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Starship hot staging worked! (video.twimg.com)
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The second stage of starship successfully separated from the first stage!

https://www.youtube.com/live/6na40SqzYnU

Edit: replaced picture with video. Here's the original screenshot. superheavy after stage sep

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I’m not sure give many raptors are supposed to relight on the boostback, but it looks like one of the gimbal raptors and several of the inner ring failed to relight for boostback. That would explain the trajectory deviation and FTS activation. Nice to see the improved FTS did its job anyway!