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Yes. The pins. What?!?!? The culture of excellence coupled with openness, no fear of failure, and learning from mistakes is a beautiful testament to SpaceX culture of greatness. A lot of rocket companies are doing so great - but clearly the leader of innovation is SpaceX.
@@eltigrechino3390 It is however a very expensive way of doing things and development is reactive in nature. Crashes and explosion are used to point to deficiencies in design. not extensive modeling and testing. It will also mean, Starship will need many successful launches before it is human flight ready. And even if we do lose a crew or two, or the rocket crashes into a town or the fuel farm, the program must not be stopped. One can only hope that Starship is completed before the cost and delays become unbearable. Doing it once, is not the aim. Doing it repeatedly at low cost is the aim. How how fast can they prep the boaster for a second launch. How long does it take to check the raptor engines and tanks for fatigue cracks. How long does it take to clean them out?
@@nickl5658 I don't think SpaceX don't do extensive modeling and testing, but they develop new breakthrough methods which was never done before and there are no data for testing. They need to learn them. They mitigate the risks as much as possible. Also Try-and-error is the fastest way of progress, and also maybe the cheapest, compared what other programs like SLS costs, which also takes decades to build with mostly old and tested technology.
I have no doubt that they have the support of a powerful AI to make all these calculations in real time. And that is why I reaffirm that all of this is unnecessary... I don't understand why they prefer the hard way... Where the margins for error are minimal, otherwise the tragedy will be inevitable. It is obscurantism...
@@chrislong3938I WILL TALK SLOW FOR YOU .. LANDING THE ROCKET IS THE EASY PART AND HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE USING (Global Positioning System) IT IS NO BIG DEAL ! Today guided weapons can use a combination of INS, GPS and radar terrain mapping to achieve extremely high levels of accuracy such as that found in modern cruise missiles. Musk has spent 3 Billion of your tax dollars and has done nothing but low earth orbit he is a fraud !
4:16 This is the first video I’ve watched explaining the middle Raptors gimbaling outward to allow the 3 center Raptors a larger area to gimbal. Great observation!
I got into a Facebook argument with someone claiming that the booster doesn't get fast enough for atmospheric heating. Some people just refuse to be wrong no matter how incorrect they are
It's easily fast enough at its peak atmospheric speed. Even the X-15 was fast enough. "...the X-15 became a 15,000- pound unpowered hypersonic glider glowing red-hot as it decelerated from 4,000 mph..." NASA Poster: "X-15, To The Edge Of Space"
People on Facebook have generally gotten dumber ever since the Twitter community transferred over after Elon took over and made it X. Most people who use Facebook these days are really just Twitter migrants, and it shows.
Whenever someone says something like that, just ask them how fast it would need to be going for atmospheric heating to get it red hot. Ask them to do the equations. If they actually try they'll figure out they were wrong.
Watched it live like all my space friends, and my mind is still somewhat boggled by the vision. It's so smooth, and yet it's a huge lumbering mass of burning metal falling into two arms that catch it. Wow. I want to see it again. 🤣
So much consideration into the first catch, that shows there experience and knowledge of all the possible outcomes and preparing for them. The tower itself is a masterpiece, it’s almost as hard to make as the booster itself.
The level of precision in that maneuver is absolutely mind-blowing! Huge respect to the engineering team behind this achievement. Truly incredible! 🚀👏👏👏
@@BIGBADWOOD GPS is piss easy Idiot, but getting such a fast, heavy lump of explosive to re-dock, with thousands of bits of info being sent and received per second, then that info being sent to the hardware and the hardware micro managing and adjusting for the slightest winds, there is more went on with that dock than you have managed in your lifetime.
@@mikeaveli14 I do not understand why I was classed as a fool? We know that GPS is only accurate up to a few meters, that is not good enough to do a pinpoint landing, there must have been millions of instructions per second on a GPS system that we do not have access to, to get such an accurate landing. OK people can think what they want but id sooner someone give me a real reason why they would call me a fool.
~70m tall booster and 6in hinges?! it’s like a 20-story building hanging by two iPhone mini (diagonally) imaging this is your apartment! how insanely precise is it
I've watched this catch landing a buck of times now and it's incredible but then factor in the size and weight of the booster and it's just incredible really
I have to say, no matter how many times I see it, the fact that SpaceX is landing a tall vertical rocket booster VERTICALLY. Never gets old! And I think a lot of young people fail to see just how difficult it is to land ANY long cylindrical vehicle in the same orientation is it took off in, is something that could never have been accomplished without extreme computer technology mixed with incredible amounts of engineering and programming. And the difficulty of this accomplishment is highlighted by just how long it is taking to iron out all of the kinks and problems that can and usually WILL manifest themselves at some point during the operation. I remember seeing the old cartoons from the days of Looney Tunes and how whenever Marvin the Martian would land his ship on Earth you saw a long cylindrical cigar shaped ship smoothly come in and land vertically as landing gear popped out of the side of the ship just as the thing touched down. and I knew, even at a young age, that such feats were impossible to accomplish with our current level of technology of the time. So seeing something that was considered impossible in a science fiction cartoon come to reality never ceases to make me smile and watch in wonder. much like people born in the 1800s began seeing horseless carriages driving around as the first automobiles were produced and sold. up until that point the only things that weren't powered by Horse, were old steam tractors and heavy equipment. and Automobiles moved so much faster than any of those. I feel the same way with the VTOVL or VTOL with Space Rockets. The pinnacle of Rocketry was the old Saturn 5 Rockets that took men to the moon, and then the Space shuttle was made because a VTOL Rocket was far too complicated to accomplish even with the level of technology at that time. And we all know the fate of those craft after what I considered too many uses, but because they were so darned expensive, they had no real choice. I had hoped that NASA would yank Enterprise out of the museum she was is and make her flight capable after Challenger and Columbia were lost but I guess that was far too much to expect. Enterprise was built as a demonstrator, not as an operable spacecraft, sadly. But here we are now, with private space agencies building the next generation of space craft and no matter how other nations might try to copy it, the level of technology and engineering involved with such a vessel as Starship, they are all doomed to failure, unless they themselves go through all of the levels of development in order to prevent disaster from destroying everything they have built and the crews in them, I speak mainly of China, who always tries to steal technology and rely upon other nation's R&D for their own progress. but always fail spectacularly in the end. Either way, I look forward to seeing Starship being a fully operational and reliable form of transportation is space and perhaps seeing man land back on the moon and even a trip or two to Mars, although I feel that such a trip is fraught with too much peril to be a really viable thing. Mars, I think is a nice dream, but truly when considered just how it would benefit the Human species, is rather pointless. Terraforming Mars is not a possible thing, after considering Why Mars is as it is now. There's no reason to think that our efforts wouldn't be just so much wasted effort.
You might be right about Mars bit these are all baby steps in reality, we couldn't imagine half the things we do now 20 years ago, to this rocket to who knows what in the next 20 years, I just think we're going in the right direction, aim high and we just might do it one day
Thank you for this excellent video. Learning about the landing pins. Alignment and shock absorption was really great. You answered some questions I had. Well done.
@njones420 no I'm glad they followed with another shot with a normal lens which showed a straight horizon at 168km altitude. Fisheye lenses are not very helpful
When I first saw this I didn't get everyone's seemingly over the top reactions but the more I watch & realize the more absolutely impressive it is. The shear size hides the reality of its speed so close to the tower. So much going on.
We'll be in good shape at about flight 10 or 12 when both booster and ship will be very close to being mass (somewhat) produced and cleared for service 😀 possibly even human rated by flight 15.
I wonder where are they coming from and for what purpose. Is it from the author to boost the comment section with positive comments? Or is it some kind of scam?
It's a scam directed at me. Someone thinks they can trick TH-camrs into thinking that they have beautiful women as their devoted fans to draw them in and then pitch their nonsense. They come and go in waves.
8:22 - Yes, that's what i thought, too. I was like "this is actually easier than landing F9 precisely - no suicide burn, SH can hover". But it did not need to hover. Amazing job by flight control system people (and even more spectacular in the case of SS).
@@nikolaideianov5092 Sorry. Consider the context. SS = StarShip; SH = SuperHeavy. Strange - i use those initialisms all the time, and this is the first time someone didn't recognize them.
the starship landed in the water and the due to the travel went furthur down into the sea... hence the camera picture looking up at most of the ship under water..THEN it poped up like a whale breaching..and broke its back. hence the explosion we all know what happens when we drop something into the water it shoots back up..( loved the way you explained everything ) thank you
The booster fire can be compared to ULA's Delta burn off." I think the only thing they have to do is add an extra chime, and use R3's. In my eyes, it was a success. I don't know why everyone is "nit picking at the catch?" Thanks for the episode.
Thank you for this very detailed and simple to follow explanation of the catch. As a former engineer, the mechanics of the catch are fascinating to watch. Thank you again.
When i heard "Mechazilla has caught the booster" i got literally thrown back to the legendary "Falcon has landed". So much time passed and this is happening again...
Great video! One little niggle. Ablative isn't just a fancy way to say that it's melting or disintegrating. It's something designed to be sacrificed in order to protect the underlying material, or components/ugly bags of mostly water. In this case it seems like it's being used as a last line of defense if the tiled heat shield fails, it means there is still something there to protect the occupants and make sure everyone gets home safe. And considering they landed right on target that is very encouraging for something that's supposed to end up as a human rated vehicle. This is the first time I've definitely seen some evidence as to learning from the shuttle's mistake. Sure the tiles are great for reusability, but if they fail, everyone dies. So you go back to ablatives as a last line of defense. If there are tiles lost, then the ship still comes home, no one in danger, and it stays in vehicle maintenance for a few days rather than hours. But that's sort of just my OCD kicking in. lol, once again, great video!
I'm betting it's serving the double purpose as both a backup heat shield as well as soft dampening material so the tiles chatter off less. Elegantly simple if so.
@riddhishakya7791 do you have a title and ti.e stamp? I don't rewatch videos when I see the live stream and that's not what was said during the livestream. I know they have done several after so even just the title would help me find the added information...I'm sure more was added than just that fact.
When I first heard of this catch a rocket I thought no way is this going to work out. Snag a fly out of the air with chopsticks is a movie trick, not for rockets. All I can say is wow. Just... wow.
Will you do a show about all the different external cameras used on the Starship? The views these cameras provide are amazing! Great videos/content btw.
If Elon can buildout a Ai Supercluster Training center for Tesla in 19 days vs around 3 years for others (companies) to do it, Him and his SpaceX team can do almost anything.
@@1flash3571 Except be close to their schedules on things like the Hyperloop, self-driving cars, underground highways, an electric roadster and getting astronauts to the Moon for 3 billion dollars...by the end of 2024.
10:18 - "...It's probably just a bad fastener that resulted in this coming apart." I think a bad/loose fastener during spaceflight is far more serious than this sentence implies.
What I hope to see soon: Starship going to full orbit, booster comes down for landing at the tower, placed back at the launch mount, and when that's done, starship makes a de-orbit burn to come in for a landing at the tower too (this can be the other tower, or the same one). And when they are going to orbit anyway... Perhaps also make it usefull by taking along a Starlink V2 to deploy.
One suggestion? When you're showing multiple shots/angles at once, put in a little bit of text explaining what we're looking at. It doesn't have to be large or intrusive, people who want the info can zoom in. Damn good video. 👊
Hey there, great explanation even for the not completely insane rocket nerds. The middle ring of 10(?) engines coming apart to make more room for the inner most 3 is one of the things I never knew before just like that the puffs of gas after the flip are purging the excess methane. That and probably thousands of other adjustments are the things that SpaceX definitely learned from the previous flights. And I can't even begin to imagine the boatload of data that will come from having the booster back for inspection.
The puffs of gas aren't methane, they are oxygen. Methane is a very bad greenhouse gas, it can't be used that way. It's only safe to burn it. That's why you see flaming pipes around oil wells, launch sites and such where methane is. SpaceX used to have a flame stack but now they recycle all of it.
When I first saw that they caught the booster I thought "Oh that's cool. Good for them" Then I watched your video and now I think "OH MAN THAT IS SO AMAZING" great job
It actually does make sense though if you think about it. The Rockets land soft enough and can hover. It will be more difficult for any Rockets to be caught, and I am sure they are gonna encounter missed catches in the future more so than if they just landed it on the ground, but with new tech, it will get easier.
I watched a lot of videos trying to find out why the booster als well as the starship came down burning. This is by far the best commented video with the most beautiful views.
the arms dont use hydrolic pistons to open and close anymore, that was an early design that was phased out for faster electric motors from the plaid motors
My theory The heating during re-entry creates excess pressure in the tanks due to gaseous CH4, O2. The excess pressure in the tanks is released via the filling connections at the bottom of the booster, and the gas (methane) is ignited. I think we will see more of this
This is one of the few videos that mentioned that catching the booster is not the final goal of Artemis III. It is being celebrated like the Apollo 11 splashdown.
For perspective, the fifth all-up flight of the Saturn V, some 55 years ago now, was Apollo 10. They did everything short of landing on the Moon. SpaceX is years behind schedule on their part of the Artemis program.
Amazing!!! So amazing!!! I can’t wait to see how quickly they can reuse the rockets. Could you imagine if they could turn around back to back launches within weeks or days? I’m not sure on launch windows, as that’s outside their control but being able to launch repeatedly at a cheaper cost changes everything for orbital space stations and interplanetary exploration
i appreciate the follow through on his ideas, and this is cool without a doubt. i think it's an accident waiting to happen in the long term, you have a massive object coming downwards at an aggressive angle (almost vertical) while sandwiching it with boosters from below that are pushing upwards, that's a tremendous amount of squeeze stress. from a philosophical standpoint, the whole operation looks inefficient (it's a massive amount of weight moving downwards vertically with a combustion based power source pushing upwards, then you have pockets of smoke and fire burning upwards letting you know the physics are starting to agree with the philosophical, some of those flames were on the verge of being uncontrollable, that can't be by design and no materials can resist everything (it's more natural that you have a combustion source at the bottom of an object and your desired move is upwards, not downwards toward your combustion source)). just the amount of bent and burnt metal on those things, the amount of replacement engines and parts from that sheer stress, etc. etc., seems like alot of trouble to not pursue a glide back to earth. seems more like a science experiment with thrust vector'ing and gyroscopes (which fits his profile, he takes the seed of an idea and tries to fit it for commercial purposes), but even the military prefers staying away from VTOL
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FYI:
they throttle up a little bit to slow down...
Good video. Small detail: there's a weird hiss-like sound artifact in the left channel of your background music loop.
AI voice gets automatic thumbs down because of your lɑziness.
At approx 12:30 you mix up units and state an altitude in km/h instead of km.
Happens to the best of us.
Correction: 12:21
the fact that those two small pins precisely land on the chop sticks is crazy
Yes. The pins. What?!?!?
The culture of excellence coupled with openness, no fear of failure, and learning from mistakes is a beautiful testament to SpaceX culture of greatness. A lot of rocket companies are doing so great - but clearly the leader of innovation is SpaceX.
Approximately*
@@eltigrechino3390 It is however a very expensive way of doing things and development is reactive in nature. Crashes and explosion are used to point to deficiencies in design. not extensive modeling and testing. It will also mean, Starship will need many successful launches before it is human flight ready. And even if we do lose a crew or two, or the rocket crashes into a town or the fuel farm, the program must not be stopped. One can only hope that Starship is completed before the cost and delays become unbearable.
Doing it once, is not the aim. Doing it repeatedly at low cost is the aim. How how fast can they prep the boaster for a second launch. How long does it take to check the raptor engines and tanks for fatigue cracks. How long does it take to clean them out?
@@nickl5658 I don't think SpaceX don't do extensive modeling and testing, but they develop new breakthrough methods which was never done before and there are no data for testing. They need to learn them. They mitigate the risks as much as possible. Also Try-and-error is the fastest way of progress, and also maybe the cheapest, compared what other programs like SLS costs, which also takes decades to build with mostly old and tested technology.
mm accuracy. Mind blowing.
The precision required for that catch blows my mind! Kudos to the software engineers that made that possible! Unbelievable!! 😮😮😮😮👏👏👏👏👏
There is also some hardware involved, even old fashioned analog feedback loops, but I agree. The whole flight control team is amazing.
I have no doubt that they have the support of a powerful AI to make all these calculations in real time. And that is why I reaffirm that all of this is unnecessary... I don't understand why they prefer the hard way... Where the margins for error are minimal, otherwise the tragedy will be inevitable. It is obscurantism...
NASA has been at this for how long? Musk has been at this for how long?
@@tedbaxter5234 even the SLS is not reusable. All that money for a single use. It’s ridiculous.
Just want to know what were the temperatures of the CPUs during that maneuver?
That flight made history because of the booster catch. I feel lucky I got to see it with my 10 year old live. Great job SpaceX
GPS EASY TO DO FOOL
@@BIGBADWOOD - WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!?!?
@@chrislong3938I WILL TALK SLOW FOR YOU .. LANDING THE ROCKET IS THE EASY PART AND HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE USING (Global Positioning System) IT IS NO BIG DEAL ! Today guided weapons can use a combination of INS, GPS and radar terrain mapping to achieve extremely high levels of accuracy such as that found in modern cruise missiles. Musk has spent 3 Billion of your tax dollars and has done nothing but low earth orbit he is a fraud !
@@airgunningyup NO I AM CALLING YOU A MUSK BOOT LICKER FOOL ..... NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK R-T ! GFO 💩💩💩
It's also the biggest lawn dart ever thrown in the air.
4:16 This is the first video I’ve watched explaining the middle Raptors gimbaling outward to allow the 3 center Raptors a larger area to gimbal. Great observation!
Wait a second, I get gimballing but just realized what's the arrangement of the mechanism & is it just the nozzle right & how is that sealed? 🤔
@@iRossco entire engine gimbals, thus the joint only experiences tank pressure, not any of the higher engine pressures.
I got into a Facebook argument with someone claiming that the booster doesn't get fast enough for atmospheric heating. Some people just refuse to be wrong no matter how incorrect they are
It's easily fast enough at its peak atmospheric speed. Even the X-15 was fast enough.
"...the X-15 became a 15,000- pound unpowered hypersonic glider glowing red-hot as it decelerated from 4,000 mph..." NASA Poster: "X-15, To The Edge Of Space"
Thanks for letting us know. I was really worried about how that one turned out.
People on Facebook have generally gotten dumber ever since the Twitter community transferred over after Elon took over and made it X. Most people who use Facebook these days are really just Twitter migrants, and it shows.
A face is no match for a book in a fight.
Whenever someone says something like that, just ask them how fast it would need to be going for atmospheric heating to get it red hot. Ask them to do the equations. If they actually try they'll figure out they were wrong.
Holy shit. I thought there was 2 pins on each side of the booster not just 2 pins period. The precision here is crazy man. I love this so much
One of the best short explanations I've seen. Well done.
HOLY CRAP!!! I though it was being caught by the grid fins. This is the first I'd seen of the Catch pins and just one on each side is so amazing!😲
yeah the grid fins would not be able to handle the weight. the pins continue inside and attach to the top of the fuel tank
@@brian8319How can the tiny pins carry the whole weight though which the fins aren't able to?
@@notmo.Static (fixed) helps it's just a support lug effectively not a rotating dynamic part.
@notmo. they're actually not that tiny. I'd say a couple feet across
@@iRossco It's still impressive how these pins can hold the weight of a 20+ story building
3:05 - If I understood correctly, that cloud is its own condensed ascent exhaust plume. How cool is that!
Probably cool already 😁👍
@@DalHrusk 😀 Well, yes - condensed.
You are the first to talk about the alignment of the pins. My jaw is still dropped.
Watched it live like all my space friends, and my mind is still somewhat boggled by the vision. It's so smooth, and yet it's a huge lumbering mass of burning metal falling into two arms that catch it. Wow. I want to see it again. 🤣
Yes...71m and 230 ton lump of metal being controlled like that to a gentle halt....hard to get your head around....
They basically caught a freaking 23 to 28 story BUILDING...LOL
So much consideration into the first catch, that shows there experience and knowledge of all the possible outcomes and preparing for them. The tower itself is a masterpiece, it’s almost as hard to make as the booster itself.
The level of precision in that maneuver is absolutely mind-blowing! Huge respect to the engineering team behind this achievement. Truly incredible! 🚀👏👏👏
Needs a little X marks the spot, maybe even just marking the first landing ever. 😊
@@iRossco Great suggestion! Marking significant milestones like the first landing could add a meaningful touch to the project
The more I see about this landing the crazier it sounds. It’s insane that this is real
If spacex isn’t recruiting the worlds best engineers after that display idk what other company can
The problem is Musk.
@@Slaeowulfthe problem 😂😂 iu @ 🤡 fr
@@ddollarz567 What? Are you drunk?
@@Slaeowulf is what a boeing employee would say
@@thomascooley2749 Thales, actually.
I legit cried when i saw this, the engineering, testing and wok behind this is just beyond incredible
was that a chopstick pun or a spelling error? 😅
I'm a 74 year old retired Engineer. And, I cried too!!!!
@@M2Mil7er omg i did not even notice, lets call it a pun
@@magnustangen6269 😄
Very interesting and informative video! But at 12:19, you misspoke when you said 69kph rather than 69 kilometers.
O yeah! I noticed that too but forgot by the end of the vidger. Kudos to you for remembering. Tsk I'm getting old and doddery!
Nice ☯️
@@opabinnier I just want people to get accurate info.
@@cameronroche6235 Just relax and ENJOY!!
A huge congratulations to the team at SpaceX, I never expected to see that in my life time, hope you all got a good bonus.
GPS EASY TO DO FOOL
@@BIGBADWOOD GPS is piss easy Idiot, but getting such a fast, heavy lump of explosive to re-dock, with thousands of bits of info being sent and received per second, then that info being sent to the hardware and the hardware micro managing and adjusting for the slightest winds, there is more went on with that dock than you have managed in your lifetime.
This is an incredibly idiotic and uneducated comment, actual "fool."
@@mikeaveli14 I do not understand why I was classed as a fool? We know that GPS is only accurate up to a few meters, that is not good enough to do a pinpoint landing, there must have been millions of instructions per second on a GPS system that we do not have access to, to get such an accurate landing. OK people can think what they want but id sooner someone give me a real reason why they would call me a fool.
But is this the most simple, reliable and efficient solution for the reusability problem?
Is it?
~70m tall booster and 6in hinges?!
it’s like a 20-story building hanging by two iPhone mini (diagonally)
imaging this is your apartment!
how insanely precise is it
Thanks for the breakdown of the flight! What an achievement they have made
I literally refused to watch any other channels videos on launch 5. I knew Space Race would put one out.
Thanks bro
Your channel is amazing but I’d also recommend a channel called what about it. He’s also good
Well I hope you at least watched the launch lol
@@EwokforlifeMarcus House as well 👍
I'll give recognition to Scott Manley's channel. His delivery is very solid.
Absolutely f-ing amazing!
Best Flight 5 commentary I have read. Thank you, very little fluff - time filler, just great information.
There are far more technical and cohesive break downs
Another excellent one, sir! The most succinct and accurate summary of this flight I've seen. Better than Scott Manley himself! 😀
I've watched this catch landing a buck of times now and it's incredible but then factor in the size and weight of the booster and it's just incredible really
You could even say it's incredibly incredible 😊
I have to say, no matter how many times I see it, the fact that SpaceX is landing a tall vertical rocket booster VERTICALLY. Never gets old! And I think a lot of young people fail to see just how difficult it is to land ANY long cylindrical vehicle in the same orientation is it took off in, is something that could never have been accomplished without extreme computer technology mixed with incredible amounts of engineering and programming. And the difficulty of this accomplishment is highlighted by just how long it is taking to iron out all of the kinks and problems that can and usually WILL manifest themselves at some point during the operation. I remember seeing the old cartoons from the days of Looney Tunes and how whenever Marvin the Martian would land his ship on Earth you saw a long cylindrical cigar shaped ship smoothly come in and land vertically as landing gear popped out of the side of the ship just as the thing touched down. and I knew, even at a young age, that such feats were impossible to accomplish with our current level of technology of the time. So seeing something that was considered impossible in a science fiction cartoon come to reality never ceases to make me smile and watch in wonder. much like people born in the 1800s began seeing horseless carriages driving around as the first automobiles were produced and sold. up until that point the only things that weren't powered by Horse, were old steam tractors and heavy equipment. and Automobiles moved so much faster than any of those. I feel the same way with the VTOVL or VTOL with Space Rockets. The pinnacle of Rocketry was the old Saturn 5 Rockets that took men to the moon, and then the Space shuttle was made because a VTOL Rocket was far too complicated to accomplish even with the level of technology at that time. And we all know the fate of those craft after what I considered too many uses, but because they were so darned expensive, they had no real choice. I had hoped that NASA would yank Enterprise out of the museum she was is and make her flight capable after Challenger and Columbia were lost but I guess that was far too much to expect. Enterprise was built as a demonstrator, not as an operable spacecraft, sadly. But here we are now, with private space agencies building the next generation of space craft and no matter how other nations might try to copy it, the level of technology and engineering involved with such a vessel as Starship, they are all doomed to failure, unless they themselves go through all of the levels of development in order to prevent disaster from destroying everything they have built and the crews in them, I speak mainly of China, who always tries to steal technology and rely upon other nation's R&D for their own progress. but always fail spectacularly in the end. Either way, I look forward to seeing Starship being a fully operational and reliable form of transportation is space and perhaps seeing man land back on the moon and even a trip or two to Mars, although I feel that such a trip is fraught with too much peril to be a really viable thing. Mars, I think is a nice dream, but truly when considered just how it would benefit the Human species, is rather pointless. Terraforming Mars is not a possible thing, after considering Why Mars is as it is now. There's no reason to think that our efforts wouldn't be just so much wasted effort.
You might be right about Mars bit these are all baby steps in reality, we couldn't imagine half the things we do now 20 years ago, to this rocket to who knows what in the next 20 years, I just think we're going in the right direction, aim high and we just might do it one day
If Elon Musk can dream it, it WILL HAPPEN!!!
This is the epitome of what America is all about. I can't think of any country that would even attempt this type of landing, way to go America!
Most of America hates elon lol
@@ChrisBrown-ir6sf Elon had very little to do with this amazing feat, even though he may have been the guy who lit the candle
@@danieledwards844
A ceo has everything to do with the successful project. Keep the BS to yourself.
@@ChrisBrown-ir6sf you obviously know more about BS than you do about being a CEO 🙄
@@danieledwards844
Least obvious elon hater spotted. The guy who lead the project = Played no part.
Yeah. Sure
Thank you for this excellent video. Learning about the landing pins. Alignment and shock absorption was really great. You answered some questions I had. Well done.
Two pins that are 6 inches long hold the weight of a 22 story tall rocket? Whaaaaaaa?
Tears in my eyes because I was soooo happy that it all went as planned. A HUGE success.
11:15, the Velocity IS orbitable. The planned Trajectory is not. Great vid 😎😎🍻
Why fisheye lens?
@@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466 They let you see more...are you going to suggest that's why the earth looks spherical? 🤣
@njones420 no I'm glad they followed with another shot with a normal lens which showed a straight horizon at 168km altitude. Fisheye lenses are not very helpful
@@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466 the earth isn't flat buddy ...
@@njones420 I didn't say it was
When I first saw this I didn't get everyone's seemingly over the top reactions but the more I watch & realize the more absolutely impressive it is.
The shear size hides the reality of its speed so close to the tower. So much going on.
We'll be in good shape at about flight 10 or 12 when both booster and ship will be very close to being mass (somewhat) produced and cleared for service 😀 possibly even human rated by flight 15.
Dang it, it's been 15 minutes and 3 bots have already left "comments".
I wonder where are they coming from and for what purpose. Is it from the author to boost the comment section with positive comments? Or is it some kind of scam?
It's a scam directed at me. Someone thinks they can trick TH-camrs into thinking that they have beautiful women as their devoted fans to draw them in and then pitch their nonsense. They come and go in waves.
@@TheSpaceRaceYTah
soo that explaines these types of comments
I was really confused everytime i see them
They are probably bots that Elon Musk kicked off Twitter when he cleaned it up before rebranding it to "X Formally Twitter"
8:22 - Yes, that's what i thought, too. I was like "this is actually easier than landing F9 precisely - no suicide burn, SH can hover". But it did not need to hover. Amazing job by flight control system people (and even more spectacular in the case of SS).
What does ss mean in this case ?
The only shorthand thats ss is the ww2 one
And i dont think this is what you are refering too
@@nikolaideianov5092 starship
@@m1ghtymaxXx does it really need a shorthand?
@@nikolaideianov5092 Sorry.
Consider the context. SS = StarShip; SH = SuperHeavy. Strange - i use those initialisms all the time, and this is the first time someone didn't recognize them.
the starship landed in the water and the due to the travel went furthur down into the sea... hence the camera picture looking up at most of the ship under water..THEN it poped up like a whale breaching..and broke its back. hence the explosion we all know what happens when we drop something into the water it shoots back up..( loved the way you explained everything ) thank you
The booster fire can be compared to ULA's Delta burn off." I think the only thing they have to do is add an extra chime, and use R3's.
In my eyes, it was a success. I don't know why everyone is "nit picking at the catch?"
Thanks for the episode.
Thank you for this very detailed and simple to follow explanation of the catch.
As a former engineer, the mechanics of the catch are fascinating to watch.
Thank you again.
14:18 "it needs to be more pointy"😅😅😅
I watched it live. The energy from that crowd was fantastic! I cheered with them lol it was so cool
Have you ever had a night out - NO we are not the target demographic for this product 😂
For real? 😂
What impressed me was the fact that the booster weighed between 100 and 140 tons! Now that's what you call impressive, on the first attempt too!
I cant even use chopsticks and they just programmed giant chopsticks to catch a rocket 😂
@@SlaeowulfI hope this was a joke and not a point of criticism because literally every rocket is just a flaming tube.
@@wolffang489 Yes, it was obviously a joke. Calm your autism.
@@Slaeowulf he said rocket not robot lmao
Just use a straw to suck up rice
Let's see them pick up rice though. Rice has special powers even these chopsticks can't overcome! 🥢
Friggin awesome video dude. Very well done.
One of the best videos of the catch and very informative 👏 😊
Thank you for your in depth explanation of the particulars of both re-entries. Some mysteries were uncovered.
Well done and Thanks again.
When i heard "Mechazilla has caught the booster" i got literally thrown back to the legendary "Falcon has landed". So much time passed and this is happening again...
The best explanation I came across so far
Great video! One little niggle. Ablative isn't just a fancy way to say that it's melting or disintegrating. It's something designed to be sacrificed in order to protect the underlying material, or components/ugly bags of mostly water. In this case it seems like it's being used as a last line of defense if the tiled heat shield fails, it means there is still something there to protect the occupants and make sure everyone gets home safe. And considering they landed right on target that is very encouraging for something that's supposed to end up as a human rated vehicle. This is the first time I've definitely seen some evidence as to learning from the shuttle's mistake. Sure the tiles are great for reusability, but if they fail, everyone dies. So you go back to ablatives as a last line of defense. If there are tiles lost, then the ship still comes home, no one in danger, and it stays in vehicle maintenance for a few days rather than hours. But that's sort of just my OCD kicking in. lol, once again, great video!
I'm betting it's serving the double purpose as both a backup heat shield as well as soft dampening material so the tiles chatter off less. Elegantly simple if so.
I cried when I first saw it, couldn’t explain it. Lol. Just super proud of fellow humans and their collective effort.
Quick correction: SpaceX purposefully exploded upper stage using flight termination system as they had no plan to recover it from indian ocean.
Source please.
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@@mikes8510 And not only this time soacex did it with IFT4 as well
@riddhishakya7791 do you have a title and ti.e stamp? I don't rewatch videos when I see the live stream and that's not what was said during the livestream. I know they have done several after so even just the title would help me find the added information...I'm sure more was added than just that fact.
I know it said it literally in the video these are old models they are just using them up and they ain't gonna let some other countries get that lol
It was the most unreal thing I have ever seen. Stunning ! Really enjoyed your coverage . Subbed!
I like space race
When I first heard of this catch a rocket I thought no way is this going to work out. Snag a fly out of the air with chopsticks is a movie trick, not for rockets. All I can say is wow. Just... wow.
I don't think the chopsticks did much. The skill was all in the flight control.
@@pluto9000 ROFLMAO! Did the tower run around the field trying to catch it?? LOL... no. LOL
Will you do a show about all the different external cameras used on the Starship? The views these cameras provide are amazing! Great videos/content btw.
Yes...and just incredible that somethhing as delicate as a camera can be designed to withstand a rough ride like that...
I'm feeling a time where this is an every day thing in the future.
What Elon has been saying for the past 10 years. Multiple times per day. Daily would be a starting point, not the goal.
Watched the moon landing as a kid, nice to see the dream is still alive. Good job guys!!
Some giant brains work at Spacex
If Elon can buildout a Ai Supercluster Training center for Tesla in 19 days vs around 3 years for others (companies) to do it, Him and his SpaceX team can do almost anything.
@@1flash3571 Except be close to their schedules on things like the Hyperloop, self-driving cars, underground highways, an electric roadster and getting astronauts to the Moon for 3 billion dollars...by the end of 2024.
Awesome recap! Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!
10:18 - "...It's probably just a bad fastener that resulted in this coming apart." I think a bad/loose fastener during spaceflight is far more serious than this sentence implies.
More huge than this is that starship flight was perfect and I think we can send all things necessary to moon at once with starship
Finally we can put all our eggs in one basket.
It might need ten times the fuel it can carry into orbit to get to the moon and back. I have not checked if that is accurate yet but I think it is.
It was too perfect. I'm speechless. This is really one of the greatest human achievements in history.
Zbiotics?? Ever considered less alcohol??
How dare!
DONT RESTRICT MY FREEDOM
Great details that I didn't see on other videos.
Improbable…not impossible. But overcoming that for Elon and his team is just another day at SpaceX
What I hope to see soon: Starship going to full orbit, booster comes down for landing at the tower, placed back at the launch mount, and when that's done, starship makes a de-orbit burn to come in for a landing at the tower too (this can be the other tower, or the same one). And when they are going to orbit anyway... Perhaps also make it usefull by taking along a Starlink V2 to deploy.
Truly Amazing. Not that I will ever use any Elon Musk product - X - Tesla - Starlink - after he turned 120 percent fascist unAmerican.
One suggestion? When you're showing multiple shots/angles at once, put in a little bit of text explaining what we're looking at. It doesn't have to be large or intrusive, people who want the info can zoom in.
Damn good video. 👊
This beat the snot out of Scott Manley’s coverage well done and subbed
The engineers designing this stuff are truely amazing people.
Just effing wow!
Let's hope for more wows to come.
Best breakdown of the mission so far. Thanks
I showed this video to my 97 year old father. He’s gonna have wild dreams tonight
So impressive
Hey there, great explanation even for the not completely insane rocket nerds.
The middle ring of 10(?) engines coming apart to make more room for the inner most 3 is one of the things I never knew before just like that the puffs of gas after the flip are purging the excess methane. That and probably thousands of other adjustments are the things that SpaceX definitely learned from the previous flights. And I can't even begin to imagine the boatload of data that will come from having the booster back for inspection.
The puffs of gas aren't methane, they are oxygen. Methane is a very bad greenhouse gas, it can't be used that way. It's only safe to burn it. That's why you see flaming pipes around oil wells, launch sites and such where methane is. SpaceX used to have a flame stack but now they recycle all of it.
When I first saw that they caught the booster I thought "Oh that's cool. Good for them" Then I watched your video and now I think "OH MAN THAT IS SO AMAZING" great job
You’re truly making a difference!
It’s amazing that the Superheavy recovery method works at all, let alone on the very first attempt.
Kudos, SpaceX!
It actually does make sense though if you think about it. The Rockets land soft enough and can hover. It will be more difficult for any Rockets to be caught, and I am sure they are gonna encounter missed catches in the future more so than if they just landed it on the ground, but with new tech, it will get easier.
I watched a lot of videos trying to find out why the booster als well as the starship came down burning. This is by far the best commented video with the most beautiful views.
You can see the hole in the booster and still no explanation
the arms dont use hydrolic pistons to open and close anymore, that was an early design that was phased out for faster electric motors from the plaid motors
Absolute madness. What a time to be alive!
Absolutely phenomenal
fantastic explanatory video. Thank you!
Absolutely stunning!
These nerds at SpaceX are Rockstar 🤟
My theory
The heating during re-entry creates excess pressure in the tanks due to gaseous CH4, O2. The excess pressure in the tanks is released via the filling connections at the bottom of the booster, and the gas (methane) is ignited. I think we will see more of this
just doing that catch is an amazing looking things...
the more flights the more understanding. the better the final ship
The pins are crazy. This huge machine rests on 6" pins
That's a fair amount of pressure bearing there
This is one of the few videos that mentioned that catching the booster is not the final goal of Artemis III. It is being celebrated like the Apollo 11 splashdown.
For perspective, the fifth all-up flight of the Saturn V, some 55 years ago now, was Apollo 10. They did everything short of landing on the Moon. SpaceX is years behind schedule on their part of the Artemis program.
This was exactly the information I needed today!
Amazing!!! So amazing!!! I can’t wait to see how quickly they can reuse the rockets. Could you imagine if they could turn around back to back launches within weeks or days? I’m not sure on launch windows, as that’s outside their control but being able to launch repeatedly at a cheaper cost changes everything for orbital space stations and interplanetary exploration
Absolutely amazing.
This was very well done and deserved a sub from me! Keep up the great work!
good to see a booster that really works
Very well put together review, thank you!
This is such a pinpoint landing into the arms ,....amazing for sure 😅 👏
i appreciate the follow through on his ideas, and this is cool without a doubt.
i think it's an accident waiting to happen in the long term, you have a massive object coming downwards at an aggressive angle (almost vertical) while sandwiching it with boosters from below that are pushing upwards, that's a tremendous amount of squeeze stress. from a philosophical standpoint, the whole operation looks inefficient (it's a massive amount of weight moving downwards vertically with a combustion based power source pushing upwards, then you have pockets of smoke and fire burning upwards letting you know the physics are starting to agree with the philosophical, some of those flames were on the verge of being uncontrollable, that can't be by design and no materials can resist everything (it's more natural that you have a combustion source at the bottom of an object and your desired move is upwards, not downwards toward your combustion source)).
just the amount of bent and burnt metal on those things, the amount of replacement engines and parts from that sheer stress, etc. etc., seems like alot of trouble to not pursue a glide back to earth. seems more like a science experiment with thrust vector'ing and gyroscopes (which fits his profile, he takes the seed of an idea and tries to fit it for commercial purposes), but even the military prefers staying away from VTOL
How on earth do they get that kind of precision?
Wow! Thanks for the astonishing details.