Super cool to see the 2 Audio track options on your videos! best of both world. I personally like to listen to Das but It is nice to see you accommodate both options. Keep up the great updates!
Thank you Mary Jack and the entire NSF team for sharing these amazing regular updates. There is great amount of progress going on and I cannot wait for the next integration test flight number 6 to take off
another great one in the bag always a pleasure to hang with you Das, idk about you but I'm still in disbelief about the catch wild but so cool tower and everything looks really good ready to slap another one on a fly
Personally I want the extra commentary on actually important items related to what's going on, but I could certainly do with about 80% less of the color commentary. Unfortunate that the two choices for audio are limited to none, and "moist sheep". IMO the goofy rambling reflects poorly on all of the very professional work Mary and the others do. Just my opinion offered as an honest assessment.
@NASASpaceflight “I came for the News. Stayed for the dazzling humorous quips” 😉 Really enjoy/ appreciate your hard work to get latest news! Fold this is stuff you don’t see anywhere else ☮️🇺🇸🚀
Re the scratches on the pads and their location: I assume they have calibrated the landing to match the shorter second chopsticks, which should put the contact area in middle of that set.
I can imagine all the staff onsite are even extra motivated now that the booster has been caught in the most surreal way on the forst try ...they want to cash into the momentum having this confidence rush .
Really cool shoots of the cooler and cablegaurd. Its very nice to see how big all that stuff is. At monitor is all so tiny :D Greak word. Thanks. Pls contiune with you amazing work.
Will be interesting to see the changes they make to work toward rapid reusability. 3 per day seems a long way off. But it's crazy to think that Hoppy took its flight just 5 years ago.
"Water towers fly! Yeah!" Ah, yes. And then the SN series of hops. Each one seeming, to me, at least, to just not be possible. But again and again, SpaceX made me have to shift my 'paradigm' of what I thought was impossible, to possible. Even the heady days of the falcon's first stages exploding over the grassy fields was a slow shift in thinking. Now it's almost expected to be 'straight forward' when landing on OCISLY/ASOG/JRTI or landing zones 1 and/or 2. So what I am leading up to in saying, is that SpaceX will most likely have us adjusting our paradigm's yet again, when they do 3 per day re-flights of Starships and maybe even the seemingly impossible target of Elon's, when he said 4 hours! Never say never, when it comes to SpaceX. A fantastic team of rocket fabricators. May the political interference stop and let's start the new industrial revolution of space.
Das, Alien chest burster Ship QD, how about some DUNE references 😂! Looking at the area where Super Heavy left marks on the “bumpers”, do you think that’s at the end of tower B’s catch arms?
since we're stuck with the original OLM fixed to the ground at launch complex 1, some effort needs to be expended to make it possible for Mechazilla to rotate 180 degrees 1/2 to 3/4 way up to allow catch to be made away from OLM, perhaps over a ramp flame deflector. Rotate back to original position to lower booster to the ground.
@@ericperkins3078 Well, seeing as 1 set of chops wrap around the 3 legs of a tower, how do you propose a 2nd set of chops would work? Again, it won't matter when the OLM is covered in water.
All these shots are from either public areas or some of our own property. There's tons of visual access just because SpaceX is right against public roads, but they don't allow people on their property (totally fair!)
Thinking about it they may need to eventually massively overengineer their launch mount if they really want turn arround times to be arround an hour. I'm sure it'll still see frequent maintainance but if they want to launch super often many times a week from the same mount they're going to have to have those things be incredibly robust
I dont think the current heat on the flap issue from flight 5 will be of too high importance. Since there is only 1 more Block 1 ship left to launch, and the Block 2 ships have the flaps moved in such a way they will not be in as vulnerable position. They will only go nuts strengthening that area if thier analysis of the data results in escessive heating where the Block 2 flaps will be mounted. Of course for the next flight they might choose to do minor work, but I think they will more focus on other areas for the ship, and fully checking over the rest of the heatshield as well as going over the booster with a fine tooth comb.
I just don't understand why they don't roll the Starship, say 10 degrees side to side, to allow a bit of time for the edges to cool off and to more evenly distribute the plasma heat? Just like what we do with our hands in front of a fireplace, to get an even heat over the whole hand.
excellent video and job narrating! aside: while i really like the conversations by NSF before and during launches, not using SpaceX feeds - esp on StarShip flights - causes me to go to another feed showing the telemetry. hard to keep track of what's happening to the small dot on the screen as vehicle approaches staging, boost back, etc
I wonder if the alignment pins were not needed as the booster was never fully released from the chopsticks and perhaps they lowered it to the OLM only as a safety measure to stabilize the bottom end of the booster while it was made safe and ready for transport. Did the chopsticks ever fully disengage from the booster before it was removed?
I am still absolutely dumbfounded about how quickly and with what extreme precision they moved those catch arms. Seeing how extremely careful and ponderous you have to move those large cranes to avoid flexing and ringing, I have no idea how they can move those giant structures without any noticeable flexing whatsoever.
@@EMichaelBall Even if that is true, they still must have a metric ton of sensors and real-time computing power on those things... And REALLY good mechanical and hydraulic components to get that centimeter-precision
@@mervstash3692 You are missing my point completely. The pads on the booster are what, 50cm wide if it's a lot? Neither did they slip through the gap between the arms, nor did the catch arms crush the booster. A few scratches in the paint and a few crumpled vanity covers on the booster is all that happened. THAT is my point.
@feynthefallen Their engine thrust actuators are fully electric. I don’t think there are any hydraulic systems on the rocket. SpaceX prefers avoiding hydraulics to save mass and improve reliability.
Two comments/questions: The water deluge system was used again when the booster landed/was caught, but the booster seemed at an angle, so would it not scorch or damage parts not normally protected by the water deluge system and second, the chopsticks begin to close before the booster is actually between the arms, so how does the tower know when to begin the closing sequence? Does the booster flight software actually control the chopsticks in the final phase of landing?
The sheet under the tiles is flexible, so it would be interesting to known if they could fold it from the body to the flap and stop up the gap where the plasma gets is. It would receive a heap of pressure, so not sure that would be possible, just a thought. A fabric could move with the movement of the flap but still provide some blockage of the plasma (and air) through the joint.
The bird at 4:15 is definitely an egret. It is hard to tell from this shot just how big it is, but Snowy Egrets and Little Egrets have black beaks with yellow feet while White Egrets have yellow beaks with black feet. This one appears to have black beak and black feet - so possibly a hybrid. Snowy Egrets typically have yellow coloring around the eyes and this doesn't so I will go with it is a Little Egret.
The lighting on the feet is not too good, otherwise they would probably appear yellow, but it's definitely a Snowy egret with that black bill. The neck is not as long either as a Great egret.
In regard to the burn through, they need to put something like a molding that covers the gap between the flap and the fuselage and transitions to the flap surface. The flap as far as I know doesn’t swing forward of the centerline.
I would have thought that an additional buffer wall covered in thermal tiles positioned along the length of the flap junction would help. Positioned just a bit further out so that it does not foul the flap movement or air flow. That would divert much of the heat away from the flap hinge root joins. Just an idea! 🙃
I doubt they will try to fix the front flap hinge burn through issue on the remainder of the block one ships. With the flaps being placed more leeward on the block two design, they would be trying to solve a problem that may just go away by itself.
Technically I say its landing, or maybe both since the booster lands on the landing racks and the pins. But its also gets caught in the sense that the chopsticks closes in on the booster. So a bit of both? J.
"Pad west" was on some of the OLM parts, but those were created a year ago. The EA update shows it as Pad B which is newer. So either they changed name to Pad B, or they're just massively inconsistent (which seems like the true SpaceX way)
I'm very much interested in knowing if the sonic boom ruptured any glass windows in the area? If yes, they have to change the glass type for the future. If not, I'd be even quite pleasantly surprised. Or, 🤭 the glass repair shops around will have some new business to care about!
That last shot with Starhopper was gorgeous. Thanks for the updates, team!
My dad was a NASA engineer in the 60s, responsible for design of the equivalent QD arms for the Saturn V. Cool to see the modern iteration.
Super cool to see the 2 Audio track options on your videos! best of both world. I personally like to listen to Das but It is nice to see you accommodate both options. Keep up the great updates!
Great update. Last shot was amazing. Good ol Hopper.
Thanks Mary!
Thank you Mary Jack and the entire NSF team for sharing these amazing regular updates. There is great amount of progress going on and I cannot wait for the next integration test flight number 6 to take off
another great one in the bag always a pleasure to hang with you Das, idk about you but I'm still in disbelief about the catch wild but so cool tower and everything looks really good ready to slap another one on a fly
Thank you DAS, & NSF for another awesome Starbase Boca Chica Update!!!!
Would not give up Das's commentary for anything.
Makes these videos come to life
Personally I want the extra commentary on actually important items related to what's going on, but I could certainly do with about 80% less of the color commentary. Unfortunate that the two choices for audio are limited to none, and "moist sheep". IMO the goofy rambling reflects poorly on all of the very professional work Mary and the others do.
Just my opinion offered as an honest assessment.
The last shot was amazing 🤯🌑
“… clouds….. like very, moist sheep.” John Galloway folks, he’ll be here all week.😂😂❤
That last shot 🤌
that final starhopper shot is clean af
Thanks NSF team , loving that work continues on the OLM's is plural now.
John and NSF, y'all rock! ❤ Peace
D with some epic shots in this one
4:23 Lucky you, I'm very good at identifying birds.
Yup, that's a bird alright
I concur.
beautifully done
thanks
I'm thinking Egret too.
ROTF LMBO
I love how clean Star Hopper looks now that they’ve taken all of the instruments off of it.
And the wrinkly foil.
Omg D's shot over the water is beautiful
Keep these updates coming Das. 😊
Thank you John !
Thanks so much Das!
@NASASpaceflight “I came for the News. Stayed for the dazzling humorous quips” 😉
Really enjoy/ appreciate your hard work to get latest news! Fold this is stuff you don’t see anywhere else ☮️🇺🇸🚀
This is awesome! Thanks, John!!
Love this place
Dang this is good reporting.
They may fool with the flap root seal, but the real burn-through fix is V2 Starship, moving the root leeward so it's not directly in the flow.
That moon rise shot was amazing!
They Caught a booster!!
Das, please keep up the commentary. 👍
👍 That replaced hose is a BR-549 HE-HAW cooler hose.
Re the scratches on the pads and their location: I assume they have calibrated the landing to match the shorter second chopsticks, which should put the contact area in middle of that set.
Non scripted Das is best Das.
Thanks 👍 -Das
And now say with me:
"Work continues on the OLM!"
gracias por publicar estos estupendos reportajes
este es el camino
Great narrated update!
Hello John,, I’m Larry that chain that holds all the cables and hoses is called a drag link chain..
I can imagine all the staff onsite are even extra motivated now that the booster has been caught in the most surreal way on the forst try ...they want to cash into the momentum having this confidence rush .
Thank you
👍 T humbs up for the use of a second audio track option 👍
Welders use a small wire brush to clean the "slag" that forms during welding.
They will probably fix the flap burn through when they move the flaps forward.
8:35 "The tower moves less than the drone ships" ?!? HOPEFULLY!! 😆
Really cool shoots of the cooler and cablegaurd. Its very nice to see how big all that stuff is. At monitor is all so tiny :D Greak word. Thanks. Pls contiune with you amazing work.
I believe that it is a Snowy Egret.
we call em cowbirds. some of them are Ibis, and maybe even a sandhill crane in the mix.
It is a Great Egret. A Snowy Egret would have Yellow feet.
Thanks Das.
Looks like the were smart moving to TX
Loved the BSG reference
Will be interesting to see the changes they make to work toward rapid reusability. 3 per day seems a long way off. But it's crazy to think that Hoppy took its flight just 5 years ago.
Definitely a huge way away. Falcon still isn't under a week yet.
"Water towers fly! Yeah!" Ah, yes. And then the SN series of hops. Each one seeming, to me, at least, to just not be possible. But again and again, SpaceX made me have to shift my 'paradigm' of what I thought was impossible, to possible. Even the heady days of the falcon's first stages exploding over the grassy fields was a slow shift in thinking. Now it's almost expected to be 'straight forward' when landing on OCISLY/ASOG/JRTI or landing zones 1 and/or 2. So what I am leading up to in saying, is that SpaceX will most likely have us adjusting our paradigm's yet again, when they do 3 per day re-flights of Starships and maybe even the seemingly impossible target of Elon's, when he said 4 hours! Never say never, when it comes to SpaceX. A fantastic team of rocket fabricators. May the political interference stop and let's start the new industrial revolution of space.
0:16 We're being spoilt with the BSG references lately 😁😁😁😁
Yessir! I had to go "YOOOO!" when I heard that xD
Battle Star Gallactica reference at the very beginning. I am certain I am not the first, buy I knew Immediately what Das
said.
Das, Alien chest burster Ship QD, how about some DUNE references 😂!
Looking at the area where Super Heavy left marks on the “bumpers”, do you think that’s at the end of tower B’s catch arms?
Great BSG reference!
"Starbuck, what do you hear?"
"Nothing but the rain."
"Then grab your gun and bring in the cat."
"Boom, boom, boom!"
It sounds like Das is narrating a vacation family video. It's awesome!
Awesome love the stuff
What do you hear? Nothing but the rain.... best frackin' line EVER.
So say we all.
since we're stuck with the original OLM fixed to the ground at launch complex 1, some effort needs to be expended to make it possible for Mechazilla to rotate 180 degrees 1/2 to 3/4 way up to allow catch to be made away from OLM, perhaps over a ramp flame deflector. Rotate back to original position to lower booster to the ground.
Agreed. It seems logical for the catch to be on the opposite side of the launch.
That's likely too much complexity. Won't matter anyway when OLM2 will be water cooled all over.
@@iamaduckquack Then add a second set of chopsticks on the other side for landing catches. Either way, you're not blowtorching the OLM.
@@ericperkins3078 Well, seeing as 1 set of chops wrap around the 3 legs of a tower, how do you propose a 2nd set of chops would work?
Again, it won't matter when the OLM is covered in water.
Engineers know: "If it ain't broke, don't............." Enough said already. On with the next one.
Does the booster gain a “dash 1” name now?
Are you just allowed there on the premise? That's really cool.
All these shots are from either public areas or some of our own property. There's tons of visual access just because SpaceX is right against public roads, but they don't allow people on their property (totally fair!)
As always amazing commentary Das. Keep up the great work. I like the commentary on these. ❤
Enjoying these so much ♡
It's a long bird, Das!😂 And I'm happy we got an animal chapter again after the last SBU was without animals at all😊
Very nice, really appreciate that you guys have added the narration
Thinking about it they may need to eventually massively overengineer their launch mount if they really want turn arround times to be arround an hour. I'm sure it'll still see frequent maintainance but if they want to launch super often many times a week from the same mount they're going to have to have those things be incredibly robust
4:20 has to be a Snowy Egret. Black bill and legs. Shorter neck…😅❤🎉
Good report.- Dave Huntsman
200k on last one is very impressive! Congrats
Yeah, that was a surprise! -Das
I dont think the current heat on the flap issue from flight 5 will be of too high importance. Since there is only 1 more Block 1 ship left to launch, and the Block 2 ships have the flaps moved in such a way they will not be in as vulnerable position. They will only go nuts strengthening that area if thier analysis of the data results in escessive heating where the Block 2 flaps will be mounted.
Of course for the next flight they might choose to do minor work, but I think they will more focus on other areas for the ship, and fully checking over the rest of the heatshield as well as going over the booster with a fine tooth comb.
I just don't understand why they don't roll the Starship, say 10 degrees side to side, to allow a bit of time for the edges to cool off and to more evenly distribute the plasma heat?
Just like what we do with our hands in front of a fireplace, to get an even heat over the whole hand.
good point , can they detank a ship after landing ?
excellent video and job narrating!
aside: while i really like the conversations by NSF before and during launches, not using SpaceX feeds - esp on StarShip flights - causes me to go to another feed showing the telemetry. hard to keep track of what's happening to the small dot on the screen as vehicle approaches staging, boost back, etc
Love the new Narrated format - nice Voiceover for sure - I was an unbeliever at first but have been converted LOL
Haha thanks! - Das
3:15 thanks for that observation, now I can never look at the QD in the same way
I wonder if the alignment pins were not needed as the booster was never fully released from the chopsticks and perhaps they lowered it to the OLM only as a safety measure to stabilize the bottom end of the booster while it was made safe and ready for transport. Did the chopsticks ever fully disengage from the booster before it was removed?
I am still absolutely dumbfounded about how quickly and with what extreme precision they moved those catch arms. Seeing how extremely careful and ponderous you have to move those large cranes to avoid flexing and ringing, I have no idea how they can move those giant structures without any noticeable flexing whatsoever.
They may have the best software engineering team in the world.
@@EMichaelBall Even if that is true, they still must have a metric ton of sensors and real-time computing power on those things... And REALLY good mechanical and hydraulic components to get that centimeter-precision
The booster did most of the work.
@@mervstash3692 You are missing my point completely. The pads on the booster are what, 50cm wide if it's a lot? Neither did they slip through the gap between the arms, nor did the catch arms crush the booster. A few scratches in the paint and a few crumpled vanity covers on the booster is all that happened. THAT is my point.
@feynthefallen Their engine thrust actuators are fully electric. I don’t think there are any hydraulic systems on the rocket. SpaceX prefers avoiding hydraulics to save mass and improve reliability.
Chances of them installing catch pins on ship31, see how they fair on re-entry now they have data from the aluminium coated tiles on 30?
The commentary is excellent.
Two comments/questions: The water deluge system was used again when the booster landed/was caught, but the booster seemed at an angle, so would it not scorch or damage parts not normally protected by the water deluge system and second, the chopsticks begin to close before the booster is actually between the arms, so how does the tower know when to begin the closing sequence? Does the booster flight software actually control the chopsticks in the final phase of landing?
saw a couple big pieces of square looking debris flying on launch, any idea what they were?
The sheet under the tiles is flexible, so it would be interesting to known if they could fold it from the body to the flap and stop up the gap where the plasma gets is. It would receive a heap of pressure, so not sure that would be possible, just a thought. A fabric could move with the movement of the flap but still provide some blockage of the plasma (and air) through the joint.
It might be a moot point with the changes made in he V2.
Love the commentary!
@11:00 they're also used to hold hydraulic hoses within forklift towers.
8:00 i wouldn't even call that damage, more like it was blasted with soot on the way up and a tiny bit scraped clean on catch
Ohhhh to be an SPMT driver!
Dos, the word is renowned. You could add world.
@9:12 I think it's a slag/wire brush often used for cleaning welds.
it's often paired with a slag hammer in the same tool.
All the videographers are good but Mary is exemplary!
(D.Wise: please invest in an image stabiliser or decent tripod.)
The bird at 4:15 is definitely an egret. It is hard to tell from this shot just how big it is, but Snowy Egrets and Little Egrets have black beaks with yellow feet while White Egrets have yellow beaks with black feet. This one appears to have black beak and black feet - so possibly a hybrid. Snowy Egrets typically have yellow coloring around the eyes and this doesn't so I will go with it is a Little Egret.
Little Egret don't exist in Texas.
The lighting on the feet is not too good, otherwise they would probably appear yellow, but it's definitely a Snowy egret with that black bill. The neck is not as long either as a Great egret.
Holy shit Elons really building a mini city
In regard to the burn through, they need to put something like a molding that covers the gap between the flap and the fuselage and transitions to the flap surface. The flap as far as I know doesn’t swing forward of the centerline.
You need to interview a project manager at SpaceX, how do they schedule operational flights woven into this massive construction project?
I would have thought that an additional buffer wall covered in thermal tiles positioned along the length of the flap junction would help. Positioned just a bit further out so that it does not foul the flap movement or air flow. That would divert much of the heat away from the flap hinge root joins. Just an idea! 🙃
could u add a map to the side and how the camera is viewing the spot ( cone of view )?
I doubt they will try to fix the front flap hinge burn through issue on the remainder of the block one ships. With the flaps being placed more leeward on the block two design, they would be trying to solve a problem that may just go away by itself.
Can you see the launch pad from the condos on South Padre Island?
Yes, assuming good weather and no fog.
If the scrapes are in the middle doesn't that mean they're about 50% TOO long? What good is the section that never touches anything?
I believe the next set are shorter. It's easier to remove than to add had they been to short and missed. :)
Technically I say its landing, or maybe both since the booster lands on the landing racks and the pins. But its also gets caught in the sense that the chopsticks closes in on the booster. So a bit of both? J.
Great update. Love the narration
Isn’t the name of the new tower Pad West? Not pad B? As per spacex internal memo from two weeks ago.
"Pad west" was on some of the OLM parts, but those were created a year ago. The EA update shows it as Pad B which is newer. So either they changed name to Pad B, or they're just massively inconsistent (which seems like the true SpaceX way)
@8:50 would rollers work better?
I'm very much interested in knowing if the sonic boom ruptured any glass windows in the area? If yes, they have to change the glass type for the future. If not, I'd be even quite pleasantly surprised. Or, 🤭 the glass repair shops around will have some new business to care about!
I haven’t heard of any.