SpaceX Starship launches on 2nd integrated test flight, booster explodes after separation
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- SpaceX Starship 25 and Super Heavy booster 9 launched to orbit on Nov. 18, 2023 from the Starbase facility in South Texas. Following the launch, the booster had a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) shortly after separation. Full Story: www.space.com/spacex-starship...
Starship consists of a first-stage booster called Super Heavy and an upper-stage spacecraft known (a bit confusingly) as Starship. Both of these elements are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. SpaceX thinks the vehicle will make the settlement of Mars - a long-held dream of company founder and CEO Elon Musk - economically feasible in the not-too-distant future.
When fully stacked, Starship stands nearly 400 feet (122 meters) tall. It's the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built.
Broadcast Courtesy: SpaceX - Věda a technologie
Rapid unexpected disassembly. I work in a traditional aerospace company. They’d never allow us to fly and break stuff. It’s too bad. I am jealous of you youngins. Never forget how exciting this is.
@@phillipbanes5484 It still is. If you killed a test pilot today, there’d be a full scale investigation.
George Carlin would be proud of the terminology “ rapid unexpected disassembly”
@@wilsonking1617indeed he would! Haha
If you haven't read the Elon Musk Biography that just came out, you should. It's awesome from an engineering standpoint. You'll enjoy it.
'Fail forward' was used by soviet rocket scientists to rush their space program, largely due to propaganda reasons. But Musk has shown that it can be actually cheaper than spending a decade doing theories on the ground.
All 33 engines running! 👍👍
Nasa had 5 only on their first stage of theirs lol.
@sexy_tanjiro8878
Had. lol.
so where did the starship go??? did it came back down??
@@neitel17 why? You didn't see the video?
@@neitel17booster got germinated after hot staging and starship most likely got automatically terminated during Seco
Amazing camerawork. Booster separation was at over 70 km altitude, and the downrange distance must have been even more. To be able to track and zoom in on a moving object at that distance is astounding.
This is footage taken by SpaceX that the channel (poorly) stole. They use radar tracking on their cameras to follow the vehicle
or its not possible. all fake
no so hard, just follow the big fireball
@@jaskinbaskin x500 magnification solves the task. It is available even for 10" telescope zoom. I think they used 18" telescope (due to nice image quality).
@@jaskinbaskin Definitely possible even with manual aiming. It's not 3000km/h on the street, but 3000km/h at a very far distance. Its visual movement is quite limited. The moon moves 3000 km/h around the earth too, but we can hardly notice it moving, because it's too far away.
This was so amazing! I love how all 33 engines are firing, then they shut down in sequence to prepare for stage separation!!
… and explode
You've been successfully gaslighted. Well done.
33 engines means disaster. Even if 1 engine fails, it blast the whole thing.
@@morpheaworldthat's right.
@@CrazyCandyCrush Not really. Firstly, the computer will detect the issue in the engine and shut it down. Even if the engine explodes before the computer shuts it down, there was shielding around the raptor engines so that one raptor doesn't take out the rest.
Hotstage looked FLAWLESS! That's insane! Big congrats to the SpaceX team, great progress today!
Yep. Now tweak that booster return system.
I read that as Hostage xD
@@apex9806 A little of column A, a little of column B.
@@protorhinocerator142they indeed did tweak the bro stage sequence for B10. We now wish goodluck to B11 in 3-5 weeks
Just phenomenal 🤯 the size of it and rate it gets to speed is just mind-blogging
And the ship made it to 24K km/hr.
That's very fast.
@@protorhinocerator142 I know it's incredible. 😵💫
And the debris falling to earth, I hope it didn't kill anyone 🤣
@@CrazyCandyCrush or any passing sharks. I can't believe the environmentalists made SpaceX calculate the odds of killing a shark😵💫
"Rapid unscheduled disassembly" 😂 I love it!
A new launch platform made it to space on only its second test flight. That's amazing!
Yeah NASA did it on the first try.
Soviets made it on the first try with the man inside 🎉
@@mbelzerr their dice role was successful, point. Space is still hard, and the Russians have had plenty of failures over the years as well
@@mbelzerr respectfully, my friend, the Soviets never had success with the N1 rocket which is the closest thing to SpaceX’s starship launch vehicle. BTW, I checked out your channel and you’ve got great taste in music and guitars. We’ve been to some of the same places just not at the same time. all the best to you!
Sub orbital. Not space. And it blew up. No manned flights for that bird for a very long time .
Now this is what the U.S.A. used to be about. Well done.
Respect.
Ununited states of America 🇺🇸
Well done?
@@rahrahrobbbieee Do you see anyone else in the world doing the same? A private firm, going beyond what the national space agency does, and doing it in a mere fraction of the time? Besides, if you consider this a failure, you'd have to be far harsher when judging the performance of every other player in the space race, from any nation.
Elon's side show is being paid for with US tax dollars. I guess James Webb just climbed up there by itself. Quiet yourself simpleton.@@ernestoherreralegorreta137
All 33 was drastic improvement.
Everyone cheered at that! 🙂 Looked great. Stage separation and continuation of Starship for a few minutes, definitely very exciting! 🙂
I love just how unfazed they are, they are just like 'oh well' anyway
Unfortunately, it seems that Starship (after saparating from the booster) also exploded (in 08:25 in this video you can see a big expansion, and it was not "engines shutdown" or "jets from the maneouvering system"...). But this was only the second attempt. The hot-staging "method" was an absolute success, the booster using all 30 engines flawless... What a milestone! Really amazing!
Yes, you can see it clearly and the telemetry stopped at that point. But still much better than test #1. 🙂
@@blucat4 Add in that the booster and ship were also outdated compared to the newer prototypes. Quiet exited for when those are launched.
@@theexchipmunk Really? They've already designed and built newer ones?
Stop being a fan boi.
@@blucat4 I think they are at least 2 or 3 new ships near completion, many things on this ship have already been redesigned. They wanted to launch this ship to get data instead of just scrapping it.
If SpaceX could time the next flight so that we can have fireworks at exactly 12:00 am, I will be supporting SpaceX forever!
This time, it felt like history.
That was better than flight 1 by more than a mile. Keep going!
CONGRATULATIONS on a spectacular flight! Excitedly waiting on the next flight 🎉
I love how they call it "rapid disassembly" instead of failure
@@matt0pz508 Because it is rapid disassembly, not failure. Starship is in testing phase and every mishap means another solved problem that would have otherwise showed up during an actual high priority mission. NASA instead spend billions of taxpayer money on more than decade long lab tests with constant delays.
That initial flame tail blew my mind. Its more than twice as long as the full stack and all 33 engines together act like one big engine with a single set of mach diamonds for the whole thing.
Man all the news here in Germany portray the test as a failure.
In my eyes it was a massive success!
THANK YOU for relaying the SpaceX feed, I had real issues on X getting an HD resolution feed. SO many amazing views of the stack prior to lift off. sunrise was an analog to the rise of Starship in it's first real successful flight (OFT-1 does not count IMHO..). Anyway, THANKS to you for getting this posted, so many great screenshots for my wallpaper collection. Cheers and GO SPACEX !!
Awesome. Can't wait to see how stage 0 worked out.
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Another successful failure! Keep going guys; that’s what test flights are for!!! What a great liftoff!!!
Hope the zero stage had no or little damage, with the upgraded hardware and shortened duration before liftoff.
I don't think this was a failure, more of proving the FTS worked along with the other various systems which failed in OFT-1.
Not so easy. Raising a big big elephant. This needs a lot lot study.
SS1 < 1 km
SS2 < 150 km
SS3 to 10 K or more ...
SS4 to 1M and beyond
Your a nob
Let them counting their failures. Total waste of people time and energy; as space x just hit by a major investigation relating to people getting hurt by their mistakes
So happy for the SpaceX team. This test literally brought a tear to my eye.
Yikes
Me too. I try not to cry while I'm laughing, but it's an old habit.
Yeah. It's such an awesome sight to see something only billionaires will be flying in.
clueless lol you have contributed nothing to this earth@@SixOThree
he lowered the cost 50x, doofus, your kids will fly on it
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Soon those booster re entry problems will be solved! Let’s go SpaceX!
Looked like progress!! Congratulations!! I'll look forward to next launch. Keep up the good work!
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Thanks to the SpaceX team for a Great launch. 👍 Keep it going 😊😊😊
Well, the booster got the second stage there, that was the important thing. Looks like the hot staging and the separation process had some of the engines knocked out and caused problems. Still, a great test overall. And I think the pad even survived this time!
Not only that, all the raptors survived take off, that's part of the improved pad performance, and I would expect the next test should be totally fine.
Yes much better. I just want to say, how BIG was the booster explosion!! It was massive!! I don't know if I've seen one that big before but it was very high with low atmospheric pressure and the camera zoomed in, but still it was big. You can easily see the Starship explode too just after 8:20, no one mentioned it at the time but you can see it and telemetry stopped so Elon knew.
@blucat4 great observation, amazing they got up to orbital speed before the RUD... Can't wait for the next test!
It seems methane or oxygen leaked when massive vehicles’ were turning.
@@NickDanzinger The recent FAA restriction was due to the launch obliterating the fondag.
Having stuff blow up more traditionally in space shouldn't be enough for a second FAA intervention.
We'll probably get another flight in a couple weeks.
Fantastic test flight. Congrats Space-X/NASA.
Gotta love the euphemism “rapid unscheduled disassembly”.
😂😂😂😂
Rapid unplanned disassembly. I love that term. Very good test.
And after the special military operation we got the rapid unplanned disassembly.
Imagine using such term to your car assurance.
Mountain Climbers Will Now Have a New Term To Use When Falling To Their Death !!! Rapid Unplanned Disassembly , R.U.D. Landing !!!
Given that NASA had explosions of so many test rockets, many on the launch pad it must be recognized that SpaceX is advancing its development 10X as fast as NASA did. So the explosions are not unexpected this early in development. Any space program of new rocket technology must necessarily go through this phase - it's normal. SpaceX is doing a great job of it. Stay tuned. This is monumental progress.
Yes, the Atlas rocket was basically a bomb that they eventually got to fly!! 😂
The Raptor full flow engine is very advanced tech so the fact that all 33 worked 100% on the booster is a huge achievement. The hot staging can be fixed.
@@Tailspin80 I think the biggies were the initial launch and the separation. Those had to be closely choreographed.
Fixing the booster return could be a simple timing issue. Just let it coast straight for a minute to cool down before flipping it back.
Dunno yet about the ship itself.
@@protorhinocerator142 A big step forward from test 1. Stage 0 problems fixed, so no chunks of concrete flying around damaging the Raptors. Hot staging worked almost perfectly, the only issue being restarting the booster engines, maybe due to fuel/oxygen slopping about. The measure of success is how much data they collected, not whether the ships blew up. They were not coming back whatever happened. The only disappointment is that they were not able to test the heat shield tiles used for re entry.
@@Tailspin80 I think they could solve the booster overheating problem by waiting a bit longer to rotate it. Send the ship out farther to sea to get it.
Glad to see they can get reasonably close to orbit now. I hope they can get there soon rather than later, given that Artemis 4 is scheduled for 2024.
At the rate they are progressing what the bet that SpaceX will be at the finish line and all the rest are still years away. Just as well they have Starlink, stuff that can get their teeth into while Nasa has another committee meeting.
Tell-a-vison has damaged your critical faculties. It's cgi.
WOW! Outstanding progress, SpaceX! The 3rd Flight will be the One!
They didn't get all the engines lit up after separation (the outer ring wasn't supposed to, they can only be lit on the ground, but the inner ring and center 3 were supposed to) and then one failed, then another, then all of them, followed a couple seconds later by the FTS activation. I would guess they had ullage issues after that flip. The centrifugal force would drive the LOX (lower tank) to the bottom of the tank, creating no issues, but the CH4 would be driven to the top of its tank. They presumably had enough in the feed lines to get the boostback started, but that tank would still have been sloshing all over the place. I would guess problems with pickup from the CH4 tank is what caused the all engine flame-out.
Nice initial evaluation. The media will only call it a failure without any consideration of the lessons being learned through failure and analysis.
Yes, a credible analysis. Hopefully they will have captured data telling them the whole story.
Wow! What an excellent attempt, especially through successful separation.
The guys from the desk are the best on those transmissions.
Congratulations! You guys delivered excitement just as promised!
A Rapid Unexpected Disassembly reminds me of my 1st marriage.
Don't know which breakup sounds worse, your HUD or my CUD (Creeping Unavoidable Disaster)!
😂😂😂🙏
Big question……..Where is it right now?🤷🏼♂️? and How did the launchpad hold up?
"Unscheduled disassembly" Brilliant cool, class act!Luigi Marazzi
I remember and watched the Saturn 5 do its incredible feat. Absoluty unreal! Now I've been fortunate to live and see these amazing accomplishments of the Falcon Heavy rocket! Wow amazing how we have come this far with technology. I would love to be blessed to live long enough to see a trip to mars with passengers!!
Wooooooo Awesome, little but big step, good luck 🤞
Awesome 👌 👏 👍 well done SpaceX well done Starship.
Awesome to watch an see the progress. Good job Space X.
This is amazing just amazing, keep it up guys. Thanks to all who made this possible. Thanks guys.
Thanks.
The Space X PR Launch Crew and videographers did a great job. The scene was engrossing, powerful, while at the same time, beautiful.
The views from under the starship and launch pad were awesome. Wow! The camera crew did a good job of preparing us for a possible stage failure. What a wonderful opportunity to explain how scientists approach an experiment. That the crew were helping us to understand how the scientific method works without quite saying scientific method outright. If that was your intent, it was well done.
I think it would be better if they were less circumspect. Please say scientific method out loud a couple times accompanied by brief statement providing an overview of the scientific method statement. If you did, I apologize.
Even with the failures, falling back on the scientific method to explain how SpaceX is still collecting data to help inform the scientists and engineers of what went went wrong. The how, when, what, and why.
What an exceptional teaching moment you have been gifted, especially with the unexpected pauses.
Well done!
My thanks for sharing this with us.
I agree... except they need to find a drone that won't freeze up the moment it gets jolted by a takeoff blast. Or send multiple up so they'll maybe get a rock solid feed from one of them.
A none scheduled rapid disassembly 👏. Amazing 🏌♂️🌌
rapid unscheduled disassembly
@@_RiseAhead 🤦🏾♂️
@@feyrrari 😂😂it's actually the same thing
@@_RiseAhead lol
This is amazing the starship i hope this project finish to mars #spaceX
Spectacular. But how did nobody see the stage 2 blast? Clearly visible at the moment the UI was lost.
Yes, around 46:20 - you're right 👍
Still don’t know how effective the heat shielding tiles are. That was a spectacular launch and a couple of surprise RUDs.
Yes, I saw it, a small explosion then the big one! And you can see the data stop at that point. The announcers either aren't too informed, or possibly they just don't want to make that sort of announcement.
Seco also creates a plume of exhaust, and as we never have seen that with a starship going for space, it´s hard to tell, especially as the termination happened so close to when it was supposed to be executed. Add in that loosing connection was expected and is not unusual, the confusion is perfectly understandable.
@@blucat4 The flight termination will at high speeds and low air resistance also create a bang.....Boom look because the structure will not break apart as fast and the fuel and oxidizer takes time to get enough together to blow it apart. And the announcers are specifically instructed not to speculate.
Congratulations !!! It,s amazing! , And thank you for your dedication for the future of man kind.
Congratulations SpaceX and all involved.
Much better launch. Noticed it cleared the tower much more quickly than the first attempt. Starship RUD at 148 KM which is well beyond the Karman line, but still well below a typical low earth orbit at about 400 KM. A baby step resulting in falling in its face, but hopefully they got good data to learn from and try again. Good effort.
HELL YES!!! exciting milestone
I do congratulate SpaceX on a successful Launch of both stages. My question is why did the flight termination devices detonate on both stages? Seems strange, was it planed, or why did they trigger? Next is how did the launch pad survive, was it damaged at all, how well did the deluge work? Answers please
I don't think it was plan. The first stage I think they wanted to get it into a condition where it could have landed it, but they weren't anywhere near that. An the second was supposed to land hawaii, they only made it over the coast of Mexico.
As for the launchpad, we don't know yet, but if it did survive, then it would prove many people wrong about needing a flame deflector as well.
If you look at the speed, both Super Heavy and Starship are moving at > Mach 3. If SpaceX has the slightest hint they are not in control of the vehicle, they would rather detonate it far away from people rather than risk hurting anyone.
As the launch just about happened and there will be heaps of data to analyze, everything is guessing. The booster very likely got damaged during hot staging, thats what I would bet on, but the ship is harder. One of the first things would be the sudden change in exhaust brightness, but that may just be the ship passing out of the earths shadow as it was starting towards the night side at morning. But occurs razor says that its termination probably was caused by the same thing that did the booster in. If that was sufficiently damaged, the engines or controls on the ship may also have been damaged but only started to really effect it after a prolonged burn. And if it becomes uncontrollable the termination will trigger.
@@theexchipmunkThe key thing is the data captured so they know what needs redesigning.
"A rapid unscheduled disassembly." OMG I laughed so hard, my sides still hurt.
A lot of positives! Successful launch, separation and continuation of the ship. Booster flight path after separation and then blowing up after separation is an issue, but things are getting real close, I think. Many milestones achieved - Congratulations!!
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“OMG….. IT’S FULL OF STARS!”…..
Encouraging progress!
My guess is the methane tank or propellant feed tubing cracked from the hot-stage separation, spraying a mist of droplets which mixed with the thin air at 74 km altitude ("Space" is 100 km, but still air even there), then ignited to explode like a purposeful fuel-air bomb. Similarly, something appeared to start spewing from StarShip before communications were lost.
I got a feeling that a ride on Starship will feel Awesome!
Amazing to see the future of mankind live. WHAT A TIME TO LIVE!
The stars and the sea are waiting for us in front
Excellent engineering, keep improving HW/FW - looking forward to soft landing of both stages!
My sincere congratulations to SpaceX for the successful launch of both stages. My question is why did the flight terminator explode on both stages? Seems odd, was it planned or why was it triggered? Next is how did the launch pad survive, was it damaged and what was the effect of the flood?
Great job SpaceX!
Glad to see more people see this for what it is… TESTING; not a failure, not just an “explosion”. What we must keep in mind is NASA’s “failures” and “explosions” during testing were never broadcast to the public… ironic that a private company is more transparent to the public than a government agency funded by the public…
We certainly never saw the failures in the old USSR.
But every American space launch was broadcast live.
Every success and failure..
That irony is what we call bureaucracy, and damn has the irony ever grown.
NASA's failures weren't?...lol.....the minutia, in excruciating detail, WAS shown
@@imtheonevanhalen1557
Absolutely.
Perhaps rrdutch needs to go back and read some of the scathing articles about the reliability of our rockets in the papers and magazines from the era on microfiche in the library.
Or dig up the old news reels - space was a BIG DEAL in the early days, and public access to the cape and its beaches to observe was pretty un restricted.
Reporters and camera crews from across the country were at every test lainch. the news outfits with enough pull actually filmed from the pad observation area at the launch complex.
If you watch the right stuff from 1983 - the string of launch failures depicted? Those were real archive footage. People saw those on TV in the late 50s early 60s. Hell, when I was kid and saw that movie with my old man - during that scene he chuckled on one of the fails and whispered to me, "heh! I rember that one from TV when I was a kid."
The only stuff that wasn't typically publicly broadcast was DOD/USAF failures testing ballistic missile tech.
The testing phases (and subsequent failures) of many of NASAs programs were never broadcast publicly… they did their testing in secrecy using tax payer dollars. NASAs deadly failures that WERE broadcast were AFTER years (if not decades) of testing. Rather than appreciate a private company testing their product publicly; They are mocked for failures that normally come about during the testing process done by any other company. It should be noted that not only NASA, but other spacefaring countries, use SpaceX for missions They otherwise are unable to do or cannot afford…
Good job! Can’t wait for the next one!
WELL DONE SpaceX! Keep on going.
Надеюсь вы положили в эту бочку кости Нила Армсронга чтобы он хоть в космосе побывал.
Future in the making. One step at the time.
Yup...and one explosion at a time, 😀
@@nobux717 no, no, no!
One unscheduled rapid disassembly at the time.
The starship did a coast phase for this one
A rapid unplanned disassembly is what happens to flat pack furniture that was not assembled correctly. This was a large explosion.
Congrats SpaceX team on another beautiful launch!!!
A long way to go before you can put humans aboard, but learning more with every launch. Fun to watch for sure.
Gonna start somewhere
1969...@@pingvingaming
@@derp8575 yeah that rocket wasnt even close to as powerfull as starship
At least it was able to accomplish SIX times something which we still cannot replicate 54 years later, lol@@pingvingaming
Felicidades!!!!! 👏👏👏💪🏼🚀
Congratulations on successful test !
IT BLEW UP! It is always going to blow up. Too big and too fragile to stand the vibrations nor the unequal pressures.
It won't
Amazing launch. The small screen on my phone can’t capture the scale of the event 😢
We need an IMax to capture the scale, especially on such a stunning Texas morning!
WHY, Oh WHY, wasn't THIS available BEFORE THE FLIGHT . . . Damn, Damn, Damn.
Is there a graphic of how the engine exhaust is vented from the Starship's light-up during hot staging?
There was no failure. They said the booster could rud. Sure the booster exploded in spectacular fashion but they will get it right. Great work Space X
No onboard cameras? I'm surprised!
Fail your way to success! All of these tests advance the whole system! Look forward to the next flight!
There sure as hell are engineering cameras on the thing. But companies don´t like to show things, for good and dumb reasons. At least they are better most of the time than NASA not sharing because their PR team says people would find it boring. Thats why it took a release of information request to get the absolutely stunning film footage of the SLS launch published and not just the crappy digital footage that cannot deal with the variations in brightness.
@@theexchipmunknext flight will include starlink antennas so we should get good onboard views
Super booster probably suffered superheating residue, causing catastrophic system detonation when it attempted to restart its motors for decent and landing.
Engines, motors are electrically driven. I know, sorry, I'll shut up now! 😎😎
"a rapid unscheduled disassembly" love it.
If spaceX would just schedule a rapid disassembly this would not be happen unscheduled :)
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38:15
"Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" that is a classic🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Watched this on the livestream with my dad, the explosion scared the s*** out of me because I thought a bunch of people were dead. Thank god that wasn’t the case.
The engines (ALL THE ENGINES) performed perfectly.
Hot staging however caused more problems than it solved. I think both RUD's were a product of the hot staging damaging both vehicles.
Makes sense! Just from a casual observer! Slight calculation errors/materials/design/environment etc.. in the effects of hot staging is possible suspect for effects on both - delayed impact which occurred seconds after! So this seems pretty close to nailing that separation! 🙏
thank you Elon for coming to the US from South Africa, starting all this amazing companies and for bringing so many foreign technician and engineers, we really needed that, otherwise we will loose the space race!!
LOSE
@@misterspray7323 LOOOOOOOOOSE
Great!!! Good job 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Such a heavy thing reached such a high speed !
A flying building !
WOW👍👍👍👍
真是伟大的创举🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I loved the description of an explosion. " RAPID DISASSEMBLY "
The commentators explained what happen, they stated just after the booster section exploded. That the booster stage was not designed for hot staging, so they always knew there was chance that the hot staging combined with high G forces of spinning around could cause the booster stage to basically disintegrate. Which is exactly what we saw om video, but since the booster was never meant to survive or be recovered it was still a successful second flight. Plus with all the delicious delicious data from booster and entire launch of Starship.
The booster was, if all went perfectly, designed to land like the other boosters have been. But still successful, you're right.
They should test how a booster should reignite after turning to upside down position.
so much for reusability. So far its an expendable system just like SLS.
@@DeepDeepSpace the fact that it exploded doesn't mean it is an expendable rocket. SLS took 11 years until first flight, and it is going to be expendable forever. Starship is clearly being designed for landing and as we have seen with other SpaceX rockets, it will land soon.
@@AlexandreSNunes just because something is "designed" to be reusable doesn't mean it will be reusable. Starship clearly has a LONG way to go before any hope of reusability much less rapid reusability.
33 raptors ignite, great hot staging separation, what a launch go Space x go starship 7:01mp nov 18sun
Awsome!! So happy you had such a beautiful launch. 👍
Excellent job SpaceX! God bless you and keep you!
This has proven two things right away, that it takes a super-heavy rocket full of fuel to convince anything to leave Texas on such a stunning South Texas morning, and that things outside of Texas seem to fall apart a lot, often explosively. Fantastic Test! And good day everyone! Texas!
I wonder what the use is for such a giga-rocket, is it just for space-tourists? It will take years until we have solutions that enable people to live in space. we don't need them for Satellites, they are getting smaller and smaller. Otherwise fantastic work.
@Ezekiel903 it is being developed to colonize Mars.
Good grief
@@Ezekiel903there are thousands of asteroids with precious metals - why polluting earth with mining when we have unlimited (almost) resources in space? And you cannot do that with a small rocket, you cannot do that even with SLS - because it's not reusable.
@@Ezekiel903 Where in the f world are you living.! Maet
Calling a huge explosion with a debris field in low orbit a success is just bonkers 😂
It's the fan bois and girls. They hate reality.
Maybe try paying attention next time? The planned path, which wasn't even reached, was suborbital...
Another successful learning launch experience.
Progress is like that, it is a test that will lead to further improvements. Everything is normal, SpaceX remains at the forefront!