Starship lifted off at 8:49 am EST, there was a 34 minute delay. 26 Starlink satellites were deployed. Starship made into orbit only completing 1 orbit of 6 planned. Both booster and Starship made successful splashdowns, booster in the Gulf of America and Starship in the Pacific Ocean, despite having a 2 raptor engine fail on the booster and 1 engine fail on Starship
Starship Flight 14 Timeline -
SpaceX0:34:30 - Beautiful launch. This is a really cool launch pad getting perfected, very sophisticated. This is gonna take them to Mars
0:38:00 - Booster separation. Follow to splashdown. This booster after separation diverts itself away from the ship then ignites a few engines sending itself back to the launch pad. It is called "boost back". It will splashdown offshore but will eventually be caught by the tower, both booster and Starship
1:00:45 - Orbital Insertion Burn (OIS). Watch the speed bottom left and engine diagram bottom right for engine startup and shutdown. Nice views of Earth as Starship orientates itself for satellite deploy. This engine burn puts Starship in an orbital config
1:07:50 - A look at the Satellite Pez Dispenser inside Starship and the payload door open on the exterior of the ship
1:10:50 - Satellite deployment starts -
Starlink V3 satellites2:48:00 - Deorbit burn sending Starship back to Earth
3:26:00 - Starship entering Earth's atmosphere
3:39:30 - Starship gliding to splashdown. Very nice descent!!
3:48:00 - Watch to the end, another satellite will deploy
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