Chris Kemp on Astra's flight: "After reaching an altitude of 390 kilometers, which was our nominal orbital altitude, we reached a velocity of 7.2 kilometers per second... short of the orbital velocity of 7.68 kilometers per second."

On December 9th, 2020, SpaceX conducted a test of their Starship SN8 prototype in Boca Chica, Texas outside of Brownsville. Despite very low expectations, it successfully lifted off, completed 2 planned engine shutdowns and reached its planned apogee of 12.5km.

Then it shut down its engine and belly-flopped back to the landing pad, successfully relit 2 of its engines, and performed a bellyflop to tail-down maneuver, before losing pressure in the fuel header tank, causing it to lose its engines and crash down faster than survivable, although right on target.  

This was shot from nearby South Padre Island along with Cosmic Perspective (Ryan Chylinski and Maryliz Bender), Spadre (Gene and Rachel Gore).

Here's our full realtime 4K recut with clean audio in 4K - https://youtu.be/uIyKS_9tP08

Definitely watch Cosmic Perspective's SN8 mini film!!! It's incredible! - https://youtu.be/xrVqLhhd1zo

00:00 - Ignition and Liftoff
03:15 - Flight and Roll
04:03 - Engine Shutdown 1
05:06 - Engine Shutdown 2
06:25 - MECO…