BIG NEWS! Starship Flight 10 S36 successfully Deployed Starlink & Splashdown, B16 Landing Flip

Getting good callouts, healthy systems on the booster as it starts to pitch over, over the gulf. Alright, we're a little over one minute into flight, about to pack through max Q. Max Q. Alright, so we are through the period of maximum dynamic pressure, max stress on the vehicle as it continues to fly. Our next major event is going to be hot staging, which is happening in just over 90 seconds from now. To get ready, the booster will shut down all but three of its Raptor engines. The clamps holding the two stages together will release, and the Starship second stage ignites its engines. The ship then separates from the super heavy booster and heads to space. At the same time, the three engines still firing on super heavy will flip the booster around. Ten more engines will ignite for the boost back burn, putting the first stage on the path for splashdown in the gulf. As we mentioned earlier, the hot stage will be jettisoned for this flight, and that should occur just after the boost back burn. So we're about to shut down the first stage and perform hot staging, so let's just watch and listen. Alright, seeing the engines start to throttle down. MECO. Ship ignition. Boost back burn startup. Stage separation confirmed. We've got six engines running on ship. Booster is doing its boost back burn, continuing now towards its splashdown site in the gulf. We are seeing all six Raptors lit up on ship. You heard them report ship chamber pressure is nominal, so that chamber pressure, just that expected thrust level in those Raptor engines on the ship. Three vacuum optimized, three sea level, all looking good. There's a view into the business end from the ship. Boost back burn shutdown. Alright, so at this point we've finished our boost back burn, so that was shutdown. So that's the first of the two burns after a launch that the booster is going to do today. So now it's headed towards the gulf. It's not going to be quite as aggressive of a flight down. We relaxed that angle of attack a little bit. But we are then going to be looking for it to do its engine tests for the landing burn. And those are going to be a little unique this time. Yeah, typically we start with all 13 inner engines lit for that landing burn and bring that down to just the center three. But one of our test objectives for today is to simulate what an engine out situation would look like. So we're going to be intentionally turning off one of those center three and instead lighting one of the engines from the middle 10 ring. Yeah, we did see one of those engines in the middle ring shut down during the initial ascent. Oh, looks like we have hot stage jettison. You can see it floating away there to the left of the booster. Yeah, we did see one of those middle engines shut down during the ascent. Again, we are resilient to engine out on super heavy. That's why we were able to get through our ascent. Starship flying on the expected path. There's still a chance that engine could be back in the mix for the very start of the landing burn. So we'll see if we light up all 13. But we've, I mean, we've even done a landing burn at the tower with an engine out. So very resilient. We'll see how it does on its way down to the Gulf though. So we've got a couple of minutes. That landing burn start should be just about 40 seconds away. That's always rad. You can see the, you can see the boost plume itself in the background as it was coming in. All right, about 20 seconds to landing burn. Ship, Raptor chamber pressure's nominal. All right, here we go. Landing burn startup. Looks like we got 12 of those 13. Down to three, including one of the middle ring. Down to two. Nice little hover. And landing burn shutdown. And into the Gulf. Here we come. And the booster has splashed down. Incredible flight for booster today. Meanwhile, back in space. About seven minutes into today's flight. Ship continuing its ascent burn. This goes until just about nine minutes into our flight. That ship engine cutoff is slated for eight minutes and 57 seconds. We are going to see those three RVAC, the Raptor vacuum engines. Those are the bigger circles in that little indicator on the bottom right of your screen. Those will shut down first. And we continue burning for a couple seconds longer on those inner three before we hit SECO, second engine cutoff. Yeah, these views are looking great. Once again, thanks to Starlink for getting us these views. It's just incredible. And we just heard the sound from booster. We just got a late boom from the booster. Yeah, we have ship engine cutoff coming up here just shortly. And as we mentioned, today's flight test is not an orbital flight, but rather one that demonstrates Starship's orbital capability. Starship's on terminal guidance. All right, entering the final phase of this burn. Under 30 seconds to go. All right, shut down the vacuum engines. Ship engine cutoff. We shut down those center three. Successful ship engine cutoff. Ship has transitioned to payload deploy. There we go. Pew pew. Been waiting way too long to do that. There we go. There goes another one. Super exciting moment as you can hear the energy in both Hawthorne and Starbase. Everyone's super excited for finally getting to deploy some of those simulated satellites. PES system moving down. Next row. There we go. As we said, we're going to do about one every minute or so. And this is just kind of a dress rehearsal for when we're going to be deploying the V3 satellites. And these are just a massive, massive increase to Starlink's capability. Each one of them has its 60 terabits per second of capacity that's going to get added to the network per launch. That's 20 times more than what we're adding with every single Falcon 9 launch today. Which, you know, step increase in capability. There goes another one. All right, so as we said, we've got eight total that we're going to go through today. It's about a minute for each one. When we actually start launching the V3 Starlinks on Starship, we're going to be flying about 60 each time. So it'll be about an hour to get through a full stack. But again, it's just going to be a massive increase in the amount of bandwidth. It's going to enable gigabit upload download for people with Starlink anywhere on the planet. And for us, Starlink is just a tremendous part of just the Starship flight test program. Yeah, absolutely. Always getting us that data. And, yeah, the amazing views we have on the vehicle today. Yeah, views brought to you by Starlink of us deploying Starlink simulators before we deploy actual Starlinks. How deep does it go? All right, another one firing out. PEZ looking smooth today. All right, looks like we've got one left. Almost there. Yeah, there you go. One remaining. So seven of the eight have been deployed. One more to go. And then we will have completed our first ever payload deploy operation. Just a reminder, we're on a suborbital trajectory. These satellites on that exact same suborbital trajectory, they're going to burn up entirely. They're on that same trajectory towards the Indian Ocean. So the last one has been deployed. Starlink simulator payload complete. Heck yeah, everybody. Relight demo startup. And shutdown. All right, looks like we confirmed the relight of one of those Centaraptor engines. Second time we've done that. Super exciting. Huge congrats to the team on this milestone. All right, so we are back. We are about 45 minutes into the 10th flight test of Starship. And as you can see, the light show has started. Re-entry has begun. We are starting to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. Starship's big size kind of gives us a wake. But what really helps us punch through is the fact that we're using Starlink. We're operating at just a much higher frequency. That's not what we want to see. So we just saw some of the aft skirt just take a hit. So we've got some visible damage on the aft skirt. We're continuing to re-enter though. And again, we are intentionally stressing the ship as we go through this. So it is not guaranteed to be a smooth ride down to the Indian Ocean. We've removed a bunch of tiles in kind of critical places across the vehicle. So seeing stuff like that is still valuable to us. We are trying to kind of push this vehicle to the limits. To learn what its limits are as we design our next version of Starships. All right, so at this point, we've dropped below the speed of sound. So Starship itself is subsonic. We are starting to chill the engines for a landing burn attempt. Here we go. Starship landing burn startup. Seeing three engines. There's our flip. There's a buoy. Farewell Ship 37. Thank you, buoy cam. Landing flip, landing burn. Splashed out of the Indian Ocean. There we go. Tyler, how's it going over in Hawthorne? We are super excited to be in Hawthorne. It was another exciting Starship flight test of the books. And we hope you enjoyed those Starlink views. So congratulations to the team at Starbase and everyone here and around the company. So many employees have contributed enormously to the Starship program as we continue to iterate and make progress towards a multi-planetary future. So that's going to wrap it up for us here in Hawthorne. Thank you to everyone for tuning in today. It was great being with you today. Back to you guys.