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SpaceX has revolutionized the space industry over the last 20 years, and with Starship development ramping up, things are about to get even more incredible. But many people don’t know about SpaceX's testing facility in McGregor and how it played a key role in getting the company to where it is now. This video answers the question "What is the McGregor Testing Facility?" and looks at the history of this site and how SpaceX is continuing to expand it.
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00:00 SpaceX's 80 Year Old Factory
00:49 The Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant
04:00 What Happened to Beal Aerospace?
04:40 SpaceX Expansion at McGregor Testing Facility
05:15 What Happened to the Grasshopper Rocket?
06:23 What Happens at the McGregor Test Facility?
07:35 McGregor Engine Testing (SpaceX)
10:35 Raptor Testing in McGregor Texas
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Some history and detail that I didn't know; really an excellent video!
Agreed!
A *very* informative video. Many thanks.
Elon wants to be a BIGGER Fraus than Einstien...
Extremely honored to be a part of the team that made those livestream cameras come to fruition. McGregor deserves so much love.
Love the detail to the history at mcgregor and rocket history! not another clickbait video farming money. Thanks Primal Space!
It IS clickbait! SpaceX's Engine Explosion Factory, not one single explosion...
@@cayenne7792 If you've followed mcgregor testing at all, you would know how many engines spacex has blown up in the past few weeks even! its in the double digits.
Nice video! Extra credit for including the history about F1's combustion instability & testing around that. People absolutely lose their minds when SpaceX intentionally blows up an engine, even a lot of spaceflight fans. People need to learn you can't innovate if you don't test the limits.
You've got such a great narrating voice! Thanks for producing this high quality content! It blows my mind the stuff people like you are able to make on youtube for free. Its on the same level as discovery channel shows in the mid 2000's with massive budgets. I hope you keep making great videos like this for everyone to enjoy! Thanks for sharing!
Good to know the backstory of the site so well presented and seeing how far it has come esp with SpaceX. Got to admire Elon and his teams for what they have achieved and the excitement of Starship.
I saw SpaceX Rockets in the 1950s then NASA lost all the technology, Dumb and Dumber
@@GeorgeHawirkoStyroHome You mean when Elon Musk sent aliens to the north pole?
Explosion Factory - I like that. Great history and information, Primal Space. Thank you!
GREAT VIDEO!!! Love the historical aspect given. I for one did not realize SpaceX started in the 2010s.
SpaceX was founded in 2002.
Space X was an idea to defraud you ad NASA...
5:54 “after scaring away a few cow’s” IMAO
Absolutely enjoyed this video. I follow multiple platforms that cover the progress of spacex and I was sceptical before I started watching this. But it was so informative and well layed out that its left me blown away. Amazing. Thankyou
Great history & detail!!
Very cool! Thank you! 😊
danggg I didn’t know there have been uses before SpaceX, nice video!
Great video on the history of the McGregor test site. It was a good little history lesson. That being said, the "fine art market" is nothing more than a way for rich people to launder and or hide money. Great works of art should be praised for the artistry and not how much they are worth. Masterworks is nothing but a scam. Do better and get more reputable sponsors.
How dare you! Hunter Biden's artwork belongs in the pantheon of the world's greatest artists.
@@waynzignordics and you need a lobotomy.
LOVE your videos!!!!! 👍🏽
Nice content... No content repeated just to increase length of documentary video
Suggesting possible 30% returns is a big alarm bell. Smells like dirty money from that sponsor.
💯 _Especially_ after what ended up happening around the world. A good investment firm would have seen that coming a mile away.
It says possible . That’s not a promise.
VERY revealing and interesting. Worth the time.
Great job guys, 👍👍👍💯
This was a super cool video. Thank you for making this!
thank you for this video
6:16 - I was confused for a moment there, but of course you are are right - 9 on the first stage and 1 on the upper.
Thank you, lovely video
Fabulous video!
Will spread the word on your site. Thank you.
Wow very beautiful, interesting and informative clip of a impressive and important detail of SpaceX I didn’t knew.
so good! liked n subscribed
I live 20 miles west of the McGregor facility. My house practically rattles when they test motors at SpaceX. Not complaining. I think it's pretty amazing. 🙂
Watching on my infinix HOT 20S 8GB 128GB 120Hz Screen Refresh Rate 1080p
Wow what a great video about this vital facility making the awesome Raptor-2 rocket engines!!
i really like your spacex vids it's different from the other spacex content creators.
Outstanding, thank you! I love that you put so much time and research into your vids.
Awesome content! I’ll be back for more that’s for sure!
I work here as a chef and didn’t know about the history prior to spaceX. Super badass since photos and videos aren’t allowed on site
Great video!
Got to be said, I'm pretty clue on Boca and KSC. Didn't realise there was so much going on at McGregor! Thanks for the Info... Good Video!.
Good video. Thank you
Absolutely LOVE SPACE X❤
Nice to finally know what McGregor is, a name that I've heard so many times :)
Thank you. 😊
awesome
Good content. You guys have just earned a tentative "subscribe".
wowwwww a pretty nice video, thank you!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it!
That was awesome
underrated
What’s the soundtrack of the second half of the video? Some post-rock music
That is a very southern McGregor. Need to go further North West. McGregor is part of "Central Texas"
Good video. I intend to drop by McGregor sometime. I assume the town is used to tourists now.
Nice
BRAVO BON TRAVAIL !!! 😉
they could start selling those to drive private space vehicles development, would be cool to see what different designs other people would come up with having this power plant, space planes, rockets, liftbody, maybe something else, maybe something new.
SpaceX can not make enough of these engines for their own needs and won't for many years if ever. They are not going to sell them to anyone else.
Nice one.
It's amazing what raptor 2 can do while also being significantly less complicated than raptor 1
Awsome!
Before they took over MacGregor, SpaceX tested the gas generator for Merlin in Mojave on our mobile test stand at XCOR Aerospace. One GG test exactly twenty years ago today- on Nov 11 2002- made a huge cloud of black smoke while the local jet pilots were doing a missing man formation for a veteran's day ceremony at the Mojave cemetery. This caused considerable distress and confusion as some people thought one of the planes had crashed. Yes, it made THAT much black smoke. Cal EPA also got involved when the plume was blown across their air monitoring equipment and we had to provide more documentation, but fortunately no fines were imposed.
Earlier, the site was used as a testing facility for war... now it is used as a symbol of peace and tranquility
Please never do ads in the middle of the video anymore.. totally broke my concentration and interest
Couldn't wait for the Mars mission.
nice
This is the shit! Subscription earned!
Did any of the Beal Aerospace Staff end up working for SpaceX?
I visited there in mid-2021 and flew my drone outside their property boundary. Sadly, I didn't see a live test.
Space is cool
SpaceX is certainly doing a lot of testing, always finding new and bizarre ways for things to fail so they can be fixed.
Haven't read through the comments. But in case no one pointed it out, there are only 9 engines on F9. Not 10. Other than that, this was an awesome video!
there are 9 engines on the first stage, and 1 on the second stage so 10 in total.
If they started developing rotating detonation engine, now that would be a fitting job for mcgregor.
Really disappointed with the choice of sponsor here, those things are scammy as hell. Great video otherwise
Beal Aeroscpace? C'mon guys. 4m10s into the video there's a typo.
Oh hey, it's Hercules Inc. again. From Grey's video.
What's a Killogram?.
gotta giggle at "....one of the only ones..."
9:05 and tell me that doesn't look like the doozers from Fragle Rock!
The Falcon 9 has 9 engines, not 10.
It has 9+1.
9 on first stage, 1 on upper stage.
@@cory6294 Oh. Yeah. Forgot about the upper stage. Seems they should have called it Falcon 10. Thanks.
@@peterfireflylund Got it. Forgot about the upper stage.
I almost made the same mistake but after giving it some thought I realized I was wrong. You forgot the one in the chamber. 😆
firing is common in every factory that was build in that place
I flew high power rockets in the late 1990's
Tell me more about the space minus X
Surprised they haven't developed aerospike engines.
This is incredible. Can you believe that Elon Musk, with the help of his employees, are doing this? He's a silly internet meme man on his off-time and he does THIS the rest of the time. It doesn't matter what you think of the man's character. I'm no fanboy. It's just indisputable fact that this is incredible! It's a marvellous display of the free market (and pragmatic utilisation of government subsidies - if it's given, it is taken) at work.
METRIC !!!!
Advertising a finamcial product needs a lot more warnings about ponsy schemes and risk of finamcial losses. Otherwise do not do them.
I realize that I gave a local news station permission to use my home videos, but you could have cut out my name.
5:55 I don't suppose they produce a lot of milk in that area.
During the time that the Saturn V rocket was being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, dishes would dance on kitchen shelves and building windows would vibrate but I cannot remember anyone in Huntsville complaining. We understood we were an important part of the NASA program to land astronauts on the Moon - and was proud of the fact. It was a very exciting time. The unanswered question is why was the perfected Saturn F-1 engine discontinued and all the plans destroyed? My guess is that it was purely a political move to ensure more jobs and votes from the Space Shuttle program. The Saturn V and its F-1 engines proved to be too perfect in every way. They gave us the ability to build a Moon colony and go to Mars. Our politicians did NOT want us to do that - regardless of what the public wanted. Congress does NOT care about the space program. It cares ONLY about financial wealth and power for its members. Piss on all of them.
Okay but how the hell are they gonna balance production and testing and make sure tests wont cause issues with the production factory
Like wdym
@@archer1133 Vibrations fucking up machinery or machines having to start-stop production of Raptors during testing, stuff like that
@@planetsec9 No clue. I would assume it wouldn’t with such a frequent volume of engine tests
"Where Raptors explode" would be a very threatening sentence if taken out of context.
Please provide a citation for your claim that it is common to test rocket engines to failure as part of the development process.
Calling McGregor a "quiet" Texas town is rather hilarious. 😉
Wacoans can here Space-Ex testing the rocket engines from 20 miles away!
So, yea. if just the engine comes down safely: the frame can be abandoned; when clear of worm hole. Steel to aluminum would make sense in that case. - Station can use that clean material as useful scrap, in their void, no? Hard to guess if clear plastic rope: is going to pick up the twin's; lasers variations; roughly specing out the worm holes. {{{3 est}}}. { (fin the inside straight) } - reduce the spin.
👋👋👋 Hi
To many ads
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nasa
Earlyyyyyyy
It looks like the billionaire class is serious about flying to Mars to get away from the mess that they made here.
Misleading title
`Title doesn't do the content justice` is rare though
There are 9 engines on Falcon 9 (!) as opposed to 10
Falcon 9 has 10 Merlin engines. 9 on the first stage and one on the second.
A factory that makes 80 year olds. But why do you make us so frail?
牛逼！
I am first YAY!
Texas, where the hillbilly’s test powerful rockets
as if they would care about a 10k fine lol
They don't. But they do care about being good neighbors.