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## Video: SpaceX Mega Rocket Test Flight Ends With Loss of Spacecraft

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_Published 2024-03-14. SpaceX’s mega rocket blasted off on another test flight Thursday and made it farther than two previous attempts, but the spacecraft was lost as it descended back to Earth._


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## Transcript

30 seconds into flight we are feeling the ruffle. We are seeing 33 at a 33 Raptor engines ignited on the super heavy booster trajectory looking nominal systems. Looking down call just a bathing to see y'all 33. Will. Once again. This point we've already passed through vacuum that maximum Dynamic pressure by now. The next Milestone coming up is in less than a minute at that point schiphol. Actually it already has as you heard there by the color Land from the Cowboys. Oh man, we can see the heating on the classes restarting to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. This is where the Earth's atmosphere is doing the work to slow us down a field.

Wow. Wow, what a view we hope to maintain. Do you think you threw out Starship is so big that we're looking at the plasma field doesn't entirely blanket and tire vehicle right now and it's not the startling. Can you buy sterling is just absolutely incredible views. We've never seen anything like this before. This is the biggest flying object ever in space. We lost the data a couple of minutes ago. We haven't heard from this ship up until this point. It says it's okay to call that ship has been lost. So no Splashtown today. But again just it's incredible to see how much further we got this time around.

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