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Crews continue work on the OLM while work has begun on the chopsticks. The Tank Farm is getting upgrades and the wall around the OLM continues growing.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Container Wall Without Its Wall
0:13 LOX Subcooler Manifold
0:21 The Orbital Tank Farm
0:45 Work on the OLM and Subcoolers
1:06 Booster QD Flex Hose Removed
1:46 Second Flex Hose Removed
2:39 New Booster Work Stand
3:17 The Rocket Garden and High Bays
3:28 Upper Floor on the New High Bay
4:20 Ship 30’s Forward Flap Extended
4:44 The Ring Yard
5:05 Starfactory Bridge Cranes
5:46 The Chopsticks
5:56 New Launch Site Sign
6:07 Container Wall Demolition
8:39 CH4 Subcoolers
9:08 CH4 Pump Motors
9:17 LOX Subcoolers and Pump Motors
9:35 More Container Wall Destruction
10:56 Cryo Valve Lifted
11:29 The Orbital Launch Mount
11:57 Work on the Chopsticks
12:31 Hot Staging Ring Installed on B10
12:41 Work Continues on Starfactory
12:52 Booster Transport Stand Moved
13:24 Work on Top of the New High Bay
14:19 Booster 10 Lifted Onto New Stand
14:57 S30, S29, and S28 in the High Bay
15:35 Work on Starfactory Expansion
15:46 The Orbital Launch Site
15:55 Remains of the Container Wall
16:12 Tank Farm Plumbing
16:19 Methane Subcoolers
16:28 Cryo Piping
16:48 Chopsticks Rising up the Tower
17:22 Booster 10 Unhooked From Crane
17:29 Booster 10 Rolls to Rocket Garden
20:46 Booster 10 and Booster 4
20:58 The New High Bay
21:05 Glass Installation
21:39 Earthwork for Starfactory
21:50 Starfactory
21:58 The Orbital Launch Site
22:07 The Chopsticks
22:14 Tank Farm Upgrades
22:34 LOX Subcoolers
22:43 Scaffolding Supplies
22:54 Remains of the Wall Cleaned Up
23:14 The Orbital Launch Mount

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@NASASpaceflight 6 месяцев назад

A very long vid this time, with a lot going on ahead of Flight 3. When do you think Flight 3 will launch?

@goldenshatter 6 месяцев назад

New Year Eve

@philleng480 6 месяцев назад

Not before Xmas - mad idea. They might target before year end, but think more likely late Jan, early Feb.

@ross077 6 месяцев назад

Early March 2024.

@corrinastanley125 6 месяцев назад

Late Jan early Feb.

@Vatsyayana87 6 месяцев назад

See my little baby Mars? That means i know the only answer is, when they are ready and have the tags lol Cheers guys, you guys never cease to bring the best and we miss you Chris and Thomas!

@MickRonald 6 месяцев назад

This video definitely shows the numerous construction projects happening at Starbase day and night. Not just work being performed on boosters and ships although it's all related. Great job capturing it. Thanks Mary, Sean, SBL, Thomas, and Jack.

@corrinastanley125 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for all the close ups Sean and Mary, great work.

@philipgrice1026 6 месяцев назад

I loved the shot of little "WALL-E" skid steer scooting around shoveling up the loose chunks of concrete! It brought a big smile to my face.

@iDuckman 6 месяцев назад

Mary's back! I know her style - my favorite.

@dominicdodd9759 6 месяцев назад

Nighttime shots of booster on SPMT are awesome!

@UserName-vf8rw 6 месяцев назад

Mary, the roll out shots were amazing!

@stevebaker4303 6 месяцев назад

Nice to see Mary’s work again!!

@KieranHolroyd 6 месяцев назад

they made a montage style slowmo shot of a big jackhammer, not disappointed

@officialwildcardadventures 6 месяцев назад

Sean those slow mo shots are 🎉🎉🎉

@jennyelizabeth1108 6 месяцев назад

Was nice to see some pics from Mary 😊

@matthewboyd443 6 месяцев назад

Yes this is the type of vid I like, keep it up!

@mariusmeyer14 6 месяцев назад

The Starships in the highbay looks like the penguins of Madagascar having a teamtalk.😅🐧🐧🐧

@Hippida 6 месяцев назад

Thx NSF team. I love to watch people work. I could do that all day...

@jordough4495 6 месяцев назад

you would make a great manager

@StillAliveAndKicking_ 6 месяцев назад

That was interesting, nice pace and clear. 👍🏻

@pnield5866 6 месяцев назад

18:26 the SPMT reminds me of Thunderbirds landing the FireFlash on the pods (albeit massively bigger)

@EdwardCox2016 6 месяцев назад

Great activity update. Thanks NSF team.

@Jonasastrophotos 6 месяцев назад

Atleast its reassuring to see a "We build better" container right next to the vertical tanks lol

@ReinReads 6 месяцев назад

You mean the vertical tanks that were specifically stated to be a temporary solution they built themselves due to the long lead time of getting the tanks they wanted. The time saved was well worth the cost of building them and now scraping them. People seem to forget this entire site is a R&D facility.

@knowledgeisgood9645 6 месяцев назад

@@ReinReads Elon never said those tanks were "temporary solutions". Not sure where you got that from. It sounds to me like a modification after the fact. But you are correct in pointing out it is an R&D site - though it didn't start out as one.

@Jonasastrophotos 6 месяцев назад

@@ReinReads The vertical tanks was on the blueprints for the area. There has never been an indication that they were a temperary solution at the time of building them

@Vatsyayana87 6 месяцев назад

Indeed, those were originally the custom built solution for the vast volume of commodities, much cheaper and on a much smaller footprint, with a little free head pressure to boot. @@knowledgeisgood9645

@skipsandvig8888 6 месяцев назад

The clouds going by in different directions during the flex hose removal section was way more interesting than the work

@chrismartin2001AD 6 месяцев назад

they go through one hell of a lot of concrete

@TheShanehiltonward 6 месяцев назад

These no-on-screen-personalities videos are your best product, NASASpaceflight. No humor, just pure information transfer. Enjoyable.

@icycooldrink6085 6 месяцев назад

There is definitely something to say for a bit of silence. Now, if we can insert some of this into the live streams, we'll really be getting into 'awesome' territory. It's not radio guys. Silence isn't dead time. Less repetition and banter makes the visuals you work so hard to get SO MUCH more impactful, because we can actually concentrate on them. I wonder how many, like me, mute these streams just to get away from the constant babbling.

@SyntheticSpy 6 месяцев назад

@@icycooldrink6085don’t they have many live cameras up that do not have commentary?

@icycooldrink6085 6 месяцев назад

@@SyntheticSpy Yeah, thankfully they do. And I'm not taking anything away from them, as a group. The absolutely provide multiple streams, some of which have no commentary whatsoever. And I watch and participate with the short, commentary based content. It's often good, clear, and insightful. But on special events, the best stream, the one that shifts focus to events as they happen, comes with wall-to-wall commentary. And SOME of that commentary is great, clear and insightful. My point is, that when you have a 3 - 5 hour stream, and about 30 minutes of significant content, then finding 6 - 10 different ways to say the same thing multiple times becomes monotonous, repetitive, boring, and ultimately, aggravating. My observation is that they could simply take a breath. Take from the SpaceX playbook and give it a periodic '... we'll be back in 15 minutes, meanwhile, take a listen to these space tunes' *insert public domain futuristic tunes*. Or even just ambient audio. Again, it's not radio. Not speaking does not mean 'dead air'. Instead, with IFT2, there was literally two or three seconds of silence before the actual launch, and maybe five seconds after. Is it really so unreasonable to say, "guys, great views, but can you just shut up a bit and let us watch and interpret things ourselves". The video is speaking for itself, and with the guys squabbling to get a word in edgewise, they are talking over that voice. If they want to dissect afterwards, they can go to town with it, and I'll likely watch - but in the moment, silence is golden.

@anthonycamilleri7297 6 месяцев назад

love all your work sean

@nicobarraza 6 месяцев назад

What a great shots

@icycooldrink6085 6 месяцев назад

Well, perhaps unsurprisingly, I was totally wrong on those black stands. People started referring to them as transport stands, but I wasn't at all convinced. But there it is. Transport stands. Nice. Also, love to see the work of still Bocachicagal is still in the mix. The others may claim more commercial framing and composition, but Mary has an eye for what is actually interesting.

@CatherineDiEgidio-mq9gu 6 месяцев назад

Beautiful 🚀

@pipersall6761 6 месяцев назад

Pour the concrete, dig it up, pour the concrete, dig it up...

@alphamegaman8847 6 месяцев назад

At 10:14 Little thing reminds me of WallE's bigger brother!😁 Mike in San Diego.🌞🎸🚀🖖

@ronferguson9695 6 месяцев назад

Seriously people, what a great time to be alive!!!

@pnield5866 6 месяцев назад

If only SpaceX would learn to passivate stainless steel welds! Does my head in seeing the brown surface corrosion at the heat affected sides of the welds on the piping every time I see it.

@CUBEoneVX 6 месяцев назад

Are booster 10 fins thinner compared to booster 4? interesting......

@bryanillenberg 6 месяцев назад

yup. B4/B5 have a different design than B7+

@leverman7517 6 месяцев назад

4:36 "Dragon Scales"!!

@fuzzySounds 6 месяцев назад

Watching this on 2x speed is like something out of a sci fi movie

@MichaelSchgowiz 6 месяцев назад

You can see how being that close to the ocean is causing structures and items rust within a year.

@knowledgeisgood9645 6 месяцев назад

No way to avoid it, except regular repainting.

@bryanillenberg 6 месяцев назад

yup (poor B4)

@mikegardner107 6 месяцев назад

New high bay will have 2X the natural lighting?

@eddevoe2519 6 месяцев назад

It's a pipe dream thinking we would have another launch this year. February or even March. Still have tank farm upgrades to finish, then testing the farm and all the repairs to launch mount systems and testing. then there is all the engine testing for booster and Starship, wet dress rehearsal blah blah blah. Also, they are saying possibly a demonstration for fueling in space????

@techiheed1845 6 месяцев назад

#BocaChicaGal is back? I saw those shots 🙂then saw the credit. Noice

@jwortman1984 6 месяцев назад

8:37 that doesn’t look like it was made from containers. That was a fortress! I had no idea it was made that way. What purpose did it serve to be so wide and built with such large steel beams?

@ericpaul4575 6 месяцев назад

Crash landings are a bitch.

@andreelb 6 месяцев назад

Nosecone at 4:57 looks CGI lol

@cricri7066 6 месяцев назад

They seem to be getting better all the time

@iamaduckquack 6 месяцев назад

Is the new HSR rounded on top rather than flat like the previous one? Looks like it but could be dodgy angles.

@MrGoesBoom 6 месяцев назад

So I know Tim Dodd has been around Starbase with Elon a few times...has anyone done any tours/shot footage from the top of the High Bay and the Mega Bay? I'm curious both about what it looks like up there as well as the views

@marianporosniuc8349 6 месяцев назад

I don't think so

@ethans4783 6 месяцев назад

we've seen some multicolor lights on up there in the past, but no tours or anything I can think of

@sja45uk 6 месяцев назад

I guess that they are still constructions sites, so not really accessible at the moment!

@joansparky4439 6 месяцев назад

Do they have glass floors up there? Looking straight down into the booster / ship assembly area would be absolutely nuts

@sethchyna 6 месяцев назад

woulda been nice to see the flex hoses under the hood not need replaced

@ericpaul4575 6 месяцев назад

It looks like B10 has a modified QDC. They may need to modify the tower QDC to match.

@icycooldrink6085 6 месяцев назад

Iterative design. First launch with this config since significant work, so it makes sense to pull it apart, while there is time, to make sure everything is AOK. Throw in the potential for a modification, as per iterative design, and it makes sense we'd see this happen. Build, test, inspect, revise, repeat. Eventually, no more revision is needed, and then you'll see things not being pulled apart and inspected so much.

@dashriptide 6 месяцев назад

I just wonder how much concrete they’ve repaired or tore out or steel and rebar. They’ve basically recycled every inch of these sites at least 2 times over. More then any other company that I’ve seen and in less time then some companies have even built their first buildings in the same time

@ModernDIYCraftsman 6 месяцев назад

SpaceX is building in fast pace, No other company able to catch them.

@marianporosniuc8349 6 месяцев назад

Now imagine united Earth with 1 trilion budget for space exploration 😂

@lourdessilva6442 6 месяцев назад

Sem palavras esse documentário es uma verdadeira pérola esse lugar onde nos dará a possibilidade e muitas mas muitas explorações de diversos planetas quem diria algo assim preste a acontecer ficará para história e que lega do sim grata por nos manter informado nos mínimos detalhes conhecimento e vida nos liberta

@The-Mattman 6 месяцев назад

Has access to the rocket garden been stopped now ?

@shaneshort9918 6 месяцев назад

@5:00 how nice is that nose cane look like one piece

@bartzy25 6 месяцев назад

Was hoping to see scaffolding removed 😆

@causewaykayak 6 месяцев назад

Super interestingNice woth the titles on screen and no voices. Those workers really getting stuck in. Good tobsee they have plenty of safety gear esp. for those at heights. Cant belueve that Space-X is being prosecuted for not employing foreign immigrants. Unbelievably Stupid case ., Saw it in a house Justice Committee proceeding under Jim Jordan. That prosecutor was rightly hammered by the Committee. 😊

@Hinch55 6 месяцев назад

"For nosecone and nosecone accessories"... :)

@mustang607 6 месяцев назад

Is it possible to design stage zero so they could disconnect from the booster several seconds before ignition?

@Vatsyayana87 6 месяцев назад

Do you mean the quick disconnect? If so, no that needs to stay for conditioning until the last moments, but the OLM hold downs release minutes before launch and so the rocket is sitting there purely by gravity until the engines lift it off the mount.

@rafikvolkov2677 6 месяцев назад

Try thinking about it from the perspective of what system would need to be on the booster if it wasn't part of the ground system. Why carry that system to space when it could stay on the ground?

@michaelrust7614 6 месяцев назад

Amazing how much corrosion is already happening on highbay #1. Not very conducive to longevity of facilities. Hopefully there is a corrective action plan in the works.

@dphuntsman 6 месяцев назад

What’s the liquid argon used for at Starbase?

@johnmheaton 6 месяцев назад

Welding?

@Vatsyayana87 6 месяцев назад

Indeed@@johnmheaton

@ericpaul4575 6 месяцев назад

Not used as a liquid but they can store it easier as a liquid. The boil off is used for welding.

@ericpaul4575 6 месяцев назад

Looks like the Highbay needs a paint job. The structural frame is showing a lot of rust.

@terrycook2733 6 месяцев назад

Gateway to Mars is great

@Fred.2965 6 месяцев назад

Hello thank you for this great summary which was very informative with quite a few changes in perspective very good summary as usual thank you to all the teams very good day😃👌👋👍🧑‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀

@julianfp1952 6 месяцев назад

What’s the latest on the court case for SpaceX to get that land for the missing corner of Star Factory? Wasn’t it scheduled for early December so with Christmas coming it’s either been in court this week or will get into court next week? It would be so nice if SpaceX could get a favourable ruling in time to be able to build out that corner as part of this current building phase rather than having to bring contractors back months later to do it as a separate project by which time they might not bother even if they had got the land.

@Starsoon1 6 месяцев назад

It got pushed back to late January

@julianfp1952 6 месяцев назад

@@Starsoon1 Disappointing but nice to know what’s happening. Thanks for the update.

@ronheath5724 6 месяцев назад

Hey guys you know this wall doesn't look as good as that when they just put down this way there let's tear this down and build another one The boss ain't going to mind

@MrFoxRobert 6 месяцев назад

👋👍

@brianbranson2306 6 месяцев назад

wish i had the money they spent putting stuff in and tearing it right back out.

@alexandrdovganj1402 6 месяцев назад

👀🤳💪👍

@antonybastin3432 6 месяцев назад

👍👍👍🇮🇳

@RichardSamul 6 месяцев назад

Someone tell Elon there’s a faster way to remove all that concrete. You just need 33 Raptor engines…

@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 6 месяцев назад

I wonder how the workers feel about this down there, being watched all the time by cameras.

@MrGoesBoom 6 месяцев назад

Not any different than being watched by cameras in pretty much any modern store. Worked 14 years in a supermarket bakery, it wasn't a secret that the cameras were there to watch the employees just as much, if not more, than the customers. Only difference is number of viewers

@Vatsyayana87 6 месяцев назад

Most seem completely indifferent, some have waved and some have even written signs and stuff for the cameras to see. Never seen anyone try to hide from them yet, or the filming parties respected them and just cut that part out.

@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 6 месяцев назад

@@MrGoesBoom That makes all the difference to me. Nobody watches the cameras in supermarkets. Unless there's a reason to, like a theft. Here these images are definitely being watched. All of it, even if only by the editor.

@knowledgeisgood9645 6 месяцев назад

@@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 Every worker knows he or she can be seen 24/7 on livestreams. NSF used to blur faces, but have given up since no other photographers do it anymore. I think most of them are proud to be working there and don't mind the attention.

@MrGoesBoom 6 месяцев назад

@@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 ok then look at it this way; if all this work was being done in New York or some other major city there would be constant 24/7 observation going on, and lots of it with no cameras just people in the area. Likely more than get viewed here. So unless people are being actively harassed from this, and nothing actively sensitive is getting filmed, who cares? Unless you have some sort of persecution/victim complex I don't think anyone does. Hell, being watched by the public is pretty much part of the job description for construction/landscaping/etc jobs like what we see here.

@spacemanmat 6 месяцев назад

Wouldn’t be SpaceX without breaking up concrete to replace it with new concrete.

@mussie302 6 месяцев назад

I can't help wondering if the glass in the new high bay will survive the shockwaves of a launch? It seems vulnerable.

@user-de8bu5es6f 6 месяцев назад

Bet nobody at team SpaceX has ever thought of that. Perhaps you should get out of the armchair and get a job.

@rivernet62 6 месяцев назад

Wow good catch with the leaf blowers. Most activity there seems precise and well directed but blowing dust from one place to another? Not a good look.

@mikegardner107 6 месяцев назад

Probably more of a FOD sweep to be sure there are no metal bits to damage tires.

@_MicZ_ 6 месяцев назад

Blowing dust from one place to another can be very useful when you don't want dust in one place and don't mind it being in the other place. I do agree that leaf blowers look silly on humans, but hey, looks aren't everything, right ? 🙂

@rivernet62 6 месяцев назад

It just seems silly when the world's most powerful leaf blower is going to scour the area in hopefully a few weeks.

@mikegardner107 6 месяцев назад

@@rivernet62 A couple of raptors would have made quick work of that concrete they were hammering on.

@mikegardner107 6 месяцев назад

The problem with letting a booster clear the pad is that it accelerates FOD to extremely high speeds which can damage anything it hits. That’s why they use low power leaf blowers.

@matjazwalland903 6 месяцев назад

It looks like there won't be any new launch attempts until at least the summer.

@eskieman3948 6 месяцев назад

BS.

@matjazwalland903 6 месяцев назад

@@eskieman3948 Sorry, I don't understand the abbreviation. Did you mean (Bull shit) Or something else?

@bryanillenberg 6 месяцев назад

Summer??! The damage from IFT-1 was an order of magnitude worse.

@matjazwalland903 6 месяцев назад

@@bryanillenberg The fuel tanks are being moved to new ones. So I doubt they will try to fly before summer. They will probably also build a concrete protective wall for the new tanks.

@bryanillenberg 6 месяцев назад

@@matjazwalland903 the tanks are pretty much already installed. This is nowhere near the difficulty of rebuilding the OLM

@billsimpson604 6 месяцев назад

They don't get on that rust soon, and sand blasting will be needed before additional paint coats can be applied. That was some poor quality coating for a coastal environment with tiny salt particles floating all over the place. The minute I saw those exposed beams, I knew that was a dumb idea around an ocean. Now had they been hot dipped galvanized, it would have lasted for decades with zero maintenance. Maybe Musk doesn't plan to stay there very long. I wonder it they plan to remove all that concrete stuff they built? Scavengers will recycle the steel, but the concrete will be there until the rising Gulf covers it up in a couple of hundred years, unless it is removed. It won't be cheap to demolish that thick concrete. Drilling and blasting would probably be the way to go.

@sethchyna 6 месяцев назад

anyone else notice the tower is starting to lean slightly towards the launch mount

@michaeldeierhoi4096 6 месяцев назад

In the image it appears to be, but in reality it is nothing more than an effect of the camera which makes objects left and right of center to appear lean toward the center. At 6:35 the OLT appears to lean left while the orbital tank farm is leaning right.

@billchenault2324 6 месяцев назад

Piping not plumbing. Plumbing is in your house.

@TexDrinkwater 6 месяцев назад

They're spending money over there like someone playing SimCity with cheat codes...

@tommcmicken4776 6 месяцев назад

I would hope that SpaceX would remove the empty tanks as they are emptied, the blast from a StarShip launch could blow one clean across the bay and do some major damage on South Padre Island!

@Spherical_Cow 6 месяцев назад

Highly redundant and repetitive video, frequently bordering on outright tedious. And in my case, also interrupred by at least 4 long (2+ minute) unskippable ads. Another one like that, and I won't bother watching anymore...

@scrapperdudeGA 6 месяцев назад

Incredible how y'all always seem to find the most obnoxious and annoying background noises to put in your videos. We get it, it's a rock hammer. Nobody wants to listen to the damn thing hammering for half a video.