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Originally Posted by GeorgeZimZam

Engine ignition and liftoff of Starship on Flight 4 as seen from the launch tower pic.twitter.com/4UmeAmKxRT

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 12, 2024

Spoiler!

Engine ignition and liftoff of Starship on Flight 4 as seen from the launch tower pic.twitter.com/4UmeAmKxRT

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 12, 2024

Flight 5 as soon as early to mid July?!

BREAKING: Elon Musk talks about Starship during his gaming stream on ��

-Flight 5 in about a month, after replacing the heatshield on the ship with a new tile twice as strong.
-Ablative protection underneath will act as secondary heatshield layer.
-Starship to Mars in 3 years. pic.twitter.com/hw16ycvzSI

— See You On Mars (@SeeYouOnMars_) June 10, 2024

It will be bonkers down here for the inaugural Mechazilla catch of a Starship Booster stage. Fingers crossed for Flight 5/Booster 12.

Sometime in the very near future, the Mechazilla launch pad will catch Starship’s Super Heavy booster — 230 feet tall and 440,000lbs — with mechanical arms. The arms are called “chopsticks” and it’s going to glorious. https://t.co/ahQSRf9hw3 pic.twitter.com/mHyg0nVLly

— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) June 9, 2024

I think they should try an actual landing before trying the chopsticks...



Hadn't heard this until today:

Next would come a ship engine cutoff and a nominal Suborbital insertion, Meaning Ship 29 hit the correct trajectory. Shortly after, Booster 11 would start up the inner 13 engines for an initial landing burn before switching to the inner three.

However, just after ignition, Engine 8 in the inner ring of 10 exploded, but the booster kept on going.

On one of the feeds, I saw a bunch of crap flying up from SH. Guess it was engine bits.