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What if the 26 is the one to be space fuel depot? You dont need flaps cuz is not comming back... I would give her a white thermal insulation, or second reflective skin, the one working better in vacum condition. But, i believe if you can lunch 4 flapless starships and make a fuel depot on geosincronus orbit. Like a mid way repost station for lunar flights...
I honestly think they'll do another controlled landing in the ocean before making the grab attempt. I mean - the new heat tiles haven't been tested and you don't know how they're going to perform. And you certainly don't want tons of partially slagged rocket falling out of the sky onto you manufacturing facilities. ;) Just saying. hehehe
Damn i remember 3 years ago when we had 2 starship prototypes sn9 and sn10 next to each other and now we have almost 2 orbital launch pads 😭 and seeing multiple starships as if it is normal now. Time goes faasstt
I remember that too! I think that they were awaiting FAA approval and it was a great demonstration of how much the bureaucracy was slowing the development. 😂
Almost exactly 4 years ago SN5 hopped for the first time. I remember, how excited I was, watching LabPadre, waiting for engine chill to begin and the final ignition. Didn't miss a single hopp or flight since...
How good it is to hear about the Fram 2 mission from pole to pole. The Fram 1, or just the polar expedition ship Fram from the very town I live in. It set sail in 1893 to find a way to not succumb to the crushing ice. He held a slightly used bar of soap, squeezed it between his hands and the soap took a leap of faith across the table. That's how they would camp out with a suitable boat on the Arctic ice. I've also lived in a house 6 meter across from the childhood home of Thor Heyerdahl, I was too young to care but it's quite fun to think back.
We are only in half way, but FT1 brings memories. Back from Starhoper. Been here watching with my significant. Go SpaceX Go Starship. Its catch time and in no time, we are going Mars.
Am I the only one who is amazed by the amount of elements that space x is carrying out at once? When NASA did anything it took them ages to get anything accomplished.
Incentives. You need gov funding for NASA which means spreading out the work to contractors in most every state. And then putting things together in more states and then final work in Florida. Profit is cost plus so if you can blame someone else for a delay you make more money for no real work. Means work is always 2x slower and more expensive but at least there is some accountability.
Better than Rocket is here Easy lift off Easy land on with antigravity Spaceship No Fire No Explosion No Flame Just Spin and Lift off Powered by Baterry Work base on Gravity just spinning by using Battery can fly in bad weather, plunge in the ocean even in outer space Can lift more than 100 Ton Earth which weight predict 600 trillion ton does not fall at the Sun because of centrifugal in orbitting, on the contrary it does not be thrown far go out the orbit line of hold by gravity at the Sun as orbit center. Gravity and centrifugal is equal called Equillibrium, thats why until now Earth which we was inhabited always rotate and circulate the Sun. Now we justly take example : how if the gravity used and centrifugal is negated? The Earth will float far leave the Sun. So that centrifugal can be used to fly far away if gravity eliminated. Finally how to eliminate gravity? It’s way rotate part of aircraft by horizontal. When that rotation faster centrifugal force getting greater and the gravity getting smaller, finally it lose the gravity and the aircraft start flying. Of course people would surprise: how the aircraft can keep rotate without fulcrums? Thats why we named that aircraft Shuttling System that is aircraft likes two disc adjoining attached in the midle as fulcrums: A. The Top part, we name Positive rotate to right, and the edges is getting thicker and havier. B. The Buttom part, we name Negative rotating to left, and the edges is getting thicker and havier. C. Middle Part , we name Neutral, air crew placed and also machine and everythings turning Negative and Positive at the same time. The aircraft can liftup added with explosion from the engine. However that aircraft construction later, let the engineer doit it, and we are sure the aircraft will bulletproof and also waterproof. . . In modern civilization where human being generally using flying saucer as vehicle, will a lot of change in lives either in materialism and in psychological. In materialism area will apply the change in life like. People no longger need roadway and rel road which spend large of energy, money, places, things and time, object place and time. People would utilize that area for habitat or for other need:
I was there Friday for a job interview and nothing compares to seeing them up close and personal. I was in awe the entire time. Really hope I get the job.
I wonder if in the interest of avoiding a possible massive disaster: will SpaceX ensure the launch site tank farm is completely empty before attempting the first booster catch? It's one thing to have confidence in the landing software and experience that has safely landed so many Falcon 9 boosters. It's quite another to gamble all that fueling infrastructure (and potential mushroom cloud), hoping Booster 12 and Mechazilla behave themselves at the Prom!
Is it me, or is Starship taking a ridiculous risk to their only fully functional launch Stage 0 and the tank farm, not to mention risking pissing off all the residents of Boca Chica and several government agencies and essentially every environmental group? Shades of "testing" the launch stand without a water deluge system..... A failed catch disaster will cause the same or worse delays than the "concrete rain" fiasco. It is definitely high risk. If Elon succeeds in destroying his only working Stage 0, I am thinking he might finally rethink this and build a landing pad on rails for quick turnaround and just take the weight hit of attaching landing legs. He needs to be working on how to build less heavy landing legs for lunar Starship anyway.
Yah - Also - Couldn't they make a mini booster (only flies a short distance) and practice catch attempts... and just keep upgrading it to a bigger size each time?
@@fafmotorsport what women? Out of the hundreds of videos ive seen of people working Ive not seen one woman. Im talking about all the construction crews and builders... you know, the hard jobs.. the dangerous jobs. Think before your make a fool out of yourself.
@@fafmotorsport hard working women pretty much stop at the Air Conditioning, don't worry, Star Factory will be climate controlled and I am sure we will see a few more women slaving along side their air conditioned male counterparts
@@Jojo-o6o6w "you know, the hard jobs.. the dangerous jobs." what, women aren't cut out for jobs in construction? You've got a pretty sexist view on society, maybe you should think before you make a fool out of yourself. smh
I was not really interested in space and thought the ships and all that were a waste of money/resource. Somehow I started watching your channel and my opinion about it all has taken a 180. Thank you for bring this field to my attention in a digestible way. I never miss a video.
unrelated but talking about all those crew dragon missions. Dragon was designed originally with 7 seats. You would think they could add two seats on the next mission in case a certain two astronauts need a ride home
Actually it would be safe to just put a little padding and some seat belts under the four main seats. Crew Dragon is that safe. However SpaceX has previously tried moving a seat from a Soyuz and mounting it as an alternative to requiring Astronaut Francisco Rubio to remain on the ISS for an extra 6 months when Soyuz MS-22 sprang a leak. The biggest concern is that the Boeing proprietary spacesuits cannot plug into the Crew Dragon life support system, but that is only a risk if the Crew Dragon loses atmosphere containment. NASA apparently intends to keep Butch and Suni on the ISS until the return of the Crew 9 mission in March 2025. I suspect this is to avoid paying SpaceX any extra for the lift. Crew 9 is already awaiting launch, so I suspect this means that the Crew 10 flight in March will bring any additional equipment to ensure the comfort and safety of Butch and Suni.
That idea was considered but they have decided instead that, if Butch and Suni aren't allowed tp fly the Starliner back, two of the Crew 9 crew will be bumped from the flight and it will launch with only two. Then Butch and Suni will join Crew 9 and come back in the empty seats. Boy, if that happens, you gotta feel sorry for the two who get bumped.
Wasn't all that long ago a little water tower named STARHOPPER was the Big Story. Now it's nearly impossible to keep up with. Thanks WAI. Always thorough and entertaining
Hi Felix, With all of SpaceX' giant vehicles constantly moving around Boca Chica, I always get the feeling that I am watching an episode of the Thunderbirds. Giant machines, disproportionately tiny people, and huge buildings. When you see the constant parade of these boosters, ships, and multi wheeled transport vehicles, into and out of the massive buildings, do you get the sensation that you are watching an episode of the Thunderbirds too?
I under understand why they dont go with the tried and tested landing legs for atleast starship. I know its heavy, but not being able to safely touch down anywhere but a few sites on earth seems wierd. Seems like an annoying test campain to redo when they have to add legs for mars and moon missions. And also feels like a good safety factor for manned missions even on leo missions. I know, fast reusability, but they would probably still have to destack for cargo loading no matter what they do? The only place i see it viable is if youre gonna use it as an airliner with people between fixed areas on earth, where cargo etc wouldnt be necessary, but even that having a singular failurepoint for landing safely feels abit sketchy.
Love the 7 of 9 references, Felix! But at the very start of your video you show a photo of an element and say "This is crazy" but then you don't come back to it later to explain what it is (according to Marcus House its a Methane header tank for ship 34) 😉
I was thinking about this heat shield tile issue that SpaceX has been having, I know there was talk about putting in ablative layer underneath the tiles in some areas but I was wondering if they could just apply in a blade of coating to the outside of starship tiles instead, I know there are some oils and similar viscosity compounds that will slowly create a vapor barrier when heated as these have been used and tuned for specific industrial applications before. Engineers are really impressive on what they can do with certain compounds but the knowledge of these compounds likely hasn't previously had an application in rocket science
They probably want to finish stacking to get the crane out of there before flight 5. They won't want to launch with the crane on site as there is a good chance it would get damaged by shock waves from super heavy.
17:30 Apart from Rabea Rogge, Jannicke Mikkelsen is the first female Norwegian astronaut, and the first to carry the Norwegian flag in space. Lots of firsts in this mission! Also, the Norwegian ship "Fram" was the first ship to visit both polar regions, which is why this mission inherits the name, being the first crewed mission to do the same in space.
@vinnylamoureux1187 I actually don't know. The Norwegian Space Centre (the Norwegian equivalent of NASA) said to press they were "surprised by the announcement", so I don't think the government has contributed to the mission. It is a commercial one, and as they will be doing research for SpaceX as well, I would guess the vast majority is paid by Wang and SpaceX. I have not found any mention of any other contributors, including from other countries.
I can’t think of any good reason to execute a catch attempt directly above the Launch Table. It makes far more sense to catch it off to one side, where the chopsticks usually pick a vessel off of the SPMT. That way if there is a miss, and it goes crashing down to the ground, it won’t damage the Launch Table.
To be fair, chopsticks rotated out to one side means less mobility on that side, plus the possibility that the large explosion from a booster crashing down would most likely damage the table anyway.
Why doesn't SpaceX just create a heat shield nose cone cap that snaps onto the front of the Starship? This seems like it would be easier to update and replace, and could have some kind of heavier duty snap connection...
Yeah I've been curious about the same, even large "snap on" panels seem like a solution for the body too. My best guess is that it would be too heavy - the existing tiles are realllly light from what I understand.
It's about how the shield is made. Large panels are hard to bake. Another issue is difference in thermal expansion between steel and ceramic heatshield. Small tiles got enough space to safely expand . Large plate could just snap
Thanks for this latest video Felix. You even have a still of our son installing tiles on the nose cone from yesterday. I never thought I would see anything show up so fast. I was actually hoping against hope that he might appear. Very cool!
I'm actually surprised Elon didn't put a couple raptors on a smaller rocket, build a smaller tower with a set of mini chopstick arms for testing the catch.. just a thought.
I think they are going to keep it for the "Fuel Transfer" test. All the need to do is add the plumbing to it. It could become a prototype for "Tankers"
If they hit the tower, you won't have to worry about the other tower being built because they won't let him launch for like six or eight months or longer after there's a crash. No matter how many launches you have they'll stop the thing from taking off.
Polaris Dawn, you mentioned a final third mission that it docks with Starship. Starship is currently NOT manned launch or reentry qualified. That does not preclude the possibility of an early docking mission with Starship already in orbit. It should not be any more complex than a ISS docking mission. Starship environmental systems, command center and living areas will need to be ground qualified. An automated flight monitoring system notifies the crew and Space X of any system pending fault or failure. Polaris Dawn could dock to Starship, the flight crew transfers to Starships command center. They check out all Starships environmental systems in 0-g. Once everything is verified, the crew plans on remaining on Starship for a week televised from orbit. Once the mission is completed the crew undocks from Starship and returns safely to Earth in Polaris Dawn.
If I have to guess I would say that SpaceX will try a catch only when the second tower could make the catch, in order to minimize the risk to the functional structures around the 1st tower (tanks, water deluge system, etc).
Thanks for the episode! I personally think that S26 should've been used as a fuel depot that stayed in orbit, and got refueled as necessary. But they always have and ace up their sleeve for reason of what they are actually doing. We shall see. But if it's already in the garden, then 50/50. Only time will tell." Love ya Felix.
I curious to what glass they are using for there office building, given the possibility of a spicy RUD, or if it’s a good enough distance from the pad.
Only reason they are going hell for leather in building the second launch tower is because they think they are going to blow up the first one when they try to catch - but what is going to be interesting if that happens, is if they manage to hit one of the fuel tanks at the same time, in which case launch tower B might get relocated to florida.
hey byddy, where do you get all those incredible rocket models for your room?, im in argentina and its very difficult, can u help me ? , great video btw!
Will spaceX be able to catch the new upgraded starship 32 since they moved the wings back to protect them from the heat of reentry? Thanks in advance and "you rock"
Once that factory comes online and they're pumping out 100 ships a year, the launch cadence should reach Falcon 9 levels. What are they going to do with all those starships? The caravan to Mars is still a long way off... or is it?
That small tank for landing is kool. Especially when I remember making a comment several years ago to suggest they make it like a stomach or like one of these old leather water bottles.
