SpaceX Starship Flight 14 reaches Earth's orbit and explodes in the Pacific

Five, four, three, two, one

Roger. Tickle pitching downrange

All right, a little more than 35 seconds into the flight

33 out of 33 engines lit on super heavy. The window's shaking a bit here

Booster and chip, avionics power and telemetry nominal. Coming up on Max Q, maximum aerodynamic pressure on the rocket

All right, so we're through maximum aerodynamic pressure. Stress is going to come down now as we start flying through the upper parts of Earth's atmosphere

Still seeing 33 at a 33 lit on the booster. might have one of those center

13 just went out. Still flying on 32 out of 33. Next

event coming up is going to be hot staging. That's when we are going to look

to light all six engines on the ship while it's still attached to the booster

That's going to push it away. That's going to come in about 40 seconds from now

So once we get there, the clamps holding the two vehicles together at that interstage we're going to release

We'll light the six engines on ship. We've got a very specific startup sequence, so we're hopefully going to kick the booster in the right direction

That helps us maximize performance, use the least amount of propellant, and might just give us a cool view of the ship flying away. We'll see

All right, coming up on hot staging. Drenching cutoff. First Miko powering down to all but five of those engines on the booster

Down to five. Six engines start up on the ship. Takes the right way

Looks like we have 31 out of 33 on the booster

back for the initial phase. Down to three on the

booster. So it's boost back burn. We'll be finishing shortly. And shut down

All right. So boost back burn complete. Seeing six engines on the ship

All right, so that was the first of two burns to send it back to Earth

The next one is going to be the landing burn, where we're going to look to light up to 13 of the center engines

We'll see if we'll be able to relight. We've had two of the 13 go out so far

so we see if we be able to relight all of those As long as we get 11 we be able to bleed off enough velocity for kind of a nominal landing burn But we see if we able to make it there

Good news, though, still seeing six out of six Raptors lit on the ship as it continues the initial climb into space

Again, this first burn, just putting it on a suborbital trajectory. But things are looking good

Amanda and Jake, you guys with me down there? Yeah, we're down here. We are still shaking a little bit from that

That had that had the whole lawn, the whole building. Everything was going absolutely nuts down here

Yeah. And as you can see, Starship's upper stage still firing its engines

And again, as a reminder, the ship objectives for a nominal mission today include that orbit insertion burn

payload deploy of those 26 operational Starlink satellites, followed by a long coast with six orbits of the Earth

a de-orbit, and then followed by re-entry, descent, and landing. Yeah, we could see ship there still accelerating with six out of six engines under power

That is great to see. Just crossed over 10,000 kilometers per hour

Just take a second to realize that we're already at 10,000 kilometers per hour. Trip is on a nominal trajectory. And we just heard that call out

That ship is on nominal trajectory. So that's great news. Things are going pretty well so far

Yep. And on the left side of the screen there, you can see booster. Its altitude is starting to come down

So we've hit our max altitude and coming back in. And although we're not doing a tower catch today, we are going to simulate the same way that we would

So we'll do a 13-engine landing burn to slow down. We'll then transition to 5 and then transition down to 3 for the final hover

Ship still with all six engines lit. Getting great footage here. Thank you, Starlink

Can see Earth below us. Raptor chamber pressure is nominal

Great call out there here in Raptor chamber pressure is nominal. Can see the plume on all six engines still lighting there

Man, Methylox burns beautiful purple. That looks great. So we are just about 10 seconds away from landing burn start

So that's where we'll first ignite the center 13 engines bring that down to five and then finally down to three

Landing burn startup There's views from the booster

Down to five And confirmed landing

That looked like a pretty soft splashdown. Don't know if you guys can all hear everyone going crazy behind us

All right, nice job by the booster there. Looking like we made a soft splashdown right off the coast of Starbase And ship is still going strong here Dan how it looking upstairs Hey Jake So you can see by a little telemetry in the bottom right we just had

engine six, one of the RVACs, shut down early. We were planning on that one going for probably another 30 seconds. So

similar to flight 12 kind of scenario here where we had an RVAC out on the first flight of

V3. So we do have engine out capabilities, so the ship adjusts

for this. So we're still running on five out of the six

and we should be getting to ship engine cutoff in about the next ten seconds

Alright, so there is starship engine cutoff. Alright, so

we are in space. Now comes the next step. So we will listen in for a couple of minutes

So that initial burn, we did have an engine go out on the way at Pills

so the team obviously is going to take a quick look at that. We've said it repeatedly, we're only going to commit to orbit

if everything's looking really healthy and an engine out on ascent, even though you're not going to use it for the rest of time on orbit

could drive us to not commit. So we are going to stand by for just a moment here

And if you're just now joining us, that's a starship in space

We are waiting for a final, final confirmation on if we're going to make the attempt to go to orbit today or not

Little extra drama as we go through this decision. The go-no-go poll for orbit has finished

and we are go for orbit. Alright, so in just about three minutes

we should be lighting one of those raptors to send Starship into orbit

Here we go. We are coming up on our Orbital insertion burn

Again, we're looking for just a single Raptor to light one of those sea levels

It's going to burn for just about 19 seconds. Burn two is started

single raptor still lit doing the work to push us into orbit

burn two shut down no alerts or alarms on the board that's always a great thing to hear

All right

successful orbital insertion burn Starship is in orbit huge milestone for the Starship

teams one that we've been looking to get to for a couple of years now

we're in de-orbit startup burn startup single raptor ignited burn shut down and shut down

all right good burn nominal descent coast trajectory that means starship is headed home it is headed

towards the ocean. So good deorbit burn. Again, that's just a really critical moment. We need to

slow Starship down enough so its path is going to naturally now take it through the Earth's

atmosphere and for a re-entry and splashdown in the northern Pacific. So deorbit burn complete

Team excited in the control room behind me. Great moment there. And now next up is going to be

entry. Alright, we're just about two and a half minutes away from the start of our landing burn

Hearing chatter on the loops. Everything's sounding pretty good on the engines right now

We're going to look to light all three for this initial landing burn. Eventually going down to two as we get

closer to the water. Go down to one for kind of a constant velocity hover

and then hopefully splash down. And we'll see if we stay intact this time

Final approach. So we're nearing the end of this amazing mission, just awaiting the ship's landing

Only a few moments from now. Starship, Leningburn start up. C-03 lit, down to two

Starship has landed. All right

And Starship has landed. Now, some of you may remember from our earlier Starship test flights that we had an animation

to help visualize what the deployment of our V3 sats would look like

And today, we have that exact vision in front of us. We've made it a reality

Thank you

Thank you