Bang! SpaceX Tests Catching Superheavy With Mechazilla! - SpaceX Weekly
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Teams were hard at work this week, with crews at the launch site performing first-of-its-kind booster catch and landing simulations. Scrapping of the old cyro tank farm continues, a new crane is added to the skyline, and work continues on the new launch tower. Over in Florida, we also see the first Falcon Heavy launch of 2024, and ULA's next Vulcan Centaur arrives ahead of its second certification flight.
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Never fails to amaze me how much gets done at Starbase! Thanks for the weeklies @LabPadre, they're a great reminder of what's gone on!
It's amazing... not much more than a decade ago, every 6 months was sufficient to keep up with space news...
Now, weekly updates are almost not enough.
@@johnd.7792 You are absolutely correct there!!!
I was able to see the Vandenberg launch from my front yard in northern Arizona. It is the first SpaceX launch I have seen live. Very exciting. Thanks for the update Lab!!
The baby booster got slapped.. also left the nest
Best weekly review around!!
Nice jellyfish shot. At 8:41, the white dot in the vapor trail is the 1st stage booster.
Think we might be seeing the fairing halves here?
I can't keep up with all these launches. It's incredible.
What? 4??
Take off your other sock.
Very thank you dear LabPadre
Thanks for the summary of everything that's going on!
Flying a single booster 22 times is crazy. Sure, there are costs for logistics and refurbishment, but SpaceX can use nice engines, where other companies would have to build 198.
Thanks
Thank you! Great job on the video! 💦
Your weekly updates are greatly appreciated. Thank You!!!
Another awesome SpaceX Weekly Update! Thank you so much Lab Padre, and thank everyone involved in bringing these Weekly Updates to us. I really enjoy these!!!
thanks
Smashing the old tanks with the crane seems like it would be a fun stress free job!
Outstanding 🔆
Work continues...
Hello LabPadre, I know I have been following your channels for over a year now. I just like to thank you for all your amazing coverage. Thank you.
Good job good channel.
I'm 100% sure elon secretly watches your weekly episodes.
As always, thanks, guys. - Dave Huntsman…..Out!
4:43 nice meteoroid near b14.1 :-)
For the first time, I noticed the date in the bottom left of the screen and find it most helpful.
Thanks, 🎉 the pace, chopstick closeups were really interesting, all the best
Greetings from Austria! I never watched anything more exciting and fascinating. I do not understand how your explanations found me 😂😂😂 The most impressiv for me is the landing of the returning booster. I had no internetconnection and no imagination how this probably works. Thanks a lot! Great Nation you must be very proud of the engeneers, logistics and workers.
Thanks for another excellent update! I had laugh that the crane's load spreader lifting 14.1 had words "Booster" written on it. It seem seem like it was pretending to boost the booster.
Thanks Lewis. SpaceX look set to achieve their record number of launches for 2024. They are launching more than 50% of the world's total number of orbital rockets.
Great Show
I love these weekly updates that keep me connected with the SpaceX progress on the road to Mars. I love watching Falcon booster landings, but the dual booster landings from Falcon heavy are extra special. I don't think they'll ever not look like science fiction. Go SpaceX. Eagerly awaiting Starship IFT-5.
I didn't think there were hand-held plasma cutters. The cutting torches appear to be OxAcetylene torches.
Wow, 22 reuses on the one booster... and still, no one else in the world can land a booster!
I wonder how they will manage to align this small load points to the tower/chopsticks during land.
I wonder how the ULA crews feel trying to get ready for their second flight, while the sky is lit up with multiple SpaceX launches, booster landings, and assorted recoveries. Snicker... Sorry, just a somewhat jaded ex LM guy here.
Space X must be very (over?)confident about their ability to get the booster accurately on to the Mechazilla arms. I was wondering why they cannot make the booster hold points longer and/or have multiple pairs or points istead on just one.
Still need a hopper with legs and catch pins to have a real, safe object to practice catching.
There's no need. That's what the virtual tower landings over the gulf are for. They'll eventually have a dedicated catch tower for practice.
@@KeepItReal2024 Virtual means abstract, computerized, hypothetical, theoretical. Super Heavy coming in for a crash landing is none of that. They're testing the arms, they need a moving target. But then, a fair number probably rout for a big explosion.
@contestvoter From the data they can see everything that does go wrong & they can correct any potential problems. A virtual tower landing is no different than the company's that do virtual launches with minimal test flights & expect everything to go well. Granted catching the world's tallest booster purely off data is risky but if anyone can get away with it it's spacex. Just saying if they needed a hopper booster they would've built & tested it a while ago. A hopper made sense for F9' development. It made sense to prove that raptors & the base starship/SH design worked with hoppy. However building one this late in the game? No reason to revert back in time just to construct a dedicated catch booster. We don't know how accurate SH's virtual landings are, SpaceX has the data & seem confident. From what I've seen from the last test it did a great job. For something that tall & heavy to come back & not slam into the gulf but slow itself down enough just to plop & tip over c'mon. They got this. A large explosion would be nothing new to SS & SH's development process. The only way for them to truly test this is a dedicated catch tower without an expensive OLM. Also how else would they know the tower design itself is strong enough? Maybe they intend to send one into a dedicated catch tower all hot & whatnot just to truly test the chopsticks & the towers design 😂 never know with SpaceX.
@@contestvoterPretty sure F9 practiced it's landings on a virtual pad over the gulf with the real thing before they went for a dedicated landing. Even if it takes a few more SH practice landings over water so they can collect more data so be it. No need to waste time developing an accurate catch test article for SH. SH is the test article & it's dedicated catch tower is up for plenty of abuse.
@@KeepItReal2024 Explosions are fun right? Why should Mechazilla work?
Are the landing rails also used for stacking or is that a different part of the arms?
I don't think the next Starship launch will be soon judging by this video.
Here it's called CONCRETE. But in Russia it's COMCRETE.
So regrettable that this didn't happen decades ago. Thank Elon for doing what needs to be done. Greetings from Brisbane Australia. 🌏⭐🌟💥🦘
It would be great to be young, and work on the only spaceport that matters.
Should work.
Musk.
GO FOR IT !!
They could have made some nice housing for employees out of those tanks and shells.
Thanks, Lab.
In texas? Yeesh.
Could spacex just launch a booster a few miles up and then try and catch it ?
Yes... this report is more intelligible
and pushing people to buy their CRAP😏
When you see Space X output and huge success rate why does NASA give money for projects such as SLS and Boeing and ULA etc ? Especially when none of them is remotely reusable and technology wise are dinosaurs ! In fact they look pathetic when compared to Space X . I think NASA are "encouraging " them because they do not want to be beholding to one launcher also if there was no "competition" (hah!) Space X would increase their prices , as they must .
@@dongraham4760 especially boeing, they aren’t building them reliable enough
Because their funds are controlled by Congress. You should consider informing yourself if you want to be critical, after all ignorant opinions tend to be flawed and worthless.
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom So they haven’t had issues recently between planes with poor build quality and space vehicles that have left astronauts stuck in space for a longer time than originally planned. They suck.
@dongraham4760 they give out other contracts because they are trying to encourage fair competition and market growth in the commercial space industry which spacex is dominant in.
. . . . as Bozos sits by idly wringing his hands trying to dream up new lawsuits to slow his competition.
Can you stop saying 'out' at the end..?? It's really annoying..!! 😖
Thumbs Down; I like it!
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