Watch: SpaceX’s Starship Successfully Completes Re-entry and Splashdown | WSJ News
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- SpaceX achieved a new milestone with its mega Starship rocket, after both the booster and the spacecraft made controlled returns to Earth. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images
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That Flap needs to be in a museum! A hero for the progress and longevity of mankind.
We already know that hot plasma can damage or destroy spacecraft.
that flap is at the bottom pf the Indian ocean right now, it pains me to report
@@rdbchase obviously, but what's impressive is how star ship didn't tumble and break up during reentry from that and it still managed to vertically land as planned too.
@@Fold-103 Neither Starship nor its booster landed successfully; a relatively soft splashdown isn't the same thing.
@@rdbchase i think NASA knows better than you
The potential for re-usability is a game-changer. Falcon has changed the landscape, and the next paradigm shift is only a few test flights away.
How did they catch that giant things. And the most expensive is changing all the heat tiles
Augurer?
@@ariewijaya1679if the stainless steel alloy they use tolerates a giga press to recess the tile inserts, it might help with tile retention.
Even the Space Shuttle was prone to tile loss. A single-use ablative material between seams might help too, but the SpaceX team far smarter than me.
This progress is amazing!!!!
Man the little flap that could.
"I think I can...
I think I can...
I think I can...
I think I can...
Ooh, Owch
Make it stop!
Oh, it BURNS!"
First one that didn't explode. So if NASA blew up 3 rockets in a row what would the headlines be?
Yup, every itiration get a lot better. as always with space X, lucky number 4.
@@moejoe1863different design philosophies create different expectations.
SpaceX does a rapid iterative process. Build a rocket, test it, fix the problems, fly the next rocket.
The rocket that flew yesterday was Ship 29 and Booster 11. SpaceX already has built Ship 31 and Booster 13.
Nasa, or rather the manufacturers that build for NASA, use a more traditional design process. Completely design a finished rocket, build it and if all goes well it works on the first try.
In the same time frame that SpaceX build 31 Ships and 13 boosters Boeing build 2 SLS rockets.
That's why the headlines would be different. Because the expectations are completely different.
That hero fin guided the upper stage all the way back!
It nearly burned off -- do you suppose it's fully reusable?
@@rdbchaseObviously not, especially since they were not even recovering starship. Seems like they may had expected this.
@@KevinNguyen1 I don't think that either of us have much insight into fwanknmt's thinking processes, but lauding the fact that the winglet didn't actually break off in flight sure seems like avoidance of the fact of the failure of the thermal protection system to me. Starship's test flights can be deemed successful if relatively tiny goals are set for them, but the fundamental design goals for the system as a whole clearly have not been met and I am very dubious that they will be. If Musk and SpaceX are so confident in Starship, it seems to me we should have heard about their plans to improve performance so that 100-150 tons of cargo can be carried to orbit already and we haven't.
It was likely all 4 that melted. If it happened to one, it happened to all of them.
@@rdbchaseEl problema de las losetas térmicas en las bisagras ya se sabía pero aún así se decidió lanzar y se probó otro sistema térmico, el lanzamiento fue un total éxito se obtuvieron grandes cantidades de información qué beneficiarán al desarrollo acelerado de spacex y se cumplieron los objetivos de lanzamiento qué se consideraban imposibles la versión final de la Starship podrá transportar hasta 150 toneladas de carga útil a órbita
Great job SpaceX.
The Fin that never gave up, just like the amazing engineers over at SpaceX. It needs to be placed in a museum somewhere.
A museum of engineering failures, perhaps. The winglets would have to suffer no damage (as opposed to nearly burning off) if Starship were to be reusable at all; with the loss of all Starships and boosters (with their 144 Raptor engines) so far launched, there is zero cause for optimism that the goal of full reusability will be attained.
@@rdbchaseyou do realize these are test flights of a new generation of super heavy lift capable rockets right?
@@rdbchase It's called progress. It was the same with Falcon only smaller scale. Computer simulations only go so far. They literally have to fly to find every weak point. Seriously, why do we have so many losers in this world that cannot understand this?
@@rossh2386 I realize that four test flights in, the system has not demonstrated that 1) it can transport its claimed 100-150 tons of payload to low Earth orbit, 2) it can be refueled in orbit, 3) it can relight its engines in microgravity, or 4) it can be recovered intact -- Starship has yet to achieve any of its primary design goals, so fanboys' wild enthusiasm is unwarranted.
@@rdbchase Were you one of the people who said "there's no reason to think this will ever succeed" when Falcon 9's were blowing up?
Flappy, the one that could.
Every failure is inverted by the fanboys -- winglets that nearly burn off cannot be part of a fully reusable rocket!
@@rdbchase It's called progress, genius. It's obvious you aren't involved in anything meaningful or difficult.
@@jamescarter8311 Abject ad hominem, not reasoned disagreement -- meaningful or difficult enterprises are certainly capable of failure.
@@rdbchaseI know it’s a failure, but at the same time the flap still manage to actuate even if plasma ate a hole through it during the bellyflop maneuver.
@@rdbchasestick to the comment dude.
That's why it's called the one that could.
it is so refreshing to see the engineers entertained by the errors. I hear joy in the discovery. What a great place to.work.
incredible, the hinge on that one flap got plasma cut by the reentry plasma and was still functional. I hope they pull that out of the water and save it
who said it was still functional?
@@alanmay7929 It was still able to guide the ship.
@@wisemanofsorts6068 its actually the engines that did all if not most of the job lol!!! that flat has barely any capacity to do that
@alanmay7929 During the belly flop, the flaps are the only things that can orient the ship properly for the flip maneuver. The engines only ignite a few seconds before landing, and RCS is not strong enough at low altitudes to adjust orientation. That is why the flaps exist....
Toward the end of video you can still see it actuate a little.
Wow, for once in my lifetime... The wall street journal didn't try to spin a story to attack Elon.
This was an amazing test! Go SpaceX and go Elon!
Cuz they can't do anything about on how successful it was 😂
Not a fan of Elon, but he and SpaceX have done amazing things for space exploration.
Elon himself is terrible. SpaceX on the other hand, lovely almost every time.
@@takempf How is her terrible? Supports clean energy, space exploration, new healthcare products, and free speech. What's your qualms?
@@nowords7737his personality
The release of the hot-stage ring at 1:44 and the flap disintegration at 4:09 both remind me of that one scene in Interstellar. Just incredible.
Humanity restored +1
0:04 this shot is amazing
Congratulations to SpaceX!!!!
A massive success
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
@@rdbchasebot is bot
To a non aero space engineer you have no idea how historic this day is. SpaceX is redefining our civilization as we know it Thank you amazing team for this monumental pineering work on full rocket reusability
Pure nonsense -- the system won't be "redefining our civilization" even if it can be made to function, very much an open question at this point.
Congratulations Space X !! American ingenuity at its best.
Kinda terrifying, that glowing fin is reminiscent of what Space Shuttle Columbia probably looked like.
True joy of engineering.. goosebumps every single time. Congrats SpaceX
amazing
We have waited 1year and 3 months for this moment😄
So many blast waves at the start of the launch
Absolutely incredible job.
Right, the fourth test flight of the system ended like the last three with the loss of both the Starship and its booster -- SpaceX had planned on landing it on the Moon already. More incredible than anything SpaceX has done are fanboys' inversion of failure into success.
@@rdbchase let's see you build a rocket. In reality, it was a huge success. The mission was to go to space and do a soft landing on return. It did that. Also if you pay attention, since the first flight SpaceX has been ready to launch more, but have had to wait for the FAA to clear it, so that slowed things way down, multiple times. Your assessment is wrong on every level.
@@rdbchase It's called progress. It was the same with Falcon only smaller scale. Computer simulations only go so far. They literally have to fly to find every weak point. Seriously, why do we have so many losers in this world that cannot understand this?
Marvellous. SpaceX has achieved what Sergei Korolev dreamed of 60 years ago and more than it.
This should be what every engineering student must aspire for.
The N-1 failed in all four test launches too, but engineering students should aspire to succeed rather than fail.
@@rdbchase What a stupid comment. None of Starships launches were failures. They were prototypes and each got further than the last. It was the same with the Falcon rockets. SpaceX pushes every part to failure. It's how they learn.
@@jamescarter8311 SpaceX has achieved none of the primary design goals for Starship in four test flights -- that is how far it's gotten. Debris in the Gulf of Mexico and Indian Ocean has been the result of both IFT-3 and IFT-4. I am perfectly willing to accept evidence of Starship's success as soon as it succeeds -- in carrying payload to orbit, in being refueled there, in re-lighting its engines in microgravity, in being recovered intact -- none of these have happened yet. Praising the fact that one or both winglets didn't actually break off in flight despite suffering catastrophic damage during re-entry is indicative of how warped fanboy's notion of success is.
@@rdbchaseit has shown everyone that a fully reusable rocket is possible, but it clearly won’t be easy.
All starship flights had a simulated payload weight of 50T by not filling it to 100% with the exception of IFT-1 i think, and they have also proven to literally everyone in the aerospace space that they can at least send a super heavy payload into space and soft land the booster in the water, just like what SpaceX did around a decade ago with the Falcon 9. Right now, they have proven that the Starship is “fully” reusable with the 4th test flight, minus parts of the flap but basically everyone already knew the flaps and placement of them will change with V2 ships under construction right now and which may fly later this year or early next year. What failed here was the flaps hinge cover which allowed plasma to seep into the internals of the flap. Newer ships will push the flaps more leeward so that plasma won’t be able to get within the flaps but for now, they’ll increase insulation in this spot for the last few V1 ships before V2 comes online. SpaceX also is gonna do all of the points you said, it’s just that proving starship can be fully reusable is much more important as they want to get that done first. After they have proven that they can reenter without any major damage, then they will demonstrate raptor relights in space, and only then will they demonstrate deploying a payload. This could all be done in 2 or so flights as Elon said that flight 5 is probably gonna attempt a booster catch with the tower arms however this could be pushed back to flight 6. Also, they did demonstrate a cryogenic fuel transfer from within the ship for flight 3, which was never done before in space before, and is a step towards ship to ship fuel transfers. They are working towards accomplishing all the goals that you said. A ship to ship fuel transfer should occur next year which means that all the other things said also should be done within a year.
Another thing you don’t seem to mention is the costs. Starship costs around $5B. Not the rocket, the entire program, meaning literally everything starship related has costed SpaceX $5B which they are able to fund with revenue from StarLink raking in around $1.5-2B each year. If you funded SpaceX as much as NASA and give them the same amount of time as projects like SLS, there probably wouldn’t be as many failures and test launches but that also means that more money was spent in the program.
Edit: look at how far they have gone from IFT-1 to IFT-4 in over a year and a few months. From spiralling out of control to successfully reentering and splashing down both ship and booster.
@@rdbchaseIFT-4 soft landed in the Indian Ocean. Unlike the preceding 3 tests.
Wow. I never thought that I will read something like this on media. I expected them to right “Elons Rocket got destroyed after splashdown” 😂
Cynical, understandably so 😂
Elon gave the middle finger to all the Elon hating liberals that pray for him to fail lol - Science > Feelings
grow up!!!!
@@originaloffical You don't know what 'liberal' means do you?
@@ddandymannwhat do they mean?
The Moon and Mars is one step closer! It was a magnificent test flight, looking forward to launch #5
Yes they told us in 80 they will be on mars in 90 2000-2011-2022 and we didnt hit the moon 😂😂
Letssss goooo SPACEX ❤
5:55 water splash on the top right corner. Flapping amazing.
The tightness of the flame is impressive
It’s incredible how strong this beast is. When it was surviving doing cart, flips on its first flight, the length of a giant skyscraper, the toughness prowess had been set. They literally had to forcefully destroy it. I’m turning 50 this summer, I’ve watched this whole thing, it’s absolutely incredible. Anyone who was an alive it’s very hard to imagine Elon’s vision, and how impossible it was.
@@Ryan-mq2mi Yes the technology space X launches and then lands like bird is awesome to watch. With nasa it all just looked ugly. The payload capacity is going to alter the future In many ways
What amazed me is how often I thought the feed had stalled but it was actually live, it just was so stable.
@@Ryan-mq2mi It may well be impossible -- great job sabotaging your own case!
@@GarrickHolmed It hasn't landed at all yet.
Madness, it's insane!
Badass! The cheers from crowd and team were awesome!
This is really HISTORIC ❤❤❤❤❤
Bravo SpaceX! For all humanity✊🏼👏🏼🌎
great job
I cannot believe that the front flap still worked after this inferno! Incredible engineering on part of SpaceX. What a clairvoyant decision to go with steel alloy and not some aluminum.
Great work!
Thank you for Elon and his teams of incredible engineers
amazing!
👏 👏 👏 IT WAS MAJESTIC 👏 👏 👏
It is amazing to see the engineering teams progress through trial and error. It hurt my soul to see the media make fun of space x when a starship would explode. Why can’t they realize it is part of the process? They need those failures to perfect what they are working towards.
Well done SPACE X!!!!!!
So incredibly good
That sheer power!
Heck ya! Hopefully starship will be buffed 💪 up for the next go
i hope they recover both vehicles so they can get as much data as possible
There is no plan to do so -- all the data that can be gathered has been.
Space X leveling up again and again ❤
Right -- it's actually a video game.
INCREDIBLE
Mars here we come.
Unlucky that the ocean on Mars is already dry
@@tx9ju there's water on mars at the poles or one of the poles, maybe even underground, there's a whole ocean inside earth's core
@@tx9ju cry more hater
The fanboys are oblivious of Starship's intended role as a lunar ferry and imagine that the first load of colonists are leaving for Mars any day now. There's zero reason to believe that Starship will ever land on Mars, by the way.
@@rdbchase cry harder
Amazing job! Finally
Unfortunately I was totally caught off guard visiting south Padre. What an experience.🙌🏾
Why was there no cameras at sea so one coyld se the landings ?
exactly we never get to see the landings
Because the camera on the other Fin got melted
@@sciencepowerpointsit was at night and the ship was a tiny bit off course by just 6 miles so there likely isn’t any footage from the water at the ship
You can’t hate the one who thinks and works for humanity sustainability.
No I can, but I can still appreciate the scientific advancements his money finances. People can have more than just 1 emotion. :)
Elon needs to stay in his lane, and keep his conspiracy driven politics to himself
Musk definitely is not doing anything of the kind.
The true heroes are the welders who welded that fin.....
Congratulations😁😁
Great feat of humankind 🎉
Many rockets have already failed.
@@rdbchase None of rockets that "already failed" were brought back.
This is amazing an inspirational.
Congratulations to Elon and the whole spacex crew.
can someone explain to me why the boosters land in the ocean instead of land like previous flights?
This is a different rocket than Falcon 9. For starters it’s in development currently (these flights are to do that) and so they don’t want to risk hardware or endanger anyone by targeting a land landing
Secondly it doesn’t have legs and instead will be caught by the towers arms. They don’t want to risk losing the tower so they wanted to simulate a landing at sea first to demonstrate the capability
A recovered booster attempt will happen either next time or the time after depending on how it goes
Ship is still a while away from a landing on land
HISTORY!!! No wait THE FUTURE!!!!
this looks like movie. WOW!
MOVE HUMANITY FORWARD GUYS, with love!
Nice
amazing~It make a history and mericle
Amazing 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Go Starship!
This restores so much hope faith in me for our species.
this month, China landed a craft on the dark side of the moon for samples, NASA launch their star ship like star theatre in FLINT or our man FLINT, Musk completed all tasks of launch and landing, what a show involving the THREE RING CIRCUS of PT BARN UM... greatest show on earth...
Espetacular.
Boeing and Nasa days are over. The pace of space x is unbeatable.
incredible!
"One small step for man one big leap for mankind "
Space x is the future
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo
GO GO GO
So did it land? Bur land without exploding?
Yes
😮NO way to really adjust settings..Auto play can NOT be disabled
It's so cool
Whats that at 1:45???
U deaf?
@@Nasser-bp6qf temperory fix to help to reduce weight? any more details about that and what's the name of that device?
@@ZJProductionHKIt’s the Hot stage ring. This is a new method of staging both rockets. They have to remove it because it wasn’t integrated with the booster design so they have to separate it so the booster doesn’t have to carry extra weight and mess with its center of mass
People will now give example of true friendship by the 'Starship and it's fin'....
Great!!!
Elon musk is the man
this was the work of hundreds of extremely talented engineers and thousands of workers at Boca Chica and McGregor. Pinning this achievement on one guy is disingenuous and reeks of sycophantism
He should stay out of politics, and stick to space travel.
@@Hyperious_in_the_airu do know he is one of the lead engineers and is the mastermind behind this, it's like saying bill gates isn't responsible for windows 10/11, he might not be involved as much but the impact he made us incomparable
@@Hyperious_in_the_air Of course, Cameron James did not create Avatar all by himself.
The greatest!
"How hard can rocket science be anyway?"
They have a huge heat problem. I'm sure they can solve it.
So there was a camera just floating in the fire to film this
The camera was inset slightly into the ship and had some bulletproof glass in front to film it
Wow, SpaceX's Starship launch was incredible! 🌟 Thinking about starting to learn video editing to spread the word about their groundbreaking missions! #SpaceExploration #VideoSkills
Rock and Roll.
WOW!!!
Just a bit of buffing the paint and it will be ready again! /s
Wait... Did the booster topple over and what happend to the actual starship? Did it burn up? Did it crash into the ocean?
The booster landed in the water and when the engines shut down, it fell over into the water, as planned. The ship did the same thing. That was the plan all along for safety reasons. Once they are relatively sure they can land safely, they’ll try it on land at Starbase, Texas.
@@tammymccaslin4787 Wernt they testing the heat shield of the ship? It looked like the Ship was melting and burning, sounds like it didnt go to plan in that aspect? Wish they had a camera on the areas they landed, cudnt see much
@@kondjanegongo796 I don't know about the melt, but they intentionally didn't place 1-2 heatshield on ship so they can measure the max temperature during reentry and see what's going to happen to the vehicle. Maybe the melt is the result of some shielding falling of and the stainless could no longer suffer the temp
@@wizamaulana6362 Sheesh cant they just place sensors or a thermo camera to check the temps... seems an expensive way to do things.... BTW im new to the whole starship thing, whats the goal? Mars or the Moon?
@@kondjanegongo796 well, I'm not that deep to the technical aspect of the ship too 🤭, but I guess they try to collect as much data before they actually trying softlanding the ship to the ocean. They said that this test flight 4 main objective was safely landing the booster and it already accomplished. About the ship, they did make some adjusment by controling ship's fins so the vehicle doesn't spun out of control like test flight 3 during reentry. Doing that and some temp check but never really hoping that the ship will even survive the reentry.
About starship program, spacex goal is to reach mars with using fully reusable rocket so that the spacecraft can be reused and launched at more rapid cadence. But for now, starship is under artemis program as a lunar lander so that astronout can transfered from moon orbiting artemis spacecraft to starship then landing on moon. When the mission is finished they can transfered again to artemis spacecraft on moon orbit and made a safely return to earth
actually sick
super 🎉
So where the f is the distance view?
Starship splashed down out in the middle of the Indian Ocean. where it was night A lot of factors make it very difficult to be precisely where reentry is supposed to be in order to actually get decent footage of it. You’d have to be within a few miles at best to have a chance of spotting it. be smart
@@charlesyaryan6619 got it so the exact landing location is not planned at this test right
@@gofnek18484they landed the ship within i think 6 miles of the targeted coordinates
@@gofnek18484 Just for the Indian ocean somewhere basically. a small landing location but EXACT location for a film of landing not so much yet
I'm sure there's probably a reason for it...but I always wondered why they don't launch from a tube or have a bowl around the launchpad? Seeing the blast off,all the exhaust expanding outward...it seems not containing that would amount to losing quite a bit of thrust?
Do you have any idea of just how hot rocket exhaust is? There's a good reason nobody does it...the bird would explode!
@rickkolesar9163 I imagine it's not any hotter than reentry? Which wouldn't have fuel...but Icbm's are tube launched
@rickkolesar9163 there are missile silos here,there and everywhere. I would think they could utilize it? Same principle as a firearm....the energy behind the projectile
The “exhaust” you see is actually mostly water vapor, which is how SpaceX dissipates all the force, energy, and sound (those things are one in the same). To build a structure enclosing the engines would reflect all that energy and heat back at the ship, or create massive debris if it doesn’t hold.
@@pastorofmuppets22a rocket doesn’t work like a bullet. Bullets use the pressure of the gasses behind them to propel them forward. Rockets, on the other hand, use Newton’s third law by expelling gasses at extreme speed behind it so it gets pushed up. Essentially, bullets use pressure while rockets use gas flow speed. That’s why rocket engines are bell shaped; it reduces the pressure and turns it into speed. That’s why Starship and most other rockets are not tube launched. The ones that are (ICBMs) need them to protect them from the environment for decades on end.
it's cool that private enterprise can go step by step towards full development so they can try more ambitious projects. Govt agencies like NASA never have such a luxury, which is why humanity has been languishing for so long.....
Government thinks big. The plan obtusely and try to test everything on paper all the way before doing anything. Musk is different. He knows things will fail in ways we can never anticipate. Better to test and fail in real life. Because there is t this giant bureaucracy and giant infrastructure, each rocket costs a fraction of what a NASA rocket costs. So they can be agile in their testing,
Why no pictures or videos from spacex of retrieving the starship from the ocean then??? it seems so convenient that the camera 'breaks' just before it lands. Im sure they also had a barge nearby where it landed? why no videos fro mthat
No recovery of these vehicles. They were likely blown up using the FTS in order to sink them and not have a pressurized, floating tube with a little rocket fuel still inside.
They had no intention of recovering Starship from the Indian Ocean.
The fin that could
looks fkin unreal and cool
because it is unreal
@@sciencepowerpoints no it is sorry to tell you.
No video of it successfully landing. I want to see it land on the pad video. Super heavyweight.l? 😅 it’s not the strongest nor the fastest rocket.
It is the most powerful rocket. It’s literally 2x as powerful as the Saturn-V. Also, how would you record a spacecraft coming in to land on the water at night with the entire ocean for 100 miles closed off so no ships and planes will potentially get hit by debris?
Another Happy Landing. ~Obi Wan Kenobi
Be nice if the astronaut could film the launch from Space
Where is the landing?
The camera lens was burnt so you couldn’t see much but you could see the engine light up and it land perfectly
Waiting for someone to say sike...The WSJ actually being neutral on Elon for once?!?! Who fired all the biased hacks?
Watch in 2x after 1x!
no coverage on cnn, msnbc, bbc. shocking
Imagine being a fish in the Indian Ocean, just minding your business, and suddenly some massive torch from the sky fries you into obliteration...
Didn't expect that when you woke up this morning, did you?
Musk must be put in jail for violating fish right!
Better than a fishnet or shark bite.