00:00All right, so we are 42 minutes and change into today's flight test.
00:28You're seeing the light show start as Starship is getting closer to its re-entry.
00:34If 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.
00:44At this point, we had lost attitude control of the ship and entered into a spin.
00:49The team made the call to do what's called passivate the vehicle, so we're essentially venting all of the remaining propellant overboard.
00:59And it's going to make an uncontrolled re-entry.
01:01Important 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.
01:11So 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.
01:23We 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.
01:33And it is one thing to note is we will actually still re-enter in our planned airspace zone, which is good.
01:40That is exactly what we planned for.
01:44You 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.
01:51Yeah. Re-entry is still just that really critical phase that we need to try and gather as much data, as much information as possible, is a fully reusable heat shield has never been flown before.
02:04We're history of space flight, and that's something that Starship still has to crack.
02:10And so we had a whole range of experiments on this one at this point, and we just started to lose some of our cameras.
02:16So 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.
02:26So we are expecting it to break up, essentially, on its re-entry over the Indian Ocean.
02:31So 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.
02:43Yeah. And another thing to note is that Super Heavy did fly for its second flight today.
02:49It first flew on Flight 7, and it made it all the way to our shutdown of all the engines and stage separation, getting ship into its suborbital trajectory today.
03:00It did ignite its 13 engines, but it did demise at that point.
03:06We did plan to fly it back down to Earth at a higher angle of attack, and we do expect it to stress the vehicle a lot more than what we've seen previously.
03:17So it's not unexpected that we did lose the booster before we got to the actual landing.
03:21Yeah. So we're going to continue to hang out and see if we get any updates on ship.
03:27It does look like we might be getting some video back soon.
03:32There we go.
03:33So this is a view essentially on the top part of Starship.
03:41You're looking up at the payload bay and towards the nose cone.
03:45So views are going to be a little bit scarce potentially as, again, we are in essentially a tumble.
03:53We had lost that attitude control.
03:55So Starlink, when it's able to connect, able to feed this down, we are at the phase where we would expect entry to start within the next minute or so.
04:04So we are entering uncontrolled, but again, we're entering into an airspace and a sea space that is cleared and monitored in advance of launch and before we get to this phase.
04:14And with the views that we are able to see, you are seeing a lot of that plasma build up during reentry.
04:21We do expect the vehicle to see about 1400 degrees Celsius.
04:24And there you can see the flap feeling that temperature there a little bit melting away.
04:32But as we expected with the spinning of the vehicle, we are no longer controlling the attitude of the vehicle.
04:41So this is now, at this point in the test flight, it is expected to see it begin to demise a little bit on its way back down to Earth.
04:51Yeah.
04:52And so we'll stick with it for as long as we're kind of getting any reach back from the ship as it starts to make this reentry.
05:02But, yeah.
05:04So it's reentering actively right now.
05:08And again, we did do what's called passivation.
05:11So you essentially vent all of your excess propellant overboard before you hit the atmosphere.
05:16That's a safety measure we can take on the ship while you still have contact with it.
05:21So that was done.
05:22It's now coming down in the predetermined hazard area that was cleared ahead of flight.
05:27Not controlled.
05:28So we're not going to get all of that reentry data that we're still really looking forward to.
05:32So this is kind of a new generation of ship that has different flaps, improved heat shield, a whole lot of things that we're really trying to really put through the wringer.
05:43As there's a whole lot we still need to learn before we get to kind of the next step that we're hoping for, which is going to be that ship going orbital and eventually coming back here for a catch.
05:53So getting through one of these fully is going to be really important.
05:58It's not going to be today.
05:59But we are just going to stick with the ship, see what else we can learn as it makes its way through the atmosphere and brings an end to the ninth flight test.
06:09So we'll stick with it.
07:10If you're just now joining us, we did have an on-time liftoff from Starbase, Texas at 6.30 p.m. Central time of the Flight 9 vehicle.
07:19We did have some incredibly stressing objectives today.
07:25The Super Heavy Booster flew for its second flight.
07:29It first flew on Flight 9 and made its way to take ship all the way up to stage separation, doing its first second flight ever,
07:38which is pretty incredible.
07:39We did lose the booster on the way back down as we did fly it back down at a higher angle of attack.
07:45So as expected, we did have it demise on the way back down.
07:49Yeah, we were able to get all the way to that landing burn, though.
07:52So we made it through that higher angle of attack.
07:55So a lot of great data that's going to help us improve those future booster flights.
07:59Yeah, we did do the directional flip, and it worked.
08:01It was actually a great view that we saw.
08:03And then ship continued, six healthy Raptor engines in the beginning of its flight, making it all the way to Seaco and coasting for quite a while.
08:12We made it to the expected time that we would open up the payload door.
08:18Unfortunately, the door did not open as we expected it to, so we did not deploy the eight-star link satellites.
08:24Yeah, we ran into a couple of issues once ship got there, but I can tell you it was a pretty crazy moment for a lot of the people that were standing here for ship to make it there.
08:36It's been a couple of flights, but it was really exciting to see.
08:39We ran into some issues on orbit.
08:41We weren't able to deploy the star links.
08:43We eventually lost attitude control, dealing with some propellant links inside of the ship, and we did lose attitude control.
08:50And just to confirm, we did lose contact with the ship officially a couple of minutes ago, so that brings an end to the ninth flight test.
08:58So, still a lot of work to do, but really big moment.
09:02Chris, how's everybody doing over there in Hawthorne?
09:06What's the vibes, man?
09:07Yeah, you know, I mean, it's a test program, and that's what we're here to do.
09:11We're here to learn, and that was definitely the vibe and the atmosphere here at Hawthorne.
09:15Would have been great to see ship get all the way through its objectives today,
09:18but with all of that data that came down through the Starlink system, we're definitely going to learn,
09:23and we're definitely going to fix that and push forward.
09:26Also, great to see the responsible engineers here in mission control talking with the flight control teams in Starbase.
09:32We talked about how it's great having that expert knowledge on console to be able to go to at a moment's notice,
09:40and that really helped us make the right decisions in orbit today when we decided to passivate the vehicle.
09:44So, we will be here looking forward to Flight 10 and some success on future flights.
09:51All right.
09:52Well, obviously, congratulations to everybody that poured so much time, effort into getting this ship, this rocket, off the pad.
10:01The last two months have been an absolute, like, gauntlet for a lot of people,
10:06and we're continuing to learn more about this ship, about this rocket.
10:10We are trying to do something that is impossibly hard, and it's not always going to—you're not going to reach it in a straight line.
10:17We said there's going to be bumps, there's going to be turns, but seeing that ship in space today was a hell of a moment for us.
10:23So, congratulations to every single person who put time, effort, sweat, anything into that rocket.
10:30Yeah, this is exactly the SpaceX way we're going to learn, iterate, and iterate over and over again until we figure it out.
10:39So, thank you to everybody for tuning in.
10:42Thank you for the fine people of Cameron County, including the residents of the newest city of Starbase,
10:47as well as the Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Administration, Government of Mexico, as well as the Australian Space Agency.
10:53All right.
10:54Now, this is not the end.
10:56We're going to have a whole bunch of cool liftoff stuff, so be sure to follow us on X at SpaceX for more,
