SpaceX Is Building The All Seeing Starship Eye!
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2024
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SpaceX’s Starship as a space telescope! Is this a good idea? What’s the future of Starship? The third orbital Starship is almost ready! Why was it moved? The Martian helicopter encounters a massive issue. Can it be saved? And the mystery of the Japanese lander is solved! Did it really land upside down?
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Which of these Starship concepts do you think will happen first? Do you have any other innovative ideas on how Starship could be utilized?
Please leave them in the comments. Go wild! I'm always eager to read your thoughts and ideas!
Starbase needs a sea wall. Galveston was destroyed in 1900, New Orleans 2005, Boca Chica also, and everyone pretends that the ice caps are melting so… where is the sea wall? Who builds factories on the beach? Not just a beach, but an alluvial sand bar. I would be nervous parking my car overnight on a beach, and I’m from Texas. We built our beach house on Tiki island 17’ up.
This whole Mars thing is fishy. What’s really going on? Why the hurry?
Starship won't be useful for that, but Booster will. Coupled to an Expendable second stage booster could really get a hell of a lot of mass and volume to space. And that will be all this will ever be used for. Non human cargo
8 Star Ship`s in a wheel sliced in half then extended apart by 8 rings to make a saucer - 3 ships connected together side by side to make 2 sections going diagonally away and downwards to 2 3 Star Ships tall per side as propulsion, outer shielding ballistics materials, Moon soil pumped into all unused voids and 6 foot thick on on outer hull voids as shielding to help solve radiation issues...
You could fire it at my exe's house
@@readyforlifenow Pagan chicks are more trouble than they are worth. A Christian woman is worth millions.
A "fabric" door is actually not as uncommon as one thinks....Aircraft Hangers can have the "fabric" doors as they are cheaper, open faster, and lighter.
Exactly
Yeah, we have a couple with a fuselage shaped hole in the door so that an aircraft can park halfway in the doorway and work can continue.
We have a couple in our copper mine truck shop for the 250ton haul trucks. They hold up better in heavy wind then the smaller rollup doors.
They're also less likely to cut someone in half when they fail
If you consider that the Eagle Landers were just Foil, yup.
The Starship ecosystem rundown is awesome! I love to see people looking at the future that is possible if Starship works.
and it will!
I think that rather than tipping Starships over and using them to build moon bases, it's probably significantly more likely that they'd just ship inflatable modules inside Starship, that they place on the surface. Not only does an inflatable module give you a lot more habitable volume, you also don't sacrifice a transport vehicle.
starfactory production rates are targeted to be something like 100+ a year. Disposable for sure.
@@RichardAbendroth not to mention that cost of each part is going down. Raptor is already cheapest engine in class with price tag under 2 mln.
@@just_archan the next few years are going to be nuts! with that china company building their own reusable falcon clone I am curious if it will drive down prices even further. Really, really curious what long term plans spaceX has for the next gen post starship
@@RichardAbendroth not only China. There is also Korea, initiatives from Europe, in us there is Stoke space, Blue Origin, relativity... In new Zealand rocketlab.
And companies like Sierra space and others that have plans to utilise cheap transport to space by building space stations, or even production facilities in space. We are on brink of next industrial revolution.
@@just_archan It's very difficult to compare costs and prices in the aerospace sector.
Afaik the 2mln for one raptor is the costs for SpaceX, more specifically the marginal costs for producing one additional engine.
For most other engines, we don't really know the production costs, only the final price at sale, which includes a potentially high profit margin.
Same goes for launch costs vs launch price, as we don't really know the costs for a F9 launch with reused booster, but only the price they charge.
Regarding the new doors, maybe SpaceX can just put their own cameras in approved places, and stream them 24/7. And if they're doing something sensitive, they can just turn them off for a while.
We love being able to watch, and it's a big part of why there's so much support!
They would only do this for 2 reasons: free marketing, or to get more investment. I'm not sure either would outweigh their ability to cover up some more proprietary stuff as they continue to develop. I'm sure Bezos' team is watching all the feeds to see what they can learn from it as well.
@falxonPSN yes bezos has been trawling the ocean to get merlin engines and now raptor 😊
I'm so ready to see Starship splash in Hawai'i and the booster in the gulf.
The current plan seems to be to deorbit Starship in the Indian Ocean. They're doing the keystone fuel transfer test for NASA and they might even try for a real orbit. Technically, IFT2 would have reached orbit if it wasn't for the LOX venting which caused a fire in the engine section, resulting in a FTS trigger.
Love the exploring of what starship can unlock, it really is the next step in space exploration actually going somewhere beyond just more satellites
I’d love to see a video exploring the possibilities of Starship being used to build much larger ships in space capable of venturing to Jupiter and beyond. They could have artificial gravity like Phoenix in For all Mankind. Exciting times.
Same here, id like to see something that could puddle around our solar system?
Working on that in the background! Fascinating stuff, but loads of research to get the video right.
Getting something like the Phoenix from FAM would be so badass.
I have explored this way _(with exagonal and square part)_ for create module in orbite _( TetraKaiDecaHedron shape )_
for build huge Orbital Station and spatialship,
and I hope I can put it in 3D and animation within a year or so, to show you the incredible potential of this concept
YES!!!!!!!!😅
One possibility is instead of a single 8.5m mirror within Starship, they might be able to have one fold out of it to be even bigger. You could still use the rest of starship for propulsion and power but that's just my 2 cents
I just love how humanity is entering a new space age era where science fiction concepts can now become a feasible reality this is sure to revolutionize earth technology and improve all humanity living conditions.
Is this a good idea? Heck yes! I am so looking forward to the next test flight. If SpaceX can pull off this Spacelift development project, it will be something that will be remembered for hundreds of years into the future as was referenced in one of the first season episodes of Star Trek discovery.
Starship could be used to deploy lunar GPS satalites. Also, Martian GPS satalites. That would solve the issues of ships landing at precise locations. Earth only uses 31 GPS satalites for all of its GPS requirements. I would think that less would be required for less populated bodies. Of course, there would have to be enough to give constant coverage to all locations as the satalites moved in orbit.
The major issue is having a base to provide maintenance updates to the satellites for positioning, and satellite substitution if one fails. otherwise the resulting positions are either wrong or just inaccurate (which can be just as bad as "wrong").
@@jessepollard7132
With the current earth GPS satellite system, software updates are just transmitted to the satellites. We do not do physical maintenance. We just have some redundantcy and send up new ones to replace broken or obsolete ones. We could do the same around the moon and Mars.
@@appliedfacts No we can't, at least not without a base on the Moon or Mars to create the necessary updates. Without that no updates would be accurate. The updates require atomic clock stabilization - and synchronization between the ground and the satellite. Those updates cannot be generated without it. Such stabilization takes weeks to achieve. and compensation for relative movement between ground and satellite. Been there - not going to happen on Earth.
@@jessepollard7132
Are you thinking software updates could not be transmitted from earth to lunar and Mars GPS satellites? In my mind it would be like Microsoft transmitting Windows updates to computers. It gets sent via radio link to the satellites and the satellite installs it into its operating system. The hyper accurate precision that we enjoy on earth may only be achievable with a lunar or mars base to measure relative positions BUT that precision would not be needed to get started. Low precision would be a starting point and higher precision could be accomplished after bases were established.
Physical updates (better hardware) could be built into new satellites and launched from earth (via Starship?) and put into lunar or Mars orbit. No local bases required this way.
I like the idea of using Starship as a component of a lunar base or space station. Joining together of multiple Starships saves tons of material and fuel rather than sending parts and equipment on separate flights and then having to assemble it all on the Moon or in space. It might also be a good idea to construct a large spaceship in orbit by docking together multiple Starships.
StarShip (when empty) weighs 100 tonnes - but a huge chunk of that is the engines - which are of no use to the colony. Since it can carry 150 tonnes - it's actually better to fly it one more time than to recycle it on the moon. An interesting question is whether the major interior structures required for a habitat (floors, staircases, elevator shafts, equipment mounting points, etc) could be built into the tank back on Earth without significantly impeding it's function as a fuel tank?
The bus depots near me have a fabric roll-up door and a hard garage door. The garage door is only used when no one's around for security. The roll-up door is used for weather protection and HVAC.
The primary purpose of a door where heavy MIG welding is going on, is to remove any wind that can degrade weld quality, by blowing off the shielding gas. Yes there are other benefits but that is the most critical reason.
Like all things SpaceX the doors will stay if they are sufficient to do the job. If not they will iterate to the next design.
Felix your enthusiasm is the reason I watch WAI. Your discussion of the potential variants of the Starship was a joy.
Keep up the good work!
Dave
wrong ksp menu screen, should be the mun or bust one with the crashed mun lander, great video overall just chuckled when you showed the wrong menu screen
Yeah, the editor obviously isn't a KSP player, otherwise they'd have known immediately what Felix was referring to.
I think Spacex like no other company can make anything possible in terms of future space flight developments. They have already achieved so much.
Connecting two starships together isn’t as risky as you say.
I'd been thinking about them just hollowing out a portion of starship and making it into ultra hubble.
I could see some kind of molting scheme similar to how snakes or lobsters shed their outer skin or shell.
I do believe the upcoming hurricane season will be the deciding factor on whether or not they keep these soft doors or move to rigid structures.
That could very well be the deciding factor. Though, fabric can withstand a lot of wind force.
@@Whataboutit But if a flying piece of star base meets said door it might be a different story.
"a flying piece of star base" as in from the launch pad, or the Massey testing area (where explosions could occur), both of which are HOW many MILES away and located on the OPPOSITE side from the Megabay fabric door opening?????@@ntal5859
@@ntal5859 Kevlar said hi.
The fabric they use for space habitats (Dyneema?) may be enough.
We use fabric doors on some of our aircraft hangars in Memphis.
Should have gave some to Boing ,lol
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 SpaceX's *Starship is undergoing rapid development at Starbase, with Booster 10 and Ship 28 nearing readiness for their respective flights.*
02:23 Starbase *introduces a new fabric-based Mega Bay door for prototype protection, potentially enhancing construction efficiency.*
03:51 Starbase *plans a massive 6-tier parking garage for its workers to alleviate chaotic parking situations.*
05:44 Starship *could serve as a satellite transporter, deploying smaller satellites efficiently, and may host large telescopes like LUVOIR in its payload bay.*
08:31 Companies *like Gravitics and VAST are planning commercial space stations utilizing Starship modules.*
09:48 Ideas *like repurposing Starships as lunar habitats or experimenting with artificial gravity remain technically feasible but uncertain.*
12:59 Ingenuity's *Mars mission ends due to rotor damage, but its achievements in Martian flight are groundbreaking.*
17:31 The *Japanese SLIM lander experiences engine failure but successfully deploys payloads on the lunar surface, showcasing remarkable engineering despite challenges.*
Parking decks are much more complex facilities than one would initially realize. They need robust fire suppression systems, high end video surveillance systems, access control systems. And obviously the slanting surfaces complicate the concrete pour.
Also have to be ridiculously strong to withstand the shifting loads and vibrations.
Much better off building a train station with that much effort... But ..Murica 😂
@@crazydrifter13 Dude. One day in Brownsville and youd realize how ridiculous your cult influenced comment is. It's a small town in an extremely rural area. You pay for it buddy. Have at it!
@@dherman0001 one day in a proper place with proper transport and you'd know how unnecessary everything was...
@@crazydrifter13 ok creep
A transparent door would be my preference :)
We need to see more renders of a starship refuelling station in orbit, habitable space and docks for several ships. Very exciting stuff. Great video as always!
That fabric door might be a lot stronger than you think. There are some very strong fabrics such as those being used for air-supported domes over stadiums as well as fabric hurricane sutters. It might even offer hurricane protection up to say a category three..
18:27 I guess that further multiple engines will be pointed radially away from the Center of Mass if possible.
You missed a chance to mention Canada. Canada is leading the development and building the UV surveyor.
No. I don't believe this is going to be the final version of the door in the high bay. Nor do I think anything at SpaceX is permanent. They are constantly upgrading and tweaking everything. And I think that is great. That just lets us know that we're always getting the latest and greatest that SpaceX has to offer. That's why they are number one, world wide in the rocket industry.
Thanks for toning it down a bit. Much more to the point a therefore way more pleasant to watch. In this case less is indeed more. Good job Felix! Very informative! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Starship should be able to launch between 5-8 telescopes at once, each 5-8 meters in diameter. These would have folded or inflatable solar shades, secondary-optic booms, solar panels and other telescope infrastructure. This means better-than-hubble observatories could be mass produced and mass launched, greatly reducing price while exponentially increasing data collection. And a single architecture could support telescopes of several spectra, from terahertz to extreme UV.
Imagine the astrometry that could be done with two 5m telescopes, one at Sun-Earth Lagrange 4, the other at SEL5; a 1.7 AU separation! (Sol-Saturn Legrange would be better, but baby steps.) With this kind of space-telescope industrial infrastructure, you could afford such a luxury.
Starship could be a restaurant on the moon. Good food and decent prices but it doesn’t have any atmosphere
Starship might be too heavy to be an effective space telescope, as it would have a lot to extra mass/inertia when turning around. Could be solved by using the RCS? That would have a lot of fuel consumption, so the operation cost would be pretty high both in LEO (it would consume even more fuel as it has to rotate a lot more in order to track the observation point as it orbits), where it would be easier to refuel, where out of LEO where it need to do less maneouvers it would be way harder to refuel. Then, it probably would have the problem than too much thruster usage would eventually make a mess of the space around it or even the mirrors, so it would have a poorer quality (the counterpoint being that the thruster emissions would mostly be yeeted at high speeds, thus in different orbits, but how would it play over enought time?
Taking advantage of Starship hauling capacity to incorporate some really big flywheels might mitigate this too, but then again, all that might end being more expensive and having higher running costs than just building a dedicated telescope and just using Starship to deploy and service it.
Yeah, the engineering that goes into space telescopes is insane.
My guess is that there would be something else which would be a pain too, like a source of vibration or uneven heating.
But as you say why not just float the telescope out of the door, that way you can reuse the launcher.
You could just refuel it in Space if it's in LEO. Keep the low promised launch costs of a Starship in mind. If it costs around 10 million to extend it's life for another 5 years, it would actually be very cheap.
Yeah. A telescope inside a starship would be at best a better Hubble (stuck in LEO, lacking a giant sun shield) and have other unnecessary issues as well. I think that there is definitely a use case for it due to its lower costs - all the telescopes are way overbooked, so more telescope is always good - but it wouldn’t be a replacement for a larger JWST style telescope.
@@Whataboutit an issue would be that you have to point these things absurdly accurately, and having a load of liquid methane sloshing about would make that very difficult.
I don't think that the satellite bus is the expensive bit of a space telescope, and that is all that the hundred tonnes of stainless steel is really buying you.
7:55 And with telescopes, a fleet of them is the same as one absolutely gigantic one
Exactly. You can form an array and you're in the truly big business.
i'm imagining 6 starship telescopes in geostationary orbit equidistant from each other, providing effectively a 48,000 MILE diameter telescope. Holy $^@& batman!
@@RichardAbendroth yeah, but only in two cardinal directions
@@TheNheg66 geostationary they rotate with the earth. sure oblique angles wouldn't have that effective diameter but even at poor angles the diameter is bigger than the earth itself
No, it would not be the same. It would have the same angular resolution, meaning it could see something as small as the large telescope could, but not nearly the same light collecting ability, meaning it can't see dim objects a real telescope that size could see.
great video. thanks
One idea is to convert a few Starships to nuclear powered tugs. These nuclear tugs could be used to transport other Starships between Earth and moon and the outer planets at much faster speeds.
That may be a great idea! Only launch the mass of the nuclear engines once instead of on every ship. That would leave mass available for more payload. 👍😎👍
@@appliedfacts It might even reduce the number of Starship refueling.
NASA should dump the SLS and direct the money instead to developing nuclear space engines for the commercial rocket companies. NASA should get totally out of the business of building rockets. The commercial companies have left NASA behind.
It’s easier to design space tugs, without committing yourself to the Starship design, for different tasks, for different masses. Launch these tugs with the help of Starships, and let them carry cargo in different orbits, without requiring a constant and costly supply of fuel from Earth.
I like the less excited delivery. A lot less stressful to listen to .
Felix, YOU Rock!
A space station could be just 6 lunar sarships connected each other in a 2x3 configuration. Internal layout can have different purposes (crew labs hotels farm). Crew can arrive and departure on dragon capsules. Fuel tanks can be repurposed for water storage or other cargo. Engines in 5 of 6 starships can be recovered and sent back to earth. If this space starion is cost efficient enough, then it could be replicated for mars or venus outposts.
The connections could allow the rapid transfer of water between the station modules to maintain balanced rotation.
Great job Felix and the entire WAI team!
very good update thanks Felix
If I understand the plan, refueling starship is via a "refueling starship". When that refueler is empty, leave it up there. As you get more than one up in space, use the same docking mechanism to marry them together. Install airlock and repurpose as space station. The more empty fuel pods, the larger the space station. If you build the nose like a starship with all the windows, instant stargazing. Bottom line, launch once, repurpose in orbit.
spin the bathroom section just a little and the toilets can be used normally - showers and baths even
spin the dining section just a little and all meals can be eaten normally
(a stationary 9m diameter loop as an electric scooter obstacle/slalom course would give you all the g-forces you need for as long as you want )
Thank you for all you do!
They've got Slim back up and running now
I am pretty stoked for the telecope idea!
I am an Architect in San Diego and have built parking structures of similar size. At 6 floors it would be about an acre in size and have about 650 spaces. The drive isles take up allot of extra space as well as the corners where stairs and elevators are located. I would assume that the footprint will be around 120' wide and 450' long configured with a single ramp on one side.
Hard doors almost never seal properly over the complete structure and even when they do those seals wear out and fail and crack fairly regularly. A fabric door is much easier to seal and it has less edge context to seal since the door itself can be one solid piece. Another advanced solution by SpaceX!
Thanks for the update Felix your coverage is great you rock! I feel like I’m watching history.
We use some of those soft type doors at my work, they open and close much faster than rigid doors
I thought of laying SS on its side and covering it with dirt quite some time ago and I still like it but you could combine it with the vertical base (quicker and easier) by just delaying the move to horizontal. Possibly digging a trench for it and (over time, maybe with Optimus bots spare time) and using the dirt as a berm next to the trench so less distant dirt is needed.
I also like the spinning 2 SS on a tether but I would make them parallel reducing the unbalancing due to the change in height when bots or people move (changing the distance to center of mass).
Eventually, they will need another tank at the gateway for landing and farther trips.
I think it might be possible to spray something into the exhaust as they land to make a kind of landing pad. then they could free up room in the front and put the motors in the tail where they are more efficient. It might even be re-used or improved by repeat landings.
If they send up the refuel tank SS, I wonder if they should make the engines easily removable and send them down in an SS lander. Maybe the Optimus gas station attendant could remove them one at a time? It could be sent to help build the new space stations when done or?
It is definitely exciting to see starship development and think of the possibilities. But kne thing I thunk we are completely off about is the cokplex process of integrating payloads into starship. Atleast by the current version of the test articles, integrating payloads seems to be a major hurdle. There are sections of TPS tiles overflowing on the windward side. Ofcourse after a re-entry test they might remove it depending on the need but I suspect they are there to stay. Moreover, the header tanks occupy a large area at the top. Given that the ship is designed to be reusable and fairing cannot be jettisoned they have to come up with a general solution for the fairing door that can be used for all different kinds of payload with sizes and shapes. The payload door not only has to bear the load of launch but also re-entry. It has to maintain the seal specially while coming back. Any leaks will simply lead to RUD. The releasing mechanism for the payload is a issue on its own. An interior automated/remotely operable small robotic arm may be able to solve this but would not work with snuggly fit payload of diamater between 8-9m. It will be exciting to see the solution that SpaceX comes up with.
I have become very emotionally attached to the little Ingenuity helicopter. I am so sad that she had an accident and can't fly anymore. I just want to go to Mars and either fix her rotors or bring her back home. Ingenuity means more to me than all the aircraft in the world. It will be hard, if not impossible, to beat her resume.
Great video!
Alot of information
So what if instead of making artificial gravity we use the same principle of attaching two satellites by a tether, spin them up then release the satellites flinging them opposite directions, could be an effective way to produce starting momentum.
Maybe start with a long tether and shorten it as much as possible before releasing to increase the rotational momentum.
Pretty sure someone had built this in kerbal, will link the video if I find it
An angry Martian took a few bites out of Ingenuity.
thank You dear Felix
Thanks!
Felix, your videos just make my day over and over again!!! Great work, as always🚀
I know IFT 2 should have made orbit, is 3 going to be a full orbit or just sub-orbital? Very excite! I really can't wait to see a super heavy touch back down. Not part of ift3 though is it they are expending the booster no? Guten Tag felix! been watching WAI for almost a year or more now but first time I am posting. Your channel is the most informative and knowledgeable of all the space stuff I nerd out on. Du bist meine Leiblings. Tschuss!
flexible hangar doors are designed to solve all extra ordinary door requirements with no limitations of width or height.
Vertical lifting fabric hangar door was initially developed in the 1980s for the needs of shipyards' shipbuilding facilities. Cause of special requirements of shipyard industries doors need extreme properties. Weather wind sand, corrosion , and lighter more compact, most military hangers use the fabric its a very dense mesh
Imagine turning a starship into a telecentric telescope
A Starship telescope would make sense...you dont need flaps, nor header tanks...ontop of that you could keep a refueling adaptor on it to either insert it into a higher orbit or boosting if staying in leo
Would be better if it could come home in case repairs or upgrades are needed.
@@ItsEverythingElse then keep it in leo and send dragon up, i think itd be advantagous to keep the things listed above off, cause you could add panels that fold out to make the mirror bigger
Fabric it is for the following reasons:
-Solid panels would require multiple tracks and winching mechanisms, which are not present.
-No space above the highest part of the opening to stow multiple solid panels.
-Fabric cover is SIMPLE and easily maintained.
Another fantastic episode, shame about the mighty tiny helicopter but it's achievements will live on forever. 💯💎
Thanks Felix!
Wonder is it would make sense to catch a Falcon 9 to test and refine the catch concept .....
This would require the grid find to be able to bear the weight of the entire booster, which is highly unlikely to be possible
Its a totally different design with different physics, and materials. They can honestly model it better with the data they already for from their actual starship flights than they ever could from a Frankenstein Falcon 9.
It would mean conciderable modifications to Falcon 9. That would likely be a year long project.
Nevermind the fact that the chopsticks would need modification to still be parallel whilst closed together, since Falcon 9 is SIGNIFICANTLY thinner (smaller diameter).
Cool idea, but one critical difference is that the Falcon 9 can't hover. When you see Falcon 9 land with one engine the thrust of that single engine at minimum throttle is greater than the weight of the nearly empty booster. I think Starship and its booster will have the ability to hover for a few seconds. This makes it way easier to finely control the approach and the final position just before contact. A few seconds of hover would also make life a whole lot easier for the chopsticks, more leeway on the timing of their movement and less abuse from the rocket exhaust.
Space solar power is one of the best scale uses of Starship. It’s been a good idea for decades which has been waiting for low cost launch starship is projected to provide.
Slacking on Kaiju resistant doors might be a colossally short sighted mistake…
Ok the slim landing takes the crown of “the most ksp thing in history” from starship ift1😂
Thanks again Felix
Excellent stuff bro
Using starship as moon base is good idea
What if it landed horizontally with thrusters eliminating the need for pulling it down
An array of starship telescopes would be incredible
I actually had to subscribe again, thanks for the heads-up :-)
For Ingenuity, with Mars temperature changes and the rotor speed, maybe it was simply fatigue that made it break
Thanks a lot. 😊
SLIM was definitely "Did a Kerbal." 😆
I'll be wearing my WAI 04/20 shirt when I go to Starbase on Thursday. I also see your car ( see you?) frequently in Cocoa Beach as I live there 🎉
This was a most excellent, highly detailed and interesting update as always. Thank you, Felix.👍👍!
16:30 What really needs to be heated? Is it the cold or the alternating temperature?
Hey there Felix, I really appreciate your work keeping us updated and informed on all things SPACE. Do you know if Elon has considered using a Falcon for launching a “shade/power generator satellite “ similar to the JWST to a Lagrange location that would provide shade for a cryogenic fuel storage system & placing another in orbit around the moon? These would be the most ideal locations for space docking systems and refueling stations for staging our further missions outward
If you ever listen to tons of music, one of the most common phrases you hear is "How do you like me now?". The fact is, the kids that rejected you in school, now hate you for becoming something. The best way to live is to ignore the morons that reject you and do what you are driven to do. When it comes to space, we dream and go big! We don't look back, and we don't worry about what others think of us. When they try to copy us, then we know we have something.
This is a really good video!
Your channel rocks. Always awesome!
I say SN26 structure concept to create open space for a telescope, space bound observation system even bulk open areas that will stay orbital.
Thank you Felix and the whole WAI crew. And, I'm interested in how sound works in the Martian atmosphere, is there a recording of Ingenuity revving its wings in the thin dry cold air in the test chamber? What sort of sci-fi sound does a flying featherweight space robot make? And its sound in Earth atmosphere (if it's ever been tested that way) would make a fine contrast. Thanks.
Around 2:45. Conventional doors would be better. You could heat or cool the interior of the megabay.
The "Von Braun" circular type of space station was featured in the movie, "2001: A Space Odessy."
The outer rings provide the most Centrifugal force so the center, I think, would be low gravity.
One could get the best of both worlds, perhaps?
The best utilization of starship and what it does better than nearly anything else would be to place it’s considerable mass into a geosynchronous orbit. A starship could use up all of its fuel and get there in a single launch. 10, 15, 20 starships out there and you start to get the mass required for a tether to the surface. To me it’s obvious that the ultimate use for the starship superheavy would be to use it as a space elevator construction vehicle.
If you genuinely want a multiplanet species with thousands of people going back and forth, you need rocket free way to escape the gravity well. A way to build shipyards and fuel depots. A space elevator is the price of entry to that future.
It's so nice to watch an english video and hearing Werner von Braun in correct pronunciation 😊
Greetings from back home 👋
Great work...please have Marcus House on as Guest....Fraser Crain..etc
The gulf does get some pretty nasty hurricanes. Not sure how a fabric door would fare.
That's pretty specific landing for Slim, that without that technical fault it would have landed within 10 meters on another planetary body.
Hi Felix, Ultimately, anything new will have to pass the question: " is this required or is it nice to have". So the spacestation configuration is actually a required thing, landing on the Moon requires certain Earth-deliveries but putting starshits horizontal seems no more than 'nice to have'.
I think it’s typical SpaceX on the doors, this was easy and quick to implement, and if it works it’ll be permenant. Otherwise an upgraded door will be installed late and tested irl as usual until they get a door that works satisfactorily. Iterate, iterate, iterate!!!!
As we have never converted any structure in space yet most concepts are not feasable.
Its far more interesting to think about how many inflatable sections from sierra space could be lifted at once and then filled with gas.
Second starship would then dock and all interior would be added inside.
The problem with these converting concepts is lifesupport and how to spread it over the rest of the hall.
This video was very much a jumbled video.
On the exploits of Ingenuity, another fact deserves to be noted
Its primary mission was to attempt 5 flights over a period of 30 days.
Certainly this valiant little helicopter has very brilliantly fulfilled this mission and the others that have been assigned to it since.
But also, and above all, it survived the very harsh local climatic conditions even though it was not designed specifically for it.
When you have a "mass budget" of only ~2 kilos it's complicated to add electric heated blankets to withstand the rather cold local winters :)
let's be a little lyrical:
“Another valiant “soldier of Science” who falls on the fields of honor! May his contributions never be forgotten”
What I don't understand is why don't space agencies create an enclosure with wheels on it to be able to have an automated workshop to perform maintenance on these rovers. Like once inside of the enclosure, it can be cleaned and repaired with robot arms. At the same time mostly protected from elements. That way, the rovers' life expectancy can be greatly extended. One way or another we're going to Mars, so I'd imagine we're gonna need all the data we can get.
Good luck containing the budget & time increase