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Official confirmation of the relight then. I wonder why it didn’t show up on the telemetry?
They did leave two tiles off the aft end and put in a thinner tile. Possible that those spots burned through and damaged the sensors, but the sea-level engines were healthy enough to still work.
Yeah that was odd - at other points the video cut out but the other telemetry was coming through so if the video was running I’d expect everything else to too.
I mean the camera got absolutely beat to shit so I wasn’t shocked it cut out/reboot/whatever
I was thinking earlier when it lost the signal but those cameras were amazingly resilient - even when the lens got ruined by the fin smoke we got to see more when it cracked and could see the sparks through the holes.
Flight 4 ended with Starship igniting its three center Raptor engines and executing the first flip maneuver and landing burn since our suborbital campaign, followed by a soft splashdown of the ship in the Indian Ocean one hour and six minutes after launch.
I still can’t believe that happened! Gives me so much confidence on their in-space propellant storage too, for some reason.
I know it’s a self-written report and therefore trying to put a positive spin on things (rightfully so - they did amazingly), but they didn’t even mention the exciting things that they want to do better next time, like better heat shields on the flaps.
