Replying to @DJSnM
Yes, the green flame is caused by burning copper from depleting fuel in the regenerative cooling circuit and going oxygen-rich (closer to stoichiometric temperature) in the main combustion chamber.
Slight underperformance of engines on this flight is the reason. The booster is meant to land with tiny residuals, so the solution is to improve engine performance and performance consistency (underway with Raptor V3.2), as well as adjust flight software to do MECO1 about one second earlier to ensure enough propellant for boostback and landing (tiny change).
These early ships and boosters are already outdated by improved designs in production or on the test stand, so this booster loss does not change our timeline to reach high volume, fully reusable Starship flights.
2008 → Falcon 1 reached orbit for the first time, becoming the first privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to do it
2026 → Starship is reaching orbit, deploying satellites, and pushing toward full reusability
18 years apart
From a tiny Falcon 1 lifting off from a remote Pacific island to the most powerful rocket ever built
What an extraordinary journey for SpaceX, and the best is yet to come
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It's here. Claudia's "ALLOW ALWAYS" world premiere. Made by a guy with ALS, a brain implant, and too many AI friends. 😂
🤖 Made with AI
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Starship deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites into orbit today.
Here’s Starship and a single Starlink V3 satellite with a human for scale, to give you an idea of just how enormous they are:

















