@@MozartificeR nope! One jack hole of a human cannot own an asteroid, that is not allowed per UNOOSA Law and the generally accepted outer space treaty of 1967. That treaty specified that all heavenly bodies must benefit all of humankind equally. In fact until recently asteroids could not even be legally mined. But, laws change and as of a few years ago now they can mined. However at best your Barney of a friend, Bozo the Muks might be able to make a mining claim just like everyone else can.
Flight 6 was a success. Orbital engine relight in vacuum…check. Heat shield intact…check. Controlled landing/splashdown…check. The booster performed without flaw, all engines firing for launch. Controlled return. The landing check sequence was tested and aborted the catch, but the booster was never going to be used again, and it proved the aborted landing procedure. It’s all good. They saved the tower. Next two flights will be awesome.
We continue to see why using stainless instead of carbon fiber was one of the most brilliant moves in rocketry history. It's toughness and resilience to failure is amazing.
Well it's R&D program still, so no point to call something a failure. But it will be another problem they need to figure out if they really want to do rapid reusability for next Mars launch window.
Was on my way here to report the same thing I thought all the hours of my life watching space launches that this was my one moment to benefit mankind and you stole that from me… 😢 I guess I’ll just crack a beer then 🎉
I'm stoked that it was not a booster issue. Just apparently a quite minor tower sensor problem from the rumours I'm hearing. We knew they could catch it, what we didn't know is they could re-enter like that without it breaking apart. Crazy times.
@@MarcusHousewhen you look at the booster as it reachs the Ocean and lands you can visualize it next to the tower and see it would have worked but we should see this as potential for a quick turnaround for the next launch👍🏽
Wow Marcus … the start of your video… I’m 61 sir, I felt like I was that kid back in 69 watching that Saturn 5 rocket roar off the launch pad… I’m buzzing… with your enthusiasm and expertise, you should be at Starbase, or at least boasting 1M subscribers… you deserve superstardom for your content … go for launch Marcus … what an amazing time to be alive…
Maybe there were "Sharks with freaking laser beams on their heads" in the area as part of the "ballistic sinking team" SpaceX planned in case it wouldn't sink.
@@hawkdsl I'm almost certain it was the stuffed bandana (souvenir) that they were selling, so definitely not something anyone would want to eat _anyways!_ 😅
I felt like I was watching it live all over again with your narration, Marcus. Knowing that it was "Stage 0" not the ship itself was fantastic to learn. Ground equipment is much easier to repair. I'm already pumped for IFT7! I hope everyone saw how clear all the video was with Starlink. I've had it for years. It's great and amazing too. I actually went and got a T-Mobile phone just to make use of the Sat-to-Cell capability. SpaceX is a gamechanger! One day, I hope to make a cell call to the ISS or even the MOON!!! How cool!
@@MikeVikerif you think about it, it could. Relit engines in space (possible as we saw) with enough propellant (that excess is dumped currently, and still got enough to perform landing burn). Lot of propellant in booster is used for boost back burn and landing burn. And that's ONLY propellant. Add plenty of mass in hardware necessary for reusability (heat shields on booster and ship, gridfins, flaps, etc)..
Yeah, aborted catch aside, this was a very clean mission compared to the last two... none of those small explosions and fires that we've seen before. They obviously put a bit of time into fixing the small stuff.
I think you mixed up the booster speed with the starship speed. The booster was slowing through 4000km/h in the shot just before soft landed in the Gulf.
Booster said "Ship, it's your time to shine. I'll go for a swim." The ship is like, "Alright, mate! Challenge accepted." Meanwhile, at Mechazilla, "um... Hello?...where is my hug?" Fantastic flight test and a fine video Marcus.
@Marcus, I was on South Padre Island for this one. Wow! Seeing a Starship launch in person is such a mind-blowing event. Keep the great updates coming. Best to the team.
Dang you are on the ball Marcus thanks for the rapid recap. Cant wait for the debrief with you and Frasier. Watching the re-entry effects will NEVER get old!
I remember people thinking it would be difficult, which was based on the experience from the Soviet N1. However, modern computers certainly help, and SpaceX had to change the down comer feeds to a Saturn 5 design (5 feeds instead of 1) to solve the starvation problem. I don't recall anyone saying your quote.
It is insane at how PERFECT flight 5 went. With all the checks they have to do to make sure both the booster and the tower are good for a catch and manually telling the ship "go to tower". Flight 6 looks like there were no issues and a catch could have been done, and I can't wait to see why they aborted the catch attempt this time. I'm kind of glad they didn't get to do a catch as with failure you get to learn your weakness a lot better. Not to mention, that more aggressive landing profile for the booster can probably tell them more on what the booster is capable of if needed.
Banana delivered, Mission safely completed ...till starship ruded after splashdown 😅. Can't wait for flight 8 and potentially 2 tower catches within 90 minutes of each other
@@MarcusHouse, God help them if it's an apple and lands anywhere near you neck of the woods. :p Great video as always and a nice surprise to have one come out today.
@@Stephandupreez99 Well, that is true if no other banana's have gone to space, which I doubt. Surely some went up in Shuttle and Saturn 5 back in the day. Anyway, the estimated Starship cost is 1 billion each for right now, as each is still a unique build, and a prototype. It maybe cheaper, but not by much. Google says a large one is 136 grams. So the SpaceX banana cost 735 million + per gram to launch.
Great surprise to have this video in the mid week and what a success this flight was! I've read other posts in the news and it's funny how people still don't understand "research and development". People saying it's a waste to throw the hardware away. They have no clue what data and information is gathered from each flight. I'm glad SpaceX shares all of this with us and that we have channels like yours to keep us all informed. Great video, can't wait for Saturday!
My wife, friends, and I flew down from Houston to watch the launch. Her first manned-scale rocket launch. It was incredible. Crystal clear, blue Texas gulf coast skies and a very close observation point. We’ll be back for a catch!
Next year will be epic. We are super close to these flights being “normal” even with the catches. I suspect 5more flights and both vehicles being caught will become normal. Sick
Catch already proven so it would have been gravy. I suspect we'll see them fish the aft of that one out of the ocean to see how the upgrades around the outer engines faired. Still haven't got any good detail on what/if they did anything there.
Nah its bs. they were never gonna catch on this flight. PR reason or inter-operational rationale that they didnt say it up front. Corporations lie and deceive in a procedural way.
I wasn’t surprised that they didn’t catch the booster this time. They have already proved the concept and they probably chasing different data. Why put the one OLM at risk. Everything else was progress and although the ship showed some rippling just before it slashed down, the whole mission looked very successful to my amateur eyes.
Gravity losses are significant for vertical acceleration and deceleration. Since they are proportional to time, a shorter, stronger thrust loses less fuel to gravity losses. Also, waiting until later to start the landing burn means aerodynamic resistance scrubs off a little more speed.
@@hawkdsl If you try to fly in the BOOSTER you will be DEAD. In the propellant tanks you will be frozen. All long before any acceleration would kill you. The booster has no cargo space that is sealed outside the propellant tanks. So worrying about passengers on the booster suffering fatal acceleration is foolish as there is no where on the booster they would survive long enough for acceleration to be an issue.
Do you have any updates on the booster? Is it still floating in the water? Or did it sing? Did it drift toward the shore? Did they remotely detonate it to sink it as prevention from drifting to Mexico? Did they send a boat to hook it up and tow it somewhere?
There are two methods. One is to keep one engine running, preventing fuel from sloshing around. Second is to use a small pressurized fuel tank, which is kept full for reignition. Theoretically there's another, using a bladder, compressing the fuel inside the bladder. In the end, you only need a small amount of fuel for reignition, the moment the engine pushes the rocket again all fuel will end on the bottom anyways, feeding the engine again.
@@oberonpanopticon Not if you're venting the recipient ship. Not to mention the liquid methane or oxygen take up much less space than their gaseous form so not much pressure needs to be released. We're talking about 250m^3 of volume being transferred in total. It's a little under 10% of the tank size. If the tank is being held at 6 BAR, it'll drop to like 5.4 BAR. It's not a lot of pressure being released. The most important part is settling the liquids on the bottom to transfer the liquids instead of the high pressure gas. And just in case you're wondering why the pressure doesn't drop more when the liquid is under that pressure, liquids are only very slightly compressible. They're usually defined as incompressible
This is how to make progress! SpaceX has made more progress in a very short time than NASA has in all of its existence. Why would NASA not wish to join with SpaceX. If in the next couple of years the efforts produce a series of reliable reusable ships, we will then finally be able to construct a reliable torus shaped space station. Very exciting times are in store for the future of space travel! And it will happen in a much shorter time due to reusable rockets and vehicles. The fact that this testing is being done in rapid succession, as opposed to how NASA and other space agencies were operating, bodes well for SpaceX. I send all my best wishes to Elon Musk, SpaceX, and the attached development teams! I pray for success in all of their endeavors!
With all of these ultra realistic animations now it would be convenient and helpful if you were to put a text disclaimer (maybe by the video credit on the top left corner) identifying that the clip is in fact an animation and not actual footage.
Marcus, love your videos, they're so well made and informative. Hope you don't mind me pointing out but when you showed the video of the booster heading back to earth you said "just look at the speed building up" with an arrow pointing at the displayed speed but that was the speed of the Starship and not the booster. Hey hey Marcus.
Rather splash a booster down (that you weren’t planning to reuse anyway) than risk it plowing into hundreds of millions of dollars worth of launch infrastructure. The only active launch infrastructure you have! Totally the right decision. Looking forward to hearing more details about what happened at the tower and if it was a credible threat or a possible false alarm.
So from the perspective of the rocket flight 6 was a complete success catch being aborted because of issues with the tower. Also they really pushed the re-entry way beyond the normal flight profile showing that Starship can really take a beating on re-entry and still land successfully. Also with the zero G relight of a Raptor it clears the way for a fully orbital trajectory next time with a precise de-orbit burn. Can't wait to see how V2 holds up next launch.
Thank you Marcus your show is very informative and entertaining as an aussie i would dearly love to see starship launch and land from here in Australia
So flight 7 will be a shakedown of the V2 ship and possibly a full orbit. Hopefully a catch in flight 8 but we'll have to see. By the time of flight 8 SpaceX will hopefully have Tower 2 operational so they can afford to take some more risks with Tower 1. I expect that once Tower 2 is launch proven and deemed an improvement over Tower 1, Tower 1 will be demoted to landing tower (catches only) and/or, with its launch mount, will be rebuilt to Tower 2 specs.
Great overview as usual... Ellie mentioned you a couple of times during her live coverage ... It looks like a bit of a drought for a few months until the next launch.
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Can someone please answer a question I have? How is the ship going to carry 100 tons of payload, when it nearly ran out of fuel without a payload (except for a banana, of course 😁)? Or was it not fully fuelled?
It's a combination of the current ship not be fully fueled, dumping of some fuel in space (caused the IFT2 explosion), weight reductions, and of course V2 having larger tanks. New engines are going to help as well.
Hi. I'm a bit confused here. If this is the worlds largest and most powerful rocket why can it only put 50 tonnes into LEO? And why can't it send a ship to the moon directly like Apollo did?
To put it simply, Starship is a two-stage vehicle. During the launch, the fuel on the upper stage is used for orbital insertion. Once it's in orbit, it didn't have enough fuel to do an injection burn to other terrestrial bodies (e.g. Moon), thus requiring multiple on-orbit refuellings before doing so.
Iits going to have a payload capacity of 200 tons with the raptor 3 engines. Volume is much more so that’s double the payload of Saturn V. Plus with the ability to in flight refuel it will be the most versatile rocket ever including putting all of that payload into LEO. All that for 50 million bucks. Unheard of. And the rocket is just going to get bigger over time. This is a proof of concept at this point.
Absolutely amazing to watch history being made before our eyes. For someone who ran up a £700 phone bill as a young 12 year old listening to the first space shuttle launch (Mum didn't share my enthusiasm) this is just awesome to witness.
This is the one starship test that I missed watching live. It's unfortunate that they were not able to attempt another catch, but i'm very curious to see what they come back with as far as the detailed reason the launch tower was not prepared.
Woo Hoo Bonus Video! Cheers Marcus. Shame though, I was wanting info about that bent antennae on top of the launch tower as it must have been the real cause, as your title suggested, for B13’s demise. More info wanted!
1:05 At one point in time the Space Shuttle glider portion was able to be turned around within 54 days, but… For the Shuttle; it both never took off on time (or even close) and also typically took eleven months to get properly turned around
Marcus, your enthusiastic comment about trading heat tile mass for payload mass may sound good now, but perhaps not so good if the safety of human astronauts could be compromised. The space shuttle experience should temper our enthusiasm over the safety of heat tiles, especially in the setting of rapid launch and re-entry that spacex is targeting. I would hate to see spacex tarnished by the loss of a crew due to heat tile failure.
Automated Health Check? If the tower caught a cold, and if this happens too often, then SpaceX might have a problem. I hope they explain this a bit more in the near future.
If anything it shows the importance of the second tower under construction. Having a second tower will greatly reduce the chance of having to abort into the ocean.
I was there - what a sight!! Also, I spotted Elon leaving Starfactory on the night before the launch along with little X - I couldn’t believe it! If you need a clip of that for your upcoming video, just let me know!
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Mr. Muks is a sociopathic liar and a sick psychophant……never mention him by name again, please. He supports convicted rapists, felons and a pedophile.
Does this mean that Musk technically ownes the $10 000 000 000 000 000 dollar asteroid? LOL
🖤🖤🖤
This may come in handy in the near future. ;)
@@MozartificeR nope! One jack hole of a human cannot own an asteroid, that is not allowed per UNOOSA Law and the generally accepted outer space treaty of 1967. That treaty specified that all heavenly bodies must benefit all of humankind equally. In fact until recently asteroids could not even be legally mined. But, laws change and as of a few years ago now they can mined. However at best your Barney of a friend, Bozo the Muks might be able to make a mining claim just like everyone else can.
Flight 6 was a success. Orbital engine relight in vacuum…check. Heat shield intact…check. Controlled landing/splashdown…check. The booster performed without flaw, all engines firing for launch. Controlled return. The landing check sequence was tested and aborted the catch, but the booster was never going to be used again, and it proved the aborted landing procedure. It’s all good. They saved the tower. Next two flights will be awesome.
Good points. Nothing wrong happened with the vehicles.
Stress testing of stainless steel in re-entry conditions also continued.
We continue to see why using stainless instead of carbon fiber was one of the most brilliant moves in rocketry history. It's toughness and resilience to failure is amazing.
Never mind the huge melted gash in the orbiter
@ravneiv other than the massive melted gash.
Imagine spacex has taken us to the point where it made people inclined to think that without a catch it is a failure!
Isn’t that a success in itself?
Talk about people not seeing the wood for the trees - "oh but he didn't catch it, what a scammer Musk is"
Well it's R&D program still, so no point to call something a failure. But it will be another problem they need to figure out if they really want to do rapid reusability for next Mars launch window.
@@leisureenjoyer1986 Musk is still a con artist.
8:52 that was the speed of the upper stage, not the booster. The speed of the booster decreased when descending into the lower atmosphere.
Yep... small error there
Was on my way here to report the same thing I thought all the hours of my life watching space launches that this was my one moment to benefit mankind and you stole that from me… 😢 I guess I’ll just crack a beer then 🎉
Kind of disappointed by the lack of booster catch... but better to be on the safe side :)
I'm stoked that it was not a booster issue. Just apparently a quite minor tower sensor problem from the rumours I'm hearing. We knew they could catch it, what we didn't know is they could re-enter like that without it breaking apart. Crazy times.
@@MarcusHousewhen you look at the booster as it reachs the Ocean and lands you can visualize it next to the tower and see it would have worked but we should see this as potential for a quick turnaround for the next launch👍🏽
I agree, but being a test flight, we find what we find.
@@MarcusHouse but they called "go for catch" on the tower earlier and aborted way after that, I don't think it was something with the tower
Apparently the chopsticks got damaged during launch
Wow Marcus … the start of your video… I’m 61 sir, I felt like I was that kid back in 69 watching that Saturn 5 rocket roar off the launch pad… I’m buzzing… with your enthusiasm and expertise, you should be at Starbase, or at least boasting 1M subscribers… you deserve superstardom for your content … go for launch Marcus … what an amazing time to be alive…
Thanks for the extra video Marcus. I greatly appreciate your efforts mate!
The booster explosion was like something out of a james bond film
Totally was. 🤣
… with Elon being Hugo Drax?
Since it's owned by a Bond villain, it makes sense.
Maybe there were "Sharks with freaking laser beams on their heads" in the area as part of the "ballistic sinking team" SpaceX planned in case it wouldn't sink.
I think it was mission impossible and Tom already booked the cruise on starship 😅
We have all been waiting for this video.
Does this mean that Musk technically ownes the $10 000 000 000 000 000 dollar asteroid? LOL
I hate to be “that guy”…but small mistake at 13:54 “data is the payload”
No.
Payload = Banana ;)
😂
If you want to be real technical, it was a ride share mission. 🤣
One of the most expensive bananas ever... and no human got to eat it.
@@hawkdsl I'm almost certain it was the stuffed bandana (souvenir) that they were selling, so definitely not something anyone would want to eat _anyways!_ 😅
It was a well cooked banana
I felt like I was watching it live all over again with your narration, Marcus. Knowing that it was "Stage 0" not the ship itself was fantastic to learn. Ground equipment is much easier to repair. I'm already pumped for IFT7! I hope everyone saw how clear all the video was with Starlink. I've had it for years. It's great and amazing too. I actually went and got a T-Mobile phone just to make use of the Sat-to-Cell capability. SpaceX is a gamechanger! One day, I hope to make a cell call to the ISS or even the MOON!!! How cool!
More importantly, was the banana recovered?
😂
It was a banana split
Pisang Goreng! 😉 🍌
As it was likely the synthetic souvenir, it wouldn't become a melted puddle as the ship went down to meet a Davey Jones 😊
Banana fries
The fact that the default systems work that well is almost as great as the catch. Great forsight from space X
The daytime reentry footage was absolute bananas!
Yeah. We didn’t hear that one 50 times.
ITS NOT SATURDAY?!
Thanks for the upload Marcus! I enjoyed this a lot.
With every flight, Starship is feeling more and more like a legit operational rocket and less like an experiment
When you think about it, at this moment it could already perform the function of a traditional, non-reuseable rocket.
@@ryelor123 Not even, it can't reach the orbit
@@MikeVikerif you think about it, it could. Relit engines in space (possible as we saw) with enough propellant (that excess is dumped currently, and still got enough to perform landing burn). Lot of propellant in booster is used for boost back burn and landing burn. And that's ONLY propellant.
Add plenty of mass in hardware necessary for reusability (heat shields on booster and ship, gridfins, flaps, etc)..
Markus, you are the best. Your explanations are far more cogent and clear than anyone else!!
For catch abort, elon said on X that is was caused by the lost of comms to the launch tower computer.
No odd fires on the booster. Very clean splash-landing.
Yeah, aborted catch aside, this was a very clean mission compared to the last two... none of those small explosions and fires that we've seen before. They obviously put a bit of time into fixing the small stuff.
I think you mixed up the booster speed with the starship speed. The booster was slowing through 4000km/h in the shot just before soft landed in the Gulf.
ah my bad, in the rush to get this video out it was hard to tell the different between left and right 😅
Booster said "Ship, it's your time to shine. I'll go for a swim."
The ship is like, "Alright, mate! Challenge accepted."
Meanwhile, at Mechazilla, "um... Hello?...where is my hug?"
Fantastic flight test and a fine video Marcus.
Ship: hold my beer.
@@enoughofthismore like 'hold my banana'
@@wvh-pups too graphic!
@@wvh-pups RUclips doesn't allow that content.
@Marcus, I was on South Padre Island for this one. Wow! Seeing a Starship launch in person is such a mind-blowing event. Keep the great updates coming. Best to the team.
Thanks for getting this out so quickly Marcus! Always such high-quality coverage - thank you!
Dang you are on the ball Marcus thanks for the rapid recap. Cant wait for the debrief with you and Frasier. Watching the re-entry effects will NEVER get old!
Hopefully sometime around Friday.
Hey hey! Excited for flight 7!
Keep up the great content as always, Marcus! 👍
These Starships are really maturing now. It's time to go into full orbit and bring a real payload.
We shall see what the next flight will be. At least if they are sure enough orbital insertion could happen now.
Remember those idiots less than a year ago? "They'll never get 30 engines to fire well together! One bigger rocket is better!"
progress is impossible without deviation from the norm
I remember people thinking it would be difficult, which was based on the experience from the Soviet N1. However, modern computers certainly help, and SpaceX had to change the down comer feeds to a Saturn 5 design (5 feeds instead of 1) to solve the starvation problem. I don't recall anyone saying your quote.
I hope you remember this while you're "experiencing a little pain" from elons mismanagement of his new government department.
@@ThatOpalGuy "mismanagement"? They haven't even started yet. What would qualify as "mismanagement"? Causing blue hair die to go up in price?🤣
@@ThatOpalGuytrump isn’t even in office yet moron
This is a brilliant, comprehensive look at the Starship program for the uninitiated. Cheers, mate!
It is insane at how PERFECT flight 5 went. With all the checks they have to do to make sure both the booster and the tower are good for a catch and manually telling the ship "go to tower". Flight 6 looks like there were no issues and a catch could have been done, and I can't wait to see why they aborted the catch attempt this time. I'm kind of glad they didn't get to do a catch as with failure you get to learn your weakness a lot better. Not to mention, that more aggressive landing profile for the booster can probably tell them more on what the booster is capable of if needed.
The tower has problems, most likely because the pad avoidance maneuver exhaust damages some of the components
@@alvianchoiriapriliansyah9882I'm pretty sure I've heard a "tower go for catch" call-out before they opted for the offshore divert.
Banana delivered, Mission safely completed ...till starship ruded after splashdown 😅. Can't wait for flight 8 and potentially 2 tower catches within 90 minutes of each other
Got to be careful delivering bananas in Australia. They'll have border security on their back! 🤣
The banana should be the most expensive payload ever by weight. Can someone calculate this please?
@@MarcusHouse, God help them if it's an apple and lands anywhere near you neck of the woods. :p Great video as always and a nice surprise to have one come out today.
@@Stephandupreez99 Well, that is true if no other banana's have gone to space, which I doubt. Surely some went up in Shuttle and Saturn 5 back in the day. Anyway, the estimated Starship cost is 1 billion each for right now, as each is still a unique build, and a prototype. It maybe cheaper, but not by much. Google says a large one is 136 grams. So the SpaceX banana cost 735 million + per gram to launch.
TBF starship isn't designed to survive impact with the water and they needed to sink it anyways
Great surprise to have this video in the mid week and what a success this flight was!
I've read other posts in the news and it's funny how people still don't understand "research and development". People saying it's a waste to throw the hardware away. They have no clue what data and information is gathered from each flight. I'm glad SpaceX shares all of this with us and that we have channels like yours to keep us all informed. Great video, can't wait for Saturday!
Excellent recap, perfect flight, tower needs love too!
My wife, friends, and I flew down from Houston to watch the launch. Her first manned-scale rocket launch. It was incredible. Crystal clear, blue Texas gulf coast skies and a very close observation point. We’ll be back for a catch!
Rebuilding the launch site is more time consuming. At least landing it in the ocean would make them launch again sooner.
Marcus, a big THANK YOU for a GREAT synopsis with explanations of every stage of the flight! 👍👏
Next year will be epic. We are super close to these flights being “normal” even with the catches. I suspect 5more flights and both vehicles being caught will become normal. Sick
Another great launch! Great job space X. Despite not catching super booster.
Catch already proven so it would have been gravy. I suspect we'll see them fish the aft of that one out of the ocean to see how the upgrades around the outer engines faired. Still haven't got any good detail on what/if they did anything there.
@@MarcusHouse Catch done ONCE - hardly 'proven'. 10 in a row, and we can call it 'proven'.
That banana needs to go thru customs sir
I love how you broke down the XAI93x project in your video! Can’t wait to see it soar!
So it was the tower that had some issues, not the booster. Thanks for information & the extra vidieo.
Nah its bs. they were never gonna catch on this flight. PR reason or inter-operational rationale that they didnt say it up front. Corporations lie and deceive in a procedural way.
The pace at which SpaceX makes the second stages for Falcon9 launches is amazing.
I wasn’t surprised that they didn’t catch the booster this time. They have already proved the concept and they probably chasing different data. Why put the one OLM at risk.
Everything else was progress and although the ship showed some rippling just before it slashed down, the whole mission looked very successful to my amateur eyes.
Yea, I reckon they had the strictness on those checks for return in "paranoid mode". Hopefully they can now launch Block 2 sooner rather than later.
It's because something went wrong with tower shortly after launch, not that they always planned to splashdown
I wonder if having President Elect Trump watching with Elon pushed the team to adjust their safety parameter even higher than usual? 🤓
Another great video this week man. I watch every Saturday and every time you post. Just wanted to say you and your team are doing a great job.
Gravity losses are significant for vertical acceleration and deceleration. Since they are proportional to time, a shorter, stronger thrust loses less fuel to gravity losses.
Also, waiting until later to start the landing burn means aerodynamic resistance scrubs off a little more speed.
It also means if you ride in the booster, you'll be flattened like a pancake during landing/catch.
@@hawkdsl
If you rid in the booster you are in a propellant tank. No worries about being flattened then.
@@Scanner9631 The G forces from slowing down to 5 mph from just under speed of sound will flatten you no matter where in the rocket you are.
@@hawkdsl
If you try to fly in the BOOSTER you will be DEAD. In the propellant tanks you will be frozen. All long before any acceleration would kill you. The booster has no cargo space that is sealed outside the propellant tanks.
So worrying about passengers on the booster suffering fatal acceleration is foolish as there is no where on the booster they would survive long enough for acceleration to be an issue.
@@Scanner9631 Ok, so... my post went over your head.... and that's fine. Be well.
Do you have any updates on the booster? Is it still floating in the water? Or did it sing? Did it drift toward the shore? Did they remotely detonate it to sink it as prevention from drifting to Mexico? Did they send a boat to hook it up and tow it somewhere?
Will be interesting to see how they solve pumping liquids in zero gravity. Looking forward to the Marcus house video explaining how it works. ;)
They're not gonna pump it. Just use pressure differential to transfer the fluids
There are two methods.
One is to keep one engine running, preventing fuel from sloshing around.
Second is to use a small pressurized fuel tank, which is kept full for reignition.
Theoretically there's another, using a bladder, compressing the fuel inside the bladder.
In the end, you only need a small amount of fuel for reignition, the moment the engine pushes the rocket again all fuel will end on the bottom anyways, feeding the engine again.
How do they do it at the space station?
But I guess the hard part will be to keep it cool enough so it won’t have to be vented?
@@snakevenom4954Wouldn’t that result in two ships that are both half full of fuel
@@oberonpanopticon Not if you're venting the recipient ship. Not to mention the liquid methane or oxygen take up much less space than their gaseous form so not much pressure needs to be released.
We're talking about 250m^3 of volume being transferred in total. It's a little under 10% of the tank size. If the tank is being held at 6 BAR, it'll drop to like 5.4 BAR.
It's not a lot of pressure being released. The most important part is settling the liquids on the bottom to transfer the liquids instead of the high pressure gas.
And just in case you're wondering why the pressure doesn't drop more when the liquid is under that pressure, liquids are only very slightly compressible. They're usually defined as incompressible
Thanks for all you do! Great video and such a quick release!
8:52 umm Marcus, that is the ship telemetry. Booster is on the left.
Remember, Marcus is looking from the other side of the screen:)
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Just wanted to point that out as well
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Great video Marcus ! looking foward to seeing if they can catch it next time. I reckon they will....
What a day
This is how to make progress! SpaceX has made more progress in a very short time than NASA has in all of its existence. Why would NASA not wish to join with SpaceX. If in the next couple of years the efforts produce a series of reliable reusable ships, we will then finally be able to construct a reliable torus shaped space station. Very exciting times are in store for the future of space travel! And it will happen in a much shorter time due to reusable rockets and vehicles. The fact that this testing is being done in rapid succession, as opposed to how NASA and other space agencies were operating, bodes well for SpaceX. I send all my best wishes to Elon Musk, SpaceX, and the attached development teams! I pray for success in all of their endeavors!
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With all of these ultra realistic animations now it would be convenient and helpful if you were to put a text disclaimer (maybe by the video credit on the top left corner) identifying that the clip is in fact an animation and not actual footage.
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Marcus, love your videos, they're so well made and informative. Hope you don't mind me pointing out but when you showed the video of the booster heading back to earth you said "just look at the speed building up" with an arrow pointing at the displayed speed but that was the speed of the Starship and not the booster. Hey hey Marcus.
Rather splash a booster down (that you weren’t planning to reuse anyway) than risk it plowing into hundreds of millions of dollars worth of launch infrastructure. The only active launch infrastructure you have! Totally the right decision. Looking forward to hearing more details about what happened at the tower and if it was a credible threat or a possible false alarm.
Very sad we had no catch..... now long wait for the next one begins
SpaceX just set the world record for the fastest delivery of a banana in history to Australia! 🎉👏🏻🤛🏻
If I understood correctly, the banana was made of plastic :)
I love how fast you put this together! Love your X presence too.
So from the perspective of the rocket flight 6 was a complete success catch being aborted because of issues with the tower. Also they really pushed the re-entry way beyond the normal flight profile showing that Starship can really take a beating on re-entry and still land successfully. Also with the zero G relight of a Raptor it clears the way for a fully orbital trajectory next time with a precise de-orbit burn. Can't wait to see how V2 holds up next launch.
Great update Marcus. So much information to take in. Really appreciate it.
we've all been waiting for this video
The wait is over! 🎉
Bug gear, it's 1:38am in NZ and I was just about to go to bed, then saw this. 😵💫 What's another 20 minutes........
Love it! @@MarcusHouse
Thank you Marcus your show is very informative and entertaining as an aussie i would dearly love to see starship launch and land from here in Australia
So flight 7 will be a shakedown of the V2 ship and possibly a full orbit. Hopefully a catch in flight 8 but we'll have to see. By the time of flight 8 SpaceX will hopefully have Tower 2 operational so they can afford to take some more risks with Tower 1. I expect that once Tower 2 is launch proven and deemed an improvement over Tower 1, Tower 1 will be demoted to landing tower (catches only) and/or, with its launch mount, will be rebuilt to Tower 2 specs.
I love getting a video in the middle of the week!
Great overview as usual... Ellie mentioned you a couple of times during her live coverage ... It looks like a bit of a drought for a few months until the next launch.
Great post-launch commentary with interesting analysis! Thank you.
It looked windy at the tower site and possibly this was the cortical factor causing the no-go for catch attempt.
A very good presentation Marcus ! Well done to you and your team.
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Great video, Marcus! Are you getting more Starship cups in your store?
Can someone please answer a question I have?
How is the ship going to carry 100 tons of payload, when it nearly ran out of fuel without a payload (except for a banana, of course 😁)? Or was it not fully fuelled?
a short answer is at the 18:00 mark of the video that shows a cutaway image of V1 vs V2 of the Starship. V2 looks to have a larger fuel tank.
@nvoco7688 Thanks. I guess the booster would need a large increase in size as well, to propel all that extra weight.
@@gerhardvaneeden5615Look up starship block 3.
It's a combination of the current ship not be fully fueled, dumping of some fuel in space (caused the IFT2 explosion), weight reductions, and of course V2 having larger tanks. New engines are going to help as well.
@@anthonypelchat Cool, thanks. Do we know the fuel levels of IFT 6?
Great summary. Thanks Marcus
Hi. I'm a bit confused here. If this is the worlds largest and most powerful rocket why can it only put 50 tonnes into LEO? And why can't it send a ship to the moon directly like Apollo did?
To put it simply, Starship is a two-stage vehicle. During the launch, the fuel on the upper stage is used for orbital insertion. Once it's in orbit, it didn't have enough fuel to do an injection burn to other terrestrial bodies (e.g. Moon), thus requiring multiple on-orbit refuellings before doing so.
In short, its because starship is reusable and must return back to earth. New raptor versions should push the payload capacity much higher.
It can lift 150 tons to LEO.
Iits going to have a payload capacity of 200 tons with the raptor 3 engines. Volume is much more so that’s double the payload of Saturn V. Plus with the ability to in flight refuel it will be the most versatile rocket ever including putting all of that payload into LEO. All that for 50 million bucks. Unheard of. And the rocket is just going to get bigger over time. This is a proof of concept at this point.
Because it's fully reusable. The saturn 5 broke into a bunch of smaller pieces that were thrown away to burn up in the atmosphere.
8:49 The booster was actually slowing down... You pointed out the Ships speed. The booster was rapidly losing speed
Absolutely amazing to watch history being made before our eyes. For someone who ran up a £700 phone bill as a young 12 year old listening to the first space shuttle launch (Mum didn't share my enthusiasm) this is just awesome to witness.
15 Years Ago:
A Rocket (Booster) could never land
Today: They did not even Catch the booster out of mid air - disappointing
Good information. Impressed with the speed of your delivery!
So impressed with the upper stage making it through that insane angle of attack with so little damage.
I would love to see a follow cam on the StarShip! :D
This is the one starship test that I missed watching live. It's unfortunate that they were not able to attempt another catch, but i'm very curious to see what they come back with as far as the detailed reason the launch tower was not prepared.
Thanks brother 👍 love the content.
Marcus is always my goto for Space news. Was waiting for this video.
Just ordered a flight 5 hoodie! 👊🏼
Woo Hoo Bonus Video! Cheers Marcus. Shame though, I was wanting info about that bent antennae on top of the launch tower as it must have been the real cause, as your title suggested, for B13’s demise. More info wanted!
I noticed there were no flames coming out of the side of the booster from venting upon the water landing unlike the last flight.
Thank you Marcus and greetings from Southern California
Thanks for all your hard work.
Thank you, Marcus. Thrilling, exciting stuff.
1:05
At one point in time the Space Shuttle glider portion was able to be turned around within 54 days, but… For the Shuttle; it both never took off on time (or even close) and also typically took eleven months to get properly turned around
Marcus, your enthusiastic comment about trading heat tile mass for payload mass may sound good now, but perhaps not so good if the safety of human astronauts could be compromised.
The space shuttle experience should temper our enthusiasm over the safety of heat tiles, especially in the setting of rapid launch and re-entry that spacex is targeting.
I would hate to see spacex tarnished by the loss of a crew due to heat tile failure.
by february , starship will be launching all the time.. it will be awesome !!
Overly optimistic.
Great Imformation thanks for sharing.
Automated Health Check? If the tower caught a cold, and if this happens too often, then SpaceX might have a problem. I hope they explain this a bit more in the near future.
Nice presentation - as always! I am curious as to where they will move the header tanks for the operational cargo versions of Starship.
Thank you Marcus
If anything it shows the importance of the second tower under construction. Having a second tower will greatly reduce the chance of having to abort into the ocean.
I was there - what a sight!! Also, I spotted Elon leaving Starfactory on the night before the launch along with little X - I couldn’t believe it! If you need a clip of that for your upcoming video, just let me know!
Nice summary, thanks.