SpaceX Unveils Groundbreaking Update: Inside Musk's Latest Starship Revelation!
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Booster 11 aces its static fire! Flight 4 soon?
Starship recovery is coming! When will we see the Super Heavy catch?
Elon Musk announces Starship V3! This one is a beast! And the Starship Mars colonization plan was unveiled!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Testing first
01:30 An unsettling sight
04:42 Surprise Update from Elon
05:36 Accelerated timeline
07:41 New towers
10:11 Starfactory
11:15 Starship: The Next Generation[s]
13:58 Raptor: evolved!
18:02 Mars colony
21:11 Bloopers - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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What are your thoughts? Could the second tower in Florida be planned for SLC-37 or LC-39A?
What if... The new tower is for the catching barge...🤔
Ambulance chasers..not a great thing to support.
Felix, when you discuss launch sites, towers and and landing sites, could you please throw us some graphics and maps. (Not everyone knows that Boca Chica is in Texas, and maybe some foreigners are unaware of the multiple launch sites at Kennedy).
@@belledetector You want him to throw up a map every time they discuss launch sites? I'd suggest anyone that doesn't know simply bring up another tab and punch it in on google maps. Or just ask your phone where it is.
Nothing that SpaceX does to this series of rockets bothers nor even surprises me, seeing as how these are mere test-beds.
Sea dragon 150m, starship v3 150m
How eide was the sea dragon?
The sea dragon is about 3x as wide compared to starship
@@AidenHere I talked about height
I still dream about Sea Dragon 😂
When will we see a Sea Starship?
Can't wait to see a super heavy catch. Seeing one of those glorified grain silos launch is already mind blowing. Watching the tower successfully catch one would probably make me spontaniously explode
grain silo? thats a skyscraper
Nah, glorified sewer pipe
Why do you promote hate?
Yeah, I have no clue about my reaction. Best to just look away from my camera when it happens. Might be embarrassing for me.
It's a glorified windmill base with fuel.
Catching the booster could be a mind boggling sight
Oh it will be thee most epic thing humans have achieved
@@mattgaming8717I mean. Deleting Smallpox was pretty good too.
@@mattgaming8717 if you are after size - how about the pyramids?
if you are for innovation and complexity - just watch a modern video about microchip production. It is completely nuts what they do to produce them to a nm scale
@@mattgaming8717 Amen!
@@benjaminmeusburger4254both are cool but the starship is big and innovative and complex in one.
Great episode. Thanks for the update
A helluva test would be hovering the booster 4 above the water as long as there is fuel, and monitoring the movements, trying to stay still and change position inch by inch.
"Ten launches a day.....How am I supposed to stream that ?"..... LOL
lol
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We'll find a way!
A split, split, split, split screen :)
Don't worry you won't have to since it's not happeneing.
Don't know how many people know this, but the tighter packaging on the raptor 3 components is thanks to the advancements in 3D printing over the years and SpaceX's experimentation with what they could acomplish with it.
A big concern will be the length of time for an accident investigation if there is a RUD during landing … I hope they plan to always have a launch tower available, i.e., don’t land until the second tower is able to at a minimum catch …
during landing they wouldnt RUD, its only done when you cant predict where the rocket could land with potential danger to public. and because its almost empty, it wont eplode in a giant fireball if anything happens, it would jsut fall to ground and crumble like a tin can
@@The1QwertySky I haven't looked into it in detail but when they tested Starship landings they also had almost no propellant left and they still turned into a huge fireball.
@@The1QwertySky RUD is unscheduled, not necessarily intentional.
@@The1QwertySkyDamn dude, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
@@felixkuhn1239 But it's quick. I think it's a flair up from gaseous Methane. Won't melt steel or damage concrete and little blast wave.
what a great vid
Since the tower is always getting beat up by the fire, maybe they should put tiles on that lol
I think most of the damage that's occured isn't necessarily from the heat of the thrust, but from the....thrust...of the thrust
Dats suntan thank bout uh huh
Good show, great pace and edit.
I believe SpaceX needs to separate launch and catch functions. A dedicated tower for catching won't need any launch support hardware and won't require stopping rehab on the launch tower every time a booster or starship needs to land.
Another reason would be to prevent damage to the launch tower if something goes wrong during catch operations. it's not the same as landing a falcon, the booster has to basicly hover while the arms move in to capture.
but the whole point of them being together is so they can instantly get the next launch ready, if separated they need to transport it every time, that's too slow for their plans.
@yujinhikita5611 we understand spaceX's goal, but its just over the top and not realistic.
Incremental approach makes more sense.
30day turnaround for falcon 9?
Why not a 7-10day turn around for early starships? This heat tile issue is NOT gonna be fixed any time soon. 10day turn around would be 3 launches a month. Thats orders of magnitude better than anyone else on the market and would actually allow engineers at spaceX time to come up with permanent solutions to the issues we are seeing.
Landing on the launch pad is a really crazy goal. So many little things could mess it up (a gust of wind hits the ship, a fluxuation in an engine output, whatever!). The precision will have to be within inches. I am not optimistic for success BUT with time, effort and money majic can happen. I agree with you on a separate catch system, at least in the near term. The cost of a single failure would be very high but that is why they are already building mulitple launch towers for redundancy.
@@WeAllLaughDownHere-ne2ou You mean a 7-10 weeks like it was for the first Falcon 9.
@@WeAllLaughDownHere-ne2ou
" just over the top, and not realistic"
How many times have those words been proven wrong, when it comes to SpaceX.
these videos are great
You would think they'd build a 'dumb'/simple tower for the first booster catch attempts, seems a bit crazy to risk damaging the launch mount, tower etc
Elon said they will use a "virtual tower" at sea before a physical tower at stage zero. That will serve as the dumb tower. GPS is accurate enough to get the precision calculated. Still that physical catch event is going to be something to see!!
@@appliedfactsa lot of things can go wrong during the catch itself, moreso with the high presicion required by the mechanism they selected. I don't think we will see any mechazilla catching soon, if ever.
the problem is the ship itself is an enormous bomb so having some pretend tower built, it would need crazy approval in case it came down near where people live. Its probably much more simple to do it over the ocean to start to nail the accurate movement at the last moment but it would look super cool seeing it do a pretend land on a real dummy tower!
There are therories that is what the second tower they are building at Boca Chica will be for.
A catch tower will never happen.
The second towers purpose has been confirmed to be launch.
The damage from a failed catch is likely less than IFT-1
The catch tower would be incredibly difficult to upgrade for launch.
The catch tower would require an OLM capable of detanking the booster.
The catch tower would be extremely expensive, and a most likely 2-3 use item.
Thanks for the update Felix, you rock
You’re very welcome! ❤️
The Super Mario power-up edits were awesome! I literally laughed out loud both times. Love the channel! Keep up the great work!
Injury law firms seem sleazy. I wouldn’t want them as a sponsor.
Ambulance chassers
don't be so judgemental
Knowing SpaceX they’ll build a mechazilla in the ocean.
lol, that’s what I was thinking
That would help SpaceX to speed up the process with licensing ❤❤❤
Nahhh cap in the ocean there would be even more problems... think about how much damage only the sound of ships is making to the environment
That is actually their plan
The rigs concept 🤔
Love it! You guys rock!
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That was one of the most interesting episodes in a long time. Thank you for creating this.
Excellent content. Between you and Marcus Howse I feel like I am always on top of what's going on at SpaceX.
your right about that cant wait to see you in person
Excellent stuff bro
Epic Episode....
Thank you Felix... For bringing such an informative episode. You rock :D
i find it amusing that spacex always seem to be botching things together, like all those tiles looking like junkshop cast-offs, but then it turns out it was all going to plan, even if that plan was for something to fail so they can make sure it doesn't fail next time. and once again shout out to all the people involved in building this dream, 24/7 dedication.
Progress seems slow on tiles, they've failed 3 times in a row. No improvements there.
@@leschortos9196to be fair they only got 1 chance to proove themselves ift1 and 2 didn’t even get to reentry
@@mirochlebovec6586IFT3 also wasn't able to properly test heatshield. Ship was tumbling during re-entry. I hope for ift4 proper test of heatshield.
@@just_archan Yeah almost forgot about that. It’s impressive that it survived so much of the reentry going ass first.🤣
@@just_archan Yeah, which is why it's weird WAI mentioned Spacex got a lot of good data on the tiles. I doubt it. Although they probably did get good data on the overall stress and heat resistance of the steel, which is nice.
Were it made out of normal rocket materials it probably wouldn't have lasted that long, which is probably why tiles coming loose isn't bound to worry spacex that much... for now
Cada lançamento é histórico, muito emocionante e com imagens simplesmente maravilhosas!
nice work felix
Gday from Oz !
Extremely progress ....nice work 🎉🎉🎉
The high bay is quite rusty already. It seems those weather conditions are quite harsh there.
The harshest on earth, warm, humid and salt laden.
Wow, this is going to be two years of incredible progress. Go go SpaceX.
16:38 The booster engines are not all on the same height on v2 an v3. Could this just be to move the dome of the lower tank further down for more capacity or does it help the engines in some way (with steering or something)?
It might be both or just a little precise render from SpaceX. We'll have to wait and see. It would definitely look awesome!
Awesome! I was waiting for this video!
Awesome update!!
I am happy to see at least one change I felt necessary, and that is the larger hot-staging segment. The current one seems tiny, and the booster forward dome seems to be too close to the engines.
It's also nice to see finally the change in the flaps. Been a long time since it was suggested.
I am starting to accept that this is roughly the final shape of the ship.
We got a feedback about the future size of the ship, Raptor 2 and 3, their output and rough timelines, the engine shielding question too.
So a lot of priorly discussed questions have been addressed.
Yeah, good things in both SpaceX and in making this video!
0:24 that was quite the bass drop on my stereo
We'll lower it a bit in the future.
"That was unexpected!"
This was EPIC!
Your channel is the best.. You managed too make it fun each time I Watch. I thank you!
IFT5 could be one of the largest risks they’ve taken
if they make it that would be legendary
I don't think they will attempt to catch booster on ift5. They will attempt only if ift4 will be able to do everything perfectly. And let's be honest, that will not happen. I am hoping that ift4 would b able to hover and soft touchdown, but adjusting software and address problems with precision would be possible after that. I would be very positively surprised if there will be catching attempt on ift6.
Ten Mars Starship launches per day x 6 tanker Starship launches per Mars Starship = 60 Starship launches per day. How many towers? 60 Starship launches per day/4 launches/landings per tower per day = 15 towers. Scary numbers.
Never going to happen dont worry.
Honestly, they should just dedicate a tower to just "catch" the rockets instead of possibly losing the launch and recovery pad at the same time.
@Whataboutit Wouldn't it be cool if there was a camera platform stationed near the planned "Virtual Tower" landing of Super Heavy for IFT4? To capture footage of a successful "landing" from a terrestrial observers viewpoint would be stunning!!
I like how, with each iteration, the booster is becoming increasingly similar to the N1 first stage.
I'm half expecting for the third generation to have a truncated-cone shape instead of the cylindric one 😁
And just like the N1, it will more than likely not work right either.
@@TheGreat_Kramer1 what, did you watch the last launches?
@@TheGreat_Kramer1 N1 would have worked and Starship WILL work. Perhaps not 1,000 launches and a Battlestar Galactica fleet every 2.5 years but it will work.
The only thing is the money burned in the process of getting starship to work.
@@earlpelton9630 Still nothing compared to SLS, N1, or Saturn V. SpaceX spends about 2bn$ every year. That includes every falcon 9 launch, all the infrastructure they build and of course the starship program. Compare that to the ~25bn$ nasa has or the 840bn$ the us military has...
can't wait for the 5th launch!
@Whataboutit Genuinely curious, how powerful is too powerful? The additional noise, shockwaves, vibrations, etc.
Hi Felix, greeting from Wales
Hello John! :)
I'll go out on a limb here and conjecture that SpaceX will not attempt to catch a booster until they have a second tower. That second tower will remain the catch tower until the booster catch procedure is ready to be released out of development to production. SpaceX would be wise not to risk their production launch platform.
Two towers.... !!??? And the all-seeing eye of Starlink?? You heard it here first. 🙂 It I think the virtual tower hover tests will tell them enough to make it work. Two towers to double launch capacity *and* provide redundancy sounds like win-win to me.
Considering the proximity of the towers at Boca Chica, yes, I think that co-location of towers in Canaveral is actually feasible.
I smashed the Like button and my screen cracked.
The rocket can not launch until the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the rocket.
Can't wait to see SpaceX plans for their initial use of propellant free propulsion as described by NASA.
Starship V4: its gonna be starship V3 with 2 extra boosters straped to its side falcon heavy style.
I think they could actually use Falcon Heavy boosters on the side of the Super Heavey booster. Some structural reinforcment and up it goes. The Falcon Heavey boosters can already land themselves too, I am pretty sure.
@@appliedfacts Designing a launch infrastructure for this with launchmount, piping for propellant and so on would be a nightmare, not to mention the integration of such a stack
@@dionysschub5350
In my mind the piping would only be one supply line to each additional Falcon booster and enough storage tanks to support them.
Expanding the water deluge would be a job, true enough. That would at least require several more storage tanks and some additional perforated plates. Probably some redesign of the launch mount but maybe the Super Heavey could be reinforced to hold Falcon boosters on its own.
So, yeah...like you said. BUT like Elon said in his presentation, "It all started as an empty beach."
@@appliedfacts Even if it is technically somehow possible, it contradicts SpaceX's goal of rapid reusebility and a high launch frequency as SpaceX aims for, and by the way, the cost per launch would grow substantially. Shure, it would be cool but from an economic point of view there is no point of doing it.
It must be amazing to be part of SpaceX.
This was a solid report. Thank you....
I love WAI. I love SpaceX. I love Starship... It is SUCH a breathe of fresh air to see some are looking WAY ahead for the human race, consciousness and LIFE itself. Amazing job you guys, thank you for constantly feeding hope and excitement, from SpaceX and beyond, and into my brain :) Like I said, I love you guys
would think a landing tower or two would be the ticket.. set the booster right down on a transport.. simpler, seperate ..
For some reason, the webpage you linked (WhatAboutit) isn't updating the launch schedule properly. Will this be fixed soon?
😮 4 MONTHS AGO 🎉 I have commented on the second flight test preparation video posted by SpaceX 4 months ago exactly this: "⚡Starship hot staging section is too short in height and I think it could not resist the pressure of second stage ignition during separation. ⚡ I have said this at the first time I saw it ⚡ And I think the reason for failure of the second flight test was exectly that... that ignition of the second stage damaged booster and itself during separation 😢. Guys look at russian hot staging sections of rocket, they are built with long metal stiks with spike designed connection to minimize accumulation of extra heat and pressure during separation 🔥 🎉 Go Starship 🎉 Go SpaceX 🎉"
design is always subject to change but surely it has to be with data so not that your wrong or right it is all about design sometimes you have to try something new even if it seems wrong
We would have lost the race to the moon if Apollo had to jump through all the hoops in paperwork that Starship and SpaceX has.
You are wrong because they did and they were the best and they are still had the best result and NASA prove it everytime with all their launch or rover to Mars or for their space telescope etc etc..
@@joannewilson6577 Joanne, really? You're insane if you think the regulatory burden of 1960's Gemini and Apollo is the same as 2024 in literally *any* sense. They had good results because they were competent and motivated. SpaceX is just as competent and motivated, but they are slowed by regulation. We'd be on flight 6+ by now easily if it weren't for silly regulation.
@@jackinthebox301 You are wrong!
SpaceX was not stop by regulations they were stopped by Elon addiction to risk that destroyed the launch pad and if they were stopped like you say they would already have 2 or 3 starship ready to go but they do not have any!
You are delusional!
With no regulations Elon would already had destroyed the launch pad a lot more....and many more times....
@@jackinthebox301 BTW if NASA didn't save SpaceX from bankruptcy in 2008 SpaceX will not even exist and if NASA didn't give SpaceX hundreds of millions in SUBSIDIES for R&D for the Falcon 9 and Crew and Cargo Dragon....and after NASA paid half of the Falcon 9...
And the billion for the Starship....
SpaceX is a sub contractor for NASA since 2004.
Cool updates 🎉
The fact that they have a BIG area where they "might land" does not mean that they don't have a pinpoint for when "everything goes according to plan.
For IFT3 they had planned to do a reverse de-orbit burn. So the ship reentered closer than the "if everything goes right" plan. It is prudent to keep on giving a large area for landing for the time being, but in actuality aim for -8.433669, 70.411595 . (just a random spot I clicked on the map).
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Someone commented on FT1 that Starship would NEVER reach orbit. They were so absolutely convinced of their opinion that I was astounded.
I wonder where they are now? Probably still looking for a place to stable their horse.
when did Starship reach orbit ?
This is a good one !
Thanks so much for creating and sharing this educational and entertaining video.
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Tesla has been promising full self driving from LA to NY for 8 years now
@@tadem3886people use it every day...
is this what the algorithm is coughing up now? i hope not
Musk has to have the capacity to build more of everything, so breaking the first tower is just part of a bigger plan.
The faster he moves, the faster he knows what to do next in the refining process.
The faster to cash flow.
Musk has the best engineers.
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Great episode
Thank you!
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I am looking forward to the next flight test. FT4 should be awesome. Thanks, Felix & team. 👍
I need more only Starship dedicated episodes
Curious about the semiconductor technologies powering the Starship's avionics and control systems. Can you delve into how these systems are evolving with each Starship iteration?
Idea: build an isolated stripped down version of the launch tower away from Starbase specifically for launch and catch testing.
How much fuel would be required for the booster to clear the tower, shut down, start up for a landing, do its maneuvering, hover and catch?
Amazing progress from IFT1's multiple engine shutdowns to a complete lack of boost-phase shutdowns in IFT2 & IFT3!
Engine heat shield may have been one of the mistakes of IFT-3. Due to heat of as many engines in one place and during vertical descent. While open construction lets the heat pass through. Just a guess.
Another thing once you have as many engine bells (large surfaces) they should kind of work like a steering device too during descent? Even when not firing?
I really want to see it working. would be one hell of a ride!
A mighty fine Felix Fix indeed. Always a great presentation.
Thanks Felix!
Excellent update! Thank you Felix and Team! GO IFT-4 !
My background is architecture and not rocket science but two general questions:
1) If the shape (diameter and height) remain somewhat static, could the heat tiles be curved and larger format. Like 1/3 diameter. Were the tiles on the shuttle small due to shape and complex curves?
2) Could the booster have a setup similar to an aircraft engine brake to protect the engines from 'reentry'. Ie a two piece unit could swing down and cover the engines on decent. They already have the fold down legs from dragon. From previous videos it sounded like speed and heat were contributing factors is RUD.
Thanks!
An excellent summary, Felix! One of your best. Cue the elongated Felix memes. 😄
hi Felix , let me suggest that the second towers are designed as landing towers ,freeing up the launch towers, so they can deploy the next ready Starship and reduce the complexities of shielding, water cooling etc, just built robustly to withstand a landing burn, capture the booster /starship and then it can begin its cleaning and scrutinization phase.
I have a feeling that you are correct.
How will the Mars landing zones be built?
maybe the first launch will need to have exclusive landing legs but from them they can just dig one out
You said to grab some popcorn... and I said "I sure as hell will!" such an exiting intro!
The 5-6 launches are likely based on the v3 aspirational goal, as a back-of-hand calculation yields about double that for the V2 figures.
THE SHOT OF THE BOOSTER FIRING IS JUST EPIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For perspective, the propellant load is projected to increase by the weight of six heavy tanks.
I HAVEN'T SEEN YOUR SHOW IN A WHILE AND IT IS STILL BRILLIANT AS ALWAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations from INDIA 🎉🎉🎉
How will they mount a docking system to the quick disconnect on starship? I thought nose to nose transfer would be easiest but the quick disconnect already has all the plumbing exposed but it's position along the side of the ship seems less than ideal for docking and transfering liquid propellant. While a nose to nose docking system would be almost trivial for them along with the ability to dock in that orientation.
Nose to nose docking is no easier than side to side. Capsules put the docking port in the nose purely because on something that small, there's no real alternative. In contrast , Shuttle docked to ISS via a port on the back, since that was most convenient for the Shuttle layout.
The luminosity of the flame from the Raptor3 test suggests some of the combustion energy is being radiated as photons, which have no mass and do not contribute to the engine thrust.
Balancing the vibration caused by the fuel combustion behavior of each combustion chamber for three engines is much easier than achieving it for 30 engines.
How about a Starship Tower at Vandenberg?
I think that the tiles should be connected to each other and the ship, rarther than just to the ship
I wonder if they've considered a starship booster booster, ie have a modded starship in orbit already refuelled and in trajectory to catch a fresh launch with full payload, then dock at max orbit and piggy back the newest launch to conserve velocity?
Absolutely more complex yes but significantly more efficient also?
Good job
Awesome episode so much info lots of new updates the future looks awesome for spacex and exciting wish them well