Time Stamps! 0:00 New Nosecone Outside 0:30 Super Heavy BN1 Prepped for Move in High Bay 3:07 BN1 Begins its Move 4:04 Robotic View of the Move 5:18 Delivery at the Production Site 6:24 Tent Expansion Continues 6:49 Orbital Launch Table Work Continues 8:15 Section of the New Bridge Crane 9:11 Starship SN11 Vents During Small Test 10:35 Tank Farm Activity 11:33 Construction Continues at the Orbital Launch Site 13:43 Section of Bridge Crane Lowered 14:08 New Platform Delivered 15:15 Test Tank SN7.2 16:44 Crews Prepare to Move the New Nosecone 17:40 Nosecone Moved 18:12 Section of the High Bay Crane Raised Again
I just want to give a big thanks to Mary, Jack and the whole NSF team for the stunning, high-resolution, videos they provide all of us on a day-to-day basis. I typically use your videos as a way to wind down before going to bed and watch in awe as the construction of Starship takes place!
Actually I'm guessing it's well within their business model: 1. it would be more costly to erect enough structures or underground facilities to perform the kind of work (and at this scale) that they do 2. it allows us to see the progress, get more hyped about it and about SpaceX in general, making us more willing to support SpaceX both financially (Teslas, Starlink) as by fighting a lot of the "public fights" for them So it's a win-win :)
Łukasz Hejnak it might interesting to know how long the high bay is in use before another is not required as it does not seem feasible to leave them out.. with sudden weather changes... 🐬 it might depend how soon this goes off-shore..
So true We are currently going through a very major flood and I was watching the news "NASASpaceflight released a video" I immediately watched it idc if I flood lol
So glad to finally see the bridge crane work starting. It will speed up production AND be safer for all employees. We all want speed but gotta have safety.
Thank you Mary and NSF team for this wonderful footage. Nice to see workers waving back at Mary.. that white structure delivered looks.like a swiveling mechanism.
The crane will be a good addition, i work regularly with one bridge crane and it turns stacking operations more organized and safe as the control can be used on the spot you need instead of relaying instructions to the crane operator, and also it will remove the need to use mobile cranes and all the floor space they take.
All good points. In the industrial setting, the precise movement of heavy pieces during assembly is crucial. Bridge cranes get it done and are amazing to watch as they do it. My compliments to the great operators I've watched over the years. You guys are unbelievable.
Sometime in the near future spacex will decide on some process streamlining, when the starship design matures there will be application specific hardware, as flaps installation jigs, rocket engine replacement platforms,etc. There are some jigs present on site, but probably they are "trade secrets" and hidden inside the tents. One thing i would change is the number of segments used on the starship nose, i woud design a giant mandrel to form 4 segments and then weld then, that would make the nose structure more stiff. The problem is that i think there are no rolls of stainless that big on the market, it would have to be purpose built for spacex
These Boca Chica guys are "The Incredibles". The former employees now retired from working on the first Boeing 747 working prototypes worked under similar austere manufacturing conditions before the 747 factory was even built in Everett Washington. It's really nice to see that can do anything spirit and make it so attitude in action.
@@jwortman1984 - Yup, and when Starcity becomes a thing it may well become a closed community. No public road either. So far, luckily, SpaceX keeps it accessible. Hoping that there will be enough good-minded observers to remind the twitter-knuckleheads that (and how) they should behave.
It is just incredible, the amount of effort that they put into making these videos every day is huge. Big props to NASASpaceflight, watching their updates has basically become a pivotal moment of my daily routine. It is also beautiful to see the history of space exploration being written in front of our eyes. Since the moment I discovered about the Starship project back in January I've basically found another reason to live; how can you not be uberexcited about what's going on? I know people that don't care about this but H O W. I mean, it is simply wonderful. Watching these videos also makes me realize how small and useless (in a good way) I am compared to each people currently working on this project. It is truly inspiring, it pushes me to aim for something bigger. I wish I could contribute in something like this one day.
It's interesting to see all this mystery parts delivered and we try to solve the puzzle of which one goes where.. Trying to figure out SpaceX plans before they do it. Haha.. A new era of Space Exploration. I can't wait for the day when Starship is fully ready to fly humans on it. May take awhile but best believe, we are inching towards it very quickly.
It's nice seeing the bridge crane being installed as it will streamline manufacturing going forward. This will improve safety and allow for quicker work too.
I guess this might be one of the best publicly documented building and developing projects ever. So many livestreams 24/7, daily high quality videos and photos, flyovers and so much more.
I have little doubt. Apparently the blunt nose cone is now called “NC12”, meaning it might become part of something that flies but doesn’t belly flop. BN2 is now my best guess.
Thanks Mary and Jack for all the daily shots. Jack you must be homesick by now, bring your cat next time. I can’t see an SPMT under BN1, how is it being moved?
@@catbertz Dude I know. I was so giddy when the crane first arrived and had to stop and think about it.... "Why am I giddy about a frekin bridge crane arriving somewhere in Texas"
Those new white pieces have pivot points/hinges - if they go with the mystery white structure it surely has to be some kind of support structure or strong back for Superheavy transport?
It'll be interesting to see where they go as the servo arm on the ends mean they are meant to be moved by motor/ram to temporarily clamp something in place.
I wonder if the table goes on top of the 6 sloping columns at the orbital pad, and the new white hinge pieces are something to do with supporting and/or even catching the booster in the middle of that. My sizes might be off though, it’s hard to tell whether it would all fit.
Wow, Spacebase is just getting busier and busier each day! Frankly it blows my mind how much money must be getting spent daily with all the activities!
Parts at 15:00 looks too beefy to be part of a booster flap, likely part of a catch tower they might be building near the launch pad (recent piles driven in), or maybe part of launch tower lift capability (likely too small)?
It definitely looks like a mechanism that is meant to move somehow. But I'm thinking it's either something to do with the launch tower, or, it might actually be part of the Mystery Structure that we've seen before, somehow. Either way, no freakin clue what it is.
I think that the new nosecone is for sn15 and the blunt nosecones a lunar starship mock up and thats why they moved bn1 over to stack sn15s nose cone to the body
I was thinking about the “flaps” on starship and the function they provide. In aviation elevators control pitch and ailerons control roll. In situations where they control both pitch and roll they are called Elevons . Yaw is controlled by Rudders and on the starship yaw is controlled by the RCS thrusters. In aviation Flaps are used to increase drag while increasing lift. Also Speed brakes are used to increase drag (reduce speed). On starship both the front and rear “flaps” provide pitch and roll control as well as drag so using aviation terminology they should probably be best referred to as Elevons.
I agree that the term flap on starships is thoroughly misleading from an aeronautical engineering point of view. Elevon is certainly closer but a new name is probably needed to uniquely identify what the control surfaces actually do. I wonder what the SpaceX engineers call them?
May you give a little more detailed view of the new nosecone with one flap installed? There are so many interesting details on it: new type of lifting points, two additional RCS nozzles right above the flap...
That high bay bridge crane is no joke. I have worked in boiler shops in Cleveland and the biggest I have ever seen is 70 ton cranes. Even the bridge crane spanning the Hover Dam is 350 ton I think.
18:54 is the length of the video. If you meant the delivery at 5:43 my guess is base plates for SH grid fins. I can't think of anything else that would require the displayed structural strength.
@@gilbertanderson3456 To me it seems that it's not the Musk way to paint parts when it's not needed for this vehicle. So, I don't think those are for the vehicle at al.
@@olafzalm Valid point. There is so much ground support equipment and tankage being constructed and probably additional fabrication platforms as well. Lots of possibilities.
Moved into Moved around in Moved over Moved a little Movin on down Movin on up Movin on up To the top Movin on up To a deluxe apartment In the high high high bay.... Movin on up Movin on up To the top Movin on up Yeah we fine-ly got SpaceX in the skyyyyyyyyy!
Can someone from your team of exceptional space journalists write a comprehensive piece on the selfless (!) and tireless (!) services of SN 7.2? Please do it. Thanks.
They'll add a diving board off the "Falcon's Eyrie Bar and Grill's " sundeck for that. It'll be just like New River, but with a different view...no trains and no water to drown in either.
Time Stamps!
0:00 New Nosecone Outside
0:30 Super Heavy BN1 Prepped for Move in High Bay
3:07 BN1 Begins its Move
4:04 Robotic View of the Move
5:18 Delivery at the Production Site
6:24 Tent Expansion Continues
6:49 Orbital Launch Table Work Continues
8:15 Section of the New Bridge Crane
9:11 Starship SN11 Vents During Small Test
10:35 Tank Farm Activity
11:33 Construction Continues at the Orbital Launch Site
13:43 Section of Bridge Crane Lowered
14:08 New Platform Delivered
15:15 Test Tank SN7.2
16:44 Crews Prepare to Move the New Nosecone
17:40 Nosecone Moved
18:12 Section of the High Bay Crane Raised Again
Thank you! SN11 soon
Thank you prayers🙏🙏
16:18 "ALL NON EMPLOYEES STAY OFF OF THE PROPERTY. THANK YOU."
I don't always use all caps. But when I do, it's with a bull horn.
16:17 Really bro? Mary is ESSENTIAL REPORTER, and ELON SAID SO......
16:17 Hau sugga! UMary UBALULEKILE........voetsek man!
I just want to give a big thanks to Mary, Jack and the whole NSF team for the stunning, high-resolution, videos they provide all of us on a day-to-day basis. I typically use your videos as a way to wind down before going to bed and watch in awe as the construction of Starship takes place!
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.
Did I say yes!
@ 12:40, You can hear the workers wave and say, "Hello Mary!" :D
That's nice
Thats so cute! Makes me happy to see them having fun at the worksite!
A big thanks to SpaceX for building these rockets in such a manner so that we can see the progress.
Actually I'm guessing it's well within their business model:
1. it would be more costly to erect enough structures or underground facilities to perform the kind of work (and at this scale) that they do
2. it allows us to see the progress, get more hyped about it and about SpaceX in general, making us more willing to support SpaceX both financially (Teslas, Starlink) as by fighting a lot of the "public fights" for them
So it's a win-win :)
@@LeeeHack also Elon himself is the advertiser.
Łukasz Hejnak it might interesting to know how long the high bay is in use before another is not required as it does not seem feasible to leave them out.. with sudden weather changes... 🐬
it might depend how soon this goes off-shore..
@14:38, I love the guy "Raisin' the roof".
Again, well done Mary!
Thank you, Mary and the NASASpaceflight team!
No other video matters enough to continue watching when this notification comes.
So true
We are currently going through a very major flood and I was watching the news
"NASASpaceflight released a video" I immediately watched it idc if I flood lol
So glad to finally see the bridge crane work starting. It will speed up production AND be safer for all employees. We all want speed but gotta have safety.
Thank you Mary and NSF team for this wonderful footage. Nice to see workers waving back at Mary.. that white structure delivered looks.like a swiveling mechanism.
The crane will be a good addition, i work regularly with one bridge crane and it turns stacking operations more organized and safe as the control can be used on the spot you need instead of relaying instructions to the crane operator, and also it will remove the need to use mobile cranes and all the floor space they take.
All good points. In the industrial setting, the precise movement of heavy pieces during assembly is crucial. Bridge cranes get it done and are amazing to watch as they do it. My compliments to the great operators I've watched over the years. You guys are unbelievable.
Sometime in the near future spacex will decide on some process streamlining, when the starship design matures there will be application specific hardware, as flaps installation jigs, rocket engine replacement platforms,etc.
There are some jigs present on site, but probably they are "trade secrets" and hidden inside the tents.
One thing i would change is the number of segments used on the starship nose, i woud design a giant mandrel to form 4 segments and then weld then, that would make the nose structure more stiff.
The problem is that i think there are no rolls of stainless that big on the market, it would have to be purpose built for spacex
Of course, the birds, Mary the birds are always around you, it's so nice to hear :)
I love how we get exciting that it shifted
We are excited to see sn15 moving into the Highbay now that there is space!
@@mikedeere4699 Likely installation of the bridge crane happens first. It will take a few days till the nose cone is ready for SN15 anyway.
clickbait!! lol
_IT SHIFTED LETS GOOOOOOOO_
@@dotdankory HELL YEAH LETS GOOO
These Boca Chica guys are "The Incredibles". The former employees now retired from working on the first Boeing 747 working prototypes worked under similar austere manufacturing conditions before the 747 factory was even built in Everett Washington. It's really nice to see that can do anything spirit and make it so attitude in action.
16:19 “All none Employees stay Off the Property... Thank you “ When visit, stay in the oposite side of the road away from the facilities!
Exactly. Respect the worksite, like Mary does. A lot of "twitter folk" turning up and not following the rules these days.
How crowded does it get? I want to drive down there one if these days.
@@williampacheco7767 obviously busy enough to need a man with a megaphone to remind them! (who we did see shortly after than announcement :) )
Yeah I’m afraid the public access isn’t going to last...I hope I’m wrong but it only takes one idiot..
@@jwortman1984 - Yup, and when Starcity becomes a thing it may well become a closed community. No public road either. So far, luckily, SpaceX keeps it accessible. Hoping that there will be enough good-minded observers to remind the twitter-knuckleheads that (and how) they should behave.
It is just incredible, the amount of effort that they put into making these videos every day is huge. Big props to NASASpaceflight, watching their updates has basically become a pivotal moment of my daily routine.
It is also beautiful to see the history of space exploration being written in front of our eyes. Since the moment I discovered about the Starship project back in January I've basically found another reason to live; how can you not be uberexcited about what's going on? I know people that don't care about this but H O W. I mean, it is simply wonderful. Watching these videos also makes me realize how small and useless (in a good way) I am compared to each people currently working on this project. It is truly inspiring, it pushes me to aim for something bigger. I wish I could contribute in something like this one day.
Thanks to everyone to show this every single day. Great to watch these videos and keep us updated 👍🚀
I see heroes and history in making! Just amazing!
I am like a kid looking at a 1000 piece construction set, trying to figure out where some of those strangely shaped pieces might be used.
It's interesting to see all this mystery parts delivered and we try to solve the puzzle of which one goes where.. Trying to figure out SpaceX plans before they do it. Haha.. A new era of Space Exploration. I can't wait for the day when Starship is fully ready to fly humans on it. May take awhile but best believe, we are inching towards it very quickly.
it might be part of super heavy support for when they try to stack a SN-20 after the launch tower is finished.
It's nice seeing the bridge crane being installed as it will streamline manufacturing going forward. This will improve safety and allow for quicker work too.
I guess this might be one of the best publicly documented building and developing projects ever. So many livestreams 24/7, daily high quality videos and photos, flyovers and so much more.
I wait every morning for this videos, amazing works guys..
Your videos make my life so much happier, i just became a member. Thank you!
BN1 is HUGE!
Thanks a lot for the documenting ! It would be great if you could upload those footage in 4K :)
Thanks, Mary and NSF!!!
Black/grey/white makes it look all somber and serious and with the shiny metal it looks all high tech/modern like 1927's Metropolis
very good video of action at boca chica thanks Mary and Jack
"New Nose Cone" is 100% for SN15. Calling it now.
I have little doubt. Apparently the blunt nose cone is now called “NC12”, meaning it might become part of something that flies but doesn’t belly flop. BN2 is now my best guess.
@@topsecret1837 source for NC12 name? I havent heard that before
Must be that the blunt nose cone is for a HLS prototype
Thanks Mary and Brady for beaming this up - Starship troupers
Star Trek canon AND Heinlein? We live in a marvelous age.
12:01 vigorous pointing from the worker
Thanks NSF and mary
Nice episode, the place is certainly living up to its title of a SpacePort. Awesome to see all the developing tech (most of it very raw yet)
Thanks Mary and Jack for all the daily shots. Jack you must be homesick by now, bring your cat next time. I can’t see an SPMT under BN1, how is it being moved?
12:40 “Hi Mary” 🥺❤️ so cute
I wonder if United Rentals just has a equipment repair and maintenance person stationed at Boca China full time.
Nice to see the crane being installed in the high bay.
Me being excited about a bridge crane is something I wouldn't have predicted two years ago. 😂
@@catbertz Dude I know. I was so giddy when the crane first arrived and had to stop and think about it.... "Why am I giddy about a frekin bridge crane arriving somewhere in Texas"
@@Mythricia1988 ‘cause it’s not just "somewhere in Texas", it’s at Starbase, BocaX Texas!
18:30 it wouldn't be a Mary video without a birb!
12:40 hello 👋
Great coverage as always! Thanks for everything you do. Absolutely love it! ♥️🚀✨
Thanks for the awesome vids nsf
Those new white pieces have pivot points/hinges - if they go with the mystery white structure it surely has to be some kind of support structure or strong back for Superheavy transport?
It'll be interesting to see where they go as the servo arm on the ends mean they are meant to be moved by motor/ram to temporarily clamp something in place.
@@helenlawson8426 They looked to my amateur eye very similar to the clamps on the Falcon9 strong backs.
@@Jonathan-ln9ly That would make sense.
I wonder if the table goes on top of the 6 sloping columns at the orbital pad, and the new white hinge pieces are something to do with supporting and/or even catching the booster in the middle of that. My sizes might be off though, it’s hard to tell whether it would all fit.
Wow, Spacebase is just getting busier and busier each day! Frankly it blows my mind how much money must be getting spent daily with all the activities!
Starbase*
how about a million a day..
About ten times less than NASA would spend doing this and in 20 less years than they would require.
@@MrWaldorfian I like Spacebase better, it rhymes :-)
Even with the additional height to stack BN1, Tankzilla can get nearly twice as tall as it currently is now. Great videos from Mary.
Thank you Mary and robots 🥰
Certainly a lot of interesting stuff been delivered over the past two days. Wonder what those white hinge like components are for.
I’m betting SH grid fin control!
Thank you!!
Nice! Thanks!
16:17 "All non-employees stay off the property, thank you"
That production site delivery looks like it could possibly be grid fin hinge
Always good work guys and Mary. Top footage.
Keep up the great work
I think good old test tank 7.2 shows up in every video.
5:45 sounds like someone busted an Xray and had to gouge the weld back out 🧐
Parts at 15:00 looks too beefy to be part of a booster flap, likely part of a catch tower they might be building near the launch pad (recent piles driven in), or maybe part of launch tower lift capability (likely too small)?
That might be true!
It definitely looks like a mechanism that is meant to move somehow. But I'm thinking it's either something to do with the launch tower, or, it might actually be part of the Mystery Structure that we've seen before, somehow. Either way, no freakin clue what it is.
@@Mythricia1988 That's half the fun of these videos: trying to work out what all the bits are for!
Awesome 👌
The Bridge crane is being installed! That will certainly make a functional Booster stack possible and speed up Starship production!
fastest clicker finger in the west
Neat
I think that the new nosecone is for sn15 and the blunt nosecones a lunar starship mock up and thats why they moved bn1 over to stack sn15s nose cone to the body
I think they moved BN1 to facilitate the installation of the high bay crane. They had to get it out of the way.
I agree. Blunt nosecone is for lunar starship, for more than a mock-up
4:03 DROP TOWER!
If we get anymore mystery parts im gnna have to call scooby doo !
I was thinking about the “flaps” on starship and the function they provide. In aviation elevators control pitch and ailerons control roll. In situations where they control both pitch and roll they are called Elevons . Yaw is controlled by Rudders and on the starship yaw is controlled by the RCS thrusters. In aviation Flaps are used to increase drag while increasing lift. Also Speed brakes are used to increase drag (reduce speed). On starship both the front and rear “flaps” provide pitch and roll control as well as drag so using aviation terminology they should probably be best referred to as Elevons.
I agree that the term flap on starships is thoroughly misleading from an aeronautical engineering point of view. Elevon is certainly closer but a new name is probably needed to uniquely identify what the control surfaces actually do. I wonder what the SpaceX engineers call them?
yep, fore and aft elevons
The whole Space X complex is the proverbial beehive of activity.
May you give a little more detailed view of the new nosecone with one flap installed? There are so many interesting details on it: new type of lifting points, two additional RCS nozzles right above the flap...
Congrats. : 350K
The SN-15 nose cone drama got me shook! Haha
Thanks For The Coverage
That's great stuff! But the question I think we all want answered is whether the Sky Bar will have Coke or Pepsi in the guns? 🤣🤣
Cola-X
@@sobel4511 that would be a very Elon thing to have happen. 😂
Dr. Pepper.
@@shrikedecil You rang?
@@johndoe973azazaz Yes, you need to sponsor this somehow. Buy one of the cast-offs and paint it, etc. Don't let Coke *or* Pepsi infect Mars!
My mind is reeling. I hope my head doesn't explode.
Mitch, take a time-out. Breathe.
That high bay bridge crane is no joke. I have worked in boiler shops in Cleveland and the biggest I have ever seen is 70 ton cranes. Even the bridge crane spanning the Hover Dam is 350 ton I think.
The turbine room? Yeah, that's impressive.
I'm tuly worried about this thing tipping over due to wind. How will they keep it upright?
I like that your team is robotic.
Does Zeus know about this?
@@williamswenson5315 NSF robocams end up being chew toys for Zeus...
@@EnyawYorlig Ha! I knew it!
15:00 Could be a part of the spacex tower?
Впечатляет !! Хоть кто что то делает !! Успеха!!!
That thumbnail gave me sn9 flashbacks
Now THAT is a Rocket ! As big as BigD !
At 18:54 - Any guesses on what are these hinged-like parts?
18:54 is the length of the video. If you meant the delivery at 5:43 my guess is base plates for SH grid fins. I can't think of anything else that would require the displayed structural strength.
@@gilbertanderson3456 To me it seems that it's not the Musk way to paint parts when it's not needed for this vehicle. So, I don't think those are for the vehicle at al.
@@olafzalm Valid point. There is so much ground support equipment and tankage being constructed and probably additional fabrication platforms as well. Lots of possibilities.
I think the hinge parts. May bolt on top of the white painted mystery structure to catch the starship or booster
@@gilbertanderson3456 My thought also. I can't imagine what else would have that particular shape/shaft.
Fan of nsf
Do u have a live 24h/7 from the robocam?
Moved into
Moved around in
Moved over
Moved a little
Movin on down
Movin on up
Movin on up
To the top
Movin on up
To a deluxe apartment
In the high high high bay....
Movin on up
Movin on up
To the top
Movin on up
Yeah we fine-ly got SpaceX in the skyyyyyyyyy!
All these parts and pieces... You'd think they were building rockets to out space or something...
5:20 Strongback/Tower components? Looks possible.
I'm on my way 😎💙
So, is the entire orbital launch table going to be lifted off those temporary leveling jacks and transported to the site? Impressive.
Thanks Mary and Team....
this feels like ordering a bunch of random things on amazon just in a different dimension
Nothing random about it, in fact quite the opposite...
Can someone from your team of exceptional space journalists write a comprehensive piece on the selfless (!) and tireless (!) services of SN 7.2? Please do it. Thanks.
Thank you Mary Jack and Elon David Donald Luke Barry Antonia Kimbal Steve Tom Mizuno Leisure Suit Larry Kathleen and all the Spacex Team.....
15:42 Two blue guys working
Blue Tube is in Texas?
Are those wings/canards going to able to withstand getting to orbital velocities?
Notice the FTS boxes on SN11?
The new nosecones have different fittings to attach the lifting-straps. Could this be to enable automated crane attaching after landing?
Can't wait for the "building the biggest" spaceport edition to hit the TV.
thing is massive
I think those white X structure stand is for holding /support super booster from the side.
Me watching the crane go up in the high bay:
Eyyyyy kerbal!
@NASASpaceflight
Hey guy i'm pretty done with the beeps. They seem to be narrow frequency. Any chance of filtering some out?
I think new platform goes on top high bay for base jumpers.😉
@@iamjadedhobo after it launched ;)
They'll add a diving board off the "Falcon's Eyrie Bar and Grill's " sundeck for that. It'll be just like New River, but with a different view...no trains and no water to drown in either.
15:46 - Now we know what Daft Punk is doing in retirement!