Why no catch? SpaceX reveals BIG secrets about Starship Flight 6!
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That was incredible! Starship launched Flight 6, and it didn’t go quite perfectly. But what does that mean? Is SpaceX advancing, or was this a step back? How did the launch go? Why did they try to break the ship, and why was a banana involved? Here’s the complete breakdown of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 6! Enjoy!
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One Banana to rule them all! All hail Banana! 🍌
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A banana is a herb, not a fruit.
@RWBHere the more you know!
There should have been a bananacam, to see how it fared.
@@davidhenderson1073 The camera was there, we want to see it's footage through the re-entry and landing.
I suppose it's technically an advancement, because they demonstrated that the off-shore divert feature functioned effectively.
Actually, they did get it right. Safety protocols worked perfectly. For all those whining about no catch, be patient, it will become like falcon 9.
Just 10 times more powerful. 😅
and like the video said, they already demonstrated they can catch it, they have nothing to prove, so why risk it? All of these boosters are totally disposable, the tower is not
Why risk it?, so that its consistent. @moonasha
yes lets hope both starship and booster will become like falcon 9
Anyone whining has a very short memory, or I.Q.
Flight #1 gave us a very good demonstration of how TOUGH ship and booster were designed and built. I have NEVER before seen a rocket tumble in flight and not breakup, yet that's what this pair of booster and ship did, only breaking up well after the FTS charges ruptured fuel tanks. The stresses generated by a supersonic tumble would have torn any other rocket to pieces.
SpaceX has designed an incredible system. Very well done team!
What everyone seems to be missing, is that SpaceX solved the flap burn through, with the steep entry profile. I don't think this test was really to add more stress to rocket. But a method to overcome the long period of heating, for a more extreme heat level for less time. I only know this because of KSP!
@@rolanddvcourt yeah, Ksp taught me a shallow entry profile can reduce maximum temperature but increase duration which means SSTO plane become super easy but it takes a long time to land on the airfield.
It is unbelievable thinking about the engineering behind this beast
They try to break it, and yet it survives and even lands. Such crazy achievements they made...
More like waters.
The booster explosion was like something out of the James Bond movie the spy who loved me😂
SpaceX to S31: We will break you
S31 to SpaceX: HAHAHA!! Hold my beer!
Nahh, hold my banana... 💀
@@Any-thing-06 heheh...
You paid a magnificent and beautiful tribute to the Starship team-thank you, Felix!
Thank you for your banana tribute
My pleasure! A true unsung hero! 🍌
11:48 When I saw the booster do the water landing, my first thought as it touched down (before toppling over) was "Vertical. Perfectly f*king vertical."
"lllllllike a glove"
It's always alarming to me how late they start the engines for the soft landings of both Starship and the booster. But the math doesn't lie!
The booster definitely performed better than last time! I'm constantly astounded by iteritive design!
Thank you WAI team for presenting an awesome video about the booster. You win THAT round ! ( Scott manly won the Starship analysis, but you both win my heart ❤️)
10 minutes in and still no mention of “why no catch”. C’mon man!!
I’m coming! Where am I supposed to go? 😉 I have to tell it chronologically. Sorry.
I watched to whole video and I didn't hear anything about why no catch. Also, Elon posted on X a redesign is under way on the heat shield to possibly ablative fuel cooled sleeve.
13:16 y'all are deaf I swear.
@@1mariomaniac 13:16 is longer than 10:00!! y'all can't read...I swear.
@@brianbankert1411 mostly directed to StaticFirePress.
Felix has gone bananas.
20 years later SpaceX engineers will be giving talks and tours in exhibitions talking about how they did the things and software like the guys who worked in Apollo program are doing in space centres and exhibitions
Let's appreciate that there were only one month since the last launch. If this pace can keep up we are in for a ride!
The auto translation made by TH-cam/Google is just VERY GOOD. I've been listening to WAI in English for a while but this time I decided to try it in Portuguese and it worked!!!
Can we take a moment to appreciate the Banana song at the end?
I want to listen to the song but google does not know what it is :( I think these are the lyrics "banana blaze starship blind in the void it did not hide for science sake it burned so bright a peel of courage in endless night"
@@mylesrussell It can be easily AI generated. Or WAI has its own band which can record quickly. 😅
Thanks for the flight debrief. Now, I know.
Cool rock music at the end!?
Great coverage, thanks so much, Felix! The ending is just super, I salute the Brave Mr. Banana, too! ))) 💗
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GO Banana! I will admit I was a bit disappointed there was no catch but WTF it was one hell of a ride! Awesome TFS, GB :)
Okay, really dig the metal credits theme
@21:11 Hat tip to Heart of Gold! 🚀👍
All hail the Chiquita --- unless it was a Dole banana...
It stood for all 🍌 out there! Heck, for all plants!!! 🫡
I think they did some adjustments because they are still trying new things compared to IFT5. Makes sense because it's hard to tell if something is going wrong if they don't try, right? In that way they can have a threshold for different important parameters.
I guess it’s technically an advancement, since they proved that the off-shore divert functionality worked properly
True! Testing all the booster functions too😊
@@EvanPang-w4i I don't think it's a case of the booster being diverted offshore so much of them deciding not to move it onshore. By default it falls into the sea unless they intervene to redirect it into a catch attempt.
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It is a valuable proof.
this was the plan all along, they needed to see how water divert landing would look like
@@jayobee the comms tower on top of the launch tower got bent in the launch i believe is the reason for the diversion.
This is the second or third flight in a row where all engines worked, right? They really have those dialed in.
"The cost of producing a SpaceX Super Heavy booster is estimated to be around $120 million." The lessons to learn how to do space travel don't come cheap.
Considering SLS costs more than $2 billion per launch, I'd say it's pretty cheap.
Very true - but the savings when each booster and ship can be reused will rapidly pay back the expenditure.
I imagine they secretly had an apple inside the booster.
I mean how do we know the heroic banana survived? No images were shown of said hero during or after the harshest part of re-entry. At least none that I e seen. Only images while gliding through space. Felix mentioned the banana several times, but no images while descending. So, how do we know?
I HAD to listen to that song at the end again!
Testing is certainly no set back
Banana spacex metal is HIT. Need more of it, the banana🍌😎🚀.
This was an almost complete success. The booster performed perfectly. Starship reached near orbit, relit its engines in near orbit, reentered with much less flap damage, and it had many tiles deliberately removed before flight, and it landed perfectly on the sea. Incredible. This beauty is going to be a success. A complete revolution in space launch capabilities.
Excellent Episode. Can i suggest you do your monologues somewhere like the JFK visitor center near you. Your backdrop alone, should draw people in. Walk and talk amongst the attractions. My 2 cents. The more intense backdrop the better. Sir David Attenborough was the master of this. Whatever he talked about, he was in the thick of it in every shot. Volcano erupting, waves crashing, big equipment moving, animals stampeding. You get the idea.
Excellent comment! Will consider!❤
Great job as always Felix!!
Great show you just get better and better. Loving it!! Keep up the great work!! 👍
Glad you enjoy it!❤❤❤
You are quite entertaining, keep up the good work!
Excellent commentary!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
Can you imagine being in a Starship crew landing on the mechazilla? It will happen, and I hope it is amazing.
Spacex is on track for great success. Every other space industry is copying them. And they are not fools.
Thanks Felix 😊
The booster catch was aborted due to comms lost between booster and tower. nothing wrong with the booster.
With how fast the ship decelerated in that extreme re-entry angle, I'm curious just how much G-Force was experienced by that banana.
So the milestone that remain are: catching the ship, then re-use of a ship and booster, then ship-to-ship fuel transfer... Then moon.
No catch is sad, I’ll just watch ift5 again
Yep apparently it was tower side too which sucks cause the booster was fully healthy
You won't need to wait too long for flight 7. I'm excited for what's ahead.
@ yeah, I think a mid December seventh flight. Either that or mid January
Safety first people.
@ very much so. Dead people and damaged infrastructure would be much more sad
W.O.P.R. clip! I love❤it!!😅😅
This was a fantastic episode, Felix! Thank you WAI team!
Great video Felix 👍
Omg 😂the ending was awesome!
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Wonderful coverage and insight, thank you Felix, you rock
Howdy from Temple, Texas! Great content as always! Thank you!
Thanks, Dustin!!! Greetings from Cape Canaveral, Florida! ❤️🙌🏼
@@Whataboutit We're about 30-ish miles north of MacGregor.
I disagree on Starship being the main attraction. The booster is where the money’s at. Lowering the cost of the first stage opens up all possibilities. They’ll be able to put whatever they want on top of it. Starship, Lunar lander, Space Station modules and satellites. Great time to be alive!
Exactly my thoughts, I have seen a sketch with three boosters strapped together.. So u can have more payload
@@AzamAli-qi7iy wouldnt work
@@Lu.capuchino for space station models that needs to stay in leo.?
@@AzamAli-qi7iy what does that have to do with 3 boosters strapped together
6:25 You deserve an award for saying all that techno spaghetti perfectly. :)
the booster catch is going to be trivial. It's the ship return and catch that is the real important thing. They were 100% successful and advancing that goal
ummm no? booster is just as important if not more
Were they, though? The area where they removed tiles was visibly warped. There's no reason to catch the ship if it's too damaged to fly again.
Thanks for the info!
Excellent ad for my radar. Top notch.
Note that some tiles had stainless steel plates added to the outer layer, so sparks are expected to come from those tiles.
Excellent review!
World's biggest most powerful rocket used to put a banana in space. lol
Man this stuff is soooo exciting!!
I desperately need to see a dual reentry live stream of two starships side by side
The ship is just built different literally and figuratively
2:29 love the texts
The banana was such a meme😂
Boldly going where no banana has gone before.
“…and we saw a banana… Why did we see a banana?” lol
It's funny because when I was watching the different streams you could hear everybody talk about the floating booster but no one made the analogy that the booster had now become a boat. That thing floated forever. I'm not really sure if it actually sank or if they decided to tow it back in to shore!
Good day Friends,
Happy Friday! I am a fisherman. The captain would tell everyone no banana 🍌 on a boat. Bad luck!!
Go SpaceX!!
I actually brought a banana on a boat once not knowing about this. I kid you not. It ended with an engine and steering failure. We were stranded for 2 hours. I’ll never do that again. 😝🍌
As a Swede I have to say: Nice shirt 👕 👌 😅
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Thanks for the explanations and the dad grade banana jokes. Go starship, go booster, Space X and WAI.
Banana humor ... love it.
W.O.P.R. Hahah good insert bro.
W.O.P.R. indeed! 😏
I identify as a banana. This was a giant leap for all banana-kind.
I just realized that the banana was sort-of a rick-roll. There seems to have been a whole wave of Banana in Space themed content around 2021, and a few before that. Things I would have never seen or heard if not for SpaceX. Though TBH I would have preferred it to stay that way.
So, Felix why didn't they attempt the catch?
Felix: It all started with the fall of the Roman Empire...
Thanks Alex !!
The booster didn't explode after tipping, it was floating for a while as per other live feed.
it did explode when it tipped over, only the bottom part of the booster was floating
The steeper angle of attack seemed to work out better for the heat shield...I think they should look into increasing that angle.
The booster would have landed if Felix was there
OMG the banana song at the end...
Not 1 Starship TF6 presenter has commented that the Superheavy 'non-catch by chopsticks' was actually a great success.
It takes thousands of pieces of data to all be perfect or at least nominal for the catch to be attempted, this flight demonstrated the software being "FIT FOR PURPOSE" to detect any pending anomolies.
Something (the tower top antennae tilted) not nominal was automatically detected & so the landing was automatically diverted successfully to safety.
Why can't people recognise how great this truth is?
Boeing even forgot to install the previously installed undocking software on their starliner that had to abandon it's crew on the ISS, what sort of catastrofically failed safety checking is that?
Landing the Superheavy on the sea under full automation is a genuine Success for Team SpaceX in every respect, not a failure as in boeings relentless incompetances.
The antenna is most likely not the cause of the cut in comms, its just a weather station, they use fiber for comms
So is SpaceX working for instacart delivering a banana to a boat in the Indian ocean?
This Ship is Bananas, B A N A N A S
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Amazing
Incredible
At this point they could already use it like F9 by putting legs on it (yes, weight) and landing it back on the pad. Incredible.
Nice t-shirt with a swedish touch
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That was scary: It started with german audiotrack instead of the orignial one for me. That was spooky AF.
Merci!
Elon confirmed on X that there was a connection problem with the tower computer. The catch likely would have worked, but they played it safe.
Honestly, the booster was still moving too fast when it touched the surface. It was moving pretty slowly, but not slow enough. We knew they were going to be more aggressive with the landing burn, so the redirect was probably a good thing.
its because it isnt a simulated catch, its the abort profile, it doesnt need to splash down softly
@@Lu.capuchino Are you sure? I really thought they were simulating a catch. Why even bother to fire the rockets at all if it wasn't simulating a catch?
@@captaindaedalus1 to make it survive the splashdown
It's called an abort for a reason it doesn't need to soft on landing 😔
Now I wonder if the banana had any influence on the calculations and physics of this maneuver
The astronaut, Abe N Ana, did very well.
@@willamcombs1106 for all Fruitkind!
Hold downs are released at T-40 minutes, vehicle is held down by its own weight till it reaches a TWR of higher than 1.0
Banana delivered, mission safety completed...till the ship got toasted when it fell over after landing. 🔥Can't wait for flight 8 and potentially 2 chopstick tower landings within about 90 -120 minutes of each other😊
Perhaps you could make a video about how the booster was left floating after the explosion. Did they retrieve it?
Die deutsche KI Übersetzung ist gruselig 😂
A banana is a herb. That should be its name, Herby.
The most expensive Banana Flambè ever made. 😅