That's what's crazy to me. Elon is basically begging for someone to compete with him by using such a public location, but here we are with only a few small sat launchers or billion dollar legacy rockets... and BO. It'd be nice to have a few more American launch vehicles by 2030.
This is by far the best presentation on Starship production you've made to date; the oration was perfect, the information non repetitive, and the photos and graphics well polished and well place in the short documentary, congratulations to all involved.
the script writing of this video is so good, especially at the end around 10:00 onwards explaining the 'chines'. Its slow enough to not overwhelm you, but explained in a very masterful manner to remain eli5, but cover the fundamental engineering concepts!
I like that you don't assume everyone watching already knows everything about Starship already. I follow it pretty closely, yet I have a better idea of what is happening now, thanks.
Amazingly well-written, presented and narrated... clear, concise and informative... plus, the video filled in the fuzzy spaces that I hadn't been able to "self-imagine"... thanks NSF!
Great update, SpaceX is iterating rapidly and this video is keeping us current. Hopefully the FAA will get organized and grant the go ahead at the same time SpaceX is ready to launch. WE NEED SPEED in this process!
Wow I really needed this catch-up! I feel like I've missed a lot by not keeping up with the daily updates for the last while. This was a super summary NSF team!
Great work on the video. Getting more detailed information makes it wasier for those that don;t fully understand how these are built and what small changes being made can make a significant difference to both propellant usage and aerodynamic befefits. As you said, "seamingly minor little nubs can have such a significan effect." I expect to see more changes to come as this progresses along and we get a "final" itteration of both ship and booster. After i read Alexs' write up in Discord I got a better understanding of how these were being built and you did a great job of translating that so that everyone can omderstand and have a basis to follow along with and look for changes and understand how they may affect future itterations. Thank you Jack and the rest of the team and those mentioned by you for all you guys and gals do. You help bring an understanding to a seemingly complicated subject to a level people can understand and appreciate more and more. Again Thank You.
Yeah you gotta be on the discord server for that. I do have it public on my SpaceX facebook group as well tho! I made it knowing this video was getting a bit more time to be completed so it was a good thing in the interim to work with to explain stuff to people. This video is now a nice upgrade :)
I was looking for good video to catch me up on the latest designs. This one knocked it out of the park. Well done! This might be worth doing quarterly.
Thanks for the update. Have you been an auctioneer? You can speak very quickly and distinctly. For those of us not that familiar with all the changes it is a bit difficult to keep up! Maybe a bit slower delivery would be nice! Excellent update! Thank you.
This narrative should be a standard feature when there have been enough changes. I watch regularly but i am not often able to note some changes or the significance thereof. Great work by all involved.
Really interesting video! I haven't been paying much attention to Starship development in the past few months, it's nice to have all the changes and current form listed in one video. I also love the clear footage and explanations, really great content.
CHINE TIRES. The “chine” tire is a nose wheel tire designed to deflect water and slush to the side and away from engine intakes. Being a Learjet mechanic this is my reference to Chines. GREAT video! I love these. It would be nice if they had their own Playlist so we could more easily go back and find certain information. You do a great job.
While your live unscripted events are always enjoyable, this scripted and expertly edited release is one of your best videos yet. You have set the bar high and I hope to see many more like this!
WOW. @NASASpaceflight I don't typically watch every narrated episode but they have been getting BETTER and BETTER. This episode was incredibly snappy and engaging, it kept me drawn in at 6:00 in the morning!!! 😂 Thank you guys, as always!
Well done NSF. I think it’s easy to forget that so much of what we see being constructed was only on a drawing board 12 months ago and is already so far out of date. I’m still looking forward to a full launch from Spacex
I haven’t watched videos in about a month (ever since the war started) mind blown 🤯 such a quality informative video. You guys are changing and upgrading just as well as spacex is, keep up the good work!
I really love these videos. I know the nature of these type of updates and news may be slow to come by but I just wish there was more content narrated like this.
Thanks for this summary of changes. Now that the changes are more subtle, it's harder to keep track of where they're at with each new vehicle. I really appreciate the hard work!
@@Cammo1213 That is definitely a safe bet since extra mass on the upper stage has an exponentially larger impact on payload mass vs stage I, so there’s a huge incentive to move as much mass as possible from Starship to the booster. Not to mention Starship is the active/moving vehicle during stacking- the probe on non-androgynous docking systems is almost always on the active vehicle since that configuration is more forgiving in terms of misalignment.
Thanks for the clear and detailed explanation of the various design changes and your elaboration of their contribution to a more effective booster. Well done!
I love these videos and how y’all are able to present these technical changes in such a clear and concise way. They really help put into the daily videos into context and are great references.
Great video. Really helpful, and in my opinion the perfect blend of technical details/language without being too esoteric. (that's for me at least as someone who follows this stuff and has a reasonable, but amatuer understanding of engineering and technical features) Also, one thing to remember is that the ring spacing/changes can affect the tanks themselves in terms of capacity....especailly as the booster is "just" 2 flying fuel tanks, so perhaps changes are made to better balance the fuel/ox needs as the Raptor 2s keep getting tested and the mass of the booster changes with interations.
Excellent presentation. Some constructive criticism: Jack was speaking at a quick clip in this one, and this made understanding him somewhat challenging due to the background music. Please, lose the background. The narrative is what we want to hear. If you can't do that, then could you please enable captioning so I can read along? Thanks, and keep it up, less the techno background.
I had no problem with the background and found Jack very easy to understand. Since I almost always use settings to speed up playback by 1.25X it was nice to hear a breezy, cheerful, succinct delivery that presented a lot of Starship info without a long drawn out delivery. Captioning is always useful. It's common for a presenter to garble a word or phrase badly enough that it's unintelligible no matter how many times it's replayed. There are also many viewers for whom English is a second language that would appreciate captioning.
The background music is actually in the foreground, I'm not here for cheesy music, but for StarShip info only, the music get in the way of the valuable information this RUclips channel is known for. Tried close caption with volume turn down, work fine 👍
Outstanding analysis of the current visible design status of Starship and Superheavy, great work and thanks to all involved in this video at NSF, I doubt SpaceX could come up with a better executive summary of the design themselves.
This development methodology has been in use for software development for decades now, because it works: iterative development done in short sprints, agile development, focusing on the most valuable objective for each sprint. History has shown for software, quite often you think you need A, but you really need B, and aiming all at once to make A may mean you miss the mark of fulfilling needs and solving the correct problems that are B. Instead, if you prioritize towards what you think you need for A and make those smaller things/features work first, and repeat that process, you may find a lot of what you thought you needed in A is extra or wrong, but because you find out ASAP, it's relatively cheap to change course. This requires using the software along the way, and requires it is always in a usable state after the first sprint. This should sound familiar, just substitute Starship for software, and it's the same process, just more spectacular when figuring out what doesn't work ;) The traditional approach taken by the others works on the premise of trying to make it all work together at once in a very expensive build and design process, and praying it all works, while taking years before something actually gets attempted for a launch. How much do they learn that way? If it works as intended the first time, they learn they guessed right. If it didn't perform as expected, how many things are they wrong on, and how long in time and how much budget did they eat to now know an unknown number of expensive changes (possibly a total system redesign) needs to be done? SpaceX is taking the cheap-and-fast development path by rapid iteration on design changes, and this video documented several things that clearly changed from how things started, learned from earlier quick-and-dirty iterations that only cost a number of weeks each of time and a couple million dollars per iteration, which is cheap for this area.
0:00 - Intro
1:34 - Naming Conventions
2:23 - Starship Changes
7:04 - Surfshark VPN
8:05 - Booster Changes
13:08 - Outro
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Those multi purpose booster chines are the most exciting change
3:17 - Subliminal Watermark
please activate the portuguese language for us: Angola, Brasil, Moçambique e Portugal
Wow Jack and all NSF on this expanded content video! Very well done all, and amazed at the quality of Jack's narration. That's a keeper for sure!!
I’ve just watched Madagascar 3 with the kids and now watched this. Is it really Jack or have they hired in David Schwimmer?! 🤔
wut
💯 excellent narration and footage indeed 👏 👌 👍
Yo, those videos are getting better by the month. The animations really help to explain the concepts.
The next cape flyover can't come soon enough.
Was just thinking that. this is the definition of quality guys.
This transparency really stands in stark contrast to pretty much every other project of this magnitude.
That's what's crazy to me. Elon is basically begging for someone to compete with him by using such a public location, but here we are with only a few small sat launchers or billion dollar legacy rockets... and BO.
It'd be nice to have a few more American launch vehicles by 2030.
This is by far the best presentation on Starship production you've made to date; the oration was perfect, the information non repetitive, and the photos and graphics well polished and well place in the short documentary, congratulations to all involved.
I've been wanting to see something comprehensive like this for a while. Thank you for doing this!!!
Great video! Thanks for putting all the recent changes to these amazing vehicles in one video! Super well-done, y'all.
So far, this has been the BEST overall coverage I have seen concerning Star Ship Production from any other RUclips Channel.
This was an incredibly helpful video to get caught up to speed. Thanks for the narration videos! Y'all are doing great!
Love jack as the narrator. Lots of great info, love this format. Super quality content
Hearing the explanations over the images is really the only way to present this stuff. Thanks.
the script writing of this video is so good, especially at the end around 10:00 onwards explaining the 'chines'. Its slow enough to not overwhelm you, but explained in a very masterful manner to remain eli5, but cover the fundamental engineering concepts!
Every aspect of videos are improved. Great images and the narration doesn't aggravate me, as most other narrations do.
Keep up the good work!
Great catch-up, thanks everyone involved.
I'm so freaking excited. People are going to be living in these things for months in several years.
I like that you don't assume everyone watching already knows everything about Starship already. I follow it pretty closely, yet I have a better idea of what is happening now, thanks.
Amazingly well-written, presented and narrated... clear, concise and informative... plus, the video filled in the fuzzy spaces that I hadn't been able to "self-imagine"... thanks NSF!
Jack has the perfect voice for this , very pleasant to listen to.
Thanks for yet another insightful video
finally, you have started to do your own reports. You have the best videos for it!
Incredible video! Great narration, stunning footage, great graphics and chill music too!
both the narration and the timestamps are appreciated. Awesome job
These remind me of the updates that Tim Dodd used to do before he started focusing on long format videos. Good stuff!
I really needed this video. I'm building a really accurate Starship Recreation in KSP, and I was so confused the new design changes. Thank you NSF!
Probably should wait for starship to become operational before you put all of that effort in just to change it in a few weeks
Great update, SpaceX is iterating rapidly and this video is keeping us current. Hopefully the FAA will get organized and grant the go ahead at the same time SpaceX is ready to launch. WE NEED SPEED in this process!
This is definitely the most easily understandable, detailed breakdown of improvements I've seen... Very well done
I haven't been keeping up with changes made for Booster 7 so this video was great, excellently explained and well put together, good work
Great update NSF! I very much appreciate y'all.
Wow I really needed this catch-up! I feel like I've missed a lot by not keeping up with the daily updates for the last while. This was a super summary NSF team!
Very well made video! You on NSF are always the best!
the sheet metal fab skills have improved dramatically
Great video NSF! What a bonus to finish off my working week 🤘
Great work on the video. Getting more detailed information makes it wasier for those that don;t fully understand how these are built and what small changes being made can make a significant difference to both propellant usage and aerodynamic befefits. As you said, "seamingly minor little nubs can have such a significan effect." I expect to see more changes to come as this progresses along and we get a "final" itteration of both ship and booster.
After i read Alexs' write up in Discord I got a better understanding of how these were being built and you did a great job of translating that so that everyone can omderstand and have a basis to follow along with and look for changes and understand how they may affect future itterations.
Thank you Jack and the rest of the team and those mentioned by you for all you guys and gals do. You help bring an understanding to a seemingly complicated subject to a level people can understand and appreciate more and more. Again Thank You.
Could you please point me to Alex’s discord report. TIA
@@GerardHammond pinned message in starship channel
Yeah you gotta be on the discord server for that. I do have it public on my SpaceX facebook group as well tho! I made it knowing this video was getting a bit more time to be completed so it was a good thing in the interim to work with to explain stuff to people. This video is now a nice upgrade :)
I was looking for good video to catch me up on the latest designs. This one knocked it out of the park. Well done! This might be worth doing quarterly.
Thanks for the update. Have you been an auctioneer? You can speak very quickly and distinctly. For those of us not that familiar with all the changes it is a bit difficult to keep up! Maybe a bit slower delivery would be nice! Excellent update! Thank you.
Nice recap with very well explained logical points. That hits my happy place.
This narrative should be a standard feature when there have been enough changes. I watch regularly but i am not often able to note some changes or the significance thereof. Great work by all involved.
great job guy's and gals, awesome informative video on all the changes we have spotted as texas tank watchers!
Thx for the clear discrimination of the body sections.
Good job, thanks for posting. More please.
Really interesting video! I haven't been paying much attention to Starship development in the past few months, it's nice to have all the changes and current form listed in one video. I also love the clear footage and explanations, really great content.
Amazing video thank you guys and galls for all the hard work and quality information!!! Let's go B7 S24!!!
Awesome video!! I stayed glued to RUclips to get my Starship fix! Truly amazing to see them progress as fast as they have!
5:34 that will be awesome if they can fire Starlinks out of a rapid fire magazine. Brrrrrtttttt~
It's really cool seeing how far thing have come, when youtube plays one of these old vids.
GOOD Narration and GOOD music. Keep up this format!
CHINE TIRES. The “chine” tire is a nose wheel tire designed to deflect water and slush to the side and away from engine intakes.
Being a Learjet mechanic this is my reference to Chines.
GREAT video! I love these. It would be nice if they had their own Playlist so we could more easily go back and find certain information. You do a great job.
Really good and detailed coverage of starship technical updates and design infrmation, well done and thanks.
GREAT update!!!
While your live unscripted events are always enjoyable, this scripted and expertly edited release is one of your best videos yet.
You have set the bar high and I hope to see many more like this!
Excellent overview of the Starship iterations! Also thank you for the narration!
Jack, as usual I am really impressed with your clear, understandable and friendly presentation style. Thank you for your good work
WOW. @NASASpaceflight I don't typically watch every narrated episode but they have been getting BETTER and BETTER. This episode was incredibly snappy and engaging, it kept me drawn in at 6:00 in the morning!!! 😂 Thank you guys, as always!
Excellent video! Thanks to all of the NSF staff labouring daily to bring us this amazing work in progress.
Excellent vid. Best one yet on this subject from ANY creator.
This video is fantastic! Great work by the team.
This was an exceptional update. Thank you!
Best video yet! I can't wait to see her fly!
Well done NSF. I think it’s easy to forget that so much of what we see being constructed was only on a drawing board 12 months ago and is already so far out of date.
I’m still looking forward to a full launch from Spacex
Amazing video! Thanks so much for putting this together.
I haven’t watched videos in about a month (ever since the war started) mind blown 🤯 such a quality informative video. You guys are changing and upgrading just as well as spacex is, keep up the good work!
Good job Jack and NSF 👍 loads of concise info
Wow - stupendous ! Such great information !
Love this video need more just like this!
Agree
This was very educational! Thanks for all the hardwork!
I really love these videos. I know the nature of these type of updates and news may be slow to come by but I just wish there was more content narrated like this.
Such exciting times for the spaceflight industry, thank you all for reporting on it!
The photo at 3:12 looks like science fiction. Amazing.
Thanks for this summary of changes. Now that the changes are more subtle, it's harder to keep track of where they're at with each new vehicle. I really appreciate the hard work!
Seems like it would make more sense to have the positive connector on the booster rather than the ship. I wonder why they made the change?
The latching/ejection mechanism hardware may be heavier than the positive connection is my best guess.
@@Cammo1213 That is definitely a safe bet since extra mass on the upper stage has an exponentially larger impact on payload mass vs stage I, so there’s a huge incentive to move as much mass as possible from Starship to the booster. Not to mention Starship is the active/moving vehicle during stacking- the probe on non-androgynous docking systems is almost always on the active vehicle since that configuration is more forgiving in terms of misalignment.
NSF does great stuff, thanks!
Awesome video dude I really appreciate you taking the time to update us on iterations to starship and heavy booster.... 😁
That was such a great video!!! Thank you so much NASASpaceflight!🚀🤩❤️
Really cool vid. Can't wait to see what they do with the ship and booster next
Loved this update format. Thanks!
Brilliant, really enjoyed this, so much needs explaining because of all the new details coming out.
Best video ever! Very well done! Keep up the great work!!
Thanks for the clear and detailed explanation of the various design changes and your elaboration of their contribution to a more effective booster. Well done!
Thanks!
Excellent video Jack and Team NSF!
The visuals accompanied by the narration is extremely helpful in a video like this, well done!
This was one of the most informative videos I have ever seen on the subject. Well done.
This is an absolutely masterful summary of the updates to Booster and Ship. It's so comprehensive and extremely well done! Thank you so much!
I love these videos and how y’all are able to present these technical changes in such a clear and concise way. They really help put into the daily videos into context and are great references.
Incredible work on this video ! A very comprehensive look on the subject.
Great production and very informative. Thanks!
Thank you, NSF Team, for this clear and informative recap
Great video. Really helpful, and in my opinion the perfect blend of technical details/language without being too esoteric. (that's for me at least as someone who follows this stuff and has a reasonable, but amatuer understanding of engineering and technical features) Also, one thing to remember is that the ring spacing/changes can affect the tanks themselves in terms of capacity....especailly as the booster is "just" 2 flying fuel tanks, so perhaps changes are made to better balance the fuel/ox needs as the Raptor 2s keep getting tested and the mass of the booster changes with interations.
This was very helpful! Taking the time to explain everything was awesome.
Great video! Thank you for this summary of changes.
Excellent presentation. Some constructive criticism: Jack was speaking at a quick clip in this one, and this made understanding him somewhat challenging due to the background music. Please, lose the background. The narrative is what we want to hear. If you can't do that, then could you please enable captioning so I can read along? Thanks, and keep it up, less the techno background.
Yea the music could’ve been mixed a little lower
I’d like to get the script to read. Is that possible Jack?
I had no problem with the background and found Jack very easy to understand. Since I almost always use settings to speed up playback by 1.25X it was nice to hear a breezy, cheerful, succinct delivery that presented a lot of Starship info without a long drawn out delivery.
Captioning is always useful. It's common for a presenter to garble a word or phrase badly enough that it's unintelligible no matter how many times it's replayed.
There are also many viewers for whom English is a second language that would appreciate captioning.
I really like the background music they use for these videos, but the audio quality on the narration could be a little better.
The background music is actually in the foreground, I'm not here for cheesy music, but for StarShip info only, the music get in the way of the valuable information this RUclips channel is known for.
Tried close caption with volume turn down, work fine 👍
Amazing enterprise (amazing progress...) and incredible video. My most sincere compliments, Jack (and the NSF band, of course) 😊.
Outstanding analysis of the current visible design status of Starship and Superheavy, great work and thanks to all involved in this video at NSF, I doubt SpaceX could come up with a better executive summary of the design themselves.
Ship 20 needs launching, if only to test the tile attachment method to actual re entery stress !
THIS is some good stuff! Condensing all usefull informations in a well organized video. Congratulations guys, you're the best!
This development methodology has been in use for software development for decades now, because it works: iterative development done in short sprints, agile development, focusing on the most valuable objective for each sprint. History has shown for software, quite often you think you need A, but you really need B, and aiming all at once to make A may mean you miss the mark of fulfilling needs and solving the correct problems that are B. Instead, if you prioritize towards what you think you need for A and make those smaller things/features work first, and repeat that process, you may find a lot of what you thought you needed in A is extra or wrong, but because you find out ASAP, it's relatively cheap to change course. This requires using the software along the way, and requires it is always in a usable state after the first sprint. This should sound familiar, just substitute Starship for software, and it's the same process, just more spectacular when figuring out what doesn't work ;)
The traditional approach taken by the others works on the premise of trying to make it all work together at once in a very expensive build and design process, and praying it all works, while taking years before something actually gets attempted for a launch. How much do they learn that way? If it works as intended the first time, they learn they guessed right. If it didn't perform as expected, how many things are they wrong on, and how long in time and how much budget did they eat to now know an unknown number of expensive changes (possibly a total system redesign) needs to be done?
SpaceX is taking the cheap-and-fast development path by rapid iteration on design changes, and this video documented several things that clearly changed from how things started, learned from earlier quick-and-dirty iterations that only cost a number of weeks each of time and a couple million dollars per iteration, which is cheap for this area.
Absolutely awesome job on these videos!! Very impressed
Great video I like all the explanations!
Thanks so much for your updates!
Excellent presentation, Well done Jack, Excellent