Now, uh we've already validated starships ability to fly uh and land at subsonic speeds. You might recall those suborbital flights from a few years ago and you can see those flaps there. So getting data on aspects like heating and control while traveling way faster than we did before is going to be critical to eventually bringing starships back from space for rapid reuse. So I mentioned those flaps. That's one of the things that enable starship to help control itself and, and survive the heat of reentry, which like we said before, we're expecting that re entry to occur around t plus 49 minutes. So we're getting pretty close and what you're seeing here, it looks like the vehicle is sort of moving back and forth. Part of what you're also seeing is one of the cameras this on board view that we have is on the end of a flap. Starship has front flaps and rear flaps in the vehicle. Um So we've got four of those and, 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. Like we said, this plasma field is v what is 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 starlink stars are still communicating and still 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 biggest flying object ever in space. Absolutely Kate. And it's important to note the ascent burn that we did was to get us two orbital velocities even though we were on a nearly orbital trajectory. So the heating and the loads that starship is going through right now would be getting if it were recovering from an orbital mission and just the fact that we have used your entry. This is incredible. Yeah. Again, this is the furthest and fastest that starship has ever. And you can definitely tell by the uh the crowd here in ha the heat chill tiles doing their work. We talked about it earlier uh up to 2600 °F that those heat chill tiles are dissipating as we are reentering. Yeah. Now this was one of the critical or rather the key mission objectives that we were hoping to hit today. We have never, like I said before. This is the fastest and furthest starship has ever flown. So this is the first time that we're getting to collect this reentry data and understand how these 18,000 hexagonal heat shield tiles are working together to protect the belly of starship as it re enters the earth's atmosphere. Once again, the atmosphere is doing us a favor. The atmosphere is actually doing us a huge favor here by acting as a braking system for starship as it re enter 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 so they can absorb the heat of the earth's atmosphere. And so that's the purpose that they are serving during the hypersonic phase. And then again, during the, so like we said, these views are being provided by a couple of starling terminals that are positioned on starship itself as that plasma builds. We're hoping that we can bring these views back to you, but you can see the telemetry there on the right hand side of your screen, if you watch closely, you can see the speed decelerating. Again, that's the friction of the atmosphere resulting in this plasma field or excuse me, the blanket that is potentially blocking the starling terminals right now. So we'll bring those views back to you if we get
