trying all these things out in this developmental phase of the vehicle uh and you know really proving what a test flight is.

[01:25:38]>> Absolutely.

[01:25:39]>> Dynamic pressure is coming down.

[01:25:42]>> All right. We heard there dynamic pressure coming down and I'd say we're in a pretty good bank right now.

[01:25:48]>> Yeah. executing.

[01:25:50]>> He's looking pretty good right now, folks, compared to previous >> 90 seconds away.

[01:25:54]>> You can see some charing there. That's due to >> clouds coming up. Pretty sunrise on the other side of the planet.

[01:26:00]>> But um Starship is subsonic and is on target.

[01:26:10]The crowd here reacting to that call out letting us know that we are on target for this precise landing in the Indian Ocean. This will once again be a soft splashdown.

[01:26:23]We should get some pretty cool views from the recovery team who we chatted with earlier. They are standing by to receive this ship.

[01:26:32]>> Okay, the latest update on space.com.

[01:26:35]SpaceX reports Starship uh version 3 ship has passed the peak of heating and re-entry and is approaching splashdown zone in the Indian Ocean. Ship has uh its flaps in load at Mach 7. Landing burn is in minutes away and it's going it will go through the the banking move its uh use for a good engine and landing burn. So, um, it's, uh, we're coming back down to Earth.

[01:27:06]>> Amazing views of the Earth as the ship is coming back home.

[01:27:13]Thanks, Starlink.

[01:27:22]>> Yeah, you can see the aft flap there making minor corrections.

[01:27:26]>> Starship is turning for final approach to landing site. Look at that turn.

[01:27:30]>> There we go. Minor corrections and a full turn.

[01:27:33]>> Oh, that's cool. That is cool right there, folks. That's a >> starship doesn't fly like an airplane.

[01:27:39]Just a lot more like a skydiver.

[01:27:41]>> Wow.

[01:27:42]>> Full belly flop on the way down using those flaps. Similar to arms to help change the the the path of the air over you. Coming up real soon.

[01:27:53]Again, going for a landing burn. Trying to light two of these Raptor sea level engines. A mile up. Mile and a half up off the earth.

[01:28:02]>> Landing burn start.

[01:28:04]>> Landing burn start up.

[01:28:07]>> Two engine flip.

[01:28:14]Successful.

[01:28:17]>> Oh wow.

[01:28:20]That was cool folks.

[01:28:24]It's your time.

[01:28:30]>> Oh.

[01:28:35]Oh, wow.

[01:28:42]Good flight. Starship 39 version three.

[01:28:46]Big bang at the end.

[01:28:52]It's exactly what we wanted to see for the ship. Weird as it may sound to to to hear, but it is the truth.

[01:29:01]>> Absolutely wild. We, you know, at the beginning of the show, >> we're pretty hyped.

[01:29:09]>> We guaranteed excitement at the beginning of the show and I'd say Starship delivered.

[01:29:14]>> Absolutely.

[01:29:16]An incredible day for Starship. That was the first flight of that completely redesigned vehicle. Uh, as you could tell, the teams are incredibly proud of, uh, what we just saw.

[01:29:29]>> Yeah, V3 definitely showed up. That was that was amazing.

[01:29:32]>> Yeah.

[01:29:33]>> Yeah. We've, uh, pretty happy crowd in the control room behind me. I will say it's probably the most excited I've seen a lot of people in a in a really long time. Uh, on target landing.

[01:29:47]Wow. Uh, actually, let's let's jump over. Hey, Tyler, how's everyone holding up in Hawthorne?

[01:29:54]>> We're having a great time, Dan. Thank you so much. That was another exciting Starship flight in the books, and we hope that you enjoyed those awesome Starlink views. So, congratulations to the team at Starbase and everyone here and around the company. So many.

[01:30:07]>> All right, folks. Um, that's the end of the broadcast or that's the end of their broadcaster wrapping up there with with a big boom there as far as what deplorable says. Um, let me bring this up here and uh what was it? Deplorable boom. Yeah, that that's we never had that type of view.

[01:30:26]They they must have had like a drone sitting up top and u as far as that goes deplorable. Uh it just uh some unique shot, some unique pictures that I have never seen before on the previous 11 launches and stuff and uh and of course uh the chance USA. USA. Yes, thank you for the American flags deplorable. Thank you very much, my friend. Um so that was pretty exciting as far as the flight. Um I think there was there might have been, you know, this is a test flight, so they're taking a lot of the data. Um, one of the things I observed it went up and you could noticeably see it decreasing once it got past um, passing over south the south portion of the continent of Africa. And um, and you know and that indicate you know the speed was going up but the altitude was going was the speed was going up and the altitude was coming down. So it was basically coming down where it was the opposite when it was launching and stuff like that. So, um, and I didn't notice until about more than halfway where the where the they had an indicator down over here in this corner, uh, of the the screen. So, uh, um, let me see. I got to rearrange this as far as that goes. I don't really like that right there. It should go. Yeah, I got to move that around, I guess.

[01:31:50]But, uh, this has been, you know, even though the spaceship, you know, the the heavy booster is probably more or less in the same type of condition as a starship when it came down in the, uh, the the Gulf of America and u as far as exploding and stuff like that that but they they're collecting data to where um um for future flights uh to eventually make this spacecraft safe.

[01:32:15]Um, after seeing that picture of the Starship just touching down and then tipping over and then it exploded, it just uh um one would say, "Well, that doesn't look safe to me." It's a test flight and test flights are expected that. So, it's it's successful that it got it off the ground. Um, pretty much the same flight plan as they had in the previous ones and um uh deplorables. Yeah, I thought it was super cool, too. Deplorable.

[01:32:44]Yeah, very much so. I thought that was super cool. So, uh um do uh say congratulations to the folks at StarX or SpaceX um as far as working on the Starship there. And uh um we'll see wait and see how long it will be for the next one here that uh they may have. And I thought that was neat like they're showing it right now here the satellite coming out. We've never had that view before right there. And that is that is that is super cool. That is way super cool cuz that view right there that is a ex a a a totally new view for these type of flights and stuff like that. And um to be able to see that that that was uh pretty neat to see. And there's the slit where the the uh Starlink satellites were going out of. So um um but that's about it. Uh we're on for about an hour and a half, which is uh about the norm for these flights. uh um as and uh that the heat shield I got to say the heat shield in my view it just it worked great as far as that goes and uh um I I just thought that was fantastic and uh let me go ahead and shut all these down.

[01:33:57]I guess they're getting ready to wrap up and stuff like that. So um but we're going to go ahead and uh wrap this up. I I do appreciate you being here deplorable. Glad to have you and uh you have a good weekend. I I take it. You're not at the camp yet. You said you were going camping. It's not raining here.

[01:34:16]Or is it?

[01:34:20]No, we got cloudy skies and stuff like that. Um, so I know you said it was going to be raining. You're going to be out camping and stuff. And uh, let's see. I got to bring that just down a tad more. Let's see if I can bring that down just a tad more. Seeing that I'm up here. Let's see. Can I bring that down to one?

[01:34:39]No, that goes too far. I don't want Okay, we'll just have to leave it right there. I think that'll work right there.

[01:34:46]So, um, we're going to go ahead and end the broadcast here. I would say, "Thank you very much, Deplorable again." Oh, it's sprinkling there. Okay. Not yet.

[01:34:55]Yeah, you said this morning on the morning broadcast, morning coffee show there that it's sprinkling. Okay. Yeah, I'm looking out my way. We're We're getting that weather coming our way. Uh for those folks that are watching and watching the replay, deplorable there.

[01:35:09]He's he's out in Bradford, Pennsylvania, which is about three mile drive west of where I'm at here in the southern tier of upstate New York. So, uh he's right down the road. And uh again, loving the flags. God bless America. Isn't it great to see something like that to, you know, um we've come a long way in um in space uh technology, I guess you could say, and that this uh the Starship with the heavy booster is just phenomenal. So, um okay, folks, I'm Rich Roberts um here on uh the Rumble using Rumble 2.0 and we appreciate Rumble for uh um providing us with the platform here. greatly appreciate it and it's always fun using it to to to sit down watch this this is history folks this is space history uh right at our being able to watch this because uh back in the day back in the 60s when they had the Mercury Gemini and the beginning of the Apollo I remember I was just a um a young kid there and uh you just had to depend on uh CBS ABC and you didn't get this type of coverage as far as uh right there looking down the belly of the beast there in a matter of speaking there on the um the the Starlink satellites there that they were deploying. So u I do appreciate your views and um the weekend's here so I I'll probably be doing some type of broadcasting gaming wise or something like that. So, uh, um, you can follow or check me out, um, on these, uh, platforms, Rumble, Locals, YouTube, and, uh, Twitch, and check out the links to other social media feeds that I'm on.

[01:36:51]And I'm on a whole bunch, a whole host of other social media feeds or, uh, platforms. I can't name them all. Just Google Fireman Rich and you'll see where else I'm at. I'm always used to saying that. So, um, we're going to go ahead and exit stage uh, left here or stage right, whatever you want to say. And uh we're gonna um say a good I appreciate the views as far as that goes and u this has been fun and uh I look forward to the next launch as far as we'll have to change the numbers over here on the the patch that I made up and um change it to uh test flight number 13 as far as that goes and see what starship I think it's going to be. I haven't heard any numbers as far as the next shift. It probably be ship 39, booster 19 or 18 or 20 or something like that. So, um, but it'll be uh test flight number 13, the lucky 13 flight next time. So, that should be interesting. All right, folks. You all have a good one wherever you may be.

[01:37:52]Live life, have fun, ciao for now. As always, peace and uh take care. Have a great evening and a great weekend.

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