<story><title>Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time</title><url>https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ironyman</author><text>- Starship got just below orbit&lt;p&gt;- Booster destroyed during hot staging&lt;p&gt;- SpaceX reporting that destruct system fired on upper stage towards end of burn&lt;p&gt;all in all a pretty good result: clean launch and separation, good performance on the booster during ascent (no engine mishaps this time)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>travisgriggs</author><text>Small correction, I think. The booster appeared to survive hot staging fine. It went through quite a bit of it&amp;#x27;s flip back maneuver. It was awesome to watch. There were some interesting activations of engines in the booster engine ring at that point. It&amp;#x27;s unclear to me if that was anticipated as an offset subset was what was desired for the off axis maneuver, or things were degrading at that point. And then it blowed up, rather instantly. That something happened to the booster during the separation that led to its RUD ~20 seconds later is likely, but technically it was &amp;quot;long since separated&amp;quot; (in rocket launch time) when it was destroyed.</text></comment>
<story><title>Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time</title><url>https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ironyman</author><text>- Starship got just below orbit&lt;p&gt;- Booster destroyed during hot staging&lt;p&gt;- SpaceX reporting that destruct system fired on upper stage towards end of burn&lt;p&gt;all in all a pretty good result: clean launch and separation, good performance on the booster during ascent (no engine mishaps this time)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixl97</author><text>Yea, I&amp;#x27;ve not seen up close shots of the launch facility yet, but it looks like it&amp;#x27;s all still there without massive amounts of destruction either.</text></comment>