Complete Guide To Starship: Falcon 9 VS Starship. What's new? What's different?

SpaceX is taking everything up a notch with Starship. This thing is the ultimate challenge in aerospace engineering, a FULLY and rapidly reusable super heavy lift launch vehicle, capable of taking 150 metric tonnes to low Earth orbit.
But Starship’s ultimate goal goes way beyond just terrestrial orbital ambitions, Starship is the first vehicle designed to actually take human beings to Mars and back again.
In order to achieve this absolutely bonkers goal, SpaceX has had to employ a litany of new technologies, use new materials, develop the most advanced rocket engines ever made and come up with some wild ideas that have never been tried before… and maybe for good reason.
So today I wanted to go over all of these new technologies and compare it to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy to help point out what things are new, what things are different and what they’ve learned from the Falcon family that will apply to Starship in order to really understand just how ambitious this project is.
We won’t be just scratching the surface here, in fact we’ll actually be taking you inside the rockets and showing you basically every single part and going over all of them with a fine tooth comb so you can learn as much as possible and have a definitive guide to Starship.
Article version - www.everydayastronaut.com/def...
Starship Playlist - • Playlist
Is SpaceX's Raptor engine the king of rocket engines? - • Is SpaceX's Raptor eng...
A conversation with Elon Musk about Starship - • A conversation with El...
SLS Vs Starship: Why does SLS still exist? - • SLS VS Starship: Why d...
Why won't Starship have an abort system? - • Why won’t Starship hav...
Why SpaceX switched to stainless steel - • Why SpaceX ditched lig...
Why SpaceX's Starship will fall like a skydiver and not fly - • Why SpaceX’s Starship ...
Will Starship make Artemis better than Apollo? - • Can Starship Help Make...
Why Starship will only have 2 rear fins instead of 3 - • Why does Starship only...
How much do rockets pollute? - • How Much Do Rockets Po...
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
05:05 - What's the same
06:00 - What’s Different // Engines and Fuels
23:05 - What's Different // Size, Capabilities, Construction, Costs
32:15 - What's Different // First Stage Reuse
41:50 - What's Different // Second Stage Reuse
53:40 - Conclusion
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[@Victor-rx4fv]

1:00:00 long video and it’s not a random lo fi playlist. That’s art and dedication right there

[@gumbygomes3278]

Tim makes the music that he uses in his videos

[@scholtzm8]

i know all that is pretty far away..but elon should fly tim in his rocket..this guy is huge for spacex

[@georgehayward7668]

He’s interviewed Elon once that I know of, and Elon actually engaged with Tim. It wasn’t a run of the mill type thing. I love this channel, I was supposed to going to see a launch this year but then everything went tits up and we all stayed home. I’m hoping that next year will be better and it would be great to try and get to a launch when Tim’s there.

[@joshmumpower4077]

Great job brada Tim really enjoy watching your productions really hope youtube get your live stream right for the test flight of sn8

[@uzz32carl]

@@georgehayward7668 tits up...love it

[@lschaaf611]

Tim Dodd: I'll just do a short video while they wait for SLS Vs. Starship Pt. 3 Me 2 weeks later: Yay!! Another documentary Love Your Work!

[@Ingens_Scherz]

He is terrific, right? I'm so glad I found this channel. It's just the perfect expression of an excitement about space I haven't felt since the first Shuttle launch when I was a little boy.

[@lschaaf611]

@@Ingens_Scherz He is the one who got me so excited about spaceflight!

[@carljohan9265]

Whenever Tim says he will be deep diving into the details about something, I reflexively smile in response. Love hearing Tim talk for hours about nerdy space stuff :)

[@lschaaf611]

@@carljohan9265 me too

[@tomottodockter2072]

agreed, has there ever been such a thing as a short video by Timm

[@mrblurleighton]

"This maneuver will make the Falcon 9's landing look like a walk in the park" May 2021 Update: They did it man

[@thenegotiator9701]

Update; they put one together, for fun.

[@colegustafson199]

@@thenegotiator9701 edit a month later they took it apart and put it back together again and are almost ready for an actual suborbital launch

[@daanzoomer2997]

Wel that was just a suborbital landing test

[@fullflowaerospace]

May 2022 update: wait when was the last time we flew a starship?

[@nickhilbert9376]

August 2022 update: Starship will be doing an orbital flight in the coming months.

[@andrewedmunds4583]

Replacing the CGI image of starship with the real sn8 in the thumbnail, veeeeery sneaky.

[@nagarjunkashyap5987]

I thought it was a new video😅 Till I saw the date added

[@skm8838]

Sneaky

[@Azmythometre]

@@nagarjunkashyap5987 Same

[@garybensman1358]

Has anyone witnessed the overhead bridge crane in the high Bay being used for stacking?

[@DarkBraveStuff]

yes

[@janmelantu7490]

“You might call it a Starship Launch System…SLS” incredible

[@LA-MJ]

Literally loled

[@michaelburkey5358]

So, once SpaceX gets Starship flying, NASA can just quietly leave all their updates to Congress as "SLS" while changing just the glossary.

[@ryanpoisson8403]

Omg that was the best !!!

[@steveLiteable]

It sounded like he was trolling for a second.

[@emirduarrr1214]

CMIIW, it was Kate Tice that first came up with Starship Launch System, during the water tower stream.

[@ElectronChaser38]

Instant like for the early SLS joke.

[@felreymiguel5734]

S pace L aunch S ystem *AND* S tarship L aunch S ystem

[@bru6104]

Bruh nasas sls :am I a joke to you

[@nalle5227]

I gotchu 3:30

[@shifa-8423]

Me too @ElectronChaser38

[@protomors]

It could be abbreviated as SSLS - StarShip Launch System. But simply "Starship" sounds even better.

[@sytzeboerstra9581]

3 months later: Starship lands successfully

[@jorgenarnesen-lerudsmoen6929]

More importantly, hopped twice in one day :D Very rapid reusability :lul:

[@sytzeboerstra9581]

@@jorgenarnesen-lerudsmoen6929 haha :lul:

[@benjy_3264]

You could say it hopped 3 times. 1mm hop in the abort. The successful hop. and the boom

[@DarkBraveStuff]

@@jorgenarnesen-lerudsmoen6929 rap unscheduled disa- flight

[@alt8791]

Well yes, but actually no

[@mrinal6917]

This was the total opposite of spending an hour in math class. At the end i was like why is this ending so soon LOL

[@annego]

40:04 "Hovering is just 100% a waste of fuel" *Shows video of New Shepard* Well thats a creative way to bash Blue Origin.

[@Scott_C]

You edited but hovering is still misspelled. ... shhh.. I won't tell.

[@abeeinspace]

I think you meant New Shepard instead of Blue Shepard also

[@GenasysMech]

The "Feather", aka making a small fortune out of a big one....he just cashed out 3 billion of Lizard stock...

[@tscchope]

@@abeeinspace ... and thereby avoided a copyright strike ...

[@tuhinmia1967]

"The SLS, wait... That's already a thing" I could not stop laughing XD

[@usernamewastaken17]

Imagine Using Starship to deploy a single small cube-sat, only to flex on every competitor because its cheaper...

[@spoony8232]

It can pick up some of their junk while it's up there.

[@kleinerprinz99]

Considering a flight to the moon is alteast 100 million Dollars per Vehicle.. yeah cheaper than Electron or Falcon 9 I think not.

[@pranavbakre5201]

@@kleinerprinz99 I think he said deploying a satellite into earths orbit. not moons

[@gabrielchanel4448]

@@kleinerprinz99 they dont have to launch everytime just to take single small debri, starship can pick up multiple debris at the same time since its payload bay is so massive, yeah right

[@cheaterman49]

I'm honestly not sure the numbers actually do add up, considering fuel and crew costs. RE: fuel, also do consider the amount of dead mass - if Rocket Lab manages to make the cost of Electron marginal through reuse, it sure would use up a lot less fuel (and presumably less crew/time as well), so it really should be cheaper no matter what.

[@robertmartin1226]

I don’t know when I have ever heard a technical presentation so well put together (content) and so well delivered. The presentation was enthusiastic, perfectly paced with excellent voice control, and so clear and understandable. Fantastic job. Thank you

[@franklinkz2451]

Your knees hurting

[@janemcgann8650]

Enjoying rewatching this after SN15’s successful landing today :)

[@MrGoesBoom]

Still amuses/amazes me how Elon engages with you and others that actually show interest in the technical specifics of SpaceX rather than the general bland stuff mainstream media tends to focus on. Like he seems super happy to geek out on this stuff with you guys

[@pmj_studio4065]

If you know MBTI - Elon is most likely an INTJ, Tim to me looks like an ENTP. That alone is a decent reason why they can get on so well:)

[@Chuckiele]

I can fully understand him though. Hes mainly an engineer with huge ambitions and it must be a nightmare for him to stand on a stage and have to tell people the same story over and over that theyre not gonna understand anyway. Of course he would rather be with other geeks that share the same dreams and discuss about how to achieve them.

[@asahiorbit4565]

@@Chuckiele I notice how Elon dumbs down some of his ideas so the public can understand what he's saying.

[@Chuckiele]

@@asahiorbit4565 yeah but you can see how uncomfortable it makes him.

[@esaedvik]

I'm constantly surprised by this since his social media presence just started irritating me personally so much that I had to unfollow. I do love that he does engage with fellow nerds though. Love getting some first hand data into videos like this. Absolutely priceless.

[@therealclart]

Alright, whoever came up with that SLS joke is amazing.

[@user-lv7ph7hs7l]

The Starship users guide refers to a Starship Launch System. SpaceX came up with the joke.

[@l4ur4nt78]

I'm pretty sure we all got it the first time🌚

[@danwhiffen9235]

I’ll bet the SLS will be waaaaay better than the SLS...

[@Easedaray]

"They both have boosters with landing legs and grid fins." Elon: no

[@lindagauntt4712]

SpaceX and SpaceShip great job✨️✨️🚀✨️✨️🚀✨️✨️

[@arunmoses2197]

This video being exactly 1 hour is incredibly satisfying!

[@steceriotti5883]

There's something in the fact that it's precisely 1 hour long that particularly satisfies me...

[@benjy_3264]

Almost as precise as starships landing. 😂

[@DarkBraveStuff]

yeah

[@richardmalcolm1457]

The last time I was this early, Tim was wearing a pumpkin suit.

[@chickentakeover2076]

Lol.

[@HarshRaj-xd6ix]

😂

[@GabrielRodriguez-cu4do]

Lol

[@caitlinwarren461]

Lol

[@declan9876]

Lol

[@gailharaldson2252]

Well, since there seems to be a “fleet” of starships, seems we need Star Fleet Command running the show.

[@cjnelson8627]

Lol

[@adammarkiewicz3375]

Thinking out of the box: While having fleet of starships (and that's what Elon is really aiming for): Why burn the fuel to reverse heavy booster back to original starting point? Wouldn't it be better to have second facility at the other side of Earth and head there forward? Besides less fuel needed (you need only to stop, not to reverse and go back), you could have customers from the other side of Earth much closer. Just a thought.

[@439sparky1]

@@adammarkiewicz3375 Sure but you need to somehow transport that booster back to the original site for a second launch

[@adammarkiewicz3375]

@@439sparky1 No! You need a second launch point. That's what I meant. Even if you need a small trip, transport on the ground would require much less fuel than turning around midair and flying back.

[@439sparky1]

@@adammarkiewicz3375 But what if you want a quicker turnaround. It takes starship 2 mins to fly back while ground transport will last days or weeks

[@TosteKSP]

Probably a good decision on SpaceX’s part to call the booster Superheavy rather than ‘falcon 30’

[@sallltynacl]

Hey Tim, I’m sure you’ve heard this from a lot of your viewers, but I just can’t express how great you are for making these beefy videos filled with information, and your delivery of these information is practically the reason why I continue to watch your content, because it really shows that you love what you do and that you love what you talk about, keep up the amazing content man.

[@donkisiko]

I second this!

[@rizdalegend]

Third this

[@kenrupert6041]

4 th .. Thanks Tim !!

[@kaweesi_robert_martin]

I 5th this!

[@DavidJohnson-tv2nn]

A great video with a lot of technical information. But something Tim neglected to mention.... The most important difference.... Falcon 9/Crew Dragon having launch abort is safe for human spaceflight. Starship without launch abort is a deathtrap!

[@NoahB-gj5fg]

Welp there goes being productive this hour

[@DJ_Level_3]

This is absolutely productive, right? ...please tell me it is

[@poormantravelers311]

i know right

[@ironspider9280]

Exactlyyyy... lol c'mon Tim.

[@fcogradion4823]

@@DJ_Level_3 100%

[@jackbruh3397]

69 likes nice

[@roborchiston9419]

You're a genius Tim. Thanks for dumbing this down into plain language. Your mission has been accomplished. Love your content.

[@williamthomas5780]

Got recommended. Grateful for it. Informative. Impressive. Not a dull watch at all for me.

[@yahikotendo5631]

The video is exactly 1 hour... That's so satisfying!

[@cseblivestreaming8073]

The fact that he produces this, and an article version for free is honestly impressive as hell

[@lustfulvengance]

He doesn't do it for free he gets a shitload of money from KZbin!

[@cseblivestreaming8073]

@@lustfulvengance i know he does, but it’s still nothing compared to professional productions

[@liambenn1214]

Well “definitive” is out of the window now, considering Elon has stated he wants to literally catch super heavy rather than just land it

[@georgesgregorius5752]

Has to invent the flight catcher :-) (pun intended)

[@dustyk9409]

I keep replaying this video every so often as starship progress continues and I am amazed at how much I learn each time. Well done Tim.

[@UrbanWindowFarmer]

I now have enough information to build a starship in my garage. Thanks, Tim.

[@greggswanson58]

If you need help making the raptors, give me a call!

[@inconnudetousse1929]

I have a soldering gun, maybe I can help for the rings.

[@UrbanWindowFarmer]

@@inconnudetousse1929 The team is coming together nicely!

[@OzAndyify]

I've got a drill-press and a 3D printer. Just have to get those Raptors working under 220 degrees. How hard can it be?

[@_Elkov]

I have a hammer and a screwdriver. Can I come over, too?

[@nicholasspence480]

Hey Tim....Don't stop making long form content. The deep dives are great even if I have to wait a while

[@MakeMySanctuary]

Totally agree!!!! Love the niblits

[@sofianeloum7746]

Im not agree

[@KennyPeard]

⁹

[@ronnakansonglin9902]

Welp there goes being productive this hour

[@duderyandude9515]

This video being exactly 1 hour is SUUUPER pleasing!

[@ChaJ67]

Top notch video and well appreciated. As for speculations I have for future development, here you go: 1. SpaceX is already using solar electric propulsion for Starlink. As most of what you ship to the moon is fuel to push more fuel around and SpaceX has already proposed landing a massive Starship on the moon, which is going to take a lot more fuel than what can be loaded onto a single Starship in LEO, especially for reuse, I think they will use a solar electric space tug launched on on Starship to push tanker Starships out to the moon. The ISP on these solar electric drives already exceed 4,000s of ISP where Raptor vacuum gets up to 350s, so even with the extra mass of a space tug and the loss of using the Oberth Effect, it would be far more efficient and require far fewer launches than to LOX/LNG the whole way. Elon Musk has stated Starship should have very little fuel boil off on the way to Mars, so why would there be an issue spending say several weeks slowly pushing a tanker to the moon? I am thinking this could also be done for cargo only missions, except using a cargo Starship instead of a tanker Starship. The reason for pushing a tanker Starship to the moon would only be so a crewed mission could happen rapidly instead of at the slow pace of a solar powered ion drive in the Earth-Moon system. 2. Something cool about the cargo space tug idea when applied to Mars is while the space tugs will produce a lot less thrust around Mars, with cargo you mainly have to eventually get the job done. Also a space tug could separate from a cargo Starship before entering Mar's orbit and start its capture burn while the cargo Starship continues to the surface or swing by Mars and go back to Earth. Once the space tug gets into a highly elliptical capture orbit, it could circularize with its large delta-V potential and say get into a low Mars or low Earth orbit. The cargo Starships sent out to Mars could either be optimized with small fuel tanks designed to get an empty Starship into LEO and then once refueled and loaded with cargo, land the maximum amount of cargo on Mars in a one way mission or be a more generic cargo ship with some hardware for unloading on Mars and be able to fly back to an orbiting space tug to be brought back to Earth. Having a space tug with over 4,000s of ISP capability really expands the possibilities of what can be done for cargo missions, granted it just takes too long to speed up to be the primary mover on crewed missions. 3. I think the first generation of 'safe' crewed transport to Mars will involve building large scale nuclear thermal propulsed spaceships as that will get you up to ~1,000s of ISP, which really changes the dynamic of how a Mars mission could go while having enough thrust to do things quickly with either nuclear electric or solar electric drives to help speed along the 'coast' phase of the mission. Once we are gathering material from the moon, an important overlooked material is nuclear fuel. If you gather the nuclear fuel from the moon, you avoid a lot of fallout from trying to ship that nuclear fuel up from Earth with hopefully controlled explosions into space and the controversy attempting such a thing would cause. You really can't do a safe crewed mission to Mars without nuclear power shipped to the surface of Mars as one dust storm covering your solar panels and your crew dies, so it makes sense to extend this nuclear power into making the trip to Mars in the first place faster and safer as well as more comfortable. One reason why you need to go big with a crewed mission is surface area to protect from radiation is a square factor where volume covered by that shielding is a cubic factor. So as you go bigger, that shielding goes from being too heavy to eventually being a relatively trivial part of your space ship mass wise. There is a second thing where task optimized Starships are going to be a lot more effective at their job than jack of all trades Starships. So you do a jack of all trades Starship to Mars, maybe you stick 10 people on a one way mission to Mars and the Starship is loaded up with shielding and provisions and space to move around and equipment for once you get to Mars, etc. Also maybe some crews can handle the isolation and some crews go nuts and space each other on the way to Mars. However have a fleet of task optimized Starships riding on a mother ship to Mars allowing for tight coordination and your crewed lander Starship carries 100 or more people airliner fashion to the surface and then flies back up to refuel and carry another 100 or more people to the surface. A large ship means you can have thousands of people onboard and lots of space to move around, which is a lot easier to cope with than say 10 people trapped in a tin can for a long duration mission. Having a large ship also provides more room for trying out artificial gravity, though would think the artificial gravity experiments would be done in LEO first to determine what exactly would need to be done for this large ship going to Mars. Also such a large ship would always be in space and so would be optimized for a permanent space environment going between the Earth and Mars cruise liner style where Starship could then be left to focus on being a short haul airliner of sorts. If a good nuclear fission propulsion system could be achieved where maybe low to no fallout fuel is used around Earth while avoiding big flashes that could harm satellites in orbit (or even blind people looking up) and then you do whatever is cheapest a safe distance away from Earth, the efficiency gained in propulsion could allow very fast trips to anywhere in the solar system. So far with our fusion work we tend to go big to get the economies of scale to make it work and be more practical, so a large dedicated ship for this makes a lot of sense. Chemical rockets just cannot do such a job of going to and from Mars because the ISP is not there and so say a Mars mission is a one way mission with it being rather impractical to in-situ manufacture the large amount of fuel needed to send say a 9m wide Starship back. Nuclear thermal exponentially improves the equation to it at least being somewhat practical, though still somewhat expensive to go back and forth between Earth and Mars, but a lot cheaper, faster, safer, and more comfortable than doing chemical only. Ion drives makes it a lot cheaper to move cargo and fuel around and this is important because fuel tends to get a lot more expensive the further out from Earth you are, at least until you figure out a system of getting it from the solar system, which we are way far from doing in a practical manner right now, granted it should be doable one day with the right setup. Direct nuclear propulsion can really open up the solar system, though some thoughtfulness needs to go into the safest designs possible, especially when operating around Earth, which is really important because literally no humans live beyond LEO right now and at that the current count in LEO is 7. So if it is not safe to use that drive in LEO, another drive system will be needed to get to a safe distance away from Earth, but this leg of your journey is a huge part of your battle for basically every mission, so your drive system really needs to try to solve this problem if it can be done.

[@PhantomMods4]

Not only is this a great video, it’s exactly one hour. *satisfied*

[@shifa-8423]

*satisfied*

[@ryancg6439]

*satisfied*

[@pseudonayme7717]

OCD, retracted

[@PhantomMods4]

@@pseudonayme7717 Bruh you just gave me ocd

[@charliemoore9165]

satisfied

[@ryanhamstra49]

“Hovering is a waste of fuel” *shows clip of blue origin* Jeff bezos “Heyyyyy.......”

[@robertoc.4432]

lol

[@joshbreaksk8IN]

I thought the same thing lmfao

[@alt8791]

When referring to Blue Origin please use the abbreviation “BO.” “Blue Origin” is a general term for any useless suborbital vehicle.

[@malemute4378]

Jeff who?

[@warrenayres200]

Jeff... who?

[@bt4168]

Rewatching this 2 months later and still it's the most helpful starship video I've seen.

[@RandomPerson-zl6uz]

Yep apart from Elon is now going to catch super heavy instead

[@bt4168]

Yes true, eagerly looking forward to it! Also SN9 in a few days hopefully haha

[@Rjysrb]

The fleet of starships may be called 'StarFleet' (?)

[@JohnDavidDunlap]

Yes please

[@sean21868]

Yeah

[@eluder25rs]

And the people living on newly build bases on the Moon and Mars will be called StarCitizens O.O

[@kyleyamada1313]

@@eluder25rs they will be in development for 10 years though

[@malcolmdavid722]

Surely not..... if they did, it would have to be managed by a 'Federation' !

[@WasatchWind]

3:30 😄 How about Starship Transport System or STS? wait...

[@UNSCPILOT]

Or Starship Mission System, SMS ... oh

[@ryanhamstra49]

Starship-Superheavy transmartian orbiter or SSTO......

[@bourne1012]

Are these Star Trek jokes?

[@randomguy0047]

@@bourne1012 STS = Shuttle, SMS = text messaging (duh), SSTO = Single Stage To Orbit

[@mnh1270]

Extraplanetary Starship Apparatus? ESA? Too silly? Okay....

[@DeaPeaJay]

35:00 whatever that debris is, it looks like a little man running away from the rocket. 😂

[@davida4769]

We need to invent a whole new language to express the emotions found only in outer space. This rocket is so big, so exciting and so new our current emotional vocabulary are all understatements.

[@gabrielchanel4448]

Me Before: omg this is so long Me Now: WhY iS tHiS sO sHorT

[@user-uh9hq5zi3u]

Making 1:00:00 percieved as 0:10:00 shows a great professional level of author.

[@doodletanki6661]

thats what she said

[@shifa-8423]

Why is this so short? Really

[@Caddiken]

😂🤣😂

[@jcdavis5871]

Me too lol...I shied away from his content cus it was so long, but it was reccommended so much i had to watch something and BOY was i missing out

[@pravusnex]

Tim you have outdone yourself. I have been following Starship development quite closely and I learned a ton from your video anyway. Thank you so much for all the hard work. Everyone should take time to give your video a thumbs up. One small edit though. The hover slam landing will never, never be boring. Just like watching a jet liner land is never boring. It is always an awe-inspiring feat of engineering.

[@ranithuhettiarachchi631]

48:56 Anyone after Starship SN10 successfully landed . Amazing Progress

[@madcio]

Except it explodes few minutes later. Starship has still long way to go.

[@hoylekiger2194]

Oh my! How the discussion of space has shifted since my days in high school Airforce ROTC, 1969.

[@PRH123]

I’m actually intrigued by how similar it is overall to Von Brauns concepts, that I used to look at again and again in the 1969 World Book...

[@adis95]

"I'll be intervewing Elon Musk AGAIN very soon..." what an absolute flex. Great vid!!!

[@LaughingOrange]

That is nothing, he sells Elon's favourite shirt. And almost every tweet with a question to Elon is answered.

[@davebrooks69]

Yeah, its because he's secretly trying to get Elon to give him a free ride to Mars!

[@subramaniamtg1108]

Hahaha

[@petercrowhurst]

Adi S sits in corner still drawing prototype model A fords .......

[@paulknight5018]

Winny Tim "But I don't wanna go to Mars!!" Lol

[@jarodatkinson5306]

When you started talking about stainless steel construction, I immediately flashed back to Doc Brown explaining the Delorean lol....

[@RiderV6]

😂

[@GameHardYT]

Lool

[@EeekiE]

What a colossal effort putting this video together. Extremely well done.

[@heavypen]

I...I... couldn't stop watching. DANG! Cool stuff. Thanks!

[@AliothAncalagon]

Dude, you are literally in the process of writing the rocket bible.

[@SuperSMT]

He should write a book, eventually

[@MrAlRats]

@@SuperSMT What for? Videos are better than books. All books should be turned into videos like these (I love books though).

[@jherrinjr]

Here we go! Got my popcorn, comfy chair and blanket!

[@jacobbeitner8796]

I need to go back to zoom school in 2 mins ;(

[@kyleking3839]

@@jacobbeitner8796 same

[@alexdroner4068]

on the contrary man, got my shake , treadmill and shirt off :)

[@johnkean6852]

Yes its a sci fi movie almost yes fiction defo

[@AndersonSouza-ri3fb]

not only the hard work making the video, the passion of talking of something you really like gives me a new vision about the evolution of the spaceX. thanks a lot, won a subscriber!!

[@EverydayAstronaut]

Awww thanks! Lots more coming!

[@silas-the-person3895]

@@EverydayAstronaut hi tim big fan love your content and you haf made my wanna be a aerospace engineer our astronaut

[@conorlinehan4434]

Idk why i end up watching this channel every day. I think its because i truely appreciate youre interest in a cool subject but also how conscise you explain topics that likely took you a lot of work to actually understand. Another 10/10 long video.

[@e1123581321345589144]

They'll never be boring. The landings are the one reason I still watch most every starlink launch.

[@cwifrbm926]

Me Before: omg this is so long Me Now: WhY iS tHiS sO sHorT

[@user_25th9p7]

Ok what da heck is your name, did you fall on your keyboard?

[@cecejuliu3097]

i will not like this tweet, because it has 69 likes ;)

[@anandsuralkar2947]

True

[@anandsuralkar2947]

@@user_25th9p7 looks like Fibonacci sequence to me

[@Kabacisdead]

Impressively enough, the SN8 belly flop was a lot smoother than in the simulation!

[@hooptiej]

it was both a successful flip, and a spectacular lithobrake

[@paulround8501]

The flip worked a treat and if the pressure hadn't been lost on the methane header tank it would probably have been 100% success.

[@z2kk]

True, but the real test had almost no horizontal velocity. Future ones will though

[@paulround8501]

@@z2kk Not necessarily, the translation to put it over the landing pad happened during the belly flop phase and it was already in the correct position falling vertically before the flip. It would only have horizontal velocity if it hadn't finished the translation when the flip happened and there is no reason for that to be the case. However there is no reason why the flip could not slightly over rotate to compensate for any residual horizontal velocity. I am sure we will see this in future tests as they start to push the limits of the landing manoeuvre.

[@patrickdurham8393]

If the engines hadn't gone all self consuming I think it would have worked. Still better than what Musk thought we'd be see.

[@moesly89]

3:30 I laughed soooo hard at the Startship Launch System joke!! Clever very clever! Thanks for that Tim! 😂

[@djschultz1970]

Thank you Scott! You covered all the questions the others haven't yet. Great episode!

[@karora]

"Boring is good business" was something I learned many years ago, and I've never seen it contradicted.

[@-danR]

That will serve Jeff Bezos _very_ well then. Didn't hurt Bill Gates either.

[@ironcito1101]

Especially for companies making tunnels and such.

[@spadrevideo]

Wow Tim, I finally got a chance to sit down and watch this! Not that I need to get any more excited about Starship lol but I'm definitely next level stoked now !! I'm so honored to be a part of your team, and I love getting to share with the world what I get to see every day. I think you are about to have the craziest experience of your life too!!

[@karanguyen7569]

Hey Tim, I’m sure you’ve heard this from a lot of your viewers, but I just can’t express how great you are for making these beefy videos filled with information, and your delivery of these information is practically the reason why I continue to watch your content, because it really shows that you love what you do and that you love what you talk about, keep up the amazing content man.

[@drinozhao7652]

31:50 ... peter beck left the chat

[@drinozhao7652]

Wow Tim, I finally got a chance to sit down and watch this! Not that I need to get any more excited about Starship lol but I'm definitely next level stoked now !! I'm so honored to be a part of your team, and I love getting to share with the world what I get to see every day. I think you are about to have the craziest experience of your life too!!

[@bwithrow011]

Tim, this is a comment you probably don't get too often. In addition to your amazing knowledge and your ability to bring space down to earth for everyday people like me, you speak in an understandable cadence. I can hear you breathe. It is so much easier to absorb even a little bit of what you bring to the table because of your speed. Thank you. And yes, I'm norminal!!!

[@MarsChroniken]

Best spent hour of my life! Thank you Tim!

[@andro3131]

I watched the whole thing immediately. At the end I felt like only 10min have passed. Thumbs up, that was really great stuff !!!

[@ericmaroney2466]

You seem to be a reliable source, and I appreciate that.

[@nicklebar4668]

Just a amazing video brother. You nailed it, very well said and extremely in depth. Great job and keep up the good work. Nick from Toronto

[@funkengruven7773]

A whole hour and never lost interest...now that's a new milestone! The craziest thing is going to be the belly flop maneuver. I don't see how they can even simulate getting it right, much less nailing it on the first try. I expect we'll see some crazy "Wile E. Coyote" style explosions and folks will call it the "ACME ROCKET" for a while, but just like Falcon 9 we'll all be watching with mouths hanging open in disbelief while it does exactly that over and over again. Watching the Falcon 9 still feels like a little miracle each time it lands. I hope they nail it right out of the gate, but that is optimistic to the extreme. I'm just happy Space X is bringing us along for the ride and doesn't hide their light under a bushel like Blue Origin does.

[@Sudz3]

*waits for Elon to tweet some change that makes this video obsolete within hours of release* (I say this affectionately. This video is awesome)

[@wilboersma9441]

"It's hard to deploy parachutes when you are in a million flaming pieces." -Tim Dodd, bringing space down to Earth for everyday people. Seriously though you are doing some great things, you explain it very well, thank you!

[@video_head]

Really appreciated how technical this video was!

[@dawintch4596]

Everyone else: build rocket inside factory SpaceX: build factory around rocket

[@adamrezabek9469]

Tim: SX is building factory around rocket and not vice versa. Me:Why would you build factory inside rocket?

[@johnkean6852]

Standard Fireworks has come a long way from a warehouse in a back yard to this

[@devindykstra]

I really appreciate the dark theme graphics, thank you for sparing my eyes!

[@raymondjordan9682]

And you too Tim! For all you do and keep us grounded.

[@Theiliteritesbian]

This is the first time in a few years (when ever Nelly Tyson hosted da cosmos) that a true nerd has completely entertained me. Nice job pulling it off!

[@baldhat2498]

Love how his subtitle is still "For everyday people" even though he is the one with the deepest, longest and most into detail videos

[@dylen6151]

I'm pretty sure long time viewers are now learning more than everyday people from watching these videos

[@A.Lifecraft]

It's still made for everyday people. Never had to read up anything from back in my physics studies to understand whats going on here. Well maybe someone who wasn't so lucky in his education would have to google some things or look up wikipedia, but people will get around. There are other youtubers who do shorter more in-depth videos but you have to bring along some scientific knowledge there.

[@limiv5272]

I think the videos are long and detailed *because* they're made "for everyday people". He has to explain everything and give analogies that would make sense to people with no relevant education

[@A.Lifecraft]

@@limiv5272 These are not just short infostrips inflated by explanations for dummies. As i said i once studied physics with the objective to maybe become an aerospace engineer. Tim still delivers numbers and infos that make sense and are relevant to me while everyday people might pass this as information not relevant to them. It's like a good family movie where you have the slapstick for the kids but also the more subtle jokes for parents.

[@limiv5272]

@@A.Lifecraft You're saying exactly what I am, but somehow claiming we're saying something different

[@theglobalwarming6081]

TIM! When you're recording Starship landing, please dont forget to put a wide-angle camera up; dont just record closeups. I want to see the the belly flip on the perspective of a stationary person

[@EverydayAstronaut]

We’ll have tons of cameras, don’t worry!!!

[@harveykelley2571]

Not only is this a great video, it’s exactly one hour. satisfied

[@jeschinstad]

@@EverydayAstronaut: They don't have to be heavy. :> But there should be lots of planes and drones in the air capturing every single second, including VR cameras.

[@josephdargy936]

@@jeschinstad That... that would be awesome.

[@jeschinstad]

@@josephdargy936: Yes, unfortunately, people tend to not recognize history until after the fact.

[@N1gel]

Thanks Tim. Your quality is superb. wai was good & possibly the best bi-daily update channel and he is getting even better. But your in depth deep-dives are a world treasure. You are explaining & recording the most detailed aspects of human space exploration, not just for us, but for evidencing what is daily becoming history to be taught to every future generation of humans. Your doing the future world a magnificent service. We are very proud of you and thats why you totally Deserve your seat on Dear Moon. Your Dear Moon commentary live will be riviting. Your Dear Moon video will be un-missable. Your Dear Moon Outtakes will likely be stretching our emotions to their limits. Well done.

[@lucasliam8238]

This videos is so extremely well made that I feel like I need to make a comment just because you deserve to get one. Thank you so much

[@danielseguin913]

Another marterpiece documentary. Well done. Good research, good animations, good quality. Thanks for sharing.

[@chrisboyer2195]

I... must.... resist.... being.... distracted..... for..... an..... hour.... Edit: I failed

[@nathanwestwick815]

500 likes and no dislikes! This is one of the things I love about the spaceflight community!

[@Scott_C]

There are now 5 dislikes. Some people are just trolls.

[@rikubackman2496]

@@Scott_C yeah and also there are some bots that just dislike every single video they can/see.

[@thecodewarrior7925]

3.3k upvotes and 13 downvotes. That’s quite the ratio. Edit: reloaded the page and now it’s a 4.9k like to 24 dislike ratio.

[@tintin27udec]

12 flat earther's dislikes

[@TheSpaceEngineer]

5.8k likes, 30 dislikes all 30 dislikes are flat earthers and blue origin employees

[@timhill7291]

Fascinating video! Thanks for your excellent commentary!

[@NeilFiertel]

This is the best explanations of engine design ever. I have learned hugely from this and thank you for this!

[@halpaiderta1496]

"I want the quality to be the best they possibly can be" Well, mission achieved. This was superb. Love your work.

[@abbiemarshall7996]

"I want the quality to be the best they possibly can be" Well, mission achieved. This was superb. Love your work.

[@arturoeugster7228]

-24:49 spinning cloud like object? -24:52 another

[@paulpantea9521]

Every new EA documentary is like an early Christmas. Keep up the great work!

[@gasdive]

Way better than Christmas

[@shannonparkhill5557]

Just joined your Patreon! Keep making these sweet deep dive videos, please!! :) I love the way you do the graphs!

[@directedby100]

Great summary, Tim. I actually found most interesting the multiple currently planned and potential Starship types coming ... Crew, Tanker, Cargo, Lunar, Deep Space, Earth Transport, Atmospheric Sanitation, ISS Starship Shuttle, Four Seasons Sheraton Starship Taxi, etc etc.

[@shawndouglass2939]

😜😜😀😀😀😁😃🙌🙌

[@bradhoward9165]

Tim, this 1 hour video was impossible to turn off without watching in full. This is the video I needed to understand Starship, so thank you, thank you, thank you! This was so much information put in a way that was easily understood. This is the video I needed. Let's see this fly now.

[@coenzijlstra5145]

Thanks for motivating me every time Tim, I was just struggling with studying all day but this one hour has given me motivation for weeks. I can't wait to finish my studies and start working for whatever thing space related. Thank you Tim I love you, I love your videos and I love your eyes. Keep up the incredible work of inspiring the next generation

[@MattH-wg7ou]

I feel like I should owe you money for watching these dude! Such high quality documentaries. By far the best. Thanks man keep doing what youre doing!

[@frozenprakash]

Space channel with Metrics. I would ask nothing more nothing less, Keep the great work. Very inspiring to learn new things from your channel on every video !

[@jacobhocevar8472]

Dang, those animations and renders are insane! Excellent production as always.

[@Ifan-oq3nf]

When the conclusion came, I was like: Awww man its already almost over. It was such a great video with so much information. The wait truly paid off in my opinion!

[@reclearning558]

Really high quality stuff...nice job man

[@adoidpea4456]

Your da man the internet science world needs more like you, great job explaining.

[@rcoder01]

Petition to call the rocket as a whole "superstar" to avoid confusion

[@warrenayres200]

Or just "Starship Super Heavy"

[@rasaecnai]

I am glad Tim is doing the long form instead of short videos. Daddy Scott Manley got me covered for updates while Tim gives me my deep dive fix. Life is balanced as it should be.

[@yelnatsch517]

Netflix needs to make a mini series out of your videos. They are amazing

[@rpmfoto]

I don’t have time to keep up with all of this. You are my raptor that gets me up to speed. Thank you!

[@cpthornman]

As usual Tim knocks it out of the park. These rocket deep dives need to win some kind of awards. This is top level stuff.

[@witchdoctor6502]

I just realized that SpaceX isn't making a new rocket... they are making an entire class of space ships, the first class of human space ships.

[@barabakus]

They are making revolution in space industry.

[@theuncalledfor]

There have been spaceships before Starship. I'm not downplaying the incredible achievement that Starship represents, but it's clearly not the first human spaceship class. It's not even the first _SpaceX_ spaceship class. That would be the Crew Dragon, or the Dragon 1 if you count cargo-only vehicles. Unless you can supply a clear and _unbiased_ definition of the term "spaceship", that supports your claim.

[@colesmith6874]

@@theuncalledfor he isn’t saying it’s the first rocket to carry humans, he is saying it’s an entirely new class of rockets that carry humans. It’s like comparing the Wright brothers to a ww1 plane, but today. And in the future, that plane will become a 747. Starship is the future, simply put.

[@theuncalledfor]

@@colesmith6874 He said it's the _first_ class of human space ships. I explained why that statement is inaccurate.

[@colesmith6874]

@@theuncalledfor I see what you mean. I think both our points are right, just about different things.

[@keithnance4209]

Excellent video Tim! Thank you for this education 🤙🏽

[@tigaieandrei7282]

Felicitari pentru documentar !!!!

[@floydbertagnolli8832]

Thx for speaking “metric.” This is meaningful. Good for international fans, & US folks need to make the change.

[@ThatFoolishBoy]

Aerospace is 100% metric since Nasa cratered the multimillion dollar Martian climate orbiter due to conversion mistakes. Edit. The Mars polar lander sorry.

[@teufelhund9843]

Lots of fields in the US use metric, sadly it really isn't taught in early education.

[@bigsherk42069]

@@teufelhund9843 it was for me. Depends on your states education guidelines. Half the world uses imperial in some form. UK requires all cars to have mph and kmh since they used mph until fairly recently (maybe 20 years) and many places have mph and kmh. Canada too. USA uses metric system for drinks but UK often uses imperial. It’s backwards

[@liesdamnlies3372]

@@bigsherk42069 The only reason we have mph on our cars here is because we share a border with a country that’s using backwards units of measure. :p

[@soundofprice]

@@liesdamnlies3372 sad 😢😢😢