Starships New Launch Tower is Rising | SpaceX Boca Chica
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Timestamps:
0:00 Pad B Orbital Launch Tower
0:14 Ship 30 Heatshield Replacement
0:35 Booster 15 LOX Tank Stacking
0:42 Pipes Brought Into the OLM
0:52 Pad B Tower Base
1:00 Wall Pieces Installed
1:20 CC 8800-1 Construction Continues
1:29 Wall by Starhopper Demolished
1:37 CC 8800-1 Crane Rotates
1:44 LR 11000 Crane Moved
1:52 LR 11000 Connected to GSEC-4
1:59 Ship 30 Tile Replacement
2:18 Tiles Sprayed
2:48 Ship 30’s Starboard Aft Flap
3:25 Ship 30’s Nosecone
3:45 Booster Transfer Tube Moved
4:33 Transfer Tube Unloaded
4:40 The Rocket Garden
4:48 The Launch Site
4:56 CC 8800-1 Crane
5:04 Orbital Pad B Construction
5:48 Work on the Chopsticks
6:13 Work on the Orbital Launch Mount
6:29 GSEC-4 Scrapping
6:50 Ship 30 in the High Bay
6:57 Ship 30 Overview
7:42 The Parking Garage
7:49 The New Office Building
7:58 Scrapyard Behind Starfactory
8:14 The Launch Site
8:24 Walls Installed on Tower Base
8:47 Ship QD Straightened
9:31 GSEC-4 Removed - Věda a technologie
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I used to watch, almost daily, when Boca Chica was still a strip of sand in the middle of nowhere, just some 5 or 6 years back. Since then, in the last couple of years I have been distracted by so many other channels giving commentaries and opinions. But I just stumbled back here and was amazed that Mary was still here, diligently and quietly chronicling everything like the pro she is!
Bless her, one day people in Mars will see these footages and know she was the one who recorded history being made.
Well said. When you realize this channel will be historical, it’s breathtaking
I am impressed about SpaceX and their efforts, it's a serious,,go ahead,,company !!!!!
They'll probably be addicted to Martian Tik Tok by then and won't remember the history
I'm so happy to see Mary all over these videos again. I love her eye for shots, and with all this SpaceX activity, we appreciate everyone on the ground! 🚀🚀👀👀👀
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It is amazing to be able to watch the construction take place - what is even more amazing is to think of all the team of management, engineering, planning and scheduling, etc that had taken place ahead of this !
Mary for the win again! Thank you so much for increasing the cadence of these. I love waking up to them. Such a great way to start the morning!
Good to see Mary back. Love the close ups. Showing the people doing the nitty gritty work involved in putting things together, to actually build these magnificent machines. In the end it's the people who are building all of this. Some of them are geniuses. But it's the skilled folks with the hand and power tools that actually get it done. I love it!
Mary, & Sean Awesome video footage, Thank you so much!!!
thank you Mary, Sean ,Jack and the NSF team for sharing these updates with us. great going
Watching that Booster Transfer Tube being moved reminded me of something out of Thunderbirds.
The pipes being brought into the OLM at 0:45... those are engine chill hoses
Seeing the solid steel wall panels fitted between the newly erected twer columns shows great design and construction skills!
The pace of construction at Starbase never ceases to amaze me! When I consider how long other construction projects take, especially roads and bridges, it enrages me even more knowing that such things can be done MUCH faster and more efficiently!
I was just thinking the same thing. It isn't that SpaceX is building quickly. It's that we've become accustomed to the glacial pace of large construction projects. How many times have you driven through a construction zone on a beautiful weekday afternoon, and no one was there...
A single small roundabout near where I live in the UK has taken over a year so far and still one of the roads is blocked to traffic with a long detour :(
It was only meant to take 6 months, even Elon time can be faster, and a lot cheaper.
Yeah, yeah, gubmint bad...
I have a corner site where a one-story building had to be torn down and a new one-story built. It is a business lot. It has been under construction for a year and will open in another few months. It has nothing to do with what is possible, but what is economical.
At Starbase, the cost for the buildings and employees is approximately $2 billion per year, according to one investor. If you can shave a year off of development by paying $100 million in overtime, it is a wise investment. If you dump that $100 million into a traffic circle or bridge, you would be looking for a noose.
Love seeing Mary’s view! 🫶
Awesome video, thank you NSF team!
Ship 30 is getting a makeover!
Tower two might have a different launch mount because of the lessons learnt from tower 1
*will
Nice catch at 1:54 & 1:56 of satellites passing behind the vertical tanks in the darkened sky
Thanks NSF team, great update.
thanks for the update.
Looks to me like the tiles are like tin lids. Much thinner, but just as deep as the old ones. Encouraging 😊
good job mary
Considering the intensive use of Starlink launchers, at least 300 launchers need to be built and equipped with remote operations and fully automated unmanned systems.
High-speed drone fleets, 3D hangars, high-speed transport rails and maintenance robots will need to be established nearby to protect and move these assets.
A great update as usual thank you very much.
I remember getting roasted in an NSF comments section for saying that the tower sections at Roberts Road in Fla could end up at the Texas launch site. I was right.
Always good to see this view ❤🚀
Great job NSF ! With the pace of construction taking place, it is becoming clear the videos really need Date stamping !!!
Thanks!
Good editing
Maybe one tower for Starship launch and the other one for its catch-up. Thank you NSF team for the updates.
They need a catch tower the pad would not be blown up from a RUD only tower that they can have pieces ready for assembly
We've seen preps for the OLM to the south so it's gonna be a fully featured launch tower. Catch only towers have a relatively small use case, especially if they'd be built after the initial catch tests (which will be happening on Pad A NET next month)
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Pretty cool stuff going on.
IMO that heat tile work should be performed in a conditioned environment.
As a crane fan I will enjoy the coming days xD
I’m surprised that someone has not made a spray on product for a heat seal
i wish there was a more efficient and effective way to heat proof, tiles seem really labour intensive.
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👍 👍 for SpaceX,....no time is wasted 🧭
those cranes will be costing a fortune to hire them they are gigantic
bet they cost lot less than crashing Starship in the Ocean.
@@rory-red Starship Flight is $100 mil
Which is ~20x as expensive as a C8800-1, according to google
Pad B is gonna be friggin STOUT!
A title without Clickbait !!!!!
Which is the norm here. Welcome to actual space coverage
Would be wild to see 2 starships launch at the same time !
At a guess that could happen next year
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Una de las características de SpaceX es su constante evolución. Hasta el momento no se ha detenido sino que continúa evolucionando no importando las grandes inversiones en prototipos que han funcionado a la perfección. Mientras evoluciona y aumenta sus tamaños y diámetros; los anteriores se van quedando obsoletos.
Pero si les dijera que estos prototipos tienen una segunda oportunidad para seguir siendo útiles y hasta mejorados!!! Que les parece un pequeño adapté aquí y otro allá? Los sistemas V1 tienen 9 metros de ancho, los V2 tendrán 12 o 15, no se. Y posiblemente los V3 tendrán más diámetro.
Y si les dijera que un booster de V2 puede utilizarse con una Starship de V1 aparte de su Starship V2 para lo que será construido. Y así el V3 podrá lanzar Starships V1 y V2 aparte del V3 para lo que será necesario. Y como esto es posible? Simple: confecciones cónicas, en su parte inferior el diámetro o ancho del V2 y V3 y en su parte superior los diámetros de V1 y V2 dependiendo de la necesidad. Inclusive podrían tener un adapte para las Falcón Heavy. Será posible que todos esos prototipos que han funcionado puedan darnos mayor utilidad?
O es que no se acuerdan del diseño de las naves de las misiones Apollo? Dónde están esas mentes brillantes?
The Ship QD is still rather delicate.
I think they should have made the tiles like a jigsaw puzzle piece. Then lining up would be easy lol
About those tiles: bolt them to the ship and glue tile material plugs over the bolt holes. Spray ablative ceramic material over all tiles before each flight.
Someone will have to invent a spray on ceramic first!
The lighting inside the Mega Bay bldgs appears 'tempory', as the new concreted access platforms will allow/require new better lighting !
Better plan for coolant tubing INSIDE THE BASE. That's where most of the heat will be and it Will Not have time to cool before trying to land on it.
I did not know that the bays had doors till 2 weeks ago
I wonder why they didnt do a double articulation on the ship QD so that it could swing right around behind the tower?
Maybe they will on new towers.
How are things holding up given the storm?
funny how they do some things so primitively.. like bashing those tower bases with a hammer really hard to get them in line instead of just quick welding a plate on the bottom and using jacks lol
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My brain can’t conceive they’ll be catching a booster NEXT month!
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I understand that they should make not a second tower, but a third since every time a ship takes off there is damage to the tower, they should have an extra one to match the one used and another only for the return of the ships.
or 4 even
Just a question: are the individual tiles numbered or coded in some way identified ???
There may be some of that for the flap aerocovers and nosecone, but the bulk of the heatshield is the same tile repeated over and over so they're all interchangeable
The leading edges of the wings on the space shuttle were composed of reenforced carbon-carbon. Does anyone know why that material isn't used as the heat shield system? It would seem like the nose and leading edges of the wings on the shuttle would see extremely high temperatures.
Steel stands higher temperatures while maintaining structural strength.
carbon-carbon is heavy (~8x as dense as the tiles), and fragile
I need help understanding something here...Why are they putting the ablative material underneath the tiles instead of on top of them, which, imo, it would be ligical to place it?
I believe the ablative material is a backup in case tiles fall off or crack. Ideally, it won't be necessary if nothing goes wrong with the primary tile heat shield.
Yeah it’s a backup. Ablative shielding isn’t very reusable so they’d want to only replace sections when they need too
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Man ship 26 is HOT
My biggest Starship doubts were about the heat shield, but it looks like they might actually make it work.
then put it back on...
[OP before unfortunate edit: "...looks like they might pull it off"]
@@eeehan77Take my angry up vote. That's funny.
I think in the future that won’t be a problem because on newer ships they will be using clips to hold them down and when they build the tiles they would have clips so when they lose 1 they can just replace it and now they have like a secondary heat shield
@MrSpacePhoneRepair14 it's too bad you edited. There was nothing wrong with how you said it, @eehan77 just made a joke based on intentionally misreading your original comment. I think he (and i) both understood your intent. And I certainly agree that reentry at orbital velocity is the hardest part (at this point) for rapid reusability.
@@MrSpacePhoneRepair14 oops. You're replying to an edit by the original commentor.. Nm
Towers may rise quick, but OLMs take forever. Curious to see what OLM 2 will be like.
the first tower is facing the wrong way. if the pad was on the other side it wouldn't get blasted during gimbeling of engines!! they appear to have fixed that on the new pad
Is it just me or do the new tiles look thinner
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I am think new tower is for catching only, can't see steel water flame suppress sys
That is confirmed to not be happening.
i saw starhopper and demolished in the same sentence and shat a lil
I feel sorry for people using headphones lol
I cannot believe they are building a second tower without a flame trench.
It will probably be like OLP #1 which has the water cooled steel plates which act as a flame diverter.
A flame trench is not an option at the launch pad because of the high water table. Or so I have several times!!
Not this again.
The water table is to low
@@brianhill3603 I think you mean the water table is too high no?! Cuz that is partly why the flame trench was nixed with OLP #1. Or I have been told!
A Flame Trench is inferior to the deluge plate in water consumption
Wouldn't surprise me if they scrap the remaining V1 ships rather than replace their entire heat shields after IFT-5
IFT-6 confirmed as V1.
RIP S32
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it should be called star tower
Hate to say it but if this work on S30 is too much they may skip the rest of the V1 ships. Or at the very least it'll rule out S32
I'll give S32 a 75% chance of flying. (EDIT: IT'S NOW 0)
Which is 75% higher than S26s
How are these tiles supposed to be rapidly reusable? Weren't these a nuance for the shuttle?
Space shuttle tiles had to be replaced with an identical replacement and Starship can use A bit of any except on curves
Yeah, in terms of general wear and tear that's something SpaceX has to content with in their design and formulation of them (which I hope they're doing well with since these new tiles are supposedly 2x stronger). The other major issue with the shuttles tiles were foam strikes from the external tank right next to it (all the major heatshield issues were caused by this), but starship avoids it entirely by not having anything next to the heatshield
I'm wondering who is going to make the joke about Starship being naked :)
anyone with industry experience, can you answer my question. why is no one wearing any respirators while working on the launch pad and tiles? There's no risk of carcinogens?
It seems to be depending on the job they're doing. I saw a few of them wearing/putting on masks for certain jobs (like digging into them to release the pins which creates some dust), but a tile on its own shouldn't cause any issues. With that said, given the heat I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of them tried to skirt the proper safety equipment
@@thomashayden804Shame High Bay doesn’t have a door so that the workers could be in an air conditioned environment. I wonder if the fact that SpaceX hasn’t fitted a door might be because High Bay might be demolished in the not too distant future to make space for another even taller Mega Bay in preparation for boosters getting taller with block 2 and then again with block 3.
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I wonder how much the heat shield tile person gets paid?
A new tower is rising, its victory is at hand.... sorry, but the title reeks of a LOTR reference
The hardest choices to make especially for Elon. Is changing the scope and shape of your launch pad for something permanent. They're finally getting the logistics figure out for manufacturing, staging and launching. As well maintenance. With these principals properly mapped. They finally can have a clearer idea of how to handle customers needs. Is it Passenger, Or freight.? Is it trans-planetary or continental. Is a LS to LZ ( hub to hib). Is it a deployment mission. Reroute for recycling.
This is something I want to pass on to this team and it's fans.... Sometimes getting scope for service needs. Can provide engineers with projections and goals to strive for.. That allows us to get project scope. What we need the system to do. So we can align our compass north. R&D is almost concluded. Now they need to move to stream lining and truly they've learned why Nasa did something's for the Saturn Vs.. Today we know some stuff that seemed arbitrary were actually critical for monitoring. Sadly there is a cost for learning. Soon there will be better vessel transport and that realistically will make most of the cranes obsolete other than construction and when you have that on site. You lower your leasing fees. This is the key to investment management. which is also risk management. How do you make something last until your reach revenue return and transition out of R&D to ROI.That comes down to lowering risk management and delivery time. To reduce expenses. Then you need to manage cost to maintain and cost to rebuild or replace and that's based on the usage IE launches before replacement. As well consumable cost. If you can make that yourself. The expenses to get something or someone to orbit.. keeps coming down to these key components material cost and labor. Now you can automate... or bundle.. so on and so on until you maximize your profits, versus running expenses..
Elon is working towards that.. If the R&D isn't reaching targets or achieve projections. Then there are questions about why and how can we get their because there is a destination. That is minimum freight hub to hub.. or deployment missions. Maximum Colonize mars. and so long as there is a path to one or that can eventually get to the other. This project. To him.. is viable. Which space X always has falcon 9 contracts to keep money coming in.. Sadly.. Goes money is gone and they were a big deal and win for them.. With the last launch over... They need a new contract to keep the revenue stream going.(Please consider this perspective.. before you pop out a hypothetically crazy idea of reestablishing society.... This project was always a transit and delivery project first.. The other stuff Nasa dreams about.(Even if it's likely they will get it. Focus your discussion around what particular piece of the project they're working on.. Over.. where you think they will go and get to.
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Tell me please, who knows whether the Starship was caught at sea or not? Maybe he swims like a big…fish?
Tanks and piping were vented after ‘landing’.
Both SuperHeavy & StarShip are on the sea-floor.
@@ernestgalvan9037 Obviously this was done so that they would not be caught by the Russians and Chinese and would not learn the secrets of the greatest genius of all time, Elon Musk.
@@ernestgalvan9037 Obviously this was done so that they would not be caught by the Russians and Chinese and would not learn the secrets of the greatest genius of all time, Elon Musk.
@@ernestgalvan9037 Thanks for your reply.
Where does Elon go to smoke weed? The high bay!
I'm sure NASA are looking at this launch tower and thinking: what a stupid design!
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NASA watching SpaceX build 2 launch towers in half the time it’s taking them to build 1
@@zachb1706 NASA used 7 rockets, which all worked, to get to the moon, how many have SpaceX used to leave the earth and how many worked?
@@flightsimdev9021 it’s like SpaceX uses an iterative approach to development of something.
Elon's plan: Build a second tower in case IFT5 F*cks up the Catch.
Or, the 2nd tower minus the hook-ups and utility free to avoid damage from heat of the return heat and exhaust
A failed catch would be more benign than IFT-4s launch
i sometimes wonder what the people working in the real space program think of elon and his ship. probably have a bit of a laugh or is it all for show. we will never know
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