SpaceX Starship Flight 14 Reaches Earth’s Orbit for the First Time

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 14 saw it reach orbit for the first time, 170 miles above the Earth, marking a major milestone for the company. The Starship also deployed 26 V3 Starlink satellites, adding to the company’s constellation. See all the highlights in our supercut video.

Timecode chapters
00:00 Liftoff and ascent
00:58 Max Q (maximum aerodynamic pressure)
02:19 Hot staging
03:15 Boostback burn complete
06:45 Booster landing burn
07:09 Booster soft splashdown
08:17 Starship engine cut off (SECO)
09:18 Go for orbit poll
09:37 Orbital insertion burn
11:12 De-orbit burn
11:38 De-orbit burn complete
12:52 Starship landing burn
13:36 Starship landing and Starlink deployment

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Producer: Stephen Beacham
Video editor: Stephen Beacham
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Stephen Beacham

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Stephen Beacham is an award-winning video producer and host focused on how-to video, artificial intelligence, and environmental technology. Stephen leads Ziff Davis’s video programming strategy across multiple brands and oversees CNET Group Video’s network of YouTube channels. Since 2011, Stephen has served as CNET’s live events producer and live streaming engineer, spearheading live team coverage from tech events around the world.
Stephen comes from a background in audio production where he worked as a music producer, audio engineer, sound designer, and mixer. He’s worked with multi-platinum artists, including Green Day, Smash Mouth, and Lenny Kravitz and continues to produce and mix records across diverse genres of music. Stephen also has an extensive list of movie credits for sound designing, editing, and mixing short films from a number of independent movie studios.

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