SpaceX Unveils Surprising New Starship Upgrade, and preps for Booster Catch!
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As we count down to the launch of Starship Flight Test 5, it has been incredible watching all the pieces come together at Starbase. SpaceX Unveils Surprising New Starship Upgrade in the Starship Version 2 Downcomer design. We've also had them slap on a Mechazilla Decal onto the ship. I think they need a "Catch Me If You Can!?" decal on the booster for flight 5 too. What do you think? Of course we have one of the most exciting missions of this decade so far finally here with Polaris Dawn, and a brand new Falcon 9 booster in the Starlink Group 10-5 mission. A Blue Origin New Glen Delay? And What is going on with Starliner? We have a first ever as we witness the JUICE Moon and Earth flyby, and what on Earth happened with the Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) Anomaly. Yes indeed, I’ve got a lot to catch you up on with all that.
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Do they need the quick disconnect for the catch ?
Place gyro wheels on the chopsticks, for better control.
@@Mike-tv9rk It's a quick disconnect, not a quick connect, so no.
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thanks for all you do here is super awsome 😇❣❣❣
Get well soon space buddy
"A new booster? - Huh - I haven't seen one of those in a while" certainly is an incredible statement!
I remember watching these videos when water tower companies were making these prototypes in the dirt. It’s great to see how far Spacex have come
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@@ExploringCabinsandMines the first starship prototypes and the hopper were built by a company that normally builds water towers
@@narcolepticmarshmallow9012 Ahh now I remember! gotcha
And grain silo builders, if I recall correctly?
Thanks for the updates Marcus. It's so refreshing to have a real human researching and narrating these updates, compared to AI drones. Keep it up.
I think eventually those AI channels will end up killing the whole platform. Fingers crossed we can keep getting the numbers to keep doing it well into the future. Thanks for being here watching. It all helps a great deal.
@@MarcusHouse Sensible people avoid the AI channels once they realise the content is of poor quality, includes questionable information, and the narration is devoid of human warmth and humour. AI will never beat a Marcus House video! 🙂
@@MarcusHouse place gyro wheels on chopsticks arms for better control.
@@AndersJB-se8ff Not worth the weight penalty.
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Woke up in the hospital this morning after surgery. This was a welcomed surprise to get watch. Thanks again Marcus
I hope you have a fast recovery!
I recently got out of hospital and luckily just spent one night since I shared a room with an 81 year old snoring nuclear weapon and couldn't sleep whole night because of the noise.
Hope your out of hospital in time to watch the launch!
You'll be fully stacked and ready for launch soon 🙂
Get well soon! Hope all is ok! ❤
Thanks for watching.
By far the best SpaceX update UA-cam channel.
Thank you! 😍
I like one other, but they're a bit goofy sometimes, and I won't mention the name.
@@rogerfreeman6787Ze German?
@@rogerfreeman6787 Felix? :P. I prefer Marcus House because his editing and hosting is just the right amount of entertainment, no annoying music and all that stuff.
Best SPACE update UA-cam channel!
These videos are always the start of my Saturdays and I appreciate all your hard work!
Happy that I get to be a small part of your weekend! Enjoy the rest of it!
@@MarcusHouse I just wanted to echo what MrParty here said, love this start to my Saturdays!
The attention to detail of what your team catches on the surveilance photos and videos is just NEXT LEVEL.
I don't follow Everyday or Scott, just you (and Startalk) cause work and life is buzy but you capture this SO well - Please keep going!
True that
they come out around the afternoon where i am, but i look forward to them
Same
I am always surprised by the speed spacex is working. Just incredible.
The shift from "we only want brand new boosters" to "we want flight proven boosters" is such a massive shift in manned spaceflight
That is true and an excellent insight. Hmm, I think I lean toward "flight proven" myself, but there are upsides and downsides. However, with Falcon 9 boosters doing 10+ flights routinely, I think I would prefer a Falcon 9 with 5-6 flights under its belt.
I had to laugh this week with Scott Manley, he said at one point "and another boring launch with starlink" who thought 10 years ago we would ever say this?
You have admire these frontier pushers, making real things today that was wonderous science fiction in the past.
Humans adapt so fast. Imagine when we have a moon/mars base, it will be the most normal thing a few years later. Everybody will be going in and out, and we will be aiming for the next achievement (factories on asteroids, renting space vehicles to make a tour through orbit and the moon..)
I'm looking forward to the days when Moon landings become boring lol
Those JUICE manouvers represent real deep understanding and calculations of orbital mechanics. I just hope it will still work as expected when it arrives in 2031.
Looking forward to the day we can send hundreds of massive probes straight up, directly where we want them to go in months, without the need for complex multi year staged slingshot maneuvers (regardless of how cool those are). Just need a lot more Delta V!
the fact that they can make multiple gravity assists, years in the future, is a testament to newton and kepler and the genius of mathmatics
@@sagasus960 Is it just me or did my reply to OP (before yours) just disappear?
I bet they were created with Kerbal Space Program 😂❤
so trippy that the first assist it does is to LOSE energy so it can drop to a planet that will give it a better assist. (Dr. Oberth would be like duhhhhhh obviously)
I started watching Marcus back when he had just over 9000 subs. Now, even if I am one of the early birds on Saturday mornings, there are already 16,000 views! So happy for you Marcus and great job this week as always. I can see SpaceX picking you up as a commentator or something.
It's Marcus House day again! Lemme get a coffee sir for the highlight of my week - cheers guys!🤩
I just love how you get straight to the point and the passion behind your work is visible.
I love this corner of the internet ❤❤
Better than the cat.
Thanks for the videos, and keeping it good and calm. I used to watch WAI but he started to way overdo it trying to be a comedian next to reporting on the news, you on the other hand are continuing with professional good reporting! Thank you very much!
But Felix is funny and informativ too.
@@user-li7ec3fg6h informative yes, he tries to be fun too much for my taste. Maybe he changed again, he lost me a few months ago. Marcus‘ style suits me better.
Totally love these updates, thanks so much Marcus. Waiting on pins and needles for #5 launch AND CATCH.
LOL As one of the world's first working digital engineer, a small aside: my first task at Honeywell was to add a digital self-testing circuit for the Apollo command console flight control system using "digital" chips which had a single 5 input nan gate and a second chip with 4, 2 input nan gates. This was probably the only digital "stuff" on the whole vehicle!
That is amazing. They accomplished so much with so little advanced tech! (well, none of the stuff we take for granted anyway... their metallurgy and mechanical engineering was nothing short of miraculous)
..Nand gates, correct?.. ..I still hobby design circuits using the old logic symbols and 74hc MSI chips.. ..and sometimes 4000 series.
Your footage is always excellent. Thanks for another great video
You are welcome. Thank you! 🤩
After watching this video I now know at least 5 times, maybe 10 times as much about the Polaris Dawn (PD) mission than I did before watching this. As a dreamer who can't stop thinking about the medium to long term future - crewed missions to the Moon and Mars, inflatable habitats enabling space stations significantly bigger and more comfortable than the ISS, etc - I was only somewhat interested in PD as a novelty mission but now that you've presented that long list of firsts I'm far more excited about it so thanks for that Marcus.
I don't see inflatable habitats significantly bigger than the ISS ever making sense. I thinks people given the choice will prefer living in steel Starships (which are way larger than the ISS already, especially if we include the tanks) with windows than blow up balloons. Polaris Dawn is preparing the Spacex astronaut core that will crew these stations and do all the other activities Spacex will be doing in the cislunar and Martian Spaces.
@@admarsandbeyond There are dozens of other companies working on numerous other solutions to safe/reliable LEO habitation. Not every solution needs to involve SpaceX, no matter how big of a fan I am of Starship. It's going to take an industry wide effort to make human life multiplanetary.
@@dirtypure2023 It has nothing to do with what I want to see happening (and I also want a healthy industry to exist). Starship is an enormous general purpose vessel that is already here, modifying it to fill these roles is trivial compared to building and launching the other stations from scratch. Companies who will want their own space stations will always choose the better and more cost effective product/service, and commissioning or buying (or leasing maybe) a few general purpose Starship vessels modified for their needs, as a complete package with Spacex support (launch, maintenance, flight crew, operations, supply ops, passenger ops, etc) will be a no-brainer.
@@admarsandbeyond As I understand it the inflatable hab technology being developed by Sierra Space (SS) is far from "blow up balloons". The skin is actually a fairly thick and somewhat rigid structure that is expanded after launch. At least according to SS the micrometeorite and radiation protection afforded by the multi-layer skin is superior to that provided by a steel structure and the latest full-size tested-to-destruction prototypes have already demonstrated the ability to incorporate windows while still exceeding NASA's safety margins.
One big benefit I see for inflatable habs is the volume efficiency that they offer on launch. A human habitat for a long duration stay is a pretty low density environment so launch volume rather than launch mass can be a challenge, e.g. a living module with some sleeping compartments, exercise equipment, table for eating/socialising, connecting passageways etc is mostly empty air which is very necessary for the occupants' mental health but means that the density of that total space + equipment is far lower than a satellite that is nothing but equipment/fuel/batteries for instance.
Anyway, I guess we should agree to disagree because I still think that inflatable habs are one of the more exciting parts of our (humanity's) space-faring future.
Starship would still have a big part to play in my imagined future e.g. the biggest inflatable hab module currently on SS's roadmap needs a 9m fairing to launch but if/when that all comes together that gets a pressurised volume over 5 times the volume of the ISS up into LEO in a single launch. Admittedly there would probably need to be at least one additional launch to fully outfit it (only so much will fit inside the non-expandable core section for internal fit-out) but even so I see that as a very exciting part of the future.
@@julianfp1952 I hope they succeed in making them cheap enough to be practical. I'm sure Spacex will launch these for them and support them with their crewed spacecraft and professional astronaut core.
I still prefer a hard steel vessel (with the appropriate modifications for a station, including radiation and micrometeorite obviously) that is cheap (mass produced), easy to modify (with a welder basically), and independent with its own propulsion (like MIR e.g. instead of the ISS and the constant reliance on supply vessels for re-boosts). May the better companies win and drop the cost of Space for all of of us.
WOW what a week. Thank you so much MH. You are the first to cover so much of the Space NEWS. Like Polaris Dawn (so amazing) & Blue Oregon a lot of fake NEWS about that one.
What a time to be alive.
i understand space is hard it is pretty funny to have "and now the spacex crew dragon is ready for its second experimental flight, this time with a spacewalk, tons of onboard experiments, and laser communication tests. we now go to starliner which is still having trouble with delivering and returning crew "
Sarah has such a crazy story. Can't wait to see her up there.
What part of the story do you find the most compelling?
Best SpaceX information on UA-cam! Look forward to this every Saturday Marcus.
“Catch Me If You Can”. I love it!
Marcus never fails to make the day better
Those struts on the crane is not the pistons doing the lifting, that's done by winch wire in the back extenders, one winch for hoisting the traveling block and most likely one winch to drive the extenders for booming up/down the jib and tower base. No part of the SWL is dictated by the strut piston, it's more likely part of the unfolding of the crane during deployment and that's it.
Excellent report, as always Marcus.
I'm really looking forward to 2031, and Juice's arrival at the Jovian system.
A lot of patience required til then though!
It's interesting that SpaceX competitors build horizontally, where SpaceX builds vertically.
I think Dassault build their business jet fuselages vertically with extensive use of robotics.
The scale is just unbelievable
Your segues between subjects are simply flawless. Extremely natural; I hardly know we've switched subjects and are now talking about subscribing and/or hearing about your sponsor. I know you've spent time on them, so I wanted to acknowledge your work!
Same. I don't mind ads, I'm glad you have sponsors to support the channel, but the smooth segue makes the advertisement easier to endure. And sometimes, even, enjoy. This requires both talent and careful diligent work, which Marcus obviously invests in this.
Much appreciated, Marcus!
Been watching your videos since you were making KSP and Simple Rockets 2 content and now every week with the starship updates, went to Texas to watch the first full stack launch and planning on going in September for the booster catch, thanks for the weekly updates Markus!
God I love this stuff. I was around for the first moon landing, watched it happen in real time on my b&w TV. Haven't been this excited about a space program since then.
Great job Marcus as usual ! Can't wait to see star ship next flight and catch ! Keep up your hard work brother !
However this goes, it’s going to be memorable!
It's going to leave it's mark on history. And somewhere on the planet, probably.....
I look forward to this every Saturday. 😊
its all reminding me of the ingenuity that went into the golden age of steam engines. Squeezing every last morsel of power from an 80-year-old technology
I have a feeling that these massive propellant spaceships are also going to be old technology in another 80 years.
@@iniqy I think it will be sooner. 20 years I rekon
Kitty Hawk to first moon walk = 66 yrs!!
@@GethinColes nuclear believer spotted
Never short of an indepth dive with a Marcus House weekly update. And love the graphics! 😍 Even though it's just past midnight in NZ (now Sunday), I am never afraid of nightmares when going to bed. 😁 Thanks to Marcus and his team of supporters. I look forward to the NASA announcement when I wake up. Subscribed and dedicated watcher.
Thank you for another great video. What draws me most to your videos is that your titles are not full of hype or eye catching bs. Oher channels make grand or shocking statements in their titles to get viewers, but have no real content. So out of the dozens of UA-cam channels covering space flight I've settled for to yours, NSF and EA. You all provide real videos, as much as possible, of the actuals rockets, or items, you are talking about. You all keep speculation to a minimum and report the facts. Great job and thank you again.
Nobody ever talks about Blue Origin’s silence on everything. Rumors. Even SpaceX sometimes admits its problems.
they'll have to fly to know the problems 😂
This channel is so much better than “What about it”, thanks Marcus
That mecazilla decal might be right in the camera shot on re-entry.
Thank you, thank you, Marcus - efficient and chipper, as always 😃
Every time I was the update I am in awe just how fast everything happens. The subcontractor must so full on as building the equipment from design to completion does not happen over night. So looking forward to the next launch. It’s going to be awesome. Excited. Cheers from New Zealand. Keep your reports coming. Thank you.
15:38 Thanks for pronouncing Gemini correctly, Marcus. Us greybeards notice such things!
Watching has become a Sunday morning coffee ritual for me. Thank you Marcus for more great work.
Wow, what a Great update! Can you just imagine the extent of the Math that was involved in developing the
orbital fly-by mechanisms for the JUICE mission? Incredible! And the engineering required to build a StarShip?
I can't wait till one day AI will be designing and robots will be building these rockets. I'm an old guy, so of course
I will be missing out on all of these things. I just hope that I can live long enough to see Man set foot on Mars!
Thank you for your inspiring enthusiasm, Markus. You and your team are Awesome!
Being an old 'arithmetic' kind of guy, no, I can't imagine, but it was crossing my mind just before reading your comment, cheers from Colorado.
Blue Origin not only exploded it imploded. 🤣 Dr.Who comedy relief reference.
Nice to hear and see you again Marcus. Great Content as usual.
I work on film sets & in production in general and I have to say that your channel is the absolute best for weekly space news, that’s not to disrespect any other channel as there’s some great channels out there 🤓 and I’ve said it before, but your channel is just so succinct, the media is well chosen and edited, with a concise script. Just brilliant 👏
Imagine how much more delta v can be incorporated for inter system probes once starship is up and running. With orbital refueling and way cheaper mass to orbit costs hopefully waiting for a probe to do complicated gravity well maneuvers over years will be a thing of the past. Imagine just the cost of having to monitor a probe for years while it is enroute to distant targets because of our current mass to orbit restrictions.
Happy I'll be alive to witness it.
Chinese space agency all over this channel taking notes >
Although P Dawn won't set an absolute altitude record (held by Apollo) they aim to break Gemini 11's record for the highest altitude while in Earth orbit (the Apollo lunar missions were already in cislunar orbit before this height).
Thanks again Marcus and another shout-out to the crew behind. I always enjoy your recap. So well presented. Nice and tight. Blessings to you and the crew!
the accuracy that's needed to catch that booster is nuts. the booster is coming in at a stupid rate of knots stopping on a dime and hovering in place within a meter or two at the correct orientation while those arms come in.
it has to be the most impressive thing so far this century.
Great update as always. Greetings from Dublin, Ireland
“Catch me if you can” I hope they use that name for the first booster. It was amazing to see the Blue Origin video with Tim Dodd. He knocked you off the top spot that week.
Totally. Would love to see that.
Rocket Lab already used that name for Electron 32... one of their helicopter recovery attempts.
Blue Origin s'gay
Catch 22?
@@CoCo-Janel Why are you trying to say Blue Origin is great?
Go!
0:12 The meaning of "HURTLE":
hurtle - verb [ I usually + adv/prep ] - UK /ˈhɜː.təl/ US /ˈhɝː.t̬əl/
- to move very fast, especially in a way that seems dangerous
(New word for a non-English viewer 😊)
Thanks Marcus. I am just one of the Tens of Thousands that start Saturday morning with you. The best way to start the weekend. :-)
Love that Polaris Dawn mission! Thanks, Marcus!!
Markus. The usual reason for the spreader bar to be hanging at an angle is to touch down the lift, one leg at a time.
It is almost impossible to get all four leg joints to be aligned at the same time to complete the joints.
If you watch the videos, the previous lifts (and this one!) landed all four corners within inches of each other. The empty spreader was skewed so the ninth segment (with its radical asymmetry) would hang flat.
I am freaking out over these spacewalks!! High risk high reward, so inspiring and bold.
19:32 looks like ground supply lines helped that happen in the end.
Plus metal possibly making a quick s’more fire source.
They need to boost the extinguisher’s system for rud fires.
I know it's been said before, but yeah... 80's kid here that looked forward to Saturday morning cartoons, now look forward to Marcus House updates! 😂
Thanks as always, see you next week!!! 👍❤️🎉
Certainly lots going on. .
Exciting times
Thank you MH + Team for an excellent upload
Thank you for the job you do.... I watch your show every Saturday morning here in Michigan. .. USA
The arms are going to squeeze the booster like a soda can 😂
Very possible. I doubt SpaceX will care on this first catch though just as long as they do catch it.
Another sub-optimal outcome I can think of - sort of the opposite to your thought - is that the arms might not quite close in time and the booster ends up dangling by its fins! I wonder if the fins would hold up or simply get sheared off if that happens. It probably depends on the velocity at time of contact. Those fins must be designed to take a fair amount of force because I suspect that the aerodynamic pressure on them is pretty high at various points in the flight.
I would of thought there will be parameters set so the arms can't close more than the diameter of the booster,
I just hope it doesn’t destroy the tower or the olm
@@julianfp1952first, the fins aren't what the booster is being caught by, but rather a set of catch pins that are engineered to support the entire weight of the booster on a few points. Secondly, the booster won't (or shouldn't) have any velocity at catch point. It should be hovering motionless between the chopsticks.
@@jonathanbranyon I know. I’m saying that if for some reason the chopsticks don’t close enough to engage the pins then one possible failure mode is that they’re close enough together to make contact with the flaps because they stick out further than the catch pins.
You always, ALWAYS, provide fantastic coverage. And, the fact that your videos are in 4K? Smashing! Out of the park!
Thanks Marcus.
Another brilliant coverage of SpaceX actively driving towards the ultimate destiny of Humanity itself.
We're literally going to reach a point where people will say "Did you see them catch that rocket?". Insane.
...and a year later, only enthusiasts will tune in to watch the occasional catch.
Scott Manley will report "of course we've had another three more SuperHeavy launches and catches this week" as if it's run-of-the-mill boring. Because it will be! And that will make me soooo happy...
It is funny how a used Falcon 9 booster is more valuable than a brand new one. I guess proven reliability is worth so much to off-set 'used'.
Can I just say, the flag, at the beginning of the RFA fire, seemed to be holding up pretty well! The screen went to another angle and I didn’t see it after that!
Did it survive?
Can we take an IMAX camera for the spacewalk? It would probably need shielding, but that would be epic. And can we play the footage in that huge ball in Las Vegas? I’d pay so much money to see that.
14:12 Only Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis will leave Dragon during the EVA.
Jared just said they would all technically take part in the EVA because they'll evacuate the entire spacecraft
Marcus, I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you. Ive been watching Starship related content since the very beginning at Boca Chica. Back then it was Mary’s images and the original NSF team, as well as Tim Dodd. Quickly there were a bunch of new channels including yours. NSF is still great but there are so many new people there that it has developed into a different thing. Of the rest, many just didn’t age well. WAI!? became unwatchable clickbate and many disappeared.
You have become my favorite weekly space news source. Your honesty, technical focus, and attention to production details has made your channel a must watch destination. I know how much time and effort you have put into this and it really shows. Thank you very much for creating terrific content. Well done!
You're rapidly becoming my goto for space updates. Thanks.
Thanks for supporting what we do. It means a huge amount. ❤
Can you add timestamps for every topic that woud be great
SpaceX to bring home Butch and Suni !
No.
Live with collateral damage.
@@waynemasters8673 No really, NASA announced that they're coming back on Dragon.
I've been becoming more and more sure that SX will replace the majority of HW4. The photo of the starfactory at 5:00 has the new sidewalk in place, and I don't see why they wouldnt extend the road up to it. This would either be a super-wide road, or maybe a more regular 35ft road with an additional 30ft "starship only" lane running parallel to the main road. Legal/Regulatory issues aside, that would make things so much cleaner/easier in the long term.
I also noticed the road between the Port of Brownsville and HWY 4 was poured/widened back in '21/'22, and I genuinely think they plan on doing a 3-phase highway reconstruction between the launch site and the PoB. I think they'll do a significantly wider rebuild for Ph1 and Ph2, but Ph3 may only get widened by a few feet to allow for horizontal transportation. (Ph1= Launch site to Production Site, Ph2= Production Site to Masseys, Ph3= Masseys to Port of Brownsville)
I think they are still 85% sure on the long term feasibility of Starship and its actual chances, so they wont to any major major work like that for nothing.
Phase 1 would happen sometime in the next 2 years (next 5-10 flights)
Phase 2 would happen when the Production Site is up and running at 100% speed (to support the constant need to testing/verifying new vehicles)
Phase 3 would happen once they complete "horizontal transportation" (as I dont believe they would move 100% to horizontal, they'll probably only do this if they need to do long term travel
-SpaceX are doing a slap test.
-Oh a SLAP test huh? Thats a funny acronym. What does it mean?
-Oh, they just slap the chopsticks on the tank.
-We are still talking about rockets here, right?
Nice context joke.)
Srsly. 😂
Now it's a clap test using both chopsticks on the tank at the same time...
Hey thank you for the coverage of Polaris Dawn. There is so much new tech being tried out in this mission, especially the space suits, which were built from the ground up. An EVA suit built in roughly 2 years is astounding. I would really like to see them expand the Polaris missions and have more of them. Keep using this same crew, because they are fully tested and frankly kind of badass. There is so much we could learn about how to build & construct & live in space. I only wish NASA had let Jared fix the Hubble, he was willing to do it on his own dime, no tax payer money required. Seemed like a no brainer...
Regards that new downcomer design, I suspect the insulated transfer pipes are not so much about limiting boil-off but rather to reduce slurry (ice) build up of the fuels.
My thought exactly. Icy slurry is an unexpectedly significant challenge with such huge tanks, and will be more challenging as mission durations get longer and longer (which they will)
Thank you Marcus
As far as I'm aware the 2 blue origin failures were for flight 2 & 3 hardware and one was caused by operator error. But still concerning that flight 2/3 hardware is failing before flight 1
Kinda like their flight ready BE-4 engine exploding during its hot fire test. Boeing protege anyone?
Catcher in the sky
😎 Thanks again Marcus, Space Goodness is right. I just wish you posted more often.😎
FYI, the Starbase launch pads are known internally as Pad 1 and Pad 2, not A/B
So, Blue Origin will launch its first new Glenn in 6 weeks and will go to Mars?
Yea, not gonna happen
Saturday’s are exciting and I’m counting on you to keep me up to speed on Spacex and the industry, what’s left of it… Thank you Marcus and Team! Joyfully Yours, Mike and LeadershipN
I wonder why UA-cam doesn't include the 'like' option when in Full screen mode. You wait till the end, and the next video will automaticly play. @youtube, an idea?
You can. You tap the screen and in the lower left you'll see the like button
I like the equal positivity across all stories. It’s great to see UK space and German space getting coverage too. Shame about the circumstances though. 😬
I hope the catch goes well enough to compare to flight 3 or 4’s flight and minimal to no damage to tower 2…with BFS flight better than expected (a surprise or 2) and the landing nailing it!!
Hurry Im ready for my flight to Venus…Sx!!!
"The two Towers are in place." ...immediately thought of Orthanc and Minas Morgul from LOTR
6:53 these tanks are positively enormous!
Question: Do the booster and the chopsticks communicate with each other to exchange their state, position and next planned actions during the catch attempt? Or how is the positioning and planning done?
Yes
@@shaungisler6604 how?
Go Polaris Dawn and crew!!
This is literally the absolute best channel for SpaceX updates. Don't people realize history is being made?
Also, now the two towers are done, when will we see the return of the king? ;-)
Will the catch arms be positioned above the launch mount or off to the side for the catch?
They will attempt the catch in the flats next to the pad. If you are looking from the beach that would be to the left of the OLM
I'm 200% in support of 'Catch Me If You Can' being added to the side.
Thanks! Wonderful engineering summary as usual