00:00There are items that if we pass them, we're scrubbed for the day.
00:04One of the main ones, one of the main ones is that it's pretty much just under 11 million
00:10pounds of prop sitting on that thing right now.
00:13We can actually recycle in about 24 hours now.
00:16Again, a lot of ambitious things on the plate for Starship today.
00:19T minus two minutes.
00:21New ship, new year, a lot of upgrades, doing a lot of ambitious things in space this time,
00:26our first payload deploy.
00:28The folks on console are continuing to evaluate the launch commit criteria.
00:34T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
00:43We have liftoff.
00:58Vehicle's pitching down range.
01:15Six ship engines getting ready to ignite.
01:18That's going to happen while we're still attached.
01:22That is incredible news.
01:25You just heard the call out for booster engine cutoff.
01:29Most engines cutoff down to those middle three.
01:40Looks like we have 12 of those 13 engines ignited.
01:44We're using the engines that actually gimbal.
01:49We're looking good for that so far.
01:50Some great views there from the ship of Earth.
01:54That looks incredible.
01:58In the meantime, you can see those grid fins there helping to control the vehicle and guide
02:06it back to its landing site.
02:10Booster FTS is safe.
02:11With that, we're going to hand it back.
02:13How's it going over there, Dan and Kate?
02:15How are you doing, Kate?
02:16Seeing that in person.
02:21Dan had to take that entire segment because I couldn't talk.
02:24That was incredible.
02:25There it is.
02:26We can see the booster coming back in now through the plume, at least it looks that
02:30way to us.
02:31It's incredible that it basically returns.
02:33It looks like a speeding, just like this silver flare, coming back to the, once again, we
02:40are standing by for attempting to catch the booster at the tower.
02:47This would be the second tower catch.
02:50Landing turn.
02:51Seeing 13 engines.
02:52Booster now hovering as it aligns with the tower for catch.
02:53Booster coming in.
02:54Get ready for that boom, Kate.
02:55Down to three engines.
02:56Booster heading for checkout.
02:57Make a go ahead and pop the booster.
02:58And for the second time, a second time.
02:59Booster heading for checkout.
03:00Booster heading for checkout.
03:01Booster heading for checkout.
03:02This is the same tower, the launch pad, where that booster took off from just seven and
03:28a half minutes ago.
03:32And we're going to have to wait a little bit longer for that booster to come back in.
03:41We did lose all communications with the ship.
03:44So I mean, that is essentially telling us that we had an anomaly with that upper stage.
03:51So we were just coming up to the end of that ascent burn for the ship when we stopped until
03:58or when we started to lose a couple of the engines.
04:03We saw those dropping out and then we did lose telemetry from the ship.
04:07So that means we didn't have contact with it.
04:09So at this point, we are assuming that the ship has been lost.
04:14As we were checking in on the status of the ship at this point in time, we can confirm
04:19that we did lose the ship.
04:21However, Starship, the total vehicle, did have an on-time liftoff at 4.37 p.m. Central
04:28Time from the launch pad just behind us at Starbase, Texas.
04:31Gorgeous ascent and successful stage separation.
04:35The booster pushed the ship off and the ship disconnected during that stage separation.
04:41The booster came back for a successful, the second-ever booster catch at the launch tower,
04:49which was pretty incredible to see.
04:51Yeah, it was great to see the booster come down, but we are obviously bummed out about ship.
04:56It looked like we lost contact with it a little under eight and a half minutes into flight.
05:00That's roughly when you start to get to that main engine cutoff.
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