Top of the booster, where you can see the massive actuators for the grid fins and the hot gases exhaust pipes (that result from the boiling point of the liquid fuel and oxygen).
Noticing something happening to stage 2... that then turned off engines in a very weird way (not sure if to control attitude). But eventually, the telemetry stoped... and I was like 😨
Look at this beauty with open arms!
These are StarLink dishes protected against re-entry high temperatures and plasma forming.
Ignition!
And then the external engines...
And then all engines!
The #spaceX X stream for anyone to check afterwards...
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwGWNYrzZVKQ
Almost looks like a "little" Orca! 😜
Still lots of dust and debris all over the place, but hopefully not damaging anything...
Almost look impossible to think that a few years this was all but a dream or a movie scene!
Nuts! 33 engines which are bigger than a person (for perspective)...
Another fricking amazing shot now with some pressure being released I believe...
If none of the footer would exist, people would say this was AI generated!
Something got loose here!
Soooo many lights! Almost look like giant LEDs!
Little seconds after this was MaxQ
Is the Sun?! 😉😎
Little flapping thing continues...
This is already higher than any commercial flights...
Preparing for stage separation!
And there you have the beginning of stage separation where stage 2 actually fires ALL engines to get away from stage 1.
Just Look AT THAT!
And its free!
And here you can see the booster (stage 1) starting the engines again to come back to earth!
I think we got 1 engine miss-fire here... first one I see (at least on this first pass)
All engines cut off on stage 1, wafting for descent...
And the jettison of the stage separation ring...
How it would look like travelling on planet earth in 2030?
From here downward, the speed of this thing is incredible noticeable via the earth approaching so fast!
Crossing commercial flights airspace zone!
Coming down HOT baby!
Another awesome picture! With the compression plume, due to supersonic speeds.
First 8 engines for reentry deceleration... and then 5 more, for a total of 13 engines!
It's funny how the huge amount of fire from the engines cut off quickly dissipates and then moves "gently" away!
There you go, no flames anymore... and ready for the grabs!
Jeeezzzzzz, seeing this next to this stuff (if it would be possible) must be crazy!
Look at these iterations... NAIL IT!
And the booster was even gimble on top of the chopsticks! Crazy to see... which was about when I started seeing this live...
Imagine when there are multiple of these every day! It's going to be massive...
The size of the grid fins is huge! (the booster was noticeably balancing on the chopsticks by this time, slowly but moving)
And another breathtaking view of stage 2 still in space!
Didn't notice that 1 engine was not running... interesting... I wonder why...
Top of the booster, where you can see the massive actuators for the grid fins and the hot gases exhaust pipes (that result from the boiling point of the liquid fuel and oxygen).
Noticing something happening to stage 2... that then turned off engines in a very weird way (not sure if to control attitude). But eventually, the telemetry stoped... and I was like 😨
And confirmation that stage 1 was lost! 😫 Maybe a leak or something that could not be controlled... lets see once there is more information about it.
Looks like the booster still got some flames to control WIP thing to attend to!