SpaceX Launches Starship Flight Test 6: Everything That Happened in 14 Minutes – Video | Global News Avenue

Okay, we’re now 20 seconds away from Starship Flight 6 taking off. Okay okay. The vehicle tilts downward. Supercharger raptor chamber nominal pressure. Booster and ship avionics power and telemetry nominal values. I only have a little over a minute of updates. 6 miles away, so all the sounds are still hitting us here, hearing good callouts, powering the telemetry nominal, which is straight flying and true. We did see all 33 Raptor engines light up on the telemetry screen. At this point, we have passed the maximum aerodynamic pressure point, which is maximum Q. Now, a little over a minute from now it’s going to be the hot phase, so we’re going to see the 6 engines on the ship firing while still connected to the boosters. Just before this, we’ll see that all engines on the booster are shut down except for the 3 center engines, which we call Miko, and that’s most of the engines other than the main engines being shut down. Only about 30 seconds left until the hot show. Yes. We heard, we heard the towers were being captured. The return flag is set to true. The ship’s engine starts. Stage separation. OK, hot show confirmed. Six of the six lights on the ship were on. Boo or push back. We heard we were going to catch fish. Kate, Jesse, please give me your opinion. Hopefully I can get home and get a booster soon. Wow, from where we are, Dan, uh, there’s a great view of Earth from behind that super heavy booster. Now it is performing boost burnback. The good news is that, uh, the pressure inside the boat is good. That’s the second level or the upper part of the vehicle. Follow the telemetry at the bottom of the screen. Yes, the booster is currently overweight and currently in boost burnback. This facilitates burnback and telemetry nominal. This enhanced flashback lasts just over a minute, so we have about 30 seconds left. We’ve closed that goose back burn. Next up will be the abandonment of Hotage. The view from the left camera or booster on the left side of the screen and then the view from the tracking camera on the right side of the screen. We’ll see those mesh fins. Booster offshore transfer. And we can also see that the uh hot stage has been abandoned. Yes, there is visual confirmation on the screen, which is great. Now, the next starship is following the titular trajectory. The next step for the booster is another landing burn, which will ignite 13 of its engines and then reduce that to three engines before booster capture. Well, very quickly now, we do hear the call for, uh, accelerated return or, sorry, booster offshore transfer. Unfortunately, this means we are unable to take advantage of our opportunities. Well, as we said before, towers and vehicles and operators on consoles have been actively evaluating submission criteria for return to towers and um, unfortunately we did not pass those submission criteria so we were not eligible for tower capture. We did mention that we are constantly evaluating the criteria for catches. In order to do this, there are a lot of things that need to go smoothly. Unfortunately, we’re going to abandon today’s booster capture today, but what you see on the screen is the ship, uh, currently heading toward the Indian Ocean and it’s still looking good so far. Exactly. So the booster is visible on the left side of the screen and the spacecraft is visible on the right side of the screen. Now we said before that there is no guarantee that we will be able to capture a tower today. So while we’re hoping so, like we said, the first try is pretty epic, the safety of the team and the public, uh, and the pad itself is the most important thing. So we don’t accept any compromise. Exactly, in any of these areas, even with the booster, we’re still going to get a lot of good flight data, but especially with the relaunch, we have an additional goal today of rekindling in space The Raptor engines, this will again help us get ready for the deorbit burn, which is amazing, and that’s important for orbital flight, and what you see on the screen is what happens when a super-heavy object returns to Earth. Yes, we are again attempting a sea landing of the Super Heavy booster. Uh, so we’ve seen this before and uh it was still fun to watch it fall, uh, lightly splash down the Texas Gulf Coast. We can see it re-entering there. Uh, we’ve seen those mesh fins before. There are 4 hypersonic mesh tail fins, or so we can see. Already started using super boosters. Same model, as we expected, 13 engines will be reduced to 3. The splashdown we saw today was incredible. Super heavy. Yes, I’m sure the view from the buoy cameras will be great again. So we wanted to reconfirm the water landing of the Super Heavy booster. Congratulations to the SpaceX team for, uh, achieving this milestone as well. Now the boat continues to search. We can see that this is indeed the case. When all this happened. The crowds in Hawthorne, uh, continued to react to all these amazing views that we saw. The next milestone is, uh, terminal guidance. Good news. Uh, uh, starship terminal guidance, referring to what we see on the screen, the upper level, uh, at about, uh, about 8 minutes and 35 seconds, we have the ship engine cut off, which will be, uh,, Raptor engine. It is. We can see some of the incredible views that Starlink gives us on our screen ship. Uh, this view is also interesting because we can basically see that setback shingle line that we mentioned earlier and we mentioned that we’ve removed some of the insulating shingles in order to test and push the envelope on the boat and show it’s The functional ability is. The ship’s engine is shut down. There we just heard calls for the Sico ship’s engines to be shut down. Good news, everything looks great when viewing the panoramic view of the ship from the boat. Trip FTS saved. Nominal orbital insertion. Someone shouted that today we are waiting for confirmation that the spacecraft has successfully entered orbit. It’s been a very exciting afternoon so far. Uh, we want to send it back to Dan and he can give us that, uh, live viewing experience. Dan, uh, again, how are you doing after witnessing another starship launch? Yeah, uh, totally fine. Uh, yeah, you’re going to be jealous. This is the only way. This is awesome. Uh, no, it was pretty cool to see 33 of the 33 take off. Uh, I didn’t pick up the booster today. Initially we did a good job, and then we violated, uh, commitment standards and did an offshore diversion, so we did the water landing as everyone saw it. Uh, we’ll dig a little deeper into it, uh, but again, we’ve done it once and now we’ve done it twice. We’re going to continue to work hard on that because that’s just the core capability of Starship and what makes it so incredible. Well, there’s a lot left. It’s about 10 minutes until this flight takes off, and there’s still about 50 more minutes until takeoff. The nominal orbit of the spacecraft is, so it is flying around the Earth. It will attempt a space burn. We’re going to ignite one of the Raptor engines, the sea level engine in the middle, uh, just to help prove that we can re-ignite in microgravity, which is very critical for off-orbit burns as we start doing some orbital missions in space. Not too distant future. Um, and then next, we’re going to see a ship come in and maybe splash down, and as you guys said, we’re really going to be pushing the boat on this one. We almost intentionally put it where we thought it might not work very well. All of this is to try and help us learn to see if we’re a little too conservative, and then maybe that gives us a little bit more ability when we start catching them. But, uh, I’ll check back with you guys later. Uh I’m going to tune in to watch this ship orbit the Earth and uh hopefully we’ll see it re-enter the Earth in the near future. and starts calling to start. There is some light. The raptor reignited. and close. Well, that’s it, it’s the first time a Raptor has been fired up in outer space, instead of our assets burning up. Well, that’s really cool to see that relay. That said, this is a very critical capability that we will need for orbital missions in the near future. As you can see, the ship is beginning to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. As a reminder, one of the main goals of today’s flight test was to enable the spacecraft to survive the extreme heat of reentry, and to do so in a controlled manner. Now, re-entry is typically a part of the flight where we don’t have the ability to communicate with the spacecraft because it’s re-entering at orbital speed or around orbit speed, which is about 8 kilometers per second or 5 miles per second. Now, at this rate, yes, pretty fast. Uh, the spacecraft is moving through the atmosphere, uh, fairly quickly, and that causes friction, which, as we can see on the screen, creates a plasma field around the vehicle. We can see the Earth more clearly in the background and uh we see the different colors and um different temperatures of the plasma around the spacecraft and again that’s really, really cool to see. Um we’re pushing the limits of the ship today um but so far everything looks pretty nominal. Well, we’ll see how the next few minutes go. Yes, like we said before, don’t be surprised if that’s not the case. Smooth sailing all the way to the surface. Similar to Flight 5, we are targeting the same splashdown site in the Indian Ocean, but we do not expect to recover the vehicle. There is also the nose-down direction. Now, uh the Raptor engines will reignite and help flip the booster back over. Considering the direction, this is a more serious flip. The engine will shut down before the water hits and before the vehicle hits the water. So far our boat is running great. Is it being reignited? What a great repositioning of Starship. All 3 are down to 2. And Star Wow, we have it in the Indian Ocean. There’s some great slimy cam action here. Daytime news. Excellent. We really push the limits of shipping and bring it all the way back to reality.