Why it took 5 years for the Falcon Heavy to fly
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
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Falcon Heavy. It’s ALMOST HERE! When it flies, it will be the most powerful and highly anticipated rocket of the 21st century.
SpaceX will be attempting the ultimate feat in rocketry, strapping three orbital class boosters together to form a heavy lift vehicle. As if that weren’t enough, the Falcon Heavy will be attempting to land ALL THREE of its massive first stages boosters, two by land one by sea.
SpaceX first announced the Falcon Heavy in 2011 saying the vehicle would be ready to launch in 2013… So why exactly has it taken five additional years to develop a rocket that’s essentially just three Falcon 9’s strapped together?
Well, we’re going to dive into what all has changed since the 2011 announcement including what specific hardware and technology had to be developed. We’re also going to compare the Falcon 9 to the Falcon Heavy in a side by side comparison and explain just why exactly there’s so much more to the Falcon Heavy than just strapping three Falcon 9’s together.
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Almost everyone says, "Elon is the greatest, Elon does this, Elon does that,..." but think of all those SpaceX people that pulled lots of all-nighters to make it all happen.
AGREED! Some of my best friends work at SpaceX, I'm aware of how insanely hard they and their coworkers work. It's a life commitment, not just a job for them. It's quite admirable.
@@EverydayAstronaut the Soyuz actually has five RD-108 engines with 4 chambers each. It was the soviets way of overcoming combustion instability.
EmperorJuliusCaesar Elon is the vital visionary and leader who took all the risks and is making things actually happen. You are so obviously wrong, you’re just repeating pinko talking points.
Thanks Lil Wayne
Dougieroar i suppose you’ll say Napoleon wasn’t really a good leader because he had good soldiers... or Steve Jobs wasn’t anything special either huh? Idiot
Edit: sorry insults aren’t necessary
I'm only four minutes in and I had to pause to say ... this is the greatest video you have ever produced. Consider me entertained.
Thank you!!! I'm glad you're enjoying it :) (Stick around to the very end for a surprise) 😉
yes its very good i liked it a lot !
Nice job guy.
Happy you have the time to do this research.
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Agreed with Philip, absolutely awesome :)
Excellent video! A lot of interesting information combined with a great style of presentation!
Me: *has $90,000,000 lying around*
Tim: *HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS PRODUCT*
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who cheers like a football hooligan at launch/landings!!
Robert Johnson I dont think there would even be a more appropriate place to do so! 😂
Lol. I totally do that too...
Robert Johnson I’m I the only one that hope when a unmanned rocket launches that it explodes
Were you perplexed at all the people calling yesterday's Iridium 4 launch as a UFO? :-) (I know; we're space geeks and not everyone follows this stuff, but still...)
i do that too
12 Struts? Pump up those numbers, those are rookie numbers!
Needs moar struts.
Can never have too many struts
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I wonder what autostruts has to say about the number 12...
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If the thing ends up falling apart I'll just be like
"Tsk tsk... Should have learned from the Kerbal way."
Dude you're doing such a great job. Keep it up!
"Two by land and one by sea."
LOL!!!!! Paul Revere in SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!
Paul Revere, but in reverse :p
@@SuperSMT raul pevere.
Paue Reverl
Regardless of the results, the Falcon Heavy launch will be awesome. I hope it is a total success but I agree that as long as it gets far enough to not damage the pad then it will be successful to at least some degree.
Yea, the team that rebuilt 40 said they could possibly do something that quick in only a few months next time with their better knowledge of the situation, so maybe even a pad failure wouldn't be too awful since I doubt they'll have time to build another Falcon Heavy for at least a couple months.
only problem being cost
Great video. Though it is a bit misleading to say that it's going to Mars. It's going to orbit the sun in an elliptical orbit, and its apoapsis will be close to where Mars orbits the sun. It will never actually get to Mars, it'll just get close during its orbit.
Maybe they'll try ballistic capture technique to enter Mars orbit. It doesn't need delta-v to enter orbit: www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-way-to-reach-mars-safely-anytime-and-on-the-cheap/
Dražen Klisurić - Unfortunately, ballistic capture still requires course corrections en route and the roadster will be an inert payload
I was wondering about that, obviously no soft lander and crashing the Telsa into the Mars soil is tacky. What if a billion$ were squandered to soft land it on the surface, equip it so it can drive away from the lander and park nearby. Imagine such a photo!
New to the channel! Great content, thank you for educating me
Merry Christmas and hopefully a Falcon Heavy start next year.
TJ Kerman it won't be. Elon just had a conference meeting 2 hours ago and said it will now be 2022. Js bro sorry to hurt your feelings.
@@followthegrow108 eat your words
It worked. Years ago. And without any Problems.
Plasma Handy not sure about the “no problems” part.
the core stage did hit the water, and not the droneship
great video, keep up the amazing work
Just a small correction to your reference to Soyuz having 20 engines. Soyuz has 5 engines - 4 RD-107 and one RD-108 - each with 4 combustion chambers driven by a single turbo-pump. RD-107 has 2 verniers while RD-108 has 4 verniers for attitude authority.
You’re correct!!! I completely forgot 🤦♂️
Everyday Astronaut forget? just say u dont know fam
But he said he forgot.
Denny Putra why would you assume he didn't know that but just forgot? I did the exact same thing until I read this comment. I've watched many videos and read many articles talking about it being a single engine with four chambers, but it completely slipped my mind when he mentioned 20 engines...
@@EverydayAstronaut Your statement was essentially accurate, though, since the point you were making was about multiple simultaneous ignitions, and each of the 20 combustion chambers is a separate ignition, right?
Its so awesome to be watching this video video nearly 2 years later. Its still crazy how well the launch went.
LOVED your shopping channel snippet! So funny!! My kids are almost as excited as I am to watch your new videos and launch streams. Keep up the great work!
Soyuz doesn't have 20 rocket engines, it only has 5. You're just counting nozzles!!!
this comment needs more upvotes!!
Of course!
Because the amount of nozzles does not equal the amount of engines. There can be significantly more engines than nozzles.
SlidingSilver
Don't you mean more nozzels than engines?
@@AltoSilver the soyuz uses 5 engines, each engine has 4 *thrust chambers* which is only one part of a rocket engine. Albeit the most visible part to most observers , a thrust chamber does not an engine make.
@@maxk4324 20 thrust chambers to be reliably ignited and 5 turbo pumps to be primed and started
dude you really put so much hard work in this video. thats one of the best video about spacex recently. keep it up
Will you make a video talking about how SpaceX reengineers a Falcon 9 into a Falcon Heavy middle and side booster? You made it seem like a lot of work has to be done so I was wondering if you would make a video about this.
You're absolutely right! You've created the BEST anticipatory, and historical background video on the Falcon H that's on the Web! 5 Stars!
Thank you so much!!!! Glad you liked it!
Falcon super Heavy with 4 boosters like a Soyuz
That sucker could probably launch belgium into orbit jk
Doc Dat Like Soyuz-2.1b, which is swimming in the ocean?
It was a submarine version.
I'm waiting for BFR heavy
and asparagus staging
So glad to see someone with a healthy excitement for rockets and space! :) Love your videos
Ok, how didn't TH-cam recommend this channel before?
First video I watch! I loved it! Already subscribed!
Vinícius Oliveira because its a small growing channel at the moment. But with more subs and more people who watch the videos the channel wil be recommended more
I love your happy dance at the SpaceX facility. That's totally how I feel every time I watch a F9 1st stage landing.
Im so excited for these launches
"fully loaded 737 into orbit"
Interviewer: Why would you send an airliner into orbit?
Elon: Cuz I can.
awesome dude:D
Wow this video was so good! What a sick development against previous clips, amazing!
TVC hahah dude been binging your channel for the last 12 hours and have developed a serious interest in space exploration. Thanks for all you do man you have a gift
One of your best videos yet. I thought I knew everything about falcon heavy, but I learned a few new things. Thanks Everyday Astronaut!
Thank you so much for this video
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SOYUZ has technically 5 booster stage ENGINES (RD-108 main engine and one RD-107 per each of the 4 strap-on liquid fuel boosters, all LOX/Kerosene), but each engine uses 4 combustion CHAMBERS. The RD-107 has an additional two vernier combustion chambers that can thrust vector in a single plane to supply attitude control. The RD-108 has four of such vernier combustion chambers to supply full vector control to the Blok-A stage.
Yes. He made a mistake. Twenty seven people have mentioned that already. :)
The real question is -- does the number of groups into which the combustion chambers are ganged matter too much, or is it the number of combustion chambers themselves which determines the number of most likely points of failure?
If a single combustion chamber fails, it is going to be disastrous for Soyuz. It may or may not be for Falcon, depending on how much collateral damage it causes. If the engine only destroys itself, Falcon-9 can fly with two engines out.
How Does it Really Work
You do know that Soyuz rocket is most reliable rocket in use today, on other hand Falcon 9 is most unreliable rocket in use today. Only rockets named Soyuz (not counting Vostok, Molnia, Voskhod, Sputnik which also belong to R-7 family) had 967 successful launches and 24 failed (and including all R-7 family number of launches is over 1300). On other hand in total of 47 launches Falcon 9 had already one engine failure (and 2 other failures or maybe 3 when we know who fault is for Zuma).
I love Soyuz. It is a great rocket!
It has become so reliable, because it was launched *every week* in some years -- all the bugs were fixed and people became very proficient working with it. But it took time before it became perfected -- in the first three years there had been 15 failed launches out of 37 total launches!
*But that is not the point I was discussing.* Even Russian rocket designers argued, and did not know for sure what was better -- to have four chambers in one engine or four complete engines instead. Unless you make it both ways, perfect them, and use them for a length of time it is very difficult to judge, how all the small details would affect the overall result.
How Does it Really Work
Where you found data that Soyuz rocket had 15 failed launches out of 37 total launches? Soyuz had 2 failed launches out of over 50 first launches. Your data look more like for R-7 ICBM which is same rocket family but not same rocket (different engine versions ...) and it was designed as ICBM not as space rocket (same as Atlas and Titan rockets).
Russians always opted for one engine soultion but with multiple chambers, and there is reason why they (Valentin Glushko) used multiple chambers, for one big single combustion chamber it is hard to get it work correct (big combustion chambers suffer from combustion instability, which is problem hard to solve, for example F-1 engine had grat problems with comustion instability and it was at end "solved" by try end error method).
They try solution with lot of small engines (N1 rocket) and they discovered it is hard to control them and it never had success so at end they go back to one big engine with multiple chambers which ended in production of RD-170 engine, which with it derivatives is most widely used rocket engine in world by most number of nations and on greatest number of different rockets (dual-chamber derivative RD-180 is most reliable and efficient LOX/RP-1 engine USA use today)
Yes, you are absolutely right -- I was talking about R-7 because that was the beginning of the continuous line of development of this family of rockets.
Today's Falcon 9 and its engine is also very different from the first hardware they used -- so in both cases there has been significant development.
The discussion about separate engines vs engines with multiple chambers, took place during development of the engines for the "Energia" rocket. (the text is in Russian) www . buran . ru / htm / 07-3 . htm
It says that initially engine designers could not make the turbopump for RD-170 to work reliably, and considered an alternative of splitting the engine, such that every chamber would have its own turbopump.
(The same document says that by this time the engines NK-33 from the moon rocket were perfected to the point that they worked reliably with durability sufficient for 10 flights. So there was nothing fundamentally wrong with them -- except the original moon project was not given sufficient time.)
I am blown away! SO very good. So much info and such a fun way to absorb it!
Hey thank you!!! That means a lot!
Great video, we know how things turned out with Falcon Heavy, but I still really enjoyed coming back to this. I haven't long been getting to know the new players in the 2nd Space race, but your videos have really helped.
WOW what a fantastic video
Finally .... Great job!!
Thank you for this incredibly informative video! So much I didn’t know, that makes perfect sense when you explain it. Cheers mate!
Dude this video is incredible! Thanks so much for making this
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This deserves more views. Subscribed!
Welcome aboard! 🚀
I rewatched this several times.
This video is kinda satisfying to watch)
I think it would be the huge success. after working so hard from 2011 to 2017 for falcon heavy, they deserve success
You, my sir, have just earned a sub.
Fantastic work on this one, I have faith in a January '18 launch with flying colors
Soon our rockets are gonna warp XD
I had faith in the summer 2017 launch, i had faith in the November 2017 launch, then faith in the December 2017 launch. I've lost faith now. I've learned you gotta take everything elon musk says with a grain of salt... actually more like a spoon full of salt
Early March, it will take them that long to get the Tesla roadster prepared.
It's happening TODAY!
You were right in so many ways! I couldn't contain myself either during launch, max Q and simultaneous landing!
Fantastic video, without you I wouldn't understand this much about SpaceX and rocketery, keep up the good work, thanks!
Wow this was so well scripted and animated. Loved it. Keep it up, we have a lot to learn from you.
This is being pedantic but the Soyuz only has 5 engines. Each engine has 4 nozzles though.
I thought RD-180 was peak performance already
Fantastic video, research and script! You've nail it down perfectly!!!
Thank you for your video and, certainly, for subtitles. More amazing videos (with subtitles)!
Uuh… 3:30 there's an error there. The 26,700KG Geostationary payload is actually with an expendable FH, so you still get no Falcon 9 cores back.
Ur Tie tops off this whole video! Great job on the video 😁
I love finding these little hidden gems amongst everything on TH-cam! Fantastic video
this makes me feel warm inside, Good work!
You deserve more subs
Yay I got a ❤️, you rock man!
🙏 for the appreciation!!!
Everyday Astronaut No problem man, I love your videos. I have an interesting question if you have time, with space x making the most noise currently in the space industry. What future technology’s do you think would or could disrupt the space industry. (Besides a warp drive, lol) possibly a VTOL SSTO? With Non propellant propulsion in vacuum/EM drive. Although not some boring plane/jet shape, spaceships are supposed to be badass. With Space X wanting to make life multi-planetary, and reusing rockets. Tesla with renewable energy and electric cars. I guess the best way to beat your competitors is by doing everything/first so no one else can. 😂Thanks for reading. Oh wait! Asteroid mining, Hover-Boards, and Jetpacks. Bingo
@14:55 I just noticed that the renderings show a less simultaneous landing than what actually happened :)
Great job, keep em coming. The TVC skit was priceless!
My man. You’re really breaking down the real deal in a way that people can understand and appreciate, but without getting all cute, dumb or fake about it. That’s not easy. You’re really getting your chops with this series.
Great vid, Great info. +100 thumb up :D
I've been waiting 5 years for this video
You've been waiting six months for the last 5 years. :D
Just found your channel, smashing through all of the backlog now. Great content dude/team behind the scenes.
So excited for the FH launch.
I learned more about the history of SpaceX than the entire time I've been following the incremental upgrades of the Falcon program, from this video. Fantastic video.
That was an outstanding informative video. My guess is a January 2018 launch and success.
Well done Tim, this is an amazingly interesting video.
You said you would deliver a great video and you did. Great video man ! Keep up the great work! You got me very optimist about this launch!!
Amazing video! Thank you so much! Much rocket - much love!
Where did you get those globes that are in the background 15:50 in to the video? They're sweet.
MOVA globes 👍
Cool thanks. Too bad they so expensive but they are really cool.
It's not going to Mars. It's going to a heliocentric orbit with its apoapsis at Mars height, but Mars will not be there when it arrives.
Maybe they'll try ballistic capture technique to enter Mars orbit. It doesn't need delta-v to enter orbit: www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-way-to-reach-mars-safely-anytime-and-on-the-cheap/
That'd be cool, but they'd want to wait until April for that (more delta-v can get you there outside the launch window, but with extra arrival speed which you don't want for aerocapture), and build a vehicle that's capable of it. Also, Musk confirmed the heliocentric orbit to Phil Plait shortly after the initial announcement www.syfy.com/syfywire/elon-musk-on-the-roadster-to-mars
So, SX will send the BFS to get it and bring it back to Earth in 10 years.
Probably your best video. Thanks!
I've never been more excited about space exploration than I am now.
+1
1 question.... Were did the globes come from ,,, tooooo cooool
I think they are Mova globes
WOW those are expensive!
indeed nice, but i find so weird that you mostly see the 90's mapping on all these globes and almost no real hight effects.
Anyone know if they are the 6" or the 4.5" mova globes?
lol. here, writing to you from the future - falcon heavy was a great success. but now elon and team are working on something completely insane - starship
lol no, falcon heavy was a complete failure
Such a well produced video! The production value, research and pacing - all really spot on. Congrats, quite the achievement :)
Wow. I've seen a few of your other videos and was impressed but you've really out done yourself this time. Keep up the good work! Subscribed!!!
I hope it will work it would be so amazing
“10 Launches per year”
2021 and there’s still 2
well we might get 5 this year
Very informative video. Look forward to many more!
I've learned so much from you man! thank you! keep up the great work!
Thank you!!!!! That means a lot!
I think everything will be successful except the landing of the center core on the drone ship (if they attempt it at all). It will be further down range than ever before, going faster, and have totally different body dynamics with all the new structure. They will probably need to tune that landing over a few attempts.
In my opinion, if the rocket doesn't blowup, all 3 cores will land. It will be sooo awesome
I think they did lose center core
Good prediction, now wich loto number should I get ;)
wow
You should do some videos with Amy, Vintage Space...
We’ve actually worked together on a project before but it’s not public yet! I want to debate her someday in an old vs new livestream 🙌
:D Sweet! looking forward to seeing it!
Amy is very intelligent and dang pretty. I have been a subscriber to her channel for quite some time.
Marc Barrett I'll take Tim over Amy any day.
Amy only deals with old stuff though. Even the Space Shuttle is too new for her.
You are amazing. So much quality information here
What a GREAT video! Just subbed, awesome content
I'm hoping it launches by February and a complete success! Great videos...doesn't that space suit need some cleaning after all these videos? =)
It smells awful 🤦♂️ haha thanks for saying hi!
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Zym3x you can always suggest this video to friends who you think will like the video
Tim, excellent video - thorough research, great insights and amazing graphics. Many thanks for your art. Enjoy the Christmas and best wishes for an exciting 2018
YES! Been waiting for this vid, nice work man!
the real question is where did you get those rocket models lol.
I'm hoping for a successful launch in the last days of January. It'll be intersting to see how the centre core fairs.
R.I.P center core, the booster landing was awesome though
Love this video, I also think it's gonna be a complete success and when those two side boosters come roaring back together, it's going to be amazing!
Well done! Great content, I've enjoyed following your videos!
If you watched his livestream yesterday you have better watched to the end. :)
Ho maan, what a time to be alive
It's nice to see some excitement again about going into space. I'm old enough to have watched the space program since the beginning and SpaceX has brought back some of that excitement of the early days.
Yeah, I've been waiting since Oct 4th, 1957, when Sputnik went up and shocked the world.
When I think back to what people were predicting what would happen in the next SIXTY years, we should have already have been mining the asteroids for 20 years by now, and there should be resorts on the moon and a city in earth orbit.
I have very little confidence that large numbers of people will find a reason to go live (and probably die) on Mars. Just scientists and explorers.
Unfortunately politics has always played a significant role in the funding and purpose of the space program. After landing on the moon both funding and purpose were lost to a significant degree.
Thanks for this! Very nice presentation.
That was some solid content. Thanks!
Technically, the Soyuz rocket has only 5 engines. Each engine has a single turbine, LOX and Propellant pumps going into 4 rocket nozzles.
You’re right. I completely forgot
If we are going to insist on getting everything just right, the fuel is not going into "nozzles", but into combustion chambers, and not into just into the main 4.
The point remains, that it is a lot of potential failure points!-
It is not at all obvious if feeding multiple combustion chambers from the same pump makes the system less or more reliable, comparing to the same number of entirely self-contained engines.
How Does it Really Work You're probably right, I guess us space enthusiasts don't know everything about rockets, but I just felt this video made an error by saying the Soyuz has 20 engines. Hope Falcon Heavy gets to breathe the fresh vacuum of space when launched.
Falcon Heavy is finally on the launch pad -- people are posting photographs and videos. Very exciting!
The Soyuz does not have 20 engines it has 5 engines in the first stage
Kekel Man yes, it does, not counting the directional thrusters there are 20 separate engines.
@@olasek7972 there are 5 combustion chambers and 20 nozzles, so that does mean there are 5 engines.
Great launch! Only fail was the core booster landing. Excellent test. So many milestones completed!
Your channel has gone so big! When I first visited, we were still at 11,000 subscribers, and here you got 57,000, nearly 60,000 subscribers! At this rate you'll be at 100,000 subscribers by the third Falcon Heavy mission!