Another Tank Removed Ahead of Next Starship Launch | SpaceX Boca Chica
SpaceX ramps up efforts to clean up and refit the orbital launch site for Starship's fourth flight. GSE tanks were removed and scrapped and the OLM is getting upgrades and repairs to support the next mission.
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Timestamps:
0:00 GSEC-6 Scrapping
0:34 Ring Removed
0:45 Shell Lifted From Base
0:55 Shell Section Scrapped
1:11 GSEC-6 Cutting
1:20 Cut Segment Lifted
1:32 Crews Work on Tower 2 Segments
1:43 View of Ship 29's TPS
2:01 Crews Remove Black Bags
2:18 View of the Bays
2:28 Inner Tank GSEC Connected to Crane
2:42 GSE-7 Lifted
2:56 Booster Forward 14.1 Moved
3:07 Tank Scrapping Continues
3:17 Tank Separated and Lowered
3:27 Large Cryo Pipe Installed
3:39 OLM Work Continues
4:06 Work on the Tower Continues...
4:11 ...and the Chopsticks As Well
A condensed video today due to the latest events being focused on tank scrapping. If you want to watch hours of tank scrapping, nsf.live/starbase has you covered
Thanks for the update! I really appreciate all of the work all at NSF does to keep the community updated!
thank you Mary, Jack and the NSF team for sharing these updates.
Yes, I loved the fast paced format. Thanks!
🎶and another tank gone, and another tank gone, another tank bites the dust🎶
Points at remaining tank : Hey, I'm gonna get you too...
Stay safe for All the workers,be sure safety working ❤❤❤
AMEN 🌈🏆👍
Love the gratuitous use of slo-mo at the start - really gives a feel for the ferocity of what the guys are doing.
that was so awesome thank you
We are true Tank Watchers - we watched them being built, watched them being installed, and now watch them being scrapped!
They are like time capsules. The look of them remind of the Texas Tank Watchers days!
Thanks Mary🌷 , Jack , Sean and the NSF team. I love the close-up views.
I hope all the workers preparing ship 29 remember to put cover sheets on their TPS reports.
Wow, lots of hard work cutting up the tanks. Great job everyone. 😊
Imagine being the people who had to install all that reinforcement for the last flight. Only to be told they now have to scrap everything.
How much time would be lost if StarBase was just one shift. We would be years behind. Thank you Team SpaceX
Yeah!!! Love these updates!!!
Can't wait for v2, which hopefully will get closer to the initial goals in terms of launch cadence.
Starship V2 alongside Tower V2 should be the start of faster cadence. Fingers crossed.
Awesome job guys..😎😎😎
the amount of scrapping and rework (and work-in-process) is pretty stunning. still seeing 3 shifts up on lifts with safety harnesses this far along seems pretty crazy too. one would think stage 0 (or stage -1) would be farther along by now.
They only have results from 3 flights to adjust to. It will take many more before they settle on something that works the way they want.
Awesome work!!!
Great videos Mary, Jack, Sean, & NSF, Thank you!!!
Nice
Wake me up when a Starship or SH Booster gets a rollout to OLM.
0:16 ❤❤ ❤❤❤❤ 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 thank you
They sure do demo a lot of things they built not long ago.
How often does a truck filled with scrap leave Starbase? It looks like they're scrapping stuff every week.
You might even say every day. The cost of R&D.
Because the damn base it getting bigger and bigger need room lol tanks are easy to remove and cheap to build
Oh the times when we thought future GSE tanks would be just flightless Starships )
Dios mío con lo que habrá costado fabricar y colocar esos tanque la verdad es que yo siempre pensé que estaban muy cerca de la plataforma orbital en caso de accidente o explosión de una Starship como casi sucedió en el primer vuelo sufriendo daños estructurales en fin perdiendo se aprende que el proyecto siga adelante y vealos pronto el cuarto lanzamiento este es el camino
Does anyone know if ALL of the vertical GSE tanks (just the big ones) are being scrapped or will some of them still be used?
The Tanks closest to the OLM are GSE-3 (LOX) GSE-6 (LOX) Water (H2O) Methane (CH4) The Marcus House Team believe the LOX and Water tanks will stay as extra storage. The Tanks closest to the road are GSE-5 (LOX) GSE-1 (LN2) GSE-2 (LN2) GSE-7 (CH4) The CH4 tanks will go. Not sure about the Nitrogen tanks. Keep an eye on the next few days.
So does that mean we won't be hearing any other "Work continues on the orbital launch mount"?
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with those towers gone, whatever was hitting them before is going to fly past and take out something else
Except for IFT1 the things hitting them are shockwaves. They don't harm much that is not in their way.
The forever in need of repairs olm!
It still is part of the research and development. Every time they see a problem they try to fix it. Then new ones are found. Until they no longer can find any.
Noice.
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Why would they scrap a stainless steel tank
This is so insane 😅 To think we witnessed all of this being built from nothing and we have long reached the point where even big structures like the tanks or what we once considered the high bay are gone now 😂
Why have they scrapped the GSE inner tank, they could of used it as water storage for fire system. They will probably need to have some somewhere at buikd site for ship factory & office block?.
Yep, could have re-purposed it and put it next to the Fires Station.
Do they recycle their own metal?
I'm sure they do whatever makes the most financial sense. The day it's cheaper to make their own LOX they'll stop buying it.
i do wish there were a better way to heat shield the craft, that tiling seems enormously labour intensive. spray it on? i dunno.
They would have if it were possible - it's not. Large shields crack and cause large parts to be unprotected. Small tiles are labour intensive, but it is supposed to be done once (to be reused without too many problems). They also need to be cheap, easy to remove and that they can be mass-produced.
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Don't call it view of the bays. Call it "Valley of the Bays"
😊😊😊 Love UA 2024
short vid today
Why dont make a starship out of te heat tille material....
FIIR- oh wait, this isn't 2020 anymore
2:51 anyone else wish they just dropped the tank on the ground to scrap it?
Bye!
I had a girl fighting with me that torches were the wrong tool for the job. She wants a multi million dollar tool to cut the tanks instead.
Ms t
Why do they call this thing a 'Starship'? It's pathetic, barely gets off the planet surface.
This video made me realize NASA gets the very best no matter the cost, while Elon gets what works. Congress makes a show of talking about the annual budget but doesn't really care about it. How big is the deficit now?
I thought some of the GSE tanks had vermiculite between inner and outer shells. No? Or if so, where the heck did it go???