SpaceX Starship launch countdown – The Verge

The primary time Anthony Gomez noticed one among SpaceX’s Starship prototypes take flight, he watched it on a projector. He was far-off from the humid Texas coast, the place the precise launch was happening. As an alternative, he was sitting in his home in Florida along with his girlfriend.

On the wall of his residence, Anthony admired the Starship rocket because it careened by the sky. All three of the Raptor engines lower off when the spaceship reached an altitude of roughly 41,000 ft, and the huge metal vessel started to plummet again to Earth, pitched over on its aspect, wanting like a grain silo in free fall. Simply earlier than reaching the touchdown pad, its engines reignited, and the automobile quickly turned upright once more because it ready to the touch down. However the spacecraft got here down too quick, hitting the bottom exhausting and bursting aside in a large explosion. Afterward, solely a charred patch of Earth remained the place Starship as soon as stood — a disappointment.