Looking Ahead To The Next Starship Flight ALREADY | Starbase Update
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Starship has launched once again and the excitement continues! In this Starbase Update, we dive into what’s next for SpaceX with preparations for the next flight, booster catching tests, and new developments beyond Starbase. Stay tuned for all the latest updates and insights into SpaceX’s future missions!
🔴 Highlights:
* Starship Flight 4 Recap: Pre-flight, countdown, and mission highlights.
* Ship 26 Static Fire: Testing at the new Massey Outpost.
* Booster 11’s Landing: Successful splashdown and visuals.
* Ship 29’s Reentry: Complete mission profile from launch to landing.
* Upcoming Missions: Work on Ship 30 and Booster 12, and preparations for Flight 5.
* Starbase Developments: Expansion of the tank farm, new crane for the second launch tower, and HLS airlock and spacesuit testing with Axiom.
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Next launch, not before August. Maybe in August but i think more in September
@@Damicske If you are referring to Flight-5 I would guess the launch will take place in late July. However, I wouldn't be shocked if it launched in August.
Every time they have launched it has been sooner than the previous launch.
Flight 4 was just about everything I could have asked for. If they’re serious about catching the booster for flight 5, I might get serious about traveling down there to see it in person.
I did for flight 4! Watched it from the south Padre island right off the canal. What nobody tells you is that we heard the sonic booms from the booster and the landing burn. The weather was terrible for viewing but it was great for sound apparently. 23 hour trip there and a lot in gas but the trip to see it is completely worth it.
I need to travel from Greece to see this, so Im just gonna wait for the Starship to become operational and routine and then Ill be there to see a launch and landing up close in person!!!
@@egooidios5061 That's a great idea, especially seeing as how you'll be able to watch the "chopstick" landing if you wait.
You should. It's a heck of a show. I was there for flight 3 and I'm going for flight 5, come hell or high water.
I am feeling the same way
Awesom Starbase Update Ryan, Thank you and everyone at NSF!!!!
Always enjoy Ryan's Updates!!! The past week has been exciting as hell...with Flight 4 and all it pre, during, and post coverage...Flight 5 is gonna be off the rails bonkies with a catch attempt....no matter WEN it happens !!!!
Oh, guys. The bird flying through the shot early on, perfect. Absolutely gorgeous
I think that this person is one of the better presenters of any of the space-related webcasts I have seen. Totally clear, comprehensible and to the point, he keeps the relevant information flowing at a good pace. Well done by him and the production crew.
no silly quips like jack u mean
Don't like the accent. No sir, not one bit. And what's with all his hair falling down on one side? He's going to injure his neck with his hair like that.
@@glennmitchell9107 Hair safety is definitely an important matter worthy of several safety meetings! 🤣
If IFT5 gets any more exciting than IFT4, I might need to watch it with a defibrillator on standby! But *_GODDAMN_* was it an amazing rollercoaster ride! 🚀♥️
Oh they are not taking a break! Soooo much construction going on!
7:10 - and there's the hot staging ring appearing again, this time as a silver disk from behind the grid fin...
Good catch!
Dang! Good eye my guy
NIce. But then how did the booster overtake the ring twice at 41 km 6:42 and again at 25km 7:10?
I dont see why the ring would catch up with the booster again and then slown down rapidly passing again at high speed within a few seconds. 7:10 does look far away tho so its not ice. Anybody flying random ballon camera out there?
I have a feeling. dunno.The ring here did an appearing act, in the future it might do a dissapearing act.."Best part is no part" style. The need for hotstage appeared from seemingly nowhere, while the simple moves necessary for staging were hype as genius. I still think that the data and improvements in managing the liquids and in software would,again, put in perspective the passive staging. Just saying..
The little flap that could!!! Was such an awesome experience!
Brilliant update thanks Ryan and NSF team.
Really interesting watching replays of reentry after the fact. First time through we had no idea what to expect, so nothing was easily identifiable as an anomaly. But on repeated viewings, knowing they were going to get burnthrough, everything we see was reframed. All of the little vapor trails that we all thought were just atmospheric effects were likely actually combustion products...vapor trails were even pouring out of the rear border of the heat shield, which suggests the interior of the ship (or maybe just the engine skirt where they intentionally left tiles off) was potentially full of smoke. And the green sparks from the flap probably bits of metal ablating away (reminds me of burning metals in a bunsen burner flame to get different colors). Funny that seeing reentry all the way through and seeing booster landings will soon be normal and common...SpaceX shifting the reality window again.
I like the way this presenter goes about his business, his presentation style is the best of those here. Thanks !
great update as always!
Informative and detailed update, many thanks folks!
Ryan and the whole team - Great production. Quick paced and thorough coverage.
Another great video with up to date Info. Thanks so Much NSF Crew..
thank you for the wonderful update. super exciting week this last one has been .
Thanks for the update! NSF staff you are awesome!
Love how Spacex always leaves little easter eggs like the chopsticks simulating a catch. They keep us thinking/speculating and wanting more.
We should call the new crane Trex
I'll say it will launch again in 60 days. Do another splash down of the booster, but right off shore. Work on the starship heat shield will take the most time.
I would say something like that too but... they seem to be insisting on wanting to try a catch... it seems a bit bold to me, but these folks eat challenges for breakfast, dunno man, spaceX is crazy
@@NeroDefogger i think its elon who insists on attempting a catch. i bet spacex would want to do another water landing or 2 before attempting a risky catch. the booster did lose an engine during landing, so i bet they would prefer pulling off a perfect landing burn before attempting a catch.
@@hamzahkhan8952 But I also think they are feeling the pressure from NASA's Artemis deadline, personally I would have thought they would wait for the second tower to complete construction first.
@@NeroDefogger It's better to catch it now. Booster will fly away of tour if somethings wrong. If it works, they can build the 3 other tours
@@musiqlgreen6141 i dont think so. i doubt trying to catch the booster earlier would really effect the time line for artemis. the first starship propellant transfer test is scheduled for next year, and there will probaly be atleast another 3-4 starship launches this year alone, so there would be no harm in delaying a caatch attempt by a launch or two.
thank you nsf team!
14:12 This is such a good find! Good job NSF!
Thank you Ryan!
Love your work Ryan, thank you for your update. 👏
@nasaspaceflight: I think it was Marcus House that has seen it also with the water, but what was more interesting, the chopsticks where moving to the landing position and also closing when booster was in arms reach :o
Not exactly. It was done about a minute after the booster landed. By then they had the positional data of the booster and could use it as an input for the movements needed by the chopsticks.
The booster lands flying through a virtual "tube". As long as it remains inside it all is well. If not, it just lands at sea.
@@knowledgeisgood9645 On that part part, _surely_ you're not implying that during IFT5 and they indeed attempt a catch, if Booster ventures outside of that virtual corridor, it'll abort into the water, just off the beach??
I apologize if I've misunderstood 😅
What you've written seems to imply that, though...
@@DUKE_of_RAMBLE That is the plan. The booster will land at sea unless it is perfectly within the corridor. It has to actively change course some seconds before landing to be able to land on the tower. If there is any doubt it can't make it it just continues down to land in the ocean. Note that it comes down at about the speed of sound, so a small change in direction makes for a large distance on land/sea. It slows down very quickly the last 5-10 seconds.
I hope that was clearer.
@@knowledgeisgood9645 Yea it just sounded like you meant in the ocean off the beach, next to the tower 😅 And so if that had been the case, I couldn't fathom how their environmental impact study would've permitted that.
Thanks!
Great update guys!🚀
Great narration.Thanks.
A1 excellent report on SpaceX activities!
I found my new Star Ship update page. Y’all are amazing!
nsf and scott manley are my personal go to's. well spoken, easy on the ears, and knowledgeable.
Thanks!
"I challenge you to find a better gift for father's day"
Socks. As a father I always need more socks.
Wow! That new and improved shields sure sounds promising! A lot of R&D going into this technology!
Nice job Ryan!
Next flight timing likely to be controlled by alterations required for the vehicles after IFT4. No point in sending exactly the same vehicles.
Excellent report...
Brilliant; an awesome week; lots of great stuff in this episode!
Another great episode Ryan.
Your presentation skills are excellent. 👍
Appearance needs attention. Off putting.
Do you need him to be attractive for you??@@HombreDeLaNorte
Great stuff, thank you very much and greetings from SoCal
I can’t imagine this was a mishap flight.
Deluge at 7 minutes!! Great catch, NSF!!
however long it takes spacex to do launch 5, is still decades quicker than boeing
Great video! (As usual 😎)
Next launch in between 6 & 8 weeks from today.
Dear SpaceX, Please DO NOT attempt a catch before you have at least one other OPERATIONAL launch tower. If I were you I'd focus on the Cape Tower, Starlink Deployment and Artemis and worry about the catch as an add on to launches from BC AFTER the second tower is available.
Wow, your newsletter is impeccable, perfect! But its dynamics (fantastic, I think, for a daily or weekly summary!) I confess, I still can't keep up, because it deals with great engineering details and its complexities and pitfalls, procedures, and immense logistics. But I can watch at various times and pause the videos, and better yet, in my language, because only this platform has this setting for those who don't speak English like me (and I don't know why on X there isn't yet, this setting for subtitles in "other" languages). Thank you very much, you're amazing! 👏👏💝🌹😉💥🚀
Good job guys
When Elon says the next flight is about a month away I think 2 maybe 3.
I can understand why the deluge system would activate, as to protect against damage and whatnot from launch as well as landing, just to be cautious
Yup. They have a deluge even during static tests. They need water between the Raptors and the concrete.
But isnt the booster supposed to be caught off to the side to prevent any damage to the OLM in case the chopsticks were to fail? Or has this changed?
@@timmackay2162 No, that is correct, but the deluge covers the concrete on the side of the OLM too.
Yes, yes I'm very happy.
Thanks for the update. Excellent as always!
I don't understand why Space X doesn't want a independent retrieval (catch) platform (just like the barges). The idea of catching Starship on the launch platform is risking a year of repairs and setbacks. If they build a Lego, snap on type platform just to catch the thing, big deal if it crashes.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Why risk damage to the OLM?
Beacuse in future they want to fly in hours, so they can't lose time with moving booster back to the launch tower. Obviously do it after 4 flight is so risky :'). Also, the booster will be almost empty, so don't expect BIG explosion (if).
@@fabonline9389 the second tower = catch tower ? there is no sign of second OLM...
@@user-vi7vz6bm7z I believe a second OLM is under construction in Florida. But it doesn't seem to be a priority task ATM.
Awesome!!!!!
D-Ultimate Super Cool ! Love Your Videos !!
Ryan rocks! 🙂
I am hoping for/guessing the turn around will be around 45 days.
At last some one who pronounces buoy properly. For this alone I will add this channel to patron.
Haha, good point. Reminds me of Musk pronouncing "Mach" correctly.
Actually, sounded like he said "boy-ee" instead of "boo-ee". Either way that word is spelled ridiculously.
he pronounced it the proper English way!
@@Barthhhelona both are valid. "boy-ee" is more consistent with how we pronounce "buoyant" and "buoyancy" (it's not "boo-ee-ant" or "boo-ee-an-see") but "boo-ee" is more distinct. But the rule in English is that no word is valid unless you can come up with at least two completely different ways of pronouncing it 🤣 And it's always so much fun the first time you hear a regional version you're not familiar with. I was mesmerized the first time I heard "min-ee-at-yur" and "no-man-clay-ture."
@@mirfjc wow I never actually made the connection with buoyant and buoyancy… Thanks for pointing that out!
My bet is that flight 5 is in July and will include a successful tower catch of the booster
Extrapolation of delays between flights 1-4 suggests a delay of 61 and 48 days for flights 5 & 6. So August 6th and September 23rd.
Except for flight 2, they seem to like launching on Thursdays. So, maybe August 8 for flight 5 and September 19 or 26 for flight 6
vent engine chill through the fins to reduce temp.
Just found your channel. It's a new subscriber from me!
SpaceX needs to ditch the fore and aft flaps in favor of one or two scissor wings. This would simplify the geometry of the area covered by thermal protective tiles and it would shift any moving parts out of the plasma stream.
That’s Already planned for V2 ships.
No more that two months 🚀🚀🔥🔥
Flappie!
I hope the CC 8800 will use the boom booster attachment. Looks like a monster of a crane.
Flight 5 on the fourth of July. The world's biggest firework!
Very Happy Now!! #BouyOhBoy 😁
Looks like they did a not-so-dry (LOL) run on a return catch. Run the water deluge system (for the landing burn) while closing the arms in a simulated catch at the same time as the booster hit it's mark. IFT-5, here they come!
IFT5 will happen 54 days out from IFT4 if we calculate the previous decrease in Timeline between launches. 54 sounds reasonable considering Elons "30 day" prediction.
I think IFT 5 will take closer to 2 months or a bit more. This is because of the full heat shield replacement and the ablative undercoat. Plus, I feel like they want to make good progress on Launch Tower 2 just in case B12 misses the mark.
The nice thing about the tiles is that they can be removed and replaced rather quickly.
Ryan is a very engaging presenter.
Next month flight 5, onwards and upwards for Space X Starship builders and engineers. 😊
Great informative summary (as usual!) thanks. As the time gap between Flights 2 & 3 was 4 months, and the gap between Flights 3 & 4 was just 3 months, I think this next gap is going to be just 2 months so I'm calling Flight 5 for August!,
I'd think 4 weeks is very optimistic, even for Elon.. 6 weeks maybe, but I'd expect it to turn out to be more like 8 weeks, which is still very fast..
We will soon find out.
@@knowledgeisgood9645 I can see 8th August, maybe 1st
Late july at the earliest
Would be cool to get a mention of upcoming @NSF programs reviewing Flight 4
Sweet.
Maybe the deluge-system was used as a medium
to clean the pad from any toxic substances from the launch?
The propellant isn't toxic, it's simple methane
Mid to late August/early September for IFT5
I think they should try the catch attempts with hops at first.
That would not be any safer. And boosters can't do hops.
flight 5 August 8-10
I think ship 30 and booster 12 launch mid July. By then they should have the last 3 tanks down and the first few tower segments up. Then I guess the question is do you risk a tower catch with booster 12 on flight 5. Or do you wait another month, finish erecting tower 2, in case 1 is damaged in the attempt and try catching lucky booster number 13 on flight 6. Lol
Do you think that they also had a "camera buoy" at the proposed landing location for the ship, but because it was off by "a few kilometres" they got no footage?
Ah, the joy when you realize you only speak one dialect of a much larger language 🤭
July 4th!!!!!
SpaceX Starship 29 at splashdown:
*_"SUCK IT, ATMOSPHERE!"_* 😉
Good to see ship 30's tiles will be twice as strong as ship 29's but elon saying launch in one month that depends on if FAA carries out a mishap investigation or not which we dont know yet they are still assesing.
Might it be possible that they shut down the engines on the booster intentionally? To show that they have the capability to lose a engine both on ascent and descent?
Ablative shields are something they were hoping to avoid since it would require more refurbishment. Likely this is an interim step to the final heat-shield configuration. I'm expecting they want to get this up and running quickly to start launching larger starlink hardware.
The ablative is under the reusable: its a failsafe: if the primary shield fails, the ship will still land.
I’m thinking they’re focusing now more on HLS. They are behind on meeting goal dates and need to catch up. In the mean time they can launch Starlink from Falcon 9. Starlink from Starship is a bonus pride. HLS has to come first. Successful booster catches and fuel transfer on orbit have to be the immediate goals
@@DebraJean196 Everyone is behind those dates. The main goal for SpaceX is profitability via Starlink. So, focusing on that is in their best interests.
They can also test HLS with these flights (insulation, refueling, ect, ect)
@@bryanillenbergI’m afraid that makes the flights a bit complex, but we are talking of Elon Musk lol. I guess we’ll see which way he goes with all of it! I’m sure the goals will change him direction a time or two between now and whenever a final decision point is reached!
@@DebraJean196 They have to test those systems. Might as well make a profit with them.
I think 8-12 weeks until flight 5. One month is in Elon time and there is no constant conversion rate.
They need to replace the heat shield, work on the exploding raptor issue, refurbish the launch site and probably make enough progress with tower #2 to be able to finish it until IFT6, for there is a high chance of damaging the tower during catch attempt.
IFT-5: Early to mid August?
I wonder if they plan on trying to complete tower 2 to catch the next booster in order to reduce the damage risk vs trying with tower 1.
🎉
Got to wonder if they'll expand the Deluge system to include the pad itself for landing.
I predict the next launch will be sometime in August unless a hurricane develops.
Call the new crane XREX. There my work is done.
flight 5 should go in less than 2 months
Flight 5: July 15th.
Flight 6: September 21st
Got to be at least 2 months if they have to completely replace the tile system for next flight.
The QD arm needs to rotate out of the exhaust during launch.