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Day 2: second attempt at #Starship Flight 12 launch. Here is your (unofficial) step-by-step infographic. SpaceX’s promise of “excitement guaranteed” is a certainty.

The hot-staging into boost-back during Flight 12 was pretty chaotic so I decided to try to simplify what occurred by looking at the visuals and the telemetry. This is my take and the engines that failed to light or shutoff could be wrong. I am open to corrections. Booster 19 had failed to light some of its engines at the start of its boost-back before experiencing an energetic event in the inner engines that knocked out surrounding engines. E5 or E6 may be the culprit as E7 eventually relit during the landing burn.

this will never get old

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Starship is set to play a critical role in putting crew and cargo on the lunar surface under NASA’s Artemis program

I don't think there was a single moment in this flight where we lost signal from the ship. A continuous stream of 4k video from one side of the Earth to the other while travelling at 21 times the speed of sound is genuinely insane.

Over the fucking moon.

Starship liftoff as seen from our remote camera! Camera survived.

That Friday feeling when you finally break away. The @NASAArtemis Orion spacecraft is designed for deep‑space missions, and its separation sequence is a key step in that journey. Once Orion detaches, it shifts into independent flight and activates the systems that guide it through reentry and splashdown. Teams at Johnson Space Center monitor every moment, ensuring Orion performs exactly as planned as NASA prepares for future Artemis missions.

Today, we are announcing an initiative to put NASA’s mission first and resource the objectives that matter most. We are organizing, planning, and investing in the talent and Centers to achieve the world-changing objectives only NASA is capable of accomplishing.

SpaceX has released a statement after today's 12th Starship test flight: "The flight test began with Super Heavy igniting all 33 Raptor 3 engines and ascending over the Gulf of America. A single Raptor engine shut down during ascent. The successful first-stage ascent was followed by a hot-staging maneuver, with Starship’s upper stage igniting its six Raptor engines to continue its flight to space. Following stage separation, the Super Heavy booster performed a directional flip maneuver and attempted its boostback burn. It was unable to light all planned engines and performed a partial boostback burn that ended early. Super Heavy attempted to reignite its engines for the landing burn before experiencing a hard splashdown in the Gulf of America. Following stage separation, the Super Heavy booster performed a directional flip maneuver and attempted its boostback burn. It was unable to light all planned engines and performed a partial boostback burn that ended early. Super Heavy attempted to reignite its engines for the landing burn before experiencing a hard splashdown in the Gulf of America. During its ascent burn to space, Starship lost one of the Raptor 3 vacuum engines but demonstrated its engine-out capability and achieved its planned trajectory. During coast, Starship successfully deployed all 20 Starlink simulators and two modified Starlink satellites that imaged Starship in space. These simulators and modified Starlink satellites were on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship. Starship re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and was able to gather critical data on the performance of its heatshield and structural strength. In the final minutes of flight, Starship performed a maneuver to intentionally stress the structural limits of the vehicle’s rear flaps and a dynamic banking move to mimic the trajectory that future missions returning to Starbase will fly. Starship then guided itself using its four flaps to the pre-planned splashdown zone in the Indian Ocean, and executed a landing flip, landing burn, and splashdown on two Raptor engines."

Starship V3 takes flight for the first time → spacex.com/launches/stars…

Views of Starship in space from a @Starlink satellite

Starship is executing a banking maneuver that mimics the final approach it would take while returning to Starbase for a catch on a future mission

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Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the twelfth flight test of Starship!

The hydraulic pin holding the tower arm in place did not retract. If that can be fixed tonight, there will be another launch attempt tomorrow at 5:30 CT.

The next chapter of lunar exploration is taking shape. Next week, we are announcing our first steps towards surface capabilities and mobility. Preparation for the first Moon Base is well underway.

SpaceX is about to launch their first V3 Starship and it’s by far the biggest and most radical change to the program to date. Here's a super quick overview of what all is new and different including the incredible new Raptor 3 engines, the new launch pad, and everything else that’s debuting on Flight 12. 00:00 - Intro 01:07 - Pad 2 03:15 - Raptor 3 04:59 - SuperHeavy V3 07:56 - Starship V3 10:52 - Flight 12 Profile

Flight 12 - first V3 launch is targeting today with the window opening at 3:30pm PT. Weather is currently 45% POV so eyes will be on this as we approach our window today. 👀🚀