Watch How A SpaceX Starship And Super Heavy Booster Launches In Slow Motion

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Watch how a SpaceX Starship and its Super Heavy booster launches in slow motion and the flight in real-time.  Also the Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly in slow motion.   Footage courtesy SpaceX | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta

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02:34 As the velocity increases, the density of the atmosphere is decreasing.

02:39 Lessening stress on the vehicle. The call out, Max Q now.

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02:49 Continuing to watch the first stage as we head down range.

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02:59 100 seconds into flight.

03:04 Our next major activity is going to be shutdown out of the first stage.

03:09 Houston tracking station now acquiring the vehicle.

03:14 With shutdown we will get separation of Starship from Super Heavy and ignition of the Starship engines.

03:19 When Starship separates, we light up six engines in a staggered sequence.

03:24 If all goes well, those six engines will burn for almost six and a half minutes.

03:29 Onboard view from Starship.

03:34 And there's views of the Raptor engines on the second stage as we prepare for stage separation.

03:39 Now after stage separation, the first stage will flip and begin a boost back maneuver for landing in the Gulf.

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03:54 Continuing to fly.

03:59 Two minutes, 40 seconds. Let's get ready for main engine cutoff.

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04:09 Beginning the flip for stage separation.

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04:44 As of right now, we are awaiting stage separation.

04:49 Where Starship should separate from the Super Heavy booster.

04:54 Yeah, Kate, right now it looks like we saw the start of the flip,

04:59 but obviously we're seeing from the ground cameras the entire Starship stack continuing to rotate.

05:04 We should have had separation by now. Obviously this does not appear to be a nominal situation.

05:11 Yeah, it does appear to be spinning, but I do want to remind everyone that everything after clearing the tower

05:18 was icing on the cake.

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