SpaceX Makes Upgrades to the Catch Arms, and Prepares for Starship Flight 4!
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2024
- SO MUCH happened last week! We once again have lots of Starship progress to talk about as SpaceX prepares for Flight Test 4, as well as celebrate a major achievement made by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 - with booster 1062 completing the first ever 20th and landing of a Falcon 9 first stage! In other news, United Launch Alliance retired its legendary Delta family, with the final launch of Delta IV Heavy, NASA shared new footage of Europa Clipper and Artemis 2’s Orion Spacecraft, Launcher conducted an extremely efficient engine test of their E-2 engine, Roscosmos conducted the first ever launch of Angara A5 from the Vostochny cosmodrome, and a whole lot more! Enjoy!
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The best part of mondays are these videos. The worst part of mondays is these videos end.
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Space this week: Helping us survive mondays, one episode at a time
11:29 i love that you have all these guys in their protective clean room clothes and their hair nets and face mask to stop even the tiniest bit of dust from getting on to the equipment... then you have that one guy in Hawaiian shirt and jeans just chilling.
the reaper leviathat made my day =] Thx Matt for this humoristic addons to your videos
I'm so used to watching Subnautica videos that it took me a full moment to realize the reaper was in a Matt Lowne video
@4:59 every military launch in the world seems to be a weather satellite. Man, they must really like studying the weather! /s
Studying the weather in [insert president of enemy nation name] backyards
And every UFO turns out to be a weather balloon.
Studying the weather effects of storing nukes in orbit
It is amazing to see how often SpaceX is launching. It looks like that they may actually achieve 144 flights in 2024. They even managed 20 launches with a single booster!
It would be interesting to Total the number of SpaceX launches versus everyone else.
With this launch, cadence SpaceX might effectively be the bulk of launches to date.
80% of world wide launches in 2023. They are still 10 days behind their schedule for this year, but will make for 90%.
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@@M167A1 IIRC they are overall 5% of all orbital launches ever done by humanity. Mostly because more than 100 launches per year was normal during the space race, and SpaceX has only been exceeding that for about a year and change. The barely two dozen launches per year of the past 2-3 decades were a severe anomaly in the trends.
But what about tonnage to space compared to everyone else over time?@@dotnet97
Space This Week is so good, it honestly should be a news segment on television! Keep up the good work Matt!
Cool videos like always!
Love your content!
20 reuses of Falcon 9 is incredible! Between Falcon 9 and the upcoming Raptor 4 engines, SpaceX is galaxies ahead.
Excited to see footage of raptor 4 testing and the preliminary results. The performance is starting to reach into the "extreme" regime.
thanks for making mondays tolerable, artemis II: not just testing outgoing radiation which could muck up other systems, but also to make sure that it is robust to incomming radio energy either man made, or likely, sun made.
I love that right in front of the testing station for a powerful rocket engine, there's a sign that says: "Speed Limit 10"
As if a rocket could travel at 10mph
Woo way to go! cheers!
Amazing way to make mondays pass real quick :D😆
hi matt lowne thank you for update thank you have a nice day
If flight four goes perfectly, so that flight five is made ready for catching, then after lift off of flight five, SpaceX would need to do some very very quick chopstick testing before the chops sticks attempt to catch flight five as it maneuvers back to the launch site for the catch attempt.
Still a tall hill to climb....
Matt, great channel and great show as always. I used to watch some of the other SpaceX channels, but I like your weekly roundups instead of the daily fight that everybody else goes through to be the first one to talk about all the new stuff.
In any case, I heard you say something about booster 1066, and I'm just wondering if there is a serial number b166er somewhere down the booster line.
Oh wait, I think that's what they're going to call the Tesla bots...
Space this week is a good start to a week
Yoooo! They are already on flight 24, considering that last month they were on 3, impressive!
Great video Matt!
Question, could you perhaps include in next week’s episode how big is spaceX’s Falcon 9 fleet? And also why the naming convention is the way it is? I.e. 1063 etc
that can meowing in the background 😂😂
How is it almost an hour and only 24 comments, Matt deserves more
As a proud parent of Phill Drew, I will have you know Phill‘s vortex rocket is actually the most efficient rocket available on the market
Hi Matt, I was just wondering if they are going to catch the boster or Starship they must at least have stick out catching mounts of some sort, as there is no way you can catch just, on what looks like a ball joint off a trailor lifting points? Enjoy you updates by the way !
Crazy to think the amount of payload that 1062 (the 20th launch booster) has brought to orbit total over those 20 launches, may possibly be done by 1 starship launch in the future, and at a lower cost no less, just crazy!
Second!!!!!!!!!🎉 And I can't wait for starships 4 launch!
Does Dragonfly (2028 launch, 2034 arrival at Saturn/Titan) count as a 2020s mission? I think that edges out Clipper if it does. Mars Sample Return also falls into this category, too.
It's more likely that the chopstick arms will need to close faster so they can take the load of the booster before it runs out of propellant.
I reckon if they didn’t open the big claws at all they could grab the booster before it even gets away.
I havent watched one of these in a long time...how did starship get up to ship 30 so fast
Matt where do you watch Spacex streams i can't find any where
Bro ten o clock in da UK
Jeffo was seen with an unhappy look on his face while he observed a low-grade assistant jumping up and down on one of his very special cowboy hats during part of this episode. P.S. the low-grade assistant had to purchase the special cowboy hat without being paid back for the honor of the jumping up and down thing.
Imagine if there was something like this during the Space Race.
NASA has LANDED HUMANS on the [bleep]ING MOON!
Maybe one of t he clamps had a critical failure which required removal and inspection of all of them.
How do you make this? This is like bbc level news quality.
The 9nly thing that Chinese stat will be monitoring will be the south Chana sea or the Philippineno sea as it should be known
20th landing... what was the theoretical limit again?
No more single use rockets???!
HOORAY🎉
What good is that if neither booster or starship can’t get back to the ground in one piece.
Wait what the eartth is round 6:53 into the video !?!?!
Hey, what if they can stack the boosters and the Starships in a big the star factory someday?
Why would you want to?
No point, it'd be a pain to transport, and anyway, they intend to make many more ships than boosters, thus the interest in getting booster reuse working this year, while ship reuse is, even by Elon's optimistic schedules, still a year or two away.
Preparing the chopsticks for it's first catch attempt.
i was one of the people that got to have access to a fairly early beta build of kithack, and it's come quite a bit since then.
Catching the ship without some kind of practice facility that's cheaper and easier to fix than stage 0 seems like a better option for this until it's been done. I feel like stage zero might end up being destroyed or heavily damaged.
What other practice do they need once they know they can hover and soft land at a designated GPS coordinate in the water? The way the catch happens, they can still abort into the water if things look off coming into the tower, but otherwise there isn't a lot of energy left in a hovering nearly empty booster by the time the catch happens.
@@dotnet97 to date only a single starship has landed. You make it sound easy and yet so many starships blew up on landing rather than actually landing. Considering how expensive stage zero is, I would want a proof of concept before being willing to risk it.
@awilliams1701 a single starship has landed with the flip maneuver. However, SpaceX has practiced hundreds of propulsive landings close to what the booster has to do, a couple even with Raptors, just in mid air rather than on a flat surface. As long as they know they can retain enough control to hover, it is safe to try for a catch. As I mentioned before, they are still able to abort right up until the last couple of seconds, a failure would damage but not destroy stage zero. The damage would probably be far less than even the first orbital launch attempt.
@@dotnet97 I never said it would destroy it. Just concerned about how much damage it would take.
Ok
NASA was a wild thing that happened
They were upgrading their launchpad to level 3 so they can have more than 255 parts per ship 😂
Id love to see space x catch a booster with the tower but i just can't see it happening any time soon. Stage zero is far too precious. They wont do it.
And due to the shape of starship i cant see it in its current form re-entering the atmosphere successfully
Bro last time i watched space this week the record for most launches for a falcon 9 booster was like 8 or something
Currently all 3d rapresentation of catch system are just sci-fi. Too weight, too big dimensions to let some hydraulic system to work fast as a booster in landing phase..
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100th comment!
6 mins ago! And they call Musk stupid
The alterra corporation would like to pay a vist to the moon
I love spaceX but i feel like they are trying to go to fast. I feel like they should focus more on getting space worthy and start developing the artemis program aspect.
The artemis lander is not expected to be reusable. I feel like removing that complexity would alow them to better refine the starship before big things like landing on the lunch pad. It would be a major set back if it was to destroy the lunch pad
"go fast and break stuff" has always been how they operate.
i highly doubt they are taking unnecessary risks.
Artemis needs enough launches that they need to at least be able to reuse the booster. It'd be way too inefficient to throw away 10+ boosters on refueling, especially since they already have plenty of experience with reusing boosters. They're not optimizing as strongly towards ship reuse in comparison precisely because the short term goals, like HLS can be satisfied without it.
@dotnet97 Yes, you are right. i forgot about orbit refueling. It makes more sense then.
Where's all the flat earthers on these kinds of vids?
Who better than the Brits to lecture the Americans about how to do Space Right? Right
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Pluh
I Build starship in ksp and kill some kerbals
Thank you mr egg
This catching nonesense will delay success for some more years. Yes, yes fanboys won´t believe it. Just wait.
I don’t think catching the booster is nonsense, but I do agree that there will be some big delays if something goes wrong.
@@Captain_Jebediah Yes I must admit that a working (!) catching mechanism wouldn´t be nonesense. But to get this to work reliably will cost a lot of time and failures. Complex things and systems tend to do that. And don´t get me wrong - I want SpaceX to have success. I want them to go to Mars. But some decisions I just can´t understand. Time will tell. ;-)
@@Upuauta I’m sure that they’ll be careful when making catch attempts. They’ll only attempt it if the simulated catch on Flight 4 goes well, if not perfectly. Maybe they’d be a little more bold if they had a second launch tower, but they don’t, so they have to be careful.
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i've noticed i have never seen china launch a defense payload they always say that is's a weather or internet payload or something like that i could be mising it or they are not telling the truth
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Where is the Indian space news please????
there were no ISRO launches last week
@@MattLowne dude you missed like 4 to 5 ISRO updates man , please do it am your big fan
Under 2 minute gang
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Overly complicated grift is overly complicated grift
SpaceX is such a confusion to me, love SpaceX, hate Elon Musk.
I had initially pressed the like button, but when I saw that you cut the ending instead of showing the crashed ship up close (and the little that you showed was with credits, recommended videos and links on top 🤡), I immediately hit the dislike button
I’m glad you guys are easily amused. SpaceX emphasis is on all the wrong things. They worry about arms when they should address the problem which is the overweighted booster. If they can’t break up the booster. All that horse power is useless. In the present configuration the booster can’t do a total accumulative burn beyond 4.0 minutes total. So you have a booster too heavy to lift starship to 200 kilometers and land again. If they stick with 50 to 60 kilometers they still do not have enough engine burn to reach the chopper sticks. If Elon would make the whole rocket from aluminum fuel would cease to be a problem. Which can fly higher? A airplane or a battleship?
Let this be a reminder to always check your math son.
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Aluminum is about 1/3rd as dense as steel, but less than 1/5th the strength, so an aluminum Superheavy or Starship could actually be heavier because of how much more aluminum it would take. Plus aluminum expands and contracts at a totally different rate under temperature changes, which may not play well with internal components.
Superheavy being overweight may well be an issue, but just making it out of aluminum is not the solution.
Titanium could help, that's about 1/2 the density of stainless and only slightly weaker, but it's expensive and limits manufacturing options. Titanium doesn't cast particularly well, you can't weld it very easily, and it's challenging to machine because its hardness makes it brittle. There are reasons steel remains so prevalent in so many industries even though it may seem "old-fashioned", it's just about the perfect balance of strength and workability (and cost for the bean counters).
I’m not sure what you are trying to say. Aluminum weighs 10% of steel and stainless steel. Titanium is no problem to work with. Falcon 9 and Falcon super heavy are made of aluminum frame , skin, exotic metals makeup the Merlin engines. If launch a rocket at 10% of the current weight. You can launch it 10 time higher. But if you launch it to 200 kilometers you much more fuel left to land with. I’ve worked with every material made. Maybe you should work with some titanium, inconel, 7075-T6 aluminum these three materials made up 88% of the sr-71 black bird. They also made up the space shuttle main rocket and the two solid rocket booster.
But stainless steel has never made up any rockets, aircraft or engine components. Save the landing gear of almost all aircraft and some engine cowl covers of very thin gauge stainless sheet metal.
@@mikerash-pc4jc out of the two options right now of believing the guy in the CZcams comments section who claims to have “worked with every material ever made”. Or believing the company that have built and launched the rocket and sent it to the desired launch altitude and speed…
I’ll go with believing the latter and not the comment clown 🤡
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Main question is: after Musk pulls SpaceX into ruin, who will pick up the skilled staff and get them working on non-delusional systems (Starship). Hopefully, after the demise of the idiot (Musk) Falcon 9 - who's brain was Tom Mueller NOT Elon Musk, will continue its awesome performance and not have to compete with a disaster for funding. When someone is plonked on Mars (and hopefully back again), it won't be in a Starship. Have a gander at Thunderf00t and Destin Sandlin vids, as well as the wonderful Common Sense Sceptic.
bro really thinks Elon is just there for the rid 💀 probably a libtard on top of that
Starship isn’t a delusional system. Tell me, what is delusional about trying to advance spaceflight and make it cheaper? I want to make it clear that I don’t really like Elon Musk, but I don’t see anything wrong with Starship