Starship Flight 12 - V3 Debuts with Max Power, Fatal Flips, Fast Landings and Exploding Raptors

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Flight 12 was the debut of Starship V3, powered by Raptor V3 and not to forget launch mount 2. There were a lot of changes informed by previous successes and failures, and... a handful of new successes and failures. There were raptor engine failures on ascent for both the booster and Starship, but the guidance and control systems were able to adapt and climb the spacecraft into its target sub-orbit.
The booster flip was supposed to use some different tricks and appears, to my eye, to have gone in the wrong direction, and that might explain why there was a fairly violent engine failure on the booster straight after the flip. The booster ended up continuing downrange and entering the atmosphere faster and harder than before without enough working engines to perform a soft landing.
But I think the highlight for me was the new 'Dodger Dogs' which captured images of the starship on orbit and I hope we'll see some more images from this going forwards.
Starship entry seemed completely nominal and on target, we saw a flip and burn from a drone that was perfectly positioned showing that when they're ready to proceed to an orbital flight they'll be ready for a catch.
However the lack of an engine relight test I suspect they won't proceed to an orbital launch on the next flight.

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0:00 Intro
1:08 V3
2:33 Starships Were Meant To Fly
4:00 How Can I Do this?
6:58 Launch
9:40 Fatal Flip?
12:40 Starship's Engine Failure
14:10 Coming in fast
15:12 Starship Engine Details
17:50 Open The Pod Bay Doors
19:18 Deploy Dodger Dogs
21:56 Reentry
25:12 Landing
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Deep Space
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