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The earth stabilized video of the re-entry also gives a better idea of what was happening. (i.imgur.com)
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[โ€“] dirtbiker509@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

The primary mission was a successful orbital trajectory, the secondary mission was a fuel transfer experiment. For the transfer experiment they had vent the hot gas to get starship rotating for the transfer. They ran out of hot gas which is fine, the trajectory was already set for re-entry. There was literally no risk here and it all went exactly as planned.