Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Watch SpaceX Starship Reach Space in 3rd Test Flight (Supercut)”.
Two 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 30 seconds into flight. We are feeling the rumble we are seeing: 33 out of 33 Raptor engines ignited on the super heavy booster booster and Shi AV power and Telemetry nominal. This point we’ve already passed through Max that maximum Dynamic pressure and passing supersonic so we’re now moving faster than the speed of sound getting those onboard views from the ship cameras all right counting down. Now we’re going to be coming up right at around the 3 minute mark on that hot staging maneuver again we’ll see the booster engin 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 into the Boost back burn setting it up for eventual splash down in the Gulf of Mexico. Separation set hot staging confirmed booster now, making its way back, seeing six engines ignited on ship Kate.
We got a Starship on its way to space and a booster on the way back to the gulf. Everything is looking good for both the first stage. On the left hand, side of your screen or the superheavy booster, as well as on the right hand, side of your screen that is Starship or we Al referred to that as the ship. So for landing burn. We’Re going to expect to see the 13 Center engines light rapidly bring down the boosters velocity and then just the three in the center for Flash down. Let’S see if that’ll work we’re getting a few a few engines and acquisition of signal we’ll see if we can get some other video of that now uh.
This is a test objective today. It is still something that we’re attempting to learn um and to make it that far to demonstrate the controlled re-entry up to that point is pretty darn good ship continuing to look nominal with its Ascent burn engine cut off there. We go as you heard there, by the callout and from the crowd behind starship’s six Raptor engines have successfully shut down. We heard a call out for nominal orbital insertion, which is incredible.
Look at these views dad. I I can’t believe s in in space. This is awesome. Wonderful now we are going to be coasting for uh, the next about 30 minutes or so we’ll be back around the t, plus 40 minute Mark and that’ll, be uh Starship continuing to Coast, hit those ambitious test objectives and then continue on to re-entry.
Oh man, we can see the heating on those flaps as we’re starting to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. This is where the Earth’s atmosphere is doing the work to slow us down. Uh now, like we said the this plasma field, wow is wow what a view we hope to maintain these views throughout Starship is so big that we’re hoping that the plasma field doesn’t entirely blanket the entire vehicle right now it is not the star. Links are brought to you by staring yeah, the starlings are still communicating and still uh capturing the data and the video that we see here I mean Shiva. This is just absolutely incredible views. We’Ve never seen anything like this before this is the the biggest flying on object ever in space absolutely K, and – and it’s important to note, with the ascent burn that we did was to get us to orbital velocities, even though we were on a nearly orbital trajectory.
So the heating and the loads that Starship is going through right now or what it would be getting if it were recovering from an orbital Mission and and just the fact that we have viewed through entry. This is incredible yeah again, this is the furthest and fastest that Starship has ever flown, and you can definitely tell by the uh the crowd here in Haw, the heat chill tiles doing their work. We talked about it earlier, uh up to 2600 de F that those heat chill tiles are dissipating as we are re-entering. The atmosphere is actually doing us a huge favor here by acting as a braking system for Starship um as it re-enters the atmosphere and that’s part of the reason why the flaps are so important. We’Re using the body of Starship and the drag from the atmosphere to slow us down from orbital speed, but you want the vehicle to remain stable. You want those heat shield, tiles pointed down uh, so they can absorb the heat of the Earth’s atmosphere uh. For now, though, we are just still waiting to see if we’re going to get some signal back we’re currently at a loss of signal with Starship uh, don’t know for sure what its status is and so we’re just continuing to listen in. But it was pretty incredible. Seeing the flaps really do their thing to maneuver the vehicle as it’s moving through Hypersonic, we are making the call now that we have lost ship 28, so uh as we were possibly expecting. We lost the data.
A couple of minutes ago we haven’t heard from the ship uh up until this point, and so the team has made the call that ship uh has been lost, so no splash down today, uh, but again, just it’s incredible to see how much further we got. This time around .