Starship flight 4

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no engine relight, dead

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Wait it survived!!!!! Full water landing!?!?!?!?!?

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It lived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

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wow what a day indead

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Hopefully there's video of that landing

Most amazing thing ever. Rewatched and it definitely soft landed and then tipped over.

Reuse would be hard with this ship, but a human in a space suit could have survived. Largest man made object to ever reenter and we got live footage all the way down.

Elon's decision to use steel for the rocket sure seems to have paid off. Just like methane, I think everyone is going to go that direction. Long term reuse is the goal so melting steel isn't good enough, but that's an incredibly amount of extra safety. Starship had a bunch of missing tiles and the flap hinges got eaten by plasma, yet it survived.



Look at that chunk missing!

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Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico pic.twitter.com/lnjCSk2Cz6

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 8, 2024

Booster landing!

Camera distorts it a fair bit at the end, but so awesome they were able to record this from another perspective.