Will Starship survive reentry?!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Starship IFT-4 is less than a week away!
The goal for this flight will be to survive reentry.
IFT-3 proved orbital velocity, but SpaceX is aiming for SN29/B11 to have a targeted spalsh down in the Indian Ocean.
Leave a comment with your prediction for this monumental 4th flight!
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Thanks for the update. Looking forward to your live stream for IFT4 😊
Videos continue to get better and better! Almost 100K Subs!!!
I always watch my videos in 1.5x speed, do you? 😂
1.75x sounds fine here. You may consider speaking a little faster.
I usually watch at 2x speed. Lets me get more dopamine hits in from UA-cam, lol :)
It depends. Not on this one, for example. But sometimes when you have a guest with a tempo that is a bit slow is when I speed it up.
no. and i prefer slow tempo speaking. its relaxing. cadances like, cool worlds, and John micheal godier. they speak with a slower tempo. super relaxing
I wish there is a 4x option. I have other things to do. If a video is lengthy timestamps are very important otherwise I won't watch it.
Thank you Ellie for another great video. Thanks in advance for your coverage of IFT4!
Saying "I can't wait" seems so inadequate... but... I can't wait. Go Space-X!
I agree ! I can’t wait too!!!!😂🎉
@@ellieinspace Apologies for the hijack Al Kimbal, buuuut,... I wanted to tag Ellie in a response and this, well, the video would be worth the wait to see. 😊
Ellie, are you aware that there's two sets of island in the Indian Ocean where it may be possible to view Starships planned re-entry point? One is Diego Garcia, which is a UK territory that is solely used by the US Navy as a major base of operations,... so no chance of going there to watch.
The other is called the "Cocos (Keeling) Islands", it's an Australian territory, but not too many hours flight from Indonesia. Sadly I don't have the means to get from the other side of Australia to an island off our west coast with my camera and live stream gear, but maybe if we put the word out, someone in that area might have enough gear to film and upload the re-entry!
@@ellieinspace You can wait, you will wait as long as it takes.
Ellie I so enjoy your updates. Starship needs to succeed to radically change space history. Looking forward to this next flight.
I am so glad Ellie will be reporting live on IFT-4 since I cannot be there. I am so looking forward to you coverage.
is Tim Dodd doing the tour ? where was that announced?
He is, Elon replied to a post saying he’d be doing a tour with Eryday Astronaut and Tim also shared this news I believe on X
You’re getting better and more confident talking about rockets at every video. Here’s to 100k subscribers!! 🙌🏻
Ask Grok for a new formula for heat tiles. Grok suggests oatmeal and cheese based tiles. Problem solved.
Keep the great videos coming Ellie
Love your new 'Walter Cronkite' delivery style.
And I didn’t use a teleprompter! Thank you
Trying to internalize the information better 🎉
"And that's the way it was" ... Cronkite was a true journalist. "Paid his dues" as a correspondent before becoming a precise and winsome anchor, and never, never let his political views interfere with reporting the facts of the news. Made me a forever fan of CBS. His excitement about the space program was infectious and endearing. I know I'm getting old, but best as I can recall, Ellie doesn't look much like Walter ...
@@slowercuber7767 He was a brunette
@@slowercuber7767 they don't make them like Cronkite. I was a little kid when he was on TV and even I know grownups listened to this guy. We desperately need a new Walter Cronkite but I think that is impossible with the amount of inaccurate information at everyone's fingertips.
@@robertmartens7839 LOL ... when I watched him (mid sixties until he retired (early seventies? except for some specials)) I doubt I'd have called him a brunette...
Thank you for this thrilling update 🎉
You bet!
Love your channel Ellie xx Very best wishes from the UK
Thank you so much!!
Do you have a Dalmatian!?
@@ellieinspace Yes. he's my 2nd, hes 2 years old & an utter chaos merchant. Wonderful to hear from you
If I new how to post a pic I would. Thank you for making my day
dalmations are awesome.
I'm just happy that you are back to covering Starship! Thank you!
Nice update from a long time subscriber!
Great news that you'll be providing coverage of IFT4 with Joe Tegtmeyer. Enjoy your latest visit to Starbase.
IMHO, Ellie in space you have a good show and I think you made a smart choice covering space instead of main stream news. I think sustaining tracktion to reach 100,000 subsribers will happen. 500,000 is a possibility but it really depends on when space industry booms and becomes more main stream.
Hang in there GL and HF.😘
Like your channel and these updates. If you feel you fell out of favor with the overlords, call them on it. I've been seeing a lot of this lately. They just don't want to pay there providers.
I am still surprised they did not try to go with an Ablative shield at first. Reusable sure but perhaps get some other flights under their belts with many flights with an ablative shield, they already have multiple ships built right? Just my 2 cents.
SpaceX is 0/3. The heatshield is the critical point of failure and is likely to remain so for any reuseable rocket. It may take new technology to solve the heatshield issue. Starship will never achieve fast turnaround with a tiled system as all the tiles will need to be checked before any relaunch just like the space shuttle.
Glad Ellie will have opportunity to attend. Hope prior plans work out for best.
I will wait to see your livestream.
Thanks for your great content.
Keep up the great content thanks for the update.
Always enjoy your reports - very nicely done. I'm afraid that Starship is the Cyberjunk of the rocket world, but I hope I'm wrong.
More tightly scripted than usual. Thank you!
The tiles are a problem, and taking into account that the vehicle is built from steel, not aluminum, part of the NASA achievements do not apply. Clearly, the space shuttle was doing far better. The vibration was far more severe (solid busters) and the tiles did not fall the way they do on a starship. Starship also has the worst possible shape for the tiles to stay put on this side of a sphere or a random shape. The other point is the insistence or increasing the cargo capabilities of the Starship. If you want something cheap increase security margins and leeway. Build a truck not an F-1 Ferrari. We barely have loads heavy enough for the Falcon Heavy. Cut the mass to LEO by half and use that to create a secure TPS and a proper scape pod.
The industry is already adjusting to the reality of 100+ tons and a 9 meter hull. There are at least three different space stations in the works, all of which are depending on being able to take advantage of all that room and payload capacity. Fast forward five years and the entire idea of having to design satellites that meet certain weight specs and require intricate folding will be absolutely quaint. Also keep in mind that SpaceX are primarily designing Starship for themselves. HLS is a side job; space station lifts for customers will be a cute bonus; even the military's interest in the ship's capabilities will be secondary.
Another pretend expert pretending badly.. What a fool you do make of yourself.
Thank you for the information Ellie. You are the only site that has some of that info. Keep up the great work.
Great work Ellie! Can't wait to watch your coverage of the next launch! :)
Wow, the UA-cam seemingly random, watch-this-next algorithm actually worked this time! First time I have seen your channel. Instantly liked and subscribed at the conclusion of watching this video. Looking forward to IFT-4. Thanks for your content and coverage!
That is such a compliment, THANK YOU! And , welcome 🙋♂️🥹
Great coverage as always! Keep up the great work.
I will be watching your coverage of the SpaceX Starship IFT4 launch
Thank you!!! You are always so supportive!!!
What up
Nm, u? 😂
Duct tape
SpaceX needs to consider building a “Space Dock” where Starships can be inspected in orbit. Something that could dock 4 Starships and a fuel depot vehicle
Really enjoy these short news videos
Thanks for the update, Ellie!! Again, such a SO exciting launch of Starship!!!!!!
I'll be watching flight 4 through my computers' displays. You'll be on one of my monitors.
Thanks for an excellent informative video! Can't wait to see Starship Flight 4!
Ellie: Elon says..... Elon Says...........
Me: Elon says a lot of things, most of it turns out to be wrong! Constantly citing Elon on your source doesn't help you
What a pro, great work Ellie!
As long as they don't dump an attempt to sell bitcoins at any time during their broadcast, whatever happens, I'm happy.
"Will Starship survive reentry?!"
yes
Sorry I cheated by answering today ;)
Hoping for booster catch on Flight 5. If so planned, will watch from Rocket Ranch’s Outpost viewing site, the closest the public can get. Was there for IFT-1 … the proximity was awesome!
Great Video ! Have you visited the State of New Mexico for Spaceport America, the New Mexico Space History Museum and the FREE Roswell City Museum that is North of the fee based UFO Museum ! Also you have the VLA that stared in some famous movies ! tjl
Great video Ellie! Looking forward to the next Starship launch.
It's not said officially, but Starship is already a successful and biggest expandable rocket.
Great job Ellie. Looking forward to your continued coverage.
Nice job, I look forward to your coverage of IFT4. When will you start your coverage?
I wonder if Starship could still be competitive with an expended upperstage, like F9R. Then it could work on upper stage reusability while still making a profit.
Amazing update.
Hope we see a controlled booster landing on water, and a controlled starship re-entry. Even if breaks down after atmospheric temperatures on this coming IF-4.
No it will not. I have 0 confidence in the leading-edge tiles or control surfaces. The flex of the main body is too much. Last launch it didn't even look like the starship knew which was was up and couldn't correct even tho it looked like it tried at one point. They'd better get back at least the booster this time. So my answer is no. I'm not a SpaceX hater by any means. #1 I think they need some old school programmers like myself, and #2 probably need nVidea as a partner for better sims, and #3 re-engineer the platform. I mean u got... booster )engines{fuels}nose How much protection does a payload need? re-engineer the payload part of the cylinder, or make the cylinder part of the delivery to orbit, just return the parts u need: booster, then engines+fuel+nose. They'd have better luck launching a Godzilla sized turtle. there u go - Starship 5 GoTurtle and let it bounce off the atmosphere a couple times just for fun. ;)
I think it'll reach orbit (if the motors do not ignore the mission and come apart in flight) but I am skeptical of re-entry. That's a different job that the rocket hasn't had to endure totally yet.
Thank you for your updates, Ellie. Poor Tim Dodd though, he fell off my radar when he started to take himself too seriously or make his videos too long or stopped 'feeling' so regular. I don’t know exactly, but a few years ago, he made some big changes, and it just wasn’t the same enjoyable experience to watch his content. Money changes people unfortunately.
Ellie, please stay quirky, intelligent, and informative. You are enjoyable to watch, I learn something almost every time I watch, and it is nice to experience your journey with you.
Great reporting Ellie, as always much appreciated.
Looking forward to the ITF4, this is history in the making, and you are taking us along for the ride !
Traction on UA-cam will be hard because everyone is doing Tesla and SpaceX updates. If you’re going to be Ellie in space, cover all of space. Like Scott manley or Fraser Cain, if you’re trying to be like Marcus house or what about it I just don’t think you could take that audience. But you have to have passion for it, if it’s just another praise musk channel they’re everywhere. Starship development is going to take place for the rest of the 2020’s, people will slowly lose interest. Falcon 9 launches get hardly any interest unless it’s a crewed launch and starship might launch 4 times a year. It’s just a lot of dead space to fill with speculation and repetition.
Just my thoughts, I subscribed because I like the short and sweet approach.
Quick guess: Almost certainly not. IFT1, IFT2 and IFT3 all met their key goals. But the key goal in IFT4 is to survive maximum heating during reentry. Because this is completely contingent on there being zero missing tiles, I simply do not see it happening. SpaceX hasn't done anything new with the tiles. It's presumably something they'll begin addressing in earnest with the Block 2 prototypes. Anyway, this just about guarantees tiles will fall off in the usual places, such as around seams where they're merely glued on. All this having been said, they probably already know all this, and are basically sacrificing one of the two remaining Block 1 crafts just to see what reentry can do to a craft missing tiles. I hope they have an internal camera set up for it!
You make the flawed assumption that the tile loss tolerance is zero.
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom Huh? Musk said as much himself. _This video even points it out._
@Asterra2
Musk is most likely wrong. Unless the tile is in a critical spot, Starship would be fine if it lost some.
Thanks Ellie! Super excited too. Have a safe trip and good luck with your work with Joe down in Boca Chica 🙏 Lotsa love to all ❤❤❤
Hey have a spray foam heat shield like what's in tiles?Make like spray foam right? Be faster than tiles! Right It's an idea for Elon? Maybe😊😊
Your videos are super explanatory and illustrative for me Ellie, I'm out of the loop, and I understand almost nothing about aerospace engineering, because all I know is that I come from the Future, and I interact with my family of Souls in this Future, and others in this star system, and interworld, and parallel dimensions that reveal and show me about this future from which I come, and sometimes I forget about it, as I forget that I'm in this present and density. It's not to understand, just to know that there is a follower like that. (laughs, you know that story that there are more things between the heavens and the Earth, than our vain philosophy can assume?, that's about it.) Thank you very much, I loved it. 💝🌹🌟🚀💫😉
Oooh Ellie! What about when Space X starts using Super Heavies to send stuff to the Moon & Mars. I feel like they'll get SH dialed in b4 Starship is at the same pace; mass production phase.
It would be mindboggling/awesome if we get video of Flight test 4 all the way through re-entry.
I think Ship 29 will make it through re-entry as long as it has good attitude control/in correct orientation during re-entry and most/key heat tiles stay on. However I have concerns with possible fuel issues preventing the engines re-lighting properly for the flip maneuve/landing burn.
The flip has never been done with a raptor 2 engine.
Fingers crossed its a success with full re-entry video.
Great job! Starship will make re entry.👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
I always wonder why they can’t make something like 4x6 ft sections of heat shield rather than the individual tiles. I’m guessing manufacturing, since a big tile will have to be molded to the specific area. Idkn, I’m not an engineer 😂
When you speak with Elon in the future could you ask him if a similar setup could be done like the Falcon Heavy, where you got extra boosters left and right, thus two shorter boosters left and right of Starship?
You should ask Elon on X if he would consider throttling Starlink speeds up in the Boca chica area for launch coverage. Worth the try. Your never know with him.
It’s cool having a skilled presenter give us intelligent and well researched information and commentary on Starship. I wonder what learnings, tech and talent Elon brings across from Tesla to help address the challenges of large scale manufacture and installation of super-reliable heat tiles. There’s a future project for you Ellie👍
Looking forward to watching you and Joe (and the big shiny rocket) next week.
Funny how much Ellie looks like a Texas girl....🤭
I think they will do better on re entry this time, heard Elon describe whats required, and not doing a re entry burn also gives me a clue.
Basically if they nudge it downwards with thrusters in the coast phase, should get some air resistance in very thin air, and numbers drop from near orbital velocity.
Thin air, less molecules, over more time/distance means less heat, but if you are doing a long distance,
that resistance would add up over time, and result in reduced velocity. Without ever over heating.
Basically a ratio of velocity versus air density to create drag.
if that is tried, the next step would to be give the ships increased lifting area, and control surfaces for that kind of flight. So the high altitude could be extended longer via glide ratio against gravity.
Have to wait and see, but every little bit helps, and less intense heat would mean more options on heat shield.
Also thinner air less likely to rip off tiles... or other shield surfaces.
And less heat intensity less thermal expansion differential with the hull.
I am from Amsterdam and now at starbase, it is amazing how close you can get to it. Hopefully i will watch itf 4 soon margaritaville was fully booked probably ellieinspace got in because she is ellieinspace.
The whole idea behind the heat shield is that it's sacrificial. Funny Musk is trying to save sacrificial parts.
Enjoyed the video. So glad to hear you will be there for the launch.
Can't wait for the IFT4 Ellie and Joe Show!
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Yeah Ellie, watching your feed again foe sho!😅👍🏿
So glad to have another UA-cam space reporter here in Port Isabel!
Booster landing is a bigger deal to me. Getting 80% of the rocket back is better than 20%. A starship that reuses the booster is viable.
Thanks Ellie. Have fun down there and keep up the good work.😊
The heat shield's integrity is vital for successful re-entry. Is there any alternative to the tiling approach?
The booster will be relatively easily reusable but any vehicle with heat shields will not be rapidly reusable. They're going to need way more shots than boosters to maintain a rapid launch cadence.
I appreciate your professionalism as a reporter. Keep up the good work!
Very happy to hear that you’ll be there for the fourth flight. In a couple of years, it will be like catching a bus.
I stay at Margaritaville and toured Boca Chica. It was an awesome experience. I did not have the money to stay until the launch.
You know what a fairing stay bracket is? Its a structure added to the main structure so that you can attach more things. I think the Heat tiles will need more than just pins. It needs its own version of a fairing stay bracket, It will be structural just like the frame of the Starship but not nearly as strong. It only needs to be strong enough to hold the tiles in place. It would add considerable weight but it would also make those tiles far more reliable. Imagine being able to remove all the heatshield in one shot because they are all attached to the fairing Stay Bracket and the entire Bracket can be removed from the Starship. This might be the way to go.
I like the keeping it real vibe of your videos. No fake personality bs. 👍
Very interesting!! Thanks for your coverage!
Great, glad you'll be taking us to watch IFT-4 Ellie!
Sorry you aren't more popular. We need ti see more people with metal in their body other than mercury.
Looking forward t a successful flight4
Looking forward to watching you and Joe take us on a refreshed tour. 🚀
For the "Catch", why not make a 10 km hop? Love ya...🤪
Hi Ellie. I know what these heat tiles look like on the Star ship. What do the other heat tiles look like on other SpaceX ships.
Looking forward to your coverage on IFT4👍
good luck Ellie, its a tough world when you want to follow your passions
you speak so clear and give vital information for science lovers
Thanks, Ellie! See you at IFT-5.
Amazing how much spaceflight flight has improved. Thanks for the thorough update.
has it though?? We're still trying to glue tiles to a steal tube.
Still can't go "back" to the Moon.
@@codetech5598 somehow we managed to get there in 1969 with one rocket. Now it takes one rocket plus 12 other rockets full of extra fuel. I don't get it.
@@dupre7416 Well, the NASA explanation is that they took risks and cut corners in 1969 in order to get to the Moon before 1970 as JFK promised. They will say that now they want to be extra careful and also bring extra baggage so now they need more fuel, etc.
Maravilha assistir dois dos lançamentos registrado pelos seus olhos isso fora incrível sem palavras para quem estava acompanhado quem sabe vc não consegue entrevista meu herói na torcida mal posso esperar por mas um milagre testemunhado por todos nós esse sim é trabalhar em prol da preservação da humanidade
Thank you for covering launches for use we all love ya!
Thanks for your usual indepth update.
Nice update. The two objectives: hover the booster over the gulf landing spot until it runs out of fuel, and have the Starship survive re-entry and maybe soft-land in the Indian Ocean. And do all of this without injuring stage zero.