I visited Starbase May 10th and 11th. It was unbelievable, a dream come true. I've been glued to these NSF videos for years... now I can say "yep, I stood right there!" Thank you, NSF!
@@a.j.infowars7582 No, unfortunately I missed the Starship launch by 3 weeks. My trip was planned months ahead of time, I didn't have the luxury of changing the dates. It was still awesome to be there.
It's great to see Mary's name in the credits, especially after recent events. She pretty much started the Boca Chica RUclips video phenomenon and has been an inspiration for other RUclipsrs, Go Startlink; Go Boca Chica Gal!!!!!!!
Last Chance Items in the store before we make room for new additions: shop.nasaspaceflight.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 - New High Bay Construction 0:19 - Strange Ring 0:39 - The Production Site 0:49 - Ships 29 and 28 in the High Bay 1:02 - Booster 9 in the Mega Bay 1:12 - South Texas Tracking Station 1:22 - Raptor Platform 1:32 - Booster QD Rear Hood 1:43 - Cable Installation Operation 1:53 - The Launch Site 2:12 - LOX Pumps and Recondensers 2:22 - Methane Tanks 2:32 - New Crane Arrives 3:13 - More Rebar Installed 3:29 - Drilling Work Behind the Tower 3:45 - Booster QD Closed 3:58 - Booster Tranport Stand Moved 4:39 - Booster Transport Stand 5:01 - Spools of Cable 5:23 - Concrete Layed in Trench 5:38 - High Bay Section Construction 6:22 - The Mega Bay 6:33 - Crane for High Bay Assembly 7:08 - Barrel Section 7:18 - New Crane Assembly 8:07 - Booster 10 in the Mega Bay 8:18 - The Rocket Garden 9:10 - Ship 25 9:44 - Construction at the Orbital Pad 9:56 - Deluge Tanks 10:18 - Foundation Drilling 10:29 - Orbital Launch Tower 10:42 - Ship QD Arm 11:08 - The Orbital Launch Mount 11:47 - The Orbital Launch Site 12:02 - Generator Leaving Launch Site 12:18 - S26.1 Cryo Test 12:30 - Yet More Rebar Installed 12:40 - Booster 10 Moved in Mega Bay 13:02 - The Rocket Garden 13:10 - The Launch Site
The one thing that SpaceX DOES need at all of its locations is A PARTS STORAGE WAREHOUSE to put all its equipment: piping, Rings, bands of Stainless Steel, I-bars, covers, pumps, valves, panels, wires, chains, scaffolding pieces, floodlights, and parking/recharging of forks and lifts.
No, it's more efficient this way. If they had a warehouse, they would have to devote a lot of labor to putting each item in it, and then finding it when they needed it and moving it to where it would be used. Instead they just take it directly to where it is going to be used and leave it nearby where everyone can seen it and quickly get it when they need it.
Thank you NSF team for sharing the video. at 3:40 was that a blimp up in the air/ it is very impressive to see the pace of work there. Even the buckner cranes have space X logo on there . wondering if they are leased long term . everyone will have their eye on B9 ans S25 next. cant wait for the next launch
The blimp owned by border control to do some form of surveillance. I haven't looked too much into it but there's more details online about it if you look up "Border patrol blimp South Texas"
Kinda explains why they are trenching laying so much cable....they do not have enough power at the site, and the new bay will need more. They were using auxiliary generators to keep the site going, as depicted in the vid, the generator leaving the site.
Thanks for your good work. I love watching these videos and especially appreciate the explanatory banners. So much better when you know what you’re looking at.
A honest question to all: as we are about to enter another hurricane season (June 1st through November 30th), I wonder how well Space X has designed the StarShip facilities at Boca Chica to withstand the storms? As a weather 'nerd', I've noted that the Brownsville area certainly tends to get it's annual share of tropical storms & hurricanes, more so than the Cape Canaveral area on the east coast of Florida. Wonder how the Boca Chica facility will hold up to the storms and interruptions to launch schedules??
*Raises hand* I have a question (perhaps 2): What wind speed(s) (sustained/gust) are the mid-, high-, mega-bays and OLM rated for? Are there doors that can close to protect the bays? Thanks for all the great content!
I'm not sure what the wind limits are, but they know the area can be subjected to the occasional hurricane so I'd assume they need to be rated to survive at least a minor one. There was a hurricane that came through a while back and everything mostly survived, but I think at most the Mid Bay was up at the time. As for doors, nope, they're just the fixed structures you see
It takes some time to come up with concept,planning, design, fabricate, deliver to site, erect/install, supervise, quality control, test,etc. All the recent efforts by Spacex show they have good teamwork as well as good leadership, coordination and management. Well done. It must be great to work there and is fun to watch (especially with all the armchair critics ccomplaining about something).
There is NO planning, concept or quality control. Elon flunked Boca Chica. The whole concept is a disaster. A main road within 100m of a launch pad? Are you serious? Boca is what happens when you have ONE BOSS, and buys a piece of land in 2014 that is useless as a launch site. That was the first sign that Musk is losing his mental faculties. Until the main launch site is built at the Cape, this is just a sideshow. It will be good as a production site and ship the products to the Cape. But as a launch site, it is a joke and will be decommissioned soon.
@@bricktop7803 The contractors were on site with all their equipment the day after the launch and you're telling us there is no planning? What rock did you crawl out from under.
Any estimate on how many of the extremely long, reinforced pilings have been completed or planned? Any ideas of their locations in relation to the launch pad and each other? Getting these short glimpses tends to make it appear to be literally hundreds of these things. I wouldn't be too surprised to find that some of the concrete actually connects most of the pilings with each other well below ground level, of course. 🤓🤔😲
What’s interesting to me is that the is raptor 3 now, think about when Elon said we have more raptor2s than we know what to do with. My question is how many will they go through, how much new data are they going to get, and how would they apply it to a new generation?
Redwoods withstand storms and high winds because they are all connected at the roots. The rebar pilings would be much stronger if they could be connected deep underground.
Please cut down on the loud wind ripping through the mic. If you choose to keep it in cut the volume a lot. It really is harsh to hear and distracts greatly from enjoying the video.
It should be similar to the Mega Bay format. Technically they're all high bays though (Mega Bay is formally High Bay 2) so we'll have to see if this one gets a name like the Mega Bay and what it is if so
I wonder why they went with S25. It was build quite a while ago and thus is an older design compared to S28. S28 to me doesnt seem to be that much behind that they couldnt get it ready when the pad is ready
SpaceX went with S24/B7 on the previous test precisely because if they didn't fly them, they would have to be scrapped. S25/B9 is also an entirely sacrificial mission. Hopefully this time they will collect information on exactly *how* the TPS fails on reentry from orbit. SpaceX has delayed installing TPS on other orbiters until that information is obtained. The next flight is also the first test of the electric steering. Lots of opportunities for failure.
imo.. its better to store starships in space to wait for use then on earth. Especially with thousands of them being built.. How many high bays will be built? It doesn't make sense to keep building them.
When I see these spools of cable at 5:06 , first thing that comes to my mind is Cinderella and those damn mice running around getting her dress fixed up. 😁
Интересно, а Маск закладывал в конструкцию старшип возможность долговременной стыковки? С его серийным производством это прям геноцид отрасли орбитальных станций
@@carlosescobar5995 долговременная стыковка - это в том числе и коррекция и изменение орбиты всей конструкции. Для этого модули должны быть в состоянии воспринимать усилия от двигательной установки на всю конструкцию. Такое простой заменой внутреннего оборудования не решается
Is there a way to easily distinguish between videos like this and ones with a commentary? I mostly just listen, and although the sounds are interesting, vithout the video they do not make much sense.
Отсталые в технологическом развитии страны ...могут хотя бы посмотреть , как надо работать от идеи до крупномасштабных сооружений . Возможно решение таких грандиозных проектов сподвигнет жирных чиновников заглянуть дальше своего брюха ....
Nextime, SpaceX just do a simple calculation for the safe radius if thing goes bad. And, implementing that! Alright. Is not worthy to lost a life of souls for to send man's to the moon then Mars.
I don't think Starbase should be in a nature reserve and then pretend like this doesn't pollute. How could they give the land for a rocket program? This is extreme
While having nothing there would of course be better environmentally, launch sites are actually one of the better things to build for nature preserves. The processes don't result in a serious amount of outward pollution and they take up fairly little space. Additionally they guarantee that the surrounding area cannot be built up which is best for the long term benefit of the preserve. I believe that all the worlds launch sites are in nature preserves, though some of those were created after the sites were built
Well, all coastal areas that are not a nature preserve are already build up. People have rather dim views of launching rockets from their backyards :( Silly, I know, but politicians seem to be sensitive to those people's opinion!
Glad to see Mary appearing in the chyron again
I hadn't noticed. Thank you for pointing out her return.
It's always joyful to see her perfectly framed shots.
It's great to see Bocachicagal back. I always liked her images of sun rises and wildlife.
Ditto. Great to see Mary’s name called out in front again.
I visited Starbase May 10th and 11th. It was unbelievable, a dream come true. I've been glued to these NSF videos for years... now I can say "yep, I stood right there!" Thank you, NSF!
Did you watch a launch 🚀!? You have to watch it in person, it’s surreal!
@@a.j.infowars7582 No, unfortunately I missed the Starship launch by 3 weeks. My trip was planned months ahead of time, I didn't have the luxury of changing the dates. It was still awesome to be there.
cant wait for the next flight with booster 9 and ship 25!
It's great to see Mary's name in the credits, especially after recent events. She pretty much started the Boca Chica RUclips video phenomenon and has been an inspiration for other RUclipsrs, Go Startlink; Go Boca Chica Gal!!!!!!!
Happy to see Mary back!
Oh Wow! Mary back! I thought she retired. Great see this wonderful work of hers and the rest of the team!
Great job as always Nic, Chris K, Mary, the whole crew!!
4:02 the perfectionist in me can’t help but notice the “Tranport” stand
Great job as always NSF team, thanks for the updates.
Last Chance Items in the store before we make room for new additions:
shop.nasaspaceflight.com/
Timestamps:
0:00 - New High Bay Construction
0:19 - Strange Ring
0:39 - The Production Site
0:49 - Ships 29 and 28 in the High Bay
1:02 - Booster 9 in the Mega Bay
1:12 - South Texas Tracking Station
1:22 - Raptor Platform
1:32 - Booster QD Rear Hood
1:43 - Cable Installation Operation
1:53 - The Launch Site
2:12 - LOX Pumps and Recondensers
2:22 - Methane Tanks
2:32 - New Crane Arrives
3:13 - More Rebar Installed
3:29 - Drilling Work Behind the Tower
3:45 - Booster QD Closed
3:58 - Booster Tranport Stand Moved
4:39 - Booster Transport Stand
5:01 - Spools of Cable
5:23 - Concrete Layed in Trench
5:38 - High Bay Section Construction
6:22 - The Mega Bay
6:33 - Crane for High Bay Assembly
7:08 - Barrel Section
7:18 - New Crane Assembly
8:07 - Booster 10 in the Mega Bay
8:18 - The Rocket Garden
9:10 - Ship 25
9:44 - Construction at the Orbital Pad
9:56 - Deluge Tanks
10:18 - Foundation Drilling
10:29 - Orbital Launch Tower
10:42 - Ship QD Arm
11:08 - The Orbital Launch Mount
11:47 - The Orbital Launch Site
12:02 - Generator Leaving Launch Site
12:18 - S26.1 Cryo Test
12:30 - Yet More Rebar Installed
12:40 - Booster 10 Moved in Mega Bay
13:02 - The Rocket Garden
13:10 - The Launch Site
You misspelled boster Transport 3:59
Good to see #BocaChicaGal back in action!!
Yes! Good to see her back! The original!
This video was the best edit I’ve ever seen on the channel.
Keep this kind of editing.
Welcome Back, Mary!! Hope you are doing well! 😃😻❤
Welcome back Mary!!!
Great to see Mary's byline again!!
Mary !!!! Welcome home !
Wonder is the ‘strange ring’ is part of the HLS mockup - the holes could be for propellant lines to supply the small engines above the fuel tanks
Yes, that has been suggested.
While the new ultra-mega-high bay is being erected, please make sure that Nic takes his signature modern abstract art images! I love those.
Thanks!
The one thing that SpaceX DOES need at all of its locations is A PARTS STORAGE WAREHOUSE to put all its equipment: piping, Rings, bands of Stainless Steel, I-bars, covers, pumps, valves, panels, wires, chains, scaffolding pieces, floodlights, and parking/recharging of forks and lifts.
and deny us all these insightful views! I vote NOT :p
No, it's more efficient this way. If they had a warehouse, they would have to devote a lot of labor to putting each item in it, and then finding it when they needed it and moving it to where it would be used. Instead they just take it directly to where it is going to be used and leave it nearby where everyone can seen it and quickly get it when they need it.
Thank you NSF team for sharing the video. at 3:40 was that a blimp up in the air/ it is very impressive to see the pace of work there. Even the buckner cranes have space X logo on there . wondering if they are leased long term . everyone will have their eye on B9 ans S25 next. cant wait for the next launch
The blimp owned by border control to do some form of surveillance. I haven't looked too much into it but there's more details online about it if you look up "Border patrol blimp South Texas"
The blimp is from US Border Patrol. It might be spying on spaceX, but only covertly :)
I have an observation to make : Why not display the date and time of filming ? It helps a lot as information . 3:36 What about Zeppelin in the sky ?
More Mary, More Good!
nice one @NASASpaceflight !
Yet more delicious behind the scenes footage. These vids are the best and just brilliant. NSF: often copied, NEVER equaled.
Kinda explains why they are trenching laying so much cable....they do not have enough power at the site, and the new bay will need more. They were using auxiliary generators to keep the site going, as depicted in the vid, the generator leaving the site.
I LIKE THE ROCKET GARDEN BUT IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE SOME PLANTS AND TREES IN IT ! ! !👍
Yes, definitely. And some raked pebble beds.
Thanks for your good work. I love watching these videos and especially appreciate the explanatory banners. So much better when you know what you’re looking at.
@3:00 see a masterful truck driver backing up that crazy long trailer.
Hi Mary. Welcome back. I hope that you are coping after your unfortunate loss.
Best wishes.....from WA (that's western Australia)!
Great video
Fingers crossed for a July 4th fireworks show
A honest question to all: as we are about to enter another hurricane season (June 1st through November 30th), I wonder how well Space X has designed the StarShip facilities at Boca Chica to withstand the storms? As a weather 'nerd', I've noted that the Brownsville area certainly tends to get it's annual share of tropical storms & hurricanes, more so than the Cape Canaveral area on the east coast of Florida. Wonder how the Boca Chica facility will hold up to the storms and interruptions to launch schedules??
Mary- Boca Chica Gal! Great to see that you are back!!!!! I hope that all is well!
Nice SPMT moonwalk @ 8:37 😎
Welcome back Mary :)
The booster QD with the hood closed looks a bit like the deep thought computer from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Nice to see Mary back.
Mary, Nic, and Chris K: crystal clear, focused, relevant videography. Have I died and gone to Heaven? Mary -what a wonderful treat.
Hey I just wanted to tell you guys that you're doing a great job just keep doing what you're doing.
VERY informative episode!
Next launch - July 4th! 🙂
*Raises hand* I have a question (perhaps 2): What wind speed(s) (sustained/gust) are the mid-, high-, mega-bays and OLM rated for? Are there doors that can close to protect the bays?
Thanks for all the great content!
I'm not sure what the wind limits are, but they know the area can be subjected to the occasional hurricane so I'd assume they need to be rated to survive at least a minor one. There was a hurricane that came through a while back and everything mostly survived, but I think at most the Mid Bay was up at the time. As for doors, nope, they're just the fixed structures you see
sooooo cool!
so they will be ready in July it seems. lets see if the FAA lets them fly^^
Welcome back MAAARRYYY!!!!
It takes some time to come up with concept,planning, design, fabricate, deliver to site, erect/install, supervise, quality control, test,etc. All the recent efforts by Spacex show they have good teamwork as well as good leadership, coordination and management. Well done. It must be great to work there and is fun to watch (especially with all the armchair critics ccomplaining about something).
There is NO planning, concept or quality control.
Elon flunked Boca Chica. The whole concept is a disaster. A main road within 100m of a launch pad? Are you serious?
Boca is what happens when you have ONE BOSS, and buys a piece of land in 2014 that is useless as a launch site. That was the first sign that Musk is losing his mental faculties.
Until the main launch site is built at the Cape, this is just a sideshow. It will be good as a production site and ship the products to the Cape.
But as a launch site, it is a joke and will be decommissioned soon.
@BrickTop If you think that Elon Musk is doing such a terrible job, do better.
@@bricktop7803 The contractors were on site with all their equipment the day after the launch and you're telling us there is no planning? What rock did you crawl out from under.
Any estimate on how many of the extremely long, reinforced pilings have been completed or planned? Any ideas of their locations in relation to the launch pad and each other? Getting these short glimpses tends to make it appear to be literally hundreds of these things. I wouldn't be too surprised to find that some of the concrete actually connects most of the pilings with each other well below ground level, of course. 🤓🤔😲
What’s interesting to me is that the is raptor 3 now, think about when Elon said we have more raptor2s than we know what to do with. My question is how many will they go through, how much new data are they going to get, and how would they apply it to a new generation?
Great show. Who own's that blimp ;-)
Redwoods withstand storms and high winds because they are all connected at the roots. The rebar pilings would be much stronger if they could be connected deep underground.
Redwoods get blown from the side, not pounded on from the top.
The photo reminds me of that puppet series from the 60's Thunderbirds are Go! When does Brains come into view?
I vote starbase to be the 8th wonder of the world ! 🌎
I love these videos. 🥰🥰🥰
Yeah Mary!
Please cut down on the loud wind ripping through the mic. If you choose to keep it in cut the volume a lot. It really is harsh to hear and distracts greatly from enjoying the video.
Have they fixed the pad already?
They are building a new High Bay or a new Mega Bay format? It’s not clear for me.
It should be similar to the Mega Bay format. Technically they're all high bays though (Mega Bay is formally High Bay 2) so we'll have to see if this one gets a name like the Mega Bay and what it is if so
Hey it was great to see Mary back. We really missed you and I want to wish you a very big Kansas style welcome back
The next couple of years are going to be off the chain 🚀🌓🎉
I wonder why they went with S25. It was build quite a while ago and thus is an older design compared to S28. S28 to me doesnt seem to be that much behind that they couldnt get it ready when the pad is ready
To redo the previous flight. S25 has always been the backup - now it is needed. The other ships will get their chance later.
SpaceX went with S24/B7 on the previous test precisely because if they didn't fly them, they would have to be scrapped. S25/B9 is also an entirely sacrificial mission. Hopefully this time they will collect information on exactly *how* the TPS fails on reentry from orbit. SpaceX has delayed installing TPS on other orbiters until that information is obtained. The next flight is also the first test of the electric steering. Lots of opportunities for failure.
Do we know officially which booster and Starship will fly next ?
Yep! SpaceX confirmed that it would be Ship 25 and Booster 9 flying next
welcome back, Mary.
I'm sure next launch will be totally different. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” A. Einstein.
Except the new rocket is a lot better? Peanut gallery gonna throw peanuts though.
From 3:30 to 3:45, is that a blimp above Boca chica site & who was running it?.
It's a border patrol blimp and I believe contains cameras and other surveillance equipment
anyone else speculating that the new high bay being built, might be so that they can portotyping on a lunar starship?
When!?
Wait a minute! They are doing what? Putting cables into a trench and then pouring concrete over them? That's unusual, isn't it?
Good to see Mary back with the NSF crew! Great coverage, as usual. Looking forward to more quality content.
imo.. its better to store starships in space to wait for use then on earth. Especially with thousands of them being built.. How many high bays will be built? It doesn't make sense to keep building them.
For whatever reason the airplane view reminded me of all the RTS games I played and suddenly I could feel the scale of it all.
When I see these spools of cable at 5:06 , first thing that comes to my mind is Cinderella and those damn mice running around getting her dress fixed up. 😁
👋📀👍🏻
Blimp at 3:30 - is that tethered or powered with station keeping capabilities? SpaceX owned? Purpose?
Tethered. Border patrol cameras.
Интересно, а Маск закладывал в конструкцию старшип возможность долговременной стыковки? С его серийным производством это прям геноцид отрасли орбитальных станций
Maybe they will built a model for it, like the way they transformed cargo dragon into crew dragon
@@carlosescobar5995 долговременная стыковка - это в том числе и коррекция и изменение орбиты всей конструкции. Для этого модули должны быть в состоянии воспринимать усилия от двигательной установки на всю конструкцию. Такое простой заменой внутреннего оборудования не решается
@@Devis1982 oh , in that case, hopefully they think about it. Thanks you for explaining it to me.
@@carlosescobar5995 да, Я тоже надеюсь что Маск это предусматривает. Революция должна быть революционной 😃
Oh wow
can't wait to se 33 raptor engines firing up against the water cooled steelplate
Domar o "monstro",és a questão.
👍
That is true job security out there..
I'm betting that strange ring has something to do with the upgraded Flight Termination System.
There is speculation that it is a prototype for the base of the crew section of the lunar lander where the landing thrusters will be mounted.
9:36 looks dented
It is, but it'll be fine when it's pressurized.
Yup, just like Tesla quality control, why break the habit of a lifetime .lol.
BOCACHICAGAL!!!
Stranger Rings
👍👍👍🇮🇳
Concrete laid in trench, not layed in trench
You sound like an English teacher!
Hush...go back to cutting your grass with scissors....
Get it y’all…! Like a bunch of fire ants…
Concrete _laid_ in trench.
Is there a way to easily distinguish between videos like this and ones with a commentary?
I mostly just listen, and although the sounds are interesting, vithout the video they do not make much sense.
The commentary videos should all have "Narrated" above the NSF logo in the thumbnail. They also often have someone's face on them, though not always
@@thomashayden804 Thank you, got it.
Отсталые в технологическом развитии страны ...могут хотя бы посмотреть , как надо работать от идеи до крупномасштабных сооружений .
Возможно решение таких грандиозных проектов сподвигнет жирных чиновников заглянуть дальше своего брюха ....
Что бы чиновники дальше брюха смотрели это должно быть им лично интересно. Вряд ли чужие действия прямо к ним не относящиеся так смогут сделать
I like this video?
Nextime, SpaceX just do a simple calculation for the safe radius if thing goes bad. And, implementing that! Alright. Is not worthy to lost a life of souls for to send man's to the moon then Mars.
It is already done. They can't launch without.
I don't think Starbase should be in a nature reserve and then pretend like this doesn't pollute. How could they give the land for a rocket program? This is extreme
While having nothing there would of course be better environmentally, launch sites are actually one of the better things to build for nature preserves. The processes don't result in a serious amount of outward pollution and they take up fairly little space. Additionally they guarantee that the surrounding area cannot be built up which is best for the long term benefit of the preserve. I believe that all the worlds launch sites are in nature preserves, though some of those were created after the sites were built
Well, all coastal areas that are not a nature preserve are already build up. People have rather dim views of launching rockets from their backyards :( Silly, I know, but politicians seem to be sensitive to those people's opinion!
They are not waisting any time 😺 🫶
Welcome back Mary!
Welcome back Mary!!