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And the conversation begins in a town where partisan fighting prevails. | |
| One table, two leaders, one goal, to find common ground. | ||
| This fall, ceasefire on the network that doesn't take sides, only on C-SPAN. | ||
| The ninth test flight of the SpaceX Starship launched from the company's headquarters in Texas. | ||
| The vessel had aimed to be a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth's orbit, but the craft made an uncontrolled re-entry into the atmosphere. | ||
| Yeah, right now, though, we are counting down to Starship's ninth flight test, currently targeting the very start of our window at 6.30 p.m. Central Time. | ||
| Good news right up front, not tracking any issues with the vehicle. | ||
| Weather is gorgeous out there right now. | ||
| Rain this morning, little bit of wind, nothing now, nothing to worry about. | ||
| Looking good for a launch. | ||
| Starship development is moving quickly here at Starbase. | ||
| So fast, in fact, that we already are reflying the Super Heavy booster today, which last flew on flight seven. | ||
| The primary objectives for today are very similar to our last two attempts, except for the booster, which in addition to flying for the second time, has an exciting return journey planned for its return back to Earth. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It's going to be getting some serious rigor. | ||
| And pretty important, we are not going to be attempting to catch the booster today. | ||
| We're going to use this launch to kind of further accelerate the development. | ||
| We're putting Super Heavy kind of through the ringer, some serious rigor. | ||
| We're going to go through all of that in just a couple of minutes. | ||
| We're also hoping to get ship into space, and it's got a couple of objectives like deploying simulated Starlink satellites and then a range of experiments during its re-entry. | ||
| We're really trying to test the limits, the capabilities of that heat shield, the flaps, the structure, everything about it. | ||
| Primary payload on this flight, once again, as always, is data. | ||
| All right, so we're going to see the clock. | ||
| It is now rolling. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| We essentially, we saw an issue with that quick disconnect to the ship. | ||
| There is a chance that automation will kick us out again if we encounter the same issue. | ||
| But for now, the clock is rolling. | ||
| we'll see if we pass around that t-minus 10 second mark site | ||
| from here we see it arcing right over top of us We see 33 out of 33 Raptor engines lit on Super Heavy as it starts to ascend skyward. | ||
| Coming up on maximum aerodynamic pressure, then only about a minute and a half until we get into hot staging. | ||
| Wow, Dan, that was incredible. | ||
| We could feel the building shaking here, feel the vehicle's power. | ||
| And we're just about a minute away from shutting down those engines on the booster. | ||
| Again, this booster is flying for its second time today. | ||
| All right, so hot staging coming up a little under a minute. | ||
| We're going to see all but the three center engines turn off on the booster. | ||
| So our version of Miko, most engines cut off. | ||
| And then just a few seconds later, hoping to see six engines ignite on ship to push it away. | ||
| All right, hot staging, about 30 seconds. | ||
| And definitely keep an eye on which way the booster flips. | ||
| First ever directional flip we're going for today should flip straight up see those engines powering down booster engine cutoff ship ignition stage separation | ||
| Incredible flip by super heavy booster and you can see those six engines, those three engines on the ship ignited. | ||
| Six healthy raptors running on ship on its way to space. | ||
| Peak that engine view booster doing the boost back. | ||
| Chris, how's it looking over there in Hawthorne? | ||
| Man, it is looking. | ||
| Chamber pressure is nominal. | ||
| It is looking absolutely incredible here in Hawthorne. | ||
| As we said, six healthy engines on ship. | ||
| We've got 13 out of 13 engines on the booster, now down to those three, which is what we expect in the final moments of the boost back burn. | ||
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Now, as a reminder, we are not recovering the super heavy booster today. | |
| We are instead going to do and there we had a good shutdown of the boost back burn. | ||
| Next up will be the jettison of that hot stage rate avionics, power and telemetry nominal great call out there that everything looking nominal aboard the super heavy vehicle which is returning to earth and we're going to be doing some experiments with it, including a higher angle of attack re-entry, as well as some engine tests as it gets closer to the Gulf. | ||
| We are again, because of these tests, not recovering it. | ||
| We are sending it to the Gulf on purpose to do those tests. | ||
| But again, you see the booster on the left hand side of your screen you see ship with six healthy engines continuing its ascent to its planned suborbital trajectory. | ||
| Everything going very well so far. | ||
| For starship's ninth flight, now a four minutes 15 seconds in has about two minutes left and about two minutes we expect all six Raptor engines to shut down. | ||
| That will be seco, basically second engine or second stage engine shutoff. | ||
| And these are some incredible views dan, from the aft end of the ship watching as the engines stay ignited, with the earth in the background, as always, the starship avionics team, the techs I think we just heard the booster. | ||
| But all right, we got about a minute left into this burn. | ||
| All eyes definitely on ship as we get through the final stages into its ascent. | ||
| We're expecting it to start to cut those engines off in about 45 seconds. | ||
| All right, just about 30 seconds to go. | ||
| We're in terminal guidance in the final stages of this ascent burn. | ||
| We did see shutdown of the Raptor engines. | ||
| We do stagger these, so we do the Raptors first. | ||
| Those three have shut down successfully. | ||
| Sea level is still running. | ||
| Ship engine cut off. | ||
| Ship engine cut off. | ||
| The three most beautiful words in the English language. | ||
| And great call out that we had nominal insertion. | ||
| This flight test, you're seeing the light show start as Starship is getting closer to its re-entry. | ||
| If you're just tuning in, we were able to successfully make it to orbit. | ||
| Run into a couple of issues as we've coasted to our entry point over the Indian Ocean. | ||
| At this point, we had lost attitude control of the ship and entered into a spin. | ||
| The team made the call to do what's called passivate the vehicle. | ||
| So we're essentially venting all of the remaining propellant overboard, and it's going to make an uncontrolled re-entry. | ||
| Important to note, this is a contingency that is planned for, and we clear the zones in the Indian Ocean where these entries could take place. | ||
| So we're not going to come down exactly where we would have had nothing happened, but we do clear a tremendous amount of space out in the Indian Ocean in the event that we run into this. | ||
| We understand that there are always risks, essentially, with these flight tests, with the hardware, but we don't really accept any compromise when it comes to protecting people. | ||
| And it is one thing to note is we will actually still re-enter in our planned airspace zone, which is good. | ||
| That is exactly what we planned for. | ||
| You know, we do plan for if something does go a little bit off-nominal, that we have enough airspace cleared out for situations just like this. | ||
| Yeah, re-entry is still just that really critical phase that we need to try and gather as much data, as much information as possible. | ||
| A fully reusable heat shield has never been flown before, the history of spaceflight. | ||
| And that's something that Starship still has to crack. | ||
| And so we had a whole range of experiments on this one at this point, and we just started to lose some of our cameras. | ||
| So it's very possible that we'll start to lose contact with Starship a lot sooner than we would have if it was a nominal re-entry. | ||
| So we are expecting it to break up essentially on its re-entry over the Indian Ocean. | ||
| So not able to do a lot of our on-orbit objectives today, but just the fact that we, you know, got it into space was just, that was just a really big moment for a lot of the team. | ||
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