SpaceX Gears Up for First Super Heavy Booster Catch! 🚀 | Starbase Update

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There’s been significant progress on Ship 30 and the second Orbital Launch Tower, with an estimated completion date in sight. But the real highlight? SpaceX's intense preparation for the first-ever catch of a Super Heavy booster using the Chopsticks! Join us as we dive into the latest developments, including the ongoing infrastructure work at Starbase and much more in your Starbase Update!
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@EdwardNathanielDeLosSantos 3 месяца назад

Who's excited for flight 5?

@robertscraneart174 3 месяца назад

Me!!!!

@EdwardNathanielDeLosSantos 3 месяца назад

@@robertscraneart174 it's going to be amazing

@Nuke-MarsX 3 месяца назад

Who tf isnt is the real question

@petercozzaglio6070 3 месяца назад

Totally.

@Codysdab 3 месяца назад

Ah, it's going be really boring and excitement is not guaranteed. Only joking

@ghost307 3 месяца назад

A great example of why you never stand underneath a suspended load.

@BartoszZasieczny 3 месяца назад

"Slapping the booster", ok that's another creative euphemism.

@haydentravis3348 3 месяца назад

Hard to remember this is all first generation field testing. This stuff usually happens in top secret, in the middle of nowhere with no witnesses. This is weapons grade development done in the open and under intense scrutiny by the public. There's never been anything like this in history.

@ryann6919 3 месяца назад

"My mom caught me slapping the booster. Looked her right in the eye and proceeded with static fire"

@guppi277 3 месяца назад

So is, “prevent is too optimistic a terminology, ‘mitigate’..?” Simple and effective. The guy’s too good. A broadcast quality presenter, NSF must keep him on.

@guppi277 3 месяца назад

“Fast plus heavy equals momentum … or something like that …!” Bugger.., go on. We notice you remember your physics lesson.

@gmergulhao 3 месяца назад

thanks for not adding background music!

@warpedfusion 3 месяца назад

There is background music, it's just quiet.

@TOMKATPEDALS 3 месяца назад

Damn those chopsticks are like 25 meters long! Hard to comprehend something that big moving that fast

@philippeferreiradesousa4524 3 месяца назад

Starship: Hi

@TheMattfullen 3 месяца назад

That's what she said

@ryanhamstra49 3 месяца назад

@@TheMattfullenmore like 25mm….

@cboy-ou2hr 2 месяца назад

The sheer inertia the chopsticks are experiencing!!!

@geraldwinburn9288 3 месяца назад

You are about more up to date than what a bout it broadcast and more entertaining so thank you. Keep up the great work.

@lordleonusa 3 месяца назад

Yeah, and no Schlangbait!

@EnerGeezerSquirrel 3 месяца назад

LOL! "A few hours later and the *forward* nose was nearly half-way covered." ( As opposed to the *aft* nose?! ) Thanks kid, I was in need of a good laugh...

@davideberhardt4977 3 месяца назад

If they are successful catching the booster on flight 5, my mind will be blown.

@Ron4885 3 месяца назад

Me too. 🤯

@badrinair 3 месяца назад

thank you, Sean, Jack, Mary and the entire NSF team for sharing such amazing updates here. The catch of the booster will be like magic. engineering miracle

@erfquake1 3 месяца назад

Do you think it will really work? My gut says they'll eventually abandon the concept & go back to landing legs. I can just see those chopsticks puncturing/denting the booster tank wall over and over again....or worse, dropping it.

@TheOceanLoader 3 месяца назад

@@erfquake1 I thought the same many years ago about the concept of a reusable space craft.

@MrKellymcilrath 3 месяца назад

Great Starbase Update Ryan, Also thank you Mary, Sean, & SBL for the awesome video footage!! GO NSF!!

@kf4ms 3 месяца назад

DROP the air quotes.....professionalism....and get a haircut.....you would be great on radio....smile

@John_L 3 месяца назад

Agree about the "air quotes" - maybe OK once but repeated use rapidly becomes irksome. Not so bothered about the hair - I was young once, long long ago, with hair that I now wince at. More interested in the content and anyway we're only young once!

@gabrielgolding5380 3 месяца назад

Now we have Hoppy and Slappy!

@davidg3944 3 месяца назад

Their older brother, Explody, was unable to make the family reunion due to prior RUDgerous testing...

@TwstedTV 3 месяца назад

5:51 Does that guy have a bag of ice on his neck? 😂😂😂

@gordonstewart5774 3 месяца назад

Isn't the new tower getting an additional segment that is not built yet?

@markcarey8374 3 месяца назад

Thank you, NSF for all your coverage and updates! I grew up watching every launch possible. Thanks to your channel it is much easier to watch. ✌️

@joshwright9136 3 месяца назад

Lets freaking goo!!!

@ethanellis1881 3 месяца назад

Can’t wait for flight 5

@AlpInceiplik 3 месяца назад

That new crane should be named "Cranzee"

@stevemak8620 3 месяца назад

Yay! Ryan is great!

@TroyRubert 3 месяца назад

Rip vertical tank farm. You were always there for us.

@BenjySparky 3 месяца назад

Ryan and NSF, y'all rock! Peace

@waynehunter8928 3 месяца назад

Love the guy on the nosecone with a bag of ice on his neck. A little warm maybe? LOL.

@corrinastanley125 3 месяца назад

Great update Ryan and NSF team, thanks.

@Booster-13I 3 месяца назад

!slap when?

@riparianlife97701 3 месяца назад

I predict thwy'll miss the lifing lugs, and catch it by the fins.

@Gorgrak 3 месяца назад

This week on Fuzz Update, work continues on Ryan's chin.

@imtired1696 3 месяца назад

Sir....

@Pegaroo_ 3 месяца назад

8:55 they should look into the paint used on the Forth Rail Bridge. It used to be that once they had painted from one side to the other it was time to start painting the first side again but now they have a paint that lasts for 20 years+

@guppi277 3 месяца назад

Ryan. You are too big a personality than you present in the video. I am a big fan of your voice, language and presentation. May be , that you’re a native English speaker it makes it easier but I have known, even within NSF that are native English speakers but aren’t half as good. John Galloway & Ryan Caton are two fav presenters. NSF is merely a YT Channel but guys like you raise it way above it. 🎉 Great going. Rock on.

@clmcoclmco2222 3 месяца назад

I know I am being a bit petty. but can we Stop with the x formally known as twitter please. It is not necessary at this point especially on a site dedicated to Elon Musk founder of x. Other than that great content

@Freezar1985 3 месяца назад

Missing Jack

@59seank 3 месяца назад

I like Ryan. I like Jack. Adrian doesn't write as many jokes for Ryan. Ryan has a more "Just the facts ma'am" approach while Jack has a wonderful enthusiasm for his reports. NSF has a lot of great talent.

@Freezar1985 3 месяца назад

I didn't say that I don't like Ryan, but that I'd like to see Jack again.

@59seank 3 месяца назад

@@Freezar1985 I know.

@Grundewalt 3 месяца назад

in meantime pls go tell the dickheads down in the comments complaining about Ryan to kindly go FO

@dangorneanu9616 3 месяца назад

Slappy!

@palmedor9916 3 месяца назад

15:19 here slap one just sound wild 😂😂😂😂

@hitdrumhard 3 месяца назад

Everything about this is nuts. I really hope it works, but man, the potential carnage if it doesn't is hard for me to imagine.

@Quad373 3 месяца назад

I feel like the idea of the catching arms just caused way more problems cause I dont trust it to actually catch it booster at all, 0 confidence with it. The precision needed just doesn’t seen possible to do repeatably, this is accuracy within inches. Next few years will be spent just rebuilding launch towers over and over. Also the idea of having to somehow PREBUILD a tower on Mars before humans arrive is stupid. I hate the catching system sm

@Chillz_OG 3 месяца назад

I think you are a bit misinformed man. Landing legs will be used on Moon and Mars landings, no prebuilding towers nonsense. Also as a side note, I think you are heavily overstating the precision needed. It will still be precise, just not impossibly so like you seem to imply.

@Ch33ziTzsk8R 3 месяца назад

The chopsticks have a sort of wiggle twist vibration to them, interesting. 16:35

@thesurvivalist. 3 месяца назад

Why not use an Electro-Magnet, to stop the catch arms from Swaying. When it contacts the vehicle turn on electromagnet, and the catch arms will adhere to the vehicle. Problem solved!

@owensparks5013 3 месяца назад

Most grades of stainless steel don't react to magnets.

@ghost307 3 месяца назад

Perhaps because stainless steel is non-magnetic?

@knowledgeisgood9645 3 месяца назад

Electromagnets are heavy. The arms+magnets would sway much more than the do already. Also stainless steel is not very magnetic.

@thesurvivalist. 3 месяца назад

@@owensparks5013 Even better, add a 3 foot wide Forris Plate to both side to the vehicles.

@christophermaguire9206 3 месяца назад

Thank you for the update. Your coverage at NSF is spectacular. I hope Jack is OK.

@oldmanstumpie1061 3 месяца назад

Can you go over the "side by side" of the towers again, I didn't quite get it. 😉

@schlenbea 3 месяца назад

We need a name for the Terex Crane.....how bout "BIG BIRD"

@mahlkov 3 месяца назад

B14.1: Thank you, sir! May I have another!

@kiefox7162 3 месяца назад

Lets go!!!

@alx-vla4986 3 месяца назад

One arm points to the sea, limiting how far the booster will go, and the other closes the grip.

@kevdel 3 месяца назад

The official term is coating, not paint. From a nerdy coating engineer

@Midcon77 3 месяца назад

I've been wondering if - in order to reduce risk - they might keep one arm static and fly the booster in a way where the other arm is the only one to move? Probably not, but it might make things more simple for a first catch attempt?

@David-yo5ws 3 месяца назад

That's exactly my thinking. This is a concept they do for 2 ships at sea, when they need to pass a line over for a Replenishment At Sea (RAS) or for putting a bosuns chair across. One ship steers a fixed compass bearing and speed and the 'receiving' ship comes from astern and alters heading and speed to come alongside but with a distance between them.

@TheCritterWindow 3 месяца назад

Yea not ready for a catch on next launch. More landing testing needed. Also gives tower 2 time to be built for the first catch test. To much risk to tower one.

@ghost307 3 месяца назад

They're probably ready to rework and upgrade tower 1 and will switch to tower 2. That way if tower 1 gets damaged it being "out of service" will already be part of the plan.

@mikeg9b 3 месяца назад

2:25 Good use of the word, "penultimate."

@garethashley9128 3 месяца назад

Lol 'Multi-storey Car Park' - spot the Brit!

@spacenerd6356 3 месяца назад

Great update, as always. When I hear the words "In the not too distant future..." I instantly hear the MST3K theme in my mind.

@BradiKal61 3 месяца назад

Nummy Muffin Coocol Butter!

@shannon9993 3 месяца назад

next sunday A D

@BusstterNutt 3 месяца назад

Thank you, a great synopsis as alway.

@toddincabo 3 месяца назад

👍 Thanks for reminding me that around the clock includes the middle of the night.

@Tomfoolery1972 3 месяца назад

Doesn't it feel like they should do at least one more virtual tower first?!? Idk 😬

@knowledgeisgood9645 3 месяца назад

It depends on how sure they are about nailing the landing.

@WilboBaggins-dm7ub 3 месяца назад

Perfect; fast paced; well written and no umms and errs; ahem: some space media types should note. No worries NSF you're well ahead!

@ryann6919 3 месяца назад

Love this coverage. Mechzilla is epic!

@flyingaxeman7343 3 месяца назад

Striking the booster with the arms also tells them how much if any damage occurs with small impacts. I'm sure some of those strikes were intentional.

@alanletterman 3 месяца назад

Pretty bold to do a Starbase Update while wearing a FireFly shirt

@Grundewalt 3 месяца назад

you are new to the channel? go back to watch the announcement of the collaboration. It is not unusual.

@mattjackson9859 3 месяца назад

I'd rather they used landing legs like on F9, even if it means a mass penalty. The catch thing just seems to be too exacting to be reliable.

@hamzahkhan8952 3 месяца назад

but you cant rapidly reuse deployable landing legs. using fixed ones would add mass and make reentry more difficult. they already have experience with doing precision landings using grid fins with F9, and the last starship launch had the booster perform a precise landing despite an engine failure. but it does come at the risk of damaging a launch site rather than a landing pad in the event of a failed landing attempt. everything has its pros and cons.

@BradiKal61 3 месяца назад

@@hamzahkhan8952 I agree that the mass penalty of landing legs is seems prohibitive, but at the same time the risk of damaging your launch tower during every landing seems pretty high. The degree of control of booster descent rate and positioning necessary to allow a catch by the arms might also mean that you'd be able to do a gentle enough landing on some type of landing feet that you wouldn't risk wrecking the booster when it landed.

@hamzahkhan8952 3 месяца назад

@@BradiKal61 thats true, but it seems like that is a risk spacex is willing to take. using some type of landing feet system would also increase the mass of the booster, since it would need a bit more hardware for the landing (but not as much as deployable legs). i'm pretty sure the reason they are not doing some thing like that would be because the booster would require some sort of transportation after every landing, which is something that is not needed if it is caught by the launch tower.

@David-yo5ws 3 месяца назад

Well, no one thought they would be able to land a Booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, on a rolling sea. Not till after 4 attempts at least. Then after that, the naysayers went very quiet. 🤐

@hamzahkhan8952 3 месяца назад

@@David-yo5ws nah, they just started babbling about starship.

@jamesbuchanan4414 2 месяца назад

The paint is probably a heavy TNEMEC or something similar. Stuff is THICK, almost like batter, rather than liquid, but it's good stuff.

@djspecialpaul 2 месяца назад

This whole area looks so amazing - I remember very good how everything started :) Really amazing progress. BTW - nice to see this Sarens crane - We use alot of Sarens crane for our work special when we lifte huge machine parts or offshore parts.

@RocketIIIman 3 месяца назад

could they not have some active counterweights on the end of the sticks, like in tall buildings?

@davidg3944 3 месяца назад

The added mass could require even larger actuation cylinders and pumps.

@starz_yeep 3 месяца назад

Under 1 hour 👇

@maziarmansoori6068 3 месяца назад

best music

@01_SPACE_C0WB0Y 3 месяца назад

Catch doomers in this comment section are out of control.

@Grundewalt 3 месяца назад

not less than idiots that take offense at Ryan for whatever reason, dip5hits probably never been to college;

@Squiddledorf 3 месяца назад

I really love these videos, very well put together and Ryan is a very good host but I can't just ignore it anymore. The way this man pronounces his Ls, it's crazy. Almost like he's trying to swallow his tongue on every L. I don't have any ill will here, just can't get over it :o

@wonderingmind28 3 месяца назад

Wen slap???

@ghost307 3 месяца назад

Soonly.

@dougrogers327 2 месяца назад

Why don't they put an inflatable balloon in the Starship payload bay so it will inflate after reentry and stop the Starship from sinking? This way the Starship can be recovered and inspected - they would learn so much!

@richardknapp570 3 месяца назад

Is there nickname for new crane yet? CC would work. If this tower is going to be taller (by Elon), where will the extra height be done: base or just under final segment?

@Merlmabase 3 месяца назад

I'm looking forward to seeing well-used boosters with dents and paint marks around their catch points... like an airport runway streaked by rubber tires

@jameshoiby 3 месяца назад

That dome top? It's the top of the prototype gigaDalek, DoD's vision for what they can put on top of their own Super Heavy fleet.

@DocWilco 3 месяца назад

I'm surprised they aren't using input shaping for moving the chopsticks. Or at least, it looks that way to my untrained eye.

@rocketdan1430 3 месяца назад

Here we go 😎

@simonscofield8825 3 месяца назад

Im just worried that the booster will not come down evenly and that the chopsticks will have to move different distances to make contact with the booster - i just hope SpaceX have taken this into consideration, not just how far up or down on the booster the arms will touch...

@elizabethhoeppner8881 3 месяца назад

Enjoyed this update of the Starship work and testing of chopsticks for booster catch. Been on vacation with friends and they enjoyed hearing stories of the slap test.😊

@davidredfern836 2 месяца назад

Every time space x test fires their engines they should have test tiles in the line of fire to see which materials are better suited for such extreme temperatures. Seems like they could kill two birds with one stone if you will. Anyway I'm sure Elon and Co will figure it out

@Santiagogleissner 3 месяца назад

Go SpaceX!

@dominicdodd9759 3 месяца назад

As the booster is made of steel could the chopstick not use powerful induction magnets to help slow booster's fall and dampen oscillations of arms as they close? Good use of several tons of Telsa batteries?

@jhfu64 3 месяца назад

It makes me nervous to see all that grinding and sanding to remove the old tiles. It'd be nice to see a cryo imo Also, Ryan, you're so underrated. I wish you hosted more.

@narayananb2252 3 месяца назад

Isn't it more useful to increase the length of the booster catch pin..for more probability of catching

@BradiKal61 3 месяца назад

Also do they need MORE catch pins in case the booster is slightly rotated from the desired position? Maybe an entire raised RING to guarantee contact (even though that will add weight)

@anthonypra8899 2 месяца назад

The melt of fuel to land a rocket on the ground instead of using the parachutes parasails. That's a lot of money wasted.

@billyeomans6098 2 месяца назад

Think they should put flexible wheels on the chopstick to allow a gradual slowdown running all the way long ways

@silasbr. 3 месяца назад

Any thoughts about the additional tower segments Elon mentioned in Tim’s interview?

@ingoos 2 месяца назад

just as boat / ship docks use tires, the chopsticks could also try & use some when pinching starships.

@rudivandoornegat2371 3 месяца назад

They only have one hydraulic actuator per arm. For precise control you need a contra hydraulic actuator, pushing against the movement other actuator, but with less force. Just like muscles. Or if you would push your left and right hand against each other, but with a netto result of a movement to the right.

@martinmorehouse9645 3 месяца назад

That was the method used to make the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park move smoothly; opposing actuators.

@jcole4 3 месяца назад

What will they do if the current hurricane churning in the gulf turns a little north? Are the towers on hinged bases and lay flat? Oh oh! 😅

@ZoidedLast 2 месяца назад

Thank you for always putting a smile on faces. The content is pure joy.

@gusdixon8988 2 месяца назад

So there will not be any pilots for Starship right, fully automated?

@DarioushAryan 3 месяца назад

bravoo

@rgberry69 2 месяца назад

Thanks Ryan and NSF team. Brilliant update.

@randytaylor4766 3 месяца назад

Lifestyles of the rich and famous... only old people will get it.

@slateslavens 3 месяца назад

So the Chopsticks 'slap' now. Does that make them "Slap-Chops"?

@garyh4696 2 месяца назад

didnt mention the slap would be over 500 tons of steel hitting each other, thats a rash

@landcruiser801 3 месяца назад

If they catch this next booster, will they re-use it or will it be binned?

@davefarmery8180 3 месяца назад

Binned, to many upgrades in the pipeline to be reused

@peterford5408 3 месяца назад

@@davefarmery8180 Testing those upgrades ASAP is valuable. But so is testing reusability! I'm guessing at least 10% chance of a re flight if it's caught undamaged.

@davefarmery8180 3 месяца назад

@@peterford5408 10% sounds reasonable 🤔

@benedictmarshall7031 3 месяца назад

I’m wondering whether SpaceX will switch from launching from the original launch tower to the new one (once complete with its own flame trench)? This would allow the old launch tower to be used for catching only.

@ghost307 3 месяца назад

Or upgraded.

@knowledgeisgood9645 3 месяца назад

No tower at Boca Chica will be for "catching only".

@01_SPACE_C0WB0Y 3 месяца назад

The only use for catch only towers are for logistical reasons and it's very likely the only reason one is being built at LC-39a. With an increased cadence, there very well could be a full stack on the pad when a ship is returning for a landing.

@tracybone3730 3 месяца назад

Join the movement boycott McDonald's, pass it on

@stevenhamerlinck6832 3 месяца назад

I heard "slapping the hooter", my bad ...

@tmg7476 3 месяца назад

Hurricane season -- all dates are subject to change

@AbideVibe 3 месяца назад

new word for me: Penultimate"" means “next to last.”

@DonaldWells-wk8dc 2 месяца назад

Thought you vowing as Marcus House😅

@FreeRadicalX 3 месяца назад

*slaps roof of test booster* this baby can fit so many metric tons of methane

@notsomadscientist9602 3 месяца назад

They damn sure ain't doing a catch attempt with that giant expensive crane sitting nearby. I doubt we even see flight 5 before the tower is stacked and the crane removed.

@David-yo5ws 3 месяца назад

Nope. They will do what they always do. Move the cranes to the far end and lay them on the ground.

@notsomadscientist9602 3 месяца назад

@@David-yo5ws Moving that big crane isn't a simple feat like the other smaller crane. I don't see it happening. Especially if its in its final configuration. That crane is massive my guy.

@BrettCooper4702 3 месяца назад

The orientation of the catching lugs seems dodgy. the rocket would have to be square so the lugs connect to the catching rail. That seems super hard as it's more that landing in the zone but also that the body of the rocket is facing the right way around.

@David-yo5ws 3 месяца назад

Elon said there was about a 12 degree tolerance. Which is very small for a singular point of contact. I have to now start looking at the Falcon9 Boosters, to see if their landing orientation is the same each time or random. (In case they used them as testers for the avionic software) There are a number of ways you could determine 'The Front' of the Booster with reference to the Tower. Laserbeam from the tower on a sensor on the Booster, GPS sensor on the Booster that is set to a compass bearing, Booster Camera lens lined up on one of the tower uprights, with vertical lines on the lens to line up to.