Successful flight 10 of Starship; 8 dummy Starlinks deployed, in-space Raptor restart, reentry and soft landing in Indian Ocean. Partial structural failure of aft skirt at T+47m, some minor flap damage, but overall a good flight putting the program back on track.
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Ship 37 successful landing burn, gentle splash in Indian Ocean. Blew up after falling over in water, as expected.
Eight dummy Starlink V3 sats have been deployed from the Starship payload bay. Their perigee is inside the atmo and they will burn up on reentry over the Indian Ocean about 40 minutes from now
Attempt to fit the SpaceX webcast height-velocity data for flight 10 with a 192 km apogee and -15 km (green), 0 km (red), +14 km (blue) perigees. 0 looks like the best fit overall. I would say the perigee is somewhere in the -2 to +10 km range with moderate confidence.
Booster sep and boostback burn. Looks like 1 booster engine did not work on ascent. All Ship engines firing. Unfortunately they're not giving Ship altitude values, boo