Starship - Oct 2025, to Space Odyssey music (part 3)

Set to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) music
Johann Strauss - The Blue Danube (reprise, 1&2)

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

Starship re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere
and gathered extensive data on the performance
of its heatshield as it was intentionally stressed
to test the limits of the vehicle’s capabilities.

extra:
Starship's deceleration from orbital speeds of
> 24,000 km/h down to 1,235 km/h (Mach 1)
was achieved [on Earth] primarily by aerobraking,
generating vast amounts of heat.

In the final [15] minutes of flight, Starship made
a dynamic banking maneuver to mimic
the trajectory that future missions
returning to Starbase will fly.

Starship next guided itself using its four flaps to the
chosen splashdown zone in the Indian Ocean,
successfully executing a landing burn,
landing flip, and soft splashdown.

Focus now turns to the next generation of Starship
and Super Heavy. The next iteration will be used for the
first Starship orbital flights, operational payload missions,
propellant transfer, for a fully and rapidly reusable vehicle
with service to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Macrohard sci-fi turned real,
Godspeed, SpaceX !
+ drdadcamp

FLIGHT TEST TIMELINE
All Times Approximate

01:03:30 Starship reaches Mach 1, speed of sound, 1,235 km/h
01:03:52 Starship is subsonic
01:05:58 Landing burn start
01:06:00 Landing flip
01:06:09 Landing burn 3 to 2 engines
01:06:25 An exciting landing!