Starship Splashdown Captured By SpaceX Recovery Team

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The SpaceX recovery team captured amazing footage of the flight 11 Starship's splashdown in the Indian Ocean.  Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta

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03:16All right, should be hitting Transonic in about two and a half minutes.

03:25Landing 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 launch in the evening now, so 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,

03:40other 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.

03:49You can't see, like, the vast majority of the heat shield.

03:52So we throw these buoys out there.

03:55We've got a joke.

03:56You spoke 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.

04:06We have these drones that we're trying to see externally how the heat shield held up.

04:12Everybody saw from Flight 10 it had a little bit of a paint job, a little bit of a reddish hue.

04:19That was from those metallic tiles that we had tested, kind of oxidizing really rapidly in that plasma

04:26and then spreading those little oxide particles all over the heat shield.

04:30No metal tiles on this flight, so not expecting to see that.

04:33Dynamic pressure is coming down.

04:36That's where we have a lot of flight history.

05:02Starship is transonic.

05:03Starting the belly flop phase of flight.

05:07Yep.

05:07The belly flop phase that we perfected in the sub-overload campaigns, we're entering that now.

05:12It's starting to get those Raptors ready.

05:31Should be two minutes away from the landing burn.

05:34Again, we're going to do a flip.

05:38After 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.

05:51Seeing all three center engines have entered the chill phase.

05:58Seeing all three center engines have entered the chill phase.

06:12All right, less than a minute to go.

06:17The ship is making its turn for final approach.

06:26And here's this kind of aggressive final turn that would essentially position it so it's right behind the launch and catch tower.

06:37Flaps holding strong.

07:05Landing burn in just under 20 seconds.

07:22There's our landing burn.

07:36Three down to two. Starship has landed.

07:52As we said, we're not planning on recovering the ship today.

07:59Hey, welcome back to Earth Starship.

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