SpaceX Confirms Starship Launch Date! Flight 4 Ready! (Pushed to June 5th just after we published!)
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Starship flight four, potential launch date! It wonât happen in May?
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UPDATE: There's been a small push! Test dates are fluent! New NET for Starship flight 4 is JUNE 5th!!! WAIRocket
Came out just after we published: x.com/FelixSchlang/status/1794003352956588139
Hi Felix.. just a small correction for you.. "fluent" (whilst it *can* mean 'fluid') is a term mostly used in respect to how well someone speaks a second language. A better expression in English would be "Test dates are fluid." Meaning the date can easily change.
@@Garryck-1 Thank you!
Can odoo incorporate links etc to print on demand factories like printify etc ?
Frankly Felix, it is not "as simple as that", if it is supercooled oxygen, or methane, it will not be evaporating at atmospheric pressure, it will be only evaporating at those temperatures if at below earth atmospheric pressure.
And if it were then the tanks would implode.
So saying it's supercooled is another of Elons Lies.
The main reason to supercooled these liquid fuels, is to allow them to be used to get through the radiation belts, where the heating from high energy protons is sufficient to melt any thick sections more than a few millimeters thick without active cooling.
It is a very complex and difficult task to design probes and satellites capable of handling the region between 1200km and 15000 km above the equator where high energy proton fluxes are in the region of 100kW per square metre per steradian
Hey Felix, love your content, but your titles are starting to become a little clickbaitish
I saw flight 4 the other day, I was like holy cow howâd I miss this , turns out it was just a highly edited livestream from a channel renamed to SpaceX (live).
A lot of fake acount with elon musk telling with deep fake , to give Bitcoin for a maximum return .. scam scam scam
It fooled more than 21k people also it was a crypto scam if you didnât noticed it was also painfully fake because they said welcome to the first test flight
Just report it to Google. They take them down.
Did they do some old crypto scams?ð
Thatâs a scam channel, just flag it. For some reason TH-cam keeps placing it into my recommend feed as well.
I'm not sure how recent this is but spacex has updated their website adding info for flight 4. A flip and propulsive landing of the ship do sound bloody incredible. it also says launch NET 5th June
Yep! This was published 15 minutes after release of the episode! I've changed the pinned comment!
If Flight 3 managed to reach re-entry, I wouldn't be surprised if they manage to get it to splashdown! Excitement definitely guaranteed!
Yeah
Looking forward to it
Another great update from Felix and team thank you! PS, I love the pretend tin hat ð
There's a very real risk that they don't manage to get it to splash down by aiming at the Earth, but miss it completely
Reaching re-entry is not that great of an achievement. Every piece of space to in low earth orbit achieves reentry. Honestly, they're lucky to break the atmosphere without cascading engine failure. It's an inherent design flaw that's going to happen eventually every time.
Blue Origin did not resume "crewed missions". They resumed passenger tourist flights. I'm fully supportive of space tourism but BO's (and Virgin Galactic's) pretense that they're launching "astronauts" as part of a "crew" on a "mission" to "space" is ridiculous.
EDIT:
As usual, some people in the comments are trotting out the argument that "astronaut just means person who has traveled in space" and therefore these tourists are astronauts. But that's simply wrong. Logically, factually, historically wrong. NASA has NEVER used the word astronaut that way. Astronauts may receive their astronaut WINGS after they've crossed the technical definition of space, but that's not what makes them astronauts. They are already astronauts long before they ever receive their wings because Astronaut is a PROFESSION, a Vocation, a Job, a Calling. A profession requiring enormous training and carrying huge responsibilities. This is how the term has always been used.
Every time NASA introduces a new mission crew or new graduates from its training program, the people aren't introduced as "not-yet astronauts" or "soon-to-be astronauts". They are introduced as ASTRONAUTS, full stop. When Crew-1 was announced, NASA didn't say "here are our THREE astronauts plus our non-astronaut Victor Glover who hasn't been to space yet." No, of course not. NASA said "here are the FOUR ASTRONAUTS for Crew-1". This is how NASA has always used the term, from the very start of the space program, beginning with the original Mercury 7 astronauts.
The fact that it refers to a profession is why we can also talk about FORMER astronauts and RETIRED astronauts. If the term simply referred to crossing a threshold (went above Karman Line, graduated from college, survived into adulthood) it wouldn't make any sense to be "former" something that is merely a historical FACT. You can't be a FORMER adult or FORMERLY a person who graduated college. Once you've become an adult or graduate, you will always be an adult or graduate. You also can't be a "retired" something if that something is a historical fact rather than an ongoing activity (job, profession).
If it takes off, follows a profile, meet requirements during the whole flight, and then eventually lands where it was supposed to, than that is a mission, like what every spacecraft or comercial aircraft does every day.
Blue origin passengers shouldnât even be called astronauts. That should be reserved for those who work hard for months if not years and going to orbit to do a particular job not just to go up spend a few short minutes and then come straight down again. Again, they are not astronauts, they are visitors of a very short up-and-down flight.
Blue Origin's mission is to make Mr Bezos feel better when Mr Musk does something good.
@@luigeribeiro I'm not sure about your use of the word 'eventually', when the flight time. there and back again is less than 12 minutes.
@@luigeribeiro I have taken off in an aeroplane, flown to the destination I intended to, and even accomplished tasks I had assigned to me en route. However, as a passenger I had no training on or access to any of the flight controls. Can I call myself a pilot?
Just a pronunciation tip:
Early in the vid, talking about removing pearlite insulation, the trucks used aren't (vacall) vay-cal, they're vac-all. As in vacuum all, they're vacuum trucks, built for material removal, using suction. I hope that helps! :)
Ahhh. I.thought he was talking about a brand name lol. Great catch. Yes now I get it. This is how we know Felix is real and not an AI voice. Keep the entertainment/ education coming Felix.
Thanks for all the great info, Felix and team!
Just a note, as a physicist: temperature units are written šC or šF. The degree symbol and the letter indicating the scale (Celsius or Fahrenheit) go together, there's no space between them. So -218 šC is correctly written, -218š C is not.
You rock!
Also SpaceX uses only metric and I think that makes it a lot easier to follow then haing to give both units.
Just so the rubes are fully informed degrees Kelvin should also be added. For weights please use short tons 2000 lb, Imperial Tons 2240 pounds and metric tonnes 2204 pounds.
Great breakdown on the workings of the fueling system, always love your videos Felix. Thank you for the hard work.
Best location for space flight news!!!!! Thanks WAI/Felix
You can tell Felix is starting to become Americanized he's struggling to say Celsius correctly nowðð
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Celsius is Swedish, he's German
@@yt45204 He could probably say the German pronunciation perfectly. What he struggles with is the US mangling of the name... ;-)
@@realulli Great, so for us swedes, he either mangles it in German or in English ;)
The correct pronunciation is "Centigrade".
Felix is the most likable and entertaining of all the Starship commentators. May he live long and prosper.
âĪðð Great success to SpaceX. Amen
Very useful information Felix, thank you. Itâs an âoh, now I understand moment.â Which happens often when I watch your show.
Heat-Shield Tiles are almost certainly a good solution. Itâs just the Stud attachment that needs a bit of redesign to make them hold onto the tiles, and not let them shake loose.
Always enjoy your updates. Thanks for your hard work. Thanks for turning down the background music - it is totally not necessary and still a bit annoying. Keep up the great work.
this is a good way to display the information: (Pushed to June 5th just after we published!)
Tanks
ðŊYouâre welcome!
Keep up the good work! You're always so diligent with your reports!
Whenever at whatever time Flight 4 Launches I will be watching...!!! Can't wait...! Cheers Felix and Team...
Bummer about the drone starting that underwater exploration session on its own. Thank you for the great work today Andy!! Outstanding!! Hope thereâs a local diver whoâll volunteer to retrieve it for you. If not, DJI thanks you for your continuing business . . .
Thanks for the enlightening show this week. So you headed down there for the 4TH flight? You lucky man.
Don't think I can make the party, but hope to come for a later version. Thanks for all your videos Felix.
Another great video, best space news on YT!
Love ur work Felix & gang.
From down under.
I think this flight is the 1..
Let me help you out with the Vacall truck vacall is the company name, they use vacuum trucks, we use vac trucks at work. Vacall lets you know they can take care of solids and liquids. Fuel, diesel, and solids such as spent sandblast media, which could have lead or fuel/ diesel from removing the coating from whatever needed sand blasted. So itâs Vac(uum) All.
Vacall sucks
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lol, I built my own vac truck for a 1/3 of the cost.
I worked on Vac-con myself.
I'm no rocket surgeon, but I really dislike the look of the Starlink dispenser door mechanism. Generally SpaceX designs give me a lot of intuitive confidence. Their engineers will have all sorts of parameters and priorities I don't know, but based purely on what I've seen, I would have the door rotate about the central axis of Starship, sliding sideways along rails around the diameter of the payload bay. My thinking is it could be driven by small electric motors with plenty of gearing for torque, multiple redundancy of motors, and a more consistent sliding action which can even help alignment, rather than a jerky open-shut. I'm sure this will be wrong, for reasons I don't know, but I'd love a deep dive explanation from Elon or Spacex as to why they've gone with it hinging up and inwards.
W-D-R and Wet Dress Rehearsal have the same number of syllables. Not saving any time using the abbreviation.
A German with an Irish accent? Now I've heard everything. Very good Felix!
I need the whole episode narrated like this! ð
I think Felix was doing a Scottish accent not Irish! I think he did very well âšïļ
I thought Indian.
Say WHAT ???
We definitely need more accents and can we hear your John Wayne impersonation. Lol
Love your channel, Felixð
There are so many moving parts it's purely amazing how these rockets get off the pad without a mishap
Love waking up to a new WAI video!
Wake up!? ;-)
Here it is late afternoon
Horray!! Thank you felix for another update, can't wait!
Great explanation about why the vehicle is fueled so quickly Felix, well done!
Felix - Maybe you should leave the Scottish accent to Scott Manley. ð ð
I couldn't reach him! :D
I was born in Frankfurt AM Germany, we moved to Canada when I was a year old. My parents struggled with English, my Mother will never be rid of her strong German accent. Believe me Scottish, Irish accent whatever, anything is better than a German accent. Well, French accents are annoying too, unless it's an attractive woman. Lol
Love your channel!
Hi Felix! Vacall is probably a reference to the vacuuming the trucks do, as in, "Vac - All", where Vac would not be pronounced as in "vacant" -- "vacuum" is more like "access" for instance.
I thought they were looking into fuel production on-site. Also, love the valentines heart on the segment!
Hi thanks for your updates on the new space race David ððŽð§ðâĪïļð
Thanks for the video. Possibly the second tower will be initially a catch only tower. There is no need for a second launch tower at the moment and they may need to change the launch ring for future designs so why build it now and connect it to a tank farm. Also, if the catch goes wrong it does not damage the launch tower.
I assume the reason for the lower fuel level at WDR for IFT4 could be a fix for exactly the issues Felix has described in his video. To keep more distance between the LOX and the methan to prevent freezing. Maybe spacex discovered the need of a second dome shell between LOX and Methan for isolation.
love your effort
Thanks, Felix!
We love what you do for all of us nerdsâĶ.thanks Felix! You should have 2 million subs my friend!
The main consideration for loading quickly and just before launch to avoid boil off of propellant probably isn't to "save a lot of money". The more weight of liquid propellant there is in the rocket at liftoff, the more Delta V performance the rocket provides and the more there is left over after separation for recovery burns.
Three parachutes failing to open is worth more than one sentence.
Yes, much larger Vac Trucks exist (unsure if Vacall makes them, but see them where I live.) Likely there are units within driving distance of Mars Gateway, but they are also going to be mostly contracted to oilfield work. This truck is probably leased from Vacall by SpaceX for this work; and since they aren't in a big rush, no point spending extra on the bigger truck.
I hate perlite, always migrates/floats to the top of the soil, when it's dry it acts like static charged abrasive styrofoam bits.
So all the tests on flight three act as like a checklist that SpaceX will individually focus on checking off one by one in the following few flights?
Ready for launch ð
And they also should build a building around the horizontal tanks in pump the perlite into that area
They literally just tweeted that the earliest date is June 5th, pending approval
Yep! 15 minutes after we published! x.com/FelixSchlang/status/1794021309208301967
I was really hoping the launch was going to be on my birthday. ðĪ·ââïļ still can't wait!
I suspect that, for the time being, the second tower will be "landing only," in order to minimize damage from a botched approach/landing of the booster. During initial flight operations, two towers will be needed (for quite a while!) to land both the booster and the starship.
Wow, hÃĄo háŧĐc cháŧ ÄáŧĢi lᚧn ra mášŊt tháŧĐ 4 cáŧ§a Starship! MÃŽnh cÅĐng váŧŦa xem máŧt video phÃĒn tÃch chi tiášŋt váŧ sáŧą chuášĐn báŧ cáŧ§a SpaceX cho lᚧn phÃģng nà y.
I follow you from Italy, what a good new... I'm waiting, bravo!
Thank you! :)
Never seen anybody use 'news' in singular before.
@@xergiok2322I hate that it kind of makes sense
hops, madrelingua italiano, tnxs happy to know ð
Thank you Felix! Your video length fits perfectly when you want to eat a DÃķnerBox. Video finished, Box finished, im satisfied.
Keep up the good work!
I donât know why, but I loved the cut to The Phoenix at 12:58.
I really hope we get to see a splashdown âlandingâ live-streamed.
D-Ultimate Super Cool Wow Dude ! Great Video !!
well it has to make a controlled reentry and show off a ability to hover! A big ask but will see now they have data , system telemetry should be better nothing like driving a bus in to space and trying to steer it till you know technical issues at this tonnages with new systems on a experimental rocket . looking good from here
Exciting times!
Still want to know where you got your launch tower and starship in your background!
Thanks!
The fuel gap servers some purposes, separation gap so reducing LiqM freezing, saves insulation between them and of coarse the LOX is more dense less is needed plus gas expansion. no issues very smart,
18:03 had me laughing so hard my coworkers heads all popped out of their cubicles...uh I mean, IF I was watching at work that would have happened. I certainly was not watching at work...ð
Never mind, we all do that.
I understand that refueling speed will minimize boil-off/venting, but what about the eventual scenario of orbital refueling, where many launches are needed to fuel a starship bound for Mars? That would take days if not weeks.
Fantastic idea to party after the flight! As a Brazilian (we are the top party people on earth, you know) I hope to attend to one in the future!
Actually, I think this is the channel's best initiative ever!
Letâs go!!! Weâve done this before but never with a longer plan. It was more a spontaneous thing before. ððĨâĪïļ
@@Whataboutit Germans are pretty good party goers/doers too! You're in Florida, there are plenty of brazucas around. If you cross paths with some strange language singer with a acoustic guitar, take a shot. A good chance of being Brazilian, the nicest people to party with :)
I am always fascinated by the shots of the Merlin Vacuum engine with ICE rolling around on top of it. Which I think is O2?
Thats "Vacuum All" VACALL so pronounced Vac All we used them in the chemical plants
Thank you :)
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LOL @ Starhopper being labeled as "the Immortal" ðĪĢð
SpaceX website is now saying June 5th for the launch!
Edit: Massive changes, hot stage ring will be jettisoned after boost back and the ship will perform a flip and landing burn!
Itâs says no earlier than June 5th so it doesnât mean it will be June 5th
@@patfre Ofc, but assuming they get the launch licence it seems a reasonable time frame
@@withoutstickers true but it also does still say itâs pending approval so they donât quite have the green light yet
@patfre That is what SpaceX did with Flight 3 and it lifted off on that date. So I am fairly confident in a June 5th launch date
@@AFrendlyStarbaseWorker-gc6pv I am fine with that date because itâs my countryâs constitution day then
The vacuum tanks that are used to clean out the insulation can pull a stronger vacuum than larger tanks can
Can't wait for New Glenn!!!
Im subscribed to you!
The most important reason for speedloading is that the fuel cannot be kept suporcooled once it is loaded. Boiloff starts once the temperature reaches the boiling point, but by then the liquid has already expanded and has less performance.
Concerning an after-IFT4-launch party at Raptor Roost: I commented on a LabPadre video a couple of days ago and wished them a great time at the party at Raptor Roost. Louis replied "No more raptor roost. We have teamed up with Rocket Ranch. A much better venue and a much better fit for us." I assume he means at the RR viewing spot near his raptor roost site, but he may mean at the RR ranch location. Better find out, Felix! :-)
Felix talking about Helix!
I was hoping for a July 4 night launch (the rocket's red glare).
I enjoy all of What about it!? Videos
Danke mal wieder, fÞr diesen interessanten Beitrag! ;-)
I hope they fly on my birthday, June 1st!!
Any info on the RUD of Raptor test yesterday?
Felix, If you are in Florida, find a cheap Coco-Beach motel, and ask for a monthly stay. From the beach, you can then walk to the northern most point to view rocket launches. This was the beach to be at during the moon race, and it's an experience you'll never forget. You'll have to walk about a mile to reach the end of the beach, so prep lightly, and if you set up shop there you might attract a lot of attention from the locals.ð (Then again, he may have a VIP seat...)
I'm pretty sure those trucks are called hydro vac trucks. At least that is what they are called in the oilfield.
Felix. Do u reckon they surround the tank with pear light or they could use ceramic shell. Although a high heat protector. It will respond as a coolant. A similar thing occurs with polystyrene. In case of explosion ðĨ. It would harden but remain light.
Thanks ðĪ
No problem ð
How are they going to keep the fuel at the right temperature when refueling in orbit?
Starship Block2 will be taller than current Block1. Donât you suppose SpaceX will anticipate and stretch the OLiT2 a few meters to support the new hardware configuration?
Hey Felix @13:07 the guy with the Back To The Future shirt is that your brother?
Perhaps the second tower will be used only to catch the starship for safety considerations.
3:25 selgius? Whats that?
Star Hopper could use just a "few" more greeblies. I'm not saying a HAL 9000 eye. But a HAL 9000 eye
I believe that if SpaceX plans two launch towers with rapid launches, they will need to pipeline in propellant to the site. The number of tanker trucks required and the heavy duty road use will rapidly become impractical, using current transfer methods.
Here I was thinking the next fireworks display would be scheduled for the 4th of July.
I am surprised about the âNo Raptor Relightâ..
9:08 Why does the graphic show a flip maneuver then a BOOSTBACK BURN WITH THE ENGINES NOT POINTING DOWN RANGE to reverse down range velocity? Seems seriously backwards if the booster is ultimately required to return to the launch site. It seems like the graphic has left out some important details.
Iâd bet on the equivalent of a typo but with an image.
nice
I love Felix's Scottish/Welsh accent ð
What I've been saying from the beginning to fuel starships is a port on the international waterway into starbase. Push a barge in that refrigerates and makes nitrogen and oxygen and hydrocarpons methane. Then pull it out of the way long to starship and put it back
16:30 - SpaceX is to proud to use proven technology.ðĨ
awesome video I'm new to the community, and hope to become a NASA engineer one day
I wonder what number as far as cost of recovering the booster and starship would SpaceX consider prohibitively expensive?