00:00The
01:36Lots of daylight.
01:37Everybody cross your fingers, see if our range team was able to get out there and provide any surprise views as Starship makes its way down.
01:45Oh, it's like they heard me.
01:57Ready and waiting. Let's go.
02:01Dan, you just spoke that view into existence there.
02:03And again, all brought to us by Starlink.
02:09All right, there we go.
02:13So we're now starting into our really heavy bank maneuver.
02:17And this kind of this does almost like a half circle loop to our actual trajectory.
02:25We'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.
02:37And that would line us up with the launch tower Starship on a return to launch site would fly over the tower, do a quick landing burn flip and then come down for catching the arms.
02:49How about that S-38 decal there staying strong on that view we just had.
03:01Good to see the numbers back on.
03:05Yeah.
03:07All right, should be hitting Transonic in about two and a half minutes.
03:13Landing flip coming up in about four.
03:21Pretty clouds there in the Indian Ocean today.
03:23Again, yeah, we changed our launch times.
03:25We launched in the evening now.
03:26So we get these daytime views down in the Indian Ocean.
03:30One 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.
03:39We can only see so much from these cameras.
03:41You can't see, like, the vast majority of the heat shield.
03:45So we throw these buoys out there.
03:47We've got a joke.
03:49There's.
03:50Spoke it again, Dan.
03:51There it is.
03:53They're playing with me in the control room.
03:55All right.
03:56But we have these buoys out there.
03:58We have these drones that we're trying to see externally how the heat shield held up.
04:04Everybody saw from Flight 10 it had a little bit of a paint job, a little bit of a reddish hue.
04:11That 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.
04:22No metal tiles on this flight, so not expecting to see that.
04:26Dynamic pressure is coming down.
04:31that's a good thing.
04:32That's a good thing.
04:33That's a good thing.
04:34That's good.
04:35That's good.
04:36I hope nobody gets seasick.
04:38Alright, coming up on Transonic shortly.
04:43There's about two and a half minutes of landing burn.
04:48Yeah, and once we get to around the 15-kilometer altitude mark, that's where we have a lot
04:55of flight history.
04:56Starship is transonic, starting the belly flop phase of flight.
04:59Yep, that belly flop phase that we perfected in the suborbital campaigns, we're entering
05:05that now.
05:10All right, starting to get those Raptors ready, should be two minutes away from the landing
05:28burn.
05:29Again, we're going to do a flip.
05:31After we ignite those engines, we'll go from three down to two for the final phase of the
05:35landing burn and look for another soft splashdown, hopefully by our buoy and drone, which are
05:42hanging out, ready and waiting for a ship.
06:04All three center engines have entered the chill phase.
06:11All right, less than a minute to go.
06:30The ship is making its turn for final approach.
06:36And here's this kind of aggressive final turn that would essentially position it so it's
06:41right behind the launch and catch tower.
06:57Flaps holding strong.
07:00And here's our landing burn in just under 20 seconds.
07:14Shift landing startup.
07:19There's our landing burn.
07:26Three down to two.
07:31Starship has landed.
07:34As we said, we're not planning on recovering the ship today.
07:52Welcome back to Earth Starship.
07:53Welcome back to Earth Starship.
07:59Boom.
08:00Alright guys.
08:01Let's do that.
08:03Let's go.
08:05Let's go.
08:06I'm sorry.
08:08Let's go.
08:10Let's go.
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