On Friday, November 13, Starship lifted off from Starbase, Texas on its 15th flight.
On Saturday, November 14, Starship returned to Starbase, Texas, and changed everything → spacex.com/launches/stars…
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Starship and its heatshield are healthy as the vehicle continues to orbit Earth after a spectacular start to its mission nearly 7 hours ago. Teams are continuing to monitor systems ahead of a planned return to launch site catch at Starbase ~22.5 hours after launch
Watch Starship Flight 15 xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/2brajgZlO…
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Starship is now in a long coast phase around Earth. Teams will monitor Starship’s systems over the next ~21 hours that we intend to be in orbit for. We do have a few early deorbit options available should we need them, but all systems are looking good right now
Starship is now deploying its payload of 26 @Starlink V3 satellites. This deployment sequence will take ~42 minutes
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Go for orbit! Starship will soon perform a short burn with a single Raptor engine to enter an ~275 km orbit of Earth
Starship’s ascent burn is complete. Starship is now on a planned suborbital trajectory as teams check systems to confirm we are good to proceed to orbit today
Hot-staging separation! Starship’s Raptor engines have ignited, and the Super Heavy is boosting back towards Starbase for a catch
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Starbase, TX has its own fleet of @Cybertruck police vehicles.
The most badass police cars I have ever seen.
