{"id":118415,"date":"2025-09-04T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118415\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:26:14","slug":"have-you-seen-this-beneath-the-launch-pad-as-starship-rocket-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118415\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Seen This? Beneath the launch pad as Starship rocket takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STARBASE, Texas \u2014 Watching a rocket launch from afar seems amazing enough. Imagine the view from under the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s 403-foot-tall Starship system <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/article\/51366173\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lifted off<\/a> from southern Texas last week.<\/p>\n<p>Widely seen footage showed the blastoff from a distance, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wS_8WOQJUu8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another video<\/a> provides a fiery view from a camera on the launch mount under the rocket thrusters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ksl-article-content\">\n<p>Commenters seemed impressed, calling it &#8220;really cool footage from below&#8221; and pointing out that the camera view is arguably as amazing as the launch itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure which is more mind-blowing, the rocket or the camera that can record that up-close without any damage,&#8221; one commenter mused.<\/p>\n<p>Once in space, Starship successfully deployed its first batch of eight mock Starlink satellites. It also tested new heat shield tiles on its plunge back through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere about an hour after liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>This 10th test flight broke a streak of three previous testing failures.<\/p>\n<p>Have You Seen This?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STARBASE, Texas \u2014 Watching a rocket launch from afar seems amazing enough. Imagine the view from under the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,843,1193,1194,180,322,44,1195,1196,128,285,85,105,434,1191,1197,1192],"class_list":["post-118415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-science","tag-space","tag-sports","tag-technology","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}