SpaceX launched its Starship rocket and caught the returning booster with giant mechanical arms. The empty Starship blasted off at sunrise from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border
the people that wrote the Attitude control software Code Used to Steer The booster into position To be caught by the chopsticks deserve a huge Bonus in pay
Give it all to master risk-taker Elon. He overrode the engineers, who insisted that SpaceX should stick with landing legs, and insisted on the radical 'mechazilla' solution instead.
Starship is absolutely gargantuan, and by far the most powerful rocket ever built. The fact that its huge, 240 foot tall first stage, can be gently caught for re-use, has mind-boggling implications for the economics of space flight.
@@PistonAvatarGuy Wut? It flies at near orbital velocity (99.2%) because it's a test vehicle and they want an automatic return. Once it's operational, it will effortlessly add the missing 0.8% to achieve orbit.
@@PistonAvatarGuythere is a payload on the ship and booster. It’s called the data they will collect to then integrate into the next ones up. Iterative design. Design, test, launch, gather data, iterate, design, test, launch, gather data, iterate, repeat. There is also a safety risk to sending it to orbit as if the engines failed to relight when in orbit, it’s stuck in space for way longer than they wanted it to be and it could potentially survive reentry, hitting someones house or boat.
I can see some media sources headlining, “Starship explodes!” Which it did do at the very end, after a successful soft landing, at the expected location, and falling over on the ocean.
Well, the moon landing was made by the government. So, if the government has the ambition to do something, they can. But space travel has been neglected for a long time, that's why it has stagnated because they don't see it as a priority.
One Man' Dream (eLON) pushed humanity to be interplanetary. He is the best thing happened to this broken world.. giving us hope. Freedom +. Individuality .. Fountainhead
How can these news agencies not understand the basics? The "Super Heavy" booster landed in the chopsticks, not the Starship spacecraft which landed in the Indian Ocean.
I can just see the editor in chief of The Guardian snarling "No, you can't have the headline be 'Mission abruptly cut short as launch tower arms had to catch disabled starship booster' "
I remember their first launch, all these big media kept saying how it was a failure. Now they're all quiet.. look at even their headlines.. some still haven't reported it. Sore loosers.
This is absolutely incredible to see, and this was the first attempt! This is bigger than the Saturn V rocket, this booster is over 20 stories tall!! Mars, here we come!
@@Ali_Ce_78 is your argument that space x didn’t just auto land a 20 story reusable booster rocket? Is that what you’re honestly saying or are you just on drugs right now?
Your achievements probably dwarf this 'failure", right? I swear a sizable percent of bipeds do not deserve to be called part of the human race. You are the perfect example.
300,000 years for the first computer. 15 years till that computer got us to space. Then we basically paused for 60 years, now there are privately owned space companies reusing boosters. We are finally going places again.
@@Joviangamer You just saw a gigantic leap towards the stars and all you can think about is small nitpicks because you don't like Elon's political views? You don't deserve to be part of the human race.
Hate him or hate him, Elon is changing the world in so many ways. Transport has finally managed to pull out of the mud pit that it's been been stuck in since the 70's. Judge Elon by what he *does* rather than what he says.
One of the major things this means is that reusable large payload launches become exponentially cheaper making colonizing the Moon and Mars so much cheaper and likely to happen within our lifetime. We are going to see Starship used for all kinds of ideas that were considered too expensive before like a hotel in space or a true rotating ring shaped space station with its own pseudo gravity. We are going to see mining in space bringing more riches than the entire planet Earth has now. We may have just witnessed the beginning of the explosion of the human race into the universe.
Unbelievable, wow... Makes me think, we can do stuff like this as manikind and yet we still get caught up fighting each other. What a pity, imagine if we coule ever all work as one.
The Starship upper stage landed on target. The only real issue that was immediately visible was another occurrence of flap burnthrough on reentry, but like last time the flap survived kept working.
This rocket is almost as high as 20story building, and quite heavy too, to make a landing gear that strong enough to hold it on landing will take too much weigh on the rocket, reducing its payload in the future, so the solution is to not cary the landing gear, but let the landing gear on the ground, (the tower) The previous rocket falcon 9, have build in landing gear, and you can see how big it is, and this this rocket way bigger, so to implement the landing gear on it would waste so much fuel
Pitanje za inženjere? Elektronika koja upravlja spuštanjem "boostera" izložena je ogromnoj toplotu koja bi Si, Ge ili GaAs istopila u sekundi - kako to navedeno hlade? Hvala na odgovoru
