They apparently had a fuel leak on Stage 2 (Starship) which caused a rapid decrease in CH4 which made the engines shut down, which started tumbling the ship, and I believe they hit the FT button.
I know this sounds crazy but I think the thing flapping was a sticker that was seen on the first stage during flight prep. I forget what the sticker was but I think it was crew dragon.
It wasn't a sticker, it was an additional piece of metal that was installed as preparation for a catch ramp for whenever they start to catch the ships. Boosters also have a catch ramp.
It was a steel bumper plate that was welded on to cover hardware use for lifting. You have to bear in mind that anything flapping around is being explosed to anything from 300km/h to 3,000km/h winds. A sticker would be obliterated.
The "explosion" can happen with anything on a fast reentry. Even solid rock, like an asteroid, will explode upon reentry of the atmosphere... That doesn't really explain what the problem actually was that caused it to go off course and fall back down.
This was the first Block 2 ship to fly, all previous ships were Block 1 ships. Wasn't expecting the ship to fail though. It'll be fixed. Also thumbs up for your Thunderbirds shirt, I grew up with that show as a kid. Golden stuff.
The Second stage of New Sheppard worked, and the first stage of Starship worked. If Blue Origin and SpaceX combined forces, they could build a rocket where the whole thing would explode.
Imagine trying to make giant bombs and the thing just lifts off to stratosphere. What a fail. Could really come through if they joined forces on this one. /s
@@jkj420 Apollo 7 carried 3 astronauts and did 163 Orbits for a duration of 10 days, 20 hours, nine minutes, three seconds over a distance: 4,546,918.3 miles. according to NASA on Oct. 11, 1968🙂 Which one would you have wanted to be on . I rest my case, as Musk 7th test flights ended with a big bang and fire works.
The real breakthrough is putting the landing gear at the top, so that it hangs.... They tried to land it before, with the feet on the bottom and it's just too tall and too easy to fall over- without putting enormous braced feet for landing gear, which would be too heavy. So whoever thought of putting the landing gear at the top so that it hangs, is the real unsung hero of this whole design. That is the actual innovation.
@@presjar4016 Elon is very good a setting the stage so that bad news can be framed as good news; in the eyes of a lot of people he cannot fail and he cannot be wrong because of it... it's really hard to have a cogent debate with someone who has adopted the mindset that the learning experience of multiple failures is better than just being right the first time, every time.
There is an article today on how Qantas has had to cancel/delay multiple flights due to the just the plan if it going up. it was already a designated no fly zone by the sounds of it.
Although all this stuff is good for humanity (I think??, emissions notwithstanding) Elon is so identified with the next administration that Tesla sales are tanking, and people in Europe will start wishing for these rockets to fail. I am becoming increasingly concerned about Kessler syndrome. too.
The emissions are nothing. You'd need 10,000 Falcon 9 launches a day to match the airline industry. The benefits in climate science that we get from space exploration massively outstrip the disadvantages. And SpaceX's Starlinks operate in rapidly decaying orbits, so Kessler syndrome isn't an issue.
a decrease in sales does not equal "tanking" that is like saying iPhone sales are tanking just because the market share of Samsung and co. is growing. People could be waiting for the new model 3 and y to arrive before they buy again, that happens to all car models once the refresh is announced. The people who choose not to buy a tesla because they consider musk to be bad are just holier than thou. Name one CEO of a fortune 500 company who isn't "scum"
@@lost4468yt Agree that the emissions are nothing. They don't LOOK like nothing and that's enough to get people angry. You are almost certainly right. And I think I already realised that the vehicles are not subject to the syndrome. But a lot of important stuff is.
@@Nomolyx1 most people who buy pure EV cars now are holier than thou to begin with. The image of a car is a big part of why people do or don't pick a certain car. Think what you like. I am shorting the stock. The fall in China sales is a much bigger factor and that's not political.
@@SnabbKassa seeing that tesla is a very volatile stock that experiences strong ups and downs, shorting the stock at this point might be a good idea. I guess you'll find out at the q1 earnings call if you were right. Wish you all the best with your stocks, hope it works out for you.
The entire purpose is to get payload to orbit. Catching the booster should be the last thing to be focused on. They can't even get an empty starship to not explode / bust apart. And it's already way behind schedule. They should be doing in orbit refuelling of starship by now going by the mission schedule (USA taxpayer funded). But instead, they have yet to get a single KG to orbit.
@presjar4016 so 3 TEST ships blow up out of 7 launches and you think it's a lost cause? Yeah they're behind schedule, but they are years ahead of the competition. I hate Elon but I do like SpaceX. Blue origin blew up, is that a lost cause? Fucking smh
Starship is still too heavy for the desired payload capacity. So they have to agressively cut weight on the current - of course overengineered - design. Probably making walls thinner, welds smaller and structural struts lighter after they got the data of 6 flight tests. They probably have driven the diet a bit too hard in V2. Well.. if you go fast in iteration, with big steps, and fly it, you see that you where in deed right on the removal of safety factor and can continue fast to go down further, finding more payload mass. It looks like this time they wheree too fast and identified areas that needed the beefier structur at cost of loosing 3/4 of the data the hoped for on this flight. The ship was going to die in the ocean anyway. But they missed the starlink dummy release data, new data on the new heatshield and probably a lot more. But they gained data on what areas cannot be lightend up further and have to be beefed up again.
@@capybara5494 According to Elon Musk, there where leaks in the tanks that casued an overpressure in the space between enginess and tanks that the overflow measurements could not vent fast enough. You could see the loss of propellant in the telemetry, confirming a leak. My guess is, that the leak happened becasue something was not strong enough, and thought about what could be the casue why som e thing wasn't strong enough. I consider that a reasonable guess. But I am willing to learn. So what was the cause, enlighten me, the one who knows better than musk?
Is this satire? The engines just work until 4 minutes one fails? All said this is pretty amazing and I would be one of the first in line with my life saving to go into space if I could. Dam good job.
There was a methane leak. Eventually the system self-destructed on purpose. Though as Scott Manley pointed out, it would have likely been safer to let it just go into the ocean instead of exploding it into a million pieces.
From an engineering standpoint this is super amazing. They are flying an inverted pendulum. One break in control and it flips over.
They apparently had a fuel leak on Stage 2 (Starship) which caused a rapid decrease in CH4 which made the engines shut down, which started tumbling the ship, and I believe they hit the FT button.
I know this sounds crazy but I think the thing flapping was a sticker that was seen on the first stage during flight prep. I forget what the sticker was but I think it was crew dragon.
It wasn't a sticker, it was an additional piece of metal that was installed as preparation for a catch ramp for whenever they start to catch the ships. Boosters also have a catch ramp.
It was a steel bumper plate that was welded on to cover hardware use for lifting. You have to bear in mind that anything flapping around is being explosed to anything from 300km/h to 3,000km/h winds. A sticker would be obliterated.
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly=Cosmic confetti : debris hotline
Yes SpaceX nailed it! Best fireworks EVER!
it looks like the door molding from a 1980 Ford Fiesta flapping in the breeze
The "explosion" can happen with anything on a fast reentry. Even solid rock, like an asteroid, will explode upon reentry of the atmosphere... That doesn't really explain what the problem actually was that caused it to go off course and fall back down.
Thanks for video Dave!
This was the first Block 2 ship to fly, all previous ships were Block 1 ships.
Wasn't expecting the ship to fail though. It'll be fixed.
Also thumbs up for your Thunderbirds shirt, I grew up with that show as a kid. Golden stuff.
The Second stage of New Sheppard worked, and the first stage of Starship worked. If Blue Origin and SpaceX combined forces, they could build a rocket where the whole thing would explode.
Imagine trying to make giant bombs and the thing just lifts off to stratosphere. What a fail. Could really come through if they joined forces on this one. /s
*New Glenn.
Or successfully launch
So maybe not quite "ready to put things in orbit" :-)
Congratulations ❤
Put some koalas on there.
You ignored the one about the exploded and diverted flights.
Concentrate dude. Something is wrong with the starship.
Now they are grounded...
I wonder who is going to be the first passenger, will "cremations are us" be the booking agent. :-)
What is wrong with you?
@@jkj420 Apollo 7 carried 3 astronauts and did 163 Orbits for a duration of 10 days, 20 hours, nine minutes, three seconds over a distance: 4,546,918.3 miles. according to NASA on Oct. 11, 1968🙂
Which one would you have wanted to be on .
I rest my case, as Musk 7th test flights ended with a big bang and fire works.
The real breakthrough is putting the landing gear at the top, so that it hangs.... They tried to land it before, with the feet on the bottom and it's just too tall and too easy to fall over- without putting enormous braced feet for landing gear, which would be too heavy. So whoever thought of putting the landing gear at the top so that it hangs, is the real unsung hero of this whole design. That is the actual innovation.
They’ve never once tried to land a booster on the ground
@@kevinmcquade1688 They landed something on a platform, out on the water... and it fell over. It's on camera
15:19 🎉 Трампа инаугурация
Did it work or it's more rubbish in the ocean? I'm at work let me know
Booster caught! New design Starship came-a-gutsa and blew up in space, debris fell everywhere, tons of videos on X.
@EEVblog2 thanks mate
I'm glad you don't follow Thunderf00t on this despite all the comments you leave on his videos.
He isn't wrong in his criticism.
@@presjar4016He has been wrong consistently.
@@presjar4016 Elon is very good a setting the stage so that bad news can be framed as good news; in the eyes of a lot of people he cannot fail and he cannot be wrong because of it... it's really hard to have a cogent debate with someone who has adopted the mindset that the learning experience of multiple failures is better than just being right the first time, every time.
The FAA will be all over this endangered lives at sea and in the air
It didn't endanger anyone? The flight paths were cleared, and it was virtually all over open ocean. No lives were endangered.
@lost4468yt planes were alerted and diverted ships in the area were alerted
@@JamesArthur-e3gthe hazard zones were communicated way before the flight. They just activated it
There is an article today on how Qantas has had to cancel/delay multiple flights due to the just the plan if it going up. it was already a designated no fly zone by the sounds of it.
New Glenn 2nd stage would look comically tiny on this vehicle
Although all this stuff is good for humanity (I think??, emissions notwithstanding) Elon is so identified with the next administration that Tesla sales are tanking, and people in Europe will start wishing for these rockets to fail. I am becoming increasingly concerned about Kessler syndrome. too.
The emissions are nothing. You'd need 10,000 Falcon 9 launches a day to match the airline industry. The benefits in climate science that we get from space exploration massively outstrip the disadvantages. And SpaceX's Starlinks operate in rapidly decaying orbits, so Kessler syndrome isn't an issue.
a decrease in sales does not equal "tanking" that is like saying iPhone sales are tanking just because the market share of Samsung and co. is growing. People could be waiting for the new model 3 and y to arrive before they buy again, that happens to all car models once the refresh is announced. The people who choose not to buy a tesla because they consider musk to be bad are just holier than thou. Name one CEO of a fortune 500 company who isn't "scum"
@@lost4468yt Agree that the emissions are nothing. They don't LOOK like nothing and that's enough to get people angry. You are almost certainly right. And I think I already realised that the vehicles are not subject to the syndrome. But a lot of important stuff is.
@@Nomolyx1 most people who buy pure EV cars now are holier than thou to begin with. The image of a car is a big part of why people do or don't pick a certain car. Think what you like. I am shorting the stock. The fall in China sales is a much bigger factor and that's not political.
@@SnabbKassa seeing that tesla is a very volatile stock that experiences strong ups and downs, shorting the stock at this point might be a good idea. I guess you'll find out at the q1 earnings call if you were right. Wish you all the best with your stocks, hope it works out for you.
What a shame that the starship failed.
Yeah. Brand new design though. Not the same as previous launches.
@@EEVblog2 Yeah.
The entire purpose is to get payload to orbit. Catching the booster should be the last thing to be focused on. They can't even get an empty starship to not explode / bust apart. And it's already way behind schedule. They should be doing in orbit refuelling of starship by now going by the mission schedule (USA taxpayer funded). But instead, they have yet to get a single KG to orbit.
@presjar4016 so 3 TEST ships blow up out of 7 launches and you think it's a lost cause? Yeah they're behind schedule, but they are years ahead of the competition. I hate Elon but I do like SpaceX.
Blue origin blew up, is that a lost cause?
Fucking smh
@@presjar4016it isn't taxpayers paying for this you uneducated twat. Its investors and the company itself funding it.
flatearthers left the earth...
Solar freakin' roadways, next level
Huh? Starship is not a scam.
alch3myau actually sounded excited for the landing lol
Starship is still too heavy for the desired payload capacity. So they have to agressively cut weight on the current - of course overengineered - design. Probably making walls thinner, welds smaller and structural struts lighter after they got the data of 6 flight tests. They probably have driven the diet a bit too hard in V2. Well.. if you go fast in iteration, with big steps, and fly it, you see that you where in deed right on the removal of safety factor and can continue fast to go down further, finding more payload mass. It looks like this time they wheree too fast and identified areas that needed the beefier structur at cost of loosing 3/4 of the data the hoped for on this flight.
The ship was going to die in the ocean anyway. But they missed the starlink dummy release data, new data on the new heatshield and probably a lot more. But they gained data on what areas cannot be lightend up further and have to be beefed up again.
You’re so confidently wrong about what happened that’s baffling
@@capybara5494 According to Elon Musk, there where leaks in the tanks that casued an overpressure in the space between enginess and tanks that the overflow measurements could not vent fast enough. You could see the loss of propellant in the telemetry, confirming a leak. My guess is, that the leak happened becasue something was not strong enough, and thought about what could be the casue why som e thing wasn't strong enough. I consider that a reasonable guess.
But I am willing to learn. So what was the cause, enlighten me, the one who knows better than musk?
Is this satire? The engines just work until 4 minutes one fails? All said this is pretty amazing and I would be one of the first in line with my life saving to go into space if I could. Dam good job.
There was a methane leak. Eventually the system self-destructed on purpose. Though as Scott Manley pointed out, it would have likely been safer to let it just go into the ocean instead of exploding it into a million pieces.
what a piece of garbage
Yawn
Womp womp
If you're not impressed by this, then you're either ignorant or can't be impressed by anything