SpaceX Orbit Largest Spacecraft In History also SpaceX Destroy Largest Spacecraft In History.
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- SpaceX's 3rd flight of Starship was spectacular, even though it's the first such flight without any explosions. It was also a step forward for the space company making it a success, but far from a complete success as both booster and Starship failed to control themselves all the way to landing, and at least one on Orbit test - the engine relight failed.
The starship on orbit failed to maintain attitude during the initial reentry phase and this doomed the spacecraft to a fiery disintegration over the Indian Ocean.
Congratulations to SpaceX on setting new records - let's get some soft landings next time.
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SpaceX Engineer: "I don't think it's going to survive re-entry .."
Engineer 2: "Well, not with that attitude!"
CZcams gods, bring this comment to the top.
Attitude is critical at Altitude?
lol
thats a good one lol
Hahaha, too funny!!
Next time, they should put a toy Xenomorph in the payload bay so we can all watch it being blown out when they test out the doors again
Next time I think they'll be adding starlink satellites.
That would be amazing
Oh my god. The perfect idea.
Genius!
I agree. It's the only way to be sure.
I love how you get right into the meat of the content and don’t talk in circles for 3 min. Bravo sir!
Don't you want to know about those scaffolding being shuffled around, or those pipes being replaced by new pipes? 😁
You mean the "meat" of the CGI!
Becoming a habit of much of what you see on CZcams. Interesting title and then wasting your time waiting for the video to get to the issue advertised. They learned from the 6 o'clock news shows of yesteryear. All day advertising a topic then a 45 second spot in the last 5 minutes of the news hour to give you their " in depth reporting ".
@@ramonortiz7462 bruh
Yeah I can't stand when reporters talk endlessly about themselves
The pez opening was real cool seeing the pressure leave. But the plasma was jaw dropping.
Yes. CGI is amazing these days!
@@ramonortiz7462 Go to the launch site and watch it for yourself. Your incredulity unfortunately shows you have 1) No idea how CGI works and 2) Don't understand anything about Elon Musk and/or SpaceX, regardless of whether you like him or not.
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@@MalakDawnfire flat earther
I am an animator, and I can confirm that they did use CGI, invisible CGI@@ramonortiz7462
That plasma blanket was beautiful
It was incredible! I’m definitely looking forward to seeing the re-entry once they’ve got all the bugs worked out.
it sure would keep a you a little too warm n comfy
I have people in my life to whom I'd gift a plasma blanket
My jaw was on the floor. We've never seen reentry plasma from that perspective before! So fuckin cool. Another cool if minor historic first.
It was amazing! I just wish the SpaceX gals and guys stopped saying it's caused by friction -- the shockwave ahead of the spacecraft compresses the air and it heats up..
Rumor has it the onboard computer refused to open the pod bay door.
"I'm sorry, Elon, but I can't do that."
@@christopherreed4723 🤣
I’m sorry. I can’t do that Dave.
Teach it phenomenology, Doolittle
It got the blue screen of death...
Watching that live footage of the plasma was just amazing. A science fiction scene coming to life.
Precisely!! It is all CGI fiction!!
yea cool and all but I'd rather watch a nice scifi than see them waste resources with space tourism and colonizing a hostile rock, instead of building rockets that could save us from giant comets
Space exploration is responsible for incredible leaps in science and technology that will make it possible to protect our planet. Last year, a successful effort to alter the trajectory of an object around Mars was conducted to validate theories on whether we will be able to save ourselves from future impacts. Also, consider that NASA has patented over 80,000 inventions and made them available for public use in medicine, technology, communications, environment, and so much more. Without these experimental rockets, we can't progress. This is not a waste of recourses. @@chi15800
@@chi15800too bad
Elon wants to do it, let him, it is his company and his money after all@@chi15800
This test flight was really a starlink commercial. Epic
Why? Do you intend to put yourself in an exploding rocket and are in need of TikTok on the way?
No, but everything less than that (which is quite a lot of things) would be well covered by Starlink. And besides, if I'm in an exploding rocket, at least I can send a final message to people with Starlink.
Except they were already able to make it work back in the 60's
I feel like a normal commercial or one with even Morgan Freeman narrating would be a but cheaper than another failed, exploding rocket
But Musk is a genius after all ... we're almost told about his genius as much as Trump's
@@pixelboy7654 live footage of a reentry in the 60?
This cements starship’s place in history as “the most kerbal rocket ever”
LOL
I doubt anything will ever beat the soviet N1 in this regard. Just look at the thing.
The most Kerbal rocket "so far"
Most Kerbal Experiment to date!
@@pjmiller337 Naaaah, JAXA's and Intuitive Machine's landers are in this category (kerbal experiments). Starship is in the rocket category lol
My first time seeing real re-entry plasma. I was so surprised the starlink and camera worked during that
Makes sense the plasmas on the leading edge of the ship antennas are on the opposite side
definitely the first real time view that the public got to see.
@@KiRiTO72987I don't think SpaceX had any real say in which side of the ship hit the plasma and which didn't. As they said on the NSF stream, it appeared the ship was doing a barbecue maneuver and that continued until it hit the atmosphere.
@@aspuzlingThen why would they even greenlight this if they can't maintain attitude control on re-entry? Something must have failed
@@nighthawk0077 "Something must have failed"...
Uhm... Ya think?
I tell ya, Scott, SpaceX's upcoming "How Not to Launch and Land a Starship" video is going to be one for the ages!
But what should the backing track for it be this time? The 1812 Overture? The Benny Hill music?
More power scotty. I can't Captain, she's burning up... then warp speed into the ocean scotty...
@@peterford5408 both, when it starts going wrong kick in the Benny hill
From IFT1 digging a massive hole and almost destroying stage zero to a successful hotstaged starship in orbit on IFT3 I got to congratulate SapceX with this amazing accomplishment. Can’t wait to see what the future brings with a potential 6 more launches this year! Exciting times ahead.
Ahm? You do know that they already burned all the gov. funding they got to get this thing to the moon and back?
this accomplishment is basically a smaller failure.
Heck, even the Russian managed to get Buran to orbit and back unattended on the 2nd flight of energia.... A highly complex rocket at that time.
And spaceX...with all computer assist in the world during engineering and flying dogs only manage a few log hanging fruit before loosing both vehicles again....
Imagine if you got to set the bar higher than the Mariana trench next time.
Starship didn't get to orbit. All you have to do is look at the telemetry, figure out the required orbital velocity, and see that it didn't have enough speed to orbit (or enough fuel to get there).
I'm still not over the quality of on board camera footage. I mean basically every few minutes you go "that's the best shot ever!!!". I mean come on: the ascend through the cloud decks, hot staging, the booster screaming towards earth with 1100 km/h until splashdown, and finally that freaking plasma blanket holy cow
Took the words out of my mouth. When I saw the ascent I actually paused and rewound to watch again. Audibly said “that’s the best shot I’ve ever seen” but it got better
I was informed afterwards thata my "no f***ing way" counter aparently was way up there during the entire thing
Oscar next year ?
Better than anything Hollywood have created.
@@geehammer1511 indeed !
Hot stages in your area
😂
My brain did two double takes on this comment. A quadruple take.
SHUT UP LMAO
Only if you're on plenty of fish
💀
16:22 Green hat guy: Sir, what should I do? Boss: You just sit there and look happy all the time even though the ship is doing all sorts of weird sh.. and ready to blow up.
Objectively successful? Wow I wish I had that phrase loaded into my brain when I was kid explaining my grades to my parents. 😂
If the booster's telemetry is correct, it hit the water at ~1100 km/h. I hope someone recorded that splash, because holy crap.
I bet we will have impressive footage from some cargo ship in a week. Something like one of the nuke tests in ocean.
No doubt the only person that witnessed the booster splash down was some shipwrecked dude on a raft with a dead battery on his phone. 😂
how many tonnes is that for the booster? It's like a small bomb hitting the ocean. I hope nobody was around.
Not really a big splash. Things go splash when they penetrate into the water, and displace water that was in their way (and also as the water rushes back into the void behind them). Something like a starship booster rocket wouldn’t displace much water because it wouldn’t penetrate very far into the water, because it weighs almost nothing compared to water, and a lot of the kinetic energy is just going to go into obliterating the booster. The empty booster has a mass of approximately 200 tonnes. A volume of water equivalent to the volume of the super heavy booster has a mass of 4760 tonnes. The effect in the collision is similar to hitting a brick wall.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907I think you sorely underestimate how mine-bogglingly enormous the ocean is. :P There’s a pretty fair chance nobody was close enough to even see it hit the water.
"Open the payload bay doors HAL...". "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.", "what's the problem?". "umm, I'm afraid they're stuck actually."
The PEZ door opening system does look a bit ropy - goes with testing the minimum viable mechanism I suppose. But it looks like it needs more many three struts rather than just two ?
"Open up the door, man, it's me, Dave." "Dave's not here".
yeah withte masive gapign hole, and the distortion and gforced with all that mass contorting it, i wonder how out of spec it went to get jammed up
mounting them nearer outside edge may have helped with some of the torsional forces too.@@peterclarke3020
I'm starting to wonder if being unsuccessful is actually them being successful. 😂
Love the catastrophic failure leading to some of the best descend imagery ever seen.
Oh! Look at that curve! The Earth is round!!!!
Its safe to say nobody today was expecting to see a live feed of a spaceship reentry complete with perfect views of the generated plasma. Everyone in our watch party was stunned
SpaceX has had an ambition to defeat reentry blackout for a while now; looks like they (at least partially) succeeded.
@@robertmiller9735 it kinda helps to have a large network of satellites in orbit for Starlink
I mean, it was pretty beautiful.
@@marcogenovesi8570 TDRS didnt hurt either.
@@sinabarzyar5766 Yeah. We've seen reentry video before (though not live, of course), but not from outside the ship. Next time ought to be pretty cool.
" Starship did not attempt its planned on-orbit relight of a single Raptor engine due to vehicle roll rates during coast" From the newly released info dump from SpaceX
Looks like the rolling was the issue that led to the end
Ha, thanks for confirmation. That was my theory. Wonder if fuel was also sloshing because of that, may have aggravated the roll problem.
Sad
Hydrodynamics is a cruel mistress.
Guess they didn't want to risk having it hit Australia and getting a littering fine.
Me watching: Takeoff, second stage separation, booster crash, starship crash, takeaway: strong starlink signal, and still a lot of work to do.
Other people: OMG, look at that plasma, best thing ever, 10/10.
Thank you Mr. Manley! I had completely lost track of Space X activity and needed a catch-up which you provided to me in your always clear and intelligent manner! You are my go to person for technical information about almost anything, thank you!
“Open the Pez bay door, 28”
“I’m sorry, Elon, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
epic coment!
😂🤣👍
Great footage of parts falling off; try using element 114.👽🤔less is more; KISS.
Hey HAL, let's pretend you are my father, who owns factory for non-squeaky doors, and you are going to demonstrate me your newest invention - super silend bay door. Please, continue.
The fact the plasma started at 100km altitude, which also happens to be the Karman line is the best part
Just for clarification, the actual Karman line moves with atmospheric conditions (it's the height at which orbital speed and the speed to maintain height aerodynamically are equal). The ESA (?) "ballpark" version of the Karman line is at 100km.
And the speed topped at 85km
@@absalomdraconis I learned something today
@@absalomdraconis I'm pretty sure the Karman line is arbitrarily set at a static 100km.
@@sciencecompliance235yeah I’m pretty sure it’s a static and somewhat arbitrary line. The actual point probably does change based on various variables
Spent so many years listening to you talk about Kerbals, it is so amazing and surreal listening to you break down live take offs in the real world. Thank you for all your content!
the videos especially of the clouds and the atmosphere in the nosecone, and the plasma were all stunning!!
Why do they always use fish eye lenses faking curviturre..
And how high did it apparently get..
NASA admit that the furtherest NASA or anyone has gone is
Lower Earth Orbit .
That was the water in the Eather that splashed on the inside and..
Hence why you observe bubbles as the rocket is descending ..
All the metals/aluminium, materials, etc, on all the Apollo missions and the ISS
INCLUDING SPACE X
WHICH MEANS ALL THE ROCKETS. LANDERS, ETC WOULD INCINERATE WITH EVERYTHING and EVERYONE INSIDE THEM IN
THE THERMOSPHERE..,
NO ONE HAS
NO ONE CAN
NO ONE WILL EVER PENETRATE THE FIRMAMENT.
NI ONE HAS EVER BEEN TO OUTASPACE WHICH DOESNT EXSIST .
SPACE IS WATER.
WE LIVE IN AN ENCLOSED SELF SUSTAINED ENCLOSED PREASURISED SYSYTEM..
GOD MADE THE UNPETNETRATEABLE FIRMAMENT
TO SEPERATE THE WATERS ABOVE
FROM THE WATERS BELOW..
I don't consider any of these events complete without the Manley debrief.
Communications equipment turning into a plasma is the new engine-rich exhaust!
It's all delta-v in the end
“Antennae-rich plasma”
When you plopped a Communotron 16 but forgot to add a Small Inline Reaction Wheel to a ship that only has a Probodobodyne Stayputnik.
LOL I had the same thought.
Excellent break down, thank you. That view of re-entry plasma forming is amazing. Just imagine how magical and terrifying that must be on something like the Space Shuttle.
I feel like the apparent amount of atmosphere held is a testament to the skill of the welding crews.
I really really want to see footage of the booster splash. 700ish MPH had to be impressive!
Did NASA send those planes with crazy long-range cameras they used in the hop tests? Maybe the reentry area was too broad even for those, but I bet a few nations must have amazing footage from satellites pointed to follow every single step.
It hit the atmosphere at 25km/s. How much do think survived?
He was talking about the booster which goes a lot slower
@papalaz4444244 It hit the atmosphere at 25,000 kph. divide that by 3.6 and you have around 6 kilometers per second. it slowed down to about a kilometer per second as it descended through the denser atmophere.
Reminds me of my mother in laws cannon ball
Scott's flight review is a "must watch" after each test flight.
Yeah the media drives me crazy with their “SpaceX test flight fails again - another vehicle lost” headlines.
@@Amoraszune I exclusively hear about the launches from Scott nowadays and I don't regret it lol
Yup, they say that often and did way back in the 50's, at White Sands. The term then was "another missile fizzled"!! LOL ;D@@Amoraszune
Agreed.
Too true !
Awesome explanation and narration Scott, Thanks!
This video was much more time efficient than watching any live stream, and more substantive than any summary of comparable length. Nice job !-) Among the other conditions you pointed out in the booster's final moments, it also appeared to be transonic. I wonder, can that affect stability or engine relight?
The views from the cameras were actually so beautiful, especially the re-entry
3 billion dollar exploding fireworks show, just for you. 😂🤣😅
@@jogreeenrather giant sky bonfire 🔥🔥🔥
@@jogreeen it's definitely not 3 billion buddy, more like 200 million. Which is actually pretty cheap in the grand scheme of things, considering the benefits which spaceflight can bring to the world.
@@PunkinsSan That makes no sense.
@@jogreeen the whole program is 5-10 billion, not the actual rocket.
The demonstration of how the Plasma effect works is insane
You would never see how the air between the heatshield and plasma acts like a forcefield on a smaller capsule.
It was incredible.
I have a few times in footage from on earth testing in labs and from outside the craft from a chase plane... But yeah never at that angle on board in a live test.
Yes, that truly was amazing.
and in the not heat shield and in the engines 😅
Awesome and spectacular! Thanks for sharing Scott
That was wild! Thanks for explaining all of it.
Hey Scott, A note on the hypersonic communication blackout problem. The frequencies that are cutoff is a function of the density of the plasma, so the more dense the plasma, the higher the cutoff frequency, for reentry vehicles this can go as high as 40 GHz depending on several other factors. However, about a month or two ago, SpaceX placed a starlink terminal on a dragon capsule in order to experiment with using starlink as a bent pipe similar to how the space shuttle handled the problem. So with starlink using higher frequencies to go above the cutoff frequencies and being placed on the backside of starship where the plasma is less dense and thus a lower cutoff frequency, I would have expected them to be able to maintain communicatinos through the descentl
My credentials are a masters in engineering physics, having studied Ionospheric scintillation in college and currently work as an RF test engineer.
Is this not a conductive skin depth' problem? Similar to EM comms with submarines in a conductive medium? In which case wouldn't lower EM frequencies work better?
@@robertlynn7624They sound like they know what they're talking about, but this would have been my first assumption too.
so what's the cutoff frequency when the plasma has zero density
@holyknight51 If they had maintained the intended attitude, they probably WOULD have maintained comms thru the re-entry.
You should be able to answer this: Did the Shuttle ever transmit live video from/thru re-entry?
@@stevevernon1978 No. If it had, we would have seen Columbia melt, from the inside
The footage throughout this flight was spectacular but especially during the reentry of both parts.
It is amazing how fast that booster came back down and seeing the plasma build up on the main vehicle was jaw-dropping.
Yeah
IT WAS SO INCREDIBLE I WAS SAYING IT CANT BE REAL!
but it is
I was awestruck by the beauty of the plasma flow around Starship. I want to see much more of that.
I was there with my daughter Jewell at South Padre! Watching with our own eyeballs, feeling the shock waves in person! Man it's amazing. You need to go!!! The main delays were boats in the exclusion zone, though. Surface Winds were low at 0700.
Loved your narration and insight coupled with the footage. Thanks as always
'The second is when the communications equipment is converted into plasma, and cannot perform'
That one got me LOL
Reminded me of 'engine rich exhaust' !
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of the Communication Equipment
@@RationalMind38 Non-intentional Incineration Of Communication Equipment (NICE)
"Engine-rich exhaust" LMAO.
Men and equipment. Talk of performance.
@@peterford5408 propose word change - _atomization_ ⚛️
The flower pot at 1:33 when starship is reentering is just MAGICAL! 😂😂 (of course a reference to The Hitchhiker Guide)
"Oh no, not again!"
As long as it doesn't spontaneously turn into a sperm whale, I think we're good.
@@gsmontagDon't panic!
The ship is the whale? 🙂
“What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very very fast?
I’ll call it “ground”! Hello ground!”
😂
Amazing commentary Scott. Thank you from all of us.
...wake me up when we get to Mars.
I have my alarm set for the Lunar weigh station calibration sequence.
Godspeed
I watched several reports through the day and each time thought "Wait for Scotts, just wait." And as expected your attention to detail plus vast knowledge gave all of us the best report. Thank you Scott, well done lad, well done. 👍👍
puff piece praising an utter failure
I keep seeing/hearing it mentioned that the landing burn for the booster was only supposed to be 3 engines, but during the stream, SpaceX specifically said they were going to use all 13 gimbaled engines for the deceleration and then dial back to the center 3 only for the last part of the soft touchdown. It thus makes sense that we'd see a couple from that center ring light up in those last few kms. The asymmetrical shutdown of the engines struck me as odd during the stream as well, but I didn't consider it possibly linked to the failure to relight. Good call. Great summary in any case! Love your stuff Scott.
Sounds like a problem
I could be wrong but I think I heard the idea of running off of three engines initially was specifically for testing emergency/failure purposes and yes true last moments for touch down.
Maybe it ran out of LOX.
isnt this what the Russians figured out like 50 years ago? that one or 2 motors fail regularly, and that means needing to balance it by shutting off opposite ones. but because there's less thrust, its now just a giant flying stack of burning cash.
@@ct1762 your funny.... LOL
Amazing explaination video! Thanks so much!
I’m excited about SpaceX and what all we have for the future to come!!
I'll say one thing, the way SS was pitching and rolling prior to/during re-entry I am surprised it lasted as long as it did. That vehicle is built like a BEAST!
I felt this way, too, with how violently IFT#1 was tumbling. As a full stack no less! I was expecting it to break apart as soon as it started tiping over, but instead we got donuts! Always gotta appreciate having high-quality footage of failed tests because it's awesome to look at.
Agree. It demonstrated potential for multiple reuse.
Vehicle strong! Garage door-- flimsy tin can :(
We kind of knew that already from how long the vehicle was able to hold during the violent tumbling on the first test flight.
"built like a BEAST!" Yeah, that's why it failed. Such a "beast" indeed.
The way that the engines' exhaust/flame trail all blend together, looking like one giant strange engine is just amazing. This whole rocket really sparks that space sci fi nerd in anyone who has even the tiniest bit of it in them. Just wonderful.
That reentry footage was amazing
Being able to view all this happening is INCREDIBLE.
No
It blows my mind how you're able to get these out so quickly after the flight. Thanks again Scott!
That plasma footage is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen, insanely beautiful
Was glad to hear you say it was compression instead of friction causing the heat.
01:29 LOVE THE FLOWER GRAPHIC!!!!! Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy callout!
The music they played during the break was from HGTTG too.
It was a bowl of petunias. And apparently the Earth was not interested in being friends with the -whale- Starship.
Oh no not again
oh so subtle.. Good spot thanks.
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Wow, KSP mods really have come a long way!
Always appreciate the tech details Scott.
Thanks for the breakdown. 🍻
"Why are people so addictive to PI?"
"I don't know, its irrational"
You got me good with this one xd
Gave me a good belly laugh, that did.
Very dumb joke to be fair
The SpaceX control room guys were having a blast in the last moments of the StarShip - I assume because they lost use of the reaction thrusters and were watching it like us, except they were clued in. I like the camera angle from the bigger fin, but when the fin moved, it messed up my head.
Great explanation Scott!
Best bit, watching thunderfoot cry on his live stream and eat his words
Please show me a clip of that.
@@epj0211 I forgot thunderfoot Audience is mainly Autistic, I was being figurative
Damn Scott, way to win the fasted review award!
Isn't he eating?
maybe he should start telling the truth about this con man's motives... using taxpayer money to benefit his own companies...
@@flipflopski2951Well that is every corporation with a government contract that ever existed.
@@flipflopski2951 lmao, yes because no company ever uses tax payer money for corporate benefit lol:) I'll assume you are being funny:))
@@flipflopski2951none of that was paid for by taxes, this is a private company developing a new rocket for their own uses.
They did mention that the plan was to light 13 engines for the landing burn, and then reduce to three quickly, so that's why some in the second ring kicked on.
I also think I saw some engine-rich exhaust just before impact.
Stop reading the comments until you watch the video. He's got a TON of info and packed into this thing. 😁
The best and simplest video I've seen so far. As always.
If that telemetry is accurate I am blown away by how strong the Starship is. The forces from all those rotations and reentry and it was still fighting to get aligned. Pretty impressive.
Remember this material is on your cybertruck, how tough is that..
@@jacks19822Stainless steel?
6:17 the fin is vibrating a lot too.
Such incredible onboard footage. Can’t wait to see the camera footage from any boats, of the vehicles coming back.
well it‘s not supposed to withstand 1300km/h at 2km altitude, not an issue if the engines worked and slowed it down imo
@@CompanionCube I know, there will eventually be a standing burn. I was just observing how much stress is visible on the feed.
It came down in the middle of the Indian Ocean. No land nearby.
Thank you Scott!
Very nice summarization.
I want them to put VR cameras in Starships cockpit so we can fly along
Ayo its jeb
YES YES YES
IMAGINE
What cockpit?
Imagine they put VR cameras all around the ship @@AnyWayICan
And charge an appropriate huge fee lol
Is that a mother-heckin bowl of petunias next to Starship's belly flop? OMG I love these nerds.
Yes, I noticed that too!
Yes 🙄
Oh no, not again!
On the way down, no doubt the Starship asked of the big round thing rushing up to meet it, “will it be my friend?“
Starship itself as it re-enters kinda resembles a whale, don't you think?
That plasma envelope video was riveting.
I'm speechless.. This is sick!
At 4.06 you can see Starship racing away from the booster at 1000+ kmph
Thanks for the excellent analysis and recap , Scott.
Fastest drag race in history.. in the space lol
What a time to be alive
4:06
01:29 I see what you have done 😂. The Bowl of Petunias screams "Oh no, not again"
was that Scott or spacex?
Most underrated comment 😁
I always feel sorry for the whale..
There's a frood who really knows where his towel is
That was on SpaceX's stream. I caught it live and laughed.
This was all perfectly normal. We designed it to do that, said a spokesman at the site.
@3:11...every time this is mentioned, in other videos as well, I'm like "...where...where do you see tiles missing?". Thanks for the content.
The amount of negativity from people calling this a failure just defies belief… That was the most exciting hour I’ve had in a long time!
not sure but I think most of those are bots. A few seem real but the sentence structure of most feels like a.i.
💯% agree. The continual sledging of anything remotely related to Elon is tiresome. I'll be avoiding mainstream news for the next 48hrs👍
The SpaceX stream images were incredible. Almost started tearing up at work watching.
3 flights in and Starship is an operational conventional rocket!
You are delusional.
I haven't felt any excitement in years due to..issues. I was cheering over this.
I feel like a lot of people might miss this. A conventional rocket now exists that can put 150+ tons in orbits
Take that N-1!!
The first stage has worked ONCE out of three flights. That is not "operational" it's "dodgy as fk"
great commentary Scott
The visual of the reentry heating is gorgeous, failure of the control systems aside. I look forward to the day we can get a full video of the ride down.
I like the little animation at 1:32 where the starship is falling with a flower pot. It's a nice nod to the Infinite Improbability Drive and that poor whale falling from orbit :)
And the music in the interlude!
@@ToTheGAMESElevator music :)
Clearly these engineers never used an Insta-Pot in the kitchen. You gotta push the pressure relief valve to equalize, before opening the pot.
Call Elon tell him this, he will fire some and hire you as his personal chef 😂😂
Lot's of beautiful panning shots showing the curve of the Earth that can't be dismissed with "fisheye lens"!
those dark chunks just after T+45 minutes sure look like clusters of heatshield tiles to me, which would explain what happened to it. when i saw them, i was like "uh-oh, that CAN'T be good!"
And/or the StarLink Dispenser Door that didnt close completely. Luckily, as this Starship was sub-orbital, the debris will not become more Space Junk.
Never seen a better Starlink ad
If underwhelming results are what you want, then you should hire Elon and Starlink. Another billion taxdollars wasted without any success what so ever
That re-entry footage was amazing.
Those shockwaves though!!
I really feel like this is a KSP shuttle mission. "Oh no, my center of gravity is wrong and I didn't use enough RCS thrusters, now my shuttle is coming in engines-first into the atmosphere. Welp, revert to VAB and try again."
Seeing the booster decend at that rate in real time was pretty impressive. It gives perspective to the velocity.
i cought it live! really amazing! sadly they pretty much lost control of starship once it entered space. it started rotating and the RCS tried to fight it but just didnt have the power.
on the plus side, this lead to the first and hopefully last footage of a starship rotating into a critical failure while reentry with plasma pillows licking its bare fuselage.
I think there was a leak somewhere causing the roll. Someone else mentioned it looked like the SQD was leaking on ascent. If this was true then that could have caused the uncontrolled roll. I also think the reentry burn did not happen because either the uncontrolled roll or low fuel due to a leak. Got to remember SpaceX worked on the SQD on Ship after the first WDR failed. This could have been an issue today.
The lick of death.
good analysis! I appreciate you laying this out for us. I thought the reentry was beautiful seeing that plasma forming. I didn't see any of the door stuff and I couldn't tell what I was looking at the first time around.
The only thing that could have made it better would have been if Elon was discovered on camera in the cargo bay 🤣
It seems that Starship needs some improvements to the RCS or gyroscopic control to deal with the tumbling issue. The fins can't do a thing if there isn't enough atmosphere to act against.
Exactly. I thought in early animations of the belly flop decent the fins were folded in until it go in the atmosphere but in this test it looks like they were open the whole time
Both stages need more control, or control authority for sure. My suspicion is we may see some RCS thrusters added to the nose of the next Starship. The booster they may be able to resolve by adjusting the descent programming and lighting the center engines at a higher altitude, guess we'll have to wait to see.
@@ReiseLukas I think they keep the fins in an aerodynamically neutral position during ascent. IIRC that's about where they've been during the SN series tests during launch and the first two IFT flights.
the engines didn't light up again so they could not RCS. The fins are not supposed to work outside the atmosphere obviously
Attitude control jets look like they failed somehow, or the Algorithm was broken.