Rocket returning back to earth!

[@BlackWolf18C]

A twenty story building, just casually back from the edge of space after lofting a sixteen story building on top of it. Wild time to be alive.

[@_Siloam_]

Want true freedom? Come to Jesus Christ 👍😊

[@kadiboudacz5500]

@@_Siloam_ touch grass

[@longsleevethong1457]

And weighs as much as 4 abrams tanks flying at 500ish mph

[@briancleveland6115]

All they did was catch a skyscraper with a robot, it's not rocket surgery 🤣 oh wait 🤣🤣🤣

[@briancleveland6115]

​@@kadiboudacz5500The touch grass joke has played out 🤣🤣🤣

[@maxlindberg402]

That sonic boom was insane

[@MathewWeaver73]

Double boomer😂. It’s amazing how much slower sound is than light.

[@briancleveland6115]

​@@MathewWeaver73The difference is only about 669 million mph 🤣🤣

[@jaypaint4855]

@@MathewWeaver73triple, actually. It the second two were close together.

[@Theaverageamerican0006]

I just love seeing videos like this. Kids playing, families excited, people cheering together, and new horizons.

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@Theaverageamerican0006 yup the two little kids dancing were cute

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Flight Footage,...3/10,... Footage of real folks out enjoying the spectacle, 10/10. This is what the world needs to see, how enthusiastic regular people are about such an amazing step forward in the process of getting humanity on to multiple worlds.

[@_Siloam_]

Want true freedom? Come to Jesus Christ 👍😊

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

​@@_Siloam_ Science doesn't lie like religion does daily. Go preach your hate elsewhere

[@itsyo42]

@@_Siloam_ freedom of molesting children?

[@gidonricardo8629]

@@_Siloam_ Why are you canceling this persons freedom? how is his freedom not true freedom? Do you know this person? Do you know if this person is religious or not? please explain how is your comment not the pinnacle of arrogance?

[@kadiboudacz5500]

@@gidonricardo8629 exactly

[@JusticePreyHDM]

A launch vehicle with double the thrust of the Saturn V, casually heading back to earth. Insanely great achievement.

[@tecktan7250]

That sonic boom sounds like canons shooting!

[@chrisbarrett2117]

Fireworks!!!!!!

[@MathewWeaver73]

The 15 second delay is what got me.

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@tecktan7250 yep

[@aravind4391]

hence 'boom'

[@Nemophilist850]

They say "oh it's just like a thunderclap" and it's like yeah, if the thunderclap is right above your head.

[@EdwardRLyons]

Indeed, and it took 25 seconds for the sonic boom to reach this beach, so a distance of over 8 km. This sonic boom is much, much louder than a thunder clap at that distance!

[@garyh.2487]

Can't wait for AI to solve the ever-present focus problem.

[@TomHill-xh7ec]

Great footage! I love the distortion around the lower cloud as the shockwave passes.

[@JohnnyTran-qh3ot]

The people were standing 5 miles away. It took 25 seconds for the sound of the ignition to arrive.

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@JohnnyTran-qh3ot that’s close!

[@goldfing5898]

Good observation and calculation! From the video, I estimated 25 seconds, too (between 0:26 and 0:51). The time used by the light can be neglected in this case, but not the time used by the sound. The distance is s = c * t = 340 m/s * 25 sec = 8500 m = 8.5 km, divided by 1.609 kilometers per mile gives 5.28 miles.

[@peterford5408]

@JohnnyTran-qh3ot I'm pretty sure the sudden noise is a sonic boom (or more than one of them). This might have been generated some time after ignition of the engines - once the speed drops through the 'sound barrier' perhaps?

[@goldfing5898]

@@peterford5408 Yes, but I think the ignition was at about 1 km height and 1000 km//h, which is slightly subsonic already. Would have to check the telemetry data in one of the videos.

[@Primaate]

Problem is, the boom is when vehicle enters thick enough atmosphere, not necessarily when you see reignition. Crazy part is, the Booster is creating the boom and pushing past it because of its Mach 1+ speed and only really slows under Mach1 sometime just before relight. Easier calculation - 1km/3sec (speed of sound at 'sea level' ... higher speeds as atmosphere thins)

[@BLT_Biscuit]

It's crazy to think we could live in a world where this could happen on a regular basis and people won't be too impressed.

[@maelstrom2313]

I can easily see people complaining about the noise pollution from two dozen rocket launches a day.

[@leokimvideo]

I swear we heard that sonic boom in Australia

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@leokimvideo hi Leo I used watch your videos when I was younger :D also that’s crazy

[@leokimvideo]

@@southtexastrainfan6690 Good luck in the elections, it's been wild seeing how bad it was getting when Biden was in

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@leokimvideo ye

[@fft2020]

look at the speed that thing is coming down with

[@jkleylein]

They don't call the final engine fire a 'suicide burn' for nothing.

[@joaohenriqueneuhaus2023]

Imagine someone who just went to that beach and have no idea what a starship is suddenly begin questioning its own sanity because of that never ending thurnder sound 😂

[@FailSpace2]

That is AWESOME!!!! I was able to see IFT3 in person, so unfortunately i wasn’t able to see a landing. but it was insane seeing the boostback burn. Congrats on this experience!

[@HongKong-tg5lh]

even the dust from the launch before was like: "?"

[@costiqueR]

The sonic boom is a problem... at the intended launch pace, it will be difficult to get daily few of these booms...

[@BandwidthMusic]

You can see the shockwave distort the clouds

[@McClarinJ]

Best sonic boom I've heard yet in a video of this event.

[@donjones4719]

SpaceX has successfully landed their Falcon 9 rocket 344 times (not the same individual rocket, lol), starting 9 years ago. No one else has done it even once. (A suborbital rocket doesn't count, the difficulty is magnitudes less.) It'll be 2-3 years before any company or country does it, with the exception of Blue Origin, which should do it next year. SpaceX is so far ahead in that race and now they've started another with Starship. How long will it be before anyone comes close to catching up?

[@gregsteele806]

Yeah, Blue Origin's payload will be somewhere just short of what Falcon Heavy can do, and it will have about the same resuability. (Save the booster. Expend the second stage). IF SpaceX actually manages full reusability of both stages with a quick turnaround it will revolutionize the way our species exploits space. I'm thankful to be alive at such an exciting time.

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@donjones4719 I heard there gonna launch two rockets for the next launch they already built another launch pad

[@SpacefarerIndustries]

@@southtexastrainfan6690 They aren't going to launch two for flight 6, that's coming in just 8 days (and it sounds crazy to say that considering this one was just a few weeks ago). People are speculating that there will eventually be a test of orbital refueling involving two starships, one launching from each pad. If I had to guess, that would happen no earlier than flight 8. The second pad doesn't have a launch mount yet and is incapable of receiving propellants from the fuel depot.

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@ oh ok

[@stuz32]

Thank you for sharing ❤

[@TheSadButMadLad]

You caught the sonic boom from the ring too.

[@fairalbion]

It just kills me, just so crushing to the people involved, that there was radio silence from the White House on this, one of our country's most impressive technological achievements. Shameful.

[@EpicLib]

Amazing thing to witness live

[@snakevenom4954]

Since the perspective is from the beach, I thought this was a Falcon 9 landing at Vandenberg but I made the connection it was Starship once it focused in lol. Wild to think the catch was over a month ago mow

[@dronemonkey2038]

Fantastic…Where was the footage taken?

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@dronemonkey2038 south padre island tx

[@AlongtheRiverLife]

Yea baby! Go SpaceX!

[@johnnyweld9672]

THE END IS THE BEST TY TY TY

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@johnnyweld9672 Yw

[@cube2fox]

Haha, when the dancing kids duck after the sonic boom :)

[@mesaber86]

Everyone see rocket, everyone excited :)

[@stanmarge6326]

Ya'll can say whatever ya want, Elmo is the best businessman to ever live

[@DB-zp9un]

I dunno, I thought Bert and Ernie did ok..

[@tierdropp7544]

@@DB-zp9un😂

[@wick9427]

He’s also the chief engineer, there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence for this from a lot of different sources, but this makes a lot of people very upset so it’s not allowed to be true lol. for some reason nowadays people cannot be douchebags and competent anymore, it has to magically be one or the other to sate people’s ego’s.

[@xaviersavedra711]

You could see the incoming shockwave in the clouds before the triple boom

[@averyward8919]

Somebody take me to florida when they launch again plz im in Kentucky wanna see this so bad

[@nigel8247]

Bless em 😂

[@persoonmars1828]

Ask me questions about the spacecraft and I will answer

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@persoonmars1828 how many engines does it have

[@Mp57navy]

Give a recipe for pancakes.

[@persoonmars1828]

@@southtexastrainfan6690 33 raptor V2 engines on the first stage booster 6 total raptor engines on second stage Starship making the total number of engines 39

[@rubikmonat6589]

what is it's favourite cheese?

[@Fold-103]

@@rubikmonat6589 Moon cheese.

[@MarcusSHere23]

Cool Thanks!

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

Welcome!

[@saveurmind]

71m tall monster

[@alpen4921]

The sonic boom was mental but I do worry how long it will take for locals to start to become annoyed with it if Elon achieves his goal of 3 launches a day.

[@McClarinJ]

Boca Chica Starbase is just for R & D and should never see that launch cadence.

[@alpen4921]

@ where do you think they have in mind for their future launch aspirations. Somewhere remote?

[@ImNotActuallyChristian]

@@alpen4921they will have launches out of Florida, but they also plan to have sea based launchpads. They bought some decommissioned oil rigs that they’re gonna try to turn into offshore launch platforms.

[@wick9427]

@@alpen4921 they’re already building another launch pad at cape canaveral right next to LC 39A

[@aspopulvera9130]

you the scene is insane if some people believed it's CGI lol

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@aspopulvera9130 true lol

[@mojomiah8]

👍👍.

[@jacquesjacques-yh8hh]

This little white cloud was very strange.....

[@111danish111]

Where was this taken from ?

[@gnoishcnshcha3160]

The view is good but it is a little NG for rocket launching n landing.

[@trif55]

the future happening, loudly!

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@trif55 yep!

[@AaronBernstein-pw2me]

Seagull!

[@羅昇]

an age of Elon Musk to come.

[@rambo321]

T S L A

[@chiefbananacakes874]

This proves we could have flying cars by now but.. we must give a big thanks to the FAA for not having flying cars, clowns cant even use a turn signal.

[@laszlokorosi9012]

Thanks for the video! I have seen dozens of amateur footages and ALL of them make the same mistake you have done: we are not really interested in a zoomed in view of the booster, anyway you can't compete with telescope views, but instead we would like to see the dynamics of the landing. How the booster approaches with high speed and how it decelerates after the landing burn. In order to see these, you should have the booster AND the catch tower in the same frame. Instead, everybody and their cat ruin their videos by performing inappropriate zooming, losing the reference frame of the tower 🙁.

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@laszlokorosi9012 Ik I need to get a better camera since I was using my tablet I’ll try to work on it

[@RandomUser311]

For a good chunk of people this will have been the first time to record something like this, so it should come as no surprise that they all make similar mistakes given that none of them has the benefit of hindsight.

[@laszlokorosi9012]

@@RandomUser311 I'm not blaming anybody, I'm thankful for the videos, it's just my frustration not having a global view as those who had the chance to see this event in person.

[@batchint]

the audio comes afterwards

[@AnupomAG]

Judging by the sound timing I can tell it was really far away.

[@you2be839]

Just a normal day at the beach! haha

[@Shrouded_reaper]

Finally gets it in focus for the last few seconds before landing then randomly pans right no discernible reason.

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@Shrouded_reaper yea I’ll stop doing that lol

[@billyrio3767]

I'll bet the locals are going to just LOVE 40 or 50 of those sonic booms going off every day.

[@Joseph-C]

The only people that live there are people who work at SpaceX. Unless you're a boarder patrol agent there's no other reason you'd be down there.

[@briancleveland6115]

All they did was catch a skyscraper with a robot 🤖 it's not rocket 🚀 surgery 🤣🤣🤣

[@jerrywatt6813]

Gotta to hand it to elon reuseable rocket something nasa said was impossible !😊

[@ejicon3099]

I think your focus was off a wee bit. Tee hee hee

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@ejicon3099 ik

[@HaraldBendschneider]

Great footage? Blurred, out of focus.

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@HaraldBendschneider yeah Ik the thing I was using to record got blurred prob bc of the rocket noise

[@maigretus1]

I love that they didn't synchronize the sound with the video. The delay in hearing the sonic boom and the sound of the engines of almost a minute is quite realistic.

[@Primaate]

So when you go witness these events in person (ie without your smart device) , does your world view implode? 🤔

[@sebastiannowak8443]

A question for the uploader, how many genders are there ?

[@southtexastrainfan6690]

@@sebastiannowak8443 2 ig

[@T00LF00L]

Blurriest footage yet..

[@charmainegloriosohalos6438]

1st❤❤❤

[@garnet4846]

You can tell its real because it looks so fake

[@garnet4846]

@@RandomCubeee get a clue kid.