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😂 yeah, not the best loadout. I'm a goober like that lots, though 😆 I use them like placeholders cause I don't like carrying healing or utility items unless I'm trying hard. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂 Have a great day!

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Thanks! Appreciate the support 🙏

The center engines all gimble. So they have thrust vector control for the precise landing. The booster uses that to swing into the arms at the last seconds. It's not actually hovering during the landing, just a well controlled descent. Allows them to be as fuel efficient as possible and make use of the chopstick hardware to fully arrest the booster. For actually returning to launch site there is a boost back burn, and then the booster essentially flies using the grid fins and it's body like a giant wing. So it's basically falling with style. Hope that's a reasonable explanation! Thank you for watching and commenting, glad you enjoyed it!

@@cuddlefishez I understand there is a boost back burn, but my question is at what altitude are you no longer apart of the rotation of the earth? like maybe it doesn't have to go as far back as we might think depending on the altitude and at what point you're apart of that rotation.

@@recifebra3 So the distance covered by the rotation of the Earth in the amount of time that the booster is coming back is about 200km in absolute distance. The rotation of the earth never stops and always continues eastward its about 1000 km/hr. Booster goes 4000ish I think. But the main answer is that the gravity of the earth always is trying to pull the starship and booster back. To escape the gravity well of the earth it is all about the velocity, the rotation of the earth helps assist with that when launching east. Altitude is independent of this. So the booster has to fly back quite a distance still. The atmospheric drag decreases at higher altitude which makes it easier to go faster horizontal to the earths surface. There are good online resources for orbital mechanics if you want to learn more! Good question! Hopefully that helps answer it!

@@cuddlefishez thank you!

I use OBS, I have a camera in my scene. I use a janky greenscreen setup to isolate my face. Twitch lets me cut from the livestream into portrait mode and export the shorts to TH-cam.

Thanks! I appreciate the support! Glad to have you around!

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It was a beautiful day for a launch and catch, one of the clearest and calmest days we have seen for a starship flight test yet! Hopefully flight 6 is just as stunning! Thanks for watching! ^^

Peak launch and catch! Thanks for watching!

Even more amazing when you see the tiny posts on the booster that were picked up with the chopsticks.

Awesome! Thanks for watching! I can't wait for all the future catches we are going to start to see on subsequent launches. I wonder if there is ever a time that such a moment will become routine. What a time to be alive!

We caught another one chat... lmao. Bro you need the lord, the sun and earth don't care what thoughts you hold in your head. 4k cameras, basic math, and common sense refute your entire philosophy. I have only pity and sorrow for such a person, who is incapable of grasping the wonders of our expansive universe! Sending prayers and love. I wish you the best, I'll send my regards from Mars.

congrats on 500