Super Heavy Catch Attempt Test Incoming! | Starbase Update
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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🚀 Starbase is buzzing with activity, and we've got all the latest updates! Find out why there are road closures, get a look at the construction of the second launch tower, see the intense heatshield work, and learn about preparations for a potential Super Heavy Booster catch. All this and more in your Starbase Update!
Highlights:
🔴 Road Closures: What's happening at Starbase.
🔴 New Launch Tower: Progress on the second orbital launch pad.
🔴 Heatshield Overhaul: Major work on Ship 30's heatshield.
🔴 Booster Catch Prep: Getting ready for the first catch attempt of a Super Heavy Booster.
🔴 Tank Farm Updates: Infrastructure work at the tank farm.
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As a former Electrician, there is a lot more work involved in an office building versus a parking garage. Some lights , a elevator or two, and a few electrical outlets, that's it .
And just about everything is surface-mounted, which is quicker to install.
6:17 LMFAO!!! *Angry Jack flying to beat Sawyer from New Zealand light-speed* 😅
Sawyer can easily make good with Jack by gifting him some bacon.
Super weird that this channel was not set to notify. I swear RUclips randomly changes channels notifications.
Thanks for all the amazing videos and news. This channel is my easily highest watched.
RUclips does it to me too.
Unsubs me
Removes notification settings.
Won't accept likes
Won't post comments.
Quite random but the unsubbing does occur on repeatedly the same group of channels.
@@EnyawYorlig If you think that's annoying, it randomly un-thumbs stuff in RUclips Music which tends to remove said stuff from one's Liked Music automatic playlist, which used to be one of the most useful features in previous versions before they introduced this issue. The issue is relatively recent - within the past couple of years. I still miss Google Play Music. That was fantastic. YTM is junk by comparison.
RUclips randomly unsubs me from time to time. It's sooo frustrating. 😡
I have never seen so many people. Make so many mistakes because of excitement in my life.. Guys... Think about it logically. They're hovering a drone approximately where the landing computer would be to trigger the TCS (Tower catching system.) [Chop sticks as you call them.] They're running simulated tests to trigger one arm so they don't wreck the other. Once it's calibrated. Like you said today in your stream more than a dozen times. They will configure the other arm and set the system for the proper place to catch the Booster and Starship. They're using 14.1 as a "punching bag." To ensure they're with in tolerance and ensuring everything functions before the big moments. You caught A slow test.(Priming.) A static test and a full power test. The dampers are touching the rocket and moving it slightly. They don't need to do a drop test they know the rocket can move less than 3m per second already. Thanks to the splash down. Which is almost nothing. The fatigue your are referring to. Is what engineers call structural failure. Which will cause the tanks to shear. Usually good for lost of usages if the material isn't pushed beyond it's recommended limits. To conclude The final test before inspection was a full tower test. Reset which they then were tweaking to get it right. As it stand today... Testing looks good. I imagine the remainder of the day is getting the other arm working again. There appears to be no damage either.... They don't want to reduce the length of the TCS yet because they don't know the margins wind intensity will play... I imagine 2-3 feet at most.
Just sayin, the intro music is a masterpiece. Great job to the video producer! Never enough props to the editors 👍
I love that music!
Thank you NSF and Ryan, looking forward to Starship launch attempt number 5 live stream !
11:20 All Hail Stubby Booster. "It couldn't be picked up by the chopsticks because it's way too short". My mom used that excuse when I was a baby.
Thanks Ryan another great update as always
Indeed. Thanks, Ryan. I'm getting excited for flight 5 with its potential catch. 😮
Sawyer has one excellent computer background
I'm ready for Star Hopper two test lander
Its so exciting seeing another starbase update!!
very much looking forward to the tile re-work on ship 30, but there needs to be some re-design from scratch before "rapid reuse" is feasible. losing tile(s) and letting the backing ablate won't be re-usable quickly...
Car Park are modularity built. CAD to production is virtually hours. The foundation is the long part. Everything else in cast and curing within days of being ordered.
I have started counting how many times Ryan's hair changes. LOL
If Ryan got the right side of his hair cut to match the left, it would look so much better!
How about using the crane to lower the test article at landing speed and actually catching it with the arms to verify that the forces calculated are correct?
That's what I've been expecting...
What if the Catch dont work or they need it to stop ? is the booster flying away from the tower towards the ocean or let they it crash in to the tower and olm ? and what happend if the booster crash in to the tankfarm ? that explosion rip everything apart and than there is no more testing and flying ...
as the landing burn approaches it will likely have some idea if it can do it or not. its aiming for the gulf initially. then steering towards the ground. but it doesnt mean it will still work.. but i hope so
Its basically impossible for the booster to hit the tank farm, and a direct hit on the OLM or tower will result in basically no damage.
Pad A gets hit with worse during launch than a catch could even possibly do
In these early tests, the booster has extra propellant on board in order to prolong hover time. If two Raptor engines suddenly shut down and/or explode, the remaining 3rd engine won't be sufficient, and the booster will rapidly crash. With plenty of propellant, it will RUD and burn everything.
If at least two engines continue to work and software detects *_anything_* out-of-spec, I don't expect the booster to stay near the complex. It will soft-land in, or explode over, the Gulf of Mexico.
Otherwise, the catch arms will close, the rails will rise to the booster hardpoints, and the booster will peacefully shut down - along with the spectacle of people screaming and jumping. Perhaps the booster will then be lowered onto the OLM and detanked.
Excitement guaranteed, no matter what.
Nice upstate - btw -> this CC-8800 crane is really huge - We have some here standing around at a offshore port. Crazy that we use this kind of crane for "smaller" buildings but Offshore building are a bit different.
I can't wait for the day we see a launch in Texas and a landing in Florida, that would be real fast shipping!
The office building is probably taking longer because it needs to be hardened to deal with espionage. A normal building is practically transparent to sound and other espionage. Aerospace involves some other considerations, and SpaceX is the absolute spearpoint of aerospace.
Good point. Also, no one wants to talk about EMP protection. I think the risk of that are high and yet,,,,,,,it’s rarely discussed. Don’t want to scare the children?
A regular office building is going to take a lot longer than a parking garage due to all the plumbing, electrical, water, and heating/cooling that has to take place, not to mention the walls and doors for offices and rooms, painting, flooring, etc. But you are correct, they should include hardening for security purposes.
I’m not sure if they will fill b14.1 with propellents, maybe water, cause you don’t need a rud with boom boom and the crane right there
Very good summary - thanks
Thanks so much. Awesome info as always. 😁
I suspect we won't see any second tower segments being installed until after the next test flight... just in case the booster knocks the current one clean over.
Just a suggestion here. Perhaps we could refer to the new (larger) crane as…wait for it……. ‘Bride of Frankincrane’
Any audio of the tank shells colliding? (assuming they did collide at 1:19 and that's not just an effect of camera angle)
Ryan and NSF, y'all rock! Peace
Keep feeling fascination , Passion burning, Love so strong.
Zorg does a good job with these updates.
thanks for the update, smoothly delivered.
So happy and can't wait.
i am thinking that spacex might be catching the booster with launch tower 1 while OLM on tower 2 is starting to build as the original OLM is quite old and need refurbish every launch. They might be having a newer design for OLM 2 that are more robust and blowing tower 1 is non issue as the next ship (flight 6) also need to change according to the issue encountered during flight 5.
Sawyer has such big hands!
I never noticed before...
In Structural Engineering terms the 'pillars' are called Columns.
Do you think that if the catch works they'll try to plug the QD in?
I'd love to to see them put 3 Raptors on 14.1 and do a launch and catch.
Ryan, no apology necessary. You fully deserved the boom-tish and a for that Sawyer-worthy pun! Unless, of course, you didn't ad-lib and it was Adrian's writing; he has been influenced by the pun king of late... 😆
9:03 Rain "volume" doesn't depend on area. 25cm of rain is valid for any given area. Even imperial.
USians don't math metric. But you can't blame them, they've been raised less intelligent 😅
Jack is looking amazing as always
I enjoy Ryan as a presenter. The content, pace and articulation is as good as any. My thanks also to all the NSAF staff.
Thank you.
Good one!
Great content
Wouldn’t it make more sense to just land the booster on a rail car that can bring the booster to the tower?
Booster 14.1 - The booster that gets bigger I swear
For all of us Americans, the 25 cm/m^2 is 0.9 in/ft^2 ;)
Try 0.82 ft of water, the area doesn't matter here
Except that precip numbers aren't "per any particular area dimension"; just depth. 25cm per hour is valid... for a major downpour!
@@rsteeb I did think the area units were strange
The small but noticeable smirk on underrated video about ablative coating led me to check the number of views on this channel. I was kind of disheartened by the views. I mean even the IFT4 update video hardly has 100,000 views. Its sad to see that such high quality footage, with such lucid explanation does not attract people. People rather love to watch some random person dancing on a random song. Keep doing what you guys are. ❤
Why do they disable FTS before critical phases of flight, such as landings? I would think you would want to be able to activate FTS if it's clear the booster is not going to land correctly and possibly damage the launch tower. Having it explode a few hundred feet over the pad is probably better than letting it crash into the tower.
I imagine if they detect that a catch won't be possible they'll soft land/splashdown some distance away from anything important.
@@IndigoSierra Assuming there is enough time. Once you get down to just a few hundred feet you might run out of fuel while trying to maneuver or something... If it was me I would leave the option for FTS till it is right next to the tower. By then it wouldn't' matter either way, but if you are still a few hundred feet above ground the FTS may save the tower and launch pad.
@@ronwatkins5775 good point
13:29 The background music just suddenly stops?
Amazing
👍 nice video
Elon seemed to imply in his interview with Tim Dodd that flight five would again be a simulated catch, not an actual tower catch attempt?
I was thinking, if ITF 5 shows a good de-orbit burn what would be next on the agenda? Could ITF 6 be a dual launch flying two starships simultaneously and have them perform a starship to starship propellant transfer before the propellant depot is put in orbit to verify docking systems and test the boil off rate and things like that before they put the depot in orbit. They have three boosters on standby, they are working on the second tower, I think they could maybe launch two starships simultaneously, do the orbital docking, transfer the propellant from one into the other leave one in orbit to study the propellant boil off rate and deorbit the other one like the others.
11:33 how hard would it be to install some engines on a small test tank (such as starhopper) and do a preliminary catch attempt on something smaller, less expensive and less destructive than a full-build booster?
A crane could do all that with the test article.
@@rsteeb Maybe, but a crane doesn't test active booster guidance control and dynamic chopstick operation during an actual landing.
There are so very many failure mechanisms that might only appear quite occasionally, so only end-to-end tests will eventually uncover each of them.
I expect SpaceX will just run hundreds of end-to-end flights, and stoically rebuild after damage.
The whole "catch attempt" thing is really concerning. A failed catch attempt could have catastrophic consequences for the launch tower infrastructure, and/or the tank farm. I feel like they should have at least a couple more ocean-bound flight tests to make sure they can do controlled hover and translation movement for both Booster and Ship. Granted, I'm not an engineer or rocket scientist, so...
Two things missed .. from an interview Elon gave, Tim Dodd (Everyday Astronaut) ... Elon confirmed tower two will be bigger and the OLM will have a flame trench...
Thanks, Ryan! Another great update from you, and awesome camera work from the team!!
Why dont SpaceX just launch a booster like grasshopper to a few km then practice the landing on the arms?
Kilt Jack!
Great Starbase Update Ryan, Thank you!
Members only yeah 😄 but can’t wait until it releases for non members
Did the guy at 3:00 casually leave a lit blowtorch flopping around hanging over the railing? Is that SOP?
Pretty sure it's just a white tip, not a flame.
You know, if they had chopsticks on the bottom and top, they could take off from them and not need a launch base, just raising them to a higher, height and then launch, less water would be needed then.
The OLM contains the means for starting the outer twenty engines!
I don't think the chopsticks could handle the mass required
@@CraigTaylor That's why I said use 2 of them
rain is measured in length (volume/area), not lenght/area
25 cm per meter2 equals 25 liters per meter2
@@faza0fazowski You cannot compare quantities with different dimensions. It’s like saying 1 meter equals 1 second, it doesn’t make sense 😂
10 cm3 equals 1 liter
@@faza0fazowski so?
Strange it says "uploaded 15 minutes ago" but NSF pinned comment is more than 9 hours old. Anyway. Very nice update Ryan, still worried about the heatshield around flaps though.
Channel members get access the evening before public release. 👍 -Das
Why not just launch a booster by itself for the catch attempt and avoid destroying a ship?
if the second tower is for launches as well as catches, has there be redesign of the quick disconnect / orbital launch mount, cos it seems to me they take a pounding with every flight and it requires some nifty redesign to make it "rapidly" reusable - as it stands there are lots of wires / cables / conduit that look like they are subject to the flame of the engines - will a redesign be on the cards? that being the way spaceX seems to operate.
Every part of the tower and launch mount will be modified in one way or other. We just have to wait and watch to see if and when we can spot them. For now we know the base of the tower is made of steel boxes to be filled with concrete and welded together.
I was surprised that the SQD (Ship Quick Disconnect) arm did not swing far out of the way just before or during engine ignition. It's very close during lift-off.
FWIW, it is just a parking structure. Not exactly a complicated high tech kind of building.
25 centimeters of rain per square metre?
why doesn't OLM have heat shields for protection
Catch booster? I’m all for that but, there’s a heavy price to pay if it all goes wrong and the booster misses the chopsticks surely?
I'm still concerned about the booster or starship manoeuvring in a stiff sea-breeze during a catch.
These systems use Relational GPS for _feedback,_ which is accurate to one or two centimeters. In the worst case, the booster will be -slightly- leaning into the wind during [engine] shutdown. Of course, the oxygen [gas] thrusters will also be used for sure.
[I suppose _variable_ wind can lead to collisions with the catch arms or rail conveyor system. There is some padding on the sides...]
Sweet.
D-Ultimate Super Cool Dude ! Great Video !
The new crane should be called Terratactile from pterodactyl
I wonder how long it will take the FAA to modify the SpaceX launch license once SpaceX requests a modification?
Another interesting update thanks Ryan and NSF team .
If This thing would have engines, spacex would Hop it to catch it
Love Ryan’s smooth tones sharing the news with us!
Thanks to Ryan and team
They need to recover the ship to analyze it
Maybe during IFT6, it can return to the launch site. That depends on if IFT-5 can retro-fire in zero-G.
I presume the two towers will allow catching both booster and ship, holding one on each.
Did Musk say in today’s Tim Dodd interview that next flight.just virtual attempt ?
I believe the interview was filmed before IFT4 so that's the 'next flight' he was referring to.
I believe that interview was recorded just ahead of FT-4...
It’ll likely be 35 Raptor II’s or III’s!!!
7:52 - please call it T-rex crane
14.1 is the exact same height as Electron 😅
Is there an engineer out there that can calculate the TNT equivalent to Super Heavy crashing into the stand? 5k pounds of TNT?
Next Flight # 5 , Mid - August to Late August
I wonder if the parking garage will be a good example of EV charging or not. I bet they retrofit with the rate of build.
When will The next Starship Launch Be in every one else's opinion.....I think 8-8
Thank you for all the hard work in making these excellent videos,and thanks Ryan it's nice to be able to watch without subtitles Ya`all.
Wen kilt?
What is "25 centimeters per square meter"? One value is one-dimensional, and the other is two-dimensional.
A boo-boo. 25cm per hour would be a rate of [extreme] precip.
Absolutely ! Just wanted to post something similar 😉. Anyway, always great work at NSF 👍🚀
No, i haven't seen your latest Strarbase videos, because you put an unskipable 4+ minutes ad before it...
Don't try a catch until the second tower is ready . . .
FAA will have a few questions before authorizing booster to land on ground. It will need to consider the impact of the explosion on the whole area, including Mary's house. What if it the big bang breaks windows? Will it spill fuel onto the environment if it crashes on the beach? etc etc. Those are all concerns not examined for a crash at sea. A aunch happens to a precisely defined spot (launch pad) but a landing is more fungible and could potentially be over a wider area.
I do not see the need to do a catch attempt on the pad until there is another fully functional launch pad. Or build a chopstick catching pads....until the bugs are worked out it seen foolish.
Is this video about you or what's happening at SpaceX?
Reduce your facetime and increase the more interesting SpaceX views...
I’d be glad to see far fewer talking head segments in these videos. Voiceovers would be a much better format…
Concrete walls needed between groups of tanks in the farm to prevent total loss if catch goes wrong