SpaceX is targeting launch of the Zuma spacecraft from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The two-hour primary launch window opens at 8:00 p.m. EST on Sunday, January 7, or 1:00 UTC on Monday, January 8. A backup two-hour launch window opens at 8:00 p.m. EST on Monday, January 8, or 1:00 UTC on Tuesday, January 9.
Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will attempt to land at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Starship SN8 was the first Starship to do a high-altitude flight test, so we had absolutely no idea what it was going to do! Here I talk about how I tried to guess what was going to happen beforehand, explain why that guess was so wrong, and then use a load of different videos and media to try and discover the exact configuration used by SpaceX and create a realistic simulation of that

This took a good week of trawling through different sources after the launch, but I finally arrived at a simulation that I'm really happy with! We still don't know if this is exactly what happened - but it matches every data point that I could deduce.

Here's a video of just the launch with the data overlay (but without me talking lots and showing graphs on top of the video) - https://youtu.be/9BdDEVFrz3k

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00:00 - Intro
03:20 - The trajectory I predicted
05:46 -…