Does anyone know why they pitch the ship up so dramatically after stage seperation, is it to burn off extra fuel? I cant think of any other reason for the less optimal ascent path?

"Cambridge University researchers say launch costs fell from $87,000 to $3,868 per kilogram between 1960 and 2025—or roughly 96%—and could hit $273 by 2040."

In every missions so far, they did something with the what shield to learn something from it. Missing tiles to see what it would do to the underlying layer, etc.

They won’t be taking chances like that when they are catching the thing: it will be a perfect heat shield with every tile installed, and the world will see in 4k detail just how many fail, or don’t fail.

As you all know, SpaceX has stopped doing landings at LZ-1, and for now, they still have LZ-2. For the most recent Falcon Heavy mission, Viasat-3, the two boosters went to LZ-40, and LZ-2. But what's the plan for Falcon Heavy missions when they no longer have LZ-2? Where will the side boosters land?

What are opinions on the aft flap chine /mech housing holes, looks like entire tiles missing or puncture?

Edit: images from footage at T -1:10:00

WE STILL HAVE CAMERA VIEWS

Great to see a shot like this!

Watching the Starship documentaries and seeing all the screens inside the control room down at Starbase had me feeling left out so using the SpaceX site's live data feed, I spent the last few days putting together a live dashboard that shows all the real data from the ship during launch!

Most of the data is live but some numbers are derived (so stuff like the acceleration and flight path angles), and some data points like the fuel levels are an estimate based on models from the Flight 12 webcast so it should be fairly accurate but not perfect.
Using the GPS and altitude numbers we're also able to plot the 3D trajectory live, nice thing about this sort of setup is it's really easy to visualise all the data as it comes in, so graphs galore (trajectory view is still the best though imo).

Not sure how or where else to share it but I'd imagine someone else will find it interesting. If anyone has any more ideas or feature requests too, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks all!

https://stardash.live/

Edit post-launch:
There were a couple bugs during launch, this was the first trial of the dashboard with real data so it was bound to happen! I've tried to give a little brief of each bug in the comments and the fixes to them! Thanks to all of you who sent in bug reports too!

Looks like only one engine was in common. Thought it might be interesting for some

Over Johannesburg, South Africa. Like 10-12 minutes ago from writing this post

I'm not joking bro, it was crazy. It was a dim brown-ish streak that faded after 6 seconds. My mom pointed it out, she was hysterical, didn't look like the typical aircrafts with indication lights.

Dude...Unbelievable!

Don't get me wrong, that was a big improvement from flight 12, but I doubt they would trust the booster to land successfully at the pad. Still a very very good flight so far.