Firing Up the Next Prototypes + Elon Updates | SpaceX Starbase Update
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This week in Starbase Update, we see an Elon presentation, where he updates on many things coming down the line for Starship. Furthermore, we see more vehicles getting ready, and of course, a 33-engine static fire of Booster 11.
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What can I say, other than what I've said many times before, "Jack, you are NASAspaceflight's most invigorating and exciting host for Starbase news". Keep these great updates coming... Thank you!
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We need a “work continues on the olm” shirt
I second that. And a “work continues on the Starfactory” shirt, too.
NSF update in April 2043 be like: "This month SpaceX landed another HLS at Moonbase alpha, performed eight Starlink V5 launches and nineteen tanker launches to depots in preparation for the upcoming Mars transfer window, and work continues on the OLM"
Booster 11: Rolls out, static fires, rolls back. Absolute Booster.🗿🗿
Doesn't elaborate, rolls back
Love seeing how far NSF has come and to have been on this hopper to ship journey with you guys. Great job Jack and the whole team!
A near 20 minute Starbase update is rare, so you know its gonna be good!
Oh yeah! 😎
B11 static firing test: 33 engines, 50% throttle (estimated), LOX tank 100% filled, LCH4 tank ~20% filled (estimated), 8 sec testing duration. Engine thrust 4125t (metric tons). B11 wet mass at T=0 sec (engine start): 4029t. Upward force on the engine hold down clamps at T=0: 96t. Upward force on the engine hold down clamps at T+8 sec (end of test): 188t. Ocean platforms: When the two oil drilling platforms were sold last year, SpaceX indicated that an improved platform design for Starship had been created.
We should start calling the version 3 Starship "the limousine model"
Yay, more comprehensive Starbase coverage! Always good to see fire from Boca.
Nobody does it as good as Jack! Another great update!
4:44 is THE BEST part of this video 😄
Cant wait for the next launch of starship!!
Jack, you are the ultimate contentmeister. Thank you for these information packed presentations.
I would thank the team too. Jack has help doing these videos.
I dont write the script i just yell the words at the camera! Still, thanks
Thanks Jack, your enthusiasm helps propel these updates to the top of the pile of KZhead coverage of space news. Good work!
B14 is so cleeeaaan!!
Perhaps they need to be using a tile vibration tool to set the tiles in the adhesive. These are used by the guys who tile your shower to remove air pockets from behind the tile.
Yay a Jack update. Thanks NSF team, lots of great information in this video.
Attempting a catch this early seems insane, I have a lot of faith in SpaceX but I am a bit skeptical of the precision involved in this maneuver. Just hope the tower isn't destroyed.
morning jack nothing can eclipse your show
Wow another amazing update from jack cant wait for starship versions 2 and 3 now
Love your updates Jack. Always so high-energy and full of info!
Rolling a super heavy booster out to the test site, testing it and rolling it back in a week, will seem long next year.
Great SBU Jack, & NSF, Thank you!!!
Thanks Jack! You are excellent!
Thank you for the update.
Taller ship is to accommodate fuel for 3 more vacuum engines
You the Man Jack 👍🚀 Godspeed SpaceX 🤓🚀🪐
Very Cool Dude! Rite On ! Dig it.
More exciting times ahead at Starbase. Going to be very interesting to see all these changes to Starship and Super Heavy Booster come to fruition as well as how long it will actually take. Go SpaceX. Go NSF. Thank you for keeping us informed.
Thank you for the video Jack. I look forward to ***YOUR*** updates particularly. Peaceful Skies.
UR DA BEST updates presenter. Thanks!
Amazing video as always!
The ratios of payload to orbit to propellant load is important. That determines how many propellant loads to orbit they need.
Fantastic update and must have been difficult to do with so much new stuff coming through at the time of filming 👍
Great video! Still pinch myself to be a part these amazing things!
Loved video and u r great
Need more of these videos
So exciting. What a time to be alive
I can't wait to see the telescopes and other types of payloads that starship can put into orbit.
They have a complete space station booked for 2028
Jack and NSF, y'all rock! Peace
thank you!
thank you jack
Díky!
Will high bay be tall enough to accomodate Starship V3?
Congrats on 1 million subs!
🍻 Jack once again 👍
All I have to say is even Space X is using Milwaukee tools, love to see it
Amazing 🎉🎉
Elon's presentation was like listening to a sci-fi audio book but you know it's real. He even mentioned the Fermi Paradox!
He has talked about that subject on numerous times before. He has always been a sci-fi buff. (As many here are btw.)
Actually, the removal of the OLM might be a good idea if you are going to use that towr to attempt a first catch of a booster or ship in that location. With the OLM being absent, you risk less damage to existing infra when it doesn't go according to plan...
Free idea for Novium: it BEGS to make it a Falcon 9 or Starship edition!
Pull a wolfram net around Starship to hold heat tiles in place.
I think the development section was just a test piece for rolling assembly line easy to use one small section multiple times. But it would be interesting to see so much condensed to one area and a great thought
Jack so funy and entusiastic🎉
"...Flight !!!!!7!!!!! wouldn't take place until at least October..." Would be a crazy sentence to say in 2020 about Starship-launches in two years...
Jack is the man.
nobody has mentioned the visual difference of the hot staging ring in the renders for the future versions hhmmmm!
lol this speech is possibly the most controversial event concerning starship that has ever happened since the beginning of starship development, my X feed has been going absolutely nuts
Wait till speech when there will be speech before or after first catch attempt. Haters and fans will go nuts. I still hear from haters how IFT are expensive, wasteful, and SpaceX is just wasting taxpayer money. Not one of those accusations are true, and to debunk it need whole 5 minutes of googling 😂😂😂
This excitable live sports type commentary is a total putoff.
Jack, just like you, left handed people rule esp with a novium pen in their hand lol
What an update
Love the video and where can I get that awesome shirt?!!
The nose cone tiles won't stick better unless they break clean the surface before application or maybe compressed air could be sufficient. Let them know if they don't do it.
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Love the new intro vid
I could care less about the mail slot. I'll be interested in a real payload bay door for large payloads. Starlink starships seems like using a fire hose to water the flower pot. I hope they build V3. That is hilarious size wise, and probably what is actually needed to go to Mars.
Those mail slots are what will pay for the ships to Mars.
@@knowledgeisgood9645 Starlink is slated to have 12,000 sats. Half have already been launched. That's an important job for Starship, but it's vastly over qualified for that mission. They don't need SS for that role. A real payload deployment system is going to be much harder to do then a mail slot. So, that engineering problem is far more interesting then a mail slot.
@@hawkdsl well said. What's the point of having a huge capacity if you can't functionally use it?
I keep wondering why the pez dispenser door was designed to be horizontal instead of vertical. The fore has a series of disadvantages compared to the latter: • Thrust mainly being vertical, the door's horizontal dimension should be as short as possible for as lesser a disruption as possible in the thrust-stressed ship's skin • Many more aligned hinges can be laid out in a vertical than a horizontal door on a vertical-axis cylinder ship, thus reducing the torsional oscillations the door could be subjected to when not closed. • A door's horizontal or vertical orientation is also that of stowed satellites', and the latter would more easily resist thrust along their longest dimension.
Those gyro pens work like a gyroscope on a ship.
It currently takes a while for SpaceX to line up the chopsticks and booster lift points in order to lift the booster onto the OLM. And that's having ideal conditions. The booster is completely vertical and stable/stationary. To catch a booster. The chopsticks and booster will need to line up perfectly in SECONDS! Not minutes. I don't see how the current setup can pull that off. The setup is too slow and requires perfect accuracy.
They won't have to worry about aligning as much as there is no risk of the engines hitting the side of the transport stand or OLM.
@@shaung949Sorry, but that makes no sense. If they don't line it up perfectly. It would cause at minimum serious damage to the grid fins, if not worse. It also depends on how much surface area the chopsticks have for the booster catch arms to hook into. If it's just a small pocket/area then there's a serious risk of missing and all the weight ending up on the grid fins instead. Thats be very bad. However SpaceX has a better chance of catching a booster than a ship. Even Jack of (NSF) has said the current ship lifting points are not going to work for a catch.
@@smavtmb2196 SpaceX has pulled off miracles before but this catch system is above and beyond. Having to align everything perfectly and catch it on those little nubbins on the side of the booster seems nuts.
@@smavtmb2196 I think the slowness comes from an abundance of caution. Not necessarily because they can't move fast enough. They can always use a crane to take the weight and then realign to learn what didn't quite work right from a catch. Assuming they can catch it at all. I think it's the setting it down part that requires a bit more correct lift point precision. Not the holding part. But they can refine that once they catch it and see what they need to do from a hover.
@@smavtmb2196 A lot of the delay in lifts is due to having to align the chopsticks absolutely vertical over the stand or olm so it lifts perfectly vertical. If the chopsticks are not 100% in alignment you risk the booster swinging and hitting the engines when the stabilizers retract. When catching there is nothing to hit the engines on so less of a need for perfect alignment. Putting it down after is where you need the fine control again.
am wondering flight 4 was using Virtual tower in ocean, is that mean Mecha arms also moving simulating the movement of booster catching? that would be cool
It would be assumed but we will prolly never learn until the actual catch attempt
The arms will not really move very much. The booster will glide in until it hits the arms. The virtual tower is just that - virtual. It means it will be computers calculating where the booster is in relation to fixed points (any stable surface near the landing site). If it follows the projected path all is well. If not, they have to try again.
Do you think when they stretch the ship & booster for version 3 that they will also make a taller launch tower?
Notice how we rarely see engines being swapped out. Definitely been a big jump in reliability.
I can’t believe B11 did its SF campaign at the production site 😮
@NASASpaceflight: Genuinely curious. How powerful is too powerful? The additional noise, shockwaves, vibrations, etc.
i have a feeling elon is doing the "fake it till you make it" routine with starship... promoting 100-150T payloads for years but now, it's "oh it's only V3 that will do that" with a rocket that doesn't exist yet and with an engine that may or may not exist yet. i want to believe it'll work but i dunno man...
Expecting something of this magnitude to go from concept to full production in one go feels a bit naive. It's in development and they are moving at neck-break speed. Simply look at Elons other ventures and successes for guidance, IMO.
I am guessing we're going to see Raptor 3 as soon as Starship v2 starts being used. Just gotta finish all the v1's, so maybe early next year?
7:14 this construction worker acting like an npc lol
bro was like "Camera! act normal, act normal...." I know how he feels lol
Too much wind noise Dude! Go inside Stupe.
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I can't wait until Starbase is doing SpaceX updates in Space..
It looks like Starship is getting more "pointy" !!
Nice hat, I want one.
16:45 V3 looks thinner
2:16 gonna miss that view
Match doesn't add up unless the plan on more than 33 engines on Version 3 Super Heavy.
I think Phobos and Deimos were used for cannibalizing the Draw Works and any other useful bits before they were scrapped. I highly doubt there was any intention to actually use those platforms for launches
They were bought for almost nothing. SpaceX started removing the sections that had to do with drilling, intending to build a pad. But they soon realized there was no way they could be converted, so they sold them.
So... how will later versions of the booster fit in the mega bays? Reduce stand height? Raise the roof a few more meters? New building, and if so, where??
They have enough of a margin to build them. But maybe they build taller bays in the future.
Thanks for yet another great update! Regarding the tower catches... I'm curious whether SpaceX might use a very cut down version of the booster (something more like the top part of the booster but perhaps with a power system like a drone) to practice the actual catch / landing before landing a whole booster on it. To me to simply confirm that they can land a booster with the same level of control as what is required for landing on the chopsticks feels like it is missing the actual "landing it on the catch mechanism" bit. Anyone else got thoughts on this?
I think they will try with full booster on sea first.
@@just_archan Yes - that's what Elon has said... but that doesn't provide any data on actually landing on the chopsticks (eg adjusting them to be precisely in place, interface between chopsticks and booster)
Elon did say they were not certain to catch the booster on the first attempt. They are prepared to take some damage or have a backup plan for getting the booster clear if it fails to land.
Is the steel plate going to survive version 2 or 3? 10,000 tons of thrust. Wow.
they might need to increase the water pressure to compensate.
I would love to meet the few people in charge of the design for the future versions of raptor, the knowledge they carry....
Too many secrets at present. In a few years from now I hope we get to learn more.
@@knowledgeisgood9645 I believe Raptor is gonna be one of those things kept top secret for a long, long time. Like the SR-71 Blackbird engines. It was kept a secret for a very long time because of how effective they were. The Rocket Engine that outclasses every single rocket engine ever created
Strange spacex doesn't test the catching of the booster/ship with a test article (from the rocket garden) that can try a few times to get caught by the tower, and that lands on legs when it fails to get caught properly, en gets refueled/modified for a next attempt. Why use something that comes back from (near) orbital, just to test if you can catch it?
its good starship will still launch from sea platforms
I noticed that the booster for V3 Starship was also slightly taller.
V3 booster is about 9 metres taller, ship is just shorter than the current booster.
Thanks Jack for a great update, but Novium pens, lol about as Space Age as a Poundland balloon
Thank you for picking apart Elon's talk to we don't have to 😁
"Sell me this pen"
Bacon man back at it again!
SpaceX video shows the booster coming down to a hover and then stix closing onto booster.
I keep getting this feeling they will catch IFT-5, but it will need lift inspection before they even attempt to move it.Well, drones first while it still is unsafe. Or it will not be in the right catch position to drop it and detank any remaining fuel. Maybe they'll have to attach a crane to hold it to get it onto the lift points correctly. Or maybe it will miss entirely. Hard to say. I could see it try a few seconds to land on the hooks, then the arms pop open and it rockets off to the ocean to ditch it. Lots of options.
V2 of Starship seems so tapered and a lot better than V1. V3 is curse though
Speed lightening