Starship Flight 9 Live Blog Launch Coverage!
This article will be used for The Weekly Spaceman’s live coverage of Starship Flight 9’s launch until landing! If you want to keep up and you cannot watch the livestream, refresh this page from time to time! All times are approximate to a minute or so! See you! 😁
Times are in UTC+8 as the writer of this is in a location in that time zone!
7:28 AM: T-40 seconds hold, then clock rolling after a while.
7:30 AM: T-40 seconds hold again, possible ground side issue.
7:35 AM: The teams resolved, resetting to 40 seconds.
7:37 AM: Liftoff! Starship takes to the skies!
7:39 AM: Stage separation! Boost back burn: all 13 engines for boostback are healthy!
The engine shuts down after the boostback burn.
7:43 AM: The booster failed to turn on its engines upon landing and crashed into the Gulf.
7:46 AM: The ship made it to space! All six engines have shut off successfully!
7:55 AM: The Ship couldn't deploy the Starlink simulator satellites. The Ship is still doing well.
8:06 AM: It looks like the Ship is spinning with SpaceX’s camera views. They said it was a leak in Starship’s fuel, causing it to lose its attitude control.
8:19 AM: Ship is showing signs of re-entry, it’ s currently doing an uncontrollable re-entry on a cleared area on the ocean.
8:21 AM: Ship camera views are intermittently losing connection.
8:24 AM: Ship telemetry has stopped. All camera views are gone. This is the expected end of mission time.
8:27 AM: SpaceX commentators officially confirm the end of the mission.
Thank you for being so supportive of this live blog coverage for Starship Flight 9! We hope to see you on future flights! KYNNMASTER 123 here for The Weekly Spaceman, see you in the next one!
