Yes, the purpose of the hot-staging is to keep pushing, not lose momentum while 2nd stage ignites.… core 3 engines of the booster burned continuously through the staging process. …
The rocket took off as intended, making it roughly 8 minutes into flight before SpaceX confirmed it had to intentionally explode the Starship spacecraft as it flew over the ocean.
After hot staging, the rocket booster exploded in a fireball over the Gulf of Mexico. Starship initially continued on just fine before SpaceX lost the spacecraft’s signal and triggered the system’s software to terminate the flight so it didn’t veer off course.
Booster looked like it was oscillating hard before impact and I'm not sure the engines ever relit for landing.Watched it live. Great stuff.
The booster and the ship still have a ways to go developmentally, but pretty impressive flight.
Launch and hot stage separation appeared to go perfectly.
booster executed it’s turn around and headed back to earth as planned. Still needs to work on the slowing down before you hit the planet part.
Starship made it into space, largest flying object, ever launched, and executed its fuel transfer experiment, apparently successfully. They skipped the relighting a raptor in space experiment for some reason. The payload door was opened, but it wasn’t clear to me that it closed successfully. The Starship seem to be somewhat out of control before it started its reentry, and it just got worse from there, but there were some really cool pictures of plasma formation as it entered the atmosphere. That was awesome.
The onboard cameras seem to show a few tiles missing, but I’m not sure is all that white stuff flying around was tiles. Some commentators thought it was still forming and shedding ice from the apparent venting that was going on..
SpaceX could stop now and they would have the biggest single use payload to orbit rocket system in the world by a long way.
They would like to do 10 launches this year, can’t wait for the next one.
That re-entry footage was some of the coolest I have seen
It's good to see you excited, my friend!Watched it live. Great stuff.
The booster and the ship still have a ways to go developmentally, but pretty impressive flight.
Launch and hot stage separation appeared to go perfectly.
booster executed it’s turn around and headed back to earth as planned. Still needs to work on the slowing down before you hit the planet part.
Starship made it into space, largest flying object, ever launched, and executed its fuel transfer experiment, apparently successfully. They skipped the relighting a raptor in space experiment for some reason. The payload door was opened, but it wasn’t clear to me that it closed successfully. The Starship seem to be somewhat out of control before it started its reentry, and it just got worse from there, but there were some really cool pictures of plasma formation as it entered the atmosphere. That was awesome.
The onboard cameras seem to show a few tiles missing, but I’m not sure is all that white stuff flying around was tiles. Some commentators thought it was still forming and shedding ice from the apparent venting that was going on..
SpaceX could stop now and they would have the biggest single use payload to orbit rocket system in the world by a long way.
They would like to do 10 launches this year, can’t wait for the next one.