What Happened With Starship's 7th Flight? - SpaceX Weekly
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2025
- This week at Starbase SpaceX launched its 7th Starship flight test. Although it wasn't without a few issues, it certainly was exciting, and should yield plenty of data for SpaceX to comb through ahead of their next flight which, for now, is still expected in the very near future. And, even with all the excitement at Starbase, Blue Origin was not to be overlooked in Florida, as they launched the much anticipated maiden flight of their New Glenn super heavy launch vehicle.
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Thanks LabPadre team. Thanks for covering the Florida operations.
You bet!
Thanks guys, I look forward to your weekly updates.
Our pleasure!
Big week for SpaceX. They clearly learned a lot from IFT-7. Looking forward to IFT-8. This is what the early stages of continuous quality improvement look like. There is a lot to learn and a lot to fix. This is peak development time for Starship. It's great to see Falcon 9 reliably launching as Starship is being developed. 25 launches for 1067 is impressive. It's great to see reusable rockets become a reality.
Thanks LabPadre for your coverage!
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best, most efficient way I can get caught up each week - TY LAB!
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Question: If there are gpnna be hundreds of launches, how will those office workers ever get anything done with constant evacs?
Starbase will remain an R&D site with relatively low launch cadence. Most launches will be from KSC and other future launchpads.
@@DV-13 Thanks, so all that office space is just for R&D and manufacturing?
The folks evacuated for the wet dress rehearsal were working at the launch site, not the office building/Star Factory.
@@suntzuwu They have to evac the office as well
@@yelladsThey gotta manufacture them somewhere.
12:04 isn’t it funny how small the F9 boosters/broomsticks look after watching the Starship take flight?
Thanks as always, LAB!
Always!
whats in the box!?!? Thanks again Lab! great shots from R2 and VR
I literally LOL'd at that one!
The parts they removed from New Glenn to make sure it didn't land.
Thank You!~ Missed your smiley face at the beginning.
Next time!
Which is the most used faring halfs in the fleet?
Good question.
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Great work.
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you, a great synopsis as alway.
You're very welcome
So what happened with New Glen’s 2nd stage?
Not much. The "payload" apparently just provided some telemetry, it didn't even detach.
Some week; you got some nice details others missed...yellow racking on the move.
Thanks 👍
I loved this flight! This is how you do spaceflight. Seriously. This is how you make an incredibly safe rocket, get all the bugs and issues figured out now. I am so pumped for the next flight, we are going full orbit next time!
IFT-7 was a set back, no denying that. At least they demonstrated the catch is repeatable, but loss of the upper stage was a major gut punch.
Agreed! This is what makes it all so exciting.
2:45 - well I can assure you that's not someones head!
Sad starship had a rud
Remember when it looked like " a can of dot 3 brake fluid" ?
Haha, I remember that!
👋👍
Cherry pie.
So much data was collected, such a successful flight.
Actually not much data was collected because the upper stage never even made it to reentry. Tons of data and tests weren't able to be complete so that is a big setback. After a few months hopefully they can try again.
@@Barthhhelona
A big set back would be finding that something they "knew" wasn't so and had to be redesigned. This looks relatively minor.
@@Scanner9631 but that is exactly what happened. They thought they knew how to get into "orbit"and through reentry. And unfortunately they failed at something that was figured out by IFT3.
@@Barthhhelona Just being sarcastic :) They don't need more data from full-scale tests, not at this point. We have all the data needed to get it orbital, and anything special, like the heat shield, can be safely tested on the ground in a plasma wind tunnel. Every other US heavy launch vehicle like Saturn-V, Shuttle, SLS, & New Glenn made it to orbit on the first test flight. Here is SpaceX, 7th full-scale test and the thing still leaks fuel. Yes, landing is different, but that can all be done without going sub-orbital, and anything that can't, can wait until ship can safely get to orbit and reenter, rather than risking lives with "lets see what happens"
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