Does this hurt the fish?

Wasn't it seals or dolphins or something oddly specific that Elon mentioned ~6-12 months ago?

For sure!

I bought an RV about 6 weeks ago and will be adding a starlink to it in the next couple of weeks. I will EV looking forward to all the extra bandwidth V3 can give.

Relight attempt at ~T + 37... then plasma show and splash down

Mathguy64 said:

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Great. Now people will complain that Elon is throwing trash out in space.

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They said that they are on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship so they will re enter and burn up.

Wonder how many more times they want to see this before carrying a real satellite payload? 0? 5? I set the O/U at 2.5. and take the over.

TXAG 05 said:

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Mathguy64 said:

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Great. Now people will complain that Elon is throwing trash out in space.

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They said that they are on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship so they will re enter and burn up.

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So everyone who failed physics or worse ducked it because they would have failed it will think leaving trash up there. My expert experience with 33 plus years of teaching in college means that's a lot of people.

I think the slow yaw was to deploy the decoys against the line of travel aka behind and away.

It will continue the yaw for raptor relight. Then it will rotate around again for reentry.

RED AG 98 said:

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Wonder how many more times they want to see this before carrying a real satellite payload? 0? 5? I set the O/U at 2.5. and take the over.

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To make the under they'd have to carry a real payload on the next test flight (the last V2 ship) or the very first flight of a V3 ship. Over is a very safe bet.

This has been an amazing flight so far. One Raptor shutting down on the booster is the only issue at launch, and it didn't impact the Starship second stage or the landing at all.

They intentionally only lit two engines on the inner ring in the landing burn, simulating engine failure and lit one on the middle ring to compensate. Looked like the booster went into a full hover right before shutting down and hitting the water.

Bay door opening and payload deployment looked amazing. Payload door appears to have fully closed with no problem.

Successful Raptor relight. Really successful flight so far.

Relight successful!

Starship successfully ignited one of its Raptor engines while in space pic.twitter.com/SNmzyygPBC

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 27, 2025

Looks like we're back to hitting all the milestones. Hopefully the flaps didn't burn through anymore.

Some piece of metal hanging off a flap.

Should start seeing some fireworks

Rotating back around for reentry.

normaleagle05 said:

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RED AG 98 said:

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Wonder how many more times they want to see this before carrying a real satellite payload? 0? 5? I set the O/U at 2.5. and take the over.

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To make the under they'd have to carry a real payload on the next test flight (the last V2 ship) or the very first flight of a V3 ship. Over is a very safe bet.

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Is this the confirmed timing on V3? I grokked earlier, which suggested they have 300+ V2's in inventory and didn't have a firm timetable. I admittedly haven't followed as closely in the last 6 months or so.

Starship version, not Starlink satellite version.

Ship, in it's very few number of flights, has given us some of the most incredible rocket pron in existence. Just incredible footage, usually real time no less.

Starship heating up. Good attitude for reentry!

That was neat. Bang!

Right, Grok may well be very wrong but this was it's reply

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Status of Flight 10 and Raptor 2 Usage

• As of August 26, 2025, Starship has completed 9 integrated flight tests (IFT 19), with IFT 9 occurring on May 27, 2025, using Booster 14 (reused from IFT 7) and Ship 35, both equipped with Raptor 2 engines (29 of the booster's 33 engines were flight-proven).
• Flight 10 is the next test, targeted for mid-to-late August 2025 (NET August 24, but scrubbed due to weather; fueling completed, hold at T-40 seconds). It will use a new Super Heavy booster (likely Booster 15 or 16) with all 33 Raptor 2 engines and Ship 37 (also Raptor 2-equipped). Key objectives include booster landing burn experiments (e.g., disabling one center engine), deploying 8 Starlink simulator satellites, and an in-space Raptor relight. This is explicitly a Block 2/V2 mission.
• Raptor 2 engines remain in production and stockpiled (estimates of 300400+ units available as of mid-2025), supporting multiple additional flights. Recent activities include a full-duration static fire of all 33 Raptor 2 engines on the Flight 10 booster in early June 2025.

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Some sort of minor debris. Might get interesting soon.

Bringing it in at a very high angle of attack. Looks like they are trying to bring it in steep and fast and see how far it makes it.

That was a cool explosion in the engine bay

One flap and the bottom ring around the engines have a nice sized chunk missing.

Seeing daylight

That sunrise and plasma shot is sexy!

There goes part of the aft flap. They still have issues there.

She's a Flappy Bird

This thing isn't going to burn up…

Those are the engines. They have exactly one more V2 Starship.

I think that's intentional. Issues before were on the leading edge, but they modified the flap design and location. Looking good now.

Doh! I thought you were talking Raptor. Guess it was on the brain because that's what I had been reading about.