Highlights:
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Starship Test Flight 7 on Thursday afternoon, after various delays
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Booster performance near-perfect on ascent, with one inner ring engine shutting down early.
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Perfect catch. All inner ring engines participated.
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Cool close-up shots from SpaceX showing the booster swaying after catch.
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Ship telemetry froze at 146km, after a progression of engine failures.
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Video from Turks and Caicos showing up quickly with the Ship’s final fireworks.
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Big debris field to be investigated.
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Elon reported likely fuel leak beyond vent capacity.
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New Glenn #1 flight on Thursday morning, after various delays
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Short hold during countdown due to a boat in the exclusion zone.
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Low thrust-to-weight ratio makes for a slow tower clearance.
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Booster ascent nominal, but telemetry lost not long after stage separation, @ 84,000 ft altitude
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Second stage performed flawlessly, delivering Blue Ring Pathfinder to medium earth orbit.
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Falcon 9: Transporter 12 (with many satellites), Moon landers Blue Ghost and Hakuto-R shared ride, Starlink 12-4
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Transporter 12 also included Mark Rober’s “Sat Gus”.
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NASA Spacewalk 90 on the ISS, included Suni Williams.