Super Heavy Booster 4 Lifted to Orbital Launch Mount
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2021
- Super Heavy Booster 4 is once again being lifted onto the orbital launch mount in Starbase, Texas. The booster has 29 Raptor engines installed. Once on the mount, Booster 4 will move into proof testing and static fires in the coming weeks.
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3:03:07 Nice water bottle delivery happening at bottom left.
Damn, the level of synchronization they achieved is reflected in the perfect force applied to that bottle launch.
That was smooth! Even looked like it was in reverse!
missed the stream, but still excited for the orbital launch!!!!!
Have any of you seen a launch IRL?
@@socialdining1496 I’m currently living in NJ. I have some works to do here so there is no free time for my hobbies. :(
How did you get a Starship emoji?! I searched everywhere for it and can't find anything! When you select the text it comes out as "Starship2"
soooo much looking forward to this launch, I cant wait
nice to tune in......thanks for sharing.....wiring and the right connections are always pertinent.🥰😍🤨🤔🤗
We was about to go see a launch in Florida at Kennedy Space Center of the Space Shuttle, and we even got and payed for the tickets to dine with an Astronaut in the bunker around 3 km. from the launch site. but some hurricane had blown off some tiles from some important structure, so it was prosponed, so we lost that oportumity, and just went on a roadtrip in Florida instead.
So its still a big wish to see it IRL
I spent the wee hours of one morning on the approach to a bridge within sight of a shuttle on the pad, waiting to launch. I got to have a discussion with the 2 person, heavily armed security detail ("You cannot pass, Sir") and waited until the launch was scrubbed. Unfortunately, I had to get my flight home later that day. Closest I ever got. :)
Thanks!
Amazing coverage. Looking forward to your coverage of Testing’s.
Those raptor engines looking so fucking insane! im so excited to watch the test flight.
Have any of you seen a launch IRL?
@@socialdining1496 no I’m from b Europe but i wish i could
@Tijn we was about to go see a launch in Florida at Kennedy Space Center of the Space Shuttle, and we even got and payed for the tickets to dine with an Astronaut in the bunker around 3 km. from the launch site. but some hurricane had blown off some tiles from some important structure, so it was prosponed, so we lost that oportumity, and just went on a roadtrip in Florida instead.
So its still a big wish to see it IRL
Engines RB4 und RB20 are next to each other !!! Coincidence ?
nice
what is that
I think *NOT* !
When does 420 start smokin? Lol
Knowing Elon, this might have been planned since the development of RB4 and 20 lol
Just imagine how far this has come since we were watching Hopper. Hoping it could fly.
yeah its so beautiful
Have any of you seen a launch IRL?
And today (22.03.2024) B4 went for it's final journey to Mega Bay 1 for scrapping
It is my opinion that it is more exciting to watch grass grow than paint dry. Actually, that is a great shot. Thanks for the coverage.
We want the engines to breath air but not nonliquid air, header tanks are good.
The orbital pad is how much taller & does that solve the flying Mattie issue?
Man that's a amazing thing to see. All those Raptors mounted that booster. Has any rocket ever had that many rocket engines aimed at the ground. And I wonder if when they do a static fire test will all of them light at once. Dang I wish I could drive to StarBase and witness this monster from my own eyes. Wish it wasn't a 22 hour drive for me
You might want to checkout Russia's N1 moon rocket, man I live on the other side of the planet and I wish the same😂😂
Falcon Heavy
Yeah. 20+ hours for me. Probably really more like 24 hours, since I’m an old guy and will need to stop to pee about 500 times 😂😂😂😂
The only 2 that have had similar amounts that I know of are the n1 (30 engines) and the falcon heavy (27).
The noise and vibrations will be insane. It will be very hard to keep things from breaking
To think that it all runs on just those 4 black batteries. Incredible!
Never seen a first stage or second stage with the engines exposed, usually, they're hidden with just the bell exposed. I wonder if the production version will have engines exposed or covered up.
Great video, thanks! I bet you could find a retired crane operator to join your next stream and explain what's happening in detail.
Any idea what the dry weight is on the booster and starship? I'm trying to guess what that tower is gonna have to support when it catches booster.
Looks like it's really built.
yes good job nasa thank you for talk
Is there any old steal works that are shut down for good, if so , the casting tables used for casting the steal ingots are solid cast iron ,12/14 inch thick x8x16foot, I have seen them put under the steal vessel for hot splash overs and molten steal is just like the sun when it comes out of the vessel I think they might last longer than a concrete mix. You won’t get bits flying all over the place.
I would never steal molten anything.
So fantastic!! The heat (ambient temp) affects the ‘meet’ of the metals. Check the video on the St Lewis arch.
Okay okay
its so beautiful, i look forward for the first flight
Waiting gets harder every day
Ik
But I can't wait for those 29 Raptor engines to roar into life for the first time
The Space Shuttle was also the first US spacecraft to be MANNED on its First Flight.
What's the uplift load on the platform under full static fire testing of all 29 Raptors?
There is so much groundbreaking work happening at once that if we apply the slow multiplier from governments and bureaucracies, you can easily imagine over 80 years to reach this level of development. Glad SpaceX is doing some of man's last works work on earth
So I asked the question when mounting booster 4 to the orbital launch mount , if they use an Acorn type pin System for alignment as they acts like a Guides at the final last one to two inches... Prior to full
Connection too Mount?
Thanks Awesome coverage 😊
Awesome a Stream as normal
good job bro
when this will blow up, that will be a legendary firework
Space x good job and congratulation thank you
SS GIGAPRESS IS IN OUR NEAR FUTURE ALONG WITH IN SPACE MANUFACTURING
Question: how much weight does a coating of paint cost, If it were to be applied in fuel costs?
I highly doubt this is B4's last lift.
do you think booster 5 will have a skirt to cover up the engines ?
Why would it?
Nope
The current renders and the plans that I've heard of don't show any plans for a skirt to cover up the engines, the teams at spacex must have looked at the aerodynamic pressures or forces on the engines, a skirt is not needed I think
Elon: “The best part is NO part”.
I think it unlikely that SpaceX will add a full skirt. Maybe a “mini-skirt” on FUTURE boosters to protect just part of the raptor’s piping and “innards”, from the supersonic airstream of the last minute of booster flight.
Then again, maybe all of that exposed piping and other “innards” were designed to survive a supersonic airstream for less than a minute.
On this booster 4, I think there will be NO SKIRT at all since there is no expectation of recovery and reuse. Just a soft water landing.
YMMV.
Peace…
Why is the plumbing at the engine looks so complicated? at 2:06:00
Why not streighten out the tubes, to save miles of tube and weight?
I heared about a skirt...How could be possibile to put a skirt around the Raptors, since they are larger then the booster itself?... Or it is not forecasted?
- SpaceX engineer: Sir... We are in Max-Q. And 9 of our raptors engines just stopped working!!!
- Elon musk : Cool
A flame deflector doesn't eliminate the flame - the best flame is no flame.
😂😂
@@The.RandomTube the
@@The.RandomTube the Hungarian
@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodne9904 I didn't understand man what you said
@@The.RandomTube Holy shit, apparently I slept on my phone last night while watching UA-cam hahahahaha
The vacuum between would require very strong construction of the shell not tolking about vacuum pumps so the foam is probably good solution.
LET'S ALL START A PUBLIC APPEAL FOR ---- THE STARSHIP GIGAPRESS AND THE DIP N'DRIP TPS---
@3:07:50 I think they are talking about the the weld points.
Love to get a peek at what’s happening with Jarvis, even if it was a long range static view. Any plans?
Bezos has decided to sue Jarvis for not making it to orbit.
It's basically down by about the 3hr mark.
The Raptor engines are all labeled "RB.." Does that mean they are Gen 2 Raptors? Or Gen 1.1, or 1b?
The engines sit down inside the launch "Platform", so obviously, the Booster does not sit on the platform. Rather, there must be some "Attaching" points on the side of the rocket that are used both to sit on, and for clamping it to earth? I didn't see those, they ain't obvious. Anybody got any good diagrams to share? A cutaway drawing of the launch platform? Would help to visualize all this.
Those guys up there look pretty calm. They all know if anything goes wrong, even a sudden gust of breeze, and it could be their life, crushed under the 45+T rocket. And don't get those fingers in there where they ain't supposed to be either!
Appears as if they might still be "Attaching" the rocket to platform all the way up to the end of the video?
RB stands for "Raptor Boost" specifically designated for boosters
A sudden gust of breeze will not move the booster much at all nor very fast. But the winds must be below a certain rating to safely move the booster otherwise it would sway to much.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 - I was using that as a device to say that those guys all know the extreme danger of where they are, inches from deadly force crushing them and so on. I've worked with heavy machinery in factories and so on, and it's a bit "Frightening" some time to think that if one little thing happens, you're dead. Not the same as being in battle, or anything, no bullets whizzing over your head as constant reminders and so on. But, there's a nagging voice inside you when you're working under those conditions to be extra careful and "Watch out". I agree, a 65T cylinder isn't much affected by the breezes, but you do see it swinging around a bit on the hoist.
Trivial note: In the mid-west, in the "Tornado belt", there was for a time, a very popular design (you still see these!) for barns, a "Round barn". Unlike box structures, round barns will survive tornadoes (for the most part). The wind has nothing to "Grab" or push against on them, so it simply goes around them. A cylinder on a line is similarly probably not much affected by the breezes, but some I'm sure, as there are the top and the bottom and other projections and such for the wind to affect.
Can't wait to see this candle lit. To infinity and beyond!
those are weld points for the stringers inside
Guys I’m kinda curious concerning the cables that are used to raise and lower the booster and Starship onto the to platforms. How often are they inspected and replaced?
I don’t know about inspections, but they’re not cables at all, but nylon lifting straps.
RB4 RB20.. I see what u did there Elon 😂🚀 Leeeeeets gooo!!
Great stream, they're preparing for the orbital flight right?
Who knows? Why isn't it static fires and cryo tests?
No they're just going to take it off the stand
@@zacharyj6465 I think so too, it doesn't look ready yet
@@Raj-gr6dy They might just continue work on it on the pad like they are doing with Ship 20.
@@muffinman4719 Isn't the pad itself incomplete? I suppose they might do that, but knowing Spacex's unpredictable nature, they might just pull off something crazy. In any case, I hope that whatever they are doing does not ultimately result in a RUD at launch, "clearing" the tower away.
How many tons of fuel will a full starship assembly(with 100% capasity) use before it cleares the tower? And what speed will it have at that point?Just for curiosity..
This is out of Wikipedia, you can checkout Spacex's official site too if you want
Space shuttle was aluminum, starship is stainless steel. That's why they can use similar heat-shields.
I'm kind of worried about re-entry how do you protect the engines from friction and forces acting on them?
That's not an issue because like the Falcon 9 booster this booster and it's later iterations will never get high enough to have to contend with reentry like the Starship will. The booster doesn't go any higher then about 60-80kms. Starship is coming down from a much higher altitude after all.
Hi guys missed your super chat but watched your video booster 4 looks awesome on the launch pad there is going to be one ☝️ great 👍 Big Bang wen they test those engines I’m glad 😀 Mary is okay 👍 she does a marvellous job.David 🇬🇧🇬🇧🚀🚀❤️❤️👍
What does the booster rest on sitting on the launch table? Exciting! 🚀
i was wondering that - the raptors are wider than the body of the booster
The plumbing on each one of those Raptors is routed differently. You would think they would all be identical.
No wind definitely helped them do it so smoothly today. The first time they lifted B4 onto the OLM it was slightly windy and they were struggling with it. And there wasn't even that much wind, just shows how much a little wind can make it a lot more difficult.
It's a huge huge vehicle after all
@@The.RandomTube no doubt. If they pulled it off the first time, the way that gigantic thing was swaying, these guys can do it all the time. They made it look easy today. Just moving a 16 storey building around, no big deal...... They all deserve a raise!!!
I"m sorry if i'm trolling but i read on google that each of those raptors have 11 million horse power!! HELLO power.
What is the weight on? Just the rim of the skirt?
I think that there are platform like projections pointing up from the launch mount that the booster must sit on however this is speculation as I have not heard anything definite.
It is hard to sit the booster on the rim because the raptors extend out beyond the edge of the rim. The booster would have to be mounted on inches wide sections of the rim between each raptor for that to be the case.
Who knows??
At least 4,500 metric tons when fully fueled. This thing is huge so the width of the skirt rim is pretty wide.
I'll correct my statement to say that there are wedge shape brackets that lean in from the inner perimeter of the launch tower and it is those wedges (20 to be exact) that hold the booster in place.
I can't verify it, but is what I have told by a reliable source.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 That sounds correct.
No engine fairing? I wonder how it would fit the launch table with fairing attached.
It may not even fit on the launch table with fairing or engine skirt.
I'm suddenly confused about the catching arms. Once they will use them. I understand the booster will use the fin pins < (sorry if spelling is wrong) but how will they catch starship?
Elon says they MAY catch it by the flaps, but right now its unclear how Starship will land exactly. Also, regarding your other comment, 3 raptor engines = The thrust of 1 F-1 Engine.
@@OortCloud
Raptor & Merlin are sized for maximum thrust-to-weight ratio per engine. Smaller chamber & nozzle allow easier control of ignition, flame stability and cooling within the engines.
WoW!
@nasaspaceflight If the crane is lifting the ship onto the booster....how do they unhook the crane? As I've heard on here before the cherry pickers won't reach that high.
They use a helicopter😜
Wow what a massive rocket, amazing sight.
Ceramic tiles on Starship are not the same composition as the foam tiles on Shuttle, totally different chemistry! These are much more resistant to weather, do not ablate and don’t have to block as much heat due to stainless steel construction vs aluminum for shuttle.
If they don’t have a flame trench it’s way easier to get a lift under to service the raptors or swap them out. Otherwise they have to pull the booster off the stand to get to them if one goes bad.
Good point
Allthough the Shuttles SRB's were reused there was very little gained in time or financially.
Turns out salt water does a number on rocket boosters.
It cost more to recover, transport and refurbish them than it would have cost to build new ones.
The Firefly launch was not clean, one of the engines blew-up seconds after launch.
I'm super-supportive, but wish you guys would discuss the Van Allen radio-active Belts. JF. Europe.
Good morning team. Ready for crane assisted take off?
🙂
Static fire soon or just a fit check
Pressure test soon?
there most likely in between will be foam (expanded)
Can't wait to to see this candle lit.
when it fly?
Have any of you seen a launch, and is it the wildest thing you have seen in the world so far?
I guess Booster 4 won't be removed from now untill the launch.
We hope, but it's a test campaign, we can't predict anything, they won't move forward if they see a big problem in their way
29 Raptors … and a plumbing nightmare. Amazing to how much stuff is mounted outside the tank.
That may be temporary and covered or moved inside the booster body in a later model.
Nice work guys this is very exciting let me know when I can buy a T-shirt for $14.99
Thread the Donut...this needs to be a T shirt.
gonna be a big ol' fat candle when lit.
You guys woulld like my Florida brand Sunreal Clothing. I love cosmology and the mysteries of the universe.
A scent of Spam in the air...
If Tim Allen built a rocket for Tool Time it would look like booster 4
LOL this would be his version of a bottle rocket.
Needs Deluge and Deluge Capture, maybe they could 3D print the nose cone?
Do they not want to cryo proof it prior to raptors being installed
Space X doesn't report what their agenda is except the general things like moving booster, static fire, etc. All we can do is watch and see what happens.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Ok thanks
Are they going to build some kind of skirt to cover those raptors? Cause that'll look super official.
The current renders and the plans that I've heard of don't show any plans for a skirt to cover up the engines, the teams at spacex must have looked at the aerodynamic pressures or forces on the engines, a skirt is not needed I think
@@The.RandomTube I see. What about the exposure of such delicate equipment to mouth of a dragon? Wouldn't it be at more risk of catching fire without the skirt?
@@ImranSahir1 the speeds at which those exhaust plumes would be going is some kilometres per second, so I don't think a lot of the hot burning gas would go towards the engines, the heat that will go towards the engines mostly comes from radiation and just the way heat travels, the things we need to focus on here are the aerodynamic forces, and the pressure that those plumbings are going to handle, neither I nor even spacex can tell you if they'd be successful by doing this, but why to add an extra part when you can test out your rocket, it's a test campaign after all and if I was at there position, and if the simulations showed no signs or chances of an anomaly, I would like to take my chances
Elon: “The best part is NO part”.
Good
can the FAA approve rocket launches any slower than they do right now?
Yes ... They could slow down a horse and cart if required. They are the preeminent existential threat to progress around there.
Regarding the shuttle challenger, i can't wait for inspiration4. SpaceX has in that department full success and it will another master peace .Still i will be jumping up and down with extreme concern at success. Bless those civilians for their courage from all the hearts in the universe.
As a single payload has a crane lifted a more expensive item???
no doubt, yes.
Nice.
42:09 "The best -- is no --". You could keep saying that and cancel out everything in the universe.
And then 'the best universe is no universe'.
Have a look at the plumbing for the raptors. None of them are the same.
On RB7... That's bird poop. Probably from some raptor...
The H in liebherr is not silent
Bolero would fit to this
Good morning just to let you know I watched Mercury and Apollo
and the x rocket testing? I still think the x15 is so cool looking
I'm old, too . I remember them all. :)
Is it standing ON its engines? Anybody?
Ambient air is 78% Nitrogen. I do not believe that pure Nitrogen will offer any improvement for insulation on the GSE tanks.
They won’t be in direct sun and the moisture content will be reduced, which in itself will reduce heating from the sun
Actually a better insulator than you think. Take say foam insulation, used for homes and rockets alike. The foam (or similar materials) does not provide the insulation (against heat or cold) but the AIR trapped within it. Expanded foam, rockwool, shreaded newspaper, or styrofoam; they work the same way, by trapping air.
Straight to near earth orbit like every other rocket and no further with peeps onboard.
how the hell are they going to skirt all those engines?
I don't think they will