Starship - Oct 2025, to Space Odyssey music (part 1)

Set to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) music
Johann Strauss - the blue danube (excerpt)

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-11

On Monday, October 13, 2025, at 7:23 p.m. EST, Starship lifted off from Starbase, Texas on its eleventh flight test. This was the final flight of the second-generation Starship and first generation Super Heavy booster, as well as the final launch from the current configuration of Pad 1. Every major objective of the flight test was achieved, providing valuable data to prepare for the next generation of Starship and Super Heavy.

The flight test began with
Super Heavy igniting all 33
Raptor engines and ascending
over the Gulf of America.

The successful first-stage ascent
was followed by a hot-staging maneuver,
with Starship’s upper stage igniting its
six Raptor engines to continue its flight.

Following stage separation, the Super
Heavy booster completed its boostback
burn to put it on a course to a pre-planned
splashdown zone off the coast of Texas,
using 12 of the 13 planned engines.

Under the same angle of attack tested on the previous flight, the booster descended until successfully igniting all 13 planned engines (including one that did not relight during the boostback burn) for the high-thrust portion of the landing burn.

The booster successfully executed
a unique landing burn planned for use
on the next generation booster.

Super Heavy hovered above the water
before shutting down its engines
and splashing down.

[to be continued]

Countdown
All Times Approximate

Hr/Min/Sec Event
01:15:00 SpaceX Flight Director conducts poll and verifies GO for propellant load
00:53:00 Ship fuel (liquid methane) load underway
00:46:10 Ship LOX (liquid oxygen) load underway
00:41:15 Booster fuel load underway
00:35:52 Booster LOX load underway
00:19:40 Raptor begins engine chill on booster and ship
00:03:20 Ship propellant load complete
00:02:50 Booster propellant load complete
00:00:30 SpaceX flight director verifies GO for launch
00:00:10 Flame deflector activation
00:00:03 Raptor ignition sequence begins
00:00:00 Excitement guaranteed

FLIGHT TEST TIMELINE
All Times Approximate

Hr/Min/Sec Event
00:00:02 Liftoff
00:01:02 Max Q (moment of peak aerodynamic stress on the rocket)
00:02:37 Super Heavy MECO (most engines cut off)
00:02:39 Hot-staging (Starship Raptor ignition and stage separation)
00:02:49 Super Heavy boostback burn start
00:03:38 Super Heavy boostback burn shutdown
00:03:40 Hot-stage jettison
00:06:20 Super Heavy landing burn start
00:06:36 Super Heavy landing burn shutdown
00:08:58 Starship engine cutoff (SECO)

[to be continued]