Attempting to launch in about half an hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04-mfJavLT0

Rubs hands.

Peak Warming Man said:

Rubs hands.

Can’t read the comments, they are travelling too fast.

Peak Warming Man said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Rubs hands.

Can’t read the comments, they are travelling too fast.

LOL

True.

:)

Flight scrubbed for today.
Weather problem, I believe.

Spiny Norman said:

Flight scrubbed for today.
Weather problem, I believe.

There was a cloud that was too close, apparently.

Spiny Norman said:

Flight scrubbed for today.
Weather problem, I believe.

It will be clean for the next launch.

Mostly successful.

A good launch though one engine out on the boost during the ascent.
The booster separation seemed to go well, then the boost-back to land in the ocean also seemed good.
The upper stage got into the planned decaying orbit then about half an hour into that it ejected eight dummy Starlink devices. They’ll burn up very quickly, if they haven’t already.
The re-entry was successful but some of the rear parts of the rear flaps burnt-through. I could also see some damaged/torn metal panels in the engine bay camera view, not sure if they were part of the flap system or not.
The re-entry angle was scheduled to be steep & severe and that’s what they achieved.
The upper stage pitched-up and re-lit two of the three inner engines and one of the middle ring of engines to simulate one of the inner engines failing to light-up. The touchdown looked pretty much perfect.

So overall a successful flight. But equally some more work to do on the protection of the flaps & associated systems.

Some drone video of the upper stage landing in the ocean, just released by SpaceX.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eeorgE8dQnk

A still from the drone video of the upper stage about to land in the ocean. You can see the damage to the rear of the lower flap, initially caused by the small explosion in the engine bay before re-entry then further damage from the heating during re-entry.