00:00Oh
01:35Lots of daylight.
01:37Everybody cross your fingers, see if our range team was able to get out there and provide any surprise views
01:43as Starship makes its way down.
01:47Oh, it's like they heard me.
01:57Ready and waiting. Let's go.
02:01Dan, you just spoke that view into existence there.
02:07And again, all brought to us by Starlink.
02:12All right, there we go.
02:14So we're now starting into our really heavy bank maneuver.
02:20And this kind of this does almost like a half circle loop to our actual trajectory.
02:26We're heading to the same exact splashdown point, but we're kind of doing a more roundabout way to get there
02:31where it's this kind of big, long half moon loop.
02:34And then a really aggressive and a twist right at the very end.
02:38And that would line us up with the launch tower.
02:42Starship on a return to launch site would fly over the tower, do a quick landing burn flip, and then
02:49come down for catching the arms.
02:58How about that S38 decal there, staying strong on that view we just had?
03:04Good to see the numbers back on.
03:06Yeah.
03:11All right, should be hitting Transonic in about two and a half minutes.
03:18Landing flip coming up in about four.
03:22Pretty clouds there in the Indian Ocean today.
03:24Again, yeah, we changed our launch times.
03:26We launch in the evening now, so we get these daytime views down in the Indian Ocean.
03:31One of the things we're really looking for, the reason we have the drone, other than, yeah, that looks really
03:35cool, is we're able to kind of see the ship.
03:40We can only see so much from these cameras.
03:42You can't see, like, the vast majority of the heat shield.
03:46So we throw these buoys out there.
03:48We've got a joke.
03:49You spoke it again, Dan.
03:51There it is.
03:53They're playing with me in the control room.
03:55All right.
03:57But we have these buoys out there.
03:59We have these drones that we're trying to see externally how the heat shield held up.
04:05Everybody saw from Flight 10, it had a little bit of a paint job, a little bit of a reddish
04:11hue.
04:12That was from those metallic tiles that we had tested, kind of oxidizing really rapidly in that plasma,
04:19and then spreading those little oxide particles all over the heat shield.
04:23No metal tiles on this flight, so not expecting to see that.
04:26Dynamic pressure is coming down.
04:35Hope nobody gets seasick.
04:40All right.
04:41Coming up on Transonic shortly.
04:45It's about two and a half minutes of landing burn.
04:50Yeah, and once we get to around the 15-kilometer altitude mark, that's where we have a lot of flight
04:55history.
04:56Starship is transonic, starting the belly flop phase of flight.
05:00Yep, the belly flop phase that we perfected in the suborbital campaigns.
05:04We're entering that now.
05:22It's starting to get those Raptors ready.
05:24Should be two minutes away from the landing burn.
05:28Again, 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 landing burn
05:36and look for another soft splashdown, hopefully, by our buoy and drone,
05:41which are hanging out, ready and waiting for a ship.
06:03Seeing all three center engines have entered the chill phase.
06:24All right, less than a minute to go.
06:28All right, less than a minute to go.
06:39All right, let's do this.
06:41This is another 10-hour pass.
06:42They're right behind the launch and catch tower, too.
06:59Fantasy would be not penetrating.
07:23There's our landing burn, three down to two, Starship has landed.
07:49As we said, we're not planning on recovering the ship today.
07:52Hey, welcome back to Earth, Starship.
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