Say Goodbye to the Mid Bay! | SpaceX Boca Chica
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- As SpaceX continues its expansion of the Starfactory, the midbay was demolished to make room at the production site. The mid bay was used for Starship ring and nosecone stacking previously. Also, Ship 25's tiles were installed, covering its lift points, in preparation for the next integrated test flight.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Sunrise
0:11 Booster 9 Igniter Tests
0:20 Tarp Removed From Deluge Plate
0:37 Booster 9 Grid Fin Testing
0:47 FireX Test
1:01 Second FireX Test
1:27 Booster 9 Spin Prime
1:58 Raptor Platform Moved Under B9
2:18 Raptor Platform Removed
2:29 Pre Static Fire FireX Test
2:40 Booster 9 Static Fire
3:33 Subcooler Moved to Launch Site
3:45 Tent 1 Scrapped
4:00 Post Static Fire Inspections
4:11 Ship 25 Tiles Installed
4:24 Ship 28’s Aft
4:34 New High Bay Stairs Lifted
5:01 Raptor Maintenance Platform
5:09 Starfactory Expansion Continues
5:18 Tent 1 Cleanup
5:35 The Production Site
5:49 Ship 31's Nosecone
6:01 The Orbital Launch Site
6:43 The Orbital Tank Farm
6:53 Suborbital Pad B
7:05 Mid Bay Prepared for Demolition
8:11 Scrap Cleanup
8:22 Vertical Supports Cut
8:43 New Test Tank Leaves High Bay
8:58 Back of the Mid Bay Cut
9:12 Mid Bay Demolished
10:56 Cleanup Begins
11:26 Another Subcooler Delivered
11:36 Starlink Box Moved
12:16 Booster 12 CH4 Section Lifted
12:28 Booster 12 Fully Stacked
12:50 Stairs Lifted Into New High Bay - Наука та технологія
When Full Stack? Potentially same day as Ship 25 rollout, so let's go with the rollout date guesses?
Maybe September 1st?
Monday, Sept 4
@@scottgaree7667 your giving 4 days between rollout and launch?
@@bryanillenbergLaunch doesn't have a fixed date lol, that's a NET date
@@bryanillenberg I don't have a feel for paperwork timing, so no guess on launch date, but I think they want to get it out of the garden and stacked as soon as the TPS work is done. Need a little time to review the HS interface with S25.
RIP road cones. 5:20
RIP. They even had to make sure to get it with the second wheel as well
Dude the slowmo sparks from the torches gave me Star Trek teaser trailer vibes back in 2009!!
It is with great sadness that I must inform you that Marilyn Lovell (wife of Astronaut Jim Lovell) passed away Sunday.
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They had a long life together. More than 70 years. I feel grateful for them. May she rest in peace.
RIP!
Yes RIP
Condolences 🙏 ☹️
Was watching the slow motion, not paying attention to the title card and said to myself “oh this must be the spin prime”
guess who got blasted🤧
Those guys cutting away the legs of the mid-bay while standing under it have bigger stones than me! And it looked as if it toppled in a different direction than may have been intended.
Great update, thanks to everyone at NSF for putting these together for us.
Gorgeous slow motion shots of the cutting activities!
Great video with all the action shots. Good editing. Thank you for maintaining the channel so we can keep up with daily progress at Starbase not just the big events.
Always the best images. Thank you NSF team
I loved the opening shot! Thanks NSF team.
Great camera shots from Sean! Thanks man!!
😱 WOW!
Great to watch awesome photography and informative pop ups 👍
Thanks for the update @NASASpaceflight!
The guys cutting the legs of mid bay have nerves of steel
I was thinking about the guy in the machinery that pulled the rope to take it down (center of view starting at 10:25). I would have wanted a much longer rope!
The direction of fall of Mid-Bay was touch and go there for a moment. Good thing it didn't hit the highway.
Getting excited for Starship launch 🚀❣️
The factory building is gigantic but even gigantic things look small at the Starbase.
And they could go quite a bit bigger still in the future. VAB at the Cape is bigger than Mega Bay.
5:21 R.I.P road cone 😔
Awesome edit, loved it!
I just need to add the water deluge system will be forever know to me as the “Booster Bidet” thanks to an other comment.
Great video. Thanks NSF!
Its incredible how they can keep it exciting for what 3 years now? And thats with less then 10 launches of any kind in that time..
It's interesting to observe the pace of the work going on at the Spacex sites. Nowhere else in the industry that I can think of do we see this.
This thing is in the way. We don't need this anymore. Chop it up and haul it away in the middle of the night, no Fs given. Who does that? Good thing NSF never sleeps or we would miss it.
In a world where things often move at a glacial pace, it's inspiring to see the folks at Spacex putting their backs into it at all hours to get things done. GGs Spacex and thanks NSF for bringing us all this coverage.
W nocy są bliżej gwiazd.
That mid bay folded up like an Imperial Walker
Cannot unsee 😅 Das
Those Ewok's have been busy little fella's. (Ewok: Engineering Welder & Oxy Kutter) 😉😁
My MidBae 😪😢😭😭
that operator has balls of steel for sure
The way that short static fire just plowed over the chainlink fence was great to watch.
So I guess after the StarFactory is finished, rocket manufacturing will be a lot less in-tents
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👁 see what you did there. 👏🏼
Blink and you miss it moon setting at 3:59
And it seems like just yesterday that I watched him grow up.
Lovethesunrise
Somebody needs to hire SpaceX to do road projects in central Arkansas! They get it done!!
Tired of the construction over the river in Little Rock huh?
Meee too !
5:21 R.I.P. road cone
So is it safe to say the dimensions of the Mega Bay are considered ideal for future builds, given they've made two?
10.03 was someone in that toilet😄😄😄 block
They are WHAT!!!!!
Why is it called "New High Bay"? To me it looks like a "New Mega Bay".
Bit complicated, but originally the High Bay was officially called high bay 1 and the Mega Bay was called high bay 2. These names fell out of favor for the nicknames (and the Mega Bay seems to even be an official name now), but at any rate the type of building is called a high bay (lowercase cause it's not a name) so until it gets an actual name I'm sticking with "new high bay" (which shows capitalized in the main label since it uses title case). It is definitely closer to the Mega Bay than the High Bay though, you're right
impresionante demolición pregunta no se podía haber desmontado y utilizado partes en otros edificios
9:45
Was that Sean?😂
What-up with the (UNITED RENTAL) all the time in the picture, like when they fired up the rapter engines. Cant buy advertising that reliable.
I am curious. Why destroy a modular built building by toppling it and not disassembling it to be used else where?
My assumption: they don't need the sections anywhere else at the moment, so rather than dismantle and store, demolish and recycle is the better solution.
Maybe someone outside of the US would have reused those I-beams, but they would have to unscrew every nut and bolt - thousands! That alone would make it too expensive. Also beams with lots of holes at each end are not so sought after.
They did that with the Ground Fabrication Building, but that was because it was just being relocated.
From my experience.. most of the time it's easier and safer to assemble something than disassemble.
It definitely can be done but in this case it probably would just be time consuming, expensive, and they probably don't need it elsewhere.
@@digi3218 Yes. People know that a lot of engineering goes into the structure of a building. But what most don't understand is how much engineering goes into the construction process. Oftentimes it is the most senior engineer who does that design work. And disassembly would require at least as much engineering if not more, because oftentimes the construction process engineering is integrated with the building design, while integrating the deconstruction process into the design would be very rare.
@@briangodfrey7424 My experience doesn't go further than patio and screen rooms.. but I know some products used in construction such as sealants and adhesives, make deconstruction a lot harder. I'm sure they use similar products on the roof, possibly siding, etc. Also there's probably other things that would make it harder that I can't even think of.
In my opinion 8:06 would work great for a metal print
It's cool (or is that hot?), but I suspect it doesn't have good enough resolution for print. First of all, it's video (which is much lower resolution than still photos), and secondly, that's also probably a digital zoom-in from wider footage. But maybe Sean also snapped some stills of that scene - who knows.
I know you guys said this years ago, but what do the do with the scraps after demo? Do they recycle for future production, or just trash it. I think I'm pretty much answering my own question when I say that "I heard they do?" But need to ask the pro's to know!
Thanks!
- NOM
I'm almost certain it goes for metal recycling. As far as I know it's a big business (super easy to recycle) that'll pay for it, so it's an easy choice for SpaceX. Of course that doesn't mean it'll be recycled and end up back at Starbase, but it'll end up somewhere
So I take it the plate is intact after the last spin Prime test?
Mid-BYE!
Why midbay was not disassembled but demolished instead? Is it that easier to clear wreckage afterward?
feel like they will make another high bay that will be connected to stare factory
I don’t think mid bay fell in the direction they planned
No casualties. Therefore this was the Plan B.
I thought the same thing. Hope it didn't damage anything
I agree. They pulled the front pillars towards the ring yard, but it would not budge. Then they had the brilliant idea to pull on one of the other pillars (towards the tents), but the excavator jerked the chain instead of pulling nicely. He was very lucky it did not land on top of him.
It did - downwards.
I agree, it looked like it was to fall forward but fell back and crushed the small brick building then towards the excavator. Looked liked the building came really close to the excavator.
I wonder who they had in charge to demolish the mid bay. That controlled collapse looked like it was very close to failing partway through and leaving an unstable, fractured husk still standing very tall.
I wonder if thrust propelled water pumping turbines could be mounted high enough in the launch mount to stay out of the way of any planned service vehicles, more water flow at even higher pressure????
Rip 😢
The EPA is now going to sue you for not recycling the Mid Bay by breaking it up into small pieces and putting it out by the street for pickup a little each week.
I thought they could have re-used the cladding from the mid-bay on the new mega-bay?
What will take the place where Mid-Bay stood? A new High Bay perhaps?
Taco truck
@@robbannstrom 🤣😂😋🤗
Traffic cone murder!
In the movies they don't destroy it, they wait for someone else who needs it to save the world
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rip mid bay
Are you kidding thei cleaned up all that metal in one night...
what is a starlink box for?
They can load starlink satellites into that box while in a relatively clean environment. Then they bring it over to a ship and connect the two up to keep a somewhat clean environment, and then have the box insert satellites one at a time into the dispenser inside the starship. It functions like a pez dispenser, so think of loading one of those one candy at a time. They did a test of the box back with Ship 24 actually so you can see what it'll look like when they actually use it to load satellites! ua-cam.com/video/85gspFVqdl0/v-deo.htmlsi=CcLXLKL15yzDaMKQ&t=622
@@thomashayden804 Thank you! First time seeing it but makes a lot of sense. and I'm checking the video now!
Why don't they unbolt things like the tent and the mid-bay?
there goes another fence...
What other space agency works 24x7?!
Probably many of them, we just don't get to see it.
Labpadre
High bay looks like mid bay now in comparison to the mega bays
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o7 MIDBAY
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@6:05 "Erosion strong in this rocks" (Joda voice)
Midbay is now a pile of twisted metal ! RIP "pieces?"
I'm a bit sad they couldn't build it back down and reuse the parts. Feels like mid and high and megabay would be kinda build from the same stuff. I guess it was either not possible or not worth it
It will get melted down and re-cast. It's the best way to ensure integrity of the materials.
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Can you recycle this broken building ?🤔 So, meling the broken still Trun into different shapestill to build different things.
The answer of the Universe is not 42, It's H2O.
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3:59
To see the mega bay is great. But in fact Starbase and the build site is nothing against the plans of Elon and SpaceX. The company needs a building with the roomsize of a footballstadium and a double of that size for a factory. SpaceX must plan a factory like Boeing did it near Seattle.
Don't think they want to be tied to something they can't change without considerable financial loss.
i guess it does get salvaged in some way but it does seem like a waste to just pull it down rather than directly recycle the parts. anyway, everything else seems to be chugging along, can't want for another launch!!
What a way to go!! But space x lime an explosion 😅
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See all the construction debris laying around? I still say they need blast shields like on aircraft carriers that fold up at launch to direct the engine blast away from the ground level, minimizing the debris picked up by the blast.
The midbay was kinda mid no cap
I did see some brown fondagy ;-) in that cloud, anyone else?
1st (or not)
Bay was mid anyway
What a waste, couldn't they just un bolt and reuse elsewhere or will that be too slow?? Must have plenty of money 😢
NASA would still be trying to build the midbay😂😂😂🤔
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This is a weekly recap, so 5 days is less than 7 days, thus it belongs in this video.
Must be a weekly update. Just double tap on the right side a few times if it's that bad..
This was a bit of a longer gap between the last one than usual, but these videos typically cover everything that happened since the last one. In some cases stuff could be omitted if it's particularly stale, but I'm a proponent of including everything so that way no one misses it and it serves as a good archive for anyone looking back. I appreciate the feedback though! Ultimately it's what you guys want, so I'm always gauging what the comments are saying on things like this
@@thomashayden804Video was great thank you
This was anything BUT a boring video! Actually one of their best in recent times. There's no pleasing some people!😉
SX should not be launching from this sight. Testing, fine. This is in the midst of an environmentally sensitive area and a tourist destination less than 8km away. Residents live near by and shouldn't be exposed to these disruptions. I think they will move flight operations to the Florida Cape. This is probably happening now in the early stages.
I have a feeling that SpaceX Florida and Elon Musk SpaceX Texas are not the same thing, no matter what the sign out front says.
I am not aware of another licensed US company with the same name. What makes you think that? Perhaps you have information we don't, do you have a source to justify your suspicions?@@monkeyboy4746
@@monkeyboy4746 From what I've heard (starting at this point in NSF's excellent interview with Ashlee Vance: ua-cam.com/video/gHy_oPw_7w0/v-deo.html), it's more like "Gwen Shotwell SpaceX Texas" these days. There's no need to put Elon's name on everything - recently he has been spending more time (I feel it's wasting time) monkeying with Twitter, entrusting his engineering companies to those he has put in place to run them. But indeed, the Florida Falcon operations and the Texas Starship building/testing are quite different - eventually they will merge, but right now they're pretty distinct.
They're building a stage zero in Florida too.
They have always said it’s a test site. Not sure how you didn’t know that?
Elon is very wasteful. No forward thinking.
Equipment open to sea air corrosion especially electrical equipment. Imagine sticking tiles on in sea humid atmosphere..
That sort of trouble caught out one big motor manufacturer out in the 70s
Yes, and bird's nests, mud dauber wasps, and whatever else wants to get into the inner workings.
Wasting money
What a waste. Can't believe it could not have been disassembled and reused.
Another example of our wasteful economy!
It'll all be recycled I'm sure. It's not like they'll just bury it in the ground.
It will be reused, scrap metal is highly sought after.
What? First off, there's more to consider that material waste. But even that, all of this metal will be reused. You must also consider manpower waste. It would have cost a fortune to disassemble it in man hours, and that likely would have been the biggest waste of all. There's a reason we don't typically disassemble buildings and reuse the parts. Not only that, then you have to make those parts fit into your new plan. Finally, steel is cheap, easy to produce, and readily available everywhere. It is also regularly reused and recycled. The real waste is that they used all of those man hours to build it in the first place.
@@tubejay1 Not really a waste to build it. Back then they did not know what kind of bay they needed. As time has passed they have seen that the floor area needed is much wider than they thought.
Maybe it will be replaced by a wide bay for ships - doesn't have to be as tall as the Mega Bay.
Maybe someone outside of the US would have reused those I-beams, but they would have to unscrew every nut and bolt - thousands! That alone would make it too expensive. Also beams with lots of holes at each end are not so sought after.
They did that with the Ground Fabrication Building, but that was because it was just being relocated.