Well they didn't lie. It was exciting. Going by the history of when SpaceX decides to try something really new, it's gonna be a good 5+ tests before we see an entire Starship flight plan completed successfully. And then a year later, nobody will expect any more RUDs. Gives a good idea of the timeline.
@charlie2stroke Yeah, a pretty good start, I agree. When they tried landing boosters on drone ships, it was a comedy of errors. Five tries before they got it. Of course now they're at a point where a failure would be surprising, and a cadence that completely upended the industry. So yeah, like I said, we can predict Starship's timeline with some clarity.
@charlie2stroke question for you bro. how are you gonna comfort yourself when we land back on the moon and shift focus to Mars and its almost completely due to the company you have a hate boner for? you cant lean on your misinterpretation of iterative design forever. oh well, take comfort, im sure you can always retreat back into the bubble you share with your cultists. probably for the best. easiest place to close your ears and go la-la-la while the industry ignores your furious meming
@@charlie2stroke all of their first launches weren't productive ones. By your standards, all of them "failed". Now the same rockets, like Falcon, have done hundreds of flights without incidents. Normal development process for SpaceX - it's just more effective / economical to build prototypes early and learn in practice, instead of wasting tens of thousand more hours than needed on simulations.
Man, you can clearly see multiple engines blowing up in this video. The fact that this monster was able to keep going instead of blowing up the whole thing was amazing.
I was expecting huge explosion in first seconds, when it was not moving, then with each piece falling off, engine exploding, at least 10 times during spinning ... this thing is beast!
One of the main ideas behind using a rocket with lots of smaller engines is that in case of one or two failing the damage and loss of thrust is not that significant and the mission can continue. However the more engines you have the more is one likely to fail. It also adds a lot of complexity to the system, an issue the soviets never could really work out with their N1 Rocket. For the engineering possibilities of that era fewer engines seemed the better solution. But lets see how it will develop with modern CAD engineering.
Probably if not for the termination system activating this thing would still keep flipping and would get destroyed only after splashing down in the ocean. The fact it survived the pad getting obliterated shows just how much though was put in the design of the rocket itself.
@@ddddddddddd5354 Yes, I was also thinking about the N1 rocket. If the N1 worked as well as the Starship booster back then, we could have Soviets on the moon.
the fact that this thing exploded its own engines during the flight and still go did the flip with 2nd stage still attached without breaking in half is beyond amazing
I'm quite sure that wasn't actually the flip maneuver as they were claiming, but rather a loss of control. It's still amazing that it lasted as long as it did.
Praise the camerman! I didn't recall that Super Heavy was wandering around lost for that long. The on-board camera footage we've all seen made it appear slightly more controlled. Those engine pops and explosions were a lot more visible too. Great footage!
Thank you for providing us rocket junkies with another cool angle of such a spectacular test! I'm still just blown away at how robust the vehicle is. Sitting on the OLM being hammered by its own acoustics and concrete, having multiple engines explode, cartwheeling through the air...just shrugged it all off and refused to give up until it was intentionally terminated.
It refused to give up even some time after the FTS was activated. Two holes were blown, one in the side of each stage, but for a while all they did was leak propellant until aerodynamic forces broke it up. This is by far the best footage I've seen so far, particularly of that first engine failure. But still it pressed on. Amazing stuff.
Incredible tracking shot. The atmosphere there must’ve been wild. I was in school at the time and when I saw that it’d launched I nearly lost it. Thanks for sharing this atmosphere with us.
The best video from the launch from all the ones made by Space X or otherwise. The complete flight from the beginning to the end. Simple and to the point. One timeline no fancy complications. Watching your video, now I understand what happened. Thanks for your posting. Great job.
4K60. You're the boss. So few clips of this launch, including from professional streamers, met this standard. This footage also has the cleanest bass I've heard from any clip I've seen. You would think this wouldn't be a tall ask, since even a half-decent smartphone should have you covered, but nope. Everyone else's footage sounds like they stuffed the mic inside a Tupperware container. This footage is just amazing. 😘👌
@@dougaltolan3017 Nah I mean like here's NasaSpaceFlight's video of the launch. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zw0akWuUu7c.html There's basically no frequencies below 120 Hz. About the kind of bass you'd get from a 1990s shelf speaker for PCs. Compare that to this video here, when the sound arrives. NSF's camera was at a safe viewing distance. The problem was their camera's mic sucks ass, and nobody on the team really has that concern as a priority, or they'd have already picked up a Zoom H2 or something for 50 bucks. Hell, like I said before, even a typical smartphone can do a _way_ better job than what you hear in the video I linked.
@@Ivartshiva Not on any of the phones I've owned in the last ten years. That's actually one of the things that manages to impress me about my current smartphone: The bass is so good that I don't feel the urge to find a good mic. I just need to remember to take it out of the protective case if it's something like a thunderstorm.
thanks for sharing! I loved watching from this single perspective. When I was watching the live stream I had no sense of up or down when Starship started tumbling. This shows what’s going on very clearly. Thanks again!
You did an amazing job tracking this huge monster my friend!!!! This maiden voyage was magnificent!!!! Made it pasted MAX-Q!!!! Once again did a fantastic job!!!! Definitely subscribed to your channel 👍👍👍
Amazing footage and lovely to see the blue diamonds in the trail (around 2 minute mark), all remaining engines seemed to be synchronous. Pure majik, best video of the launch I've seen. Well done !!
My bet is the concrete and rebar fragments took out the 8 engines and pretty much caused its demise. There may also have been a frozen valve but the it did linger for 8 or so seconds while it built up lift and that was plenty of time to ingest enough to damage the engines.
new lullaby. Yep, looks like they may have to build a flame trench after all as shit was getting ejected everywhere. Hopefully they will get lots of information from this first launch.
Congratulations on your first real rocket launch, Texas! You have witnessed the best of the best. The most powerful rocket ever built. I'll get to witness the manned launch in the near future.
I don't know if anyone noticed this but the yellow flame was indicative of an incorrect fuel mixture being delivered to some of the engines, this also showed up on the telemetry data in the Spacex stream, the LOX tanks had less fuel than the CH4 tanks, this also happened during starship test flights and was why the first starship failed to land safely, they will have plenty of data from the telemetry and i have no doubt the next test will be a significant improvement :)
Complete perspective on launch to RUD! Only improvement might've been to try to track debris (if possible) down to the Gulf then back over to the empty OLM! Well done! More info than some of the big boys! Felt like I was right there with ya! Thank You!!! Go Starship!!!🎉🚀🎉
