Wow! SpaceX Starship Flight 14 Stage Separation in Epic Views

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Watch amazing views of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 14 stage separation, captured from multiple angles on Sept. 28, 2026.
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AI GeneratedThis transcript covers a Starship launch sequence, detailing the successful boost-back and splashdown of the booster and the ascent of the ship. While the ship reached space and maintained a nominal trajectory, one engine experienced an early shutdown, leading the team to pause and evaluate the vehicle's health before committing to the final orbit insertion.
on the booster. Down to five. Six engines start up on the ship.
Kicks the right way. Looks like we have 31 out of the 33
on the boost back for the initial phase. Down to three on the booster.
So it's boost back burn will be finishing shortly.
And shut down. All right so boost back burn complete.
Seeing six engines on the ship. All right so that was the first of
two burns to send it back to Earth. The next one is going to be the landing burn
where we're going to look to light up to 13 of the center engines.
We'll see if we'll be able to relight. We've had two of the 13 go out so far.
So we'll see if we'll be able to relight all of those.
As long as we get 11 we'll be able to bleed off enough velocity for
kind of a nominal landing burn. But we'll see if we're able to make it there.
Good news though still seeing six out of six rafters lit on the ship
as it continues the initial climb into space. Again
this first burn just putting it on a suborbital trajectory.
But things are looking good. Amanda and Jake you guys with me down there?
Yeah we're down here. We are, man still shaking a little bit from that.
Yours are ringing a little bit for sure.
That had the whole lawn, the whole building, everything was going
absolutely nuts down here. Yeah and as you can see Starship's upper stage still
firing its engines. And again as a reminder the ship
objectives for a nominal mission today include that orbit insertion burn,
payload deploy of those 26 operational Starlink satellites,
followed by a long coast with six orbits of the Earth,
a de-orbit, and then followed by re-entry,
descent, and landing. Yeah we could see ship there still
accelerating with six out of six engines under power.
That is great to see. Just crossed over 10,000 kilometers per
hour. Just take a second to realize that
we're already at 10,000 kilometers per hour.
And we just heard that call out that ship is on nominal trajectory. So that's
great news. Things are going pretty well so far.
Yep and on the left side of the screen there you can see Booster, its altitude
is starting to come down. So we've hit our max
altitude and coming back in. And although we're not doing a tower
catch today, we are going to simulate the same way that we would.
So we'll do a 13 engine landing burn to slow down.
We'll then transition to five and then transition down to three
for the final hover. Ship still with all six engines lit.
Getting great footage here. Thank you Starlink. Can see Earth below us.
Raptor chamber pressure's nominal. Great call out there here. Raptor chamber
pressure's nominal. Can see the plume on all six engines still lighting
there. Man, Methyl Ox burns beautiful purple.
That looks that looks great. So we are just about 10
seconds away from landing burn start. So that's where we'll first ignite the
center 13 engines. Bring that down to five and then
finally down to three. Landing burn startup. There's views from
the booster. Down to five. All right nice job by the
booster there. Looking like we made a soft splash down
right off the coast of Starbase. And ship is still going strong here. Dan
how's it looking upstairs? Hey Jake so you can see by our little
telemetry in the bottom right we just had
engine six one of the RVAC shut down early.
We're planning on that one going for probably another 30 seconds.
So similar to flight 12 kind of scenario here where we had an
RVAC out on the first flight of V3. So we do have engine out capability so
the ship adjusts for this. So we're still running on five out of
this six and we should be getting to ship engine
cutoff in about the next 10 seconds. Or actually now that we are
engine out we will run a little bit longer.
All right so there is starship engine cutoff. All right so we are in
space. Now comes the next step. So
we will listen in for a couple of minutes.
So that initial burn we did have an engine go out on the way uphill so the
team obviously going to take a quick look at that.
We've said it repeatedly we're only going to commit to orbit
if everything's looking really healthy and an engine out on ascent
even though you're not going to use it the rest of time on orbit
could drive us to not commit. So we are going to stand by for just a moment
here and listen in. I'm going to toss it down
to Amanda and Jake. Reaction so far it was great seeing the booster get to the
water and we'll be back in a moment with some
ship updates.
