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So far the 9th #Starship flight test is going close to nominal - the SuperHeavy booster was lost a bit early before its planned ditching, the Starship reach its suborbital trajectory without problems.

The next #Starship webcast has finally begun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgDhgTaV5s. Project Skyfall involves two filming locations, Pompano Beach in Florida, and Raccoon Cay in the Bahamas: https://x.com/interstellargw/status/1926352534559445104

wow!! what a lightshow!
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And finally SpaceX's own #Starship flight test 9 webcast has begun: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWXMRAXmKQ - with the confirmation that launch will be tried right at the beginning of the 1-hour window from 23:30 UTC.

At t-2 1/2 hours one independent #Starship flight 9 webcast has already been on for a while at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdLlG9Rfd4 - others will start at 21:30 UTC on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgDhgTaV5s (they also have cameras on the Bahamas, just in case ...) and at 22:50 UTC at https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWXMRAXmKQ from SpaceX themselves. Meanwhile "The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary" has vanished there completely ... so it's "A Road not Taken" now, Robert Frost would approve of that. ;-)

The comet-style end of flight test 9 of the #Starship as seen from Namibia: https://www.youtube.com/live/mrsEfkeczT4#t=3h43m16s (from 3:43:16) - and at the very end of this webcast there is also a still photo with much higher resolution, screenshot in https://x.com/NicosPanoptikum/status/1927534707258102063

Lots of things going wrong now with flight test nine of the #Starship: first the payload doors didn't open and dummy satellites couldn't be deployed, then it sprung a leak, attitude control has been lost and the reentry in about 10 minutes will be at a radom angle and lead to a likely early loss of the vehicle. Which is still sending live video of its crazy ride over the Indian Ocean, though, thanks to Starlink ...