SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Prototype 5thh Flight Test (Launch Highlights)

SpaceX launches Starship-Super Heavy (Prototype) from Orbital Launch Pad A, Starbase, Texas, USA on Sun Oct 13, 2024 at 12:25 UTC.
Fifth integrated launch of Starship and Super Heavy. Starship sucessfully performed liftoff clearing the orbital launch tower and the rocket managing to reach max Q. After that, Super Heavy performed engine cutoff while the Ship hot staged, separating from the booster while firing its engines, the process was succesful. Super Heavy made the boostback burn to the launch site were for the very first time and attempt the launch tower managed to catch the SuperHeavy booster on the air. The Ship continued its course, reaching orbit safely, where it performed various tests. At the moment of reentry, some amazing views of Starship reentering Earth's atmosphere were shown, and opposite to flight 4 some improvements were made to the heat shield and the Ship managed to handle the heat of reentry far better. The Ship succesfully performed a soft splashdown on the Indian Ocean very near to the desired target. After tipping over in the water, Starship greeted us with an amazing explosion caused due to the hit of the side of the Ship with the surface water. This was a test flight so everything after the liftoff and clearance of the launch tower was a success for SpaceX, this launch will help the team learn a lot about this vehicle and become more reliable for upcoming test flights. However it is safe to say that this was the most succesful test flight the campaign has ever seen, performing every milestone very cleanly and succesful.
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[@nathanluebke]

Every time I watch this team progress with each new launch, I can't help but get emotional. They actually did it

[@Wild_Bill57]

Holy $h1t! That was incredible!