Yes I am very late to the party but I've been very busy on the website and YT Channel but SN9 is back up and on the pad getting ready to launch and parts of SN17 have been spotted and same with super heavy.
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On Thursday SpaceX did a test flight where Starship SN8 launched to about 12.5 KM and would attempt a belly flop landing (image below taken from spaceflightinsider.com). SpaceX's first attempt at launching SN8 was scrubbed due to a RAA (Raptor Auto Abort), one day later the second launch attempt was not scrubbed and SN8 launched for the first and final time. at T+01:40 one out of SN8's three Raptor Engines cut out as it was slowing down to get to 12.5 KM. At T+03:14 the second to last Raptor Engine shut off as SN8 approached 12.5 KM. The one remaining Raptor would stay on till T+04:39, there shortly after it would turn over on its belly to use it's "Elonirons" to have a controlled decent. At T+06:32 two out of three of SN8s Raptors reignited to attempt a landing, after this it left its belly flop and at T+06:39 one of the two reignited Raptor flamed out causing to much oxygen to enter the other causing its flame to go green. I will have a video on my YouTube Channel explaining why this happened. All time stamps were gather via SpaceX's stream links to all sources down below
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