OCISLY towed by Debra C is making 5.5 knots and currently about 60km (30 nautical miles) off the Mexican coast: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?mmsi=368351350 (MARMAC 304 is the original registered name of OCISLY)
Support ship Go Beyond is about 4 hours out of Long Beach on its way to "LZ :)" https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9622655
Broadcast has started now.
My take is that the ring may not survive. Stage separation may damage it beyond reuse. Having it be detachable means they can swap it out. It would be a shame to scrap a complete booster just because the top end got a little bent.
It must be a test article. But what kind of tests?
This is great work. Much appreciated.
This page contains really good, up-to-date, viewing info: https://www.launchphotography.com/Launch_Viewing_Guide.html
The Bridge over the Banana River on route A1A. Its about 10 minutes from Cocoa Beach.
Additional views from yesterday’s Ship 25 static fire https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1673808523497721856?s=19
Great footage. It does look very destructive. As it is now, stage 0 gets destroyed by stage 1 and stage 1 will get destroyed by stage 2. It'll be great to see how they make this all work.
At stage separation how horizontal is Starship? If there was no vertical moment then how significant would the gravity loss actually be?
AFAIK most of the gravity loss is in the first few second of a launch but I don't have any idea what you are losing by the time you get to stage separation.
Spaceflight Now and Space Devs links added. I've also fixed the dateful link. I think it might have been the & that was also messed up and may be resolved differently by different browser - anyway I hope it is fixed now.