That the most powerful rocket ever launched into space has now taken off from texas. it is called starship and it is built by the us entrepreneur elon musk s spacex company. we were watching the same situation on monday and unfortunately it didn t happen then, it was rather disappointing because there was a small last minute technical problem, but today things seem to be going very, very well. they are sending v1 hundred and high starship into the sky. let s have another look at take off. cheering and applause nepa booster on, chamber pressure is normal. that is elon musk s spacex company
[cheering] chamber pressure nominal. 43 seconds into the test flight of the inaugural first vehicle. the first stage is nominal. what a sight. they re flying at twice the thrust to fly men into space.
Lift off. engine at full thrust. we have cleared the tower now 10 seconds into flight. begun pitch over program. body rate responses look good. now 15 seconds in. closed loop control. r 180 looks good at full thrust. seeing good chamber pressure on srbs. now 26 seconds into flight. r-180 throttling down to partial thrust as expected. engine response looks good. now 38 seconds in. r-180 engine operating parameters continue to look good. vehicle is now passing through max q. maximum dynamic pressure. chamber pressure on both srbs continue to look good. 180 engine operating
howard dean you know it s so interesting, everybody is talking about how america moved to the left on the issue of gay marriage and i saw this in pensacola, florida, a very very conservative place. i was in a district called the most conservative in the world, every memorial day, you would have i think up to 100,000 maybe more gay and lesbians come to pensacola and hang out on pensacola beach, to show them a year or two, the cham fwer of commerce is enough. this is really good for the city financially and that was what maybe 15 year ago? but you see this in state after state after state, mike pence, very conservative guy, had to bow to chamber pressure. you are probably going to see this with asa hutchinson and arkansas. i think you are seeing a redefinition of the word
Seconds. 1341 feet per second. one minute, 50 seconds in. still looking good. coming up on two minutes. two minutes into the flight. engine control in the first stage. boosters still at good chamber pressures in the power mode and good core chamber pressure in the partial thrust mode at two minutes, 22 seconds in. how gorgeous was that? just the way it s supposed to happen. you hold your breath as it takes off and now it s going around the earth a couple of times because this unmanned mission, which is to test the spacecraft, is all about going to mars.
Partial thrust mode. we have partial thrust command in the core. pressure beginning to drop as expected. as we re couple on the one minute mark. one minute into the flight. still looking good. partial thrust mode. good chamber pressure. full power mode. one minute, 15 seconds into the flight. we have the valve open in the second stage. one minute, 22 seconds in. maximum dynamic pressure, passing 1:24 mach 1. transcending the speed of sound. one minute, 31 seconds in. control in the first stage. coming up one minute, 40 second