NASA is starting to post high-quality photos for the day. This is my favorite, but click the <> arrows for more.

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Awesome!

HD video of the splashdown:

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Great job by the Human Space Flight Support Detachment 3 being right there when it came down.

SN5 hop attempt is coming up tonight. Rumor is 6pm Central, but times are very variable with these kinds of things. I'm a fan of Tim's feed if you want to tune in, but be ready for delays and scrubs. Otherwise, it's a lot of watching nothing.

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Elon says 6:55ish.

Test in 33 minutes, per Musk

They are going to have to do something about all those private boats. That's crazy.

Darn

Welp, seems to be detanking. On to another day!

So what we thinking Mars by next year?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Scrubbed for the day. A Raptor turbopump spin start valve didn’t open, triggering an automatic abort. We’ll figure out why &amp; retry tomorrow.</p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1290448540821594114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

8:45am ET Tuesday Update: It appears as though SpaceX engineers were able to address the turbopump issues that occurred on Monday evening, as the company seems to be pressing ahead with a Starship prototype launch attempt on Tuesday morning. Even before the launch window opened at 8am CT local time (13:00 UTC), the road leading to the launch pad was closed. This typically is the first step before clearing the launch pad of SpaceX employees, and beginning fueling operations.

The company has until 8pm CT Tuesday (01:00 Wednesday UTC) to complete the 150 meter hop. A live stream of the test can be watched below.

Nice - thanks for the heads-up. Looks like Tim is guessing it might happen around 11am Central.

Is he going to stream again?