Interesting–according to the announcer, the Raptor burn is not a deorbit burn; it’s actually the opposite (raises perigee slightly). But it’s a lofted trajectory overall and it’s coming down no matter what.
ETA: Ok, apparently they’re skipping the extra burn. Was always a stretch goal for them. Will have to do that next time.
Are those tiles flying off? Not good if so.
Oh damn, look at that plasma!
Any monitor ships in the splashdown zone?
Not sure what they have in the area, but they must have some monitoring.
Reentry looked pretty rough–attitude control wasn’t great, though it was kinda hard to tell due to the camera being mounted on the (moving) flap. Needs some work, either way. I’m not expecting a successful reentry at this point. Still, some of those views were awesome!
When’s the “it didn’t make it” cutoff time?
T+1:04 is the expected splashdown time. So still a few minutes before we find out more.
Flight director (I think) says that they lost Starlink and TDRSS links (another data link) at the same time. That likely indicates that the ship was lost since otherwise they probably wouldn’t go out at the same time. But still a few minutes to be sure.
Disappointing, I’d hoped it would make it to splashdown even in damaged condition, but at least a few more bugs have been ironed out for next try.
It still survived a couple of minutes into reentry, which isn’t too bad for a first attempt. And those shots were gorgeous!
Looks like it’s time to call it. Still a great test. And meets the conditions of the OP. Will probably go back to sleep in a few minutes since I only slept a few hours previously…
All right; they’ve called it officially and the stream’s over. Looking forward to seeing the analysis later!
I just woke up and drinking my morning tea. If anyone sees a good hilite reel, can they post it here please? Thx.
The next question is: will starship make it back from orbit this year.
They have obviously put a lot of engineering development into the ascent phase and made a great deal of progress.
We don’t know how much attention has been given to reentry so far? One hopes it’s at least rather more than “oh, we’ll just glue a few tiles on the outside; she’ll be right, mate”… 
By the way, I haven’t seen a complete video so far (was on the road running an errand); did they say anything about the planned test of fuel transfer?
NASA seems satisfied (the transfer test was a ~$50M contract with NASA):
But we don’t know yet if it was a “success”.
Pretty good advertisement for Starlink:
Is there posted video of Starship reentering, or is SpaceX just fucking with us?
Here’s Scott Manley’s:
That’s a frame from the live video feed–they were streaming all of that in real-time (via Starlink). But yeah, here’s a trimmed video:
Thanks for the videos!
From one of the SpaceX graphics:
That appears to be a bowl of petunias in the lower-right. Starship serves the role of sperm whale.