SpaceX's Massive Florida Expansion: GigaBay, LC-39A Upgrades, and More!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- 2025 is kicking off with huge developments at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral! SpaceX’s Roberts Road expansion is officially confirmed for Starship production, with GigaBay set to dwarf Starbase’s Mega Bays. Meanwhile, Blue Origin's New Glenn reached orbit for the first time, and NASA, ULA, and Relativity continue their work across the Cape.
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I remember when the OG wind break in Boca Chica was considered tall and everyone was blown away when SpaceX built the High Bay.
And then it was superseded by the current High Bay... And then... And then...
most people have no idea how much space flight is going to scale up in the second half of this decade... exciting times 🚀
If the 1950s and 60s was the Golden Age of rocketry and spaceflight, we are definitely in the Silver Age now. Heck, we might call the current day the Golden Age in the far future, depending on how well things go.
There is far mire compatition these days than back in the 50s and 60s. We have china rapidly catching up to the us, plenty of riropian countries taking space mire sreiously, and we have the swarms of privet companies all over the world that are pioneering their own rockets
@@joe-go-jint-aJ2997 you having a stroke?
More wasted money
@Possiblechange It's a private company, Einstein. Take your bot comments somewhere else.
Do your parents appreciate the importance of your work to the space community? You provide such an amazing service and resource to the whole world. Thank you.
Won’t be long until we have a TerraFactory spitting out GigaFactories
I predicted 3 years ago SX would eventually abandon fabricating starships/boosters by stacking rings.
The spools of steel will simply be rolled out on giant raised welding tables a full vehicle long, side-by-side a full circumference wide in one great sheet, stir-welded together, stringers then added, full length.
The whole sheet will then be lifted up so that it hangs vertically and wrapped around ribs supported by a mandrel. thrustpuck, manifold assembly, etc. inserted at bottom and common dome and whatnot lowered from the top.
That's the condensed description. I see this method easily able to crank out 5 starships a day, made in parallel. Needless to say, the floor area will be on the order of two or three football fields, and the height of course taller than a starship.
🍌for scale.
Just wait until the HyperFactory! 😂
Bet Elon will build it in China
Love this series guys
Thank you Max Alex and Adrian
Further into the video...... wow just fkn WOW, spaceflight worldwide is sure ramping up in 2025.... what an exciting time to be alive ❤❤❤❤❤
We love Gigabay💪💪💪💪
Thank you Max and the whole NSF team.
Nice work presenting and writing everyone. Really interesting. Thanks!
Nice job! Thanks!
thanks for the clear and interesting presentation!
Great news for the a Space Coast! Thanks for a great video.
Nice job y'all! Thank you for your dedication!
Super exciting! Thanks VERY much for your excellent coverage and reporting.
great article !!!
A lot of details - thanks
Nice job, as always. Thanks!
Could they tie Elon to one? Asking for a friend.
One of the most exciting videos re SpaceX I've seen (except the IFTs). Also, the ONLY time I have not skipped the advert at the beginning.. I wish I could afford one of them watches 😟
Good stuff
I can’t wait to see the Tera Bay
7:55 is that a docm77 plushie on the shelf behind Adrian?
Just waiting on the terror bay.
corps is pronounced "core". it's not the army corpse of engineers lol
NSF needs someone at the FAA.
You mention that Gigabay could hold a dozen fully stacked Starships and illustrate that with complete booster and Starship stacks, however, the full rocket is 122m tall and the Gagabay is only 116m in total. I assume you mean fully stacked boosters?
Yes, fully stacked boosters and ships (separately from one another)
1st I forgot their was a tower for Starship at 39A. Are they going to ship boosters and ships to Starbase Florida, as it will be a year or more before Florida will have both a Starfactory and Gigabay. Or are they going to use tents and the VAB to prep Starships to launch.
I think the plan it to build them right on site.
You forgot to mention that LC-36 already withstood a 22 second static firing prior to NG-1. So, the pad withstood the equivalent of not one, but TWO launches and within mere weeks of each other.
Adrian. Toughly. SpaceX will need a space equivalent to Massey for the same purpose. Where will it be done ?
Massey is a test site, so hopefully at Kennedy, they will just build and fly no testing required, same as in the car industry they build and test cars initially but eventually it's just build them fast and get them out the door/
SpaceX is on all cylinders!
We need 2 monthly videos outta the cape 😂
We may just be thinking about that. --kmr
wen terabay?
They should call it ”Big Bay” because that’d be funny.
The chemical processing facility is for coating barrel rings for New Glenn
What’s up Max! 😎👊🏻
Alex (paraphrased): "ML-2 is expected to be completed by the end of this year."
Me: "Wow, I never knew NSF were such optimists."
Well, that's for the tower's structure. They still have to outfit it and that'll take the entirety of 2026. Then another year of testing and whatnot... it won't be launch ready until 2029 most likely
What if they divert the flame upwards instead of parallel to the ground? Like a siphon directed upwards
That's what the flame trench does
Wen Terabay?
Good coverage.
And thank you for standardising on units of measure used by the whole world (except one country).
Maybe one day we’ll explore the oceans…
Irony in that is it's actually harder to do! We know the surface of the moon better than we know the surface of the deep ocean.
They already have a mount assembled at AO. They have not even approved SpaceX to launch starship from the Cape. Blue is expanding. Still have Relativity and Stoke Space that are building their pads as well. A lot is coming to the Cape in the future.
The mount at AO is the old design and it's scrapped which is why it is outside rusting in the salty air.
Not too worried about Stokes- those folks are proceeding full-speed. Worried about Relativity, tho.
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I am surprised that the fact that Blue Origin left their massive second stage and payload in Medium Earth Orbit. For visualization it is 21.9 (72 feet) meters long, 7 meters (23 feet) in diameter, with an unfueled mass or around 15,000 kg (33,000 lbs). That is a lot of space junk that seemingly will remain in orbit for decades or even centuries apparently in violation at least the spirit of U.S. Government Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices (ODMSP).
it is a controlled stage though, so it is likely still powered to an extent
@@clayel1- do BO have a plan to de-orbit it or send it to a graveyard orbit ??
Medium Earth orbit is indeed a very long-term storage location. In centuries, when the BO stage finally begins to approach LEO, it will need to be intercepted and yeeted into the Pacific graveyard.
@@clayel1 That second stage is in no way still powered or controlled. There is no power source and its propellant was vented out after it did its mission.
The amount of material in that orbit is much thinner. It's safer there than in LEO. Long term safe disposal is the goal of the debris mitigation effort and a long term grave orbit fits the bill.
I have just realised that SpaceX didn't need to build and tow a barge far out into the ocean, just in case they could land the booster. Experimental landings on the sea were part of the philosophy of "the best part is no part". Now they have shown that their launch facilities can be reused for landings. I suspect that they will only go back to using a modified oil rig for landings and takeoffs when they have shown that they can reuse boosters and ships without refurbishment. I look forward to seeing how a single tower on land or on a rig can be used efficiently, and whether they will need multiple "gates" for this vertical "runway".
Off-shore spaceports are still possibly needed when the pace of launching becomes excessive at KSC. But these oil derrick platforms would not be enough.
IF their plan is actually high speed reuse of the boosters then landing at sea becomes counter productive. The engineering and expense behind a sea based launch system is really hard and expensive. It would be desperation to do it.
@ - offshore towers may become essential if the sonic boom becomes an issue. Ships can transport the cargoes and liquid gasses needed far more efficiently than road transport. However as I said, it will only happen if SpaceX reach their goal of Starship become as reusable as an aircraft.
Didn't SpaceX sign a lease for use of one of the high bays in the VAB a year or two back? If they could get another, wouldn't that work for them and save some construction costs?
All VAB high bays are being used by NASA. The lease never went through
Anyone cheering to see something from Space X to explode?
Only the small petty and generally unintelligent. But burdens are what they are. Useless little nothings.
Media blackout on musk and his companies now. Let's pick this back up under better mental health.
I think you're the last person in the world qualified to judge mental health.
@zsak - You don't get to decide what everyone else wants to see.
@@michaelcox1071 Likely he was spoon fed that. Most of these drones get told what to think and can't actually think for themselves.
This video helps a lot! Thanks!
When comparing size, the NASA VAB is significantly bigger than the new GIGABAY project, however, how many rockets fit in the VAB?
Bigger may not be better.
It can fit multiple full stack Starship rockets compared to zero full stack Starship rockets inside the GigaBay
@ No need, stacking is an external operation.
Best stack is no stack. Well at least not until launch.
@@SteveWindsurf Well you asked how many rockets it can fit so I compared full rockets so I did a proper apples to apples comparison in that case
@@ale131296 People are going to have to stop referring to the manufacturing as 'stacking' now. It does tend to lead to confusion.
Yeah, me again...re 39A... flame trench could possibly incorporate a flame diverter/trench with a higher / curved end deflection angle to deflect exhaust away and above any sensitive areas? Maybe raise the 'floor' of the trench above ground level at its end (ie extend the end of the trench skywards?) and so direct any 'undesired forces' skywards and therefore avoiding any incidental damage to adjacent structures or facilities???
Just a thought, but hopefully maybe someone might pick up on it????
Be sure someone at SpaceX will have tried to select the optimum trade-off
Is there a danger to sensitive area's with the existing system? Are they planning a new trench at 39A? I have to admit I have NOT been following what's going on at the cape.
Stop funding SpaceX with public money. DOGE needs to cutting government funding of Starship.
It's not. Try actually informing yourself a little rather than repeating the nonsense some other imbecile spoon fed to you. Oh wait. You drones are not designed to think for yourselves are you?
The VAB is still the biggest building by enclosed volume in the western hemisphere. You could park the Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Cathedral inside that building with internal space to spare.
the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is among the largest buildings in the world by volume. However, it is not the largest. The VAB has an internal volume of approximately 129.4 million cubic feet (3.66 million cubic meters), making it the eighth-largest building by volume as of 2022.
In contrast, the Boeing Everett Factory in Everett, Washington, USA, holds the record for the largest building by continuous volume, with an interior volume of about 472 million cubic feet (13.3 million cubic meters). This makes the Boeing Everett Factory significantly larger than the VAB.
thanks to CHATGTP
Watching launch rockets at work equals pay or leussure?
The next evolution in space will be either orbital space station that has a shipyard or next to an orbital shipyard or the same on the moon. The need for a shipyard in micro gravity of an orbital shipyard or the low gravity and no atmosphere of the moon. Just the ability to make metals in a vacuum with lunar or micro gravity will be revolutionary in metallurgy and possibly even superconductor technology. The ability to build a ship the size of a modern aircraft carrier with a rotating habitat section would allow for long term space living without the severe side effects of long-term micro gravity, 8-10hr working in 0G then return to habitat ring for 14-16hrs at or close to 1G(earth gravity). Basically, Giga Bay and Star Factory in space is the future and the next step to end mining on earth.
We're still trying to get Starship in orbit and reusable. Let's not get out ahead of our ski's.
@@keithfield I totally agree with you, Starship once its fully reusable even if it takes 24hr turnaround for tanker/Starlink and non-human rated ships and 1 week for human rated ships. The next space station or moon base should be built with assembly facility to put together nuclear thermal powered tugs to facilitate faster travel between destinations in space. Its agents international law to launch a fueled nuclear thermal engine and the shielding alone is still too heavy for Starship V3 to deliver a fully assembled unfueled engine to the ISS
You have read too much SciFi, and not watched enough ISS footage. Just imagine the manufacturing resources of the earth required to construct a starship, space station or habitat module for the Moon or Mars, let alone trying to substitute all that manufacturing off earth. A pipe dream for an indefinite time in the future.
@Angry, Long before massive structures are manufactured in orbit, the infrastructure on the moon has to first be developed.
Material refining and manufacturing plants are first needed on the Moon to provide the raw materials launched to Lunar orbit. Launching from Earth is the only other alternative.
So, you have it backwards.
In a generation or two maybe. Making metals in a vacuum and low gravity are not real difficult in fact it'll help a lot. How you get superconductors out of that is beyond me. I agree we need to start seriously looking into spin gravity. So far it's untested at any useful scale.
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Go Elon. Go to Mars
Please
...and stay there
Cancel Spacex contracts
Cancel USAID and DEI first
Space industries are building one airport per plane... make me wonder if there's a business for independent lunch complex supplier able to support various model of rocket
To make that work you'd need some standardization. I don't think any really exists yet.
With SpaceX doing so well, I sure hope it survives Elon's descent into mad fascism.😳
Yeah. I really wish he wasn’t associated with any of this. SpaceX is amazing; the bigoted wannabe oligarch in charge is hurting the reputation of the company and of spaceflight as a whole.
Tesla, too. He re-jump-started the planetwide EV industry with Tesla; now, yesterday was reported Tesla sales in Europe are plunging- like, by 60%! - directly because of Elon.
@@dphuntsman True, and the weird thing is he didn't start Tesla. He bought it from the founders who created the original Roadster.
@@martythemartian99 Buy it? That's not quite correct. Tesla was founded by Eberhard and Tarpenning but that was all. It was Elon who took over the chair and led the first funding round that got them the money to build the Roadster. 4 years later he's CEO and they're building those first Roadsters.
The space tsunami rolls onwards!
Ohh
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How big of a Gigabay does SpaceX need to get a Ship to survive reentry? inquiring minds want to know.
Has nothing to do with the size of a bay. I don't think those inquiring minds are being terribly serious.
Sounds like Florida is hiring. Be nice to see a production facility for a battery electric aircraft in Florida as is true already in California, Georgia and of course the mighty State of Vermont #beta_technologies so yes...where is New York State again in all of this? Nowhere to be either heard or seen of from but for me again? No suprise in that either. As for the State of Virgina their #virginia_spaceport is ready to go with #rocketlab having a brand new Rocket and mission set for their competitor to SpaceX Falcon9r ...does SpaceX have an answer for that either? At least they have the Falcon 9r absolutely. And what about ULA and Sierra Nevada and also of course Alaska which has a launch site #kodiak_island_rocket_facility and of course New Mexico as well...these latter two do have energy product of the type rockets can use...but nkt right and proper oil or natural gas refinery operations. Makes for an interesting 2025 no doubt looking forward to your continuing coverage as a consequence 😊😊
I’m trying to watch this objectively but Musk’s latest antics puts a pall over the whole SpaceX project in my mind. I hope I get over it.
Auditing how our tax dollars are spent bothers you?
@@gordonstewart5774😂 you can call it that... But then an audit is done by professionals in the field not by highschool boys😅
@@spanke2999 since you don’t really know what is taking place and are only repeating propaganda media talking points, we’ll give you a small pass on your uninformed comment.
@@daleeasterwood2683 ... Sure
@@daleeasterwood2683 🤣 sure, nobody knows anything. Total normal for a guy who claims to be for transparency... Also, last time I checked the oversight over the government lies by the house and senate and not by an unelected billionaire. But what do I know... 😅 I guess the only thing we know by now is that ignorance is a bliss
Wow the American tax payers are super rich 😮
This isn't coming from taxes. This is private company work. Of course, some tax money is used for launch contracts, but that's all.
Also, the entire budget of NASA is less than 2% of total tax revenue. So yes, Americans are rich I guess.
@@Desrtfox71you are massively overselling the nasa budget. 0,4%
@@Wurtoz9643 Yeah, I was making a conservative point. Even if all of the development shown in the video came from US Federal Taxes ( Hint: Most doesn't), this would still represent a tiny portion of the actual US Federal Tax revenue.
Next will be a TeraBay then a PetaBay!!! I like UltraMegaGigaBay!!! 😂
And finally -the Michael Bay.
I really hope NASA axes SLS. What an absolute waste of tax dollars.
NASA doesn't have the say you think they do. Congress holds the purse strings.
@@imaginary_friend7300I understand why you say that…but things have changed, even in Congress. And the right NASA leader most certainly COULD cancel SLS. - Dave Huntsman
@@dphuntsman Perhaps. From what I've seen changes in administration don't always change the influence of special interest groups in Congress and job programs tend to carry a lot of clout. To cancel SLS it would require Congress to pass a new appropriations bill zeroing out SLS. Can an administrator make a decision like that unilaterally without congressional approval and then impose it on a potentially un-receptive congress?
Blue Origin flight coverage was pathetic. Can't get excited for the cryptic turtle company.
I’m a little confused why they need all this new production capacity if the ships are to be properly reusable.
You're not the only one. Talk about a potentially inefficient operation Reusability is suppose to lower costs. If you're overbuilding, what are you going to do with the inventory?
Launch cadence.
Mass production for spacecrafts. Very very low costs in the future
Think about how many commercial aircraft there are.
SpaceX plans to construct more than 1000 starships. You need actual production facilities for this.
Von Braun would be proud
Please. Redevelop do not develop in natural areas or rural farm areas. And you still can be successful. I promise 👍
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Oh look, another 5 min wait 🙄
The second narrator is unlistenable.
That’s incorrect; he’s just fine. - Dave Huntsman
BO,
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I mean at least they’re following spacex in setting lofty aspirational goals and timelines, probably wont be nearly as good at delivering eventually though