I posted this at the end of a long comment but wanted to put this up where it is more likely to be seen! Thanks Mary, Jack and all at NSF for all the fantastic and timely footage and thank you to everyone who supports the efforts with donations big and small in the lives and the channel members. This amazing and unheard of insight into the development of a launch vehicle and real life honest to god space ship is only possible because of the community!
0:00 - Work On Super Heavy Launch Pad Foundation 0:31 - Super Heavy Pad Foundation Closeup 0:42 - SN5 and Landing Pad 1:15 - SN5 Closeup 1:42 - Starship Landing Pad and Launch Mount 2:12 - Starship Launch Mount 2:40 - Starship Launch Mount Closeup 2:55 - SN5 On Roll Lift 3:33 - Restaurant And Eating Area 4:47 - High Bay Construction 5:18 - High Bay Construction Closeup 5:51 - SN7.1 Leg Skirt 6:03 - Leg Skirt Closeup 6:13 - Leg Skirt Label 6:21 - Reinforced Three Ring Stack 6:48 - Reinforced Three Ring Stack Closeup 6:56 - Three Ring Stack and Leg Skirt Outside Fab Tents 7:27 - Earth Work At Build Site (please don’t be for a wall) 7:57 - Rainbow Over STARGATE 8:06 - Launch Mount Inspection/Repairs 8:35 - Manitowoc 14000 Assembled At Launch Site 9:39 - SR-30 Piling Rig + Launch Mount Repairs 10:11 - SR-30 Piling Rig Closeup 10:20 - SN7.1 Test Tank 10:49 - SN7.1 Test Tank Closeup
There was a lot of discussion on naming this beast on a recent live show, a lot of suggestions. My 2 favs where "King Crimson" "Red Sonja" need a poll.
the reason i side with spacex and still give a flip about space is how in the open they are doing things, whether on purpose or not with spacex, you get to see stuff develop, fail, and eventually succeed
My sentiments exactly. I mean, the transparency is Windex clear. This is unprecedentedly cool history making stuff. The next RIGHT STUFF. How dope is it to see a fucking space ship being built and tested. Elon ain't playing no games. When this whole thing is finished and becomes fully operational, he's gonna be the worlds wealthiest INDIVIDUAL, with no one even a close second.
Come on Elon, Mary has given you some of the best PR you could ever get. How about giving her som kind of assistance with her equipment and access to the site.
If this was any other company, they would probably send security out to harass them or make it harder/ impossible to film. Just be glad for what we get.
Then you couldn't say that those videos are independent and/or would be the case of possible ITAR violations if someone from spacex would give us those views. And about that wall - i think it's more about not having to rebuild the fence and to not cause concerns with debris going off to the road every test, you can see the container behind it to give it more "heft", so I'd presume it's less about making filming harder (you can still see above it from further away). Also maybe we will have to rent a crane soon for the better views (like those spacex'ers at the SN5 launch)
This would just slow things down as she would have to interact with the crews to know where it is safe to be... outside of the complex she is both safe and doesn't have to interact with anyone.
@@sadiablo I think it is also to prevent people coming closer to the SpaceX side of the road, I suspect they have had many arrests of people breaking the rules .
Thanks so much for all this fascinating footage. Really love the work you're doing. Would love to see a video that has labels and explanations for all the little bits and bobs hanging off of the rocket that you can see in the closeup at 1:15. That would be so fascinating and educational. In the meantime, keep up all the fantastic work! Thanks!!!
Probably the only job/company where I wouldn't mind working more then 40 hours a week as a standard with that temperature, nice job done but never done, really.
What I think is so cool about this is that we see a starship being built, not by a bunch of rocket scientists but by skilled labor showing the best in our ability to build great things.
I'm not of the physical type or know anything about building spaceships so props to anyone that gives it a shot. Personally I am going to be looking for something at the Austin TX Tesla factory when it's near completion as that is similar to my current line of work.
@@JTube571 my time on this rock in this carcass has given me vast knowledge and experience in all fields of construction and demolition, past 15yr in internal production. Don't stop feeding the brain boss, ya got this. Maybe seeing y'all soon.
Wooooah, when I first saw this on the video cover I thought someone had drawn some kind of squiggly line over the surface.😆 Absolutely love the imagine at 3:00. It almost feels like someone painted those beautiful clouds in for this perfect angle right there.👌🏼 I get slight Anime vibes from it.
Drones are banned. And if they have a wall over certain things, you don't then say "Ok, I don't care, I will get ladders". That's not the way to work in good faith with them :)
The speed and efficiency at which SpaceX continues to develop and test their spacecraft always amazes me. Then again, this is what can be done when you're not a government bureaucracy and the company is being led by a visionary genius.
2:49 still pic shows damaged tank in the background of launch stand. I wonder if the debris that was blown into the air at the 150m hop was some of that material?
Thank you, thank you thank you....Did I thank you for all the incredible work you do out there? Also thank you for breaking up the video into time segments. You absolutely ROCK!
You should think about doing zoom effects to show the scale of humans compared to the bays and SN's. For example you could zoom in on a worker working up on the 3rd level high bay. I think that would be cool.
The earth works going on along the perimeter of the build site I fear are foundations for a wall, it seems to be the only obvious reason (other than drainage but all things considered and the wall at the launch site make this the more unlikely of the two). I fear our unhindered view of the shipyard is going to come to an end. I’m hoping it is possible to get a bit of elevation to still see most of what’s happening and there is still the view from the water side even though it is not as good (does Mary have a boat? Should we look at a donation drive to get a boat?). Secondly it is interesting that the new Manatoic (sp?) is going up at launch site, I was thinking build site to assist with high bay now it’s getting almost too high for the cherry pickers (basket lifts). As ‘Big red’ (my place holder name for the crane) is going up at launch site I wondering if it is for superheavy launch stand or for moving prototypes round on the pre and post flight flow (given we are going to have both SN5 and 6 in that flow as Elon confirmed on Twitter that SN6 will fly to nail the launch and landings on short hops before we get into Km high hops with aero surfaces. Thanks Mary, Jack and all at NSF for all the fantastic and timely footage and thank you to everyone who supports the efforts with donations big and small in the lives and the channel members. This amazing and unheard of insight into the development of a launch vehicle and real life honest to god space ship is only possible because of the community!
RamsesBic - As this is Texas, Big Red would be more appropriate (there’s a regional soft drink called Big Red, and the mascot at the state fair is named Big Tex).
That might be asking too much ;) She took a heck of a lot of content for these two latest vids. Technically we could make multiple videos per day from her normal content. We're trying quality over quantity.
This is where I come for my Boca Chica fix. It is satisfying. Somewhere in Boca Chica someone has the plans (blueprint) for the entire BC Spaceport. It would be interesting to see, however, watching it in real time is more fun. Sadly, the wall will take away the ground work minutia. 😳
2:53 The black water tower behind the launch stand suffered more damage. It looks like some of the outer sheathing came off. I suspect that this was the piece of black material that was visible in the dust cloud as SN5 lifted off the pad and started to translate to the landing pad.
Tyski Dzik i noticed that but I think @Matthew Hindson is correct, that is the damaged water tank from the SN4 mishap. The area of damage looks bigger than I remember but it easily could be that I haven’t noticed it from this angle before and then what convinced me it was the old damage is simply that it’s already fixed. They are not that far along on the inspection and repair flow from SN5 yet.
I noticed that and thought back to the large, thin, flexible debris that flew up when SN5 launched. It could well be part of the covering from one of the tanks.
@@RamsesBic Well aware of the damage caused by SN4 however, there has been new damage to the tanks on this launch and the debris that went flying as SN5 rose up, looked a lot like insulation. It's an opinion, not necessarily right but certainly not definitely wrong!
Cool to see how much activity there is, seem like there's more than usualy. but now they also a good step closer to making Starship for real, almost all the teck is in place, just need to build the thing and fly it of.
Remember the movie Star Trek the Journey Home? There was a scene in which Scotty shows an engineer from the 1980's how to make "clear aluminum". After watching Starship activities for the last year, I'm convince Elon"s been talking with people from the future.
Elon traveled to the future, saw what worked and came back to focus on multiple things that he saw there - space travel, electric cars, battery power, hyperloop, boring company, AI. Yeah I’m gonna go with that theory...
@@erik-3185 Scotty meant "transparent alumina" - aluminum oxide, which is a real thing. We do in fact make windows out of it for scientific equipment. Either his Scottish accent or language drift from the 23rd century causes the confusion.
There's a lot of work going into SN 7.1, I think it's more than just a pressure test tank for new 304L. With the thrust section being designed to fit on the stand, I think it will be a launch, flight & landing test vehicle. Behold HOPPY 2.
Hey guys, did they ever figure out what "chunked off" the launch mount when SN5 took off? Just curious if anyone know. Thank you again for all you do! a Texan
Why simulate the nose cone on SN5 using a block of steel? Why didn't SpaceX simply stack a real nose cone on SN5 - they certainly have enough lying around!!!
What I keep finding bit odd is that SpaceX constructs test tanks while the real deal is already being built with the same tech. Now it's test tanks 7.0 and 7.1 while SN8 is already well underway. So how do they know they are using the best techniques and designs if they haven't properly tested it (304L in this case) before building the full scale product? Doesn't make sense? Maybe they are just moving too fast and don't want to wait 🤔😂
Thanks you again Mary. Quick question; Did we find out the cause of flamage on top of the Raptor during decent pictures. Still got nothing on this, or I'm unobservant
0:56 and about these snogging? This gives a certain insecurity about the starship, even if it is nothing relevant. Will they continue to knead in future versions?
SN6 goes to launch site - then they'll do pressure testing, static fire and another 150 m hop. They will probably also fit a mass simulator on top as with SN5. There will not be any jet engines... Raptor is a rocket engine :) Suspect that they will only fit one to it (might be wrong though). After SN6, the next in line to launch will be SN8 ( The SN7.x are only test tanks to check that the new steel is strong enough). SN8 will hopefully have a nosecone, aero surfaces and 3 raptors - same tests as with SN5 / 6 and then go on to do 20km hop and a swoop-de-swoop landing sequence...
I posted this at the end of a long comment but wanted to put this up where it is more likely to be seen!
Thanks Mary, Jack and all at NSF for all the fantastic and timely footage and thank you to everyone who supports the efforts with donations big and small in the lives and the channel members. This amazing and unheard of insight into the development of a launch vehicle and real life honest to god space ship is only possible because of the community!
I may not be a member but I always superchat 🖖
Thanks for watching!
0:00 - Work On Super Heavy Launch Pad Foundation
0:31 - Super Heavy Pad Foundation Closeup
0:42 - SN5 and Landing Pad
1:15 - SN5 Closeup
1:42 - Starship Landing Pad and Launch Mount
2:12 - Starship Launch Mount
2:40 - Starship Launch Mount Closeup
2:55 - SN5 On Roll Lift
3:33 - Restaurant And Eating Area
4:47 - High Bay Construction
5:18 - High Bay Construction Closeup
5:51 - SN7.1 Leg Skirt
6:03 - Leg Skirt Closeup
6:13 - Leg Skirt Label
6:21 - Reinforced Three Ring Stack
6:48 - Reinforced Three Ring Stack Closeup
6:56 - Three Ring Stack and Leg Skirt Outside Fab Tents
7:27 - Earth Work At Build Site (please don’t be for a wall)
7:57 - Rainbow Over STARGATE
8:06 - Launch Mount Inspection/Repairs
8:35 - Manitowoc 14000 Assembled At Launch Site
9:39 - SR-30 Piling Rig + Launch Mount Repairs
10:11 - SR-30 Piling Rig Closeup
10:20 - SN7.1 Test Tank
10:49 - SN7.1 Test Tank Closeup
A wall is coming.
8:35 King Crimson !!
Thanks jack!
Loved how Mary framed the High Bay under construction with the pipes from the concrete pump truck.
My man
you are spoiling us. 2 starship videos in one day😃
It’s normally two a day.
Being that the crane is red and white, why not call it the Candy Crane?
NaomiPhoenix lol
There was a lot of discussion on naming this beast on a recent live show, a lot of suggestions. My 2 favs where "King Crimson" "Red Sonja" need a poll.
Crane to help with the construction of the Super Heavy launch mount?
@@clarkkent7973 Well, how imaginative. What did you name your dog?
Rip Sumrall lol I suggested King Crimson on the livestream !
never clicked this fast. Thanks for the daily dose of starship Mary and NSF! Hey hey, You guys rock!
the reason i side with spacex and still give a flip about space is how in the open they are doing things, whether on purpose or not
with spacex, you get to see stuff develop, fail, and eventually succeed
My sentiments exactly. I mean, the transparency is Windex clear. This is unprecedentedly cool history making stuff. The next RIGHT STUFF. How dope is it to see a fucking space ship being built and tested.
Elon ain't playing no games. When this whole thing is finished and becomes fully operational, he's gonna be the worlds wealthiest INDIVIDUAL, with no one even a close second.
Mary... absolute clever capture of the SHHB within the A structure of the cement machine... very clever! Good work to all!
concrete, cement is the glue!
Come on Elon, Mary has given you some of the best PR you could ever get. How about giving her som kind of assistance with her equipment and access to the site.
If this was any other company, they would probably send security out to harass them or make it harder/ impossible to film. Just be glad for what we get.
They might even be building a wall around the shipyard to make some filming harder. It is for good reason I'm sure.
Then you couldn't say that those videos are independent and/or would be the case of possible ITAR violations if someone from spacex would give us those views. And about that wall - i think it's more about not having to rebuild the fence and to not cause concerns with debris going off to the road every test, you can see the container behind it to give it more "heft", so I'd presume it's less about making filming harder (you can still see above it from further away). Also maybe we will have to rent a crane soon for the better views (like those spacex'ers at the SN5 launch)
This would just slow things down as she would have to interact with the crews to know where it is safe to be... outside of the complex she is both safe and doesn't have to interact with anyone.
@@sadiablo I think it is also to prevent people coming closer to the SpaceX side of the road, I suspect they have had many arrests of people breaking the rules .
2 Videos in ~8Hours🤯🤯🤯
Amazing work!!! Keep it up!!!
Space_ Facts 🍻
WOW! Another episode! This just gets better & better. Thanks again, BCGal & team. You are appreciated for your valued efforts.
Thanks so much for all this fascinating footage. Really love the work you're doing. Would love to see a video that has labels and explanations for all the little bits and bobs hanging off of the rocket that you can see in the closeup at 1:15. That would be so fascinating and educational. In the meantime, keep up all the fantastic work! Thanks!!!
Probably the only job/company where I wouldn't mind working more then 40 hours a week as a standard with that temperature, nice job done but never done, really.
Me tooooo
why, just the same as any construction site.
@@RUNDNB85 But you're building rockets.
@@fiveoh1927 but you ain't spacex are you, you're building a high bay or groundworks, nothing exciting.
What I think is so cool about this is that we see a starship being built, not by a bunch of rocket scientists but by skilled labor showing the best in our ability to build great things.
I'm 62 years old. If I was 22, I'd throw everything I had into a suitcase and head to Boca Chica and beg for a job.
I'm 50, and already rolln.
snap, even if I was 42.
Just about every “worthwhile” job and discipline known must be going on there.
I'm not of the physical type or know anything about building spaceships so props to anyone that gives it a shot. Personally I am going to be looking for something at the Austin TX Tesla factory when it's near completion as that is similar to my current line of work.
@@JTube571 my time on this rock in this carcass has given me vast knowledge and experience in all fields of construction and demolition, past 15yr in internal production. Don't stop feeding the brain boss, ya got this. Maybe seeing y'all soon.
If you don't name this Clifford the big red crane I'll be upset.
Wooooah, when I first saw this on the video cover I thought someone had drawn some kind of squiggly line over the surface.😆
Absolutely love the imagine at 3:00. It almost feels like someone painted those beautiful clouds in for this perfect angle right there.👌🏼 I get slight Anime vibes from it.
So when does the funding for a vehicle to allow Mary to look over the 'future wall' start?
then the wall will get 10 foot higher
@@Cydonius1 it will be a race to the top then!
Drones are banned. And if they have a wall over certain things, you don't then say "Ok, I don't care, I will get ladders". That's not the way to work in good faith with them :)
Got to get Mary a Scissor Lift If there are any left or you can find one In Boca Chica
The speed and efficiency at which SpaceX continues to develop and test their spacecraft always amazes me. Then again, this is what can be done when you're not a government bureaucracy and the company is being led by a visionary genius.
2:49 still pic shows damaged tank in the background of launch stand. I wonder if the debris that was blown into the air at the 150m hop was some of that material?
They'll paint it black, like the rest, as singed paint will not be so visible.
Thank you, thank you thank you....Did I thank you for all the incredible work you do out there? Also thank you for breaking up the video into time segments. You absolutely ROCK!
2:55 SN5 standing majestically, like a monument, with the beautiful clouds paying homage.
Thank You Mary for a detailed footage. Great job. Keep going.
6:13 got to love those "mary" labels xD so we know whats going on there
that's not a "mary label" thats the work order....
@@Wingnut353 no shit!?...
Cheers Mary 🥰
You should think about doing zoom effects to show the scale of humans compared to the bays and SN's. For example you could zoom in on a worker working up on the 3rd level high bay. I think that would be cool.
Looks like a giant insect doing something not agreed by all involved parties.
The earth works going on along the perimeter of the build site I fear are foundations for a wall, it seems to be the only obvious reason (other than drainage but all things considered and the wall at the launch site make this the more unlikely of the two). I fear our unhindered view of the shipyard is going to come to an end. I’m hoping it is possible to get a bit of elevation to still see most of what’s happening and there is still the view from the water side even though it is not as good (does Mary have a boat? Should we look at a donation drive to get a boat?).
Secondly it is interesting that the new Manatoic (sp?) is going up at launch site, I was thinking build site to assist with high bay now it’s getting almost too high for the cherry pickers (basket lifts). As ‘Big red’ (my place holder name for the crane) is going up at launch site I wondering if it is for superheavy launch stand or for moving prototypes round on the pre and post flight flow (given we are going to have both SN5 and 6 in that flow as Elon confirmed on Twitter that SN6 will fly to nail the launch and landings on short hops before we get into Km high hops with aero surfaces.
Thanks Mary, Jack and all at NSF for all the fantastic and timely footage and thank you to everyone who supports the efforts with donations big and small in the lives and the channel members. This amazing and unheard of insight into the development of a launch vehicle and real life honest to god space ship is only possible because of the community!
with the added advantage of flood plain isolation maybe..
RamsesBic - As this is Texas, Big Red would be more appropriate (there’s a regional soft drink called Big Red, and the mascot at the state fair is named Big Tex).
Just loving it 🤩 Thanks Mary and NasaSpaceFlight! 👍🏻
Super job again, Mary! Especially loved the rainbow at 8:00! Would’ve been cool to have angled the shot so that it was coming down on SN5! 😉
the launch mount is in surprisingly good shape! Glad to see it.
I really appreciate these videos. I love watching things build up, especially our future in space!
Something really “retro” about the SpaceX restaurant! Need the car parking and car hops on roller skates serving great food right to your car!
: )
Subcontract it to Sonic.
Oh Mary, is two video per day a new standard? :-o
That might be asking too much ;) She took a heck of a lot of content for these two latest vids. Technically we could make multiple videos per day from her normal content. We're trying quality over quantity.
@@NASASpaceflight Jack, you and Mary are delivering on the quality!
At 2:58 the two lights over the BocaChicaGal logo fits perfect!
4:47 you can see more of the "privacy screen" fence foundations preparation going on in front of the high bay construction.
Just like being there! These videos will be part of history!
Okay, just a thought, but how about covering the new test stand with stainless steel and heatshield tiles!? 😃
Cool idea. Would love to know if those tiles can withstand the heat of the rocket. Plasma is a little different
RamsesBic Nice
As long as the ascend vertically, the test stand won't have to withstand the direct force of raptor.
Well titled!!! The future of Boca Chica, TX, America and certainly humanity is very bright! ✨
marvelous work Mary, thanks for making my day
That thing is a concrete pump up here 🇨🇦 And thanks to Yall for great coverage as always!
Not a 'launch pad foundation'. That is the base for the assembly crane.
Cafe Mars is looking sharp
Are we going to see 3 uploads per day in the future?
Oh and thank you for the video!
This is where I come for my Boca Chica fix.
It is satisfying.
Somewhere in Boca Chica someone has the plans (blueprint) for the entire BC Spaceport.
It would be interesting to see, however, watching it in real time is more fun. Sadly, the wall will take away the ground work minutia. 😳
Blue tent lives, long live blue tent.
👍 😂😂
3:33 I like the cool little restaurant ^^
Its a true rapid progress!
As always, great videos.
Mary, thank you very much for the work you do. Historiography at its best!
2:53 The black water tower behind the launch stand suffered more damage. It looks like some of the outer sheathing came off. I suspect that this was the piece of black material that was visible in the dust cloud as SN5 lifted off the pad and started to translate to the landing pad.
i think that the tank farm is damaged look at 2:45
Tyski Dzik I believe that’s from sn4 RUD. They patched it up but I suppose never finished painting it
Tyski Dzik i noticed that but I think @Matthew Hindson is correct, that is the damaged water tank from the SN4 mishap. The area of damage looks bigger than I remember but it easily could be that I haven’t noticed it from this angle before and then what convinced me it was the old damage is simply that it’s already fixed. They are not that far along on the inspection and repair flow from SN5 yet.
I noticed that and thought back to the large, thin, flexible debris that flew up when SN5 launched. It could well be part of the covering from one of the tanks.
that looks like what got blown into the air when SN5 hopped
@@RamsesBic Well aware of the damage caused by SN4 however, there has been new damage to the tanks on this launch and the debris that went flying as SN5 rose up, looked a lot like insulation. It's an opinion, not necessarily right but certainly not definitely wrong!
Clifford the big red crane.
Great job guys!! Thank you!!!
Cool to see how much activity there is, seem like there's more than usualy.
but now they also a good step closer to making Starship for real, almost all the teck is in place, just need to build the thing and fly it of.
It looks like the way the highway is oriented it will be tough to get a good luck inside once it is complete.
Does the 7.1 designation instead of just sn7 mean that 7.2 will be the test booster for 7.1?
50 to 100 years from now people will look back and say this is where it all started... Go SpaceX! :)
Remember the movie Star Trek the Journey Home? There was a scene in which Scotty shows an engineer from the 1980's how to make "clear aluminum". After watching Starship activities for the last year, I'm convince Elon"s been talking with people from the future.
Transparent aluminum.
Elon traveled to the future, saw what worked and came back to focus on multiple things that he saw there - space travel, electric cars, battery power, hyperloop, boring company, AI. Yeah I’m gonna go with that theory...
@@erik-3185 Scotty meant "transparent alumina" - aluminum oxide, which is a real thing. We do in fact make windows out of it for scientific equipment. Either his Scottish accent or language drift from the 23rd century causes the confusion.
Either DemoiselleCrane or SarusCrane (I prefer the latter) would fit nicely as names for the new Manitowoc
As an American.... I can say 90% of Americans wouldn't know how to pronounce either, now Craneosaurus... we could cope with that LOL
There's a lot of work going into SN 7.1, I think it's more than just a pressure test tank for new 304L. With the thrust section being designed to fit on the stand, I think it will be a launch, flight & landing test vehicle. Behold HOPPY 2.
I'd love that Restaurant And Eating Area become restaurant, with those fins of Starship being there.
Love the rainbows toward the end!
I’ll call this one, Mary’s rainbow 🌈 over Boca Chica!!
Bluezilla and T-Red?
Thank you all very much.
For some reason, the concrete boom is fascinating to me
Hey guys, did they ever figure out what "chunked off" the launch mount when SN5 took off? Just curious if anyone know. Thank you again for all you do! a Texan
What about naming the red crane Dynamite? I saw a ,,tnt'' sticker on it and the name just popped into my head.
Well done video..TY
What will be used for the new crane? Being at the launch pad, maybe to lift the higher Starship with the nose fited?
When are they going to put up a sign that says:"Wellcome to Boca Chica shipyards and spaceport."?
Why simulate the nose cone on SN5 using a block of steel? Why didn't SpaceX simply stack a real nose cone on SN5 - they certainly have enough lying around!!!
Well because one of those nosecones doesn’t weigh 22 ton .. maybe?
Is there any doubt that this is the most closely watched construction project in recent memory?
Hopper 1 year ago, SN5 this year, imagine how things will be along by next August... fins!
God this channel is great
Nice video as usual, BUT I am so disappointed; There was no description at 6:24, now I have no idea what is going on!! /s :)
SN 7.1 might be shaping up to be more than a test tank if it has a skirt and legs
love space love starship love you
2:00 Starhopper is legend! He must stay there!
She! :)
@@NASASpaceflight But he looks so manly! Bulky and strong, a veteran! He is not a she-vessel, he is a water tower. Let me keep my illusions.
Love it
What I keep finding bit odd is that SpaceX constructs test tanks while the real deal is already being built with the same tech. Now it's test tanks 7.0 and 7.1 while SN8 is already well underway.
So how do they know they are using the best techniques and designs if they haven't properly tested it (304L in this case) before building the full scale product? Doesn't make sense? Maybe they are just moving too fast and don't want to wait 🤔😂
Once the high bay is constructed, will Mary be able to get good views inside?
Common finish the high-bay and lets build the super booster
Thanks you again Mary.
Quick question; Did we find out the cause of flamage on top of the Raptor during decent pictures.
Still got nothing on this, or I'm unobservant
@Marcus Knightingale thanks buddy. Love your work too by the way
Ordering at the Boca Chica restaurant. I'll have a Boca Chica burger with some SN5 size fries and a Star Hopper shake
Are those welds beginning to rust?
How stable is the sand out there where they are pouring the concrete for the new pad? I mean, it's literally a sandy beach.
Will the Superheavy launch pad become the launchpad for the whole Starship system?
Que rapidez en los avances; pendiente dia a dia.
Did the weight of the fuel cause some buckling in the upper third, or does it look the same as before the test?
As we've got Bluezilla how about following the theme? As it's a smaller/baby version it's got to be called Redzuki!
0:56
and about these snogging?
This gives a certain insecurity about the starship, even if it is nothing relevant.
Will they continue to knead in future versions?
3:00 -- Photo suitable for framing.
SpaceX is working like as if an apocalyptic event is coming and they need to get the fuck out!!!! I like this pace!
RedKong maybe
When will it be ready?
Wait. So the rest tank is going to have landing leg mounts? 🤔
Why pump the concrete so high up ?
It’s a folding telescopic design, so they need to unfold fully and form the arch you see made to equalise the weight over the distance.
What would be the next type of flight test: Max Altitude? How many Jet Engine?
SN6 goes to launch site - then they'll do pressure testing, static fire and another 150 m hop. They will probably also fit a mass simulator on top as with SN5. There will not be any jet engines... Raptor is a rocket engine :) Suspect that they will only fit one to it (might be wrong though). After SN6, the next in line to launch will be SN8 ( The SN7.x are only test tanks to check that the new steel is strong enough). SN8 will hopefully have a nosecone, aero surfaces and 3 raptors - same tests as with SN5 / 6 and then go on to do 20km hop and a swoop-de-swoop landing sequence...
Does the tank farm look FADED from the SUNor RAPTOR BLAST?