Blastoff! SpaceX Starship launches to space on 3rd integrated test flight

a minute away don't be shocked if we hold at 40 seconds before but it sounds like the winds are cooperating today and we be able to move right past that not tracking any other technical issues that could hold past our cue vent gate CU pass 42 play director Ty Huntington telling the team we are go for laun so 20 seconds to go let's listen in t 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 3 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 ship avionics power and Telemetry nominal acquisition of signal Corpus gy continuing to get good call outs our trajectory looking nominal systems looking nominal just amazing to see all 33 lit up once [Applause] [Music] [Applause] again this we've already passed through Max q 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 now the me 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 Mo 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 arvac first the sea levels right after that the sea level engines will be sped or just kind of pointed out at about a 15° angle so if you look close we get good tracking you might be able to see those center right after and so so those six engines will push Starship off of the booster all right counting down now we're going to be coming up right around the three minute 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 into the Boost back burn setting it up for eventual splash down in the Gulf of Mexico separation start it hot staging confirmed boosters now making its way back seen 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 oh man uh I need a moment to pick my jaw up from the floor because these views are just stunning uh these are live views from Starship uh first stage is currently performings power and Telemetry nominal good there news informing us at the second stage or the ship everything looking good nominal there first stage is currently performing the the Boost back burn expecting that to last about 1 minute that boost back burn uh that boost back burn propels the booster back towards the coast taking it to a landing in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico uh we're only using the super heavy boosters 13 Center engines from here on out uh as whenever they relight you'll be able to see that in the left bottom corner uh those are the ones that can gimble in other words they move and change direction uh in order to 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 Boost back burn uh 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 uh to help slow it down now just as a reminder of the stage one test objectives uh we're looking for controlled Ascent which we have so far uh stage separation which Gorge we Cruise right through it uh as well as a nominal trajectory good news there telling us that the path that Starship is on uh is good now Starship second stage is still firing its engines and as you heard following planned flight path uh the ship objectives we're looking for hot staging again Cruis right through that we're looking to demonstrate controlled Ascent as well as orbital insertion now the bottom right hand corner of your screen shows the ship uh engine Graphics so be sure to keep an eye on those yep 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 uh Raptor sea level engines we're about 30 seconds away uh just 30 seconds away from the start of the Boost back burn uh excuse me the landing burn on the booster you can see the grid fins rotating those Hypersonic grid fins are guiding us through the atmosphere back towards our splash down 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 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 [Applause] engines and acquisition of signal let's 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 this burn lasting uh about 6 minutes total and we're expecting that this burn will end uh just after t plus 8 minutes about a minute from now so far though I mean congrats to the team making it this far is farther that we than we've gone on flight two just wonderful views and great engine performance from the vehic so far we've hit controlled Ascent we're in the middle of that right now we demonstrated the hot staging Kate as you said cruise through that uh we demonstr ated controlled entry of the the booster just dropped 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 uh our mission control center at Starbase uh where vehicle operators are standing by now the next Milestone coming up uh is in less than a minute uh at that point ship will or I'm sorry actually it already has um ship engine cut off there we go as you heard there by the callout and from the crowd behind us 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 danad uh I'm just completely blown away right now uh what a day congratulations to the entire SpaceX team I mean this this flight pretty much just started but we're farther than we've ever been before we've got a Starship not just in space but on its Coast phase into space just to recap where we've come and the it's only been 9 and a half minutes how has it only been 9 and half minutes we lifted off right on time at uh 8:25 a.m. we didn't have to hold at our gate at all we had 33 out of 33 Raptor engines open up uh and light and get us through a nominal Ascent another successful hot stage all six engines on the ship propelling us into orbit we did see a n what looked like a nominal boost back burn uh 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 uh we'll have to go through the data to figure out exactly what happened obviously um so be on the lookout for information about that but uh wow uh a ship in space we've got a bunch of as we said ambitious objectives ahead of us um over 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 uh including that first ever Raptor relight in space so it's just going to be incredible so all of that still to come the mission just started but wow uh what what a liftoff what a what a hot stage what a what an amazing site to see Starship there in outer space

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Length: 11min 48sec (708 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 14 2024