I'm surprised there was no mention of the falcon 9's fairing reuse. While it's often overlooked because of the more impressive reuse of the first stage, SpaceX's attempts to catch the fairings and later splashdown and refurbish methods were impressive engineering challenges to solve and deserve a mention imo
@arthurnaut-1 Arthur... its a good name, a good strong name arthur. You know arthur, if I ever met a person named arthur, Id hug em. I love you arthur.
Space X is soo quick at what they do that this video is very outdated just a year on. Super heavy has already been to orbit now, that future starlink service has already thousands of satellites in orbit with more than a million customers. 👏🔥🔥
This. Going to the altitude defined as space is 'only' half the job of getting to LEO, getting up to orbital speed (and not falling back down) is at about the same order of energy needed..
Jeff shouldn't even count as that. He just went straight up and then straight down. If that rocket had to fly any path normally used to get to orbit, it probably couldn't even break 50k altitude
Wrong. SpaceX had already reached LEO in 2019. "On 2019 May 24, the U.S. company SpaceX launched the first batch of 60 prototype Starlink Internet-distribution satellites into a 430 km circular Earth orbit." "LEO is generally considered to extend from around 80-100 km (below which satellites cannot remain in orbit; McDowell 2018) to about 2000 km (above which the intensity of the trapped radiation belts make it more difficult for satellites to operate; IADC 2007)."
It so amazing that in just 1 year from this video, SpaceX launched another 3 falcon heavy, a lot of Falcon 9 and a Starship! Oh, and probably on 8th September we'll see Starship Test Flight 2!
@@tvre0 possibly but we will have to wait and see. I think they already have the thrust puck for it on site but I would have to look again to be 100% sure but I do keep a fairly close eye on the live streams from boca chica at NSF live
Very good video but... you said that booster will land on launch mount but in reality it will be cached using giant mechazilla arms mounted on the tower
Idk Elon personally but, he is already 52 years old. He might be able to see SpaceX bring a human to Mars, but how on earth does someone like him choose a successor with the same vision and drive? That seems almost as impossible of a tsk as the vision for humans on Mars itself.
i believe the reduced cost comes from the fact that all propellent for the starship can now be made 100% in house instead of needing to be mined refined ad then transported to spacex.
@Adriaan-hb4lg anyone capable of seeing your comment is capable of finding that out on their own not to mention it's like literally one of the first things you can learn about the guy
Falcon 1 actually almost reached orbit on its 3rd flight. During MECO, the engines had a slight burst forward that knocked the second stage out of its trajectory. It was something they couldn't detect with their instruments when testing the merlin engine so Musk was convinced he could make the 4th reach orbit since everything else worked as planned. And so, the rest is history
Seeing how large starship is and it's INSANE launch, I think starship will take A LOT of $ to develop a consistent successful round trip. The amount of thrust and the damage that 1st stage is capable of, presents its own difficulties aside from all the other hurdles.
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I like the patting on the back in the intro hehe "dramatically improved". Great video dude, I've only seen the first spacex one but they all look really interesting.
I get a bit worried with the chopstick tower catching idea. I mean, you really need to bullseye it 100% for it to work. Otherwise it will end up hitting the tower os passing by. Falcon 9 can miss the target by a few METERS and it is fine. And it does miss the center a bit usually.
Thanks so much for this! I know a lot of facts of SpaceX, but even this video had so many cool fun facts I didn't even know. That's so awesome. Lol I enjoyed both evolution videos a lot. I think you could've added another fun fact about the stardust roadster playing space oddity by Bowie in loop till the battery died after 2 years, or the cartridge that said "made on earth by humans" lol
stunning flight test of the starship recently happned, the roket exploded mid air, both super heavy and starship exploded, the rocket started spinning and than kaboom! amazing launch!
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