SpaceX Drops Big Starship Flight 5 News!
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Is Starship ready for a catch attempt? Could it be too loud?
Next-gen Starship developments? What is this? Starship 30 about to fire for a third time? How come? When’s the launch? And a brand new space plane is about to take off?
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Do you think Brownsville is ready for the Boosters sonic booms?
on dream chaser trunk why cant they load it with other stuff and use it as a functional satalight seems letting it burn up is a waist
I really hope you arent planning on telling us the basics in every video. I appreciate you are catering to new viewers but for me if im constantly being told what i already know i will get bored and have reason to not bother watching.
Seems cool but only seems that way. This catching scenario is guaranteed to shortly destroy the tower, pad and tank farm. Just a slight problem or error will inevitably end in monetary disaster.
Are they ready for the jobs? Are they ready to recieve the influx of cash from the increase in population a higher cadence of launch absolutely Will bring? Are they ready for Tesla and other job creation? I suppose if they want one, they must accept the other.
This vid claims to be 2 hours old right now, but I'm sure I saw it posted yesterday, and it seems to be a pattern. Are you WAI team folks taking vids down and posting them again to boost them somehow, because it's becoming annoying starting to watch a vid only to find... nope, it's not new news.
In the past, a sign of a successful launch was an empty launchpad. In the future, a sign of success will have the launchpad occupied by part of the rocket...again.
And again, and again!
@@Hoaxer51and again, and again!
For the test yes. For their planned future launch cadence the entire assembly including the rocket, tower and catch mechanisms etc will need to be able to be reused within hours. Massively cool. It will be the equivalent of Top Fuel drag cars rebuilding an engine every pass but just replacing the wear parts or passing an inspection on a massive scale. Imagine how cool you think this is now and picture what it must have been like when in your lifetime we had just learned to fly 😎
I just can't Get over how NASA, Boeing, McDonald Douglass, ect have been fleecing America & the American people, for trillions of dollars without any recourse or any accountability for so many decades.. It makes me think of every other area of government spending and supposed projects all of which are unneeded.. our entire country needs to be overhauled and put back together just like how tesla and spaceX are ran, constantly improving with ideas from everyone involved being implemented instantly and immediately if proven viable. Everything can be constantly improving moment by moment .. I hate the deep state. Its everywhere and in every industry and is nothi g but redundant wasting every second of every day over and over.. Pathetic. How can we grow when so many people in the deep state refuse to desire eliminating waste.? Please can't we create a paradise earth ? Elon has proven it can be done with a real leader that can excite and motivate humanity!
Better than Rocket is here
Easy lift off
Easy land on with antigravity Spaceship
No Fire
No Explosion
No Flame
Just Spin and
Lift off
Powered by Baterry
Work base on Gravity just spinning by using Battery
can fly in bad weather, plunge in the ocean even in outer space
Can lift more than 100 Ton
Earth which weight predict 600 trillion ton does not fall at the Sun because of centrifugal in orbitting, on the contrary it does not be thrown far go out the orbit line of hold by gravity at the Sun as orbit center. Gravity and centrifugal is equal called Equillibrium, thats why until now Earth which we was inhabited always rotate and circulate the Sun. Now we justly take example : how if the gravity used and centrifugal is negated? The Earth will float far leave the Sun. So that centrifugal can be used to fly far away if gravity eliminated. Finally how to eliminate gravity?
It’s way rotate part of aircraft by horizontal. When that rotation faster centrifugal force getting greater and the gravity getting smaller, finally it lose the gravity and the aircraft start flying. Of course people would surprise: how the aircraft can keep rotate without fulcrums? Thats why we named that aircraft Shuttling System that is aircraft likes two disc adjoining attached in the midle as fulcrums:
A. The Top part, we name Positive rotate to right, and the edges is getting thicker and havier.
B. The Buttom part, we name Negative rotating to left, and the edges is getting thicker and havier.
C. Middle Part , we name Neutral, air crew placed and also machine and everythings turning Negative and Positive at the same time.
The aircraft can liftup added with explosion from the engine. However that aircraft construction later, let the engineer doit it, and we are sure the aircraft will bulletproof and also waterproof.
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In modern civilization where human being generally using flying saucer as vehicle, will a lot of change in lives either in materialism and in psychological. In materialism area will apply the change in life like.
People no longger need roadway and rel road which spend large of energy, money, places, things and time, object place and time. People would utilize that area for habitat or for other need:
That animation @ 3:00 showing the Catch Pin Alignment Hardware was extremely enlightening. I always assumed that the catch pins had to perfectly aligned before landing. I now see that there is about +/- 15 degrees of error margin. I am even more confident of a successful catch attempt. Bring on Flight Five!
@@damonried1720 You should have asked the Nerdle on LabPadre Space, we would have told you that. 😉
The world’s only juggling chopsticks.
Use the power of math and you will find out how much of a Lee way they have. It's not 15 and it will be a miracle to work with current design.
But then again....~ I believe I can fly ~
I wonder if a greased converging slope system could eliminate the mechanics.
rotating a ball screw of that size is never recommended due to vibrations. you want to rotate the NUT
Personally. I think catching the booster this early is a bit crazy. I think a couple more splashdowns would be better to hone down on accuracy. I think catching the booster in general is crazy. But to be fair, half of what starship has pulled off these past couple years I thought was crazy. I hope I’m as amazed as I was with flight 4!
I am pretty sure that the SpaceX engineers have more data to base their decision on than we do. It's not crazy unless it fails. 😁
Yes. It's crazy. So was the idea of a booster coming home after doing it's job was a few years ago
No balls, no blue chips.
You never get anywhere without making mistakes first
Well said! I agree. SpaceX is like no other, how quickly they iterate their changes and test! Each iteration has resulted in major progress!
Adding chapters to your videos would make them easier to watch. There's a ton of information in every video, it's really hard to find what the bits that are interesting to me.
Yes! I would like that too!
@@zbyszanna agree
No, Felix wants you to watch the whole thing
Making a chapter for the ad would be great to skip perfectly over.
@@zbyszanna excellent feedback everyone upvote!
audio mics will never give true audio justice to a sonic boom. Especially one coming from Super Heavy booster on Starship! 🙂
Can't wait for the next Startship launch!!!
Correct. I think the best representation I have heard was Smarter Everyday and his audio recordings of a launch.
Not sure much mics, but no way to reproduce the dynamic range.
Makes your ears bleed of how cool it is! 😊😊😊😊
Get a better pair of headphones
There are specialized microphones, used for analysis of high explosives, that scale up to ~180 dB. I wouldn't count them as "audio equipment" per se, but they might be useful as secondary audio source to overlay the clipping normal mics.
Felix might want to mention that the booster weighs about 10% of its take off weight and has a separate fuel supply just for landing.
Would be so cool to get an idea of the radar type aligning infrastructure.
Catch time!
“Upside down Starbase in Australia!” 👏👏 Well played…subtle jab there.
This is why Rocket Lab is successful: they launch their rockets down, rather than up.
But space is a matter of perspective ...
Really Australia is on top and the USA is down on the right
Catch Time :D
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What have you learned?
@@aone9050look it up and you'll see for yourself. Do the research. Seriously.
For those too lazy to do so, heres the TLDR;
AG1 is basically just spirulina. The volume of advertised vitamins and minerals are in such small quantities that they provide no measurable benefit. It's just enough to technically be able to say those ingredients are in the product but not enough for your body to utilize. Spirulina is cheap AF.
The owner is a known scammer business man from New Zealand.
The rest is up to you
@@aone9050 Short version, it as a scam. About as bad of a company as 'betterhelp'
"Catch time"?
crazy but Awsome that SpaceX reached out to your channel to help inform the public! :D
Yeah, this shows how much they care about the public :D
IKR?
Catch Time
0:05 - i dunno, but it looks ribbed, for elons pleasure
🤗
😂😂😂😂
Hey guys, really impress me and start including how much weight these spacecreft can safely return to earth, Thankyou.
slap on some ksp music when it's in the megabay and when booster stacking
Can you do a short video on how fans can come down and watch these launches?...Where are the best places to go, parking, requiremnets...places off limits?
Where is the $40m price tag for a Dream Chaser launch coming from? Last I saw Vulcan launches (not including payload costs) was over $100m. A Dream Chaser launch would have to be at least $150m
It'll be a cold day in hell if dreamchaser is on budget. My money is on double the projected cost. SpaceX already makes this idea obsolete.
Yeah I heard him say 40m per launch and I laughed. No way that's possible ever unless they launched it from a reusable booster.
@@jacobcastro1885 In the 90s and 00s, fans of Space cheered every new company who entered the market. We wanted to see diversity. We wanted to see many difference approaches. These days, this new breed of people, many of whom seemed to be not lifelong fans of space, but mostly Musk devotees, crap on anything that isn't SpaceX (or Tesla, e.g. attack Rivian et al)
The Terran-R when it arrives in 2026 will also be able to launch a Dreamchaser. Let's wait and see how costs shake out.
@@jacobcastro1885SpaceX StarShip no more makes Dream Chaser obsolete, than Airbus A380 makes a 737 obsolete. Commuter airlines exist because they fill a need.
747 Cargo variants fly every day alongside Caravans.
@ernestgalvan9037 Last time I checked, Vulcan is a disposable booster and dream chaser dumps its trunk in space. Best case scenario it gets a few launches, but when starship launches with fully reusable first and second stage, only fuel cost is disposed. Dropping cost per pound to maybe 10 percent. I hear your A380 vs 737 argument, but both of those planes are fully reusable. Vulcan is not.
Catch time if we are lucky, rebuild time if we are not
Spotted a WAI Tesla at KSC earlier this week! Keep up the good work
The new part may be the filter for the ice that blocked the intake in previous flights
amazing, I hope spac x keeps pumpin out crazy stuff
catch time baby
It seems odd that SpaceX builds scaffolding each time a ship moves into the High Bay. They should have a platform structure that rolls or rotates into place.
My guess is that building scaffolding is a sign of something having gone wrong. In the long run, I would assume you have a dedicated structure for refurbishment, and the high bays are reserved for construction. Maybe a window washer type of mechanism to do very targeted maintenance.
What if the catch pins don’t line up with the chip sticks?
How does it turn to get in line?
Cold gas thrusters?
People are a bunch of babies. When I was a little kid I lived next to an AFB and we had sonic booms from the aircraft all the time. It was cool as hell and you got used to them very quickly.
I’m in my early 70’s and I remember hearing sonic booms a lot, people complained about them and I think they passed legislation banning them.
You’re right about people being a bunch of babies, it was fun hearing them and all of us kids would try to see if we could spot the jet that did it but we usually couldn’t find it, probably looking in the wrong spot. Lol
@@Hoaxer51 Yep, I remember when they made the big push to get rid of the booms. I think they are illegal over populated areas for commercial craft but I believe they are still allowed (at least here in the USA) with permission from the FAA for certain circumstances.
I'm pretty sure that whole area down next to Starbase is eventually going to be inhabited mostly by SpaceX workers, their families, and a ton of space geeks who love rockets and moved out there to be close to such an incredible facility.
And not everyone lived next to an air force base.
I don't agree with them, but I do understand why people wouldn't like it and we gotta respect that.
@@bluewater82maybe displace all the first generation spanish speaking migrants lol. The border regions are mostly foreign its crazy
@@aq_ua Uh, no. I don’t have to respect anyone nor their sensitive wittle feelings. Respect is earned. I could give two shits about spoiled brats whining about the noise level next to a rocket facility located at the bottom of the US’s ballsack. There’s over a quarter of a million square miles just in the State of Texas. Move somewhere else.
Thanks Felix...! BTW, I am more than Happy to fall asleep with the sound of SpaceX 1st Stage Rockets supersonically landing back into the atmosphere...! The sound of Progress should calm everyone to sleep.... !!!!
We are getting closer to the next launch WITH a catch, wohoo🎉
Thanks Felix!
We lived under Concords flight path coming in from the Atlantic and every afternoon we heard the sonic boom. Ah memories.
I saw Concorde take offs every day on my drive to work, but sadly was never able to hear a sonic boom from there. was it a double boom? I dis see a Space Shuttle land at Edwards Airforce Base, that was a double boom. Watching the return of two FH Boosters I was near enough to hear triple sonic booms for each booster landings.
I grew up in the '50s half way between Navy training bases. They seemed to 'compete' a lot.
I used to be in the landing path of the space shuttle so I fully understand your sentiments! I greatly missed that window rattling! The feeling in your chest was something amazing, you can feel the power!
I'm nervous about "catch time." I don't think it's ever been done before.
Exciting stuff, can't wait for flight 5, go space x
A major reason for the commercial failure of the supersonic passenger plane Concorde was that it made sonic booms over populated areas and people didn't like that. So it could only fly supersonic on routes that didn't pass over any populated areas. SpaceX are planning rapid turn-arounds of Starship, so they may need to think more deeply about this...
Can't wait to see the catch!
Bhai We are so close to the 5th launch, Full support to Spacex from Indians
Ag1 has heavy metals and full of lead. Before you start drinking that stuff. Send it to third-party Lab and have them test it and give you what’s in it because you’re gonna be surprised what you’re drinking.
You must be REALLY confident in your personal attorney.
@@nunyabiz1712 I live in California and they tested it here and Ag1 got in huge trouble. Just do your research before you start drinking it.
AG1 is known for a lot of problems it's just not wise to take without a proper FDA review.
@@michaelcaragio8521 grass causes cancer according to california. I would only trust the fact that there is lead if multiple parties tested the powder and came up with the same results
@@michaelcaragio8521everything has big problems in California. AG1 is questionable, but pointing to issues in California as proof it is bad is obscene. It’s a state where coffee cups warranted prop 65 warnings until the government had a meltdown and told them they didn’t need to because it emphasized how ridiculous the prop 65 warnings are.
I feel that in typical SpaceX fashion they don't expect to get it this time, but if the up and down is figured out for the most part then they have to start testing the other part of landing. They don't have much to loose by testing out the strength and precision of the tower & rocket landing system. I mean money isn't really an issue so might as well throw a rocket at the tower and see if its still standing
A space vehicle commentator who is actually informative AND entertaining?
Uh, yes, ok, "catch time." But yes I do read those little messages at the bottom. ❤ the FNV reference near the end too.
👌Thanks for the comment! 🤗
2:24 "powered by its 33 Raptor engines." Sorry, Felix, but the outer 20 engines already shut down and will not be used anymore. So only 13 or fewer engines available after hot staging.
Felix, If the computer's algorithms aren't confident of safe landing and catch by tower when final restart occurs, that can't leave a lot of time to redirect to offshore landing in water, correct ? Maybe they should even intentionally test that possibility by restarting 3 sea level engines but cutting one off to see how controllable it is vs time to impact etc ? Losing a tower would be a greater impact to program than water landing a single test rocket ( using older engines at that) The main interest in this test is recovering rocket for heat shield inspection I believe...
from what we can see in the past, some landings do fail. What do you think SpaceX is going to do when something like that happens on land? Is the tower going to be armored? or do you think they will have enough fuel to go full blast and push it away from the tower?
I don’t understand the chopsticks concept. It looks so risky. Just a few metres either side, or a landing that is too heavy will kaboom the entire launch facility.
So you want one launch per day or so. Land the ships safely a couple of miles from the extremely expensive launchpad; move it on crawlers or a railed vehicle over the course of a few hours. There is then time to inspect and ready the ship for another launch. So you have one ship launching, one landing and one being readied.
It doesn't have any landing legs so you'd have to build another tower a couple of miles away
@@jacklav1 Landing struts.. or the lack of it😉
@@CrazyPengion But you could build legs on it, no?
Catch time!
20:24 why do you think Dreamchaser will launch on the 3rd Vulcan Centaur? That would make absolutely no sense. The whole point of launching without Dreamchaser is to finish the certification process and launch USSF missions. If Dreamchaser was launching on the 3rd flight, they might as well just skip the second launch and wait for Dreamchaser. No, the 3rd flight will almost certainly be a national defense launch, with Dreamchaser being pushed to 4th or 5th Vulcan launch.
2:28 Doesn't fire all 33 for boostback
just in felix's animation... for the super quick boost back ;)
SpaceX sent you an email hoping to spread sonic boom awareness. That's crazy, I can't really imagine any other rocket company going as far as to email individual press channels on youtube about stuff like that. That's really awesome of them to do
It's any company or organization responsibility to inform the public of any major events, such as sonic booms... NASA sends out public notices when they do major tests, which can impact communities. I pretty sure the sonic boom off this thing is going to be a thing...
@@Josemenez-lofs yeah I know, but usually they just tell local news stations and public radios. Reaching out to individual creators on youtube is a whole other level of informing the public
they should bond tiles to ablative heat shield strips like bathroom tiles, reduce the pin mount count and strap them to starship in tensioned strips of a few hundred tiles at a time. Then put a few dozen back up tiles for the orbital retiling bot just incase...
The Sonic Booms are generated while the boosters are still very high up. The Boosters beat the sonic booms to the ground because they are moving faster than the sound
Only me thinks that, sooner or later but more easily sooner, the next big project at Starbase will be private roads connecting the three sites?
If the ISP for Raptor V3 is stated to be higher, shouldn't the fuel flow be lower? (better fuel efficiency)
Excellent episode! Thank you for doing all this work.
I personally wonder why we can't use the Cargo section as a cheap way to build a space station. Since we get rid of it, why not do a little bit more to it, so it just become something that extend a space station.
A small correction: Starship IS INTENDED to perform a return to base. It hasn't happened yet, has it?
Launchpad 2 needs to be completed before a catch can be performed. That way there is a back up launch pad. Pad 1 can be sacrificed. Pad 2 is better
i wanna see it catch successfully... but... I wouldn't mind seeing it go boom in the most spaceX way possible.
Same. 😶
@@davidlang4442 it’s not SpaceX if no boom boom. Even if it lands and then falls over a few minutes later I’ll be satisfied🤭
Damn guys, I want to see SpaceX succeed. But Hell Yeah! BOOM! Baby BOOM.
Just imagine the meltdown in the world's media if it catches successfully and then something totally unrelated in the arms fails
I feel ya, but you guys don't actually want this from a progress standpoint. Sure, it'd be cool, but it'd take so long to recover from...I want to see the next steps more than redos.
Does anyone find these animations disapointing? firstly when being caught the booster is leaning toward the tower despite slowing down with respect to it. Additionally, it shows plasma on reentry of the booster, which is not correct. If so it'd need shielding just like the ship, and orbital speeds would totally melt the engines.
The final version of the Starship and its booster are supposed to be quite a bit taller than the current version. I remember there being speculation that the new launch tower would have to be taller to accommodate them, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Is the final version not meant to launch from Boca Chica or did they find a way to fit the taller rocket on the same size tower?
Does anyone know if it was the same position of engine replaced on ship 30? What I mean is that if they replaced Raptor... say 200, with 300, did they replace 300 this time? That could indicate an issue with the systems upstream of that engine, and if it's a different position, it could mean that it was an issue happening with several engines in a series.
Crab good job bro ☺️
*Summary*
*Launch & Catch:*
* *(**0:00**)* SpaceX is preparing for Starship's 5th test flight, aiming for a late August/early September launch.
* *(**1:07**)* This flight will attempt the first-ever "catch" of a Super Heavy booster using the launch tower's "chopsticks."
* *(**3:40**)* Residents of the Rio Grande area should be prepared for loud sonic booms as the booster returns to the launch site.
*Starship Development:*
* *(**5:00**)* Tower B, the second launch tower, is being reconfigured to stack taller and heavier segments.
* *(**6:44**)* Ship 33, the first "Block 2" Starship, is under construction with upgrades based on previous flight data. These include a new common dome design for better fuel flow.
* *(**11:50**)* Ship 31 is undergoing a heat shield tile replacement, similar to Ship 30's recent upgrade.
* *(**13:07**)* Ship 30 will undergo a third static fire test after an engine replacement.
* *(**14:17**)* A new "can crusher" is nearing completion and will test the structural integrity of Starship tanks.
*Other Space News:*
* *(**16:09**)* Canada and the US signed a technology agreement allowing US rockets to launch from Canadian soil.
* *(**16:47**)* Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser spaceplane, designed for ISS resupply missions, is undergoing final testing and preparations for its maiden flight. Its launch is anticipated for late 2024 or early 2025.
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@@wolpumba4099 Thanks, wow
Sonic boom strength is the biggest issue. Any idea how strong the Super’s boom will be at populated areas? About a half psi pressure differential can break a window.
Good video. I liked the little funny bits to break it up. Didn't get boring keep up the good work
As a Canadian, love the news that we're working closer with USA on space.
Man every time I see Dream chaser I imagine a future variant that’s either got some kinda Ramjet or Scramjet engines that is capable of getting the ship up to high enough velocity to escape earths gravity enough then switches over to true rockets to get that initial boost into LEO or orbit. Or a ship having a compact enough nuclear engine letting the ship to use hypersonic engines to get fast enough before switching over to nuclear powered engines giving enough thrust to make high orbit and beyond.
I might be biased but I believe Dragon capsule launched atop a falcon 9 booster will still be cheaper than dream chaser in the long run because the jettisoned piece off of the dream chaser would need to be replaced every time. Eventually the cost would exceed that of the dragon capsule. Not to mention dragon wouldnt have to launch as often due to the increased payload size furthering the price difference over time.
Falcon 9 jettisons the entire second stage, AND the aft section of Dragon. These are “replaced every time”.
As always, loads of great content, great delivery. And I think we would all be both surprised and disappointed if you didn't have a mechazilla!!
They should just use same cables used to stop fighter jets just vertically. Flip down catcher like an arrow.
That was a packed Friday fact feast. Sarcasm through out. Brilliant!
No major IF5 news though.
Prefer more accurate titles.
Still enjoy the content but rather not be led on
am i watching spaceX news during commercials or commercials during spaceX news?
I grew up with sonic booms. We loved them!
Regarding Dreamchaser, why would you simply jettison a perfectly good piece of equipment? Couldn’t it be left behind and attached to the ISS or be the start of a power station for a new space station? Waste not want not.
Your opening statement says Dreamchasers about to takeoff, but it doesn’t sound like it once you get into it
I do enjoy the SpaceX broomsticks
I've taken vacation with my wife and have flown to Dallas and drove from there to Brownsville today, Aug 9th. Tomorrow morning we will drive the last 30 miles to Starbase and boca chica beach to see the launch site in person. While it would be great to see a launch it's somewhat not feasible for various reasons. For some context we live in the Yukon in Canada.
I've watched every video, and every launch.
Not sure exactly what I'll be able to see but the continued coverage from this and other channels has been an excellent opportunity to live vicariously through others in these space exploration endeavors so thank you.
You will see plenty
You will be amazed
You will be awed
You will feel small
You will feel history
You will be changed
I live 10-12 miles crow’s-flight, 45 minutes car-drive. Visited many many times.
It is ALWAYS the same list of feelings.
@ernestgalvan9037 You're correct. After watching the buildup of SpaceX and starbase over the years it was an incredible bucket list visit. Admittedly it was a short visit since there isn't a tour but we seen what we could and took it in. I'm curious how starbase will play out over the coming years with the projected growth and how that may impact public access to the area. At some point the whole area may have restricted access.
The frills on the inside of tanks (from welding tanks) can be structures that cause the fuel to gyrate in a maelstrom . That way you get phenomena in the fluid dynamics that can be uwed instead of much of thethe other stuff (heatsgield, pressurepumps
They stack Starship sections from the top down, not from the bottom up.
That's what he said
I had a friend who was a lead programmer for NASA, she was also my billiards team captain. When she retired from NASA they bought her a lacasse pool stick and had her name on the top. On the bottom part of the stick in quotations it said "it's only rocket science" that was the first time I ever saw that saying in writing. The best part is it was written by NASA engineers 😂. . . I've had the privilege of meeting a lot of people that work for NASA including the head communications officer for curiosity. You never know who you're going to run into 😊
No, it doesn't gain speed. It is constantly slowing down.
Catch Time! - I read them all! They're all pretty fun and creative! I wonder who writes them? Felix?
1. A falcon boom isnt "3" of the sound you hear.
Its one boom comprised of 3 rapid pulses each of slightly different frequency and volume.
The shockwaves from the bottom of the rocket, the top of the rocket, and (i assume) the grid fins.
This makes it diffent from the single pulse crack of a typical close lighting strike.
Oh, and california over by Lompoc get them too.. the area around vandenburg is pretty populated.
Catch n release. Good plan
4:47 those shots are from my city Mérida, México 😅
In the long run, platforms at sea are the only way forward. There aren’t any suitable places in the continental US to operate Starship as planned.
What is unsuitable about Kennedy Space Center and Star base Texas?
@@appliedfacts They are both too close to cities and villages. The plan is to do multiple launches a month, then a week and later per day. Kennedy would be more suitable, but the other launch companies there are already protesting the plans as their operations would be massively hindered. The exclusion zone for a starship v3 launch is going to be massive.
It'll be amazing if everything works at Catch Time.
I lived through the 1960s. I heard sonic booms pretty much everyday.
As long as it's your 5 AM: absolutely! Except when you're in Europe or Africa.
During suborbital flight tests, Starship did finally manage to stick the landing on land without Mechazilla, so when will that ever happen again on earth's dry land?
With the IFT 5 postponed till the last week of August or first week of September, could Tower B
be used to catch the booster ? Put in the catch arms and concrete pad before the OLM is built. Don't risk Tower A or its OLM.
I live on the gulf coast of Florida surrounded by airbases. Military aircraft are always ripping up the sky and making all kinds of racket. It doesn't bother me one bit, but new arrivals have to get used to it. I suspect Texans will be no different.
Why can't they have Barge Landing with the catching Tower on a mobile off shore drilling rig?
They will.
@@JimmyRussell-c2s it's about the logistics I guess...starship and it's booster are huge and not as easy to transport as falcon rockets. Might come in the future tho..we shall see
It's optimal to return to the launch site as they are aiming to shorten the turnaround time as much as possible
What neo said.
@@neobrandeggen…once the ‘pipeline’ gets filled enough, transport time will matter very little,
Mechazilla looks like a rough and insensitive crane but it is actually a precision instrument used make precision movements of enormous objects to very small percentages of the massive size of the rockets. This gives two ways to position the landing rockets, using a rough positioning hydraulic cylinder or screw followed by a super fine screw adjustor or a hydraulic or air cylinder capable of very fine steps like those manufactured by IAI Robotic of Japan. When wind can produce random movements afitting mechanism can be used to position the rocket and even custom fitted to each rocket by recording the rockets position before takeoff so when the rocket lands the paws of mechazilla can close around mechazilla perfectly and gentlyand exactly on position and with the ability to absorb a hard landing. Elon Musk has lots of tool and die makers that know how to build fitting mechanisms because there are thousands of them in the Tesla factory on transfer and welding machines. For Mechazilla a self leveling mechanism is similar to a fitting mechanism which could dampen hard landings minimizing associated damage.
I don't normally subscribe to most channels, but yours my friend I was smiling wildly as I ** SMASHED THAT BUTTON ** 😊
5:07 Geez, when you're a SpaceX fan and know very well that the sonic boom will irritate the public, what can we do? I mean who knows if it will be as loud as to shatter some windows? Really curious! In my home town, there was quite common that the cracks on our houses were blamed on the sonic booms of the Russian occupants. Now I wish that a much larger object, the Starship and booster, was landing quietly!
Tbh., I thought Felix said "crap-tastic" instead of "crab static".
9-08-2024.
No Felix you have a Felixzilla.😂
I'm sad about promoting Scampowder.... But besides that its a good, solid Video
Im afraid the ablative layer outgassing will pop off tiles adiacent to exposed spots.
What is the advantage of launching from a position so far north like Canada?
I always thought you would want to be closer to the equator.
polar orbit, i think