Starship’s Raptor engines ignite during hot-staging separation

@Kristennetten The launch 🔥🚀

These views are magical. 🌎

@Kristennetten SPACEX is UNSTOPPABLE 🔥🚀

The most absurd part is that hot staging has gone from “are they really going to try that?” to “yep, looks nominal.

What an ascent! Congratulations on the epic liftoff and stage separation!

Hot-staging on V3 is the "just trust the physics" moment of modern rocketry — three RVacs + three sea-level Raptors lighting through the vented interstage while the booster is still pushing. Working clean on a brand-new ship + brand-new booster on the first try is the human-engineering upgrade, not the hardware one.

Spectacular!!!!!💙🚀🚀🚀🚀

@SpaceX Booster 19🚀

Same. Watching humanity become multiplanetary hits different 🚀 #SpaceX #Starship #Space

🔥 What you're seeing is two rockets firing at the same time while still attached to each other. The upper stage ignites its engines before the lower stage has finished. They're bolted together. Both burning. The sheer force of the upper engines is what physically pushes them apart.... Engineers called this the riskiest maneuver in the whole program when they first tried it. That was Flight 2. It blew up shortly after. Flight 12 did it clean. 5,812 km/h at separation. Booster turned around and splashed in the Gulf. Ship went halfway around the planet. The gap between Flight 2 and Flight 12 is not two years of waiting. It's two years of solving problems nobody had ever faced before.

@jackywacky_3 So disappointed in booster but ship LFG 🤞

Gorgeous

This literally looks like a scene straight out of a sci-fi movie! 🚀

Awesome launch... sad you are not catching the booster

I'm in awe by the precision and exact performance of these engines. I could watch this all day!

So beautiful! 🥹🚀

Congratulations @SpaceX and we watched live in Sydney Australia on @SkyNewsAust for the 1st time. Making history and Elon gives us a front seat look. Fab U Lus!!

Rip my boy Booster, he was a real one 💔

Looks like ship's exhaust plume blew out booster's relight like a birthday cake. Gotta get some distance from starship before the flip and boost back.

but fail to reach orbit ?

That high G turn was something else 🤯. I can see why the engines had trouble after that.

Clean work from SpaceX. Starship stayed steady, the separation was crisp, and that view over Earth is ridiculous.

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Is the grid fin heavier than expected? looks like the booster had a lot more rotation after hot staging, compared to usual. and then it looked like it was difficult to regain control.

Awesome launch... sad you are not catching the booster

An absolutely incredible moment of engineering and power 🚀🔥

Elon, you're a great entrepreneur. I hope you can lead all of humanity to Terminus

すごい…！地球バックのRaptor点火シーン、最高です🚀

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Beautiful ❤️ awesome 👍😎

So freaking awesome! 🌟🚀 I love being able to see the booster separate & how, too we get to see it drift away from the rocket ship so high above the world. Such great clarity! Ty Elon Musk, SpaceX & Starlink you's are all the bestest! 😍🌟🚀🛰️🌐

@Kristennetten Wow

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