Starship 12 recap: flight 12, with Super Heavy booster 19 and Ship 39, was launched on May 22 at 2230:20 UTC. It was the first version 3 Starship, with Raptor 3 engines. [1/n]
Super Heavy ascent went nominally, but after hot-staging the boostback burn failed and the booster crashed in the Gulf of Mexico downrange instead of near the launch site. [2/n]
One of the six Raptors on the Ship did not ignite, and the Ship performed a contingency profile which involved losing some altitude prior to SECO to build up velocity. [3/n]
Ship engine cutoff was around T+9m15s and left the vehicle in an approximately -7 (+/-8) x 194 km x 28 deg orbit. [4/n]
Near apogee, 20 dummy Starlink V3 simulators were deployed in addition to two 'Dodger Dog' modified V2 satellites with cameras, which returned images of the deployment.
@planet4589.bsky.social and those dogs got awesome video looking back at Ship!
