Starship SURVIVED Historic Flight: SuperHeavy Tower Catch is Next!
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
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In this historic episode of Space This Week, we cover how Starliner carried crew to the ISS, Falcon 9 launched 3 Starlink missions, and Rocket Lab completed NASA’s PREFIRE constellation. Oh, and I guess Starship reached space, re-entered [mostly] intact, and executed a successful ocean landing!
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When talking about musk you forgot to mention that Elon musk didn't wanna enable starlink for use by Ukrainian drone ships in Crimea, thus supporting the Russian invasion and genocide.
Dude when the skeleton of the fin was still moving after re-entry, I was like HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Watching the Starship reentry video made me wonder once again if the Space Shuttle Columbia would have survived if it's structure was made out of stainless steel.
That hinge is a bloody hero!!
See, I can't help but imagine the smug faces of the structural engineers as they look over at the thermal protection team.
@@fnorgen FROM A FAMILY OF GAWD DAMN ENGINEERS- respect.
@@fnorgen”you guys got us through the easy part, now look at my structure!”
@@fnorgen I would put that piece in an museum
Engineers will always be the spine of engineering, they state the limits, the designers work within and sometimes around said limits but would be nowhere without their engineering staff
4:58 that hot stage jettisoned made me laugh
Matt saying
"X-
"TWITTER"
Is cracking me up
I was just about to comment the samd
We are getting closer every day to people just calling it X... maybe in a decade!
I'm still slightly astonished that I got to watch a live camera feed from a rocket that was wrapped in plasma from reentry. The future is now.
Either way, catch or no catch, flight 5 is gonna be lit.
and re-lit!
failing to catch the booster will be quite a show itself lol.
Just imagine what it will be like when they catch it, that thing is the size of a sky scraper.
This makes me think: the future is not that far away
It already happens just the next second.
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When will then be now?
I doubt the future is going to be within my lifetime though 😔
Shame that it's Elon musk at the head.
in 30 years after we learned how to fly, we put man on the moon.
Starliner was big - and starship was bigger.
cant wait to see starliner to have the door come off 3 minutes after launch
Big week for people who like things named Star-something
I liked things named Apollo. They just did what they were designed for.
@@abumohandes4487 Apollo was a program, not a vehicle...
@@akkkbnthe Apollo spacecraft…
@@evanrichards3264 The spacecraft carrying out the Apollo program, not the name of the spacecraft itself.
@@Spacccee The US manned space programs were named after the spacecraft carrying out the mission. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo. Plus, we call it the Orion Spacecraft today, not the Artemis spacecraft. You can also just look up Apollo (spacecraft) and notice that it’s different from Apollo (program)
Les go!! Go starliner! Go starship!
Ifeel sorry for the guys at boeing.. Just the week they make a major milestone its over shadowed by spacex's milestone...
@@ZowskiTVlmao True poor boeing
No, I think twice as strong would be correct. Most of the issues with the tiles isn’t that they’re overheating, that’s that they keep falling off because they crack and break. The main tiles handled reentry just fine, the issues came from losing tiles on places like the hinges.
I wonder if the hinge blowthrough was caused by tiles falling off or just geometry?
@@TlalocTemporal probably some combination of both
There was some sort of audio glitch at 4:10 😂
Lmao
4:54 HSR just bouncing around 😂
I am thinking the plan is to put together the second tower but without the all the equipment to launch. Then use it to catch the booster. If it doesn't get blown up after a few catches, THEN outfit it for launching.
Sounds like a great plan 👌 👍
It would be pretty stupid not to, right?
No this would be ridiculous
4:50 I love the hot stage ring just dropping from above
10:46 he probably meant twice as strong, won't fall off or crack
Things started before lift-off. Did you hear that buzz saw sound before ignition? I reckon it was one of the turbo pumps most likely on the engine that failed to stay alight.
4:50 It's hilarious that in the simulation they included the hot staging ring just falling next to the tower and rolling around.
"Elon did a stream on X *quietly says twitter*" LMAO
The fact that this rocket is 400 feet tall is mind blowing
“Flappy” is a hero in my book!
Good time to be a human right now see these accomplishments. We are on our way.
Great update vid matt.
13:18
Her reaction: AWRIGHT! I DIDN'T DIE IN THAT THING!! 😬
A very good week in space news!
Thanks for the video dude
That was an amazing promo segway, love it.
Ad ends at 7:56
YES!. LETS GO
That flap took the meaning of hang I. There to another level
I can't wait to see the successful outcome!
I havn't watched space this week in soo long, last time I watched this was after the failiure of the first starship launch but the progress SpaceX is making is crazy.
Matt, I really enjoy your content sir.
Good video !!
Making the heat shield reusable is going to be tbe main focus of the next 2 years of starship development
Doesn’t actually seem like itll be that hard. The starships heat shields held up spectacularly. That fin didn’t start burning because the shields failed, it started burning because the shields didn’t properly cover the gap for the hinges due to technical challenges with sealing the control surface areas.
@@Syntex366yes, i understand what youre saying, but on reentry the ship's main hull started sparking a lot. Those werre pieces of tiles coming off. I think the ship got severely damaged/weakened
@@FedeGGG that sparking was the material from the fin and the tiles around the damaged area getting peeled off, it doesn’t show up until the fin starts turning red and begins to melt, the tiles that came off obviously were the ones on the now molten metal. Given how badly the metal on the fin handled re-entry, if the rocket itself had lost a significant area of its heat shield tiles, it would’ve 100% exploded before splash down.
@@Syntex366 i don't believe you!!
love the quiet "twitter" in the background of X
Good Video!
That was an exceptional segue to Ground News lol
smooooooth transition to the sponser
I'm calling first half of August for flight 5
We all know SpaceX works fast. Starship functioning so far already, launch can be within July.
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Nice
As far as the heat shield is concerned they did mean twice as strong. The current shield was able to keep the body of the ship cool but failed where plasma got in around the flap hinges no doubt due to a tile breaking. The new tiles will be denser and therefore mechanically stronger though a bit heavier. They are basically playing around with the tile formula to get a perfect balance between strength and weight. The insulating properties of the tiles is fine as long as the tiles don't break and fall off, shown by the fact the ship did survive despite the fins getting cooked.
I always watch a Matt Lowne video ✅
after so many cancelled flights, it is sad that starliner had leaks on its way, maybe boeing needs to look at their priorities.
Boeing should just pull the plug and repay parts of the contracts money. Space X and their dragon capsule can already do their job more safely, consistently and for less money.
SpaceX could try a titanium skin underneath the tiles in the most sensitive areas.
Wolfram holds up to 3300°C. The plasma is possibly still higher. Some people were examining an _electric_ _heatshield._ If thats an option, it still would have to wait for the nuke motor, in 2027.
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Titanium is 20-40x more expensive than steel by mass, so that would make it too expensive to work, let alone to make thousands of them like the plan is.
@@filonin2 and the Soviets built submarines from it. As I said, thin and in specific areas and probably cheaper than losing a Starship.
@@michaelreid2329 ended up quite expensive ones too, with only the Alfa class getting more than 1 copy. I think ceramic still has better heat resistsnce than titanium. Though titanium at some places was done in the mostly steel structure of the MiG25.
The launch of Starliner, was also a world's first. It was the first time that an orbital space-craft was crewed by a women on its maiden voyage. Wally Funk was on the first crewed flight of New Shepard, but she was only a passenger and New Shepard is a sub-orbital space-craft.
Someone had to serve the drinks.
@@shanent5793 Show some respect;
Wally Funk was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13.
Sunita Williams had a military career that included deployments to the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Provide Comfort. She has logged more than 3,000 flight hours in more than 30 aircraft types and was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) with STS-116, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, on December 9, 2006. In 2012, she served as a flight engineer on Expedition 32 and then commander of Expedition 33. She is an American astronaut, United States Navy officer, and former record holder for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes). She isn't serving anyone drinks!
Starship is super resilient..
Not yet.
@@michaelreid2329did you see that flap????
@@Jeb_bezos what was left of it!
@@michaelreid2329 a conventional rocket would have broken apart, after losing hydraulic pressure from the leak that this melted away hinge would have caused
Top!
Someone PLEASE make a Compilation of all of matts segues.
the little "twitter" in the background lol
matt you little sneaky pete i was promised a "how to make ksp into ksp2" back in the "ksp2 is officially dead" video and that was 2 videos ago
Hey Matt, what happened to the alternative history moon landing series?
I think Ship 26 is being fitted to be a prototype orbital fuel depot with equipment and power systems to transfer the propellants and keep them cool. No need for fins or heat tiles on such a prototype as it's mission would be entirely in orbit.
Good
11:24 I estimate it at late July to mid august
I think maybe ship 26 or whichever one doesnt have flaps might be converted into like a test for the HLS
Finally!!!
We've been doing this routinely since 1970. I fail to be impressed even slightly.
@@abumohandes4487
Then you're a fool who can't see the future when it's biting him in the leg.
@@abumohandes4487Somebody gotta explain to me why some people are so fucking boring. A 100+ meters rocket (the biggest and most powerful ever built) went into space and managed to do a decent landing after only 4 attempts. Try to do this yourself and let's see what happens. It's an amazing feat and you guys gotta act stupid for no reason. Get a life and cheer at humanity.
I can't believe Starliner STILL had issues after so much time and effort spent to make it good. I suppose it makes sense, it was made by Boeing after all. With all the airplane controversies, I shouldn't be surprised. Regardless though, making a space capable vehicle is a very big milestone, so congrats to the team at Boeing!
I could smell that ad plug from 2 minutes away.
I REALLY wish you marked the intro so I can skip it, I hate how it spoils the whole video. I know it boosts engagement
Maybe I just heard wrong but wasn't that flap intentionally weakened to test what would happen if some tiles were to fall off?
Yeah we still fumble with these landings, this has to be 100% correct every time in other words at least near perfection.
I wonder what the temperature inside Starship was during peak heating. When I saw the metal body smoking I kept thinking of The Brazen Bull.
It makes me sad that ur vids are coming out later and later. I used to watch them on Sunday when they came out but now they aren't on yt til Monday afternoons. 😞
Space this week: Helping space nerds survive mondays, one episode at a time.
thoughts on the random KSP2 bug fix that released on the 11th?
I guess the big risk is what if , even in the last few seconds, it goes pear shaped? The booster could take out the tank farm and wipe out the facility ksp style.
Simplest solution is to not land at the launch pad.
I came up with the following ideas I think Elon would appreciate...
What about putting giant deployable airbag floaties on the booster so it can float in the water nearby without getting vital bits wet and roll it up the beach
Or
Build a pier out to sea and put a second mechazilla ( call it gargantua) on rails or track pad where it can catch the booster far enough away from the rest of the infrastructure. It could then hand it back to mechazilla ready to restack.
The booster will have fairly limited damage potential as it approaches the tower. It's not in any way going to wipe out the facility. That's likely a large part of why SpaceX feels confident enough to try a catch on the next flight. There's not a lot to lose by trying.
I think they should wait to try and catch Super Heavy till the second tower is finished and operational. What if the booster crashes and explodes and destroys the tower? At least wait till the 2nd tower is built. Unless SpaceX knows something I don’t which is very likely lol
He's got this. It's Elon we're talking about.mere bag of shells.. we'll just do this next time and it'll be alright.talking about crashing na chance you have to take.thats why SpaceX is so far a head of NASA.they should just give up
Great, a 25% success rate!
Hey Matt, do you know what happened to the booster and starship probably floating with ARMED FTS still onboard ???
they usually open the valves to let them sink
They have programs to prevent them from going off without the signal, and without all of the fuel that’s normally inside the crafts the explosion wouldn’t be as large. SpaceX has crews going to safely detonate both the booster and ship to let them safely sink
They probably activate the FTS. Seems like an easy way to sink them.
@@jonathanmabardy Crews are not going anywhere, they sank when they landed.
Starship, yayyyyy! Is musk gonna make the chopsticks move faster so they could catch super heavy?
That will be the biggest show of the Space industry of all time, but i still believe they should take their time with it, only 50% chances seems a high risk that will stop the progress for such a long time to rebuild. They should land on something else first, a temporary platform, a tower mockup. The consequences of destroying the tower are huge, imagine FAA investigations again......
Hello
can you talk about the up coming Australia rocket launch
Well starship to Mars in 3 years I'd pretty realistic with no crew
Maybe ship 26 is the uncrewed human landing system
Hope that they go back to aftive cooling
Omg nassa sent a witch to the ISS
Dam you ground news you made matt say left qnd right, Skip da ad 7:56
He's always got the answer 😅
One month is doable, surprisingly enough. The main hurdle for a pace that quick has traditionally been the FAA, and all signs point to the next license coming more quickly than normal this time. The replacement of the tiles won't take an entire month-how could it? They've gotten entire surfaces done in under a week. Any repairs needed for Stage 0 can of course be done concurrently. And they don't need to test Ship 30 for flight readiness. I think as long as they don't try to redo the _fins,_ one month is reasonable. Of course at the same time, this also means we can expect the fins to melt again. I kind of hope SpaceX goes out of their way to point out that this will probably happen. They know how to fix it but it would take a while to retrofit a completed ship.
The licence is already in place. Four more launches are allowed, but SpaceX awaits an extended licence for a total of nine flights a year, from Starbase.
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KSP 2 had an update
Dose Anybody know if future crew Will go back to Earth In The ship or using a capsule
Such a shame DearMoon had to be cancelled just a week before flight 4.
CNBC Centered? lmao
i learn not to question spacex's decisions throughout the years..
but why not build out the 2nd tower first before trying to catch it.. there is chance if something goes wrong, the ship takes out the only operational tower spacex has... i just dont wanna see any delay of this project
Hey matt, can you play SFS? (SpaceFlight Simulator)
The balance between physical durability (strength) and weight, and heat protection performance has to be found. Since it is not very possible to "repair" any heat shield damage or flaws when the ship in in orbit, this "risk assessment and evaluation" and "performance certainty" is very important. This is what happened with the Space Shuttle, once the damage was discovered, then the astronauts had to take a risk with their lives. And it did not make it any easier for them "knowing that there was more than a 50% chance that they could all die" on re-entry.
That is the main reason I say there should *never* be a crew launch, without a resque mission ready to launch within a few hours. This was standard practice during Apollo, and with three crew launch providers we must get there again. SpaceX could probably apply this standard on their own, though.
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ksp2 is still getting updated: does this mean you might return to it?
The team is being laid off at the end of this month.
You didn't mention the heartbreaking news about DearMoon getting canceled😢
when it comes to musks polotics i just ignore it and remember that its the team of scientists and engenders who do all the work at space X
Ablative redundancy sounds heavy
Yeah that's what I'm worried about too
He said it was silicon felt, so probably not.
Hek yea
She is Sunita Williams not sunny williams
"Suni" is short for Sunita.
Time to strap some drums to ye ole bicycle and pedal your happy behing to boca chica for flight 5
starship is 4/5 of the video
And you completely missed all the Chang'e 6 news.
not to be a flatearther or anything, but there is an obviously glitch in the water at 0:37
That's an animation of how a landing might look.