SpaceX Starship spins out of control in Elon Musk's latest test flightSource: SpaceX
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00:00At this point we've essentially lost our attitude control. We are about 30 minutes into today's flight test and the ship is on its suborbital trajectory.
00:11As you can see in some of the views and from some of the telemetry we are in a little bit of a spin.
00:18We did spring a leak in some of the fuel tank systems inside of Starship, which a lot of those are used for your attitude control.
00:27And so at this point we've essentially lost our attitude control with Starship.
00:32We are still on a path toward re-entry. We are suborbital, so no matter what we are going to enter.
00:39However, this lowers the chances for it to be a controlled re-entry.
00:43So if you think back to flight three when we had something similar happen, just the end symptom of a loss of attitude control, we were in a roll by the time we hit re-entry.
00:55So we are going to re-enter. We should hopefully still have views.
01:00The Starlink satellites are pretty robust to still maintaining contact.
01:04We've got four of those terminals on the vehicle and they're pretty robust to maintaining contact, even when we are in a spin, essentially.
01:12So we should hopefully continue to keep live views.
01:15So we are going to continue to keep live views so we are going to close.