The Real Reason SpaceX Developed The Falcon Heavy Rocket!
The Real Reason SpaceX Developed The Falcon Heavy Rocket!
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I think I enjoy Falcon Heavy launches more than any other. It is a majestic spacecraft and the booster landings still look like science fiction.
Starship is its successor, so all's well.
Two minor corrections: 3:14 - Only the secondary payload was lost on that mission. The primary payload made it to the ISS successfully. 6:20 - The Merlin engine is named after the a type of falcon (Falco columbarius), which itself derives from Old French and is unrelated to the name of the legendary wizard.
Yep! All of SpaceX's booster engines are named after birds. Kestrel, Merlin, and Raptor. The only SpaceX engines that aren't are the Draco and SuperDraco hypergolic engines.
@@Fryguy101 until someone name some new discovered bird after those two 🤔🤣
Sigh, where do you think Merlins French name came from? Merlin is not his original name, his original name was Brythonic/Welsh - Merlin is the French version of the name. Courtesy of a bloke called Cretien du Troyes ?sp..
No need to sigh about it, we’re all learning and sharing here. It would probably be Chrétien.
@@Fryguy101 dracos are flying lizards. that sounds like an apt analogy.
I like this format. Lots of info on one subject letting the space geek community know everything they never knew to ask. Kind of a Simon whistler fell to it. Well done & thank you.
Totally agree!!
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Ol fact boy what a legend
I like this video. Really well researched and well written script with very nice graphics. Really nicely edited. Very enjoyable video. You do nice work!
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Imagine if they could connect a couple starship boosters together the same to lift a larger version of starship!!
Think you mean a larger version of falcon heavy. But just imagine over 45 MILLION pounds of thrust I don’t event want to know the capacity of that rocket. If space x fixes the launch pad breaking/ flame tunnel and the water suppression system I don’t even think that will be enough with 111 raptor engines roaring
Falcon uses Jet fuel. Starship uses methane. Much cleaner and cheaper.
Starship is much more complicated, imagining the stress management alone is giving me a headache. Not to mention the aerodynamics and designing a proper launchpad to handle that ungodly amount of thrust, and designing all that for reusability 😢. . . . Would be cool af tho.
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Tell me you don't understand rocket physics without telling me you don't understand rocket physics
Excellent report!! Keep the good work you guys We love watching your videos every time Greetings from Italy
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Hey, from Canada!! Just an idea for your channel. When you have clips from previous launches put text on the side or overlaid on the video showing the date of the launch. Might only be applicable to this video though. I might have missed it, but text would of helped!! Either way this channel is awesome and you gained a new subscriber! Thanks.
I was there for the inaugural launch in 2018. It was absolutely amazing being part of that crowd. I had no idea the Roadster was being launched which made it even more special.
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@JZ's BFF I still think it would have been cool if Elon had some primitive robotics in the suit and made Starman turn to look at the camera.
Love the video. My first The Space Race video. Well done.
Really love your work -- Thank you!
Really refreshing how the title was directly addressed and answered haha great video
Excellent overview! 😊
Rumor has it they were initially going to call Starship the Falcon Ultimate... except Elon wasn't allowed to have the letters FU painted on the rocket 🤣🤣🤣
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Great video! Thanks for making it!
Thank you for this detailed account of this marvelous piece of aerospace engineering
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The real reason for Falcon 9: income. The merlin piston engine in WWII also powered the P-51 Mustang.
I knew someone would make that post. I mean who cares, really. He was commenting on British aircraft and British engines. LOL
Can't wait to see what happens next!
Awesome content as always.
Great video, very informative. Thanks.
Informative Video, Clear Message. Increase the narrative volume, highlight key points on the screen.
Excellent stuff bro 💪
Thanks for all your hard work that you put into your reporting. Your reporting on the Falcon heavy was educational and hopefully will spark the imagination in some young mind to strive for the stars to land on the moon
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Championing Musk's ridiculous lies is not great education. It's fanboying.
yeah, the more young people on the moon the better t will be for all humanity
Wow!!! You gotta respect these guys. Awesome video
Thank you for the great report!
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Thank you for this video!!
I'm 38, I remember playing with toy Saturn V's and other things when I was little. Now I'm seeing this and it gives me hope, I just wish I could live until I saw us out there for good.
Thank you for giving us the history and evolution of this amazingly reliable workhorse of a rocket
I love this video - great job! One thing, we keep saying we could have saved money and could have done missions already if we had not produced Artemis. But then what if Falcon Heavy had been a failure? No one could have predicted that - so now we have Falcon Heavy and Artemis. Very smart way to go...
The editing is nice!
Good job! Keep on spacen'.
Nice vid! 👍🏻 That voicecrack tho haha 11:49
The future is going to be exciting for sure!
Great video. Pretty sure the Merlin engine is named after the bird though, not the Wizard. Kestrel -> Merlin -> Raptor, all birds.
All birds of prey that is!
9:41 put another way, the cost of a Delta IV heavy is comparable to the cost to launch the space shuttle, minus refurbishment and payload costs
minus refurbishment and payload costs!! Then it's not comparable is it.🤨
Great video
Good video, what is the background music that keeps playing during the video?
Another quality video. Educational and entertaining.
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Always nice to watch a video about space set to music from Mass Effect.
I'm curious why you didn't discuss the fuel crossfeed that they were trying to use on Falcon Heavy.
excellent! i enjoyed this episode. go spacex! pisses me off that spacex didnt get to use falcon heavy to put us on the moon.
It was meant to carry only cargo.
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Starship is not flying yet - so I think Falcon Heavy may be a plan B
Loved it ❤
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i thought the merlin engine's name sake was the bird? because there's a theme there: kestrel and raptor also reference birds.
Manipulations and deceptions for the ignorant and the naive. Electrogravitic propulsion is easier, simpler and much less expensive than this, but that will rather make it possible for anyone to do therefore enabling you see what they have hidden from you for thousands of years. Don't believe this. It's for your attention and you're making them succeed.
A horizontal lift ship is what is needed for the next stage of space travel. A platform that can deliver a ship from Denver to the upper atmosphere on a regular and weekly or even daily schedule. Horizontal take off and landing until man learns how to turn off gravity.
learned alot today about FH and look forward to more..
Great as usual! Yes why dont they fly more FH and why cant it take bigger loads? I mean the fairing is the same as for the Falcon nine..
it because more weights mean more fuel which is meaning more weight it needs to be carryout at the first place, resulting a circle of equations, More payload = More Bigger = More engine to accommodate thurst power = More fuel consumption = More bigger size of rockets to accommodate more fuel = More thurst needed = more structural integrity = more materials needed, etc until you find out dismissing point of retrun, where is adding more engine aren't matter because it has reached maximum limit capacity
We may find that the falcon heavy will still be needed when there is no heavier loads going to space or there are time constraints for a particular load.
"not enough power, just add more boosters"- KSP Player
*Scott Manley
Mandela effect: Does anyone else remember that the center booster failed to land on both the 1st and 2nd flights? Not just the 1st?
Just you
Stoned and forgetful effect.
No. You are from another timeline.
Thank you for giving the Real Reason. 👌🏿
Best channel ever!
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With all the old bridges and ocean drilling rigs in need of replacement, seems like a floating island/factory would be a cheap workable prototype to launch, land, and refurbish at sea.
That’s the first space launch that made me find out about space x and got me intrested in wanting to go to mars.
As a S.F. lover, seeing those two engines land... to me future and reality merged, and I cried (happy teers)
0:12 yeah but at the time of it's first launch it was the most powerful OPERATIVE rocket, at least until the SLS launch
Concerning starship landing, people talk about it like: "They failed to fly and land it" Until it success first flight: "Humanity now has..."
The first law of aerospace: Everything takes longer and costs more - attributed to Arthur C. Clark (iifc)
the side boosters need to move upwards and connected just below the top of the structure, connected with 90 degree bends to the main structure - the tradition of using thrust to push is the problem - balancing a pencil needs not to be from below - apply thrust to pull. do you carry a briefcase by the base , balancing it on your hand, or by the handle?
Great video and summary of FH. I think Starship will be much more difficult and take far longer to become operational than expected. If FH was human rated it could carryout the Moon missions. In expendable form it can carry enough payload for us to regularise transfers to the Moon much cheaper than Artemis, using the Dynetics lander.
Manipulations and deceptions for the ignorant and the naive. Electrogravitic propulsion is easier, simpler and much less expensive than this, but that will rather make it possible for anyone to do therefore enabling you see what they have hidden from you for thousands of years. Don't believe this. It's for your attention and you're making them succeed.
I really look forward to how things will progress over my lifetime. Even if it takes another 10 years to have the ability to more easily transfer to the moon, then within my lifetime ill see some incredible things happen, possibly space mining colonies towards the end of my life
I can’t wait to see a falcon, super heavy heavy. You strap three falcon, nine rocket together to get a falcon heavy Used app, three superheavy booster is to get a super heavy heavy booster 33. Raptor two engines by three. Let’s go !!!
Good video...
Great video as always. Please look up the difference between the words drastically and dramatically. One word has negative connotations, the other is a positive word. I think you'll understand where you need to make that change. "The launch cadence is about to increase "dramatically"".
I was born 6 days before Neil Armstrong landed on the moon , I watched the challenger blow up in high school. Now? I am blown away by SpaceX . I’ve always been a space cadet 🤣. GO ELON✊😎.
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@thespacerace The merlin engine is named after the merlin falcon, not the wizard.
Could you imagine a superheavy version of this?
that would be psycho!
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It’s the returning 2 booster s landing together and the launch of that 🚗 car.
Great video and info ! Buck Rogers launched on SSTO reusable rockets to space in the reruns of the 50's and 60's ! Vision 2 of 5 is a strong launch industries to LEO of Capsules and Spaceplanes ! This strong Commercial Launch Industry will support the Commercial Space Station (CSS) in LEO... The same orbit that Apollo used to launch to the moon from LEO ! The commercial space industry can launch to space for less cost and do it safer than NASA ! Back to the moon to stay and onto Mars and beyond-Ad Astra... tjl T. Lipinski P.S. Does NASA have the Vision, the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) ?
Hey, the North American P-51 Mustang and P-82 Twin Mustang all used the Rolls-Royce Merlin V-1650 engines as well. Albeit they were built under license for Rolls-Royce by Packard Motor Car Co, these engines barked just as hard as the ones built over the pond. The P-82 Twin Mustang was North Americans answer to Kelly Johnsons P-38 Lightning as a long range Escort Fighter for the Heavy Bombers. At 11:04 you've stated the 2nd launch of FH had a successful landing of the Center Core on a Drone Ship, I'm STILL looking for that video ? ? As far as I know, there have been no successful Center Core recoveries, prove me wrong, I'd Luv to see the vid. All that said, Thx for the Falcon Heavy summation, learnt a few things here.
Arabsat-6A recovered only side boosters, not centre core. Centre core HAS landed, but while recovery to the coast, it flipped over and crashed.
Strap 3x SH booster togetherness for a starship heavy. Lets go!
That's putting the cart before the horse! 😂. Space X needs to get this single version to work or nothing happens!
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 it doesn’t hurt to have ambitions
I wonder if the payload can house an insanely safe super compressed fuel tank for orbit refueling
Imagine three Space X Starships strapped together like the Falcon Heavy. I wonder how much this could put up.
The way things are going (or not) with Starship, I suspect the FH has a much longer life than Musk expected. It does, after all, have the huge advantage that it works, and it doesn't destroy its launch pad. It's also human-rated, which the Starship never will be.
I'd it? Just because falcon 9 is doesn't mean FH is
Some people lack vision and can only see the negative results of the first launch of starship as a sign of what the future holds. Go back and look at the history rocket development and you'll find numerous rockets that blew up on the launch pad including the Falcon 9 in 2016 as noted on this video. Falcon 9 went on to become the most reliable rocket flying today.
Leaving this here so I can come harass you when it is human rated within the next decade.
@@Jake1702 within the next DECADE? Nothing like playing it safe...
Can you imagine the G's on boostback! Good grief what an accomplishment
"Rapid unscheduled disassembly." lolol
merlin is named after the bird, a type of bird of pray like raptor, falcon etc.
The R/R engine was also called "Merlin", and Elon is known to be an early aviation history buff, so he would certainly be aware of both meanings.
@@taiwanjohnyou mean "aware if the meaning of both"? I find affixing the suffix "s" to words already conjugated with the suffix "ing" is pure mouth-breather mentak retardation due to misding sense of syntax. Would you also type "bikings" ie. "The bikings I go on are all offroad" of would you have done sense in realizing the "s" is your rendering a degenerate double conjugation? What next, rapings, killings, joustings, castings, blastings, fistings, stingings, ringings, drawings, workings, lashings, snatchings?... What other phonetically retarded misuse of the suffix "s" will you mouth-breathers make next?
Merlin is also a kind o falcon, the name way the starship Raptor is named after the bird of pray instead of the dinosaur.
I saw this rocket in beta wave one score years ago.
I see a heavy light in the future. A falcon with the starships engines.
I agree, just updating a few points with Starship tech could be phenomenal for missions that don't need as much payload as a full starship. Same goes for the Falcon 9
@JZ's BFF One test flight before planned upgrades to stage 0 is hardly a rational critique of starship.
The British merlin also powered the the American mustang. The original American engine wasnt any good so had to rely on The British engine to make the plane any good at the task in hand. Amazing to think how it wouldn’t hold legend status without it
Dreams are nice, reality is a different story.
i believe the very first rocket ever built was the coolest rocket ever built, as it had never been seen before.
Good❤
Why they did not put 4 boosters all around a rocket? Don’t see why would it work if 2 worked just fine and came back no problem?
Diminishing returns. Try it in KSP.
If make rockets in my local Thailand that very cool. My country will have starbase coming soon at south.
Just imagine a Starship super heavy!
Ekons design is great !!!
Starship Heavy with +100 engines = nut
You're only off by a factor of two and half. 33 raptors on the booster and 6 on the second stage.
It's kind of sad to me that all the Boosters of the next Falcon heavy launch will be expended... We won't see the glorious double falcon landing 😢
I wood add that BELLY FLOP of Starship is quite awesome
"It didn't explode; it just blew up into myriad of little pieces." Hahah!
so it is not just an airhockey table in vacuum? hmm...
Even in full send the Falcon Heavy can't put Orion out to lunar orbit, and crewed dragon cannot survive reentry from lunar orbit.
13:37, WHY????? Why perpetuate the Hollywood myth that asteroid belts are so crowded when the reality is the exact opposite? LOL. All in all your videos are excellent, love your work, informative, interesting and entertaining, out of all of your videos this is the only thing I can complain about, all that it needed was the Millennium Falcon being chased by a few Tie fighters through it, 😂. Looking forward to your next instalment.
I mean thats technically accurate, its just the matter of expose of the camera and the eyes. If you take an hdri image of space thats what it should look like
Manipulations and deceptions for the ignorant and the naive. Electrogravitic propulsion is easier, simpler and much less expensive than this, but that will rather make it possible for anyone to do therefore enabling you see what they have hidden from you for thousands of years. Don't believe this. It's for your attention and you're making them succeed.
I think the idea that Starship will ever be cleared by NASA to launch astronauts from the surface of the Earth is never going to happen. Who wants the crew to launch INSIDE THE SECOND STAGE OF THE ROCKET with the fuel tanks, with no launch escape system? Been there. Didn't turn out too well every 1 in 200 chances. So a case could be made to keep Falcon Heavy in service and retire the SLS instead once Starship is fully operational and relatively reliable, and use FH to launch Orion capsules from Earth to rendezvous with Starship in Earth orbit.
.....and this will bring us to Ares V + Ares I, just 2-3 decade later.
I think the Starship booster 12 meter wide, heavy. 3 heavy boosters with a new part to the iss will be the biggest... before the new spaceship heavy in the future....
Manipulations and deceptions for the ignorant and the naive. Electrogravitic propulsion is easier, simpler and much less expensive than this, but that will rather make it possible for anyone to do therefore enabling you see what they have hidden from you for thousands of years. Don't believe this. It's for your attention and you're making them succeed.
Fantastic!!!
Aluminum?
What if they did the same thing with the big one 🤯
Before people start to go off to mars. Since people will risk their lives for 7 months or 45 days on the journey towards mars the shuttle should be tested for 7 months or 45 days near earth around the orbit and then land back down to earth to see what would go wrong if this was the real journey. I know there are more talented people then me yet I'm just saying because it just came to my mind like that that's why. I'm a space lover too, my passion is astrophotography and starts planets black holes, white holes pulsars nabulae clusters superclusters giants super giants laniakea and many more. I read a lot of things too about astronomy. I knew about jwst when I was very young but at that time jwst was on earth being builtI wanted to be an Astronomer but due to some issues I was unable to become what I wanted. Anyways it's a great video.