00:00 T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition, engines full power, and liftoff of Starlink.
00:19 Go Falcon, go Starlink.
00:26 Go to 15 downrange.
00:30 Stage 1 chamber pressure is nominal.
00:45 At T plus 30 seconds, F9 has successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East
00:51 from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base at 857 p.m. Pacific time.
00:56 The next major milestone coming up is Max Q, which is when the vehicle experiences the
01:01 greatest amount of external stresses as it ascends through the Earth's atmosphere.
01:12 As you just heard, Falcon 9 is traveling supersonically, meaning it is going faster than the speed
01:16 of sound.
01:33 And there you just heard the callout for Max Q, which again is when the rocket experiences
01:37 the largest amount of external stresses that it will see during its flight today.
01:46 We are about one minute away from a series of events being MECO, stage separation, SES1,
01:51 and fairing separation.
01:53 MECO stands for main engine cutoff, which is when all nine Merlin engines will shut
01:57 down in preparation for stage separation.
02:00 And during stage separation, pneumatic pushers will separate the first and second stages,
02:05 and the first stage will begin its journey back to Earth, while the second stage will
02:08 light its Merlin vacuum engine, making second engine start one to propel our Starlink satellites
02:14 to their planned orbits.
02:15 And shortly after, the fairing halves will separate and fall away from the vehicle to
02:19 later be recovered.
02:21 Let's keep an eye out for these events happening in pretty quick succession about 20 seconds
02:25 from now.
02:33 And as you just saw and heard over the nets, we had successful MECO, stage step, and SES1.
03:01 We also just had confirmation of successful fairing deployment.
03:10 We will be attempting to recover both fairing halves using our recovery vessel, Go Beyond.
03:14 Both of the fairing halves that supported today's mission are flight proven and flying
03:18 for their sixth time tonight.
03:21 The next major milestone coming up is entry burn on the first stage, which is one of the
03:25 two burns it'll go through to prepare for landing on our drone ship, Of Course I Still
03:29 Love You.
03:40 Both vehicles are on a nominal trajectory.
04:10 And there you heard that stage one and stage two are both following nominal trajectories.
04:17 And currently the first stage is on its way back to Earth towards our drone ship, Of Course
04:21 I Still Love You.
04:23 And the MVEC engine attached to the second stage is continuing its burn, which will last
04:27 for about another five minutes.
04:49 On the left side of your screen, we have some super faint views of our first stage as it's
04:53 making its way back to land.
04:56 On the right side, we have our MVEC engine, which is performing as expected.
05:05 Both vehicles continue to follow a nominal trajectory.
05:17 And as I mentioned earlier, today's Starlink mission marks SpaceX's 54th mission just this
05:35 year and 253rd mission overall.
05:38 Its entry burn on the first stage will be coming up in a few minutes from now.
06:05 Both stages are on a nominal trajectory.
06:15 Designed and manufactured by SpaceX, Starlink is the world's largest satellite internet
06:19 constellation.
06:21 Starlink satellites operate in low Earth orbit, which enables the delivery of high-speed,
06:25 low-latency internet to people living in remote and rural locations all around the globe.
06:49 Both vehicles following a nominal trajectory.
07:18 In addition to our live views of the MVEC engine on the second stage, we also have live
07:22 telemetry for our first stage with altitude and speed being shown in the bottom left-hand
07:27 corner of your screen.
07:36 And the 15 satellites on tonight's mission will join the rest of our Starlink constellation,
07:41 which is now delivering high-speed, low-latency internet to over a million people around the
07:45 planet.
07:56 There's a callout for stage one entry burn startup.
07:58 And the stage one, which we also call the booster, has now ignited engines one, five,
08:02 and nine to slow it down for atmospheric reentry.
08:10 Stage one entry burn shutdown.
08:19 And you just heard the callout that the entry burn on the first stage has completed.
08:22 And coming up next will be SECO, or second engine cutoff, where the MVEC engine on our
08:26 second stage is shut down.
08:28 Stage two is in terminal guidance.
08:31 Where the second stage is shut down and the Starlink satellites enter their planned orbits.
08:52 Stage one transonic.
09:04 SECO.
09:10 And we heard the callout we were waiting for, for SECO one.
09:13 We're now waiting for confirmation of nominal orbital insertion.
09:26 Stage one landing burn.
09:29 There's confirmation that the stage one landing burn has started in preparation for touchdown
09:33 on our drone ship.
09:34 Nominal orbital insertion.
09:35 Landing light deployed.
09:36 Stage one landing confirmed.
09:53 And this Falcon 9 first stage has now successfully launched and landed for its fifth time.
10:02 And we also have confirmation of nominal orbital insertion for our 15 Starlink satellites.
10:07 Today's landing marks our 215th overall landing of an orbital class rocket, including Falcon
10:12 9 and Falcon Heavy missions.
10:14 With confirmation of second engine cutoff and first stage landing, that wraps up our
10:18 coverage for now.
10:20 As a note, due to the lack of ground station coverage at the time of payload deploy, we
10:24 likely won't be able to confirm until a bit later.
10:26 So if you're interested, check out the SpaceX social media accounts for updates.
10:30 As always, thank you so much for watching,
10:32 and we will see you again soon.
