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At altitude 22km superheavy was moving at 4310 kmh (34:18 in linked video) speed then dropped continually, at 34:45 in the video the icons show that 3 engines were lit, altitude was 1km and speed was 1300 kmh. At 34:49 you can see flames, speed continues to drop, then you see the sea rushing up, then it cuts

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It does look like it came down rather fast. Engines only partially re-lit. About 34min in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWM1NQ1tZEU&t=2112s

Yeah could be. Some of the debris looked very specific in shape though. On some shots of starship you can see missing tiles (not many though)

Show me anyone that _ever_ got a cost per kg to leo cheaper than spacex

The point they were trying to make is that getting up is MVP, getting back down can be figured out later

video: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1768279990368612354

Note the camera moves because its also on a flap

T+37: Seems a little turny-aroundy in orbit there

and a bit "small-pieces-falling-offy"

Still, good job getting it there

T+43: seems to be turning around a bit too much for something thats got heat shields on one side and is about to re-enter

T+45: flaps moved, maybe that is supposed to get it the right way round, I get it now - it uses the flaps to orient for re-entry

T+46: the little bits of debris must be tiles coming off

T+46: flap glowing red, can see plasma (edit: spacex tweeted a video of this bit, its quite something https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1768279990368612354 note the camera position moves because the camera is on one of the forward flaps)

T+47: "biggest flying object ever in space" uh-oh

T+47: serious re-entry flames

T+48: loss of signal

T+54: still no signal

T+62: saying they lost signal via starlink and TDRS at same time so maybe that was the end of it

T+65: confirmed lost during re-entry

T+67: the presenters all eat a large pie. each.