4k - Never seen before: Full Skyshow video of the SpaceX IFT-2 launch

From the Skyshow.tv vault of unreleased video: SpaceX Starship IFT-2 in 4K. Some facts for this one:
1. The shaking starting at 1 minute 20 seconds is not from too much caffeine! It's from the beloved 233 foot tall, 30 foot wide, 33-Raptor-engined, 16,700,000 pounds-of-thrust-producing Starship Super Heavy booster. Our laptops were literally jumping up and down 1 inch off the table[1] while we tried to follow Starship at that moment.
2. Starship gulps down 40,000 pounds of fuel per second during launch.
3. Starship is the largest heavier-than-air object to fly; it's much bigger than any jet; never mind anything that's made it to orbit.
4. Skyshow was there for IFT-3 and will be there for IFT-4, 5, and more.
More great video to come today!
Made with love, blood, sweat, tears, gears, and lots of cables 100% by the Skyshow.TV team. Music is "IFT" made for this video by XZALT. / xzalt
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[1] Technically, the entire trailer-studio we were in was jumping around while the laptops tried to stay in the same place.[2]
[2] The team wants me to make it clear we are building new tech to forever break the the SpaceX shake-quake.
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[@brianmessemer2973]

Here from Curious Droid. Liked and subbed.

[@OraC6666]

Here from Curious Droid also. Great work. I am looking forward to seeing more!

[@saintuk70]

Ditto

[@user-jp7tw3sd3x]

Don't forget to ring the bell, so you always get notifications on new videos!

[@rphrph167]

Me too...

[@klausvonshnytke]

Same here. Awesome footage! I'm curious what the title of this soundtrack is

[@raduargatu]

Here from Marcus's House. Next gen stuff. What a time to be alive. Thank you for sharing guys.

[@Dexteran]

Finally some confirmation that in 2024 it is actually possible to get high quality footage of an event.

[@owenschulz9504]

Still the coolest thing ever to me that the combined exhausts of all of those engines comes together to make one cohesive Mach diamond

[@Wonkabar007]

Now I know why Elon renamed twitter to X , you can see X in the exhaust.

[@Randy778]

You mean the white spot around 1:10?

[@runewinsevik8471]

@@Randy778 That knife-sharp white cone. Made by the combined output from 33 raptors. Unbelieveable!

[@nickbarker561]

I wonder what the constructive/destructive interference between the engines would look like on a graph. The way they interact here is truly fascinating.

[@scythelord]

​@Wonkabar007 he named it X because he always has something named X in his companies. Hell, his rocket company is literally Space X. As in X but in space. There's just a flimsy excuse to have it stand for Space eXploration technologies, but it is SpaceX because he wanted it with X.

[@Kelkschiz]

Cutting-edge rocketry coming together with cutting-edge videography and having a baby :). Congratulations guys, it's a beauty!

[@HanSolo__]

This is far from real rocketry let alone a successful. Cutting-edge I have no words. The entire Artemis program is jeopardized because Musk made a toy, not a real spaceship. They have problems in areas where the endeavour can't be resolved and they talk about "a new design" 3 years behind the schedule. Musk paid for it with taxpayers' money.

[@tonywood3660]

It's not cutting edge rocketry..three fails in a row....🤔

[@xenotriver]

​@@tonywood3660 of the first fully methane powered heavy lift vehicle in history, with top of the line engines using a cycle type never before seen in orbit... If NASA developed Artemis the same way SpaceX develops Starship, we would've seen just as many explosions, if not more. NASA has governmental funding so they can spend billions on simulations, while SpaceX just fucks around and finds out for a fraction of the price and with faster turnaround between versions

[@TheOneOffRs]

​@@tonywood3660 Cutting edge rocketry doesnt mean it doesnt fail. If anything, they go hand in hand. Theyre pushing boundaries, meaning things are going to break and malfunction

[@BaBen1410]

SpaceX should hire you for the next IFT-4 launch.

[@AQDuck]

Only just got here from Curious Droid's shoutout video so haven't done too much research, but he explained that they _were_ hired by SpaceX for this launch and this was only meant for engineering to feast their eyes on. They have also been hired by NASA for 30+ years.

[@tonywood3660]

What to make the next launch failure look good?... Artemis - 1 ...Spaceship - MINUS 3....

[@wwvvvvvww]

They were hired by SpaceX for footage like this for years, and by NASA for decades. These footage were just being released now as they were originally meant for internal inspection by engineers only.

[@snuffeldjuret]

@@tonywood3660 you only think of it as failure because they try something no one else dares to try.

[@HanSolo__]

SpaceX should file for bankruptcy.

[@MrGoogleChill]

This is the undisputed, most amazing engineering cam footage I've ever seen on a single rocket launch. Absolutely well done to whoever set this rig up and caught this legendary gem of a video. This is my opinion only, not meant to start a war with anyone over "best video of a launch". I'm just giving someone well deserved props.

[@CosmicalChief]

Well allright.. A new player has entered the game.!!...

[@ZachBillings]

Curious Droid sent me! Can’t believe you guys were surprised we want this footage. So much more into this than the glitzy releases.

[@andrewparker318]

Please release everything you can in its highest quality raw footage! The world needs to see this!!

[@kittyyuki1537]

That is absurdly awesome tracking holy cow!

[@ledhunters]

I like how the music is sinchronised with the explosion at 6:43 :D

[@jacobs1491]

That’s because the music was made by one of skyshowtv’s employees for this video

[@skyshowtv]

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[@mf1ve]

@@jacobs1491 oh hey! I'm digging this music. My compliments! And yeah, the drop synced with the RUD made me laugh, love it.

[@TheSpaceEngineer]

Absolutely stunning

[@skyshowtv]

Thank you. Love your 3D art BTW!

[@Stabruder]

This is by far the best tracking footage of highest quality ive ever seen for sure. Just astonishing and epic all the way seeing those raptors in such detail. The hotstaging was just phenomenal!

[@agustinpuente7189]

It's the best by far

[@skyshowtv]

[@ErnestCF]

The best one I've seen so far!!!

[@skyshowtv]

Thank you, we put our everything into every thing.

[@ErnestCF]

​@@skyshowtv its just incredible!! You deserve more visibility, this is the best tracking of IFT-2 that I've see so far!!! Looking foward to the IFT-3 one!!! 😍😍😍

[@skyshowtv]

@@ErnestCF Thank you. We have TONS of great historical and future stuff coming. Tell your friends about us, please subscribe, and hit that like button 😁

[@ErnestCF]

​@@skyshowtv I've done everything (except telling my friends, they don't like space) waiting for that footage!

[@BrianAllenWS]

@@skyshowtv Done! What is that amazing music? Can you post the deets on that here somewhere? None of my music identifying plugins can figure it out! 😢

[@PolluxPavonis]

Dude... what is this masterpiece out of the blue?? Clicked the video specting nothing new, since there are a lot of amazing Starship launch videos out there, but MAN!!! Is this the BEST shot I´ve ever seen?? I say yes. Fantastic tracking and imagery, thank you for sharing it.

[@JoshLoweSpace]

Wow! That's the best quality tracking footage i've ever seen!

[@barryscott6222]

Frikin amazing cameras and lenses.

[@runewinsevik8471]

@@barryscott6222 What is used to achieve this, I wonder. Seems better than what NASA itself manages.

[@Farlig69]

Oh. My. God. This is absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! Good sounds too!!

[@atptourfan]

Didn't think this was even possible. Amazing! Thank you!!

[@RM6737]

There's at least one other spectacular video of a returning Falcon 9 booster relighting its engines and flying through its own exhaust plume, deploying its legs and landing. I believe it was shot by the same company using the same technique. I read on the comments section of another forum that this company does these tracking shots for Nasa for 30+ years and that Space X hired them to do the same for them. I suppose the footage showing a piece of insulating foam hitting the leading edge of Columbia's left wing in 2003 was shot by these guys as well. Sorry, I'm too busy and lazy to check.

[@Jasper_Pascoe]

Jaw dropping visuals and a fire track to go along... absolutely stunning. Its great to see something I have spent so much time looking at in excruciating detail come to life in 4K!

[@ommadammo]

Yeah, where's the music credit? My addon couldn't even detect it.

[@Jasper_Pascoe]

@@ommadammo They have the credit in the description. It's custom made music for the video, that's why it wasn't picked up most likely....

[@TrevorAllenPhotography]

Sent from Marcus House! This is stellar footage - looking forward to IFT4, 5!!

[@jchidley]

The relight attempts and eventual destruction of the first stage are gobsmacking. The separation is beautiful.

[@miinyoo]

Here as well from Curious Droid. Thanks Paul for suggesting something KZbin couldn't be bothered recommending to rocket nerds. Cheers SkyShow!

[@Fogmeister]

The fact that the whole thing was timed so the RUD landed on the drop was amazing 🤩

[@Quickstep1716]

Thank you for sharing these videos with the rest of the community. Truly breathtaking.

[@1pjodan]

5:25 zoomed in on the engines shutting down is the money shot!

[@1967AJB]

Earlier in life I was a Senior Photographer at the MoD’s Royal Aerospace Establishment, Farnborough working in the High-speed section. I’ve always been in awe of your images, and budgets ;), and I’m so excited to see the launch of your channel. Congratulations.

[@mcjdubpower]

NGTE pyestock.

[@1967AJB]

@@mcjdubpower What did you do?

[@mcjdubpower]

@@1967AJB I did not work there, just a lifelong fascination with R&D that was going on in this country with regard to jet turbines and high speed flight done at pyestock. My father was involved in the MRCA project, and built the hydraulic and pneumatic control systems for simulators, so as a child I was infected by aviation, and went to many airshows all over the country. Thank you for your valuable work.

[@508ghjsdfkoljg]

best music video I've ever seen

[@simongeard4824]

You certainly captured the finish perfectly... the engines failing, gases streaming out, and the final explosion. Sweet...

[@talathion369]

Wonderful and beautiful surprise ending!

[@TheDubWit]

Can’t stop watching it

[@upyapumpkin]

Wow. I've watched every second of every angle posted so far. Still picking my jaw up off the floor... Fantastic job, however you pulled that off!

[@SwampMonster1]

This type of imaging will change the way we view space flight on KZbin. Just wow.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Another here after seeing Paul's video, THANK YOU for sharing this amazing footage, nerds, scientists, engineers and Film Makers are going to be grateful to have this as a reference resource.

[@mikedownin]

Came from Marcus House and here to stay for the rad rocket vids!

[@jakehineman474]

That ending was epic!

[@duran9664]

It seems so ai generated to me😒 No way the explosion was real 😒

[@skyshowtv]

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[@skyshowtv]

You hear that Ms. Duran? That is the sound of inevitability.

[@xep5k]

Just woke up this morning and witnessed one of the most jaw dropping videos ever.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

I had never seen several engines merge to create a single mach cone like that before IFT-2. I knew SpaceX were masters at large engine numbers but to have 33 working together so perfectly is astonishing.

[@Lintary]

That engine shutdown sequence you could see in this amazing footage was amazing. I am really happy a wide range of nerds through curious droid made you aware of how much we love to see this sort of footage!

[@catbertz]

daaamn this is nuts footage. Rivals SpaceX footage in a way. 🔥🚀

[@maikoah]

here from marcus house; WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, SKYSHOW? this is incredible. VERY excited to see what you get to share with us coming in the future :) absolutely stunning; as if a launch couldnt get any more beautiful.

[@rocketman1969]

Insane, one of the best, if not the best tracking footage by far. Wow

[@miamijules2149]

Nice background track…. amazing damn footage boys.

[@CumulusGranitis]

As a historian, I have been watching rockets fly since John Glenn launched. This is absolutely the best I have seen of the Superheavy Starship combo. The close up of the vehicle slowly rolling during climb out is stunning. Referred to you by Marcus House. Subscribed!!!

[@sohovulture87]

Here from Marcus too. Stunning videography. The quality is like nothing I've ever seen. Top notch stuff guys

[@clevergirl4457]

absolutely incredible footage: so good that I think SpaceX themselves reached out for a part of your footage?

[@info_fox]

All those engines working in unison. Magical engineering at it's peak.

[@tonywood3660]

Love the unscheduled disassembly in HD....👍

[@t.a.r.s4982]

I can't help watching it, so hypnotic, what a great work. Guys you are the best ever!

[@maxspezialbauag9745]

This footage is insane!!!

[@user-fi1nv8mf4l]

This is top quality rocket pron. Absolutely magnificent.

[@stevejackson8892]

I cannot come up with words to describe the overwhelming emotion of WOW!!! Just WOW!!!!!! 😮😮😮

[@dennyliegerot4021]

Absolutely fantastic footage... the sheer number of engines all performing perfectly... Wow! Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@scottc615]

Marcus House sent me here and I must say, absolutely stunning footage. Brilliantly done.

[@rphrph167]

It gets better everytime I watch it!!..

[@mocko69]

Just mesmerizing

[@xTycho]

What a beatiful shot

[@stuz32]

Marcus brought me here, thank you :-)

[@Bobby_Snoof]

It's obvious that we all love this kind of video !! :D

[@KirilStefanov]

Here from Curious Droid. Amazing stuff. Give us more. Music is also awesome. Be extremely proud of your work.

[@zedrocky6529]

WTAF that explosion was brilliant! It completely blew my mind! I thought I was watching IFT3

[@bremdamiller3629]

This is super insane. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.

[@S.R.Crnt.]

Definitely one of the coolest things I've seen on KZbin. And the audio mixing is world class. For this and the other videos.

[@MrTurboturbine]

This is absolutely astounding.

[@rsn66125]

Curious Droid referral…grateful for both channels! Thanks for providing!

[@Westythe3rd]

Breath taking!! Thanksnso much for sharing

[@pavlinggeorgiev]

Incredible ! Thank you guys

[@calvin99991]

Amazing footage! Smiley face in the engines @ 3:51

[@sweetysweety7805]

Yeh you are right I can see too😮

[@r0adrunn3r]

Thank you for showing this video. Love it!!

[@fly-fpv]

Wow! Crazy to see the engines gimbaling😯

[@GlideYNRG]

Absolutely stunning footage. Thank you ❤

[@Nekzuris]

Of course we want to see this ! It's absolutely amazing !

[@ProkyGP]

You got one from IFT-3? :3

[@skyshowtv]

Yes "coming soon"

[@ScienceManiacCZ]

I just took so many screenshots!! What incredible footage!! Can't wait to show the guys at work!! Your shots for a super heavy catch will be nothing short of breathtaking..

[@davidfalconer9281]

Curious Droid sent me here.. I’m thankful, that was superb❤️

[@GMHSVE]

This is amazing. Please release everything you can.

[@scottread]

That footage was absolutely amazing - 'specially the 'splosion!

[@dylanspriddle]

Thank you so much for posting this. This is amazing

[@05DonnieB]

This channel will soon become the defacto one to watch after live transmission of events. Thanks, curous droid for the rec, liked, and subscribed

[@FranklyFarcical]

Immediately subscribed! This is insane work. Thank you.

[@ciaran8025]

Does everyone else see the smile face emoji in the engine’s at 4:20???😊

[@blue5peed]

I can't stop grinning the detail is amazing. I'm just in awe.

[@worstpotatona7581]

Amazing footage. Hot staging looked really cool in this. Nice work

[@oleran4569]

Another fantastic video!!! This time with absolutely perfect music!!

[@IanKath]

Thank you for existing.

[@walsterdoomit]

Thanks for this!

[@eulachonfish]

Incredible tracking shots! Will be watching in the future!

[@boeing900]

Wow, what an incredible photographic feat. I mean you really captured a great visualization of how fast this rocket is going. And to see each individual engine soo clearly. I'm going to be watching this more than a few more times. That was excellent to say the least. Thank you.

[@brian_w]

Amazing 👏 the detail in the explosion at the end made my eyes pop 😮

[@rjudge5505]

Unbelievable footage! Thank you for them. Looking forward to a lot more!

[@ferrismesser]

Absolute insane footage guys, very grateful for your work

[@MultiBrian75]

I love it! Cant wait for the IFT-3 video!

[@jimcabezola3051]

Curious Droid led me here. Outstanding footage!

[@Firechief100]

Thanks Curious Droid!!! This is amazing!!!!

[@mgsls]

Absolutely insane footage here, congrats

[@michaelm8370]

This is a gorgeous and super interesting view. Thanks for putting it together. Hope we get to see IFT-3 this way also soon!!

[@EllerraD]

Beautiful. Thank You.

[@SkyhawkSteve]

Now THAT'S how you end a video! Incredible!

[@COORS5766]

WOW! Can't wait for future videos!