I thought for sure when we began seeing the flap disintegrate that we were going to lose the ship entirely! Some engineers need to be patted on the shoulder!
This also demonstrates the capability that Starship has during re-entry, and how it’s still (technically) capable of re-entering the atmosphere with quarter of a flap gone. Really good considering how in the future this shouldn’t happen!
True summation..............If there were astronauts aboard they would have died. Some might call that a failure of a proposed man rated ship that is supposed to land us on the moon in 2 yrrs and cost us billions in taxpayer dollars.
Just a jaw dropping event all round..... Something i will remember all my life just as the falcon heavy launch..... We will sail throughout the Cosmos.... ,o7
I think this flight would best be described as “scrappy”, the booster and ship both had issues and despite the issues both successfully completed their missions. Pretty crazy
Well it shows that the redundant systems do work. They had issues with engines but it looks like everything still did it’s job for that portion of the flight. Good data to have. I would say the reentry data they got though was the most valuable.
Bro, that flap fought until the end, holy shit, usually this extent of damage in any spacecraft would be the end of it, but just shows how resiliant Starship is, probably down to the material it's made, and it's construction, just show that even in the worse situation, it's still possible to get it to land.
The plan was always to sink it. Either by detonating the flight termination system, or by shooting it with a gun. It's probably at the bottom of the ocean by now.
The most important takeback from this is that there IS actually some leeway for error in the window of success. In a way this launch made me more confident than a complete success with no problems whatsoever.
Indeed. The survival of the flap is certainly a vindication. It helps cover "what if" scenarios that will happen when under constant load. Look at the shuttle, the heat shield was great, worked as advertized. However, it had 2 occasions where tiles fell where it was better they didn't. The first time, they were lucky it was under a steal mounting point, and the vehicle survived. The second time, lead to the loss of Columbia. You have to have a good heat shield, but having a structural material that can survive otherwise lets you weather the "what if" moments.
The people who believed carbon fiber or carbon composite was a better option just don't understand that neither of them can take high temperatures. If Starship was made of aluminum, forgetting that the flap would've been ripped off, it would've kept melting through even after the plasma went away. Same with the carbon fiber or composite being ruined by the heat. Steel is a fantastic choice for a rocket. You actually save weight since you don't need walls for a tank. Just the separator. And it's easier to work with. Just all around a better material than the alternatives.
Many would say that this is their first successful test flight, but I would argue that any test flight where new information was gathered and faced incremental improvements over previous test flights were already successful. Unlike the Falcon 1 test flight, the success parameter is very different for Starship. Either way, it's funny that it took the 4th try for Starship's to complete all the objectives. Just like Falcon 1.
Huh? They were honest about goalposts from the start. SpaceX has a "hardware heavy" development process: they don't wait to design the perfect system, they build things then go see what happens
I'm still not convinced starship has the promised lifting capability. And what happened to the payload door and fuel transfer tests this time around? Anyway, it looks like a successful (controlled) flight this time around, as opposed to last time.
Wow. SpaceX's choice of high temperature Stainless Steel was inspired. I had a feeling that even if tiles came off, it would hold up pretty well. I just didn't think it would hold up *this* well. Amazing resilience. But those old 1970s Shuttle engineers are probably laughing at those naive SpaceX engineers on how they were going to reinvent heat shield tile tech. It took Rockwell several years to get the shuttle tiles flightworthy, and they still continued to come off throughout the program.
I guess, IFT5 will probably look at fixing the problems with the engines and the flap, (hopefully they attempt to catch the super heavy with the chopsticks)
First time all mission objectives met, this is a major milestone in the Starship program, now comes the long task of analysing all the data and making necessary changes to make sure the flaps stay in one piece. The booster had a pretty much flawless flight, hope it stuck the landing because if it did they may actually try to catch it next flight.
They aren't likely to catch the booster until the second tower is finished because if a mishap happens then they have no launch tower for future flights.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Indeed, personally I think they will do at least another couple of flights with controlled splashdown until they attempt a catch. When all the engines are relighting reliably and they are confident that they can bring it in within the catch window then they will try a catch.
Unlike the previous, this Starship test-flight WAS a success. Well done. That the stabilizer fin, despite having an atmospheric blow-torch cutting into it, held on to complete the mission, is impressive. Reminds me of those B-17 Flying Fortresses over Germany during WWII: they got the crap shot out of them but many aicraft kept flying, fulfilling their mission and returning crews to base.
Great work! Congrats on your speedy video and analysis/discussion. The TPS along the leading edges is really tough to design for reusability. But, the vehicle is an excellent test bed and will, undoubtedly, give engineers better opportunities to prefect these designs.
Correct assessment...ATTEMPT! Your channel is the apex of unbiased reporting in 2024. (So many other channels are calling this launch, and the 3 prior, 100% successes.)
@@filonin2 okay, understood. Did you get the gist of what I am attempting to communicate. When *someone* *is* *a* *leader,* *they* *represent* *the* *successes* *and* *the* *failures* *of* *the* *entire* *organization,* even though it would be impossible for one person to do. Maybe you could be constructive and suggest a better, more accurate way of representing my sentiment?
First it was a false characterization of the account, then when informed it was Jack Smith who fessed ip, now you want me to comment on a discovery dispute - pick one? So obviously biased.
Just imagine, 20 years ago seeing something like this fall from the sky would have us thinking it was alien technology. Now, we're able to do it ourselves.
The more I think about it, the more I believe that these fins or flaps are problematic. The Starliner was in re-entry in the right attitude, so adding tiles on the bottom where the plasma directly impacts the Starliner doesn't seem like it will solve the issue. The plume of plasma will still flow around and be able to destroy the flaps. The flaps need to be covered with tiles or ablative, but how would that work when they need to remain moveable and must have a flexible joint? So maybe ditch the flaps and go to thrusters that can be vectored?
It looks like they are going to figure this out eventually. BUT the heat shield? That technology just ain't here yet. I do not know what they are thinking.
Hopefully they detonated the FTS as soon as Starship finished tipping over into the ocean. Otherwise it's just a prize floating out there for somebody (we know who) to collect and copy.
@@Asterra2 who? who needs a crumpled tank to copy it? that is what stays intact enough to copy, maybe, unless it is ruptured too, than it just sinks as it is mostly quite heavy metal structure.
@@Asterra2 you can't destroy the whole vehicle with the FTS when it's not moving or loaded, the charges punch holes in the tanks so that either the structure gives up or the fuel catches fire
@@davidstevenson9517you're not paying attention, obviously. Nothing is going to be done about it in this iteration of Starship. Most major design changes are slated for v2. Cut Elon some slack 😂
Elon tweeted that "many tiles" were lost from Starship. That may be a significant setback. Aside from the TPS issues, the flight was a huge success for SpaceX today. Edit: Hopefully the many tiles were all from the flap that failed. That would be easier to address than random tiles from different locations on the ship.
I totally missed the flight and wanted to find out exactly what happened. This video is exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to find out everything important that happened without having to watch for 1.5 hours, this was perfect. As an amateur fabricator I approve of their technique for developing this ship. I think blasting off a bunch of ships and fixing problems after each one is going to be the fastest way to get this thing done. It looks like everyone else is working on achieving perfection before ever blasting off a rocket. The old technique I think is slower, if you look at what Boeing has done and also Blue Origin, it is taking them longer. Bear in mind you cannot compare the Boeing starliner with starship, instead that ship is what was competing with Falcon 9, which has been pretty much perfected for a long time. I expect that once they get Starship fully functional, they will start using some more lightweight expensive high-tech materials in the construction. Right now they know that these things are getting destroyed on the first use so they probably aren't trying to spend a bunch of money on exotic materials when they can avoid it. They may eventually even replace the stainless steel to get the weight down after this thing is operational. They definitely need to upgrade and over engineer those flaps from what we've seen on this flight. Mother nature basically took a plasma cutting torch to that thing.
I think the biggest question after the landing is how the other side faired compared to the camera side. This would help determine how much design change will be needed. Is it tile improvements or a complete redesign of the way the flap is attached. Having moving parts in such a high pressure area is almost impossible to keep the heat from between the two parts.
Booster was over 300kph slower at 68km separation point. Nearly 5% under performance vs IFT3 and slower again vs IFT2. Is this because of a single engine failing? How will it perform with any sort of payload and an engine failure?
It's weird you have to pretend that there was a failure. What's up in your life? Dad being hard on you? Kids picking on you in school because you say dumb af stuff all the time?
Its a test flight of something with a whole lot of New to it. No one was at risk and they made a lot of progress from previous attempts. You'll see successful hard stop in time, same way you could see it with Falcon 9 and it's attempts to propulsively land it's booster.
It's electric actuation. It used to be hydraulic, like on IFT1. As for blowing up, it's not impossible. If the FFA doesn't drag their heels on the next launch-and I mean if they give the license inside three weeks-SpaceX will probably feel comfortable launching Ship 30, even though it's the same design and the flaps will melt again. There's always the chance that the melting flaps will cause a bigger issue that leads to the loss of the vehicle.
sadly for you, it is true. the flaps along with the rocket's gimballing systems are electric, IFT-1 had hydrolic actuators on the engines which ended in a explosive way.
Presumably the ship is bobbing about on the ocean and it's going to be recovered and examined in detail all over, not just those parts in view of the camera. Allowing it to sink to the bottom of the ocean sounds a little dumb.
I am confused. At the last of stage of the ship, the layout of the engines at the bottom left corner showed no engine firing, then how the ship speed could be slowed down?
The starship made it all the way to a landing burn followed by the flip maneuver and soft touch down. That was only possible if most of the tiles successfully protected the ship. There was only a problem around the flap joint on the port side of the ship. Maybe the tile needs to be thicker, but it's a tricky point to address because it is right at the pivot point of the flap. I'm sure Space X will figure it out.
The other test flights were catastrophic but this one WAS completed AND relatively intact. Critic of Starship as a lunar lander, yes I am; but as a StarLink launcher, it's finally showing progress.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096If I'm correct Elon has said the positions of the flaps will be changed. The plan is to move them higher up towards the leeward side of the ship. I think that way, re-entry plasma misses those problem areas on the flap. I might be wrong, so it's just my uninformed theory. Yes, SpaceX will have the answers.
This achievement should be celebrated nationwide!! This is absolutely incredible it’s unfortunate the political left chose to hate on anything that doesn’t have to do with gender confusion 😂
Um, no. It is the right who are anti-education and anti-science. The left don't like Elon the man, who is an idiot. Your confusion seems to go far beyond your gender.
It just survived a hull compromise - the same failure that took down Columbia - and completed it's flight profile. Was the Shuttle Program safe? Was it worth killing 14 people?
Any particular reason why? The same company puts people in space all the time and fields the most successful rocket ever. You could never do anything like this, but your betters can, kiddo.
These specific prototypes were not planned to be reused and were landed in the water as they are not yet to the landing on land testing stage, just as was done with the most successful rocket ever, Falcon 9. What should have gone on much longer was your education, kiddo.
Test vehicles, Sigmund, are always disposable... like some people that aren't useful; can't keep their heads above water, sink or swim, eugenics style. Something to contemplate whilst lying on your couch, if you get my grift.
Great to see some success however given Electric Jesus predicted he would be landing these on Mars last year, every one of these test flights can only be described as abject failures in Musk to deliver…
I thought for sure when we began seeing the flap disintegrate that we were going to lose the ship entirely! Some engineers need to be patted on the shoulder!
Yep. I'm surprised that the onboard computers could compensate for that. Impressive.
it is extremely likely that was not the only flap that got destroyed.
Thought the same!
@@SupremeRuleroftheWorldI think that a heat shield got yeeted on that flap
This also demonstrates the capability that Starship has during re-entry, and how it’s still (technically) capable of re-entering the atmosphere with quarter of a flap gone. Really good considering how in the future this shouldn’t happen!
Excellent summation. Thank you.
True summation..............If there were astronauts aboard they would have died. Some might call that a failure of a proposed man rated ship that is supposed to land us on the moon in 2 yrrs and cost us billions in taxpayer dollars.
@@davidsoom1551Correction: zero taxpayer dollars. And this was a prototype test flight, so nobody would man such a flight
Excellent concise commentary.
How are you getting these videos out so quickly! Awesome job. Underrated channel.
Just a jaw dropping event all round..... Something i will remember all my life just as the falcon heavy launch..... We will sail throughout the Cosmos.... ,o7
the most based flap in space flight history!
based! 😎
If that flap was a person, it would be the person that did all the work on a group project
#zombieflap
The other flaps saying to the teacher: I also help on the presentation teacher!
Based? Based on what?!
I think this flight would best be described as “scrappy”, the booster and ship both had issues and despite the issues both successfully completed their missions. Pretty crazy
Well it shows that the redundant systems do work. They had issues with engines but it looks like everything still did it’s job for that portion of the flight. Good data to have. I would say the reentry data they got though was the most valuable.
It is pretty amzing to see, that even not all the system did not work 100%, it still landed as planned.
@@correa12carlosstarship hit the sea at 2km/h any passengers would have probably died ReeeeeeeEEeeEeeeeeeee
@@qwerty112311 2 km/h is 1.8 feet per second. You sit on your bed at night faster than that lol
Yeah, it wasn’t a “failure”, but it also didn’t succeed with flying colours.
Excitement happened
Not word or second wasted. Very nicely summarised. Exactly what I was looking for thank you 😊
That’s a great way to sum up this channel tbh
That melting flap held on like a hero from old stories.
Bro, that flap fought until the end, holy shit, usually this extent of damage in any spacecraft would be the end of it, but just shows how resiliant Starship is, probably down to the material it's made, and it's construction, just show that even in the worse situation, it's still possible to get it to land.
The best, most detailed and concise summary of this launch. Well done
That entire flight was pretty badass
They've got to retrieve that ship. What a piece of history!
It's not as easy as you think.
The plan was always to sink it. Either by detonating the flight termination system, or by shooting it with a gun. It's probably at the bottom of the ocean by now.
So much data too, would be a development treasure trove if they could find it
The most important takeback from this is that there IS actually some leeway for error in the window of success. In a way this launch made me more confident than a complete success with no problems whatsoever.
Very good summary, thank for doing this.
We demand an apology to peoples saying using stainless steel for rocket is stupid.
Indeed. The survival of the flap is certainly a vindication. It helps cover "what if" scenarios that will happen when under constant load. Look at the shuttle, the heat shield was great, worked as advertized. However, it had 2 occasions where tiles fell where it was better they didn't. The first time, they were lucky it was under a steal mounting point, and the vehicle survived. The second time, lead to the loss of Columbia. You have to have a good heat shield, but having a structural material that can survive otherwise lets you weather the "what if" moments.
The people who believed carbon fiber or carbon composite was a better option just don't understand that neither of them can take high temperatures.
If Starship was made of aluminum, forgetting that the flap would've been ripped off, it would've kept melting through even after the plasma went away. Same with the carbon fiber or composite being ruined by the heat.
Steel is a fantastic choice for a rocket. You actually save weight since you don't need walls for a tank. Just the separator. And it's easier to work with. Just all around a better material than the alternatives.
Why should we apologize when they were clearly wrong?
@@shanent5793 it says we *_demand_* an apology which means that they need to apologize
it still is extremely heavy.
That was beyond awesome!
Such a nail biter test flight. I actually clapped when Starship finally made it to land. Excitement guaranteed!
Many would say that this is their first successful test flight, but I would argue that any test flight where new information was gathered and faced incremental improvements over previous test flights were already successful. Unlike the Falcon 1 test flight, the success parameter is very different for Starship.
Either way, it's funny that it took the 4th try for Starship's to complete all the objectives. Just like Falcon 1.
Not having to file another mishap report with the FAA would be a great accomplishment.
SpaceX should retrieve both Starship and Super Heavy Booster from the sea and put them in a display!
Who's ready for some goalposts to be moved?!
Huh? They were honest about goalposts from the start. SpaceX has a "hardware heavy" development process: they don't wait to design the perfect system, they build things then go see what happens
@@artembolshakov3901I think they meant the Elon haters
@@artembolshakov3901 I meant the skeptics.
I'm still not convinced starship has the promised lifting capability. And what happened to the payload door and fuel transfer tests this time around?
Anyway, it looks like a successful (controlled) flight this time around, as opposed to last time.
Any info if someone filmed splashdown somehow?
You're an optimist!
Wow. SpaceX's choice of high temperature Stainless Steel was inspired. I had a feeling that even if tiles came off, it would hold up pretty well. I just didn't think it would hold up *this* well. Amazing resilience.
But those old 1970s Shuttle engineers are probably laughing at those naive SpaceX engineers on how they were going to reinvent heat shield tile tech. It took Rockwell several years to get the shuttle tiles flightworthy, and they still continued to come off throughout the program.
I wanna see start ship after its landed what it looks like and how the sacecraft held up
Yes, for sure. I hope SpaceX is able to examine the ship wreckage before it sinks.
Lol 2:46 I knew it was the HSR 😂😂! Great videos as usual.
This was extremely thrilling to watch live!!
What an amazing success, can't wait for ITF 5!🚀🚀👍👍
I guess, IFT5 will probably look at fixing the problems with the engines and the flap, (hopefully they attempt to catch the super heavy with the chopsticks)
You gotta ask yourself, why did the plasma eat the flap?
Is anybody asking that question or just saying, "great success".
Well done everyone in Space X
Man, those must have been some crispy fish when ship and super heavy touched down
I reckon all fish in that vicinity would have checked out long before touching the water due to heat and vibrations over the water from landing burn.
First time all mission objectives met, this is a major milestone in the Starship program, now comes the long task of analysing all the data and making necessary changes to make sure the flaps stay in one piece. The booster had a pretty much flawless flight, hope it stuck the landing because if it did they may actually try to catch it next flight.
They aren't likely to catch the booster until the second tower is finished because if a mishap happens then they have no launch tower for future flights.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Indeed, personally I think they will do at least another couple of flights with controlled splashdown until they attempt a catch. When all the engines are relighting reliably and they are confident that they can bring it in within the catch window then they will try a catch.
Unlike the previous, this Starship test-flight WAS a success. Well done.
That the stabilizer fin, despite having an atmospheric blow-torch cutting into it, held on to complete the mission, is impressive.
Reminds me of those B-17 Flying Fortresses over Germany during WWII: they got the crap shot out of them but many aicraft kept flying, fulfilling their mission and returning crews to base.
i'm ashamed of myself for forgetting about this, i will try my best to follow this program again.
Same. Really is something the news should be covering more though
Was able to watch the launch live through the stream. Hats off to the engineers and controllers at SpaceX
Great work! Congrats on your speedy video and analysis/discussion. The TPS along the leading edges is really tough to design for reusability. But, the vehicle is an excellent test bed and will, undoubtedly, give engineers better opportunities to prefect these designs.
To cool!
This starship would make a great museum piece.
Space age diner... Jetson's themed.
Correct assessment...ATTEMPT! Your channel is the apex of unbiased reporting in 2024. (So many other channels are calling this launch, and the 3 prior, 100% successes.)
It launched, magnificently
Save Flappy
I love those "quick fixes" by Elon - by jettison the stage ring we got to see this amazing Starship progress!
Keep the magic going!
Elon is not personally engineering the vehicle.
@@filonin2 okay, understood. Did you get the gist of what I am attempting to communicate.
When *someone* *is* *a* *leader,* *they* *represent* *the* *successes* *and* *the* *failures* *of* *the* *entire* *organization,* even though it would be impossible for one person to do. Maybe you could be constructive and suggest a better, more accurate way of representing my sentiment?
@@k.c.sunshine1934I don't like leaders that liked nazi tweets
thanks for the news
Meanwhile SpaceX successfully tests Starship that can carry 100 astronauts rather than 2.
First it was a false characterization of the account, then when informed it was Jack Smith who fessed ip, now you want me to comment on a discovery dispute - pick one? So obviously biased.
Just imagine, 20 years ago seeing something like this fall from the sky would have us thinking it was alien technology. Now, we're able to do it ourselves.
The more I think about it, the more I believe that these fins or flaps are problematic. The Starliner was in re-entry in the right attitude, so adding tiles on the bottom where the plasma directly impacts the Starliner doesn't seem like it will solve the issue. The plume of plasma will still flow around and be able to destroy the flaps. The flaps need to be covered with tiles or ablative, but how would that work when they need to remain moveable and must have a flexible joint? So maybe ditch the flaps and go to thrusters that can be vectored?
So, next steps, better, stronger, thinner steal sheets.
Well done highlight video 🙏
Excellent video - You guys consistently do a great job
GORILLA TAPE WORKS GREAT ON MY TRUCK . DOES ELON KNOW ABOUT IT?
Why do you have the word "Attempt" in your title?
Yikes, that was a seat grabber. KUDOS.
I am just so proud of all these guys. Only in the USA could his happen! This is what free markets and capitalism can accomplish.
a human could have survived that ride!
Excellent summary!
Right On Great Video
🖖🏽
Where's the ships in the ocean tracking booster and starship. Surely they must have.
It was glorious!🎉
Was there any video of the booster or starship coming down?
yes see his most recent video
It looks like they are going to figure this out eventually. BUT the heat shield? That technology just ain't here yet. I do not know what they are thinking.
Did this happen today?
Yes, few hours ago
Yeah, caught me by surprise too! I've been following the Starliner mission, thought this test-launch was days away
At 1:42 there is an electrical discharge off the grid fin. Didn't notice that during the live stream.
Will they retrieve the ships?
No
Hopefully they detonated the FTS as soon as Starship finished tipping over into the ocean. Otherwise it's just a prize floating out there for somebody (we know who) to collect and copy.
@@Asterra2 who? who needs a crumpled tank to copy it? that is what stays intact enough to copy, maybe, unless it is ruptured too, than it just sinks as it is mostly quite heavy metal structure.
@@Asterra2 you can't destroy the whole vehicle with the FTS when it's not moving or loaded, the charges punch holes in the tanks so that either the structure gives up or the fuel catches fire
No, they opened all the tank vents on both booster and ship after landing and allowed them to sink to the bottom of the ocean
That was nuts to watch
Too bad they can’t recover the second stage to see how much damage was done.
Did Starship sink, or did it manage to float such that it can be retrieved?
No it was meant to sink
Elon musk has said some time ago the flaps design should be improved.
But he did nothing about it...
@@davidstevenson9517you're not paying attention, obviously. Nothing is going to be done about it in this iteration of Starship. Most major design changes are slated for v2. Cut Elon some slack 😂
What a beast!
Elon tweeted that "many tiles" were lost from Starship. That may be a significant setback. Aside from the TPS issues, the flight was a huge success for SpaceX today.
Edit: Hopefully the many tiles were all from the flap that failed. That would be easier to address than random tiles from different locations on the ship.
Starship landed in the ocean. Did they sink it or are they going to recover it?
most likely it will sink on its own.
@@thorin1045 They made sure it would sink.
Still no payload? Not even ballast?
"Data" was the officially announced payload.
Jeff Bozo, Eat your heart out!
for what?
I hate text to speech…
That is not an AI voice if that is what you mean. Regardless the narrative is clear and articulate. Live with it or don't watch it.
I totally missed the flight and wanted to find out exactly what happened. This video is exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to find out everything important that happened without having to watch for 1.5 hours, this was perfect.
As an amateur fabricator I approve of their technique for developing this ship. I think blasting off a bunch of ships and fixing problems after each one is going to be the fastest way to get this thing done. It looks like everyone else is working on achieving perfection before ever blasting off a rocket. The old technique I think is slower, if you look at what Boeing has done and also Blue Origin, it is taking them longer. Bear in mind you cannot compare the Boeing starliner with starship, instead that ship is what was competing with Falcon 9, which has been pretty much perfected for a long time.
I expect that once they get Starship fully functional, they will start using some more lightweight expensive high-tech materials in the construction. Right now they know that these things are getting destroyed on the first use so they probably aren't trying to spend a bunch of money on exotic materials when they can avoid it. They may eventually even replace the stainless steel to get the weight down after this thing is operational.
They definitely need to upgrade and over engineer those flaps from what we've seen on this flight. Mother nature basically took a plasma cutting torch to that thing.
And yet the MVP Flap told Mother Nature "Not this time Momma" 😁💪
I think the biggest question after the landing is how the other side faired compared to the camera side. This would help determine how much design change will be needed. Is it tile improvements or a complete redesign of the way the flap is attached. Having moving parts in such a high pressure area is almost impossible to keep the heat from between the two parts.
Booster was over 300kph slower at 68km separation point. Nearly 5% under performance vs IFT3 and slower again vs IFT2.
Is this because of a single engine failing?
How will it perform with any sort of payload and an engine failure?
Will Starship be found floating on water and checked?
No. It is resting on the bottom of the ocean.
impressive fail from cult
Jealous
It's weird you have to pretend that there was a failure. What's up in your life? Dad being hard on you? Kids picking on you in school because you say dumb af stuff all the time?
HOW IS IT A FAIL BRUH THAT SHIT LANDED WITHOUT EXPLODING
First view, first comment!
SpaceX takes Agile development to a whole other level!
Successful but eventful…not desirable in spacefaring…
Its a test flight of something with a whole lot of New to it. No one was at risk and they made a lot of progress from previous attempts. You'll see successful hard stop in time, same way you could see it with Falcon 9 and it's attempts to propulsively land it's booster.
A successful test during development is not desirable?
Eventful is what I mean…success yes…nominal is also desirable…:). Eventful meaning fins burning through or engine rich exhaust…that kind of eventful…
This was not a launch attempt!
With this sort of progress they may reach orbit in 10 or 12 years....
too good to be true. Maybe the ship will blow up next flight. The flaps are actuated electrically? If hydraulically then I wonder how the oil coped.
It's electric actuation. It used to be hydraulic, like on IFT1. As for blowing up, it's not impossible. If the FFA doesn't drag their heels on the next launch-and I mean if they give the license inside three weeks-SpaceX will probably feel comfortable launching Ship 30, even though it's the same design and the flaps will melt again. There's always the chance that the melting flaps will cause a bigger issue that leads to the loss of the vehicle.
sadly for you, it is true.
the flaps along with the rocket's gimballing systems are electric, IFT-1 had hydrolic actuators on the engines which ended in a explosive way.
Presumably the ship is bobbing about on the ocean and it's going to be recovered and examined in detail all over, not just those parts in view of the camera. Allowing it to sink to the bottom of the ocean sounds a little dumb.
No, it likely broke or cracked upon toppling and sank. There was never any plan to recover. That's what they did with F9 as well.
There was never any plan to recover them and they were intentionally sunk.
I am confused. At the last of stage of the ship, the layout of the engines at the bottom left corner showed no engine firing, then how the ship speed could be slowed down?
It might be because a sensor got damaged and stopped relaying engine data.
The engine lit but sometimes the graphic is unreliable
The rocket tiles not working, glue not strong enough. Tiles need to be stronger and not burn off. Missing engines be fixed.
Nahhhh, really?????
Only one engine failed.
The starship made it all the way to a landing burn followed by the flip maneuver and soft touch down. That was only possible if most of the tiles successfully protected the ship. There was only a problem around the flap joint on the port side of the ship. Maybe the tile needs to be thicker, but it's a tricky point to address because it is right at the pivot point of the flap.
I'm sure Space X will figure it out.
The other test flights were catastrophic but this one WAS completed AND relatively intact.
Critic of Starship as a lunar lander, yes I am; but as a StarLink launcher, it's finally showing progress.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096If I'm correct Elon has said the positions of the flaps will be changed. The plan is to move them higher up towards the leeward side of the ship. I think that way, re-entry plasma misses those problem areas on the flap. I might be wrong, so it's just my uninformed theory.
Yes, SpaceX will have the answers.
Aah yes they pulled an Apollo 7. Good Work SpaceX!😊
There were crew aboard this flight?
@@monsterram6617 It's a nonsensical statement.
This achievement should be celebrated nationwide!! This is absolutely incredible it’s unfortunate the political left chose to hate on anything that doesn’t have to do with gender confusion 😂
Um, no. It is the right who are anti-education and anti-science. The left don't like Elon the man, who is an idiot. Your confusion seems to go far beyond your gender.
😂😅. You are the one making a biased political statement on a video that has nothing to do with politics. Shame on you!!
never gonna be crew ready or safe
It just survived a hull compromise - the same failure that took down Columbia - and completed it's flight profile. Was the Shuttle Program safe? Was it worth killing 14 people?
Any particular reason why? The same company puts people in space all the time and fields the most successful rocket ever. You could never do anything like this, but your betters can, kiddo.
Wait and See; that is the Spaceflight Observers maxim. I learned that in the 70s.
@@filonin2 spoken like a true cultist
Prepare to hear that this was a complete success while Starliner yesterday was a total failure
This was a complete success. Did something go south on Starliner?
@@TheEvilmooseofdoomjust a helium leak
It doesn't help your bottom line to be a perpetual cynic Myke!!
Butch and Soni are still alive and well, Mykel; or should NASA pull the plug on them, Karen Anne Quinlen style.
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom helium leaks and some of the maneuvering thrusters may not be fully functional
Congrats with landing a coffin.
Like a coffin? That doesn't make any sense.
AH
It faired much better with a hull compromise than Columbia...
Can’t reuse after landing in water .
And the grift goes on
These specific prototypes were not planned to be reused and were landed in the water as they are not yet to the landing on land testing stage, just as was done with the most successful rocket ever, Falcon 9. What should have gone on much longer was your education, kiddo.
Test vehicles, Sigmund, are always disposable... like some people that aren't useful; can't keep their heads above water, sink or swim, eugenics style.
Something to contemplate whilst lying on your couch, if you get my grift.
What exactly happened on Starship’s 4th launch is the taxpayers money inferno is still successfully in operation.
No tax payers money, most of the funding comes from starlink revenue
The entire NASA budget is .3% of our total budget. You've been lied to and now you're being a useful tool for those liars.
Great to see some success however given Electric Jesus predicted he would be landing these on Mars last year, every one of these test flights can only be described as abject failures in Musk to deliver…
He originally said launches to Mars were going to start in 2018.
Got a LONG way to go before it’s safe for humans to board