00:00The
01:42See, lots of daylight.
01:44Everybody cross your fingers, see if our range team is able to get out there and provide any surprise views as Starship makes its way down.
01:51Oh, it's like they heard me.
02:04Ready and waiting. Let's go.
02:05Dan, you just spoke that view into existence there.
02:09And again, all brought to us by Starlink.
02:15All right, there we go.
02:20So we're now starting into our really heavy bank maneuver.
02:25And this kind of this does almost like a half circle loop to our actual trajectory.
02:33We're heading to the same exact splashdown point, but we're kind of doing a more roundabout way to get there where it's this kind of big long half moon loop and then a really aggressive and a twist right at the very end.
02:45And that would line us up with the launch tower Starship on a return to launch site would fly over the tower to do a quick landing burn flip and then come down for catching the arms.
02:57How about that S38 decal there staying strong on that view we just had?
03:11Good to see the numbers back on.
03:13Yeah.
03:18All right, should be hitting Transonic in about two and a half minutes.
03:22Landing flip coming up in about four.
03:29Pretty clouds there in the Indian Ocean today.
03:31Again, yeah, we changed our launch times.
03:33We launched in the evening now.
03:34So we get these daytime views down in the Indian Ocean.
03:38One of the things we're really looking for, the reason we have the drone other than, yeah, that looks really cool, is we're able to kind of see the ship.
03:47We can only see so much from these cameras.
03:48You can't see, like, the vast majority of the heat shield.
03:52So we throw these buoys out there.
03:54We've got a joke.
03:56There's.
03:57Spoke it again, Dan.
03:58There it is.
04:00They're playing with me in the control room.
04:02All right.
04:03But we have these buoys out there.
04:05We have these drones that we're trying to see externally how the heat shield held up.
04:11Everybody saw from flight 10, it had a little bit of a paint job, a little bit of a reddish hue.
04:18That was from those metallic tiles that we had tested, kind of oxidizing really rapidly in that plasma and then spreading those little oxide particles all over the heat shield.
04:29No metal tiles on this flight, so not expecting to see that.
04:33Dynamic pressure is coming down.
04:38Okay, cool.
04:40Bye.
04:41Hope nobody gets seasick.
04:42All right.
04:44Coming up on transonic shortly.
04:51About two and a half minutes of landing burn.
04:55Yeah, and once we get to around the 15-kilometer altitude mark, that's where we have a lot of flight history.
05:02Starship is transonic, starting the belly flop phase of flight.
05:07Yep, the belly flop phase that we perfected in the sub-orval campaigns, we're entering that now.
05:25It's hard to get those Raptors ready, should be two minutes away from the landing burn.
05:34Again, we're going to do a flip.
05:37After we ignite those engines, we'll go from three down to two for the final phase of the landing burn
05:43and look for another soft splashdown, hopefully, by our buoy and drone, which are hanging out, ready and waiting for a ship.
05:55Seeing all three center engines have entered the chill phase.
06:25All right, less than a minute to go.
06:37The ship is making its turn for final approach.
06:42And here's this kind of aggressive final turn that would essentially position it so it's right behind the launch and catch tower.
06:55The ship is making its turn for the landing burn in just under 20 seconds.
07:09The ship is making its turn for the landing burn in just under 20 seconds.
07:23The ship is making its turn for the landing burn out.
07:30There's our landing burn.
07:36Three down to two.
07:38Starship has landed.
07:39Starship has landed.
07:53As we said, we're not planning on recovering the ship today.
07:59Hey, welcome back to Earth Starship.
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