Minor note to this...I believe I may have been mistaken that methane would freeze while floating inside the LOX tank. I need to do some more research on that but there is a good chance that particular point was incorrect.
In my opinion, spaceX had to prove to the FAA what would happen to StarShip when activating the rapid detonation (self-destruction) system, as on the previous flight the system did not work, the FAA demanded this, and I believe that it was detonated in purpose. The booster had a cavitation problem (gas bubbles) but the turbopumps and with that the engines (on the lower side) failed and exploded and with that the automatic system also activated the self-destruction system.
Can this happen ? If it is in low amount it may freeze. If it is in high amount it may have form solid, semi-solid and liquid layers. it depends on timing.
@@roystonfreefire Methane apparently forms multiple forms of ice of varying density depending on temperature and pressure. Details are not trivial to find.
Please don't apologize for the length of the video. I'm so tired of sound bites and summaries that it is a rare pleasure to learn from someone who actually takes the time to research, understand and explain. I just became a member and my apology to you is that I didn't do it sooner. Please keep up the great work.
Never apologize for the length of your episodes! I, and I'm sure many others, appreciate you taking the time to explain things properly, rather than chasing the algorithm. Honestly, once you started making videos, I can't watch other SpaceX channels. Your extreme attention to detail, and the fact you have knowledge in what you talk about, rather than wanting to be a TH-cam "talking head," make the other channels seem like Reader's Digest in comparison. Looking forward to your next deep dive, Zach! Keep up the amazing work!
The imagination and rigor of your team’s analysis must have the Space X engineers wondering how you are looking over their shoulders! And thanks for the clarity of your reporting. Great work!
Wow! Thank you for the massive donation ! Much appreciated. lol I think to some degree they get a kick out of these episodes. Allows them to explain to their friends what they do at work
@@CSIStarbase Surprised SpaceX have not approached you and your team to join them, even if only to provide promotional films for their own staff, let alone your technical capabilities given the full real data.
I suspect SpaceX is already happy with the free (to them) coverage and don't see the need to buy the production just to exert control over it when it is already very beneficial to them. Let's be honest, as long as SpaceX keeps doing such amazing work, this extremely detailed and accurate third party coverage of their work is better for their brand than any propaganda piece they could ever put out themselves. It's a big win for everyone (including, hopefully, the CSI Starbase team, because ya'll are putting out consistently excellent stuff).
I feel lucky to be alive at a time when the largest rocket in history is being built AND that I can learn everything about it from Stage Zero Zack! Thanks again for the incredible effort to create this masterpiece.
Ditto. I was alive to see Neil Armstrong take the First Step when I was 13, and am hoping to bookend this part of my life with a Mars landing, if I can live that long. If I have to settle for seeing the first operational Starship flight, that's okay too. It is a truly inspiring time to be alive.
This is a favor to humanity, This is not just a top class explanation, but also explains a lot of engineering techniques and analysis approaches. Special thanks to you, your team and all the related engineering and science channels.
@@CSIStarbasethe reason why they move to hot staging is because it is 100% necessary for a human-rated system to have some type of emergency escape and hot staging is the closest thing to Draco Rockets. They really want it to be a human rated system... this is why they adopted hot staging
@@CSIStarbasethe most important thing is that stage separation is always achieved no matter what and on the first flight where stage separation wasn't achieved that was a major problem because this is supposed to be a human rated system and a human-rated system always must ensure stage separation this is why they adopted hot staging
This is the best and most detailed analysis I have found anywhere! I subscribed after the first 15 minutes of this video. There is SO much info on how the structure and internal workings of the Starship and booster are put together. WOW! Thank you all for your work. No agenda, no sensationalism, no hype. Real person narrating. The pace is perfection. When people complain about clickbait channels I will recomment this channel to them. Everyone else should do the same, please. I am a 60 year old mechanical engineer with a lifetime of enthusiasm for space topics. When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut. This video is like majic for me.
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Thank you SO MUCH for the colossal effort you put into each and every video you make. Seriously, you go above and beyond in terms of detail that there isn't a single channel out there that comes even close to the quality and sheer amount of technical information you manage to put together. I know it's a team effort with all the animations and editing work that goes into this, but still, you are the one putting everything together in a way that makes sense and is highly entertaining. Keep up the amazing work Zack!
I cannot put into words how much I love this community. This starship coverage is beyond anything I ever dreamed of, and I’ve followed along on all the analysis and speculation about starship ever since the ITS and BFR days. The fact the community is able to piece together almost 1:1 animations and engineering simulations is mind blowing. Shoutout to all the photographers and videographers who spent years in the South Texas sand dunes capturing every single truck delivery, assembly and detail that goes into these videos. I’ve been lucky enough to meet some of them and let me tell you, they put blood sweat and tears into capture it all. Shoutout to all the people analyzing and putting this puzzle together. It’s simply mind blowing These videos is what has driven me to start my aerospace engineering studies and hopefully in the future I’ll be able to help out. Thanks Zack and everyone else. ❤
Appreciate the perfect delivery: no filler words or hesitations. Fast and terse. You are NOT testing my limited patience. Also, thanks for the table of contents.
Superb. The technical quality of this is one of the most uplifting achievements in a media world that mostly exudes confusion and stupidity at the moment. Well done! You are defining how technical coverage should develop.
Holy crap. Long time SpaceX fan, first time seeing content for this channel. Such an incredible amount of information and wonderful animations. This is by far much more interesting than all the other SpaceX fan channels like WAI and NASASpaceflight which seem to just be observing construction and making guesses on launches. This is the first time I’ve seen such incredible detail and information regarding all of the different parts.
@@CSIStarbase Oh for sure. I'm not saying those channels are bad - I watch them all fairly frequently - but over time I feel like a lot of their content becomes a tad monotonous when they are giving daily updates on the tank farm and the construction of new tower segments. This video of yours is on a different level, more akin to the technical information presented by Tim at Everyday Astronaut. I really appreciate the obviously huge production effort that went into it and look forward to more of your content. Thanks!
That’s been my goal from the start is to answer questions that others are unable to. Not sure how long we will be able to continue doing that but I will make the most out of it in the meantime
WOW. With this video you have moved into the big leagues of Space TH-camrs. Excellent analysis. I salute you sir! Looking forward to what's coming next. #Respect
Excellent presentation. I operated Nuclear power plants on Submarines for 8 years, the fluid flow and P/T explanations were spot on. Thank you for your effort. BZ! young man BZ! (Military term) Yeah I'm old...
Zack and team are sooo far above other content providers. You are super clear narrator and tech info made 'for dummies' understandables. Love your stuff! Professional yet engaging entertainment.
@@CSIStarbase Never change Zack, you and your team / friends / collaborators do the most amazing job in providing these detailed analysis projects to the masses. If you ever stop doing Starbase stuff, you guys deserve your own TV show :)
I can't believe this amount of information and knowledge is free. Great job. Big shout out from Nigeria. I never miss an episode of these deep dives. And it's only gotten better with time. An Engineers dream. 👍🏿
Watching your videos is like standing in line for two days to see your favorite concert/artist, then being rewarded by front row center seats and a meet with the band. I can not speak well enough about the quality of this presentation and how much I learned.
Zack, you have certainly made Flight 3 so so much more exciting because we have a much clearer idea of what will be going on with both the booster and starship. Waiting in anticipation for the next launch in a few weeks. Many thanks.
I assumed right away the flip was initiated by using the grid fins to deflect the thrust fom the upper stage engines. It seemed like an obviously logical way to do it. Perhaps it worked a bit too well even? I didn't consider asymmetrical thrust but I agree it could have played a role as well.
What an amazing video! Thank you for putting this together. Immediately following the launch, I did some simple whiteboard calculations on negative acceleration using the onscreen numbers for my high school physics classes. What you have done is next next next level. The quality of the material utterly justifies the length. I love watching long videos! I'm one of those people who listens to (or watches) entire Lex Fridman interviews, which are ~3 hours long 😅
Dude, this is absolutely amazing content. Honestly, a few weeks after the launch I started wondering how much longer I'd have to wait to see your take and research findings. Thanks again for your work and GREAT JOB!
You apologized for the long video. When I saw how long it was, I thought it was Christmas time!🚀 I absolutely love your work and the work of everyone involved.
"BOOM!!!" - That is my mind blown away by the thoroughness and amazing detail & insight Zack & the team have given to us in this video!!! Spectacular work Zack & TEAM!!! THANK YOU!!! M-
As a retired mechanical engineer I so love in weeds analysis. I almost didn't watch this video because I imagined it was another superficial speculation by a nontechnical person. It was in fact, an outstanding analysis of what most likely occurred without having the, no doubt, voluminous telemetry that SpaceX engineers had. thank you very much.
This is one of the VERY few videos over an hour in length that I have watched. I had to keep pausing and returning to it across several platforms before being able to complete it, but the efforts were worthwhile. Thanks for all the hard work that went into this very engaging and well thought out episode.
Agreed, Like there is a pause button for a coffee break while you try to absorb what you learnt so far, I tried to hit pause but my brain would not let me :)
This was awesome, please don’t apologize for the length of the video. I loved every minute of it. And I’d like to see a few more videos like this one. Of all the channels I’ve watched covering Starship your the only one who has ever gotten into this much detail on the internal engineering that goes on behind the scenes. And for that a massive thank you is in order. Can’t wait till the next episode.
This is genuinely one of the most informative videos on any topic i've seen I only checked the length after the first HSR chapter, and it doesn't say 'this video will take forever', it says 'this is going to teach you so much' Thank you so much :)
This will premiere at night here, so I'm hitting like now and watching it later, because I know this guy deserves that like. He always delivers quality stuff.
Your presentation style, editing, in-depth explanation of design and its context is all very pleasing to me! This is the first video of yours I’ve seen and I’m immediately subbed, good work. 😊
Hi Zack, I just wanted to take the time to thank you. The amount of research that you must do in order to give us the absolute BEST deep dive investigations anywhere on the Web is astonishing. I love the StarShip content that you spend so much time putting together, and I rate your stuff right up there with Perun as far as credibility and high quality content (that's saying a lot..). Thanks again, and I apologize for criticizing your release schedule last year. I had not thought it through at the time. Massive thanks and keep on truckin'..
Thank you so much!! I almost left the video after an hour and twenty minutes without leaving a comment and liking it. Keep going, keep going!! Incredible and fascinating work and dedication. So grateful for this.
Thank you so much for this episode! I know it is outside the norm for your videos, and the algorithm may punish you for it, but it was a top-tier quality video, full of good research and intriguing speculation. The animations were out of this world, and Zack you brought us along for the ride through IFT2 in a way I never could have expected. Thank you!
Unbelievable that we get such incredible videos for free. Zack, you are a treasure! We are so fortunate to have people like you making such incredible videos for all of us to watch
Another Masterpiece from the CSI Starbase team! You guys never fail to blow my mind with your attention to detail and depth of coverage. And to think that decades from now, these videos will still be available to document the history of Starship is nothing short of mind-blowing.
This is an amazing episode. The amount of time and energy put in, the creativity in the detective work, and to top it all off, the concise and clear presentation of the timeline of events, what a blissful video to watch!
Super off topic, but I love how much more comfortable Zach seems to be getting on camera, I don’t get time to watch every video, but just something I wanted to point out 🔥🚀
Wow! I’m glad to be a member of that 95%. You and your contributing creators have outdone yourselves. Now I need to start again so I can digest all the information.
First of all, let me congratulate all involved in the making of this show, simply awesome and you all deserve a big high five from all of us. You answered all my silly but curious questions on the gryphons and more on a rocket that is simply a work of art and love. I have no doubt on this matter. I'm gonna look out for more gems from yourselves. Slainte, Bud ❤
I absolutely love these deep dive episodes! The final product really showcases how much research and effort went into it, really top tier stuff! And using some of Tim's music was a nice touch!
Excellent work here!! If TH-cam had the equivalent of an Oscar, this would be up for a best engineering drama award! Ahem, or somthin' like that anyway. 👍👍
Much respect for the hard work that went into this episode. The Simulation , animation and analysis (especially on the simulation time) has earned my respect and subscription.
Zac fills in so many gaps in the timelines it just makes all the hours I watch and crave the detail so fulfilled. Was dry mouth for this episode. Only 33 minutes in and its braw
I enjoyed your presentation as well as Ryan Hansen's animations. I think your theory @1:15:00 is the most plausible I have heard; and it earned you a much deserved subscription!
No... It really isn't. It's speculation backed up with simulations that are likely not accurate because the people doing them do not have the data needed to make it reliable.
My second favorite rocket video series (sorry, but Scott Manley get the best specific impulse from my heart). Looking forward to this one, hot staging (more specifically, why is it hard) is something I'm very interested in.
Awesome video as always. The fact that an 81 minute video can seem quicker than plenty of 5 minute TH-cam videos I've seen says a massive amount about the quality of this video. Looking forward to the next one but happy to wait as long as it takes. 🙂
Very good stuff. This was by far the deepest dive I have ever seen on a rocket system. Excellent. I humbly disagree with you on one item at 1:13:00: The autogenous pressurization in the tank will not have a piston effect as you describe. Instead, it exerts pressure on the tank and on the contents to A) maintain the tank structure and B) assist in liquid evacuation from the tank. The pressure in the tank will have no influence on the slosh action as you describe. Imagine a soda bottle. No matter how much pressure you add to the bottle, the soda will still slosh around the same as if there was no pressure. Ullage, as it applies to rockets, generally refers to the impartation of a small acceleration on the rocket (generally via some cold gas thruster) to settle the propellant at the bottom of the tank. I cannot see that these two concepts (ullage and pressurization) are related as they apply to rockets. All of this in my humble opinion and I very much welcome a discussion.
Zack, Ryan, and all of the rest of the contributors, !!! What an awesome job of explanation! Wow! Thank you! Whether it’s all confirmed in the future. you did an epic job of developing alternative hypotheses of what happened, and backed ideas up with multiple sources of mathematics, pictures, and simulations! I’m so impressed. Great work!
Wow! Best explanation of all the details of what has been going on behind the scenes that I have ever seen. What a brilliant way of doing this too. I understood every single thing you described and it totally makes everything so much more clear and ties it all in to all the things they were doing. THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MUCH WATCH VIDEO. Great Job!!! I am definitely subscribing. Felix, you really gotta step up your game! 😀😀
My compliments to your presentation. I have been following many of "the followers" of the super heavy progress. Tonight, as have I tripped into your material by chance, I am amazed of your ability and stamina to communicate the amount of information you have. You are gifted to have this ability and we on the outside looking in are gifted by the material you share. "Thank you"
Happy I discovered your channel today. Incredibly informative! Your animations are SECOND TO NONE. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and hypothesis after analyzing the data.
Guys please give this man applause 👏 and also the team behind the channel. This is the only channel after u watch this amazing video you will no longer rush on what spacex is doing u will jst have to appreciate the team of spacex those guy are doing the incredible job and in shot of time....
Well done team CSI and all the contributors. This was a super thought provoking analysis and I love the different speculations based on the available evidence we can see. This was really good and very worth the time it took to watch considering the wealth of good analysis. I like this reporting and this channel is a gem. Well done!
Zack, ive said it before as have many others, but ill reiterate - your level of detail, knowledge, and commitment to find the facts and presenting them in an entertaining, and easy to follow way, is second to none. I could easily watch a 3 hr episode if you were to ever put one out. I look forward to every video you release and theres honestly never been one that bored me. Keep up the great work, you are a special, integral part of this community.
Amazing work! I greatly appriciate you guys taking your time and coming up with deepdives like this rather than spittin' out weekly clickbait shorts. so never worry about too long videos! well researched information, intelligent conclusions, some of the most awesome visualisations around ... hard to top! Dont change a thing! Thank you so much!
I think its brilliant that people will find a way to know what going even with no communication coming outwards. This channel is amazing. Better than any of the starship news channels. Length is appreciated and wanted. I would watch 14 hour videos because like you I am passionate and love to learn.
A triumph. You take the time and effort to get deep down in the detail. Take as long as you need to prepare. Take as long as you need on running time. We will happily wait.
It's so crazy, how good the community is, by analyse the SpaceX work. I would also look the videos, if they are 3 hours long, doesn't matter. It's so great details, I love it!
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Minor note to this...I believe I may have been mistaken that methane would freeze while floating inside the LOX tank. I need to do some more research on that but there is a good chance that particular point was incorrect.
In my opinion, spaceX had to prove to the FAA what would happen to StarShip when activating the rapid detonation (self-destruction) system, as on the previous flight the system did not work, the FAA demanded this, and I believe that it was detonated in purpose.
The booster had a cavitation problem (gas bubbles) but the turbopumps and with that the engines (on the lower side) failed and exploded and with that the automatic system also activated the self-destruction system.
@@odayltonprof I thought that Musk said they didn't active FTS, the booster blew up before they could?
Can this happen ?
If it is in low amount it may freeze.
If it is in high amount it may have form solid, semi-solid and liquid layers.
it depends on timing.
@@roystonfreefire Methane apparently forms multiple forms of ice of varying density depending on temperature and pressure. Details are not trivial to find.
@@k53847 I know that
Please don't apologize for the length of the video. I'm so tired of sound bites and summaries that it is a rare pleasure to learn from someone who actually takes the time to research, understand and explain. I just became a member and my apology to you is that I didn't do it sooner. Please keep up the great work.
Great comment! I agree, adequately lengthed (is that a word?) videos are much appreciated for this kind of subject.
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I agree
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Give him a thank you$
You need not ever apologize for the length of an episode…it is much anticipated joy we get from them.
“Quiet everybody! Zac is back!”
Never apologize for the length of your episodes! I, and I'm sure many others, appreciate you taking the time to explain things properly, rather than chasing the algorithm.
Honestly, once you started making videos, I can't watch other SpaceX channels. Your extreme attention to detail, and the fact you have knowledge in what you talk about, rather than wanting to be a TH-cam "talking head," make the other channels seem like Reader's Digest in comparison.
Looking forward to your next deep dive, Zach! Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you!
But you can still put out minor pieces to placate the algorithm while working on these huge videos.
Honestly a lot of times, a longer video is a YES versus a shorter one especially from great creat0rs
@@forbiddenera Precisely. Other channels try to stuff all the insane information into THEIR time schedules? Nah. That's lazy and algorithm chasing.
@@k53847 That is an excellent strategy!
The imagination and rigor of your team’s analysis must have the Space X engineers wondering how you are looking over their shoulders! And thanks for the clarity of your reporting. Great work!
Oh wow, thank you James, that's very generous of you. Glad you enjoyed this episode so much. Thanks again
Wow! Thank you for the massive donation ! Much appreciated. lol I think to some degree they get a kick out of these episodes. Allows them to explain to their friends what they do at work
@@CSIStarbase Surprised SpaceX have not approached you and your team to join them, even if only to provide promotional films for their own staff, let alone your technical capabilities given the full real data.
Yeah I have not been approached, but who knows, maybe one day. I’m not sure what I would say though.
I suspect SpaceX is already happy with the free (to them) coverage and don't see the need to buy the production just to exert control over it when it is already very beneficial to them.
Let's be honest, as long as SpaceX keeps doing such amazing work, this extremely detailed and accurate third party coverage of their work is better for their brand than any propaganda piece they could ever put out themselves. It's a big win for everyone (including, hopefully, the CSI Starbase team, because ya'll are putting out consistently excellent stuff).
I feel lucky to be alive at a time when the largest rocket in history is being built AND that I can learn everything about it from Stage Zero Zack! Thanks again for the incredible effort to create this masterpiece.
I think we are all lucky to be able to live in this moment
Ditto. I was alive to see Neil Armstrong take the First Step when I was 13, and am hoping to bookend this part of my life with a Mars landing, if I can live that long. If I have to settle for seeing the first operational Starship flight, that's okay too. It is a truly inspiring time to be alive.
This is a favor to humanity, This is not just a top class explanation, but also explains a lot of engineering techniques and analysis approaches. Special thanks to you, your team and all the related engineering and science channels.
Thank you!!!
God that fluid simulation, even if not completely accurate is GLORIOUS
Definitely amazing. We hope the software improves in the future to allow for more accurate simulations
My jaw literally dropped when I saw it! Incredible work on that and the visual comparison with the 3D model to get accurate telemetry profiles.
I agree. That was incredible
@@CSIStarbasethe reason why they move to hot staging is because it is 100% necessary for a human-rated system to have some type of emergency escape and hot staging is the closest thing to Draco Rockets. They really want it to be a human rated system... this is why they adopted hot staging
@@CSIStarbasethe most important thing is that stage separation is always achieved no matter what and on the first flight where stage separation wasn't achieved that was a major problem because this is supposed to be a human rated system and a human-rated system always must ensure stage separation this is why they adopted hot staging
This is the best and most detailed analysis I have found anywhere! I subscribed after the first 15 minutes of this video. There is SO much info on how the structure and internal workings of the Starship and booster are put together. WOW! Thank you all for your work.
No agenda, no sensationalism, no hype. Real person narrating. The pace is perfection.
When people complain about clickbait channels I will recomment this channel to them. Everyone else should do the same, please.
I am a 60 year old mechanical engineer with a lifetime of enthusiasm for space topics. When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut. This video is like majic for me.
Thank you SO MUCH for the colossal effort you put into each and every video you make.
Seriously, you go above and beyond in terms of detail that there isn't a single channel out there that comes even close to the quality and sheer amount of technical information you manage to put together. I know it's a team effort with all the animations and editing work that goes into this, but still, you are the one putting everything together in a way that makes sense and is highly entertaining.
Keep up the amazing work Zack!
"Colossal Effort" is an understatement !!!
Agreed!! Thank you @CSISrarbase
Saudades dos seus videos também meu amigo!
I cannot put into words how much I love this community. This starship coverage is beyond anything I ever dreamed of, and I’ve followed along on all the analysis and speculation about starship ever since the ITS and BFR days. The fact the community is able to piece together almost 1:1 animations and engineering simulations is mind blowing.
Shoutout to all the photographers and videographers who spent years in the South Texas sand dunes capturing every single truck delivery, assembly and detail that goes into these videos. I’ve been lucky enough to meet some of them and let me tell you, they put blood sweat and tears into capture it all. Shoutout to all the people analyzing and putting this puzzle together. It’s simply mind blowing
These videos is what has driven me to start my aerospace engineering studies and hopefully in the future I’ll be able to help out.
Thanks Zack and everyone else. ❤
Appreciate the perfect delivery: no filler words or hesitations. Fast and terse. You are NOT testing my limited patience. Also, thanks for the table of contents.
This is the best technically oriented presentation I've seen regarding Starship and Super Heavy. Intellectually satisfying.
Superb.
The technical quality of this is one of the most uplifting achievements in a media world that mostly exudes confusion and stupidity at the moment. Well done! You are defining how technical coverage should develop.
Holy crap. Long time SpaceX fan, first time seeing content for this channel. Such an incredible amount of information and wonderful animations. This is by far much more interesting than all the other SpaceX fan channels like WAI and NASASpaceflight which seem to just be observing construction and making guesses on launches. This is the first time I’ve seen such incredible detail and information regarding all of the different parts.
Thanks! NSF is a good group of folks. We surely wouldn't have anywhere near as much amazing footage without them and Labpadre.
@@CSIStarbase Oh for sure. I'm not saying those channels are bad - I watch them all fairly frequently - but over time I feel like a lot of their content becomes a tad monotonous when they are giving daily updates on the tank farm and the construction of new tower segments.
This video of yours is on a different level, more akin to the technical information presented by Tim at Everyday Astronaut. I really appreciate the obviously huge production effort that went into it and look forward to more of your content. Thanks!
That’s been my goal from the start is to answer questions that others are unable to. Not sure how long we will be able to continue doing that but I will make the most out of it in the meantime
WOW. With this video you have moved into the big leagues of Space TH-camrs. Excellent analysis. I salute you sir! Looking forward to what's coming next.
#Respect
Excellent presentation. I operated Nuclear power plants on Submarines for 8 years, the fluid flow and P/T explanations were spot on. Thank you for your effort.
BZ! young man BZ! (Military term)
Yeah I'm old...
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it
Bravo Zulu stands for “mission accomplished” or “job well done”.
Zack and team are sooo far above other content providers. You are super clear narrator and tech info made 'for dummies' understandables. Love your stuff! Professional yet engaging entertainment.
Thank you! Means a lot!
@@CSIStarbase Never change Zack, you and your team / friends / collaborators do the most amazing job in providing these detailed analysis projects to the masses.
If you ever stop doing Starbase stuff, you guys deserve your own TV show :)
I can't believe this amount of information and knowledge is free. Great job. Big shout out from Nigeria. I never miss an episode of these deep dives. And it's only gotten better with time. An Engineers dream. 👍🏿
Watching your videos is like standing in line for two days to see your favorite concert/artist, then being rewarded by front row center seats and a meet with the band. I can not speak well enough about the quality of this presentation and how much I learned.
The fact that nearly everything in this entire video was created by analyzing some wonky footage blows my mind. 😮 Paying attention pays off! 😊
Yes. This is how you know it's unreliable speculation. Not sure why everyone feels the need to simp for this guy.
Love the amount of technical details that you provide in your videos that very few others do. Keep it up, and here's to IFT-3!
81min Video from CSI Starbase --> instant Thumbs up!
This production quality and engineering detail is unmatched on all of TH-cam.
Zack, you have certainly made Flight 3 so so much more exciting because we have a much clearer idea of what will be going on with both the booster and starship. Waiting in anticipation for the next launch in a few weeks. Many thanks.
I feel the same, which is kind of wild. Didn't expect my excitement to be able to go beyond 100%.
Outstanding job. I watch a dozen VERY large pages who've studied this and NONE of them considered the grid fin angles. Outstanding.
It wasn't easy to catch. Thankfully Ryan was looking for it
I assumed right away the flip was initiated by using the grid fins to deflect the thrust fom the upper stage engines. It seemed like an obviously logical way to do it. Perhaps it worked a bit too well even?
I didn't consider asymmetrical thrust but I agree it could have played a role as well.
What an amazing video! Thank you for putting this together. Immediately following the launch, I did some simple whiteboard calculations on negative acceleration using the onscreen numbers for my high school physics classes. What you have done is next next next level. The quality of the material utterly justifies the length. I love watching long videos! I'm one of those people who listens to (or watches) entire Lex Fridman interviews, which are ~3 hours long 😅
What an abundance of details, I'm totally baffled. Thank You.
pun intended? :)
Dude, this is absolutely amazing content. Honestly, a few weeks after the launch I started wondering how much longer I'd have to wait to see your take and research findings. Thanks again for your work and GREAT JOB!
Yes it took much longer than I wanted but glad we were able to finally finish it
You apologized for the long video. When I saw how long it was, I thought it was Christmas time!🚀 I absolutely love your work and the work of everyone involved.
"BOOM!!!"
- That is my mind blown away by the thoroughness and amazing detail & insight Zack & the team have given to us in this video!!!
Spectacular work Zack & TEAM!!!
THANK YOU!!!
M-
As a retired mechanical engineer I so love in weeds analysis. I almost didn't watch this video because I imagined it was another superficial speculation by a nontechnical person. It was in fact, an outstanding analysis of what most likely occurred without having the, no doubt, voluminous telemetry that SpaceX engineers had. thank you very much.
This is one of the VERY few videos over an hour in length that I have watched. I had to keep pausing and returning to it across several platforms before being able to complete it, but the efforts were worthwhile.
Thanks for all the hard work that went into this very engaging and well thought out episode.
Please. NEVER APOLOGIZE for length. These vids are like sweet candy to my brain.
Agreed, Like there is a pause button for a coffee break while you try to absorb what you learnt so far, I tried to hit pause but my brain would not let me :)
This was awesome, please don’t apologize for the length of the video. I loved every minute of it. And I’d like to see a few more videos like this one.
Of all the channels I’ve watched covering Starship your the only one who has ever gotten into this much detail on the internal engineering that goes on behind the scenes. And for that a massive thank you is in order. Can’t wait till the next episode.
Your channel deserves millions of subs and millions of views, this is incredible Zack.
Well done!
This is genuinely one of the most informative videos on any topic i've seen
I only checked the length after the first HSR chapter, and it doesn't say 'this video will take forever', it says 'this is going to teach you so much'
Thank you so much :)
hit the like button before even watching, excited to watch later!
same.
“Add to watch later” ….
This will premiere at night here, so I'm hitting like now and watching it later, because I know this guy deserves that like. He always delivers quality stuff.
ya mad @@NominalOrbit
Holy moly, this is definitely an information filled episode, and the delivery and pacing is well executed that the more than 1 hour just flew past.
Your presentation style, editing, in-depth explanation of design and its context is all very pleasing to me! This is the first video of yours I’ve seen and I’m immediately subbed, good work. 😊
Thank you! Feel free to check out some of our past episodes!
Hi Zack, I just wanted to take the time to thank you. The amount of research that you must do in order to give us the absolute BEST deep dive investigations anywhere on the Web is astonishing. I love the StarShip content that you spend so much time putting together, and I rate your stuff right up there with Perun as far as credibility and high quality content (that's saying a lot..).
Thanks again, and I apologize for criticizing your release schedule last year. I had not thought it through at the time. Massive thanks and keep on truckin'..
After seeing IFT 3 (particularly at T +2'37), your hypothesis that the fins help to rotate the booster seems to be right!
Wow! This really makes you appreciate the depth of Starship engineering
Thank you so much!! I almost left the video after an hour and twenty minutes without leaving a comment and liking it. Keep going, keep going!! Incredible and fascinating work and dedication. So grateful for this.
Thanks Ryer!
Thank you so much for this episode! I know it is outside the norm for your videos, and the algorithm may punish you for it, but it was a top-tier quality video, full of good research and intriguing speculation. The animations were out of this world, and Zack you brought us along for the ride through IFT2 in a way I never could have expected. Thank you!
What a BRILLIANT video! Thank you and your team for this impressive deep-dive!
Unbelievable that we get such incredible videos for free. Zack, you are a treasure! We are so fortunate to have people like you making such incredible videos for all of us to watch
Excellent analysis, beautiful simulations.
Another Masterpiece from the CSI Starbase team! You guys never fail to blow my mind with your attention to detail and depth of coverage. And to think that decades from now, these videos will still be available to document the history of Starship is nothing short of mind-blowing.
This is an amazing episode. The amount of time and energy put in, the creativity in the detective work, and to top it all off, the concise and clear presentation of the timeline of events, what a blissful video to watch!
Super off topic, but I love how much more comfortable Zach seems to be getting on camera, I don’t get time to watch every video, but just something I wanted to point out 🔥🚀
This is very, very well done and extremelywell presented.
Beautifully made feature length production that is extremely well presented. Labor of love. I am glad you exist and make these videos!!
At last...😁 Thanks Zack!
Wow! I’m glad to be a member of that 95%. You and your contributing creators have outdone yourselves. Now I need to start again so I can digest all the information.
Things i enjoy most in life: reaching goals, sex, a new csi starbase episode
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First of all, let me congratulate all involved in the making of this show, simply awesome and you all deserve a big high five from all of us. You answered all my silly but curious questions on the gryphons and more on a rocket that is simply a work of art and love. I have no doubt on this matter. I'm gonna look out for more gems from yourselves. Slainte, Bud ❤
Another masterpiece from the man himself.
I absolutely love these deep dive episodes! The final product really showcases how much research and effort went into it, really top tier stuff! And using some of Tim's music was a nice touch!
Excellent work here!! If TH-cam had the equivalent of an Oscar, this would be up for a best engineering drama award! Ahem, or somthin' like that anyway. 👍👍
Much respect for the hard work that went into this episode. The Simulation , animation and analysis (especially on the simulation time) has earned my respect and subscription.
Wow this your best production yet!
lol wait what?? DId you already see it?
@@CSIStarbase He must have hacked youtube's servers and watched it.
Thank you and your team for one of the most in depth analysis of Starship I have ever seen.
Excellent work.
Zac fills in so many gaps in the timelines it just makes all the hours I watch and crave the detail so fulfilled. Was dry mouth for this episode. Only 33 minutes in and its braw
Awesome video. Very informative. Thank you.
I enjoyed your presentation as well as Ryan Hansen's animations. I think your theory @1:15:00 is the most plausible I have heard; and it earned you a much deserved subscription!
0:48 lmao I just realized you're in the crowd 🤣
Yo I totally missed that.. Hilarious!!
This is the best, most comprehensive starship material online, period. Thank you, Zack.
No... It really isn't. It's speculation backed up with simulations that are likely not accurate because the people doing them do not have the data needed to make it reliable.
My second favorite rocket video series (sorry, but Scott Manley get the best specific impulse from my heart). Looking forward to this one, hot staging (more specifically, why is it hard) is something I'm very interested in.
Just found this channel, it's gold. I follow the weekiy starship news channels but i really enjoy these deep dives into specific topics.
We need more of your videos/deep dive…… thank you
Awesome video as always. The fact that an 81 minute video can seem quicker than plenty of 5 minute TH-cam videos I've seen says a massive amount about the quality of this video. Looking forward to the next one but happy to wait as long as it takes. 🙂
Very good stuff. This was by far the deepest dive I have ever seen on a rocket system. Excellent. I humbly disagree with you on one item at 1:13:00: The autogenous pressurization in the tank will not have a piston effect as you describe. Instead, it exerts pressure on the tank and on the contents to A) maintain the tank structure and B) assist in liquid evacuation from the tank. The pressure in the tank will have no influence on the slosh action as you describe. Imagine a soda bottle. No matter how much pressure you add to the bottle, the soda will still slosh around the same as if there was no pressure. Ullage, as it applies to rockets, generally refers to the impartation of a small acceleration on the rocket (generally via some cold gas thruster) to settle the propellant at the bottom of the tank. I cannot see that these two concepts (ullage and pressurization) are related as they apply to rockets. All of this in my humble opinion and I very much welcome a discussion.
This is 100% your best deep dive investigation to date. Been waiting for this for months. Congrats!!!
,YAAAAYYYYYY!!!!! Another Zack deep dive!!!
I really enjoyed the careful explanation of the test methodology! Best coverage of this I've seen!
The only channel I greatly appreciate long and informative videos. Great work! Thanks for all the hard work put into these videos.
fyi: cant wait for the new video!
Zack, Ryan, and all of the rest of the contributors, !!! What an awesome job of explanation! Wow! Thank you! Whether it’s all confirmed in the future. you did an epic job of developing alternative hypotheses of what happened, and backed ideas up with multiple sources of mathematics, pictures, and simulations! I’m so impressed. Great work!
Amazing episode! Very well produced everybody who took part in this. It gives a whole lot food for thought. Thank you all guys!
Thanks!
Wow! Best explanation of all the details of what has been going on behind the scenes that I have ever seen.
What a brilliant way of doing this too. I understood every single thing you described and it totally makes everything so much more clear and ties it all in to all the things they were doing.
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MUCH WATCH VIDEO.
Great Job!!!
I am definitely subscribing.
Felix, you really gotta step up your game! 😀😀
My compliments to your presentation. I have been following many of "the followers" of the super heavy progress. Tonight, as have I tripped into your material by chance, I am amazed of your ability and stamina to communicate the amount of information you have. You are gifted to have this ability and we on the outside looking in are gifted by the material you share. "Thank you"
Happy I discovered your channel today. Incredibly informative! Your animations are SECOND TO NONE. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and hypothesis after analyzing the data.
Guys please give this man applause 👏 and also the team behind the channel. This is the only channel after u watch this amazing video you will no longer rush on what spacex is doing u will jst have to appreciate the team of spacex those guy are doing the incredible job and in shot of time....
Well done team CSI and all the contributors. This was a super thought provoking analysis and I love the different speculations based on the available evidence we can see. This was really good and very worth the time it took to watch considering the wealth of good analysis. I like this reporting and this channel is a gem.
Well done!
Zack, ive said it before as have many others, but ill reiterate - your level of detail, knowledge, and commitment to find the facts and presenting them in an entertaining, and easy to follow way, is second to none. I could easily watch a 3 hr episode if you were to ever put one out. I look forward to every video you release and theres honestly never been one that bored me.
Keep up the great work, you are a special, integral part of this community.
Extremely well done, very professional and well researched. Best explanation by far. Thanks
Amazing work! I greatly appriciate you guys taking your time and coming up with deepdives like this rather than spittin' out weekly clickbait shorts. so never worry about too long videos! well researched information, intelligent conclusions, some of the most awesome visualisations around ... hard to top! Dont change a thing! Thank you so much!
Awesome simulation and kudos to Ryan for taking the time to estimate the parameters for the simulation as good as the available data provided!
I think its brilliant that people will find a way to know what going even with no communication coming outwards. This channel is amazing. Better than any of the starship news channels. Length is appreciated and wanted. I would watch 14 hour videos because like you I am passionate and love to learn.
Excellent detailed explanation of how these complex machines work! And I, for one want long videos! Forget the short bites!
A triumph. You take the time and effort to get deep down in the detail. Take as long as you need to prepare. Take as long as you need on running time. We will happily wait.
It's so crazy, how good the community is, by analyse the SpaceX work.
I would also look the videos, if they are 3 hours long, doesn't matter.
It's so great details, I love it!
This is a really impressive breakdown.. Much appreciated on all the work put into this. Eager for more
Valeu!
Thank you!
The detail both in your discussion and the AMAZING renders Ryan and the others provided, are mind blowing.
Videos like this takes my appreciation of the efficiency and reliability of the Apollo program to a whole new level.
This. Is. An. Underrated. Channel.
Thanks for the video. It was long long... but it's Saturday and I had the time to watch it for once.
I love the length and detail. Wonderful video to listen to while doing housework