SpaceX's 2025 plans include Starship orbital return and catch, new Starlink satellites, Raptor V3 engines, orbital refueling, increased launch frequency, new launch infrastructure, and multiple Falcon 9/Heavy missions to the Moon and for commercial customers.
At this point the Starship is just a boilerplate vehicle. A lot of hardware has to be added to carry propellant, cargo, or to be usable as a lunar lander or Space Station module. Hopefully, the Star Factory will make building the shell routine, and some of the hardware already has flight heritage on Dragon. But some of it will be brand new. We'll have to see how quickly SpaceX can work on building in all the details that make these Spacecraft useful.
An experimental vehicle. That has until now failed to successfully carry out any missions. And yes, being on the sixth test flight without successes is not .... good in our species spacefaring history. Well see if the promised cheapening of the payloads will even ever materialize. It has not for now. Dragon9 are currently _more_ expensive than the russian Sojus-flights where. And thats 60s tech.
Two Starships means four stages; does this mean MORE towers needed for redundancy, when 100% reusability is achieved/needed? A (near) 1:1 ratio of stages to towers appears necessary to keep a margin of safety in regard to reusability and cadence.
@@ErenAlpErtem Let me be more explicit for those who can't figure this out. Musk is the driver for innovation at all his companies. Without him, the companies would continue on, but without the constant push for innovation. Very similar to Apple. When Jobs passed, Apple's valuations did great but what mind-blowing innovations have they done? None.
3:32 is that even possible? I mean sure communication is one thing but having internet means lots of transmission power is involved considering when the distance is around 500 km. The phone might need some specially designed antenna but even with that upload speed won't work properly.
The satellites are lower than that. Spacex also isn;t the only ones offering that service. it is really unfortunate that most space channels do not cover Spacex's competitors, but AST Space Mobile is also launching satellites for direct to phone 4G and 5G service.
It is already being done, by spaceX as well as competitors. Google sattelite to cell. Sending data from sattelites to phones was first done by verizon in the late eighties. The only thing really new about Starlink sattelite internet is the high number of relatively low and thus fast-used-up sattelites. Leading primarily to a low latency. The whole concept is no as high-tech as the gushing cult-marketing makes it seem.
@@AnupomAG Do you seriously expect me to google current technical specs for you? Those change. Your original question was if - for the "currently how" you will have to do your own legwork.
You must no watch this show China is really close to passing America up all they need is to master reusable rockets and they already started testing their own models
I’d like to see newer more powerful versions of the Falcon rockets maybe strapped with Raptor like engines that could be used to launch maybe fuel pods like stations for small satellites to fill up. Something like a falcon 10-11 & 12 blocks but it makes sense they’d like to focus everything on starship
Why bother? The cost to LEO will be at least 5X lower for Starship and with vastly more capacity. It will be cheaper to launch than the Falcon 1. So, even for small satellites, it would be cheaper than any of the small rockets being developed.
Comparing tiny landers made by novel teams to Starship and Super Heavy is kind of silly. Name how many orbital class rockets returning to the launch site there were before SpaceX did it. There's always room for a first.
SpaceX isn't the only one attempting this. I'd believe they could do it more than anybody else seeing as they manage to land rockets on Earth that are taller than their landing legs.
Elon is NOT in complete control of regulatory bodies. He's in control of their budget and even then he can only make recommendations/requests. Final decisions still fall to congressional approval. He's also never denied it isn't in his and SpaceX's interest to have less regulation but funny thing about less regulation: it applies to everyone and that includes his competitors not just him. If anything it means his competitors have a better chance of catching up since they won't have to sit around and wait. New Glenn is currently sitting on the launch pad waiting for regulatory approval just like Starship and Super Heavy were. If this is meant as a critical jab, it failed.
Elon's companies have been the ONLY ones pushing human spaceflight forward in any meaningful way in decades. Since the shuttle, really. I don't really care if it's a conflict of interest, those in the government have been conflicting with true progress for ages.
I would love to see a video on the history of the modern space race between china and the usa, preferably movie length. If you do this take your time on it I dont mind if it takes a year or 2, that way we can have more information.
Precisely. Only the ignorant militaries of the world want to go back to the moon so they can build nonsense on the moon to threaten our existence. Sick of humanity
Nasa went over their budget on testing now they can't send it anymore because of government limitations so instead they had to put the block there in its place
@@gamerbossharmon The concrete is on the spacecraft that the Falcon heavy is carrying. That craft is an experiment and has some instruments that NASA wishes to test, but there is too much risk to put the main payload on the craft.
why cant spacex send a full booster ontop of a booster into orbit , so there is a booster full of fuel waiting for the piloted ship to join up . then the starship has a full booster to use to get to moon n back .the booster can be left in moons orbit while starship goes to moon surface then once finished on moon they reconnect to booster to get home .
If they call it something other than V2, that would be better in my opinion. I can think of another rocket also called V2 that while was an innovation, wasn't very nice.
Cry about it lmao. I guess i will have to throw my fpv drone away. Its built on a SpeedyBee FS225 V2 5 inch Frame, it's V2, and you know, people also use fpv drones in ukraine.
The Mimic Dome: In order to colonize Mars, a simulation dome must be built here on Earth to mimic the Martian atmosphere to train Astronauts. This dome could be over 200 meters in diameter and a 100 meters in height with smart glass to mimic the daytime and night time on Mars. But this dome must be built over a massive concrete foundation built a few feet below the ground, and providing insulation for the dome above and also create the right temperatures and gas combinations of Mars. This concrete foundation is the control center with state of the art medical and other emergency facilities in case of evacuation of trainee astronauts. This dome should mimic the radiation levels found on Mars. Astronauts should train building Habs, and hydrophonic domes for vegetation growth. The only mimic not possible will be gravity but it may not be a serious issue. However, the astronauts could learn driving Mars rovers and learn how they behave in the Martian environment. Weather simulations could also be initiated as part of testing and training. I am sure this theory of the Mimic Dome may not be new. It could already be doing the rounds in Tesla.
Rather than on-orbit refueling, drop mass instead of keeping it. We landed men on the moon by shedding mass. The original concept was much like Starship. Engineering explained Physics and Apollo was the result.
@@daniel4412 The KISS principle is hard to ignore. It’s crazy to keep all that mass with you. Adds complexity which adds risk. Falcon 9 occasionally is not recovered when a heavy payload is lofted. Physics is a cruel and unforgiving beast. Build a larger booster, and now you need more fuel to lift it, so add more engines, which add weight and fuel consumption… so add more fuel… there is no free lunch.
An incredible feat of engineering would have been to actually lift something into Space, land back and then re fly and take another payload into space. 100% rapid reusability. That is no where near what we got. This vehicle has only taken a banana in a sub orbital flight. The vehicle is overly heavy, under powered and if you know anything about this technology you will realize that is amazingly short on payload performance. Should we use an adult scale or an Apollo scale to evaluate what has been demonstrated?
Keep saying the wrong facts, We'll both see in a few years what starship will be able to achieve. This is just a prototype. Why don't you understand that it takes time to fully develop something out of scratch! How long did it take to master the modern airplanes that we have. Weren't they so much different from the ones that wright brothers made?
It pains me to say it. But I have completely fallen out with, musk. Stop interfering in politics. You've done it with USA's. Back off from mine! UK. Stick to what you're good at. If not. Your whole dream is going to get shattered. BACK OFF, MUSK!! Before it all backfires on you.
Looks like he‘s now ruining the US. Recommending Germans to vote for a Nazi party. Why is he ruining his amazing achievements? He should quit politics, sell Twitter and focus on Tesla and SpaceX.
5:45 I am sorry what? Temperature isn't the only thing keeping oxygen liquid, pressure is the other one. Venting away the gas just makes more gas by dropping pressure assuming fixed volume. Some spacecraft use internal bags that are pressurized (squished) by light gas from the outside, but that ain't the story here. Notably, IFT2 failed because of CO2 that was added to the tank to keep pressure up solidified and clogged engine intake filters. Such a poorly researched video.
I think you are nitpicking. The spacecraft WILL explode if the evaporating propellant is not vented. And you are correct, that if the pressure drops more propellant will gassify. But having a sun shield and insulation will be key to keeping the propellant depot full while filling and waiting for the Manned Spacecraft to arrive for refilling.
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Imagine what starship can do in 10 years time
With luck they will have fully orbited Earth.
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@@LelandReview Maybe added some mood lighting.
@@LelandReview maybe boeing will have had their first success with starliner by then lmao... or maybe new glenn will have been launched by then?😂😂
SpaceX's 2025 plans include Starship orbital return and catch, new Starlink satellites, Raptor V3 engines, orbital refueling, increased launch frequency, new launch infrastructure, and multiple Falcon 9/Heavy missions to the Moon and for commercial customers.
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At this point the Starship is just a boilerplate vehicle. A lot of hardware has to be added to carry propellant, cargo, or to be usable as a lunar lander or Space Station module.
Hopefully, the Star Factory will make building the shell routine, and some of the hardware already has flight heritage on Dragon. But some of it will be brand new. We'll have to see how quickly SpaceX can work on building in all the details that make these Spacecraft useful.
An experimental vehicle.
That has until now failed to successfully carry out any missions.
And yes, being on the sixth test flight without successes is not .... good in our species spacefaring history.
Well see if the promised cheapening of the payloads will even ever materialize.
It has not for now. Dragon9 are currently _more_ expensive than the russian Sojus-flights where.
And thats 60s tech.
Thx.
You guys too, A Happy New Year.
So use a sun shade on the vehicle to avoid boil off.
Two Starships means four stages; does this mean MORE towers needed for redundancy, when 100% reusability is achieved/needed? A (near) 1:1 ratio of stages to towers appears necessary to keep a margin of safety in regard to reusability and cadence.
Starship is going to need some sort of clamshell for deployment of larger payloads.
I am glad that people are FINALLY making the distiction between what SPACEX's engineers and fabricators have achieved instead of givng credit to Musk.
Without Musk, there is no SpaceX.
@billweberx without your parents, no you, does that mean everything you do should be attributed to them
@@ErenAlpErtem 🤦♀
@syk420zz What, disproving someone's logic by presenting a logical extension of that logic is face palm worthy now? Like wdym 🤦♂️
@@ErenAlpErtem Let me be more explicit for those who can't figure this out. Musk is the driver for innovation at all his companies. Without him, the companies would continue on, but without the constant push for innovation. Very similar to Apple. When Jobs passed, Apple's valuations did great but what mind-blowing innovations have they done? None.
so nice to hear your voice on this channel once again. I have missed it greatly. Good luck to your company and to Spacex in the coming year
3:32 is that even possible? I mean sure communication is one thing but having internet means lots of transmission power is involved considering when the distance is around 500 km. The phone might need some specially designed antenna but even with that upload speed won't work properly.
The satellites are lower than that. Spacex also isn;t the only ones offering that service. it is really unfortunate that most space channels do not cover Spacex's competitors, but AST Space Mobile is also launching satellites for direct to phone 4G and 5G service.
It is already being done, by spaceX as well as competitors. Google sattelite to cell. Sending data from sattelites to phones was first done by verizon in the late eighties.
The only thing really new about Starlink sattelite internet is the high number of relatively low and thus fast-used-up sattelites. Leading primarily to a low latency.
The whole concept is no as high-tech as the gushing cult-marketing makes it seem.
@FischerNilsA how'll be the upload speed?
@@AnupomAG Do you seriously expect me to google current technical specs for you?
Those change. Your original question was if - for the "currently how" you will have to do your own legwork.
I'm looking forward to Rocket Labs maiden launch of Neutron rocket
"The space race"? What "Space race"? You have one modern space company, and everyone else stuck in the 60's
You must no watch this show China is really close to passing America up all they need is to master reusable rockets and they already started testing their own models
ur being intentionally ignorant. china and nasa are going back to the moon you know this
Nah there are probably about 5-8 respectable launch companies now, but it’ll be a few years before they catch up in a sense
@@maxantile8873 China doesn’t innovate.
China is going to beat the US for Mars sample return. There very much is a space race.
Heat shield tiles need sorting out.
all the achievements for spacex and for the entire space industry is just the beginning.
Best on UA-cam or otherwise!!
I’d like to see newer more powerful versions of the Falcon rockets maybe strapped with Raptor like engines that could be used to launch maybe fuel pods like stations for small satellites to fill up. Something like a falcon 10-11 & 12 blocks but it makes sense they’d like to focus everything on starship
Not feasible
Yeah that’s a complete new rocket
Why bother? The cost to LEO will be at least 5X lower for Starship and with vastly more capacity. It will be cheaper to launch than the Falcon 1. So, even for small satellites, it would be cheaper than any of the small rockets being developed.
Keep making good videos guys
Name how many successful lunar landings where the ship was taller than the landing gear is wide please.
Comparing tiny landers made by novel teams to Starship and Super Heavy is kind of silly. Name how many orbital class rockets returning to the launch site there were before SpaceX did it. There's always room for a first.
SpaceX isn't the only one attempting this. I'd believe they could do it more than anybody else seeing as they manage to land rockets on Earth that are taller than their landing legs.
Well that's an n=1 comparison
Way to compare apples to oranges, well done!
Imagine what SpaceX can do now that Elon is in complete control of the regulatory bodies. Totally, definitely not gonna be a conflict of interest
Elon is NOT in complete control of regulatory bodies. He's in control of their budget and even then he can only make recommendations/requests. Final decisions still fall to congressional approval. He's also never denied it isn't in his and SpaceX's interest to have less regulation but funny thing about less regulation: it applies to everyone and that includes his competitors not just him. If anything it means his competitors have a better chance of catching up since they won't have to sit around and wait. New Glenn is currently sitting on the launch pad waiting for regulatory approval just like Starship and Super Heavy were. If this is meant as a critical jab, it failed.
Elon's companies have been the ONLY ones pushing human spaceflight forward in any meaningful way in decades. Since the shuttle, really. I don't really care if it's a conflict of interest, those in the government have been conflicting with true progress for ages.
anything you want Mr Musk, don't cut my funding
He will cripple the US Economy before Starship has a chance to do anything remarkable
@@Saphykitten Worse than Bidenomics?
6:17 And that how we make more starships
How will they get enough fuel to the site to launch every day?
Pipeline if I'm not mistaken. Supposed to be safer and more efficient.
That's the biggest limitation for launches I think 16 tankers are required for just a single launch attempt
@@saquist 16 isn't even close
more like 300 tankers@@saquist
Original plans were to produce on site. We'll see...
I would love to see a video on the history of the modern space race between china and the usa, preferably movie length.
If you do this take your time on it I dont mind if it takes a year or 2, that way we can have more information.
The way NASA asks spacex to do what they let boeing get away with repeatedly is pure comedy
Put the feul at the L3 LaGrange point. Not usefully for going to the Moon (but why would you anyway - we already know there is nothing there?).
Precisely. Only the ignorant militaries of the world want to go back to the moon so they can build nonsense on the moon to threaten our existence. Sick of humanity
Excellent content thanks 🙏
If the starship comes in slower would the rocket be less hot during atmosphere return?
It would be less hot but then the heat would stay for longer
if anyone says nothing in space is worth investing in... tell them, "well what about starlink?"
Why would they send a cement block to the moon?!? It makes zero sense so much money wasted
They can't put a valuable payload on it as it might blow up.
@@billweberx But this is on the falcon heavy, not starship
Nasa went over their budget on testing now they can't send it anymore because of government limitations so instead they had to put the block there in its place
@@billweberx by that definition the mission already failed before it even started
@@gamerbossharmon The concrete is on the spacecraft that the Falcon heavy is carrying. That craft is an experiment and has some instruments that NASA wishes to test, but there is too much risk to put the main payload on the craft.
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why cant spacex send a full booster ontop of a booster into orbit , so there is a booster full of fuel waiting for the piloted ship to join up . then the starship has a full booster to use to get to moon n back .the booster can be left in moons orbit while starship goes to moon surface then once finished on moon they reconnect to booster to get home .
Well then the weight will increase and it would require more fuel to travel the same distance
One booster isn't enough to reach orbit, is why, that's why rockets are multi-staged.
The rocket equation does not take any prisoners
Let me guess: Elon Musk ate that banana at the end 2:53
Banana blew up in the Indian ocean
As far as I know, the banana was made from plastic (but just heard, may be wrong), thus I doubt Elon's appetite on it. 🍌😅
@@Gwydion67 it was a foam banana
Flacon 9 for most launches to the moon please!
Is no better then f9 if the second stage can’t be caught.
Thank you.
If they call it something other than V2, that would be better in my opinion. I can think of another rocket also called V2 that while was an innovation, wasn't very nice.
Cry about it lmao. I guess i will have to throw my fpv drone away. Its built on a SpeedyBee FS225 V2 5 inch Frame, it's V2, and you know, people also use fpv drones in ukraine.
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Bravo SpaceX 👍🚀🇺🇲👏👏
Fantasy Football. Starship delivers the remaining Bigelow Aerospace inflatable habs to Earth orbit.
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As always, Elon way out front! His 2025 is already a Great Leap Forward. New Year's Success to all TeXas Stars💖🌌
There are no chopsticks in Mars...🎉
@@jorgesolis7891 but also less gravity. I think they will use landing legs like on the moon landing missions
The Mimic Dome: In order to colonize Mars, a simulation dome must be built here on Earth to mimic the Martian atmosphere to train Astronauts. This dome could be over 200 meters in diameter and a 100 meters in height with smart glass to mimic the daytime and night time on Mars. But this dome must be built over a massive concrete foundation built a few feet below the ground, and providing insulation for the dome above and also create the right temperatures and gas combinations of Mars. This concrete foundation is the control center with state of the art medical and other emergency facilities in case of evacuation of trainee astronauts. This dome should mimic the radiation levels found on Mars. Astronauts should train building Habs, and hydrophonic domes for vegetation growth. The only mimic not possible will be gravity but it may not be a serious issue. However, the astronauts could learn driving Mars rovers and learn how they behave in the Martian environment. Weather simulations could also be initiated as part of testing and training. I am sure this theory of the Mimic Dome may not be new. It could already be doing the rounds in Tesla.
on first attempt, this is like 7th attempt
first attempt at the refuel / catch
Starship is a terrible shape for reentry, and the taller it gets, the worse it gets.
Rather than on-orbit refueling, drop mass instead of keeping it.
We landed men on the moon by shedding mass. The original concept was much like Starship. Engineering explained Physics and Apollo was the result.
True but dropping mass when you're basically out of fuel wouldn't get the job done since they need almost all their fuel to get into orbit
Well there goes your reusability
@daniel4412 7 starship launches and so far only one booster might be reused...
@@daniel4412 The KISS principle is hard to ignore. It’s crazy to keep all that mass with you. Adds complexity which adds risk.
Falcon 9 occasionally is not recovered when a heavy payload is lofted. Physics is a cruel and unforgiving beast.
Build a larger booster, and now you need more fuel to lift it, so add more engines, which add weight and fuel consumption… so add more fuel… there is no free lunch.
No worries. Elon is getting what needs and wants for StarBase and future endevors.
I wish Elon Musk would get on his stupid rocket and go to Mars already We're tired of him here.
And take Trump with him
Please try big size electric rocket please sir please
So addicted to SpaceX Starship! Great information “Space Race”!!!
Calling it the V2 is about Phony Stark's speed...
God speed to SpaceX, but he can rot; of course his brain already has been, for years
You liberal hacks are insufferable. Elon will be the most consequential man this century. Elon derangement syndrome.
Nice!!!
Did you say..., V-2...?
An incredible feat of engineering would have been to actually lift something into Space, land back and then re fly and take another payload into space. 100% rapid reusability. That is no where near what we got. This vehicle has only taken a banana in a sub orbital flight. The vehicle is overly heavy, under powered and if you know anything about this technology you will realize that is amazingly short on payload performance.
Should we use an adult scale or an Apollo scale to evaluate what has been demonstrated?
Keep saying the wrong facts, We'll both see in a few years what starship will be able to achieve. This is just a prototype. Why don't you understand that it takes time to fully develop something out of scratch! How long did it take to master the modern airplanes that we have. Weren't they so much different from the ones that wright brothers made?
GREAT
If you fall into a tub of liquid oxygen is really bad right? You can't breath it.🤷♂
Nuclear Starship
Also 2026 mars landing
C'mon. An analog satellite or a bunch of them. No cement.
Elon Musk's SpaceX Starships need to place a rascally banana in low space orbit FIRST
It pains me to say it. But I have completely fallen out with, musk. Stop interfering in politics. You've done it with USA's. Back off from mine! UK. Stick to what you're good at. If not. Your whole dream is going to get shattered. BACK OFF, MUSK!! Before it all backfires on you.
Nah, the UK needs a reboot.
Looks like he‘s now ruining the US. Recommending Germans to vote for a Nazi party. Why is he ruining his amazing achievements? He should quit politics, sell Twitter and focus on Tesla and SpaceX.
Lots of fancy CGI videos of things happening doesn't mean that they will actually happen.
It's classic Elon vaporware.
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Anyone ever hear of a Russian rocket guy named Yuri Kondratyuk?
Just to arrive nowhere...? 🎉
Caution, vaporware.
In 2012 my father said that astronauts will reach Mars in 2022 and then come back in 2024
5:45 I am sorry what? Temperature isn't the only thing keeping oxygen liquid, pressure is the other one. Venting away the gas just makes more gas by dropping pressure assuming fixed volume. Some spacecraft use internal bags that are pressurized (squished) by light gas from the outside, but that ain't the story here. Notably, IFT2 failed because of CO2 that was added to the tank to keep pressure up solidified and clogged engine intake filters. Such a poorly researched video.
I think you are nitpicking. The spacecraft WILL explode if the evaporating propellant is not vented. And you are correct, that if the pressure drops more propellant will gassify. But having a sun shield and insulation will be key to keeping the propellant depot full while filling and waiting for the Manned Spacecraft to arrive for refilling.
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Who are Filipinos watching this video?🤚🏻
When is Elon taking a trip?
Eighth!
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With space karen as president 2025 will be crazy. SpaceX or not.
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Lol quit using space x as your content and then talking like you're smarter than those engineers! 😂😂😂
When You Go By Free Enterprise And Not By The NASA Government Slow Action!!!
Pathetic
blah blah blah a waste of time
Will the starship “gas pump” have sufficient fuel after top off to return to earth softly or is it gonna be more space junk.
The fuel is the payload, so the tanker ship will still have an independent fuel supply (probably header tank) for de-orbit and landing burn.
Too badd Musk is sucking up to DJT.
I'd say collaborating and it's good for his businesses and my stock value.
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This video is made by a guy who has no idea what he's talking about.
May Each and Every project of Elon's fail in this new year!
So you want astronauts to parish???
Another reason I dislike politics
May you fail as well.
Why? Did he kick your dog?
@@CitizenRuleHe kicked his ideology and stupidity 😂
Great, I love SpaceX but I don't love President Musk. I'm losing interest in all of it. I'm sorry for you guys and even more for Tim etc
I didn't know cats could be so talented. My cat needs to learn from the star of this video😘