SpaceX Starship Launch 5: Everything That Happened in 5 Minutes
321. We have left out vehicles pitching down range. He's director shame, Professor Nominal. All right. So hots aging is gonna be the next thing coming up first, we're gonna see the boosters engines start to shut down. All but three, we're going to do what's called most engines cut off instead of main engine cut off because three are going to keep going and then we're going to see the engines on ship ignite. It's one of the most gorgeous things I've ever seen in my entire life. Coming up on hot staging next ship, engines cut off state separation, separation, stage, separation, confirmed ship under its own power. I'm seeing six out of six raptors lit. Hopefully, I got a booster on the way back to me. I'm gonna send this to you guys in Hawthorne and we, we did hear that the tower is go for catch. So that was one of the big criteria we were looking for. It's launched from just wow, five minutes ago, the Nominal I can confirm the command was sent for the booster to come back. That is incredible enough right now. It's, it's pretty much right over ahead. Of us and we can see it starting to come down three phases where a 13 engines burn off all of that velocity. Oh, we can see it coming down through the plume booster coming in hot for booster 13 of those. And this view is incredible right now. You can see how fast this vehicle is moving. On the left hand, we're now down to three raptor engines. We can see those chuff MCA Dila has popped two shirts. We have successfully caught the super happy booster back at the launch tower. Folks, this is a day for the engineering history books. We just caught a booster. We're gonna start looking real soon at when we can catch a ship. Uh The view on your left is a camera that's positioned near the nose of star of, of the ship looking basically toward the flap. Um The view on the right is looking perpendicular to the flap. So we're looking basically bird's eye view onto the flap on the left hand side and then a worm's eye view uh from the side with that view on the right, we're making a controlled reentry. This is one of the primary objectives for starship today is to demonstrate another controlled reentry even more controlled than what we saw on flight four and so far, uh that is looking good starship now at T plus one hour and nine seconds into its flight today, reentering the earth's atmosphere. Uh currently about 45 kilometers above the surface of the earth. Now 44 we are targeting a soft splash down in the Indian Ocean uh about you know, oh Northwest ish of Australia. After engines ignite if we are unable to see that illumination ourselves. Planning bird start up view of collection. The starship is black it safe to say we have a ship in the water. Touch down an incredible end to starships journey, a live view from a buoy that we had out at the landing zone.