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Plasma building around ship as it re-enters now!





EDIT: Getting spicy

this is some crazy starlink advertising

It is in the middle of burning up but somehow the footage is still coming in.

And in the most hilarious fashion the second stage managed to reach the ocean in a (semi?) controlled manner!

A terrific test all in all, and some pretty spectacular shots, courtesy of Starlink. Congrats on everyone involved, onwards!

- Booster splashdown at about T+7:30, Ship engine cutoff at 151 km
- Starship splashdown in Indian Ocean, mostly intact, with landing burn just before splashdown
- 1 raptor engine on both the booster (32/33) and ship (12/13) didn't light but it's close enough
- Starlink capabilities

Some very significant demonstrations today

You could actually see the metal of one of the flaps (?) on starship melt away in real time. Pretty wild. I will try to find a capture of it on Twitter and update this post with it.

Dante80 said:

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Yeah, that wasn't even the worst of it! but from what you could see the wing super structure looked to be intact? I am not sure if footage of that exists or if they will attempt to recover the starship from the ocean?

Footage of the successful soft landing. You can really see the damage to the flap here, but amazingly the control surface still seems to be functioning.