SpaceX's Starship Achieves New Milestones | This Week In Spaceflight
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- In this week's This Week In Spaceflight episode, we review the impressive third flight test of Starship, the amazing views from space, and the Ship's reentry. We also examine the explosive maiden flight of Space One's Kairos rocket, a new crew returning from the ISS, and a lot more!
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🤵 Hosted by Elysia Segal (@elysiasegal)
🖋️ Written by Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (@alexphysics13) with Justin Davenport, Evan Packer
🎥 Footage from: D Wise, Max Evans, Boca Chica Gal, Sean Doherty, Space Coast Live, Starbase Live, SpaceX, NASA, ABCTVNews, Rocket Lab, CCTV, CALT, Umbra Space, Stratolaunch.
✂️ Edited by Ryan Caton (@DPodDolphinPro)
💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed).
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:31 Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 6-43
01:03 Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 7-17
01:46 Electron launch of Owl Night Long
02:14 First flight of Kairos ends in spectacular explosion
03:08 Chang Zheng 2C partial failure with DRO-A/B
04:13 Starship launches, achieves "orbital insertion"
10:02 Crew-7 returns from the ISS
11:12 First powered flight of Stratolaunch's Talon
12:14 Starliner delays again but it's not its fault
13:23 March 15th: Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 6-44
13:40 March 19th: Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 7-16
13:51 March 20th: Electron launch of Live and Let Fly
14:05 March 21st: Soyuz 2.1a launch of Soyuz MS-25
14:23 March 21st: Falcon 9 launch of CRS-30
14:42 Outro - Наука та технологія
the booster coming back and ship reentering views were absolutely stunning can't wait IFT4!
IFT3 was the best advert for Internet service ever. The view from inside Starship was almost too good to handle. I can see Starship being used to make space based movies.
Yes, starlink shined on this test.
It IS the space based movie
The air being sucked out the door was amazing
Yall did amazing for the coverage of that launch! Truly incredible job, NSF!
Indeed. Can't wait for the next one. (I'll have to get another patch) 😉
That test flight was probably the coolest thing I’ve seen. Cant believe how fast it was to reach low orbit. That reentry footage was beautiful
If failure is the coolest thing you ever saw, you have a very low bar.
You have the voice, personality, and energy for a perfect delivery of these updates. Wonderful.
The reentry views from Starship were amazing. Hope for 2 good splashdowns next time.
Oh my god really .. let's hope instead Elon helps world hunger instead of blowing up rocket science .. what a scam. If u know science u know we can't live in space or Mars or moon. But u don't k kW science obvs
Don't get carried away. In reality SpaceX is not very far up the learning curve.
theres a pretty good chance of successful booster landing next flight given how close they got this time.
as for the ship, idk, they didn;t even properly test the heatshield this flight. i think itll take a few more flights before they manage a succesful reentry, but i think it could happen this year.
I bet the astronauts scheduled to fly on that thing are hoping for a lot more than that.
@@JeffRL1956And how do the astronauts scheduled to fly on Starliner feel? It's always funny when people pretend Starship comes from a different company than the wildly successful Falcon, Falcon Heavy and Dragon spacecraft...
When Elysia flashes her wonderful smile, it’s like activating a FTS - riveting!
Elysia & NSF, thanks for another great space recap!
You explode midair?
NSF's coverage and commentary during and after IFT-3 was top notch! Thanks again for all you do!
My nieces have a request - can you tell them where Elysia gets her ear rings? They loved the parachuting capsules, and really like the silver starships. 🥰
The eternal question. I personally believe she has them made for her.
Great report Elysia, good to see you again!
This announcer you have is so cheerful after listening to her you feel happier even if you were previously feeling low. Thank you.
You summed Star Ships launch and flight correctly in one word. AMAZING
NSF was great. Thanks.
You guys nailed covering the launch. I woke up T-20 before launch and hopped into the stream, the team kept the excitement up through the entire test.
We missed you Elysia! Thanks for the awesome update
Elysia, I really enjoy all your updates and look forward to the awesome earings you wear for each episode, they are always appropriate to each update!
can't wait to see what the other cameras also recorded (& transmitted but not yet made public)
Great spaceflight update! The views of starship were astounding, like HD videos from space.
No lies, this stuff we are living through is amazing, i got so excited seeing the live plasma.....
STARSHIPMAN
6:08 "Engine-rich exhaust." Funny.
NSF coverage of IFT3 was fantastic.
Reentry club!
Thanks Elysia and NSF team, great summary.
Love the technical detail with the videos, please don't stop
Great Information again. (As usual). Thanks
@rchorseman you are a legend at NSF. Your constant support of the channel will always be appreciated by all of us who love the channel. A personal “thank you” from me for the support that has helped bring all the coverage that I have enjoyed over the past year plus!
Love your enthusiasm and that you’re able to pronounce the Chinese rocket names! The world needs more enthusiastic space fanatics!
Perhaps the ISS should designate a handicapped spacecraft dock just for the Boeing Starliner
I like Elysia's style of presenting information. Nice and direct.
Coverage and updates are as awesome as ever, thanks!
Thank you for the great coverage and the update! So excited for the next steps of this program and getting back to the moon.
From what we saw of IFT-3, i dont think theres really that much that needs to be fixed! The failure with the booster may have been caused by gridfins overcorrecting or they may have been damaged by hotstaging or ice fell or formed within the components and it may have jammed them, causing it to roll out of control.
The roll with the ship, now being confirmed as not intended or at least not designed to roll that fast, is probably not gonna happen next flight. They may have had some vents that would assist in controlling the roll of the ship either frozen or they weren’t strong enough to counter the roll.
I also wonder why they wouldn’t point the heat shield towards the sun to mitigate boil-off since it may only be around 200C in sunlight and it will experience over 2,000C. It would also prevent the ship from rolling, and would also mean that they would only need to roll 180 degrees for reentry and that could occur around 5-10 minutes before reentry starts.
Either way, this flight is incredible and the mishap investigation would probably not take too long since they succeeded in many parts of the mission. Hope IFT-4 will survive reentry and splash down in the ocean in one piece, but i would love to see them deploy a camera with a parachute around 500m looking at the starship before splashdown so we can see a world record bellyflop!
Great videos & photos, Great coverage Elysia, Thank you!!!
Great overview of so much activity regarding space. Thanks!
What a week for space enthusiasts, thanks Elesia and all the blood sweat and tears Go Starship, Go SpaceX, Go Everyday Astronauts, ❤to👀!!!
Great to get the live feed from the onboard cameras. Small steps taken in testing program, but better for a safe and reliable spacecraft. More improvements in this year is guaranteed.
The rentry was amazing, cant wait for 4th launch.
In that crew members.. One of them from left looks like tom Holland.. 😂😂😂
Great stuff. Glad to see and hear a non ai presenter.
AMEN. I just can’t understand why these channels can’t use a human presenter. AI presenter voices are so annoying…I won’t watch channels that use them
An amazing week! Thanks again for the awesome news and coverage!
LOVE THAT SMILE!!! Keep up the GJ
Awesome coverage and here's little something for Elysia Segal, in reward for _starship_ ear jewelry, yes I must ask my wife what's that called lol
this was one of the happiest moment of the year yet, hope to see ITF4 soon!
You're happy Starship burned up? So how do you feel about ULAs Vulcan NOT failing it's mission?
@@davidstevenson9517 why are you so hostile? starship was a success. please keep your negativity out of the argoument
Awesome 😎 thanks to you all for your great work.
superb and thorough weekly summary. Thanks.
great update, thanks
So Love the Friday updates❤
Good job. You’re so easy to listen to 👍
Thanks for the news 😊
Great coverage yet again, everyone! I wonder if someone got footage of the Super Heavy coming down...
That is the worlds most powerful blowtorch!
I think it could help to spray water on all the other parts of the launch tower - perhaps as soon as the engines clear that level. Launch table, BQD hood, Ship QD, arms, tower top, etc.
Nice voice and presentation.
IFT 3 made me wonder if the boosters also need small header tanks to start up the landing burn
The booster doesnt have header tanks
Tim talked about noticing ice buildup on the thruster nozzles, which potentially could have redirected the flow and induced the spin.
Not sure we could see any thrusters with ice buildup on the cameras feeds SpaceX made available.
You're such a wonderful, eloquent and beautiful presenter!!
Thank you very well done.
Insane reentry views
Love the Starship ear ring bling!!! you rock em. .. are they in the NSF merch shop? Awesome job I look forward to your shows.
Lots of metal print worthy shots from Starship once it reached space and its suborbital trajectory this time.
That was a tremdous flght, even though it didn't all go as planned. I watched from lift off to reentry. I was amazed that within 40 or so minutes from launch it was starting reentry. Never would I have ever dreamed of doing such. We truly live in a remarkable age, and it all came about in the USA!
Very nice report! 🎉😊
For Kairos - I know the company claimed the FTS activated, but as the booster was *still* burning (albeit not making any significant thrust) are we sure that the FTS activated? I would have thought the FTS would have been designed to ensure any active stage was either completely destroyed or was explosively blown out (something done by ICBMs to allow for more precise orbit control).
According to the company the FTS works by exploding the casing up top and having the booster disintegrate, essentially looking like a failure of the casing.
@@ale131296 seems like it didn't work very well. Might have exploded the upper stages and blown out the top dome, but the video clearly shows the booster still largely intact and burning energetically after crashing onto the pad.
Solids are different; FTS is to stop it GOING ANYWHERE and hurting uninvolved public. But, once you light that grain, any part of that grain that was not disintegrated is still going to burn to completion.- Dave Huntsman
That Segul entity, she has a nice voice.
Your the greatest Elysia! Space news with a dose of cheer!
*You're
good video thx
Elysia and NSF, y'all rock! Peace
3 Cheers to Japan for being open about their challenges in developing new rockets and spacecraft. Working together we can achieve more as a global community!!!!!
Wonderful earrings and a wonderful week!
Congrats to all teams contributing to this epochal events ! As for the issue decribed at 6`10 about the presumably insufficient suply of fuel due to fuel slosh: I wonder if it was considered some kind of special gravitanion-free tank, like a rotating star-shaped tank which while spinning is creating a centrifugal force on the included fuel ensuring a constant pressure flow during whatever maneuver, or some kind of a siringe-like tank which has a additional wall moving along some spiral rods, a vice-like combination, a compressing wall imperfect-tight enough to ensure comtainment of the sloshing fuel for the duration of the maneuver ?
Love your enthusiasm. When are you going to take a ride? ha ha ha ha
Those earrings are incredible
Me: Tries to explain Starship.
My friends: Space Shuddow?
wait.. they built a launch mount ring in secret?!
Skunk Works built the SR-71 in secret using titanium bought from Russia and an F-117…that we know about.
Epic! 😎
what flew off the Starship was not just debis. This looks like large numbers of heat shield tiles came off when the ship rolled and that might have ultimately been the reason why the ship was lost. The heat shield was compromised.
Well the ship shouldn't have been rolling in the first place at that point. Kinda looks like that's the actual source of the failure rather than the tiles
At this rate, HLS Lunar Starship will never be ready for Artemis 3 in 2 years.
@@davidstevenson9517 3 months from flight 2 to 3. At this rate, they'll have 5-10 launches between now and summer 2025.
Nice T-shirt :)
The previous coolest thing I've ever seen was the first Falcon Heavy dual-booster landing. The current coolest thing was the high definition plasma buildup under Starship streamed LIVE somehow.
I mean, seriously, was it a fluke that I streamed as long as it did?? Or has Space worked out a way to use ionisation to send signals better? I know you can use the ionosphere to some extent, but the bandwidth for superheated plasma must be ridiculously low. I wouldn't put it past SpaceX though, since the company has been built around broadcast. Perhaps RnD has been working in the background to develop signalling through multiple states of matter. Solid to gas is relatively simple, as is solid to liquid, but gas to liquid or gas to solid isn't very efficient. Upon thought, it's likely due to the amount of atom "impacts" from one state to another. Solid to liquid/gas is many to fewer allowing more energy transfer. Upon further thought, electromagnet signals don't work the same way as sound so my deduction is basically null. Oh well.
EDIT: Going to leave it here so it's written down, but I'm going to estimate the 20th of April for next launch because Elon. It also gives a reasonable amount of time for a fairly minor (comparatively) mishap investigation as well as upgrades + test campaign. I'll also guess full orbit, soft splashdown for booster and some kind of landing for Starship, be it hard or successful. No chopstick use though.
SpaceX added four large antennas to the top of starship to beam that plasma blackout footage to the StarLink Network.
@@mikegardner107 and that aside; some time during the latter part of the shuttle era, NASA figured out how to defeat the radio black out caused by plasma during reentry. i think i recall that they used the plasma to act as an antenna somehow.
No one filmed the re-entry from the coast of the booster?
Booster reentry may have heated the Raptors out of an effective relight window. If the components are slap chilled they might very well fail on said relight.
They may need to adjust the engine chill procedures. Just a thought.
🖖😎👍
I was watching the launch of Space One's Kairos rocket live. Feel bad for all the people who worked on it. A major disappointment to say the least. Also, can't thank you enough for the fantastic marathon stream of the IFT3 launch. Bravo, well done!
Starship did do incredibly well...I'd say they have it, going up and over, and now need to work on the going down part.
Its mass to air resistance ratio is gonna be very high, And fall faster than lighter rockets etc.
I would suggest trying to get some glide ratio instead of just plunging it thru the atmosphere. Slow it down in thin air, before dropping it thru thick air.
Like skipping stones... they get to the bottom of the lake... way more finesse than throwing rocks in at a 45°....
OMG Spider-man was really in space hahahahah 10:10 😅 Tom Holland, anyone?
In that group shot of the ISS crew, the guy on the left is Tom Holland.
Remember when Starbase was just a few tents
When it comes time to design payload doors on Starship for bigger cargo, I wonder if they'll crib notes from the Shuttle....for all it wasn't what the people at Nasa wanted that beast still brought some huge items up to space.
9th commenter nice video. Starship 4 when?
Hopefully in june.
Late May
April
Well, not what was hoped for, so I say.. Fly more. Lots and lots more!
My speculation: the venting of "atmosphere" while testing the cargo bay door induced the unexpected roll. Yes it was probably a tiny bit of extra energy, but that's all it takes.
That’s my speculation too.
Space x confirmed that the payload bay did close up later on
Open the Pez-bay doors HAL😅
Do we have any details on the successful in-flight propellant test on IFT 3?
Elysia did say that that the news was that the propellant transfer had started, but did not know if it was completed.
Soothing voice
What happen to the booster, did it splashdown on the ocean?
Historic week, ladies and gentlemen! Pi Day 2024 marked the turning point when humanity lurched towards the cosmos.
It was also SpaceX’s 22nd birthday!!
I can't find your earrings for sale at your shop. Did you get them elsewhere?
Technically they never reached orbit - it was a sub-orbital flight. Which is good actually since they lost attitude control along the way. Had they actually inserted into orbit, it would probably be stuck there. But hey.. it didn't explode this time!
Yeah that's why we call it the "quasi-orbital" trajectory since it's not really an actual orbit and all
The re-entry video clearly shows a major failure in the way SpaceX attached the heat tiles to the vehicle. I believe this will be the biggest FAA issue with Starship, yet and will be a major concern with NASA, also. I think it will be 6-8 months, perhaps as long as a full year before ITF #4 launches.
You couldn't pay me enough money to get in capsule made by Boeing, nope! nada! NO WAYI
B11-S29 probably will not head to the OLP, until modifications are completed after analysis of the existing issues.
I actually think it may very well be the opposite. B10 and Ship 28 headed out first for engine testing and *then* were modified with the fixes from the previous flight. We know that becsuse they spent a month and a half at the production site being worked on and when they came back to the launch site they had different stuff on them (S28 got engines changed, B10 was seen with lots of new welds, etc). I'm mostly sure they'll approach it the same way this time around where they do engine testing while still reviewing Flight 3 data, then roll the vehicles back to upgrade them, and then back to the launch site for full stack. Seems to me at least that's the most time-saving way of going through the flight 4 campaign.
03:53 Did she call the satellite Joe El?
Since SpaceX now claims they actually did close the door (later, off camera) perhaps Starship crushed in as it re-entered, having a vacuum inside?
I have a question: on fuel telemetry we can see that both vehicles-booster and spaceship used all the fuel during launch/orbit transfer. Spaceship was empty, just the outher shell and guiding systems installed. How it will cope with full payload to LEO 100+tons and still manage to land again?
I don’t believe they fuelled it to 100% since a ship with no payload will be lighter than any launch, and so they downloaded the booster and ship to compensate for the lack of a payload.
It was full, you can see the ice on the exterior.
I think they may have had gotten some ( small ) leaks. Not fatal to structure, but maybe why there was so much rolling going on.
Did it burn up on re entry or is there a debris field somewhere?
Debris fields for anything not burned is at the bottom of the ocean.
Starship problems may be an expression of the 'best part is no part'. Now that lack of a part has been applied without success they will go to the 'next best part'.
Where can I get the plushies of starship