The booster in this vid is called Super Heavy, and of course the upper stage is Starship. Falcon Heavy is a different vehicle that consists of three Falcon 9 rockets linked together in order to launch heavier loads than a single Falcon 9 rocket could launch. Falcon 9 can launch up to 17.5 tons to orbit, Falcon heavy can launch 64 metric tons, and Starship/Superheavy will be able to launch 100 to 150 tons. They already have plans for suture upgrades that may make it possible to lift up to 200 tons in future versions of Starship. The real value in these new rockets will be the reduction in cost per ton of getting material into orbit. You should also check out the re-entry vid as well. Starlink satellites allow them to have video the whole way down to sea level which in the past was not possible, so you get to see Starship enveloped in plasma as it reenters.
@@TouchyReactions Star Hopper launch to block 1 capture 5 years, Block 1 raptor 2 engine type is the one that was captured/ocean landing, Block 2 raptor 2 then 3 engines is already being built, (Sept 2026 mars attempt) Block 3 Raptor 3 is the bigger version both in height and more engines 35 and that`s the Mars landing/human on mars version.....
To add to the corrections if I may.. So as already has been said, not falcon but SH and SS combo. But the launch site isn't Florida, it's Boca Chica Texas on the westen coast of the gulf of Mexico. That's more commonly known as Starbase where Elons Starship factory is and the two Starship orbital launch pads are. One currently in use, the other nearly completed..
My God... I'm getting emotional. Just like you said, the endless possibility of this successful technology. Just imagine what the humanities can do if we stop fighting each other.
Watching the landings of any SpaceX rocket is always my favorite part and they amaze me every time! With all the focus on Milton this week, I missed the news that this launch was happening. This would have been so worth getting up to watch (and listen to, assuming the sound of the sonic boom traveled westward). Thanks for sharing this! 🚀
SpaceX surprised many of us with this last minute notification of the launch. We knew they were ready, but didn't expect an FAA launch approval for weeks. I think someone really made this happen. All hail Gwynne Shotwell!!!
By far the largest rocket in history in size and volume. Able to make building space stations, moon bases, and mars bases possible through massively reduced cost of shipping into space, and greater size of objects that can be sent to space or other planets/moons.
@@TouchyReactionsTo get a feel for the size of the thing, I consider that the width of the rocket at about 30 ft or so, is about 5 ft wider than my house is deep, and I think about what could fit inside that ship.
I watched the live feed from Everyday Astronaut. He had a lot of different angles- most impressive showed all 33 Raptor engines engulfed in the heat from reentry.
Falcon 1 had one engine. Falcon 9 has 9 or something. Super Heavy has 33 engines. Starship has six engines. Falcon uses completely different engines from Starship and Super Heavy.
@@TouchyReactionsThe Raptor engines are significantly more powerful than the Merlin engines used on the Falcon 9. Space X website would have the stats.
Man I bet just from this great achievement Elon and the Space X top people should definitely be giving away major Christmas bonuses to all the crew working on Starship.
This is 'Starship V1', the biggest, most powerful rocket built by mankind!! This is an experimental test version of the Starship and Booster!! In 2026, the next generation will be 30ft taller and 6ft wider and will carry humans to the Moon for the first time in 50 years!!
The next versions won't be wider, just taller (for more fuel). Changing the width would be a big cost, because they would have to totally replace the lifts, stands, transports, launch mounts, and testing rigs, each of which are some thick and expensive architecture. Taller just means heavier, so only changes needed are reinforcement.
This launch is from south Texas at Boca Chica beach. It was launched at 7:25 am, what you see is the sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico. I watched this live in person from a few miles away, it’s was amazing.
Boca Chica Texas launch, and not falcon heavy, but Starship with the Super Heavy Booster. Falcon Heavy launched a new spaceship to one of Jupiters moons that has water this moring!
This is so impactful because we only used to see this stuff on sci-fi shows, where they initiate landing or the so-called "planetfall", at least for bigger spacecraft like starships/rockets. And only now are we at the early stages of it. Though we've already seen it on a smaller scale with the probes/landers it's the bigger stuff that really brings out the awe. And dreaming here for a second, imagine if in the far or maybe near future, we get to see a global live broadcast of a SpaceX colony ship the size of an aircraft carrier taking off from Earth and landing on Mars. Tho I assume that won't happen as often since launching huge spacecraft planetside would take huge amount of resources so the cost efficient way is to launch smaller flights then assemble the actual ship in orbit on a "gateway space station" then depart from there since they can add more heavier auxillairy parts for the journey in zero-g. Tho that's like the 2nd phase of space faring since now they're still perfecting the 1st phase which is getting stuff off the planet.
@@TouchyReactions didn't look at the screen at the time as I normally have videos open on the side as I work on my projects. xD So I didn't see your text correction.
All those cameras and different views allow space x to make a better System for the next launch! more excitement awaits! Always pushing the limits makes space fun and inspires future generations to do the same.
Gravity is relatively the same until you get VERY far away. Essentially orbital= constantly in free-fall. But less air pressure is why rocket engines aren’t easy to make. They have to work efficiently the whole way.
It's in Texas, not Florida. Things are bigger in Texas. The Super Heavy Booster, the part that comes back to be caught, is nearly 20% wider and longer than the body of the world's largest airliner - the double decker Airbus A-380.
LOL "this is the Falcon Heavy". 🤣 um... not quite bubba... And the launch was at 0720 (7:20 AM) so it was sunrise instead of sunset... just fyi. Loved her reaction to the catch!
The engine on the falcon 9 is the Merlin you would need 2.6 Merlins to equal one raptor 2 which is the engine on starship. This means you would need 88 Merlin’s to have the same thrust
The reason they catch the booster is to save the weight for a complex landing mechanism on the vehicle. Why take that up to the air, when you integrate it in the catch tower and save mass on the vehicle. That‘s the trick. Musk‘s credo: the best part is „no part“. You can save landing legs, when you catch the thing out of mid air!
The USA 🇺🇸 in progress for mankind, trying to achieve goals, working hard, not perfect but thriving and optimistic..meanwhile Putin in Europe, Mullahs in the middle East trying to kill freedom! We need you as our allied leader more than ever ❤from Germany!
A Cindy ter em sua memória o triste fim do Challenger e ver esse avanço após tanto tempo deve ser chocante pra ela, ficou nítido, agora ela terá esperança graças ao time SpaceX.
Thanks for the video! I love seeing people learn more about space in rocket tech. Please don't take this the wrong way, but I'd like to correct a term you used... What you called retro rockets are actually called thrusters, and more specifially in this case, cold gas thrusters. They use the pressurised ullage gas from the fuel and oxidiser tanks to adjust the attitude of the craft. The system as a whole is called RCS - reaction control system. The majority (if not all) of space hardware these days don't have retro rockets - they just turn the ship around using the RCS, and use the main engine.
SpaceX has 33 engines, which 9x3 = 27 so it's more than the super heavy. It was sunrise - I got to watch IFT-1. Falcons don't have Raptor engines and don't use methane. They haven't done hot staging since project Gemini, they need to do it so it doesn't lose momentum. They found that out on flight 1 that they can't fulll shut anything down, that's why they added the hot staging ring.
The amount of times we can send things to space in a year also just went through the roof by not having to rebuild the boosters. I bet the Department of Defense are licking their lips right now lol
And SpaceX has built a factory at Boca Chica that can mass produce lots of these Boosters and Starships very fast. Next one will be ready to go within weeks.
This is Super Heavy, with 33 Raptor V2 engines, burning methane and oxygen. Falcon9 has 9 Merlin engines burning kerosene and oxygen, Falcon Heavy is 3 Falcon 9 coupled together.
