SpaceX's Starship Prototype Takes To The Skies And Returns Safely
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- After A week of preparation the latest Starship Prototype SN15 successfully demonstrated the complete landing maneuver required for Starship to operate. The flight was mostly hidden behind a layer of clouds which blocked cameras on the ground, and because the onboard cameras weren't delivering video data as expected.
However after a flight to 10 kilometers and a descent in a high drag belly flop orientation the vehicle relit its engines, returned to the vertical and carefully came to a stop on the landing pad.
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I giggled so hard at "sample text"
Was that in the video? People watch the video? I just listen to it, helps me get to sleep. No offense Scott you just have a soothing voice and interesting tops.
OREM LIPSUM...
I liked "Revenge of the 5th" hehe
Same. I wonder if it was intentional or accidental...
@@K162KingPin right at the beginning before the Star Wars intro lmao
The definition of the phrase" falling with style" just got an upgrade . as a old-school space nerd I got Shivers watching this ., and it was worth every second
"Buzzz... Buzzz... Buzz Lightyear!"
They totally planned for it landing near that hose it seems :D jk
Spacex spoils us. People been waiting decades to get to something like this, meanwhile we get a treat every month or so. What a time.
You can say what you want about Elon, but he has promised the world and delivered every time.
Goodbye 60's rocket techs, welcome 21 century ships!
It's just a dustbin and PR gag. That thing can do fuck all. No heat shield. Has to be completely redesigned to do something usefull in orbit.
And landing on Earth is much better done with ... WINGS like the Space Shuttle. The 1980ties were the time to live. This is just a cheap satire.
@@pcuimac the space shuttle could never go to the Moon, Mars, or Titan. So...
There’s a whole iterative process here and I don’t get how people still don’t understand this. It’s common in the software development world, but really not that different than what happened with Redstone. It’s a valid engineering method.
@@pcuimac So you carry wings to orbit that do nothing except let you land like a plane? So the weight of the wings is that much less payload you can get to space.
They are just more weight and drag.
There are no runways on Moon and Mars, and not enough atmosphere to provide useful lift in any case.
"In a music library far far away from Disney copyrights" 😂😂😂 made me forget about the video entirely because I laughed so hard
Didnt a Star Wars TH-camr use this exact music for his intro and got copyrighted for no reason or was that for the outro
SAMPLE TEXT hahahaha
Feels like only recently I saw youtube videos everywhere parodying the Star Wars opening crawl music.
It's almost as if modern Disney is a horrible shit company or something. >__>
@@planescaped It kinda is
I DESPISE modern Disney. A company drunk on greed, likely violating antitrust and power hungry as all heck. They are truly the "Evil Empire".
To boldly go where no grain silo has gone before! Impressive.
Looking forward to the upcoming sequels: "A Booster Awakens", "Return of the Orbital", "The Last Prototype", and of course, "The Rise of Marswalker".
Just watch out for "Re-entry Strikes Back."
The hopper menace
Attack of the pop
The revenge of the hop
A new bellyflop
The raptor strikes back
Return of the soft landing
End of the saga
...and of course, Attack of the Clones. China and Blue arnt going to let them run unopposed, after all..
@@rakaydosdraj8405 What about Attack of the Drones, there's something so amusing in looking at Amazon Prime Air drones with missiles instead of cargo
Love the Star Wars style intro. Fits so perfectly
+1
Federal Agency NASA is the evil Empire..
@@wrwhiteal Not really, they are more like the senate, paralyzed with politics and endless discussions.
@@Kabup2 Like all other Federal Agencies Nasa is paralyzed by incompetence, irresponsible sloth, & stupidity..struggling to maintain a facade of relevance..while wasting taxpayer $billions... dedicated only to propagating & expanding itself.. while waiting on a fat retirement.
@@wrwhiteal Do your research before talking please
I am surprised at how many have forgotten, SN15 did its feat on the anniversary of Alan Shepherd's hop into space.
Excellent point!
well, for most ppl..if you know this date, you would be considered as "space nerd"
but SpaceX mentioned it during the cast, so 🖖
It was also the 19th anniversary of the founding of SpaceX.
It happened on my 6th, and now 66th Birthday, so no, I didn't forget!! (yes 5/5/55)
also no coincidence BO announced the first seats for their New Shephard joy ride on the same day ...
I love how Starship has indeed been a Kerbal-esque trial and error process to success
Yup, needs more struts
This was one of things my Dad always wanted to see the U.S. accomplish - a ship landing comic book style on it's take-off stage. Sadly he didn't live long enough to see it happen. Little did he know that it would end up being a private firm in the USA, and on top of that testing it in his home state of Texas.
R.i.p.
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And by white people too
@@monstermagnezgulp4614 its made by humans.
I grew up watching old sci-fi films with rockets "landing" on their fins and thinking "that's so fake". Now kids will grow up watching them and think "oh, just like SpaceX".
That opening text crawl was SO GOOD. it was more star-wars like than some of the later star-wars opening text crawls...
The irony that this knock off crawl was more concisely and intelligently written than the last 3 SW movies was not lost on me.
IKR.. Shame Disney... Shame.... Shame......
Scott had Brian DePalma take a pass at the writing.
100% agreed. Great franchise, lousy writing of late...
@S F Ah yes for kids...
Do I need to remind you of things like: burning alive, birth, bing bong your limbs are gone, etc?
@@SF-tb4kb and only because it's for "kids" doesn't mean it needs to have bad lightsaber fights and a bad written story...
NASA: "Sorry. We'll have to stop funding while we process the complaints."
SpaceX: "It's not about the money... it's about sending a message."
The message may cost someone money though.
Naa.. More like
NASA: Planned hold for government contracts disputes, stand by...
SpaceX: Artemis is a side job, Mars is the prize... Just let us know when you want to start.
Yes, the message that they've finally figured out how to land a rocket.
@@hawkdsl Yep the Artemis contract is chump change to Space-X, with Starlink estimated to bring in $10 Billion a year, that not to mention Elon's personal $100+ Billion fortune and Tesla and all the other money sources. Heck, Space-X bid on the contract back when they needed money, now Elon might actually prefer to lose the contract so he can concentrate on Mars and not have to shift some production to moon lander development. Though it would be kind of funny if Space-X lost the contract and Elon built a private moon lander anyway and beat NASA back to the moon just to humiliate them, I wouldn't put it past him.
@@bobfg3130 They figured out how to land a rocket back in 2015.
"Everybody get your best offer together and submit it and we'll pick the winner". "Ok, the winner is these guys who are proven and came in at half the cost of the others. Easy decision." Others: "Oh, you wanted our BEST offer? Why didn't you say so? You have to give us another chance to give you our actual best offer!". What a crock.
Ehhh at the same time, SpaceX has gotten some pretty juicy contracts for little effort (to win the contract, not to execute it), no competition, and no price negotiation. The whole point of competition is to let prices compete, but that doesn't work if you don't let them react to each other. I get why it sounds like bullshit, but I think additional rounds will allow for the best outcomes overall.
Oh, I must have missed when they proved they could land vertically on the moon and not kill the crew in an explosion...
@@Suedocode What chance that either of the other options can actually compete on price though? I think SpaceX are the cheapest because they are paying a huge chunk of the development costs out of their own pocket. StarShip was flying with or without the contract so this is bonus development money. Whilst it's not a traditional lander and nothing like what NASA envisaged it's probably the most flexible option as well. Why spend billions developing different platforms for every use case? This can be both crew and cargo incuding large components for habitat delivery to the moon. Would the other options end up being useful for other roles or will NASA have to do something else to land moon base components? Thats all without even talking about Starships actual goal which will become a NASA goal if SpaceX can actually achieve it, Mars
@@jcollishaw "What chance that either of the other options can actually compete on price though?"
We'll just have to wait and see, yeah?
"I think SpaceX are the cheapest because they are paying a huge chunk of the development costs out of their own pocket."
Well, partly buffered from previous NASA contracts designed to overpay so they could develop their technologies.
"... it's probably the most flexible option as well. Why spend billions developing different platforms for every use case?"
The Space Shuttle is rolling in its grave right now.
"Mars"
Woah there buddy, let's take it one bit at a time.
@@Suedocode So either they have massively overquoted and were planning massive profits? Or they are going to cut something and make it even less competitive? Either option is as good a reason as any to pick StarShip and stick with it
SpaceX have offered the lowest cost to Nasa on virtually every contract they've been awarded. If they make some money for devlopment then so what. Still costing less than competitors. *cough cough* Boeing Starliner. It's also not like all those other competitors haven't accepted juicy NASA contracts in the past, mostly at higher margins or higher costs than SpaceX. SpaceX have also done multiple rounds of share sales for funding of several billion dollars in recent years. This is private investors funding StarShip as well. Not to mention all the private launches they have done to bring in cash for SpaceX. Nobodies arguing that without NASA SpaceX wouldn't be around. It's become a symbitotic relationship where both win, it's not as simple as NASA handing over money as NASA hand less money over as a result of this relationship
The Space Shuttle did indeed have flexible options. At huge expense and with major limitations and major faults. It was brilliant for it's time and without it's large bay the ISS would have been much more difficult to put together. The even larger payload capacity and flexibility of StarShip will allow large modules to be delivered to the moon directly by HLS starship if they so choose. Possible even just by a regular Starship that returns to earth to pickup the next delivery. Look at the designs by the other bidders. Both are clearly human landers with limited cargo space and definitely nothing of a large size. StarShip is designed from the ground up for many roles. That's why it's superior to spending double the money (or even the same money) on a single purpose vehicle
We know the real goal of StarShip is Mars. Whether it's achieveable or not I clearly left up in the air. If they can then fantastic. If they can't then we wait for the next development
This HUGE thing just falling out of the clouds and landing softly was awe inspiring.
You need medical attention if you believe this CGI nonsense
Wasn’t that soft if it’s standing 10-12 inches away from the marks of first hitting the ground
I'm stoked that it landed successfully but was hoping Elon would successfully end Tim Dodd's cringy one-sided bromance this time. 😅😅😅
@@frankmcnally01 If you don't believe it, take a trip out there and see for yourself then report back
@@frankmcnally01 I can't believe that humanity has become this stupid, it is utterly bonkers that these idiots believe this cartoon is real.
Hopefully space x will pull the footage from the sd cards from the cams on sn15 and upload it on to YT.
My thoughts exactly.
I'm waiting
I agree, you'd think surely they must have had back up feeds of that footage. It can't only have gone via Starlink
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@@And-rc9yy Even if picked up by Starlink, they hopefully saved each individual camera stream before it was mangled by Snowmix (I recognized a common artifact where the video stream glitches into a white/grey screen with a few moving edges whenever an I-frame is lost).
Thank you Scott. I rely on you for accurate, timely news about spaceflight research.
I was blindsided by SpaceX. The first report of their existence that I got was April 13, 2015 the day before the failed Flight 17 soft landing attempt on the ocean drone ship. Then a mere 8 months later SpaceX succeeded on December 21, 2015 in making history’s first controlled vertical landing of a space rocket.
Yikes! I can not possibly describe what emotions I feel seeing this video. I am 70. I watched, live, every manned United States space flight from Alan Shepard through the last moon landing. I literally waited 55 years for a space rocket to descend on a pillar of fire to a soft landing. Now six years later I see a successful test of a soft landing of a rocket which is being designed for interplanetary human flight.
This is a great opportunity for SpaceX to take a look at hardware that actually had flown. I can only imagine how much valuable information SN15 can still give them.
Competitors: "We demand a recount!"
SpaceX: "Ok where goin anyways see you when you get there"
lol
Elon is just gonna have a big "f*** you" sign at the landing site waiting for bezos
Competition is lightyears away from SpaceX. The competition reached MARS. SpaceX just reached the orbit.
@@bobfg3130 what are you trying to tell us here?
@@bobfg3130 Mars is 310.99 million km away from Earth that's just 3.2767025855e-5 lightyears
0.000032767025855 lightyears
Roll back 20 years and tell me about a private entrepreneur building self landing space ships and marching robotic dogs around them. I would tell you stop reading so much sci fi.
so true, lol
Star Ship: a new hop. Revenge of the fifth! George is working on it right now.
Yes but don't forget The Gravity Strike Back, where Darthnald Trump reveals a dark secret.
@@benholroyd5221 ... you are obsessed in hate, can you even forgive anyone of anything?
@@linyenchin6773 Gravity is a harsh mistress.
Or were you referring to my completely fictional Sith Lord?
@@linyenchin6773 Are we suddenly forgiving the man who refused to accept the will of the people and encouraged the VP and then a mob to intercede in Democracy??? Had he BEEN a Star Wars villian he would be hated for decades.
@@benholroyd5221 Don't forget, Trump was the one who wants to go to the Moon. Biden is more like 'meh, I don't really care'.
Who's ready to hear the story of the mighty 'Sample Text' Empire? I hear Darth Sample dies...
Sans Sith font.
Have you heard the tragety of darth test the wise?
Looking forward to the stock photos.
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Ooooh woooooooow this comment and thread a fricken epic, beautiful, hilarious gold. =)
vlc is the most underrated media player of all time, it is simply the best at what it does.
That little fire hose reminds me of Iron Man's robot and that fire extinguisher heh.
Ha ha! Yup.
Hahaha true! I wonder if they actually used that as an inspiration :P
The fastest way to depressurize a Starship is to blow it up. That's why all the other ones were depressurized so nicely.
Hahaha
Indeed! If you RUD them hard enough you don't even need an expensive crane to clean it up. It's a cost saving measure!
I'm too high to get this, but I love it
This intro is like the most funny thing ever. “A new hop”, sample text 😂
I was just here to get to the point. Timestamps needed.
Honestly, the clouds where they were (maybe just a little bit higher at 1km) made the entire experience seem more cinematic. Seeing it flip right as it passes through the sky as shown in CosmicPerspective’s footage was extremely cool.
Legendary opening Mr. Manley.
We are not worthy.
Congratulations SpaceX!
That was the best intro ... fitting for such a milestone
I did not even let "the sample text" finish before I hit the "Like" button.
11:24
I just love that even companies with contracts of billions of dollars use the 99 charm pricing :D
6 BILLION? Outrageous! 5.99 Billion - well, it's reasonable because it is only 5 Billion and some change. :D
NOW! Extra cheap! Just 5.99!
Maybe there you see the difference between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk: one is a salesman at heart, the other an inventor.
This is conjecture of course, but I had the impression for quite some time now.
That is funny to think about. I wonder if it was just a coincidence though, seems like a weird thing to do when that 5.99 is 10 million dollars lol.
@@thomaskositzki9424 Musk is a salesman lol. He doesn't construct rockets and cars, he hires people to do that.
@@Candesce I would credit it to sales psychology. Full numbers make us hesitant. That .99 makes a decision to buy easier.
"The level of reliability needed for space flight is attainable". Yes that is the existential question. The reality is we need Raptor to be as reliable as the modern jet engine, no small feat, if we want to carry people to Mars without ensuring their demise.
The Merlin wasn't always as super reliable as it is now. I'm sure the raptors will only get better from here, especially now that they got intact test articles that's actually flown to study.
As a measure of how reliable and safe modern airline travel is when compared to space flight consider this.
The Space Shuttle programme lost two vehicles in a total of 135 launches. If that loss rate were applied to the pre Covid, 2019 total world airline flights the number of airline crashes for that year would exceed 120 thousand.
@@mitseraffej5812 I think you get the point I was making. The level of reliability required by a manned (humanned, peopled??) mars flight is truly astonishing. The Apollo program went to the moon went seven times and almost lost 1 ship. Definitely not good enough for mars.
Yeah I think Mars will be more than enough to ensure their demise without factoring in unstable rockets.
@@charlesbeaudry3263 I think every Apollo moon shot was on the brink of disaster for some reason or another, not just the one. I recall reading that NASA has stated that an acceptable loss rate for the Commercial Crew Program is 1 in 500. The Shuttle actual rate being 1 in 68. Even 1 in 500 is tens of thousands times more risky than airline flying.
Elon Musk stated about using Starship for “Point to Point” earth travel that he thought the safety achievable would be equivalent to that of the 1930s era airline industry. This in itself being hundreds of times more risky than today’s industry. Just look at the “ song and dance” that went on with the crashes of the two Boeing737 Max aircraft. The public hate plane crashes.
The more I watch Scott, the more I think we're separated at birth. That bookshelf in the background has awesome reading in it! 11 out of 10!
Finally, the video all us space fans have been *really* waiting for!!
Really? The first ever successful landing was a first. This is the first flight of the 747. I'd rather have been there when the Wright brothers made their first flight.
@@benholroyd5221 Instead of being there for the landing of the rocket that will bring people to Mars
@@Phoenix_1776 well obviously being on Mars to see the first landing of men on Mars would be cool aswell.
@@benholroyd5221 We’d have to settle for a camera sent earlier to view this for us by a robot. This way we can see the first people land.
Jeff.."I didn't know this was for real. No fair, you have to let us bid again!"
Keep in mind that it is the funding source that is largely to blame here, not the bidders or the end customer. Having redundant access would be a good thing for NASA, but Congress didn't provide sufficient funds. Commercial Crew is so far behind due to a similar issue with stingy development funding.
If it wasn't for China (Soft space race), there would be no funding at all.. I'm sure they all wish it would just go away.
I think what surprised Jeff was that SpaceX was considered acceptable.
I am sure they knew SX would be much cheaper, but didn't care because they figured it would be ruled out.
They played fast and loose with the specs and requirements expecting to be the only serious bid, and then be able to charge more to correct the issues later.
They thought they only had to be better than Dynetics, and that SpaceX wasn't going to be a serious competition.
Respond from SN15: "You were never stepping forward ferociously, you're nothing but a usurper, a false idol. The FAA has approved me, let me tell you how to fly, Jeff who"
@ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn They weren't better than Dynetics.
Very expensive and this ladder of failure (also it's single use).
Scott, seriously well done!
The best part about this is that they actually have something to examine and pull useful data from.
Jeff bezos: Spacex shouldn't get the contract because they haven't successfully landed one
Elon the next day: you were saying
And also, spacex isn't going to use the same landing methods, since the moon has no atmosphere, so the bellyflop would be useless, as well as they would need to use engines higher up so as to not kick up dust into the skirt
@@lukeh_2789 i would find it so incredibly funny if NASA actually fined both of those companies for wasting their time with these blatantly incorrect and time wasting challenges. They shouldnt be able to file fake reports with false information and be allowed to get away with it like its no big deal. I hope NASA holds this against them and adds to the report that "while it would have been nice to have a second team for the moon landings, considering the lies and tactics used by these companies we do not feel comfortable working with them as that behavior would likely continue, therefore we reject them yet again for the additional reason of "blatantly lying about a contract to smear a competitor and to slow down the USAs project for going to the moon." nothing would suit those companies more then a black eye like that and it would be far more useful then a fine.
@@jessiejanson1528 u forget the fact that nasa is useless 🙄 space x has done 20 years worth of development while nasal has been lazing around
@@xSabir-hc7wj Nasa has always supported Space X - they helped them a lot, because the time it consumed for Nasa was way more productive than if they would have developed something on their own.
Both are the winners today, Space X for reaching their goals earlier, and Nasa for getting reliable man rated launchers to get rid of the dependency on Russian soyuz launchers to ISS.
@@xSabir-hc7wj NASA does what the govt tells it to do. they can not spend money on anything unless money was assigned for it. If they violate this the head of NASA will go to jail for a long time. if you want to blame anyone, blame congress. they choose the funding and as a result they choose the projects. They tell NASA to spend money on X and they must do it. They give funding to projects like the SLS to direct money to friends under the claim that its for "jobs in their district" and to retain expertise needed for building rockets even if we dont need them right now. Except its BS because they should be doing something useful with the money and the expertise, not throwing it away on a useless rocket that cost so far 17 Billion to develop using spaceshuttle parts(not kidding) and will cost aroudn 2 billion per launch. congress also forced NASA to ignore safety regulations for human space flight and will allow SLS to skip the minimum 2 flights per year needed to keep human safety ratings, meanwhile they give spacex crap and forced them to have 10 flights. Also keep in mind the space shuttle disasters that were caused because they ignored safety. For these projects they promised safety would be #1. Unfortunately for NASA, they can only do what congress tells them... Also the head of NASA is not allowed to give a person opinion, his opinion is required to be the official opinion of NASA which is dictated by congress. Every time the last head of NASA praised spacex, within 24 hours he was forced to "correct" himself with things like "i misspoke when i said that spacex is a great company, its not what i meant". But virtually everyone just blames NASA despite them having 0 control of anything.
"lift an entire grain silo"
Brilliant! :D
Now that you've got that silo in the air, how're the cows gonna eat lunch?
@@user-mp3eq6ir5b The cow jumped over the moon
@@user-mp3eq6ir5b We send the cows after the silo went there too. Now we have orbital farms.
Hey we could send cows to the moon, they produce a whole heap of methane. We could have methane farms on the moon from grain fed space cows.
What fascinates me is that this space craft takes off and lands just like the rockets in the 1950s science fiction movies even though the rocket in the science fiction movies was usually an Atlas with the stock film footage run backwards for landing.
Apparently, Von Braun originally thought of landing Apollo on the moon like this (imagine the CSM touching down instead of the LEM) , but for reasons of weight and fuel economy, he had to be talked out of it. Question is, can SpaceX do better?
@@BlackEpyon The weight and fuel economy issues cannot really directy be fixed by anything. As far as I can tell this simply comes down to basic physics principles.
But SpaceX can create an environment where they simply don't give a crap about those issues anymore.
When your cargo transporter is so large and you can actually refuel it in flight, weight and fuel economy can become kinda irrelevant.
Well spotted
@@AliothAncalagon If you knew anything about physics, you would know this is total bollocks
@@frankmcnally01 As an engineer, I actually think I do know something about physics.
Does your arrogant objection come with an argument attached to it?
Man, thanks for reminding me how important John Williams is to film!!
That multicast address is probably internal to SpaceX. We use between 224. and 239. normally in-house for multicast addresses. Port 9000 is often used in streaming depending on the app used.
I think there are only two groups of multicast IP ranges. Link Local and fully routable.
I figure they just have their own VLAN on Starlink if that is what this was.
_Revenge of the Fifth_ I swear I could feel a disturbance in the Force as millions of souls groaned out in pain at that. 🤭
collective cringe. :)
Scott is a dad after all, its in his blood!
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Sample Textius the wise? I thought not, it's not a story the youtubers would tell you. It's a kerbal legend.
I hate you :)
I love you :)
I love and hate you ;)(
Only a Sample deals in relativity!!
I am so happy someone noticed the udp/ip address and vlc. Attention to detail
VLC gets a lot of mileage in the aerospace industry for network streaming. As noted, it works pretty well.
I must admit, I did try to connect to that on the extremely unlikely chance that it was actually routed over the public internet.
It's actually pretty simple. You multi-stream to the ssd and the com channel. You use OBS to output your streams for later composition. Then when it lands and doesn't explode, it uses a non-time dependent transfer so you get all of the 8k footage, then re-composite it into the replay.
Could have had a really nice local cam of all this from the ship right after landing.
Revenge of the Fifth Starship - snatching victory from the jaws of defeat that her brothers & sisters fell victim to!
So *that's* why they scrubbed it on may the 4th
They wanted it to be a revenge of the fifth...
That works!
Revenge of the Fif...teenth.
@@NeoMorphUK Fifth to spread her wings!
@@kworkshop Darn it. Too quick were you!
As alternative to Star Wars music, you can use King's Row soundtrack (it's identical) and also Holst's Jupiter.
also: "Sample Text" lol
@Barack Obama but... it would work
@@grproteus Did Mr. President stutter? I think he didn't.
Star Wars music IS Holst. Most folks can't even tell the difference between Mars and Vader's theme.
@@grproteus The thing is, TH-cam copyright strikes operate via comparing sound to the tracks that are given to its ID program.
@@grproteus Legal "Fair Use" and TH-cam "Fair Use" are not the same. If it's too close, the system can still flag it as a violation and they tend to err on the side of just flagging anything potential, especially with large IP's.
Hell, even if the intro theme was in the public domain, Disney would still probably flag it because they're mega trolls like that.
"...didn't explode..." Or as the Space X commentator so wonderfully put it, 'didn't suffer an unexpected disassembly event..." 😂😂
Actually, it is Unplanned Rapid Disassembly or RUD :)
@@mariasirona1622 Ah, couldn't remember exactly and in the heat of the moment didn't want to rewatch the SpaceX feed to check 😏
We didn't get "another exciting test" :(
@@mariasirona1622 No it's actually a " Rapid unscheduled disassembly" :)
@@williamgreene4834 lol Hey William Green, when correcting someone, it's helpful to supply the correct correction, just as you did. Thanks!
Now let's make this the rule and not the exception, and get multiple flights out of each ship.
Just like Falcon.
Just like Falcon, I imagine the prototypes will continue to evolve very rapidly for quite a while longer before reuse is demonstrated.
@@arfyness Yeah but it still seems unstable to me compared to Falcon. Specially that this time, Starship is going for lunar and marsian missions which will have a completely different type of aerodynamics and gravity influence on the fins etc...
@@rekjavik8555
Lunar Starship will not have fins according to current publicly known plans.
Well from now on, the crashes will be the exceptions and not the rule
@@rekjavik8555 unstable? Not at all!
You didn't mention the fun moment when everyone realized "Holy crap it's a foot from falling off the pad"
Falling off? The land was about an inch lower than the concrete, and it's probably a hard packed pad.
@@TexanUSMC8089 Falling off as in, missing the landing zone. Not falling over. But yeah, could have worded that better I guess.
He mentions it at 7:47
@@EnderMalcolm you might have been onto something. An inch tilt at the base of the craft is no big deal for a small traditional lander, wouldn't try it with a 50 meter tall structure. Center of gravity would determine whether it tanks or not.
@@iorr98 SN10 crushed the legs. You cant tell me it wasnt an inch off. Anyway, its bottom heavy.
I cannot stress how happy it made me that the text crawl was parodied down to the smallest bit of structure/wording of the ep 4.
Yeah... it was almost terse. :)
A thought on heat-tiles on the back of the fins: A simpler answer than ‘reflected heat’ might be that this way they can test adhesion and resistance to vibration without affecting the fins’ aerodynamics. An easy first test.
I saw the headline this afternoon in my news feed, but of all the spacey channels I subscribe to, you're the first to show me this. Thank you Scott.
@Scott Manley! Taking factual reporting and fandom to a new level! Brilliant opening, as well as your follow-on analysis!
OMG. I know im not the only one to say this, but what an epic intro!
"Revenge of the 5th"
You're a gem!
That opening sequence is genius!
Awesome intro!
And a good way to celebrate 60 years since Shepard's flight.
Everybody's repeating the same Star Wars memes and it's just us two that remember the 60th anniversary of Freedom 7.
@@peteranderson037 And Blue Origin who announced the auction of their first ticket on New Shepard. Starship just slightly stole their thunder :-)
Scott, thank you for your regular sharing of your expertise, experience, and enthusiasm for everything space-travel-related! You do an excellent job, and myself and friends of mine who also watch you really appreciate what you do with your channel!
Wow...now we know why the video came out a day late and it was just worth it! As always Scott's analysis blows it out of the park!
May The (generic non copyright universe spirit) Be With You!
Is it normal to cry in front of a rocket launch? It's beautifull!
Yes; yes it is. 😀
We are watching a potential turning of point in human history. Pretty legitimate to tear up I think. :)
I think the fire suppression thing is more designed to protect the pad from heat than its designed to put out the fire
Isn't the pad just concrete which is ridiculously cheap? Whereas the starship contains valuable parts needing inspections so you really want to make sure it doesn't burn to the ground.
I think you're def. right my dude
I think that the fire suppression system was designed more for landing closer to the center of the pad. I can see SpaceX upgrading it though.
@Ben David the sheer amount of dish soap they would need to make a difference would be more expensive than simply getting 9 more water cannons
@@Tonatsi Just need a few drops of Dawn. Safe for the ducks too!
Oh my gosh I had to pause the video because I was laughing too hard to listen properly.
That intro was absolutely amazing.
That intro was 🔥
Most of the landings have been 💥
I have been waiting for this since I saw it launch! Amazing intro by the way!
The engine gimballing looks epic!
"A New Hop"
I burst out laughing the second I saw it. Instant thumbs-up for that one. 😂
Trampoline is working!
Congratulations to SpaceX team from Ukraine 🇺🇦🔱🇺🇦 the homeland of Sergiy Koroloyov 🚀
Yeap, but what about Ukraine itself? Still makeshifting for Boeing some stages and engines?)
Remember, SpaceX claims that Falcon launch is cheaper than Zenit 3 or Antares. RocketLabs develops a rocket with reusability feature to take the niche of Antares, first stage of which is produced in Ukraine.
So, how to discuss the death of ukrainian aerospace?
@@Immanatum The original post was congratulations. Who in their right mind responds with whataboutism and purported death discussion?
Trolls who would like to piss on other countries, that's who.
@@u1zha there is nothing to congrat with, when your own country has failed up everything while had a chance to withstand against SpaceX.
IMHO, Starship at current version is the dumbest thing for making any space exploration, the only purpose of which is to get into the place of Senate Launch System. The latest events around NASA's tender for Moon lander demasked that very well.
And the last - Sergei Korolev was a Soviet rocket engineer, constructed his rockets with Soviet and for Soviet Union. Appropriation of his name is the only thing left for Ukraine from it's aerospace industry.
@@Immanatum did you get your paycheck? I've heard russian farms delays their payments frequently.
@@AlexKravchuk oh, everything what cannot be pushed into small Ukrainian world box must be paid by Russians. It very convenient to hide there when direct questions about %any_ukrainian_achievement% are put in the discussion.
BTW, former Ukrainian is working for SpaceX, and with his participation Crew Dragon has been created. Don't even try to appropriate his work with arguments about his ethnicity or roots.
"Has enough power to lift an entire grain silo" love it haha
That is a beautiful intro. Good work!
it amused me that spacex nailed this landing the day after the contract with nasa was put on hold.. with a big "like we care" sign on it..
SpaceX should care that rules are being followed. If they want to continue to participate in government contracts it is in their own interest to make sure that every process is done in a transparent and clear manner. At least that's what I hope for, that Musk is not hoping that NASA will bend the rules for him.
@@zhuzhaful There's nothing a bidder can do to prevent competitors from objecting to goverment contract awards. SpaceX isn't ignoring any rules here.
@@psychohist My comment was directed at that asinine "like we care sign" comment. That is not the sign Musk should be waving, but "thank you NASA for following the rules properly. We will of course wait until there is no doubt we won fairly." They of course have no control over their competitors' complains, but they should recognize this as a fair process and be patient and respectful of it.
@@zhuzhaful it has nothing to do with any rules, spacex has a goal and they care about that...so yes "like we care" is accurate as fuck. with the limited budget nasa was given, spacex was literally the only choice. that the other crybabies are mad about it is irrelevant to spacex
@@philosoaper I would like to see paperwork that will come out as a result of the complains filed. I assume the other companies submitted their proposals within limits set by NASA, so I do not understand why you state that SpaceX was the only choice. Could you please elaborate? And this childish disrespect towards competitors, crybabies, really? I used to admire Elon for stirring interest among young people in space exploration, but it seems that he only stirred interest in
his own persona, and not space in general.
Love how scott is flexing his lego shuttle there, in place of the scrolling computer images
so glad to have seen it live, truly history in the making!
That intro just made my week lmao
spacex: do you wanna go out to eat?
nasa: I don’t have money bro
spacex: I asked u if u wanted to go out eat, not if u got money..
nasa: 🤧🥺
underrated
@Comrade NB Plus Nasa has and has gotten stuff to Mars and well beyond already while Space X's biggest achievement is do something NASA managed to do over 6 decades ago, oh and land a grain silo
@@L8ugh1ngm8n1 "Land a grain silo" I never thought of it like that. lmao
@@L8ugh1ngm8n1 nasa managed to land and refly orbital boosters back in the sixties? I'd love to see a source on that
@Comrade NB the amount of money they poured into SpaceX is a fraction of what they would have spent developing anything.
U da man! Your fellow TH-camrs were joking that you might be EDITING your next video as soon as the vehicle landed. They and we are amazed at the depth of your analysis and how f...ing fast you can put out quality video! I always learn something whenever I watch one of yours. Thanks again. :)
Scott, it is now your responsibility to write the opening text crawl for all future Star Wars movies!
He's better than children's movies...
Yes yes... future star wars movies
I hope I get the chance to see this in person one day. It must be breath taking
After any space even or spacex, this is the vid I'm always looking forward too
How to have a nerdier program than breaking down space technology news?
Have a Starwars intro, lol
Great intro Scott. Always a great time watching your analysis after a starship successfully lands(or not)
Scott never disappoints! Love his take on things.
That would be freaking cool if they would give out the addresses for each individual camera so that we can have all cameras up at the same time. Probably won't happen but it would be cool.
Definitely won't, they even encrypted the camera downlinks when people found out where they were transmitting and were receiving the video directly.
@@00011theman I knew that. Though they could dictate what cameras we see by only giving us the addresses of the ones they want us to see.
Really the main reason for encrypting the downlink was because it transmitted literally everything, from camera views that continually cycled views to raw telemetry.
I was waiting for this from the moment it landed
That intro deserves 3 thumbs up.
The other bits of refusing blue origin: that darned big ladder, its lack of reusability, and less cargo capacity. Just hope that winch still works for that long elevator. Hand cranking that thing seems like a bit to much.
Electric motors don't weight much for their power (esp in 1/6 grav). With solar power electric winches and backup should be easy.
The Elevator doesn't worry me at all... Landing in a spot that can support a 5 story building plopped on it out of nowhere without boulders in the way of a wide leg stance is more problematic.
Looking at Starship, I don't think Elon will be noting the ladder and winch length. *Blue Origin is just complaining because they can* - if they suddenly came back with a bid cheaper than SpaceX, they should be automatically disqualified for price gouging contracts. Other possibility is they are lobbying for 2 HLS craft. No idea how Dynetics ended up costing more than Starship unless Elon is eating a lot of the development cost because he will be using the technology on other ventures.
I was surprised at the offer - I though NASA was throwing SpaceX a bone to get a head start on using SpaceX as a cargo variant, but Elon threw down with a lower price tag and increased functionality.
*Overlooked in the area of capability is what Starship offers but NASA isn't crediting in their bids.* Starship is designed to refuel in space and carry out multiple trips to lunar surface and back, which will likely happen in earth orbit, providing the inherent capability to replace an SLS and Orion mission with a Dragon mission every time it refuels.
That intro actually made by day 😆
Competitors: We demand an investigation!
Spacex: Race ya!
It wasn’t that long ago people were joking about the Starship, now it’s really taking shape. The pace of this operation is astounding.
Delusional comment
@@frankmcnally01Delusional ignorant, shut tf up
@@frankmcnally01 .... thank you for your delusional comment...
Lol a starship you can't travel in space with...
so far it has a 20% success rate, im not going to be comfortable until it reaches at leas 99% success
Just noticed something. At 10:32 when he shows the 3 finalist teams for the Moon shot...
The "Dynetics" ship looks more like a drum kit from a distance. Kick in the center, 2 toms on the side and 2 cymbals above. The tall part is the "flashing display" for the rock show stage. :D
I think they let the fire burn out, “under control”, so that there would not be a Methane collecting to an explosive mixture ratio. . . which us what I think happened with SN10, where the fire was extinguished and then, kablooey
ALAKLABAM
I was thinking the same thing, allowing the pressurized feed lines to bleed off, rather than keeping the lines pressurized with explosive gas, but if this was the case SpaceX would have announced it. I think it was a leak with only the line itself depressurizing, definitely wasn't a flow anywhere close to what you would get with an engine feed, so at least the tank was shut off.
The irony would be if SpaceX decided from this bleeding the lines was a good idea and incorporated the accidental leak into a planned bleed off in the future.
WAI were guessing how quickly you'd get your video out after the success last night Scott. Enjoyed the intro.
"Revenge of the Fifth"? Love it!
"A NEW HOP" comic genius
Strange hearing the “Hello, Scott Manley here.” so delayed..
Scott and his puns: a true dad-joke level :)
Love the "sample text" mistakenly left on the timeline :-)
How long will it take Scott Manley to produce a video discussing SN 15 .. 24 hrs 😍😍😍
Guy has no sleep requirements, right? :D
That was a great intro, at 4am in the morning you gave me a good chuckle! Thanks