How Does SpaceX Build Starships at Starbase? From Steel to Starship.
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2023
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How Does SpaceX Build The Largest Rocket In The World? SpaceX builds Starships out in the open at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. We took this incredible opportunity to learn a bit more about the process from STEEL to STARSHIP. Complete with new renderings by Ring Watchers member Chameleon Circuit.
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Jeff Bezos somewhere, taking detailed notes.
China
Or making someone else
So is China 😂
@@Round_Slinger china does everything better and cheaper, theyre the real elon musk
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The new content that you have been releasing as of late is absolutely fantastic. I'm loving it and judging from the likes/view count everyone else is as well. Great gob NSF team!
Yes, I agree. It's at a whole new level. Plus Ryan 👋🙂
Thanks to everyone at NSF and partners for all this amazing coverage and content. Y’all rock!!
I'm loving Ryan's videos! They are great. Keep it up
This video is amazing! Are there any plans to make a similar video for the super heavy booster?
Sawyer it’s never to soon for flying concrete jokes. Lol
I never knew they used the drive motors from Teslas to run the flaps, that is pretty cool
I love the comment at 02:00. "The big gaping hole in the middle. We'll get back to that later."
This is an excellent primer. Thanks Ryan.
You have leveled up again NSF!! Awesome content, perfect timing! 🤩
Great Video Ryan and NSF Crew
This is awesome. Looking forward to the sequel on Super Heavy.
Excellent video. I love this format as an addition to the old way of doing things. Keep these coming (and Jack’s, of course).
Yes, please do a similar analysis of the super heavy booster.
NSF is always the first place I go to for spaceflight coverage. Great job guys.
awesome animations. Realy simple and clear. Love it
Another great explainer! Thanks Ryan
And thanks to Ian Atkinson too for writing it.
Now, with all this detailed assembly instruction, we can make our own sub-scale BFR's using only aluminum sheets or poster paper ! 🥳
Go with Al. Poster paper to low kindling point. Burst into 🔥.😂😂
You have earned my support and respect. Your coverage is amazing. I love seeing faces with the voice. Way to go guys!
That is a lot of effort for animating all of this.
I recall a video similar to this a few years ago. That lovely IKEA inspired merch was my highlight
I’m loving the daily content you guys!!!!
This whole video is an amazing summary! Thanks.
You guys are awesome!
Hope all is well with you and your families!
"Each flap on Starship is controlled using two Tesla Model 3 rear drive unit motors."
Lol I love that.
Excellent work as usual!!
can you also do one on how super heavy is built?
Somewhere at the bottom of the ocean are pieces of a starship which didn't even get to start an engine :(
It like to see how their steel holds up in salt water
The main goal of the test flight was clear the launch tower and nothing more !!!!!
@@jason_m_schmidt622 304L is what you cook pasta in.
Great video. Thanks guys!
Outstanding video! I really enjoyed the build animation... I hope you will do the same for Super Heavy?
Would be nice if you could cover the interior details a little, how they make them so they don't crumple without being pressurised in ground handling etc
Thanks!Nicely done!
Great video, very informative but the background beat was a bit distracting for me. Might be my hearing going wrong though! X
Onward to Mars! (But the moon first)
Ty!
may just be my fav video by NSF
Hey small stars! nice to see you on the NSF team
extremely interesting video ❤ and i like your accent and pronunciation. Very nice for me as english is not my first language
Excellent video, great host, thanks!
2:39 i was loking for this info. Waching back your video i finde it. Thank you.
Very informative video, and production quality is great! Great job guys, you've really turned your content up to 11 recently.
Brilliant is OK, but Ryan you are superb. What an outstanding presentation. I hope you also teach - how fortunate the students.
Impressive graphics and well presented to a very high standards. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic
Good to see you making videos again, I was beginning to think that the shock of last week was never going to wear off. Now we need more information on the rebuild plans.
The main goal of the test flight was clear the launch tower and nothing more !!!!!, They've already built three prototypes, and one of them received new RAPTORS 2 engines today.
@@venturestar That's great to know and I was aware of their fast turn around on ships. The problem for now is that they have no where to launch them from. It's going to a major rebuild project to stabilize the OLM, if indeed that's what they end up doing. My worry is that it is going to be a minimum of 6 months before we see them anywhere near ready again. In the meantime they now have FAA regulators breathing down their necks and these guys are going to be hyper with their requirements before SpaceX will be allowed to launch again. They will need an extensive test program to certify any solution to the OLM devastation.
@@B0M0A0K Cant they just fill the crater with sand and gravel, pour concrete over it and slap the water cooled steel plate over it that they already have? Also add the water deluge system that they had those huge pipes brought in for and call it a day? Sounds like 3 months worth of work.
@@B0M0A0K No offense to SpaceX but they knew what was going to happen regarding the FAA's actions if this flight didn't go decently. The truth is the FAA wouldn't be "breathing down their necks" currently if the OLM, launch site and the surrounding protected wetlands (which SpaceX doesn't own and can't mess with) didn't take such a beating. Not to mention all the particulate matter that was blanketed over the towns surrounding Boca. It was a calculated risk and unfortunately it seems to have backfired on them. It's probably going to set them back more than if they just waited for the water-cooled flame diverter to be installed; especially since it was already at the site.
Considering the structural issues they found on Starship (the ship, not the stack), I think they REALLY needed and wanted the test data from the flight to continue iterating on the design as to not waste time/scrap a bunch of hardware.
The only other reason(s) I can think of in their choice of pushing the launch through was Elon. He either wanted a 4/20 launch (the only date in the program he ever called correctly!) for publicity or he wanted to "save face" so to speak as he kept saying a while ago that the FAA was holding them back (looks like that might have backfired a bit) in their testing regime.
@@georgewashington1621 I think they have to do some combination of both, but I'm afraid I have little faith in this water cooled steel plate idea. They still haven't changed the basic issue they had with the original heat resistant concrete. Namely that this has to withstand not only the temperature, but the pressure waves generated by 33 engines. And if it's flat then the pressure wave will simply rebound and redirect all that energy right back into the engine bay. As mentioned, they are going to have to test the hell out of this solution and at 90-100% rather than 50%. I'm not convinced that they won't end up needing a trench and I don't think they will be allowed that because of the environmental impact. It's a really difficult problem.
Where will the ship header tanks go when the human-rated version has crew accommodations at the top? Just below the crew pressure vessel?
The plans keep changing all the time. First they need to get it orbital and have it land in one piece. All else has to wait.
Good work.
Great presentation nowadays. Keep up
This is a wonderful video
It's always good but this was the best yet writing and delivery. Bravo!
Thank you!
guys, this is a very VERY excellent overview, well done, we need more.....WE NEED MORE....anon. Love ja. ( we build stainless beer and grain tanks so we know the issues.....😬
great job ryan :)
So here's the thing...I like this guy.🔥
3:09 Why have that pentagon prism and mesh? is a turbopump there? Use it as filter dont make sense when cryogenic stufs must go in clean tanks(otherwise if moisture will destroy mutistage pump)? Can go solid that liquid CH4?
Oooh- more of this please, NSF!
Love the video format. We need more deepdoives!
AFAIK, the 304L stainless steel sheets are **not** 2m wide, nor are they 4mm or 3mm thick. It's still 6ft wide = 1.829m, and the thicknesses are 11 gauge (3.97mm) and 10 gauge (3.57mm). I tried laying everything out using the 2m numbers and it doesn't work without going to the old-timey sorta-imperial units.
Starship is made of 19 rings:
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die
))
somebody needs to get a high quality rendering and figure out how many miles of welds there are?? I would really like to know how thing the rolled stainless is!!???
1:13 they improve a lot with this method 1:20. BUT I HVE A BETTER ONE. SPRING COIL.
Roll it as a spring. instead oc cut segment just roll it with certain angle and you can make large as infinte. Mass production unlocked.
Awesome video guys! One thing I'd like to say though, is that you could differentiate between "will be" and "is" a little more. I don't like the thought of someone not being that deep into starship thinking they already launch starlink satellites regularly using SS.
looking at all of this process... Is it possible to create molds of the ship, instead of welding layers and layers of rings?
Probably gonna have to watch this more than once.
Very smart to make this video right after the explosion. Probably a lot of curious people wondering whats next.
The main goal of the test flight was clear the launch tower and nothing more !!!!!
@@venturestar Most people watching an NSF video understand that.
@@venturestar pretty low goals to have, i thought elon musk was a self described optimist? he looked pretty disappointed during the live reaction
great agsain
im pretty shure its a little more special of stainless than just plain old 304, 304 is what your modern day table sets are made from
I imagined something completely different by "gaping hole". I think I should go to therapy..
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4mm, ouch... does it mean that current prototypes have only a fraction of they calculated 100-150t reusable payload to LEO? Elon said that the final product would have 2mm thickness and even as low as 1.5mm in some places to reach the payload goal, if i remember correctly.
thank you for the commentary!! I was looking for that value!! though this is an American rocket and we work in imperial over here!!!
9:25 categorically untrue; albeit larger and less efficient on paper at sea level, RVacs are known to work just fine at sea level because their chamber pressure will still be at over 1 atmosphere even after the exhaust gas is pushed out a nozzle with an area ratio that’s definitely not enough to reduce the exit pressure by that much
Are you sure? Expansion ratio will be higher, this means overexpanded at the outlet. Then surrounding air might be sucked in around the edge of the bell, while the gas is flowing out, hence the damage
Now they just need to build a flame trench!
one question, has the lopsided weight of 17,000 heatshield tiles been taken into account when starship and booster launch...?
It definitely is! But the tiles are designed to be as lightweight as possible, so it's not that major of a contribution.
is this spacex's channel ? lol it feels like it since the starship launch
why do they not use the spiral welding technique?
Would it be easier to use spiral weld to make the starship?
No. It would make the structure more vulnerable - it would "zip open". That is why vertical weld lines are staggered. Also working with steel sheets that large, and heavy, is not made any easier at an angle.
they are going to need to replace the tank farm. which shouldn't take as long as the first batch.
That is your point of view!! not SpaceX's intentions
Ryan said starship will have a soft landing on the ground. I thought SpaceX had given up on ground landings after SN15 and decided ships were going to be caught by the tower. Or did i get that wrong?
it would be cool to see a giant arresting wire like they use to catch planes on aircraft carriers and bring them to a halt
They're going to have to put steelplate underneath the launch deck cool it down a lot of water 🤔
The roads to starbase are going to be toast with all those heavy resources they need :o
They are reinforcing the road between Starbase and Massey, just as they did to the launch site.
But they will have to repeat that every few years - can't be helped.
(The could drill and install concrete and rebar pilings under the road, but that would be very very expensive. They will never do that.)
but dont have structural suport inside?
guess they didnt like how they made Saturn V domes.
SpaceX starship the berth of StarTrek . Elon needs to start naming the starships . Starship Voyager.
Do a kick flip
I wonder if starship will also use the belly flop position during coast on the way to mars. (Heatshield in prograde direction)
Considering the tank walls are also the ship walls this might be needed to shield from impacts or am I missing something here?
The likely orientation would be pointing the engine bay towards the sun. That puts all that steel in the way and reduces direct sunlight on the tanks. If it also deploys solar cells as a circle around the bottom, that would add to the sun-shielding. But SpaceX is at the moment more concerned about getting the Starship system working at all. Mars is not their first priority, only their goal long term.
I still don't see the tiles working on fast and rapid reusable goal. Some other new technology is needed.
We could only see a handful of tiles missing before the FTS killed it. Considering the large amount of debris and the very long start sequence I would say that those who were expecting it to drop large numbers were wrong. What would have happened on reentry will remain unknown until the next ship tries it. If you happen to know of a "new technology" I would love to learn about it. Until that shows up they will use the best they have.
where does all the steel to make starships come from? have asked lots of times but no experts seem to know?
There are many commercial suppliers of stainless steel for aerospace. It's a very common material that is always readily available.
I think it’s Steel dynamics but looking for conformation
hmmm
You know, building this stuff on a beach instead of a clean room has often been taken as a sign of unprofessionalism, with bad working conditions for something that needs to be built with precision in mind. Also those letters saying "please skip thanksgiving" are really bad to hear Elon.
But if they manage to do it, these workers should get a ride on top at some point for all their hard work. I'm sure they could even build one on Mars 🙂
Cut up submarines for starships
Good video. I learned a lot. Thank you
I'm sure China love's these types of videos... lol
Give me Das and Jack or give me Bacon
Ryan. dont forget to smile some more well talking about starship
Thanks China can build their Setar Sippe
Not Safe For WHAT ....?? plz answer me . o/
Oops, I though this was a how to video, What now?
Too soon 🪨
That background "music" is really distracting, and rather annoying. Nice presentation though.
The FAA is to blame for not issuing many licenses over the last 2 years.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is responsible for regulating and licensing commercial space launches in the United States, including those conducted by private companies like SpaceX. To accommodate rapid design and testing of spacecraft, the FAA has to be flexible and adaptive to the evolving needs of the industry.
One way the FAA has adjusted its licensing policy is by implementing a "streamlined" review process for reusable launch vehicles like the SpaceX Starship. This process allows for multiple launches under a single license, as long as the vehicle design remains largely unchanged. This means that SpaceX can conduct more launches without having to go through the entire licensing process each time.
In terms of safety regulations, the FAA requires that companies like SpaceX demonstrate that their launch vehicles are safe and reliable. This includes testing of all vehicle components, including the flame diverter that you mentioned.
If ongoing tests had been done and a booster had flown alone sub-orbital, and it was discovered that a flame diverter was needed, SpaceX would have had to address the issue before the next launch. The FAA would require SpaceX to demonstrate that the issue had been fixed before approving another launch.
Overall, the FAA is constantly adapting and adjusting its licensing policies to accommodate the rapid innovation and testing in the commercial space industry, while still ensuring public safety.
To be more in line with the type of rapid design and testing that is common SpaceX, the FAA could consider several strategies:
1. Implement a more agile regulatory framework: The FAA could adopt a more flexible and adaptive regulatory framework that can keep pace with the rapid innovation and testing in the commercial space industry. This could include allowing for more experimental launches under temporary permits or easing some safety regulations for reusable launch vehicles with a proven safety record.
2. Enhance collaboration and communication with industry stakeholders: The FAA could work more closely with commercial space companies to gain a better understanding of their needs and challenges. The agency could collaborate with industry stakeholders to develop safety standards and best practices that are more aligned with the unique features of the new launch vehicles.
3. Invest in technology and expertise: The FAA could invest in developing and enhancing its technology and expertise to improve safety and regulatory oversight. This could include improving its analytical capabilities, enhancing its simulation tools, and hiring more experts in areas like materials science and propulsion technology.
4. Foster a culture of innovation: The FAA could encourage innovation in the commercial space industry by promoting a culture of safety and responsible risk-taking. This could include providing incentives for companies that prioritize safety and sustainability, recognizing companies that achieve breakthroughs in technology and safety, and encouraging knowledge sharing and collaboration among industry stakeholders.
Overall, the FAA could take a more proactive and collaborative approach to regulation to ensure that it is keeping pace with the rapidly evolving commercial space industry while maintaining safety and security for the public.
Yup. FAA handled this as well as they did with Boeing's 737MAX. Cozy relationship about to change.
He he you say mee-thane
Perfectly pronounced, that's how the original English speakers say it, and they also say al-u-min-i-um (as if there were any on board). Fly safe.
What happened to your hair?
Like to thank the FAA for overseeing this matter in exactly the same way they did for Boeing's 737 MAX.