Watch How A SpaceX Starship And Super Heavy Booster Launches In Slow Motion

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Watch how a SpaceX Starship and its Super Heavy booster launches in slow motion and the flight in real-time.  Also the Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly in slow motion.   Footage courtesy SpaceX | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta

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00:00Muzik

00:03Muzik

00:15Muzik

00:53I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

01:23Booster after chamber pressure is nominal.

01:53Two close forward, three seconds under the test flight of the inaugural Storrsit vehicle, tower clear to land a catchover.

02:01Propulsion reports first stage engines nominal.

02:04What a sight when the grand cameras at starbase.

02:07We're flying at twice the thrust of the Saturn V heading to space.

02:19With throttle down and throttle back up.

02:23Going through the period of maximum aerodynamic pressure.

02:30As the velocity increases, the density of the atmosphere is decreasing.

02:38Lessening stress on the vehicle.

02:41The call out, Max Q now.

02:46Continuing to watch the first stage as we head downrange.

02:53100 seconds into flight.

02:58Our next major activity is going to be set down of the first stage.

03:10Houston tracking station now acquiring the vehicle.

03:13With shutdown, we will get separation of Starship and Super Heavy and ignition of the Starship engines.

03:20When Starship separates, we light up six engines in the staggered sequence.

03:25If all goes well, those six engines will burn for almost six and a half minutes.

03:30On-board view from Starship.

03:35And there's views of the Raptor engines on the second stage as we prepare for stage separation.

03:41Now after stage separation, the first stage will flip and begin a boost back maneuver for landing in the Gulf.

03:47Continuing to fly.

04:01Two minutes, 40 seconds.

04:02Let's get ready for main engine cutoff.

04:08Straight, professional, 31-2006.

04:09.

04:30.

04:32.

04:33.

04:34As of right now, we are awaiting stage separation, where Starship should separate from the Super Heavy booster.

04:55Yeah, Kate, right now it looks like we saw the start of the flip, but obviously we're seeing from the ground cameras

05:01the entire Starship stack continuing to rotate. We should have had separation by now.

05:06Obviously, this does not appear to be a nominal situation.

05:11Yeah, it does appear to be spinning, but I do want to remind everyone that everything after clearing the tower

05:18was icing on the cake.

05:31And now, as you saw, as you promised, it's so known to the Starship, and now we're going to be just fine.

05:55And now, the Starship 95

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