News Changes to the SpaceX BFR rocket.

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Apogee at 198Km, 26291km/h, at about T+22 minutes.
Now deploying the last sats...

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/2080791679183749138

 

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All 20 sats worked!
Coming up on engine relight...

 

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Ignition and shutdown, apparently as expected!
135km and coming down

 

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Flying over thunderstorms near Madagascar.
104km

 

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Small trail of debris being left behind the engine section...
67km

 

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Coming up on Sunrise.
65km

 

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44km and 10000km/h, plasma seems gone and it is still intact

 

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30km, 3200km/h

 

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Coming down fast: 10km, 600km/h

 

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Ignition, flip, "landing" and kaboom! Hmm.... just fire...

 

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Very close up post flight TPS inspection!

 

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...and the onboards are still working!

 

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Shuttle TPS techs are probably having PTSD looking at the damaged tiles....

 

[Buck Rogers]

No Kaboom!!!
Makes a great boat!

 

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...and that is it.

 

[dennis.krenz]

Really lucky number 13.

But the minimal draft also proves that the vehicle is really just made of gas filled tanks by now.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/2080804682918764619

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/2080808052308279793

https://twitter.com/x/status/2080808355010847137

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/2080826996490199070