3 Raptor flight get 5+ minute burn and acrobatics

In article mn.4bd37e4c4f529c9e.127094@snitoo,
says...

Didn't stick the landing, but Starship SN8 made the first 3-engine
Raptor flight, running a long burn, did the belly-flop into stable
terminal velocity flight, /relit/ the Raptors and flipped back to
vertical. Touchdown was with 1 Raptor, which wasn't as planned.

Elon's tweets are happy, RUD apparently due to insufficient header tank
pressure.

The reduced header pressure seems to have resulted in lack of methane
for the engines, leading to engine rich combustion as evidenced by the
green exhaust.

Unfortunately, SN-9 tilted over and was damaged. We'll have to wait and
see if they fix SN-9 or if they skip to SN-10.

Jeff
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