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.
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👍🏽
@@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!_ 😅
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
@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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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
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!
I knew catching a booster out of thin air was gonna to be a tough act to follow, but spair me the Click-Bait title. They did light a Raptor in space for a second, so there was that. This flight was basically the same as the last other, than this ship had a few less tiles and a banana as cargo. I hope we see bigger steps over the next few flights because at this rate we will never get to the moon.
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!
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.
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?
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!
Have you considered that after splashdown they may be making the flight termination explosives 'safe'...by detonating them. After all we don't want those falling into the hands of unsuspecting souvenir hunters.
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 mission was much more ambitious than IFT5. I was not surprised that the Catch was aborted. I was certain that all of the reentries and landings in the Indian Ocean are supervised by the Royal Australian Navy. This time in addition to the coverage from the SpaceX buoy, they was a brief clip probably taken from an RAN frigate, which showed a couple of helicopters.
A single SpaceX Falcon 9 launch releases 200 to 300 metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.The Super Heavy booster emits 2,683 tonnes of CO2, plus 1.7 tonnes of nitrous oxide.
It is burning natural gas - methane. Consider how much gas is burned by residents and businesses of a city, say, Austin, on a cold winter day. It is hundreds of millions of cubic feet. During a recent cold snap, the U.S. natural gas consumption reached a record high of over 140 billion cubic feet per day. The main byproducts are water vapor and CO2.
I'm happy I waited until the replay to watch the flight test. I would have been so bummed to have watched it live and not see them attempt to catch the booster.
The amount of main heat shield loss on the ship was shocking to me, in the sense of shocking that it survived. The amount of either bare hull or secondary protection (which I thought this ship didn't have so I'm not sure on that) seen around what looks to be a weld point between rings in that landing video, happens to line up with where a lot of the sparks came from during reentry. Even at the distance that camera was seeing it from it is obvious a significant amount of the tiles are gone.
In some ways, it is good to see the safety systems working well for the booster. From version 2, it will be quite important things start working like clockwork as payloads might be onboard. Now SpaceX knows the absolute importance of a 2nd, 3rd+ catching mechazilla. The more the better I say
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.
It really is impressive the progress they are making but it is a little disappointing they didn't catch the booster. But really the progress in other areas make up for that. It really will be cool seeing them capture Starship.
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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
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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
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"
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.
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
The daytime reentry footage was absolute bananas!
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
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
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…
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 😅
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.
Thanks for the extra video Marcus. I greatly appreciate your efforts mate!
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
Thanks for getting this out so quickly Marcus! Always such high-quality coverage - thank you!
Markus, you are the best. Your explanations are far more cogent and clear than anyone else!!
That banana needs to go thru customs sir
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.
Keep up the great content as always, Marcus! 👍
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 😅
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!
ITS NOT SATURDAY?!
Thanks for the upload Marcus! I enjoyed this a lot.
Hey hey! Excited for flight 7!
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.
@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.
Excellent recap, perfect flight, tower needs love too!
Thanks for all you do! Great video and such a quick release!
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!
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
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.
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.
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'.
This is a brilliant, comprehensive look at the Starship program for the uninitiated. Cheers, mate!
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.
Rebuilding the launch site is more time consuming. At least landing it in the ocean would make them launch again sooner.
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.
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
I love how fast you put this together! Love your X presence too.
Marcus, a big THANK YOU for a GREAT synopsis with explanations of every stage of the flight! 👍👏
Great update Marcus. So much information to take in. Really appreciate it.
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.
Marcus is always my goto for Space news. Was waiting for this video.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
I love getting a video in the middle of the week!
A very good presentation Marcus ! Well done to you and your team.
What a day
I knew catching a booster out of thin air was gonna to be a tough act to follow, but spair me the Click-Bait title. They did light a Raptor in space for a second, so there was that. This flight was basically the same as the last other, than this ship had a few less tiles and a banana as cargo. I hope we see bigger steps over the next few flights because at this rate we will never get to the moon.
I love how you broke down the XAI93x project in your video! Can’t wait to see it soar!
Thanks brother 👍 love the content.
Thank you, Marcus. Thrilling, exciting stuff.
Great post-launch commentary with interesting analysis! Thank you.
Good information. Impressed with the speed of your delivery!
The fact that the default systems work that well is almost as great as the catch. Great forsight from space X
I noticed there were no flames coming out of the side of the booster from venting upon the water landing unlike the last flight.
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!
Love your explanations the best
Thanks for all your hard work.
I would love to see a follow cam on the StarShip! :D
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.
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?
Nice work!!
Great report. thanks.
Thanks for your great reports❗️😊👍
Thank you Marcus and greetings from Southern California
Thank you as always.
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!
"The fault, dear Brutus, lay not in our Starship, but our tower"
Sweet. Thank you
nice
For catch abort, elon said on X that is was caused by the lost of comms to the launch tower computer.
8:49 The booster was actually slowing down... You pointed out the Ships speed. The booster was rapidly losing speed
Good Job. Thanks
Thank you Marcus
Nice summary, thanks.
Have you considered that after splashdown they may be making the flight termination explosives 'safe'...by detonating them. After all we don't want those falling into the hands of unsuspecting souvenir hunters.
Marcus, you are the best!!
Thank you for your great work!
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
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Great video, thank you!
Greate job! Thanks! Take care.
Excellent review
This mission was much more ambitious than IFT5. I was not surprised that the Catch was aborted.
I was certain that all of the reentries and landings in the Indian Ocean are supervised by the Royal Australian Navy. This time in addition to the coverage from the SpaceX buoy, they was a brief clip probably taken from an RAN frigate, which showed a couple of helicopters.
A single SpaceX Falcon 9 launch releases 200 to 300 metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.The Super Heavy booster emits 2,683 tonnes of CO2, plus 1.7 tonnes of nitrous oxide.
It is burning natural gas - methane. Consider how much gas is burned by residents and businesses of a city, say, Austin, on a cold winter day. It is hundreds of millions of cubic feet. During a recent cold snap, the U.S. natural gas consumption reached a record high of over 140 billion cubic feet per day. The main byproducts are water vapor and CO2.
@@WarrenLacefield That makes perfect sense LoL - Except SpaceX uses Kerosene-based fuel as the primary.
This here is about Starship and Super Heavy.
I guess not enough food for entitled comments so far?
I'm happy I waited until the replay to watch the flight test. I would have been so bummed to have watched it live and not see them attempt to catch the booster.
Musk has stated that the abort was due to a loss of communications to the tower. Looks like this is due to the comms tower being bent at launch.
The amount of main heat shield loss on the ship was shocking to me, in the sense of shocking that it survived. The amount of either bare hull or secondary protection (which I thought this ship didn't have so I'm not sure on that) seen around what looks to be a weld point between rings in that landing video, happens to line up with where a lot of the sparks came from during reentry. Even at the distance that camera was seeing it from it is obvious a significant amount of the tiles are gone.
In some ways, it is good to see the safety systems working well for the booster. From version 2, it will be quite important things start working like clockwork as payloads might be onboard. Now SpaceX knows the absolute importance of a 2nd, 3rd+ catching mechazilla. The more the better I say
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? 🤓
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:)
@@tomscott1159 🤣
Just wanted to point that out as well
Shhhhh, just feel good and clappa hands
It really is impressive the progress they are making but it is a little disappointing they didn't catch the booster. But really the progress in other areas make up for that. It really will be cool seeing them capture Starship.
Thank you. Thank you.
Great video
Thank you
Nice intell Marcus 😊😊😊
Very sad we had no catch..... now long wait for the next one begins
There most definitely needs to be a series of first day covers released by the USPS.