Booster QD Cover Reinstalled, GSE Tested | SpaceX Boca Chica
The rear cover for the BQD's propellant lines was reinstalled, the detonation suppression system and chopsticks were tested, and Booster 13 rolled to Massey's for proof testing.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Booster 11’s Hot Staging Ring
0:20 Booster Thrust Simulator
0:29 The Rocket Garden
0:38 Drive by the Production Site
1:01 Starfactory Glass Installation
1:11 Booster 13 in the Mega Bay
1:19 Booster QD Rear Cover Reinstalled
1:59 Crews on the Chopsticks
2:09 Ground Work for the Second Pad
2:23 Chopstick and DSS Testing
2:38 Booster 13 Rolls to Massey’s
3:11 Booster 13 Arrives at Massey’s
3:29 Bumper Installed on the Chopsticks
3:37 Booster 13 at Massey’s
3:44 Test Stand at Massey’s
3:54 Parking Garage Assembly
4:13 The Launch Site
4:20 Chopstick Speed Upgrade Testing
Can’t wait for Integrated Flight 4!!! Go SpaceX! 🚀
Man that chopstick moved quick! Excited to see it used to catch a booster in the future.
the sway at the end tho💀💀
Was that real time or sped up?
That seemed pretty slow
@@Barthhhelona10 seconds of booster hover time seems reasonable.
Another great SpaceX Boca Chica Update, Thank you Mary, Jack, Sean, & NSF!!!!
Thanks Mary 🌺 , Jack and Sean . The closeups are awesome.
We need another 360 VR drive by!
Wow it all looks so strong & clean. Will look amazing when it’s all finished
Great team and loving the spiny time lapses by Sean!
Good job Team NSF, brilliant footage as usual. You make it look easy, we know it is a lot of work. It is Mary, Jack and Sean that are responsible for the 1miloin subs, producing this content every week. It is hard earned. Yes yes, we know Adrian, Ryan, Kevin, Alex create and edit the scripts...... It is a team effort. But Jack is the master...lol...
Star factory is coming along really nicely
Love seeing people on the chopsticks for scale.
wow that chopstick was fast! i just hope that the swinging after it stopped moving is not an issue
the video is sped up you know that right?
@@Alwayslifted No, its not! That was real-time footage from 6:09 CDT yesterday
@@Alwayslifted It says it's real time, are you illiterate?
Nice kite shot! Drones are a no no, but nobody said anything about flying a kite at the beach, a plenty normal thing to do. How big was it to handle a camera payload?
The whole place looks like a Terminator set.
Nice curtain wall glass
Yo that's star factory is freaking huge I had no clue it was that big
So many welding rods!
Glass on Starfactory❤
Finally, faster chopsticks. I think they might need to be even quicker though.
They still look way too slow to line up with a wandering booster.
Good luck ❤❤
thanks #TeamNSF!
Thanks!
interesting, as always
that lens tho 2:53 to 3:03
I didnt think the chopstick was particularly quick
office building means local employment, so there must be residential projects going on as well, like condominium or multifamily houses. You may want to take a look at them.
That's the kinda speed the chopsticks are going to need to snag Booster 12 on IFT-5!
The chopsticks don't need to do much snagging. All they need are to narrow the gap a little bit. The booster does the main work of landing.
The hot stage will be integrate in the booster, I suppose. Next version, maybe?
4:14 Camera on a bird?
Lets just hope that no mishap investigation will happen on ift 4
It will not matter much since SpaceX does one of their own anyway.
@@knowledgeisgood9645 If everything goes perfect, then the investigation won't take very long.
@@bryanillenberg They will investigate no matter the result. It is an integral part of the R&D.
@@knowledgeisgood9645 Yes, they will investigate. But it won't take as long as it would have if something did go wrong.
@@bryanillenberg Hopefully not.
Put some damn landing legs on it that catch system is a horrible idea
I think they will stick to their own ideas.
The catch system has a higher margin of error, so it's more reliable.
Who knows... It may be a terrible idea or it may be a great idea. Hard to know until you've tested it. SpaceX aren't afraid to try outlandish new things, and they're also not afraid to admit it doesn't work and move on to something else.
So the Duck tape didn't hold
Second tower Better Be Catch only Or I'll be disappointed with their "Genius?"
I think they can live with your disappointment.
Catch towers have been disproven. Stop liquifying the horse. It's been dead for years.
Sounds as sensible as a computer keyboard that only has the last 13 letters of the alphabet.
A catch tower has been confirmed as "never going to happen". Stop beating the dead horse
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