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VIDEO - LAUNCH ! SpaceX Starship Flight 6 · Elon Musk Podcast

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The Super Heavy booster at the launch tower, as well as.
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654321. Vehicle is pitching down range.
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Booster Raptor shimmer pressure nominal.
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Booster and ship avionics, power and telemetry Nominal
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field just a little over a minute.
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Maximum dynamic pressure about 6 miles away.
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So all the sounds still hitting us here, hearing good call outs
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that power telemetry nominal, that's flying straight and true.
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We do see all 33 Raptor engines lit up on telemetry screens this
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point. We've passed through that point
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of maximum aerodynamic pressure that Max Q now coming up in just
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a little over a minute from now is going to be hot staging.
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So we're going to see the six engines on the ship a night
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while still attached to the booster.
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Just before that, we'll see all but three center engines on the
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booster shut down and what we call Miko, it's most engines cut
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off instead of main engine. And so while we continue to
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watch it go up a lot of our flight controllers looking at
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all the systems around the tower again, we have to send a manual
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command just about 30 seconds away from hot staging.
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And we heard, we heard the tower is go for catch.
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The return flag is set for true ship engine start up stage
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separation. All right hot staging confirmed
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6 out of 6 lit on the ship booster boost back going.
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We heard that we are go for catch Kate Jesse take other
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views. Hopefully I got a booster coming
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home real soon. Wow.
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From our view here, Dan, great views of planet Earth behind
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that super heavy booster. Right now it is performing the
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boost back. Burn.
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Good news there, telling us that the the pressures inside the
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ship are good. That is the second stage or the
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upper portion of the vehicle. Follow along with the telemetry
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on the bottom of your screen. Yeah, Booster is currently a
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super heavy, is currently in its boost back burn, this boost back
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burn. Economics Power Telemetry
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Nominator. This boost back burn lasts just
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a little bit over a minute. So we've got a little
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approximately 30 seconds left we've.
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Had shut down of that boost back burn.
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Next will be hot stage jettison the view from the camera on the
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left or from the booster on the left hand side of your screen
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and then tracking Cam there on the right hand side of your
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screen. We'll see those grid fins.
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Booster. Offshore divert.
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And we can also see that the hot stage has been jettisoned.
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Yes, visual confirmation of that there on your screen, which is
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great. Now the next.
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Starship is following a nominal trajectory.
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The next step for Booster is going into that landing burn
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again. It'll light up 13 of those
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engines and then pair down to three engines right before
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Booster. Catch all right.
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Now just real quick, we did hear the call out boost back or
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excuse me booster offshore divert.
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Unfortunately that means that we are no go for the catch.
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As we said before, both the tower and the vehicle as well as
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the operators on console have been actively evaluating the
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commit criteria for that return to the launch tower and
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unfortunately we did not have a pass on those commit criteria.
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So we are no go for tower catch. And we did mention that we're
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constantly evaluating the criteria for catch.
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There's a lot of things that need to go well in order to line
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that up. Unfortunately, today we will
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forgo booster catch today. But what you're seeing on your
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screen is ship currently making its way towards the Indian
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Ocean. Still looking good so far.
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Exactly. So views there of the booster on
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the left hand side of your screen, views of the ship on the
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right hand side of your screen. Now we said before that it was
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not guaranteed that we would be able to make a a tower catch
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today. So, well, we were hoping for it.
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Like we said, it was pretty epic on attempt one.
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But the safety of the teams and the public and and and the pad
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itself are paramount. So we are accepting no
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compromises in any of those areas.
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Exactly. And we're still going to get a
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lot of good flight data with booster even but especially with
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ship. Again we have an additional
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objective today to do an in space relight of a Raptor engine
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which again will help us set us up for being able to do deorbit
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burns which? Is chamber pressure phenomenal?
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Which which is important for orbital flights, and what you're
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seeing on your screen is a view from Super Heavy as it's making
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its way back down to Earth. Yeah, Once again, we are
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attempting an offshore landing of the Super Heavy booster.
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So we have seen this before and it is still very fun to watch.
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Watching it come down for a soft splashdown off the Gulf Coast of
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Texas. We can see it there re entering.
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We saw earlier those grid fins. There are 4 hypersonic grid
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fins. So we can see that the landing
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burn has begun on the Super Heavy booster.
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And same pattern, 13 engines will light gone down to three
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just as we expected. And.
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What an incredible view of Splashdown that we got today.
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Super heavy, yeah. I'm sure the BUI Cam views will
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be pretty awesome once again, so we'd like to confirm a water
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landing once again for the Super Heavy booster.
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Congrats to the SpaceX team for making that milestone as well.
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Now ship continues to look good. We can see that it is while all.
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Of that. Was happening the ground here in
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Hawthorne continuing to react to all these amazing views that
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we're getting? The next milestone is *.
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Trip is in terminal guidance. Great news there, Starship
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terminal guidance referring to what we see here on our screen,
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the upper stage at about 8 minutes 35 seconds or so, we
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have ship engine cut off, which will be the cut off of the the
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the rafter engines we can see on our screen ship giving us some
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incredible views brought to us by Starlink.
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This view is also very interesting because we can see
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basically the receding tile line that we referred to earlier
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where we mentioned we have removed a number of heat shield
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tiles in order to test out and push the envelope on the ship
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and demonstrate what its capabilities are.
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Ship engine cut off. And there we just heard call out
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for Seiko ship engine cut off. Great news there.
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Everything continuing to look awesome for ship.
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Full view looking at on ship here.
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Trip FTS is saved nominal orbit insertion.
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There's that call out. We were waiting for confirmation
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of good orbital insertion for ship today.
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It has been a very exciting afternoon so far.
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We'd like to send it back over to Dan who can give us that live
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view experience. Dan, once again, are you OK
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after witnessing another Starship launch?
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Yeah, totally fine. It's you guys have to be
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jealous. This is the only way to do this.
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This is fantastic. No, it was really cool to see a
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lift off. 33 out of 33 didn't go for the booster catch today.
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Initially we were good and then we tripped to commit criteria
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and did the offshore divert. So we went and did that water
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landing as everybody saw. We'll dig into it a little bit
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more, but again, this is we've done it once.
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We've now done it twice. We're going to keep trying to do
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it as this is just a core capability of Starship.