30 | SpaceX Starship 2 - Hurricane Dorian - Falcon 9 Crew Demo Mission 2 Static Fire
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Welcome to Episode 30 of What about it!?
In this Episode, we will take a look at the latest progress on SpaceX's Starship Orbital Prototype and Super Heavy. We will also take a look at Starship 2, which could be half the size of the classic Star Trek Enterprise. We will look at the latest predictions for Hurricane Dorian and the damage, it could cause to SpaceX and Kennedy Space Center. Last but not least, we will take a look at B1058, the Falcon 9 booster to take Crew Dragonto the ISS with the Crew Demo Mission 2.
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Will SpaceX be able to save the Cocoa site from Dorians wrath and did Elon mean it, when he mentioned the 18-meter diameter Starship?
I sure hope he meant it, that size is impressive to say the least
Ofc i like it
Glad the tank section is in the shelter. What moves, the shelter or the rocket?
A single tweet gives folks fun stuff to do. Absolutely love the starships size comparison!
I see 18 meters as aspirational; tweet is more a rejection of 12m, which would somehow be a step backward to an "old" design.
Starmans spot on the shelf is a bit akward with the logo. Perhaps some rearranging is needed
He said "probably 18m for next gen system" ;)
An absolutely awesome comparison of Starship 2.0 size with that of the Starship Enterprise; if that doesn't get one's imagination moving nothing will! :-) (Pete)
It's just crazy. I seriously hope, that he'll at least say something about it at the presentation!
🖖 *Live long and prosper* 🖖
When you said "concrete trucks" I had an image of trucks made out of concrete ;)
Was the term wrong, or your brain funny? :D
@@Whataboutit Americans would usually say cement trucks, but you got the idea across.
Elon is ALWAYS serious...
There is no he would have achieved as much as he has, without being serious.....
Great Episode Felix...
mVm
Thank you, mVm! :)
He said he would launch his Tesla into space and he did it.
Amazing time to live in... for a not-so-fiction starship being compared with the Uss enterprise... oh boy! The Starship presentation will be Amazing!!!
Your content is so well managed that i took notes. I can watch you all day long without getting tired!
:D Thank you!
Well, this is what I thought :-) They are drilling foundation piles for something heavy...or...SUPERHEAVY!
The news said the wind speed has hit 180 mph
It's at 120 right now. Let's hope the best at least for the main land.
Good to see its dying down let's hope it stays off the coast away from people and starship
Should have watched the news before comment lol looks like starship is in the clear
Love that thumbnail!
Thank you! :)
The 18 metre Starship would not just revolutionise space station construction; it would BE a space station in its own right. And Elon could put it anywhere in the solar system.
If you merge the booster and the spaceship together you can make a starship 2.0 with 22000 cubic meters of pressurized volume.
But it would be an SSTO with no payload.
Very good job :) Very nice & interesting news this week !
Thank you! :)
You look like Dr Strange 😲
P.S Nice vid! ❤️
Thank you! :)
A coincidence: He has a Dr. Strange poster in the background :)
You're not the first to say it. :D
Lol, i was thinking more like the magician from the IT Crowd. (Geeky UK tv series)
@@Whataboutit hehe
Love your vids Felix. Please keep 'em coming.
Thank you! Will do! :)
Awesome episode - thanks !! Mitch from Australia.
Thanks for the feedback, Mitch from Australia! :) Have a great day!
Great info on 18 m Starship. And wow! I can't believe you're already nearing 10k subscribers! That would be an over 20 times improvement since I first subscribed. The quality improvement is definitely noticeable too. So great job, keep on producing content!
I'm pretty confident that a larger Starship will also bring about an equivalently larger FFSC engine to push it.
This.
My subscription moment: Seeing the current/future Space X rockets being compared to the Star Trek Enterprise... /props this is my kinda channel. One correction: after doubling the window area would need to be re-done using the window cutouts from the non-scaled ship.
I already heard off a starship holding 1000 people, but the drewings looking impressive.
Owen! Yeah, big things for SpaceX's future for sure!
Subscribed and liked. Great work, engaging presentation!
Thank you! :)
After the first minute - good video.
Commentator suggested to rotate the 18m Starship for AG / Artificial Gravity.
I seem to remember 18m is too small to generate at least Earth-like gravity, as the kind of rotation speed necessary to create that much centrifugal force would result in a severe vertical coriolis effect, making any potential passengers quite devastatingly nauseous.
Perhaps a significantly weaker spingrav could be possible, though? I genuinely don't know.
18m is still very limited when it comes to gravity simulation through centripetal force, the coriolis effect when moving around and the relative velocity difference between head and feet would limit it. Let's look at some numbers: a 70kg person on earth experiences ~686.7 N [W = m × g -> W= 70kg*9.81 m/s^2] towards earth, for someone standing on starship super heavies hull(inside), starship super heavy would need to turn its hull with 9.4 m/s if that person would be a dot. Now it would have a circumference of ~56.55 m meaning it would have ~6 seconds for one turn or would have to do about 10 rmp.
Assuming that person is 180 cm tall, the imaginary circle around the spin axis there, would be 45.24 m in circumference, meaning it would have ~4.81seconds for one turn or would have to do about 12.47 rmp, which is a difference of 2.47 rpm.
Lets say we take the first variant with 10 rpm, now your feet would experience the equivalent of 1 g, but your head would move slower (at about 7.54 m/s) resulting in a centripetal force of about 442.18 N which is a difference of 244.52 N or ~64.4 % "simulated gravity" at the head.
All of this assumes a still and upright standing person, this alone would make many people very uncomfortable, but moving even slightly would totally mess with your senses and make you sick/vomit.
I believe, something like 240 m diameter are needed, to simulate 1 g without making people sick, so 18 m would probably mean, even less gravity simulated, than there is on our moon.
This comment is the very reason, why I like my audience! Thank you very much, Valadin! In depth even with formulas!
@@FruitingPlanet Thanks for putting together the numbers. I knew 18m was much too small, but couldn't state it properly. The best solution, hopefully used with Starship 1.0, is 2 ships attached by 100 meter tether nose to nose and spun around a common center. In each ship the tail would be "down." This idea has been around in various forms, with partial or full gravity. But 240m is very doable with fibers like Spectra and Dyneema.
@@FruitingPlanet Starship 3.0 ?
Thanks Felix, some interesting things, to think about in this one.
Great job felix! I love it!
Thank you! :)
Great Vlog Felix nice to see your channel growing
Thank you! :)
I was considering the largest diameter of the booster will be 18m... and then it might narrows at the top to 12 meters, which could also be the diameter of starship. Just using the same shape and enlarging it could cause a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or simply it won’t lift off.
The optimal shape:
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Look at that Starbase. It's really worth to scroll through your older videos. Still great to watch.
lots of work for the falcon 9 and the 9 meter starship. reducing cost is one of our goals
Good job!
Hello Starman! So cute!!
Elon Musk is the Guy. He is the visionary who can get things going the way it should be. Props to Jeff Bezos too, between the two of them they could make things very exciting.
Good stuff! Keep it up.
Great content not sure about the "What about it?" branding.
Great job once again!! 👍👍
Thank you! :)
Have you ever known Elon to be kidding on Twitter? Remember his flamethrower tweet?
Right! :D
Still every time i watch your videos.... It seems like everything is tommorow and the hype is building up.... But actually is months probably years away !!
Actually most of it is next months... as always. :D
Did you say 160 MPH for a Category 3 hurricane? Did I mishear you?
On the Saffir-Simpson scale, Category 3 ranges from 111 to 129 MPH, sustained.
As it appears that Dorian will not come ashore anywhere near the Cape, much lower winds are expected there. But there is a potential for storm surge damage. They could see a lot of rain, too.
hey theres a picture of the narrator behind the narrator, behind the narrator
That voice, you should go to a voice-coach sir
Well thank you! :)
Who knows. Maybe Starship 2.0 won´t be made to ever take off from Earth. Just from SpaceX Moon and Mars colonies and bases.
Mate, flex . You going to say flash alive and get him. 😊👍👍👍👌👌 Doing good.
A 240 m tall rocket seems unlikely. An 18 m Starship would need to be combined with an 18 m or so diameter Superheavy stage. That would have enough volume to accommodate efficient and low-density LH2 as fuel if there are appropriate strap-on boosters for launch (SLS-style). Thus the Starship would be like a third stage rather than a second stage of the stack and could be inserted into LEO with a large amount of fuel onboard. This helps with missions beyond LEO, particularly when refueling is needed. The Soviets were planning to make their Energia mainstage reusable by having it circle Earth once and have it return to the ground the same way as the upper stage of Eugen Saenger´s projected two-stage rocket vehicle. It was to skip the top of the atmosphere several times to slow down prior to landing. SLS would become redundant. Go SpaceX.
240 m tall rocket is impossible, because bottom of 120 m rocket is full of rocket engines. They cannot double the trust. They can make wider rocket, but not taller. Hydrogen 2. stage could be taller, but it still need heavy LOX.
This actually makes the most sense.
Strap Falcon 9 boosters onto Super Heavy. I am sure there is a crossover point where SH can be throttled way back to preserve fuel while the F9 boosters do the work. Might even be possible to lift the whole rig to a useful height with just the Merlins doing most of the work, and have the Raptors take over later. No idea how high it would need to be or how fast, but it could certainly address some of the issues people have talked about with lighting so many Merlins at ground level. I expect getting it to even 10,000m would make a difference.
Damn you for baiting me with that Enterprise in the thumbnail.
:D Did you like the content though? :)
@@Whataboutit *¬_¬* I will look over your sketchiness for this time as the video was great, have a like xD
You're the best! Always nice to convert a skeptic. Even, if it's just temporary. ;)
I hope he builds it, it would be interesting to see it fly.
You're wonderful dude! Keep up the amazing work. Soon before you'll know it, following youtube algorithms, you'll be number 1 trending.
Thanks for the comment! It helps to look past the flat earthers. ;)
@@Whataboutit Earth is a tetrahedron. Everybody knows that. Flat Earthism is just a scam to distract people from the truth!
You can get it bigger, about 169 meters tall using tightly packed 250 tons raptors.
But to go to 236 meters they will need to make slightly smaller nozzle to fit more engines but that will decrease ISP
Edit: I mean taller, not bigger.
Thanks! :) I think, they might just use a different Engine or build it in Space. 169 Raptors would need insane plumbing... :D
@@Whataboutit I think they will make an even bigger starship 3.0
Starship 2.0 will probably have the same shape than ITS so it's a cylinder. You can make an even bigger starship 3.0 by taper. If you make a cone shaped rocket (a very wide booster and a less wide but more elongated ship) you can fit a lot more engines without increasing the height of the rocket too much.
Woo Starman!!!
Starman is distracting as is positioning yourself on the left side of the screen. 👍🏼 to everything else!
Thanks for the feedback! :)
At least the diameter would be bigger than the inner centrifugal ring of the "2001 a space odyssey" Discovery One space ship!
Amazing comparrison! :O
congrats on 10K!! ok, you were at 9998 when i posted but i'm certain that 10K would be hit by the time i hit 'comment' so hopefully i would be 1st to say congrats!!
Thank you very much! It feels good to be out of the 4 digit zone! :)
Nice update spot on with your 45th space wing comments sitting inside waiting for Dorian to come through. My question for Elon would be are they working on some other form of engine that base never been seen before to power the monster ship thanks again
Basketball Court, not field.. but great content sir love the channel
Thanks for the feedback! :)
@@Whataboutit no problem
Yeah, I caught that too, and I couldn't care less about gladiator type sports. Fields outside, courts inside (generally).
@@Whataboutit What in the name of youtube is happening here? I've got 2 Loved comments from you and a reply, but my comments and your reply are nowhere to be found in the comment section. They got somehow ... DELETED. Did Thomas Mullin deleted his first comment so we can't see replies anymore? Because I can't find another reason for not finding it in the comment section...
As a matter of fact, there was a Hurricane Dorothy in 1966, and again in 1977.
The two hurricanes can consider themselves lucky for having had such a nice name! :)
What about it!? Aww shucks.
18 m starship will be great is not first time i heard that.
A water launched "Starship" explains the change to stainless steel. If A starship MK II is 2-4X the size water launch would seem to be necessary. Look up "Sea Dragon" on youtube if you need more explaining.
I know it! The salt water is nasty stuff though, if you want to reuse the rocket. We'll see, what SpaceX comes up with when time comes! :)
@@Whataboutit In theory if it is rated for vacuum it should be rated for water. Can't speak to the impact of salt on internals but shouldn't those be sealed off anyway? Not really sure. Apparently they will land the booster on land as it will likely use a small number of it's engines and weigh a lot less at that point.
lets hope theres gonna be a hurricane irma situation. (aka some Florida badass starts surving the giant waves of the hurricane)
What if elon is planning on nuclear rocket engines for starship 2.0? Nuclear raptor? Metallic hydrogen? Warp drive? He did say it will be truly interstellar in later versions.
Oh boy. Don't get my imagination started! :D
@@Whataboutit perhaps a hypothetical video discussing what 2.0 would need? I fear that many raptor's would result in the N1 disasters
how do you manage to avoid the troll bots that seem to plague other channels?if you dont want to talk about it thats ok.thumbs up for the content
I do not know. The auto approval function works very well. It's a CZcams feature. Thank you for the thumbs up! :)
Two things, I think that Starship 2.0 will be the last rocket that will be built on Earth. I also think that Elon will name one of his starships Enterprise. However, my crystal ball sucks.
Actually sounds very plausible to me.
@@Whataboutit who knows, however, as ships get bigger and bigger, it will be hard to launch from a planet.
Given Star Trek's ships were built in space what are the odds that 2.0 couldn't also be assembled there as well? It's clear that Elon isn't afraid to think outside the box so perhaps we should start doing the same.
But 2.0 is meant to launch materials from Earth to space.
That could well be! :) The best solution in my opinion anyway. Get the resources from the Moon and build it in Space.
I would not put anything past Elon Musk after he proofs that this rocket is as reliable as the falcon 9 to do just that! Build a spaceship in space!
To be impermeable to Hurricanes you must use geodesic domes. Concrete domes. The starship heavy with it's 9 meter diameter is suitable for most everything and anything we could think to launch into space. I don't see the need for an 18 meter or 60 foot diameter ground to orbit launcher. Sure, build one, launch it into space and leave it there as a heavy cruiser but don't keep sending the same one up and down. Earth to space transport should be economical and efficient and practical. If a bigger ship means better economy for say, 420 people and crew, then go for it. But I think it would be a rare occasion to need such a large single transport to space. You could in fact launch smaller space ships into orbit with such a payload capability once in space, however, the large diameter means you could rotate the ship to get about 1/4th gravity for work and sleep on the outer rings or walls and storage would occupy the inner layers. It could be both a science station and a hotel or even a heavy cruiser to the moon or mars once refueled. The thought of living in one and having artificial gravity on the outer layer sounds great and would solve so many problems related to space travel.
Thanks for your comment! :)
In 1945, or maybe '50, some IBM executive said he couldn't see there ever being a need for more than five computers in the entire world. In 1965, people couldn't imagine the need for an airplane the size of a 747. Requirements always expand to meet capacity.
@@odysseusrex5908 True, but it seems unlikely that 400 people will spend 100,000 to a cool million to go into space on a regular basis. I would love to see it , especially as a science ship or hotel, but use smaller ships to ferry people up to it.
@@TheWadetube Smaller ships are more expensive per kilogram, and hence, per person. At one time, only a handful of millionaires, billionaires by today's standards, could afford automobiles. Only the very wealthy could afford air travel. You notice, the availability, of both expanded greatly, the price came down, and now anybody can fly or drive. The same will happen with space flight.
@@odysseusrex5908 I am waiting for it to happen to airplanes. The electric mid range plane could bring ticket prices down from 2 and 3 hundred dollars to 50 per person.
The problem with sending ultra big ships into space is the initial cost is so great you have to fill all those seats with high paying passengers at close to a million dollars a pop. I don't think it's going to be practical to find that many rich people who all want to go into space at the same time. I mean it is going to be hard enough filling the seats on the BFR star ship which could take up 100 people ... it is still very expensive but I hope it will come down and I would like to see a space port building interplanetary and interstellar ships in orbit. So the 18 meter diameter ship would be a work horse for large payloads, like a whole space station or a whole space ship inside it's payload bay.
You will be at 100k subs soon.👍
That would be something... Thanks for the comment! :)
They'd have to make even larger full flow staged combustion liquid rocket engines, it would be interesting how they tackle large engine launch instabilities that NASA solved with the F1 Rocket Engine.
If only we could build & launch ships from an orbital platform.
Remove the burden of getting them off of the ground without crashing or exploding & we could achieve so much more
You can also make an SSTO spaceship if you want it really big.
I live in Florida and tethering stuff to the ground does not work. I guarantee the stuff outside is going to get trashed.
If they will really build an 18m version, I hope they will develop a bigger engine like F-1, and not use 168 Raptors.
Super Raptor! ^^
The original ITS version of Raptor was going to be in the F-1 class at 7-8 MN, so it would make sense for them to scale Raptor with the Starship and go for approximately similar total number of engines. Basically in a reusable rocket the amount of landing thrust needed dictates your engine size. The 9 m Starship could have more powerful engines and not use as many but if you want to do a three engine landing they'd have to do a really hard hoverslam. So you want you're engine thrust to be such that the rocket has a TWR close to 1 on landing. Falcon 9 could have gone with one or two big engines but then they'd be screwed trying to land the thing, since throttling a rocket engine much below 50% thrust is very tough. Especially a powerful one, small expander cycles can sometimes be throttled down real low, like certain variants of the Rl-10. And with Falcon you start with 550 t but by the time the booster is almost empty and barreling towards the landing zone it's only 25 t plus another 10 t or so remaining in fuel, so just over 4% its lift off mass.
2016th version is supposed to have a 17th meter diameter in the larger area even the booster have only 12meter, now with a booster of 9 meters cannot be launched from the ground with payload on it , but maybe you don't need to do that gest launched with no payload and send it payload with a skinny version later, such version will be twice as heavy but will have three or four more internal volumes and will cost only with 50%more than skinny type(even is twice as heavy don't need to double the number of engines) so price for a ticket will be half at least. And if you look at the two hour video of 2016 will see that Musk says on orbit transfer of payload would allow to increase payloads send to Mars.
Hey Dr Strange :)
I can't wait to see if changes have been made to the fin design (Partially so I can update my video about how they work 🤣)
Watch Thursdays Episode. ;)
Maybe in will be better if cartoon starman would be turned towards you. Also he is partially covering your logo .)
Yes yes yes! Working on it! :D Time is rare and needs to be squeezed out for new stuff right now. 10-12 hour days. :O
I expect the thrust f Raptor engines to at least increase in thrust by 50% over ~5 years, so they they could increase the height by ~50% and increase the width by double. Although you are getting to the point at 18 meters where it's like, why? 12 meters yeah I can see some edge case scenarios where you would want a 12 meter rocket, like very large telescopes, but 18 meters ehhh...
Like the only reason I could for going with 18 meters would be for spin gravity, as at 18 meters diameter at 6 rotations per minute you could get 0.36G which is almost identical to Mars gravity @0.376G which 6 rotations per minute would be uncomfortable to start off with, but you could get used to it.
However I think you would be better off building something in space propose built to generate spin gravity at closer to ~85 meters diameter so you can keep it down to 2 rotations per minute which is comfortable for most people and get Mars like gravity.
Thanks for the comment! Think bigger. SpaceX is building Starships for endeavours we have not done yet, because we couldn't I can think of many reasons for an 18 meter fairing. Parts for stations, bases, spacecrafts to be built in space, a space elevator etc.
@@Whataboutit but you could do those types of things with Star-ship 1.0 9 meters really is already pretty darn big, you could fit a very nice 2 story house inside 12 meter version, 18 meters you are just getting a little silly as there is nothing you couldn't just do with a 12 meter rocket, just with more launches and a little ingenuity.
Although you do get to take advantage of the square cubed law vs surface area to contain that area.
So to double the diameter and length of the tanks you need 4 times the surface area, but you get 8x the internal volume, so going big does have it's advantages.
Although I 100% expect Sharship and Super Heavy 1.0 to increase in height over there lifetime as the raptor is refined and pushed to it's limits.
As your servicing costs do not go up significantly as you are using the same number of engines and apart from some reinforcement you can use the same tooling as shorter versions, so you get to increase your payload for next to free.
Great and informative video as usual Felix. I'm not very enthusiastic about the animated co-host though. I find it distracting and annoying, kind of like the late 90's Microsoft "clippy" thing that used to annoy the heck out of people trying to get work done on Microsoft Word.
:D Thanks for the feedback! I remember clippy!
No, I’m Star Man 🖖
Oh em geee. Can I have an autograph?
Of course, thanks for featuring me in your video -and for the freeze dried ice cream!! 😂🤣😂
Things to Come
Spacex will Be The First One To Come Up With Antigravity Starship And Electro Gravity Platen
At these sizes structural integrity with modern materials will surely start causing serious issues to stability.
Content conquered me at last. First I thought you looked liked comedian and talked them. I did not want someone to make fun of Elon's stuff. Luckily, we have got another useful relief, while Elon not in real talking conferences.
YAS! :) Thanks for the comment and the... feedback!
Hi,
You failed to mention that Florida is also the lighting strike capital of the US as well.
I did not even know! Thanks for the feedback! :)
A real starship will have to be built in space... Like a space dock.. And Falcons will be the transport to the orbital hub... And off we go..
Starship just means that it can go from one system to another.
Space x should built massive ships like 2.0 in space
@@ebongjr793 You need one big enough to grab an asteroïd at first and asteroïds are really big.
John theux it would at least have to be 25 meters which is insanely big but it’s possible if the parts are assembled in space. Ships on sci-fi movies are possible just expensive
@@ebongjr793 Bigger than 25 meters is possible on earth by taper. If you make a cone shaped rocket (very wide booster with a more elongated less wide spaceship) you can get a spaceship of more than 25 meters in diameter.
You should remove the pictures from the wall behind you and leave only the blue wallpaper, couse they create confusion
They're supposed to!
TRISKILION
The cat
Just so you know, my name, Dori, is NOT short for Dorian!
:D Hello Dori! Are you far away enough from it?
Yes, thank you. Wyoming is about 2,000 miles from Florida. They get hurricanes, we get blizzards!
Oh great and oh no! :D
Also, it’s not unheard of to get snow in September, in parts of the state.
Now I am curious if Dorothy is on the storm name list. Seems a shame to name an ocean storm after someone who got sucked up in a tornado :)
I was up in your part of the world in May. Beautiful country and fine people.
Its a CAT 5 now
I heard. Hopefully the Bahamas will survive somehow... :/
@@Whataboutit Its dying now but the Bahamas are destroyed.
I Hope the starship 18m diametre will one day launch human to the moon of Jupiter or Saturn
The radiation shield should be thick enough for that.
basketball field...lol
Yeah yeah. :P :D
Love the channel though.
Felix,...... Keep up the good work.......👍👍👍👍👍
Do you own a cat 🙀........? 🧐
If you do what is it called...... 😁....
Just joking..... 🤔 😂
I do and she's called Cooky. Showed her in the last live stream and she's always around, when I record. ;)
I do think you need a smoother transition between news titles. I suggest a clause or a simple sentence.
Thanks for the feedback! What would you suggest?
@@Whataboutit Nah.. That depends on the kind of personality you wanna bring. If you're not so sure just yet, it's fine to stick with what you have now.. That's better than forcing a personality that isn't really you, or simply following the least thing people want. So, please brainstorm it, maybe with your closest friend or siblings, then come up with your own idea.
Right! Thanks for the feedback! :)
Elon "getting ahead of himself" is the new normal. It's how he rolls.
:D
Is this Felix’s normal everyday voice?
What do you mean? :D
Absolutely. He describes his accent as being German tinged with French, but we all know he's really of a certain Transylvanian, uh, shall we say bloodline?
If mk2 gets rekt im gonna be very sad
Same! :/
I'm more concerned about the engine production, he promised one engine every 3 days this summer.
@@johntheux9238 Engine factory is in California, so no hurricane impact there.
@@odysseusrex5908 I was just worrying about the fact that they are still around SN10.
Why does NASA and space x insist on working in Florida where hurricanes prevail. Bring the space ports to states more in land.
Two very good reasons if you think about it.
First, the closer you are to the equator, the closer you are to orbital velocity. The rotational velocity you have on the ground is "free" velocity in orbit.
Second, rockets launch to the east (or north for polar orbit). Any place inland in the USA will have the rocket flying over the most densely populated areas. even China is not so irresponsible to launch over population centers. It might be possible to launch in a SSE direction from Boca Chica and miss Florida, the Bahamas, etc, dunno but I expect not.
So, equatorial orbits are launch from the Atlantic side of Florida so they get velocity and the rocket fly's over the ocean. Polar orbits are launched from California so that North America moves out from under the rocket.
This. :) Thanks for the answer, Joshua!
Yeah, then you drop your expended stages on people, like China does.
Great video again, loved the Star Trek comparison. Elon is starting to get ahead of himself, he hasn’t even gotten SS verion 1 into orbit yet, let alone land it from orbit (.i.e. to test heat shielding). Better to concentrate on Mars infrastructure that will be needed once you get to Mars. He doesn’t even have spacesuit for them to use on Mars. I love that Elon thinks BIG, but be practical FIRST. Does Elon know that there is some kind of international treaty that may prevent from even LANDING ON MARS? The environmentalist are already setting up guidelines before humans even set foot on another planet.....crazy!
Agreed! If anything, this is just a design idea though! About the infrastructure: I was always wondering, why Elon founded the Boring Company... ;)
You sound a little like Cristopher Walken ;-)
:D I take it as a compliment!
@@Whataboutit It's absolutely ment as a compliment! I like Cristopher Walken!
18 m no way
Boring machine to Mars!
I AM THE ORIGINAL STARMAN SO SELECT A NEW NAME FOR YOUR PET
You'll have to discuss that with him. ^^
Ok, I have to say it ! If you were to get some brown face makeup and dressed like an original Star Trek series Klingon, you'd nail it ! Please, do it for your Halloween show ???? It's space related !!!
So he is talking in terms of raptors for the Starship 2.0 easy bet that they wont stop at Raptors for that thing. Heck later versions of Starship may not be burning Raptors. I mean seriously they've got Raptors running why keep their design team sitting on their current loreals when they can be working on new ones.
He is, because that's what's out right now. You can not calculate with an engine, you do not have the numbers for. ;) I agree though. SpaceX will have to come up with something new for that kind of Rocket. Maybe it will be built in orbit though. ;)
just saying that thumbnail is not to scale
Starliner is a hunk of junk. SpaceX crew dragon is ready.
I will believe it when I see either of them fly with people aboard. Eight years without a manned space capability, for the nation that put men on the Moon, is a national disgrace.
You know.... you are a bit creepy. I like it!