SpaceX Starship Launch 3 (IFT3) Explained!

Well my friends this week we witnessed the most amazing array of scenes ever for the Starship program, or dare I say, any live rocket launch to date. Yes here we have SpaceX Starship Launch 3 (IFT3) Explained! It took off right as planned and my goodness, the entire mission was absolutely spectacular with incredible successes, and some new challenges to work through for the next test flight.

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[flippert]

The plasma footage was absolutely bonkers. It's as if someone made a SciFi movie in real-time.

[MarkThrimm]

Tail-first into the plasma is a very Kerbal reentry style. I like it!

[robfive]

The launch and the Hot Staging was a thing of beauty .. Thank you MH + Team for a great roundup.!

[blazingsaddle]

The live feeds were just unbelievable. You cannot overstate the importance of this flight test. It's such a massive milestone.
This, my friends, is science fiction becoming reality. What a time to be alive.

[TracksideViews]

The amazing part of this whole process is that we’ve been able to watch it every step of the way!

[tomfair]

I've seen a lot of haters saying ..why do they keep failing.. but all i see with each new test is major improvements and progress. Maybe they dont understand what Starship is or what it represents. This is the future in real time.

[oldmech]

You are the first person that said Max Q without explaining what it is. Thank you

[xJI]

What an awesome launch. Given that the Starlink antennas are on top when properly oriented for re-entry it will be interesting to see if there is no blackout on a successful reentry. It was a pretty good connection that seemingly only ended due to breakup.

[shirolee]

Seeing the plasma in real time, real life is something I never could have imagined!

[ShadowZone]

I still can't get over those re-entry images. Just amazing to watch over and over and over again.

[Photoped]

Gday from Hobart Marcus. This is exactly what me and my boy needed. A quick concise overview of what happened. We love your

[michaelgarland]

The people who build these rockets must be the proudest people! They are the reason all this is even possible!

[Powerhead]

I was excited to hear you on NASA Space Flight yesterday morning. I hope you picked up a good amount of new followers from it. IFT3!!!!

[Aerodeck-pczu]

Sometime in the future there will be a museum on Mars, where they will show the footage of those test flights to remind humans living there, how all started. And we, space enthusiasts, were witnesses. Thx Marcus for your nice work!

[aasishwarsaravana]

For a private company, spacex has been much more open and transparent about their launches and their failures than NASA, and this is what brings the spaceflight community much closer and much excited!

[truth]

In My opinion this is the best space coverage on the net. Well done!

[fabrb]

3rd try, and it ALMOST feel like Falcon 9' routine. That booster ignite it's a soft splosh, that fireball keep his belly down and it's a re-entry. How did they do make it look that easy on something people thought impossible ?!

[fordprefect.betelguese]

It really was absolutely effing awesome... can't wait to see how test flight 4

[nurmr]

21:45 After all the Starship excitement, I caught myself thinking about the Falcon 9 as "The small SpaceX rocket" 😮

[hansleijonmarck]

The steady progress of SpaceX Starship IFT:s promise further progress in the following IFT:s. Awsome!
Most visual was of course plasma buildup. Maybe a topik for physics teachers in high school.