Incredible Flight! How Starship Flight 4 Changes SpaceX’s Plans!
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SpaceX´s Starship launched for the fourth time! I do an in depth analysis of what exactly happened and what this will mean for the future of the Starship program!
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Felix = Ehrenmann
How was the flight 4 party?
Felix you rock
Hey Felix, I don't think it required a missing heat shield tile for the plasma to melt the flap. I have the same opinion as Scott Manley, that there was just a small necessary gap at the hinges that could not be shielded properly
The starship portion sunk? Do we know that for sure? Presumably the fuel tanks were empty and large enough keep the ship afloat. Unless of course there were large holes in them. Also, the booster? It definitely should have floated. If there was a camera ship nearby they should have been able to recover it.
That flap is gonna be in a museum one day.
I really hope so! They gotta recover it some day
Yeah, a Chinese one...😮
Gonna be almost impossible to mind it at the bottom of the ocean
That flap was more reliable than my ex! 😂
@@5nowChain5 wym?
the Space X crew is the most crazy bunch of people. They deserve waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more appreciation amongst the public.
Yeah, unfortunately, there is great deal f hate directed against Elon personally these days. I don't really understand why.
Because he in not a extreme Liberal
The company is good at taking risks and facing challenges that other companies, and even governments, try to avoid instead. Probably the best trait the company has is its willingness to show off failures. I don't think Lockheed or Boeing or any other company would give the public live footage of tests that they know will result in things going wrong. The Soviet Union could've made something great with the N1 if they just kept at it. Instead they gave up after 3-4 failures right when engine problems got solved.
The West loved the electric car guy until he outed the deep state with the purchase of Twitter. Reeeee
@@mrowe1954ify Some people may think bad about Elon because of his political stances. For example some people don't like his hostile take against worker unions. Some people laught at his multifaceted failure with X (ex-Twitter). Some do point out that he is not who he claims to be, he didn't rise from rags to riches. Furthermore, many tend to think that Cybertruck was huge mistake that is directly Elon's brainchild. Some don't have anything negative to say about Musk, but rather about the sort of celebrity status he's reached and the parasocial love attitude his core audience seems to have developed towards him.
What many, many, many, people think, is that his goals are megalomaniac. Sure, it's okay to aim high, but Elon has proven track record for failing to deliver on his plans and promises. This makes investing in companies Elon owns somewhat of a gambling, and these stocks tend to be as a result highly volatile. Some people like to invest to volatile stocks, it's risky, but fact is that Elon's public statements can, and does, manipulate value of these stocks. This poses questions about insider trading and whatnot.
All criticism towards Musk is not hate. Much of it is reasonable, and some is unreasonable.
That plasma color show was so mesmerising🥺
Aurora Starshipis
googling, ship recovery
Absolutely amazing to see Plasma live !!
Hopefully we don’t see that beautiful green in IFT-5, that’s literally metal burning away.
it's still mind-blowing that we can see this stuff live!
Ship 29 took the poem literally, and as words to live by...
*_“Do not go gentle into that good night._*
*_Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”_*
Ship 29 🚀 🫡
"Dying of the light" was one of the first George R.R. Martin novels that I read, way before GOT era.
Live fast, die young, bad flaps do it well!
@@Andrew-Kerr hah Exactly! But, please, this must ONLY apply to these Test Articles!
Once Starship reaches its "final form" _(look Elon, I did a meme!)_ I implore that it can *only* 'retire and die OLD' ☺️
_EDIT: you know, I just further realized that it truly did "rage against the dying of the light", through creating it's OWN light by glowing _*_red hot!_* 😁
The dying of the flight…
That was one of the most exciting things I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life, (and I’m an old fart)! My best friend and I were glued to the computer watching it live as it all unfolded. Watching that flap burn and begin to disintegrate had my heart pounding. We were both screaming like teenagers at a Michael Jackson concert! What fun that was! I can’t wait until the next launch!
Agreed! Seems that 'excitement guaranteed' is not just yet another slogan🤗
That flap movement was the ultimate flex in rocket history. SpaceX really made a historic test run on #4
Yeah watching it move like nothing was wrong with 1/4 of it completely melted off...was insane.
It reminded me of the old flying fortress planes that would come back missing most of the plane, but still land.
Also the camera working after being hit with hot metal cracking its lens. That little sliver of view that we got of the still-glowing flap operating couldn't have been better. Like a work of art.
@@ryelor123 The camera working isn't that surprising, they had more then one of glass to protect the lens anyway and it was housed in a bunker so it would work as long as the plasma not getting into the housing unit.
I'm guessing 100% of the people watching the reentry thought the Starship would end up like Columbia when we saw those hot gasses coming out of the joint. And even more so when it started to disintegrate. And yet it somehow not only held together but was able to compensate for the changed aerodynamics. Easily the most impressive "failure" since Apollo-13. SpaceX is truly an impressive team from Stage Zero, to hardware, to the software.
💯! The sheer robustness of the ship's structure is truly underappreciated. I'm sure they will do what they can to save weight in the future, but I believe the goal for the design is to be as rugged as possible for safety. The tumbles that 1 performed without an in-flight breakup was a feature, not a bug.
The difference is under the heatshield Columbia was made of (mostly) aluminium, but Starship is made of steel
It's important to note that this was a prototype test article. Not an Apollo 13 flight.
I, for one, thought exactly this. "Oh, dear. There goes starship... it was a good run." And the monster insisted on going on. Truly impressive.
@@qdaniele97 Space Shuttles lost tiles all the time. Columbia's problem was that she literally had a hole punched in her airframe. The plasma was inside the ship.
The flap that half melted still functioned and moved come the flip. That's some crazy engineering to crate something that can take so much damage, heat and warping and still function.
yep and then once it was vertical and was commanded to fold back it disconnected at the top.
the marvel of Stainless Steel. Advances in Materials Science are usually the first step to any new achievement. It is the least sexy engineering discipline, but one of the most essential.
This flight was incredible that flap has got the endurance of A-10 warthog 😮❤
I was thinking more along the lines of that Israeli F-15 that lost a wing, but still managed to return to base. Then again maybe it lost more than one flap and still managed to land, who knows?
I was more along the lines of bomber returning from Germany in WW2
Probably not only the one flap was damaged. We saw only top right flap from camera on the body, but camera from bottom flap stopped working (heat/missing shielding).
@@ZatnaktelCz Absolutely. We know from the cameras we have seen, 100% failure rate.
I suspect they need a shroud at the root to protect the hinge.
I wonder if they have 'salvaged' or found the ship to inspect it. Then perhaps blow it up to sink it.
@@ZatnaktelCz Another observation I've not seen discussed.
That there was a boat watching the booster landing means it was accurate in its return.
While we're all watching for Re-Use,.. It seems we're all overlooking one thing. Right now, if SpaceX wanted to, they could put the current hardware in to use as a fully expendable Heavy Lift service, capable of putting more mass to orbit then any other rocket, and do it a price that's likely to be below that of a Falcon9 launch.
Spare Hubble, done. 1/3rd of the ISS needing replacement? Done. TransHab/BEAM/Life module to ISS? How many would you like delivered?.
Imagine if you would, a version of Starship with no wing flaps, and where the entire upper section is two large jettison-able fairings, that pop open outside of the atmosphere to reveal a payload made of multiple Rocket Lab Electron first stages strapped together as boosters around a regular Electron with a it's normal payload,... Electron can already push to orbital velocity, and now you give it a running start, one alone would double it's speed, several as boosters, starting from that speed.
How fast do you want to get anywhere in the Solar System?
Yeah, that's where we're at folks, and that without the next steps to full reuseability.
people often forget that the main reason the starship program is having so many failures is because it’s pushing the cutting edge of technology and that they could dial it back and be successful with the drop of a hat doing expendable like u said.
They don't have the current hardware to do that yet actually. They still haven't figured out how to load and unload said payloads from the upper stage.
@@ClearAlera they tested and passed payload bay last launch
Apart from not having a payload system they have not even had a major "dummy" payload yet. So no, they could not put mass to orbit at the moment even if its close.
@@Mccoyj189 That was a Pez dispenser. I wouldn't call it a proper "payload bay". They still need to figure out full size payload door design cause that will impact structural integrity quite a bit. Then again seeing how robust Starship is that might not be that much of an issue.
My wife and I have been coming to Boca Chica monthly for the past three years. We are extremely grateful for everyone working at Starbase making it so exciting every time we drive by. Especially Felix and his team. We hope that tours will be on the menu someday. My uncle was an engineer at NASA during the 70s and 80s so I grew up around the space shuttle program. I introduced the excitement to my wife through your efforts in Texas. Needless to say she’s in love with SpaceX and feels blessed to live in South Texas during these amazing advancements. Thanks again Felix and SpaceX for being the best part of humanity.
That flap is the true MVP of this flight 😂
Soon there will be hundreds of starship flights yearly ! What a great time to be a fan of space and spaceflight !
Was actually insane watching the livestream
A rollercoaster ride of emotions for sure! 🥹
Despite having watched it live, *_I still get chills_* watching these summary videos which show this launch's Booster and Ship footage!
I eagerly await *IFT5* 🤘😫🤘
It was unreal, especially when the flap started burning through, and the camera cut out, and then a couple of minutes/seconds later it came back, showing the flap still working and doing the flip maneuver, pretty crazy stuff! I also couldn't believe when I saw the booster hover live over the water! Crazy stuff! It was the first time we saw the booster hover!
Even Jessie had an emotional breakdown😅
I wouldn't want my worst enemy on Boeing Star Liner. One look at Boeing's recent record not to mention Star Liners setbacks shows that the company has fallen from it's once prestigious heights. No pun intended.
I hope you wrote a will before publishing this comment.
@@andybrice2711 DAMN
@@andybrice2711 is that a death threat ?
@@chrissmith5588 Not from me! But people who publicly criticize Boeing do have a suspicious tendency to suddenly and unexpectedly die.
@@chrissmith5588 Andy's presumably referring to the mysterious deaths of Boeing whistleblowers. Recently, Boeing appears to have implemented Russia's 'open windows' policy🤦♂
Nothing but admiration for the amazing people of Spacex. This is like optimistic, courageous, mindful science fiction coming true, and you have a bunch of old (some of us old enough to watch Shepard's suborbital live) space nerds cheering for you every day. Heroes.
The folks at SpaceX continue to amaze. They definitely have the best and the brightest minds working there. They're setting the new gold standard in rocket technology.
IFT 4 was a staggering success. The fact that both parts landed vertically at single digit kph was truly amazing. Edit: Starliner is dodgy as a human carrying spaceship. Massive holding of breath still required before those astronauts come home safe.
Surprise surprise … Starliner developed many new helium leaks during the launch. And they don’t even have the failed thrusters to examine when they return (they are not reused but instead discarded in space). Meanwhile SpaceX is going where no engineer went before, live streaming the hot plasma during reentry, thereby for the first time revealing exactly what happens during the extremes of reentry
Starliner is a little scary but let’s wish them all the best for a safe return and getting Starliner reliable. Who knows, one day Starliner will have to rescue a Dragon crew.
Good luck Butch and Sunny.
Hey, they only need Helium to run their propulsion system...they don't need that to return to Terra Firma...oh, or DO THEY?
@@stanthemann1313 Thrusters are quite useful for attitude control and things like that.
@@stanthemann1313 Hey, they only need Helium to run their propulsion system...they don't need that to return to Terra Firma...oh, or DO THEY?
Only if you need a deorbit burn and functioning thrusters to control trajectory. Other than that not really. You might not LAND more likely impact or burn up.
Here is hoping that Starliner brings them back safely or at worst leaves them on station for a Dragon ride home.
Blue Origin: slow and steady wins the race
NASA: delayed again
Space X: Another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one
Starship, nailing a perfect landing even with gruesome damage: "I like this one, ANOTHER!"
@@UNSCPILOT Blue Origin and NASA: Whats a landing??
Another one thank you, another one thank you. Just imagining what we can do by flight 7 of starship, probably going to be the start of the moon lander testing
Kinda reminds me of a Queen song... "... another one bites the dust..." lol Most importantly, they iterate quickly. Best approach to fast solutions.
@@devoof BO knows what a landing is, they just don't know what an orbit is. To be fair to NASA, they were landing whole spaceships for thirty years.
I also love how the video feed was nearly perfect throughout the whole flight. SpaceX is developing this rocket with us fans in mind.
This was SUCH an fantastic test, and so very inspiring. I was watching from Moscow, Russia, and I was cheering out loud and applauding the landings. This is truly America at her finest.
This was Elon, as America's finest. Take away Elon and we're left waiting for NASA.
@@user-rn3cj1og6q Kind of says something, don't it? A little sad, too because my own family is tied to the Space Race; my uncle trained the astronauts for Apollo 12, Apollo 16, Skylab 1 and Apollo-Soyuz, so it is a particular interest for me - he instilled the interest in aeronautics in me, taught me to fly and so on. NASA has its great moments, but I think most of them are in those days - now it seems too timid, too bureaucratic and too woke sometimes to concentrate on making space travel accessible. Some of that is probably cultural inertia - as a government funded organization, NASA *HAS* to do everything perfectly from the first go so no one dies and makes the government look bad. I get it, but this is a rotten business model. Maybe if NASA self-incorporated like SpaceX is, it could refresh its vision and processes. Who can say?
The future of SpaceX is very important. They are working on things so amazing that we're awestruck.
This is the doorway to the Mars/Moon base/cool space future we were promised decades ago.
folks i talk to about starship just dont get the importance of this rocket and how it WILL be a humanity game changer.
@@bruceperkins2921 Even if Starship never amounts to more than a freighter that can move people and cargo economically around the Earth-Moon orbits it will be amazing. I suspect that going to Mars will require specialized space ships that are built in orbit to get there.
They took a few major gambles and it paid off. The first was to make their own engine and then it was to land a booster. Then they were willing to do crewed flights which was another major gamble. The next gamble was to build methane staged combustion engines and also build a rocket with a similar propulsion method as the N1 - something no one else had the courage to attempt. There's a limit to how big you can make a rocket engine before combustion instability becomes unavoidable. Its not just luck that they going for them. That company knew what challenges needed to be attempted. Now other companies are getting into reusability and the use of staged combustion engines. You also have companies and governments trying to create their own versions of Starlink.
Either Musk is a genius or he knows how to find them.
@Bhoddisatva Mars might just require new engines on Starship, plus a few Starships strapped together to produce artificial gravity.
Some modifications and changes, but should be able to do it.
Easier to modify than to design an entirely new ship for Mars
It wasn't just that single flap that miraculously held on to the end.
What makes the water landing of Ship 29 more incredible is its extremely likley (more than one flap)was damaged. We only had video of one. Now SpaceX has clear data on what needs improvements.
This is the first time I feel remotely competent to comment.
On Starliner, I remain concerned that the crew can return safely to Earth. It may be prudent for them to remain and test Starliner's re-entry without them aboard. They can return on Crew Dragon or Soyuz when a replacement ship becomes available for launch.
Hopefully, Boeing will get Starliner sorted soon.
Yep, hopefully starliner is ok with its heat shield and able to de orbit from the ISS
Agreed, but they will need to test a human landing to get the marks. So they will do it. Human life be damned.
@@anthonylosegohelium pipe fittings breaking all over the place. Starliner is full of negative new surprises. What a scary ride. This is like driving a new car off the dealer’s lot while dripping oil, being told it’s not a problem, then halfway to nowhere discovering the oil is now leaking out of many places.
Starliner needs to be put on the scrap heap and stop wasting the taxpayers money on old 1980s technology. That being said, our gubment should step aside all let Elon/SpaceX develop space technology as fast as they can. Imagine how far we would be if the gubment had just stayed out of SpaceX way.
@@captianm4766 Boeing is repeating Commodore's mistakes: capitalizing on successful technologies without further investment in innovation and management greed classics🤦♂
Can't wait for Starship 5!
I see not reason for it to take more than 4 weeks for SpaceX to prepare for the launch of Booster 12 and Ship 30. Four weeks from 6th June is the 4th of July.
@@jamescobban857They will tear down and reapply the whole heatshield, we will see how much time that takes
To adapt to a failing flap is truly amazing.
Per Terran Space Academy, Starliner should not be used to return Butch and Suni. Let it return unmanned this time and use Dragon to bring them back. Those helium leaks caused life threatening issues to the retro thrusters
Same. Even returning in a shuttle just pulled out of the museum would be safer.
Man, that landing is going to be a wild ride for whoever gets a trip on one
SpaceX doing amazing work and WAI providing amazing coverage and commentary!
The water drop on the lens of the buoy cam had me going there for a moment.
The plasma cutting through the flaps literally looked like a plasma cutter… Who would have thunk? 😂
then seeing it cool into twisted metal as it came through the atmosphere was amazing. Then it started working lol... amazing
I pray for the safe return of the starliner astronauts
If I were them, I would wait for Dreamchaser to dock. It's a miracle they made it to the station at all🤷♂
What about a rottiserie solution for Starship? Leave out the control flaps. Instead, heat shield tiles all around and slow rotation during reentry by means of reaction control system as to spread the heat. The backflip maneuver can be done with a small parachute emerging from the nose to save on reaction control system fuel.
Go Starship! Go SpaceX!
They said on the live stream that the two missing tiles and a thinner tile had sensors under them.
Would be really nice if they had a camera in there to see the internal skin heat/burn through!
@@simonbaxter8001 That would not be feasible, because these tiles were on the exposed side of the ship. The camera, that filmed the flap was on the protected side of the ship.
I don´t know, whether they had cameras on the inside of the engine bay. I would assume that the conditions next to those engines are hostile to cameras as well. I remember they had views from there during the 10 km hops, but they didn´t fire inside a closed compartment like they do during hot staging.
I bet they have loads of thermoelements all over.
And they mentioned cameras on the inside whitch were not supposed for the public. I remember at one occasion on a different flight, someone hacked a camera in the inside of the fuel tank.
I´m rambling. Sorry.
Well done space X you amazed us again, I'm so looking forward to IFT 5. You rock ❤
Nice meeting you at starbase! It tried so hard to rud but held in there. Guess now you can’t blame me for jinxing it!
Elon did post yesterday that they are going to catch the booster next flight..
SN15 only lit 2 engines because the third shut down early on ascent. Ever since SN10, it was always the plan to light up all 3.
S29 was also heavier as it contained 3 vacuum raptors
@@bru512 It was heavier for many reasons. However, that was not the reason why they used all 3 engines.
The fact they actually simulated the booster landing, is a HUGE success for IFT4. I was a bit skeptical of that most of all, and they did it.
I was curious if they were going to do this. Seems like a missed opportunity if they didn't. Glad they did.
@@anthonylosego yea, they'd never even gotten close to getting the booster to land much less simulating it. That to me, was more important than the starship re-entry.
Heh, Nicknaming S29 Honeybadger is quite fitting, not even grevious injuries could stop it achieving it's goals
I feel like this period could be called the “monkeys battle the atmosphere” era of spaceflight
I'm still awestruck it's hard to believe, but cameras & data don't lie. Spacex managed it with all their magic. Don't know about you, Felix, but I can't wait for flight test five. Starship rocks. Love the show.. Slainte, Felix ❤
The progress they're making at SpaceX is startling.. absolutely AMAZING the amount of improvements made.. just crazy!
It should be pointed out more that the severely destroyed flap still worked!
Not only still worked, but the flight control software adapted flawlessly aswell allowing a graceful landing even with severe damage, it is quite remarkable.
Meanwhile Boeing is still struggling to get to orbit without crew-endangering critical issues, I kinda hope Starliner gets forcibly retired so other vehicles such as Dreamchaser can get the funding instead
@@UNSCPILOT The avionics software team at SpaceX deserves far more love than they get, it was incredible to watch how both the Booster and Ship adapted to any situation they found themselves in.
The flap served the human spaceflight future . Salute 🫡
GREAT JOB TO ALL THE SPACE X TEAM!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!
It’s really only when you know the amount of engineering, knowledge and experience that is needed to launch, navigate, then land things this big…that you can truly appreciate the outcome. Very well done SpaceX. Great coverage by WAI too.
That was incredible!
Starliner review: arrived proper late and then was damaged on arrival! Had to return only to be sent another dud! Fuming. Sticking with this one though as I've already spent the money and they won't offer a refund. Probably gonna kill me the first time I need to use it lol.
Felix! You are awesome. Your Chan is one of my top 3 go-to chans for Starship coverage. You enthusiasm, deliver, personality, is contagious and intoxicating. You have certainly gone "all in" for this chan, even relocating your family to Florida to maintain your awesomeness! I LOVE your personal touch, even showing how your family is getting involved in your chan and launch coverage. I really wish I was in a position to support you financially, but I can't ATM... Your content and insight are amazing, I hate to bash on other YT chans, but Markus, is just a guy who reports about Starship... never seen a launch, never been to Starbase... but you sir, are the real deal! I KNOW what it is like to relocate a family! Not an easy task... but it seems that you guys are happy, and that your content is thriving.
Keep up the fantasic work, I love watching your Chan grow! I have been following you from VERY early on! I love to see you have become a YT success, and I think your brightest days are ahead of you. Thanks Felix, for all you do, to create bright, informative, speculative, enthusiastic, and upbeat content for us!
I watched the S4 launch and I must remark how excited you were, Felix, during the entire mission. I am glad to see the dreams of space travel being reborn. Congratulations to you and your team. Great coverate, IMO.
CSI Starbase offered an interesting theory about the 3rd launch booster failure: The hot staging ring was supposed to be jettisoned but that latches were damaged. Causing it to hang on until the lower atmosphere caused it to flutter and shake the booster out of control.
It does tell me that its bordering on the unstable.
I believe SpaceX said it was due to it shifting the CoM, which the guidance software was not configured for, causing it to be unable to compensate correctly.
_(if it wasn't SpaceX who said that, then it might've been speculation by Scott Manley or had been mentioned in an NSF video)_
@@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Centre of Mass versus Centre of Pressure. Get them too close and you don't have control
I think they meant that it was not supposed to come off, but it did and that threw off the grid fins. So SpaceX decided to remove it intentionally, then fly in without it.
@@adenwellsmith6908Rong. The closer cog to cop the more stable. Even elon could figure that out.
Thank you!!! I could swear I was the only one that noticed the deluge system activated during the landing! People told me that it didn't happen, even though I told them exactly where and when to look. NSF didn't even seem to know about it even though I saw it on their stream.
Pretty amazing that Felix talked so much without mentioning important points. Like the flap being made out of steal not carbon fiber or aluminum which basically saved the ship, pointing out the super heated gas flowing through the hinge of the flap, the booster catching on fire and exploding. I didn't expect that.. well done!
Starliner should be renamed “Starlooser”. Last time they had troubles with the orbital maneuvering thrusters - and it seems after more than one year, they still do not have this problem under control! Unacceptable!
2:18 not only did it survive missing tiles it survived being partial destroyed. Now that is robust engineering.
Thank you SpaceX for putting on that EPIC experience!!!
To quote Felix.... "You ROCK!!!"
Saw ya down there rocking the Cyber truck. Hope you had a good time. Stunk we got mostly clouded out. But that feeling from the shockwaves is next level.
There was nothing about that starliner flight that inspired confidence.
They didn't loose the coolant .
Regarding StarLiner, let's hope the helium system, which pressurizes the RCS thrusters, has what it takes to make it through the de-orbit burn. The RCS system experiencing the trouble upon docking is the Service Modual RCS system of 28 thrusters. After the de-orbit burn, the Service Modual is jettisoned before re-entry.
MECO- Most Engine Cut Off" was actually smart
I smashed the "like" button and spilled my coffee. But Felix does a great show! It was worth it.
Ablative flaps for the win
Thank you Felix. Thanks a lot for staying with us during the live stream ahaha you + your team = awesome! New merch please? (With our fav flappy)
Great follow-up to this launch. You’re my go to source when it comes to space flight. Most of my questions were answered and the in depth analysis was appreciated. That was one hell of a flight. Both vehicles touched down successfully.
Great test flight! The broadcast was as exciting as a crime thriller.
We are getting a spacefaring species!🛸
a PROPER spacefaring specie ;)
No we're not
@@noone-qg1od yes we are
@@leriku2270 I agree we are but I have to keep this going... Nut uhhh!
We just have to avoid Elon dying early, or us blowing ourselves up before lunar and Mars bases are self sufficient.
Felix, your the 21st century version of Walter Cronkite. Great report on flight 4 and Starliner. We've seen these and New Shepard and Unity. Now waiting for DreamChaser! Thanks.
"Ordered an orbital capsule some years back, and I eventually got one. Half a decade late. It's got the occasional helium leak, and the clock sometimes goes out of sync, but it does the job. Overall I give it a 2 out of 5. It gets the job done if you don't mind a thrilling, high stakes launch every time; but that gets old really fast."
Insaaaane stuff SpaceX did there, great vid good Job
I want see how they do the heat shield around the flaps.
Just my opinion, Starliner is not going to end well for some poor crew in the future. Boeing is only a shell of its former self and far too vertically integrated. Also in the pocket of too many politicians and NASA's upper echelon. I do not wish them ill but Starliner and Boeing are too firmly entrenched in the past.
I agree. SpaceX cares about innovation and safety so that industry as a whole can go miles and miles. Boeing (with frankly everything recently) has just been about getting stuff done to get it done and meet deadlines not regarding safety or innovation (or at least taking the minimum into consideration.)
Unbelievable accomplishment! ......Congratulations to everyone at SpaceX
i sincerely hope the US Navy was in the area to help recover the ship after it sank into the ocean. those flaps deserve to be put in a museum.
It's just a flap wound. That's great 😂
I’m not dead yet….
It’s merely a flap wound…!
😃
It was an incredible launch I loved meeting you and the whole team thank you guys for everything that you're doing
Great video! Learned a lot about flight 4 and it's awesome reentry! Thanks! Great explanations about everything 🎉
Can you quit begging for people to sub halfway through a video. Subs don't matter for youtube's algo. It might stroke your ego. But it's real annoying as someone who has followed you for years. It is the same principle as a morning alarm. Initially u can find a good tune or song. But it sends shivers down your spine when you hear it after a year or so. Even when it's not even wake up time. Do it at the end or something. Or once every month or so. It gets real frustrating. Although i do love your video's. That part makes me almost wanting to start watching someone else.
I will stay for now. But something needs to change. Cheers! Much love from Norway.
I suspect you are prone to road rage...relax and enjoy the great content they provide.
at least they are no AG1 promos in these videos - or do I speak too soon?
Nobody cares about starliner. It's just an embarrassment.
Met a lot of SpaceX employees while down there. Absolutely blows my mind that most are mid 20s. So cool to see the next generation crushing it.
Fantastic views.go Space X
14 years and too much money !!!
Well done SpaceX Team and thank you WAI. And felix for your coverage and comments on FLT4
Great stuff once again!
I'm a 38-year-old engineer. As a kid, I was obsessed with all things space, basically a slightly older version of Tim.
If you asked me in high school, I'd say my dream is to be a part of a team like spaceX with the dream of putting people on other planetary bodies.
I lost my dream and felt as if space was forgotten, especially after they shut down the shuttle.
I feel bad about the hubbles current situation and feel star ship might be the only thing with enough of a future to save it. Sure, it's out classed pretty much every way, but the history and how much it changed our knowledge of the sky it's worth two options 1. Upgrades and repairs. 2. Bring it back to the ground and put it in the Smithsonian.
Honestly, it might just be the first tool created by modern people, that it needs its own Nobel prize.
Company's like SpaceX would not exist if not for the inspiration and information laid down by nasa and all the space programs before it.
I can't wait to see what test flight 5 pulls off we want more cameras lots more with backups.
Great summary!
Such a great recap!! 🫡👏
Starliner Amazon review:
Oh, Starliner, you sure know how to keep space enthusiasts on the edge of their seats! Nothing says "reliable space travel" like a few helium leaks and five thrusters deciding to take a nap mid-mission. Kudos to NASA for performing a near-miracle to get four of those slackers back online just in time to dock with the ISS. If this was an audition for a space soap opera, you'd get a standing ovation. But for an actual spacecraft? Maybe try to keep all your thrusters awake next time.
Here's to hoping your next adventure doesn't involve a game of "Which Part Will Malfunction Today?" If suspenseful space drama is your thing, Starliner, you're a star. For everyone else, let's aim for a little more 'routine' in our routine missions, shall we?
Awesome video Felix.
Absolutely fabulous.
I knew a little about the complications with starliners trip but WOW I didn’t know they’re were soo many!🤦♂️ I pray for a safe return! And yea awesome video! How can it not be with that footage!!
4:45 started all 33 Raptor engines, but took to the sky with the power of 32 Raptor engines. The failure was very early in the flight. =>
Man those shockwaves doe. Looks like they're bending reality.
Just wonderful. Great job everybody at spacex
Great! Love it, and Hello from Dillingham, Alaska SpaceX
last week was an amazing week both starliner and starship launch lets reach the stars baby
I knew this was going to be a major success GO STARSHIP GO!!!!
I was looking forward to watch your video because I got so used to you talking about it to me and I was like where is he? Why is he not here and you’re here now thank you. :D