SpaceX Starship Critical Upgrade and New Crazy Test Unveiled!
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2024
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Welcome back to another week where you can always guarantee one thing. SpaceX never slows down at Starbase! With a launch site evolving at breakneck speeds, and changes happening to vehicles so quickly it is almost beyond belief. You do not want to miss this one!
You will be amazed with the SpaceX Starship Critical Upgrade with the heat shield already being installed well ahead of what any of us thought possible. The new Pyron shielding is a massive change. Is this new material really that good? Well, we believe it is used on Falcon 9, so lets hope so. Also, a New Crazy Test Unveiled for the tower arms and a booster test prototype to see if it can hold for a catch. This is super exciting. Outside all that, it has actually been a bit of a bizarre week. Unexpected delays, problems to solve, and a huge milestone for Rocket Lab. We have Starlink Group 9-1, Falcon 9 with Astra 1P, Delayed Starliner Return and Rocket Lab's Electron in No Time Toulouse.
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Hey marcus. Do you think it would be effective to use the heat tiles from starship on the orbital launch pad to reduce the damage from a launch
Marcus.. was the Sanchez site named after Rick Sanchez of Rick and Morty? I imagine Elon would have an affinity for the show..
Thanks for featuring us Marcus! 🎉 We're excited for Flight 5!
Great views! Well done, I bet you are having a ball setting this up! 😊
Thanks for helping us share it in the best way we could. Good luck with the preps for flight 5. That is going to be epic.
thanks for the work that you do
@@toucheturtle3840 yOu mUsK cLOWnS HaVE n0 iDeA 💀
@@toucheturtle3840 Bugger me but you're boring ....
The degree of transparency at SpaceX is unprecedented. It never stops shocking me about how much they release to the public. They also never try to minimize their failures which is highly unusual.
Mind-boggling pace of advancement in engineering and construction... well done SpaceX!
It really is crazy!
As to camera damage it should be noted that back in the “Good Old Days” Hollywood didn’t want to expend massive cameras for shots such as a train locomotive speeding directly toward the lens. Instead they dug a hole between the rails, placed the camera facing skyward, covered it with a thick sheet of glass and mounted a mirror at 45 degrees to reflect the image downward periscope fashion. The mirror was destroyed with no damage to the camera.
Today, a good mirror would cost more than the camera...
@@corwinchristensen260Not true for high speed cameras though. They're a lot more expensive.
Yeh that'll work.... 🤔😂😎🇦🇺👌
NASA has done much the same thing for close footage of rockets
Back in the good old days, you were dealing with large high speed cameras rolling average of 1000’ mags of Kodak. Not a system you want to risk damaging and risk exposing the load you just burned because the mag got split open. Today, cameras are dirt cheap, smaller and lighter. Adding a mirror
Is adding unneeded complexity. I got my career started with working on those systems, 16mm, 35mm and 65mm. Even worked with a photosonic once.
Wow the time flies! Already 50 Electron launches is incredible!
"Here at SpaceX, we build cranes to build cranes, to build cranes..."
I have worked on jobs where we needed to hire a crane to build another crane to then build the huge crane necessary for the job. The size of really heavy lift cranes is breathtaking in itself and putting those things together on site is a complex project in its own right.
@@schrodingerscat1863can we ask what you were building?
We're gonna need a bigger crane.
That Lieherr demo is cool ,, cranes picked up by bigger an bigger until 1 crane gets them all ,,prolly has runes on it for extra power
Liebherr evenn,,, 2mins long , starts with toy crane,,,
I live in Wichita, KS and am without transportation. I was 12 years old when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon. I watched him from the sidewalk of a corner news stand thru a window in the display on a 12" B&W TV while my mom did laundry at the laundromat next door. I WANT TO SEE THE ATTEMPT TO CATCH STARSHIP LIVE IN BOCA CHICA. I'm 66 and will not get another chance! Anyone in Wichita, KS going for ITF 5....I'll foot half the gas and driving to hitch a ride to this!!
Same age. I visited Boca Chica back in 2022 when Starships and booster were first stacked. What dumb luck! It was spectacular.
I agree - get it while you can - It will be truly epic. I hope you find a ride!
Hope you get a ride man, if i wasnt on the other side of the world, i would totally go watch it live.
While 4K, slow motion and drone videos are great. You cant feel the shockwaves in your body...
I wish you luck. I saw IFT1 from the rocks on SPadre island across the bay. Im 70, and it was my first look at a rocket launch.
The best place to watch would be at rocket ranch , which you pass on the way to Boca Chica. The ranch has rv and tent camping, and its where lots of obsessed SpaceX fans go.
😂loved this comment. Scotland here.
If you're in Aus or New Zealand this is a Saturday evening highlight
Indeed. I'm exhausted. Sleep time for me. 🤣
Saturday Afternoon highlight in Europe!
Morning highlight in the Caribbean
It's very early Saturday morning here. 😉
well, Sunday morn here in Ranui
Good Morning Marcus, great video as always. Looking at several aerospace creators videos here on UA-cam who seems to doubt SpaceX will be ready for booster catch. SpaceX has improved on every IFT launch so far so in my opinion I believe SpaceX should take this next step. As we all know SpaceX is not a traditional aerospace company and have overcome great odds in the past.
They are happy to take risk. You never know, perhaps they have a spare set of tower arms on standby.
I refreshed my browser, and bam! A new Marcus House video! Awesome! Thanks Marcus and team! You guys rock!
Cheers Paul! A big week!
@@MarcusHouse Definitely mate!
Seeing back to back shots of Starliner and then Dragon really highlights the superiority of SpaceX. One looks like 1960's era hardware, the other looks like its out of a Sci-Fi movie.
I know we should all be on Team Space, not just Team SpaceX, but Boeing makes it so hard sometimes. LOL
You do know Starliner isn't a Boeing design, don't you? They bought the project from Bigelow.
@@rorykeegan1895 I didn't know that, but if true that's even worse for Boeing. That means they looked at the Starliner and though, "That's way better than anything we could come up with on our own, lets buy it!"
@@rorykeegan1895 So they made a dumb decision in buying bad hardware? okay.
@@rorykeegan1895 They buy everything - look at all the aircraft companies they have bought over the years; that can't be good for innovation.
@@rorykeegan1895 Maybe the doors won't fall off then lol.
More rocket stuff, rainy day to watch it, perfect!
where is it raining?
@@raheemabdul1066
london, probably
Like the Monty Python reference of No Time Toulouse.
It's an indication of just how SpaceX has changed the game that 10 days without a launch is considered noteworthy.
The vast majority of SpaceX launches is for themselves with Starlink sats... which means there is still low demand by paying customers for other payloads. Changing the game doesn't matter if no one wants to play. That's not a critique, but a concern.
@@hawkdsl While it's true that the majority of their launches are for Starlink, they've had 17 non-Starlink launches this year so far (ignoring the Starship test flights).
They will keep prices at a level that balances Starlink program needs and commercial gain from other launches. If Starlink required no launches the public prices could drop significantly.
I think part of the issue is the rest of the market hasn't caught up with the new capabilities spaceX has brought to the table overtime I think we'll see the rest of the industry start to actually utilize the ludicrous launch capacity that space X offers@@hawkdsl
@@hawkdsl Supply and demand. If SpaceX offers the service for a cheap enough price, more people will use it.
Hello from Christchurch Marcus,
Bloody love your videos and keep up the awesome work.
Thank you! Have you ever been to watch an Electron launch?
@@MarcusHouse Marcus, Christchurch is a bit too far south of Mahia. I live in Napier and I just walk out my front door with cellphone in hand and watch the Electron fly overhead. After separation though, the single Rutherford engine's exhaust is too dim to see with the naked eye.
@@MarcusHouse I did enjoy just glimpsing the one that blew up from Tauranga...a faint light to the naked eye...
@@David-yo5ws That is very cool you can watch it fly from where you are.
I genuinely laughed at the nice pun "no time Toulouse [to loose]", particularly as Toulouse city is known as the aerospace industry hot spot in France :)
Fantastic, great to see you Marcus... love the way you do Space News
EXCELLENT video! Thank you SO much for bringing this to us earth-bound plebs.
It's difficult to visualize the Scale of the infrastructure until you catch a glimpse of something that you see
every day to put it in perspective. You know the big 18 wheeler tank trucks that you see traveling down the
the highway and think, "Look at the Size of that thing!" Well, take a look at several of these tanker trucks
along the loading dock for the tank farm. You can see it at @8:40 and it gives you Perspective!
Wow!
I always enjoy your videos, but this one was next level. Great job!
Great show Marcus, full of space goodness. Next week will see Launch Tower 2 launch itself. Exciting, Eamon 🇮🇪
You can look at the Forward Flap all you want. It stuck in there until the end and even did what it needed to do for the flip maneuver!
Thanks Marcus house you are the best. My Saturday is never complete without this space awesomeness
Been loving the arrows indicating what your talking about. THANKS!
One of the best reports. 👍
I can’t believe there’s a time, coming very soon, where starship booster catches happen as often or even more often as falcon landings… Wild to think about. I’m not sure it will ever get old though!
Thank you once again Marcus. Great job1
I really enjoy your presentations, thank you sir. "Live Long and Prosper"
As usual, great summary
Thanks
Always an amazing video!! Thank you for all your hard work giving us these updates!
You guys must work hard to gather all this info and video and keeping it accurate. I appreciate the work you do to keep us on top of things. Can't wait for the next launch.
Thank you! 🫡
Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative video, Great job. Keep it up.
Excellent stuff bro
Thanks Marcus! I watched ( eyeballs only ) group 9-1 from city of Riverside in California & kept seeing those flashes & was wondering what they were.
Yeah i had a great view of the Vandenberg launch from my backyard in California.
Love these videos, Marcus keep them coming, please!
😎Space Goodness Indeed! Thank You Marcus once again!😎
I remember, when Starliner was launching, my only thoughts were that I'll only feel calm once Suni and Butch are safely back on Earth. I had a feeling that more stuff would probably go wrong...
Another great video Marcus! Have a great one :)
Aw sweet you said 360 degrees cameras on the next flight so should be able to finally watch in 3D on my Quest 3 VR headset. Awesome 👍 think how awesome that would be. Almost like being there hopefully.
The Rocket Lab Kickstage rotation was amazing to see, in order to launch all the satellites facing the same direction and in the same orbital line. Precision stuff by the reactionary wheels.
I would still like to know how the Kinéis satellites, can hear a sound on Earth, when it's in the vacuum of space 350km away? They claim they can hear fires and a bird singing. Something to do with high frequency I am guessing.
Good job
Love you Marcus!!
If it was Boeing / Nasa having to replace tiles it would be years! Go Space X!
NASA would take months because they have their shit down but they are just careful
Boeing would take 3 years and 2 billion dollars
Marcus… you spin amazing content! Thank you
Thank you MH from KP.
How's winter down there Marcus? It was 110 at my house today in the Mojave! And 'Yes' I saw the jellyfish the other day in real time.
Another great Video! I learn so much from watching your channel!
According to Elon the actual tiles are now more robust by a factor of 2 in addition to the new ablative layer underneath the tile shell. Hopefully this will fix the issues but I'm guessing at considerable mass penalty.
I thought it was pretty amazing how huge those rafts are under the CC-8800-1. Serious weight distribution.
📰 BEST news segment of the week, every week. EXCELLENT as always.
👏THANK YOU for the great work.
Glad you enjoy it!
I’ve only recently found this channel. I’m liking it.
Sadly, I’ve been watching another “channel” whose basic material is conjecture and hyperbole.
It’s refreshing to watch something with some substantive material.
Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi! oi! Oi! 😉😀
Welcome! 👋
Merci!
You are the bomb Marcus! Watching now from Green Bay, Wisconsin and I just saw Noah float by with his Ark! Had to cancel golf, but this makes up for it. Wish I could visit down under, but alas, by worthless body is worthless.
Go Marcus!
It's great to see private companies like SpaceX and Rocket Lab pushing the boundaries of what's possible in space. They are inspiring a new generation of space explorers like me. I also love outer space.
Just think someday we will be watching update videos like this here except it will be all the hustle and bustle over at the Mars base watching things progress and get built up.
Love your coverage and enthusiasm Marcus . Why would anybody watch main stream news these days !
can't wait to see a starship reentry with another starship formation style would they draft each other or side by side ?
Mega Awesome Production, Marcus.
Top Tier.
🥇🚀👀
Stuckliner. Please.
Thank you for your consistent professional adept and insightful coverage of these subjects. You are obviously dedicated and your results are evident.
Congratulations
Endure without cessation please Kind Wise Sir,
Tz
Could you possibly address the issue of hurricanes and storm surges on Starbase? It is in a very vulnerable spot and I worry that a biggy storm could wash away so much sand that the entire base is rendered useless...
It sounds like a good concern to me but you have to remember about all of the oil and chemical refineries that are along the Gulf Coast, cruise line docks, and all that industrial stuff that has always been there and always survives hurricanes. I'm sure a lot of engineering has already been put into the system to keep it safe from just about anything but a giant meteor strike.
Good question though.
The gulf is somewhat protected from big storms due to the geography. If anything Orlando was hit by a harder hurricane before starbase and nothing happened.
@@alihaidar5787It’s Gulf.
And what on earth are you talking about?
Orlando is over an hour drive INLAND from Space X- so any hurricane hitting Orlando from the Atlantic side would hit SpaceX FIRST. Jesus lol
Any hurricane coming from the gulf side would have to cross the state, hit Orlando first after already being weakened, and no storm surge to worry about.
Have you ever actually looked at a map of Florida? Doesn’t seem like it.
The strongest Hurricanes ever recorded were all in the Gulf Of Mexico.
Hurricane Michael(Cat 5) effectively wiped out half of Tyndall AFB and Mexico Beach.
The top 5 all had winds of 185mph +
Calm down! You must be one of those Global Warming fans. I am sure Spacex did a thorough analysis of weather issues before setting up shop. The recent weather is normal and not a threat. You people kill me. Rising seas chaotic weather, we are going to die. For those of us that grew up on the coast we have lived threw all this many times. Yes there is always a risk of a Cat4 or 5 hurricane but that is the price you pay to live and work on the coast.
Why was my comment deleted?
They gotta be working like crazy since the last launch was successful, it sounded like they didn't need a FAA investigation this time around so their next launch permit should come a lot sooner.
It seems like it would be a good idea to have the second orbital launch setup complete before trying the booster catch. The worst-case failure for that is clearly "whole launch mount, tower, etc., wrecked." and not having to wait to rebuild that before the next launch seems worthwhile.
Thanks Marcus...keep it up. So important
What about polycarbonate casings to preserve the cameras being used up close to launches? with the right design, they can provide a super clear shot right up to debris impact. With any luck, eventually, just one sheet of polycarbonate will need swapping out per launch.
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Dragon still makes the Starliner look like a Motel T. Aesthetics and ergonomics matter.
"No time Toulouse" says the close captions when Marcus says "No time to lose".
That’s because the actual name is “No Time Toulouse.” It’s a weak pun on the fact that the satellite manufacturer is in Toulouse, France.
@@Spectator1959 There was also an obscure Monty Python skit that involved a cartoon Toulouse-Lautrec in a wild west gunslinger standoff.
Great video as always, Mr. House!
Thank you! 🤩
:)
Hi mate 👍
Can you do a video on the Starliner issues. What's going on there?
Cheers Marcus 🍻
0:24 I see what you did there
What did he do?
@@JimboJones-qn4wd "no time to lose "
Toulouse is the name of the mission......
Man, catching is scary engineering
Very cool!
It could increase the time line to refueling very important procedure to move to getting ahead in the space race
I’m still shocked that the initial plan is booster catch AT the tower, I’d imagine building a stationary mock up away from your fuel farm and such would be much safer. Crazy the SpaceX (or at least Musk) have this level of confidence already!
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Did electron launch to the west? that orbital path seemed backwards from most launching east.
Sooooooo excited for IFT5 and the possibility of a catch!!
Can't make omletts without breaking an egg
Hopefully it goes well and isn't a total disaster, but that's why they call it testing
Great Channel Marcus!!!!!
Space coast shout out!!!
Can you make a video outlining the possible scenarios with a catch attempt? I’ve not seen anyone do that. For example how much propellant will still be in board? What if it explodes? Is there enough to cause that or would it just collapse and depressurise? What if the tower is damaged? What if the tank farm is, etc. I’d be so intrigued to see your scenario thoughts.
This to me is why catches seem an insane idea. Rapidly reusable could so easily be undone if any one of the catches goes wrong. It could delay lots more launches of damage to any part of the infrastructure happens. At least at sea it damages very little.
Check out CSI Starbase, they did a deep dive explaining how much propellant is left in header tanks and main tanks as the booster and ship come in to land. Suffice to say it doesn't have much fuel left by the time the landing burn starts and by the time the catch happens there is almost none left meaning a failed catch attempt, while it would look like a big explosion wouldn't cause as much damage as many people have been suggesting. Also the booster comes in at quite an angle so if anything goes wrong with engine re-light it can still ditch in the sea.
@MarcusHouse
3:36 It was mentioned in the live stream that they will use the existing tank farm for both towers, so expect the existing one to expand, rather than a second, separate one.
Yea, in the short term, but I would still be expecting a second tank farm well down the track. Speculative for now. Depends how many launches they want to do and how quickly. They may just keep expanding the existing tank farm out too I guess.
Do we have any info on the new tiles? Some say that they may be half the weight for the same strength so combined with the thin ablative coat underneath the weigh about the same as the old ones.
So what about the both vehicules the starship and super heavy booster of flight 4 ? Did they bring them back to land for analysis ? No pictures of their sea recovery yet ? I'm curious about what they looking like now
5:44 Downcomer *_filter inlet is raised_* to assure some Liquid Methane remains in the main tank, and heavy contaminants cannot reach the inlet.
5:58 The other end of the downcomer has a pliable bellows to cope with motion.
They should add water jets in the leg panels to keep them cooler and reduce damage like the steel plate
I work in an engineering company and we make bits for satelites from time to time. Nobody had any clue about how big a rocket is so I popped out of the office and took a photo of the nearby sky scraper and informed everyone its about that big. We now live stream every launch.
To give my mother an idea how big Starship is I explained that it is several feet wider than her house lot is and about 1/2 again taller than the lot is long then added that the booster is even taller.
@@Scanner9631Mum isnt stupid, her dad worked on blue rocket after war
I would imagine the fuel reserves upon catch would include fuel to abort the catch and get far enough away from the launch tower to avoid damaging it. Hopefully in the water.
An ablative sheild may change the radiation characterisitcs of the plasma. If you put a backbone of ablative sheilding down the centre line you may find the plasmas heating characterisitcs reduces the amount of heat received rediatively further round the vehicle.
Absolutely right
I wonder what kind of G force is generated by the booster landing. And also with the starship doing a soft landing what G forces are generated?
Launch Pad or Landing Pad? SpaceX could hold off development of the second tower and use it initially as a catch tower without the OLM, 'cos those legs would take a while to set up and harden.
I'm not to sure on having two catch notches on the booster or the Starship itself is going to be enough for the the catching arms? , Just wondering why the notch is not fully surrounding the Booster and Ship?..Otherwise both will have to be perfectly rotated in order to catch?. looking at the mock up video on catching seemed that way to me.
@MarcusHouse - would they gather any useful data from catching and recovering the booster (that they couldn't get from remote sensors) do you think?
Oh certainly. The ability to inspect in detail is worth so so much.
Imagine the data from being able to x ray every joint and measure all the wear and tear that likely would not show up on the sensors. All the info from tearing apart the raptors and seeing the internal wear. All the micro fracture data.
Just being able to inspect a raptor that failed to ignite might be enough to solve the problem reliably.
Huge amounts to be learned.
Not to be mean but knowing you have winter which means my Canada is in Summer!!😎
Reminds me of that old Movie Marooned...
I wonder if it is possible to use aerogel in the wings that failed somehow as part of a sandwich of materials to prevent failure
aerogel is fragile, it wouldn't survive the pressure waves at launch
This thought seems a little outside the box but hear me out. Cover the whole starship circumference with heat shielding and rotate it during the return like a barbecue. It would have to be much better than it is now I know this is Ludacris but if you stop the barbecue of a chicken, it burns to a crisp. Think about it.