The Starship catch everyone's waiting for won't happen on launch day.
If Flight 15 gets off the pad when the window opens on Friday, the ship isn't due back at the tower until Saturday afternoon. That's 22 and a half hours later.
I animated the whole flight, countdown to catch, straight off SpaceX's own timeline. Every time below is local Starbase time (CST), assuming liftoff right at window open.
FRIDAY
4:45:00 PM · Liftoff on 33 Raptors. The window closes at 6:00
4:45:58 PM · Max Q
4:47:21 PM · Hot staging. The ship lights its engines while it's still attached to the booster
4:47:26 PM · Booster flips and burns back toward Texas
4:51:35 PM · Booster catch attempt. If a health check fails, it goes into the Gulf instead
4:53:09 PM · Ship engines off. Right now it's on a path that would drop it safely into the ocean
5:11:10 PM · One Raptor fires for 20 seconds to put it in orbit. That only happens if the ship is healthy
5:20:01 PM · The slot door opens and 26 Starlink V3 satellites slide out, one by one
6:02:40 PM · Last one's out
OVERNIGHT
Then it just waits. About 14 laps of the planet at roughly 275 km, with three go/no-go checks: 6:12 PM Friday, midnight, and 1:26 PM Saturday. Fail one and the ship comes down early in the ocean near Hawaii or Chile.
SATURDAY
2:20:57 PM · 10-second deorbit burn
2:55:46 PM · Hits the atmosphere belly first and the heat shield starts to glow
3:15:13 PM · Below the speed of sound, falling flat, steering with its 4 flaps
3:17:16 PM · 3 engines relight and it flips upright
3:17:26 PM · Down to 2 engines
3:17:33 PM · Down to 1
3:17:34 PM · The arms close
What I'll be watching:
• The booster relight. On Flight 14 only 11 of its 13 landing engines came back
• The ship's engines on the way up. Flight 14 lost a vacuum Raptor on ascent
• Entry. Controllers can still end the flight here by tumbling the ship
• 3 sea-level Raptors relighting after 22 hours in space. That's the big one
If both catches work, it's the first time an orbital rocket has ever been fully recovered. It still needs final FAA approval, and every time above moves if the launch slips.
Event times and engine counts in the video follow SpaceX's timeline. The speed and altitude readouts are simulated.
Cam Higby to a Muslim woman:
“Did you see that Trump had intercourse with a 9-year-old girl?
Muslim woman: “Yeah, that's disgusting...”
“It's disgusting, right… But that was actually prophet Muhammad, not Trump.
The Hadith says he married a 6-year-old girl and consummated it at 9. Do you still think it’s gross?”
She leaves.
These people’s hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me. Deep down they know there’s something seriously wrong with their religion.
During an October call, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Vladimir Putin he was willing to go to great lengths to assist the Russian president — underlining his point by recalling a children's story https://t.co/pOE0qJOcEJ
📷️: Alexander Nemenov/pool/AFP via Getty Images
🚨 JUST IN: Video of Hillary Clinton absolutely LOSING IT on Rep. Nancy Mace during her Epstein deposition has been released
Mace was pressing Hillary on an invite extended to Jeffrey Epstein for a PRIVATE FUNDRAISER for her 2016 Presidential campaign
Hillary’s people LIED and said this exchange never happened.
❗️Croatia is ready to supply Slovakia and Hungary with the necessary volume of oil products, but Orbán "doesn't want to buy", — Zelenskyy
"He (the Prime Minister of Croatia, — ed.) showed me how the same volume that Slovakia and Hungary need for a year, by the way, he can provide. He is ready to supply. He says Orbán simply doesn't really want to buy. I asked him why. Well, because here it's the European price, and there it's the Russian price. Someone is making money, it's clear who."