Incredible New SpaceX Starship Flight 6 Info, and Great News from the FAA!?

[@MarcusHouse]

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[@CCK_PRODUCTIONS]

I want to see full footage of the Banana cam !!

[@nabilbelauinate43]

هل يمكن استخراج غاز الطبخ من كوكب المشتري

[@djohannsson8268]

The Mars Manned flight requires more upfront planning than any another space mission Space X will do. It will be the equivalent to the Apollo Moon landing mission of the last century. The keys to the successful Mars Mission are Detailed Planning, Flight and Crew Preparation, Complete Redundancy, and eventual Self-Sufficiency. The only reason for an Early Mission Termination should be a major flight crew related issue, not because of a failure of any mechanical or environmental systems. The Risks and Cost of this first Manned flight will impact future Mars manned missions. Everything needed must already be available on Mars when the Flight Crew gets there. They are literally on their own for the next 18+ months except for consultation from Space X or NASA.

[@djohannsson8268]

Hope Space X chooses a full 500 day on Mars exploration mission, even if it has to be delayed until 2030. It's questionable to do NASA's 6+ months in space, 30 day stay on Mars(this could be a logical point where a 500 day extended mission could be early terminated), followed by 9+ months back. Unless this is considered a "preliminary" mission, with the real Space X mission to follow in 2 years. So many options...

[@geraldfisher7460]

I had an idea in regards to a design. using the wire frame with tower picture add the dimentions in feet but have a small banana instead of the {ft}. along with the caption ( That's feet for us Murican's ). maybe a small banana with it's arms crossed winking...

[@michaelfink64]

Starlink Group 6-66: "a beast of a mission" - I see what you did there.

[@MarcusHouse]

😎

[@Sabeteur83]

Was gonna say the same thing lol.

[@kevikiru]

I thought nobody would notice and that awesome joke would go to waste!

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Interestingly, the true mark is "616" 😅 But pop-culture likes 666, so I don't forsee reality wrestling that away anytime soon... _(admittedly, I like it as well, but have taken a liking to 616 thanks to the "Fun Fact" nature of it! 😊)_

[@James-yv1dl]

Too bad afterwords he referred to the week being stupidly busy when he could have used devilishly busy! Lol, that's my suggested edit!

[@tiptoe-tiptop]

Every Saturday I look forward to these updates while eating my breakfast. Cheers Marcus.

[@KRobertsonGaming]

That shot of the starship doing the belly flop above and then landing in the ocean near the bouy reminded me of just how cool the belly flop looks from the outside

[@lvlndco]

I'm still wondering how that would work for passenger transport between cities. I don't think people will be good with a suicide like daredevil ride! Not matter how many times they do it to perfect the process.

[@julescircuits845]

Like something I'd expect to see in a scifi-action clip, starship troopers or something. Its a thrill to watch the fine control of such raw grunt!

[@otpyrcralphpierre1742]

Space is "Gitt'n Busy". So is Marcus House and Team! And we are Grateful for ALL of it!

[@emiliorodriguez6117]

My girlfriend called me an iPad kid because I wouldn’t start eating without starting this video. She doesn’t understand it’s Marcus House!

[@themoviewer8533]

She doesn't deserve you

[@qwerty112311]

Weirdo

[@therocinante3443]

Sounds like an ***hole

[@scythelord]

Tell her that's not the sign of an Ipad kid. I predate the ipad by several decades and yet still waited till I started the video to eat my food.

[@braillen8141]

Hey! Hey!

[@airborneal2764]

Flight 6 was a success, even with the water landing. This means the systems in place worked as expected. Yes, we all wanted to see another catch, and we will (of both ship and booster). Keep up the great work, Marcus. Best to the entire team.

[@scythelord]

Flight 4, Starship re-entry was the star of the show. Flight 5, Superheavy booster catch was the star of the show. Flight 6, Starship re-entry was the star of the show. Flight 7 is probably gonna be Superheavy again. Flight 8 will be Starship catch! I sense a trend.

[@Wheatthin21]

@@scythelordI’m thinking the starship catch might he pushed to flight 10, they still need to figure how the catch hardware is gonna work with the heatshield.

[@oldfarthacks]

Given they just landed a StarShip without a whole bunch of heat shield tiles, including ones where the landing pins would go, I can see them doing a setup where the landing pins are internal and act as landing gear on an airplane, the pins go through doors that open to allow them out. This actually could have been done on this gen 1 StarShip. The other option is just to leave the pins out with some fairings to protect them.

[@echomande4395]

With regard to propellants, I would not be too surprised to see a pipeline bundle being installed from the launch site to the build site and possibly further. SpaceX could then extend the pipeline bundle alongside the highway all the way to Brownsville but I can see them exploring the possiblilities of putting in a railway line to Brownsville instead, with a railhead near the build site. If they did that they could potentially also start delivering engines and other build materials by rail, further reducing the number of trucks using the highway.

[@RonColeArt]

I'm sorry but, the image of the two tankers refueling in orbit (3:25) is damn near inappropriate for KZbin. That's rocket porn right there. It needs pixels blurred in some areas.

[@MarcusHouse]

🤣

[@AidenHere]

YOU RUINED IT!

[@DarkAttack14]

Wait till you see them docking

[@edumaker-alexgibson]

Rule 34.

[@windowboy]

Wait until a Bezos rocket refuels at a Musk rocket…

[@craigmooring2091]

@8:28 "wire rope used to raise and lower the arms of Tower B" or what we native English speakers like to call "cable". 😜 Marcus always has the meatiest reportage of the week in launchings.

[@primrosereceptionist611]

"The term cable is often used interchangeably with wire rope. However, in general, wire rope refers to diameters larger than 3/8 inch. Sizes smaller than this are designated as cable or cords. Two or more wires concentrically laid around a center wire is called a strand." From Bergen Cable Technology.

[@gasdive]

Could be an Australian thing. I call it SWR or steel wire rope.

[@cerealport2726]

it is wire rope... because that's what it is... it is made the same way other ropes are made, just with strands of metal alloys, not hemp, jute, etc Also, Australians speak English...

[@Cello69.]

@craig. Some touchy responses 😂

[@gasdive]

@@Cello69. Next up at 9, we ask the question, "Lift or Elevator? Can there be a civil agreement?"

[@Elia1988seoul]

2:00 literally looks like video game footage, its crazy

[@cyberduck7377]

Bro I literally thpught oh thats a cool simulation

Only if you ignore the water... No game has such perfect water simulation

[@pjm6939]

Water could never be simulated like that! No way Jose!!!

[@OrbitalTactics]

Absolutely love this week's episode! Keep up the outstanding work, and thanks to you, the team, and your family for making this all easy to absorb into our daily lives across the globe!

[@MarcusHouse]

Thank you! We are feeling pretty burned out, but there is just too much to show to ignore.

[@OrbitalTactics]

​@@MarcusHousewell, don't forget to take a health break :). All of your viewers would completely understand

[@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

SpaceX just dominating the launch manifest.

[@scythelord]

And it will only be supercharged to an insane degree by Starship when it's fully operational. No one, worldwide is anywhere near that level.

[@dsdy1205]

Launch manifest destiny

[@MrX-zz2vk]

​@dsdy1205 Go to space, young man.

[@BMrider75]

Excellent report, thanks Marcus.

[@planetmuskvlog3047]

Marcus House has the Best spacex post-launch coverage

[@bernie7984]

Looking forward to flight 7!

[@lindajirka5020]

Thank you for the updates. Look forward to seeing you every week.

[@BlackWolf42-]

That hole in the cloud deck from the GSAT20 launch was neat to see.

[@Cello69.]

Time stamp?

[@Cuarentaydos]

@@Cello69. 19:18

[@Yattayatta]

SpaceX launching up a storm! I hope we'll get to see Blue test New Glenn as well, would be amazing to see it take off!

[@chris.eskimo]

They're gonna learn ALOT when they finally recover a Ship !

[@Jack_Rabbit71]

Incredible pictures Max Kehrli from Bermuda! Thanks for another great update Marcus and the team! Awesome work...

[@MarcusHouse]

Yea, they really were.

[@favesongslist]

Nice clean raptor cutoff of the Starship, TY for posting the sound Marcus

[@emperorpicard4901]

My guess is that the active cooling/ ullage gas./ liquid film cooling is for problem areas such as the hinges, which due to their complicated shape of moving parts is difficult to cover with tiles

[@gordonstewart5774]

Yes, and catching areas.

[@imconsequetau5275]

The unpressurized compartment may also need spot cooling. The tanks get convection cooling from inside.

[@eamonstack4139]

Marcus, such an exciting and energetic presentation. It looks like Starship is about to trottle-up development towards full reuse, payload delivery and in-space refuelling. A new era unfolds in front of our very eyes, via MarcusHouse of course, many thanks,, Eamon 🇮🇪

[@Ittiz]

There is a pipeline made for natural already going to Boca. It was put there because the Sanchez site used to be a gas well. It doesn't make enough methane anymore for starship, but they could put a new pipe in the easement to pipe gas out of Texas' existing natural gas system and liquify methane at the Sanchez site. The only additional thing they would need to do is get an easement along the highway between Sanchez and the fuel farm.

[@gretarg]

Totally agree with you on future of NASA they should focus on in space and planetary tech and leave going into orbit to private companies

[@danielprimern932]

Another amazing video, another great weekend, starting off with the latest news and updates on the exciting progress of spaceflight. What a time to be alive 💪

[@EdwardRLyons]

SLS will survive as long as the Congress wants it. After all, there's a reason why it's know as the Senate Launch System.

[@ManishSingh-xo1fb]

Put them in launch them to mars😂

[@warrenjm9]

Elon and Vivek will soon have them straightened out, hopefully top down rather than bottom up.

[@Jeeprepdiaries12]

sls makes no sense after seeing starship

[@EdwardRLyons]

@@warrenjm9 Elon and Vivek will have no control over the Senate or the House, only over the government department(s) they will be let loose on.

[@EdwardRLyons]

@@Jeeprepdiaries12 SLS is a political boondoggle. Such things don't have to make sense, they only need to provide pork-barrel political benefits (i.e. jobs and money) to the constituents who elected their representatives and senators. SLS is providing jobs for tens to potentially hundreds of thousands of Americans. If it's cancelled, those workers will not be too happy with those responsible.

[@CumulusGranitis]

The best way to wake up on a Saturday morning, with another Marcus House summary of the past week in spaceflight. Loved the landing of the Starship in the Indian Ocean.

[@Tinman_56]

Let's have a Christmas 🎄 day launch for flight 7

[@MarcusHouse]

Let's do this! 🎉

[@Darsh0606]

@@MarcusHouse no, I'm going out without internet acces on christmas!!!

[@warrenjm9]

Why deny those hard working SpaceX employees their Christmas/Hanukkkah/other celebrations? Let them be.

[@worldwideroach]

The busy SpaceX people have certainly earned Christmas week off.

[@Nobe_Oddy]

THANK YOU MARCUS!! You keep us ALL right up to date with the PROGRESS OF HUMAN INNOVATION!!! :)

[@kstaxman2]

So much happening with space fights almost every day. Amazing time to be alive.

[@ernestrombout2898]

Always looking forward to Saturdays, thanks for the great content in your videos, Marcus!

[@Onepiece0752]

Wow the Displates look so cool😮❤

[@jacobchicks3523]

I just can't wait for SN 1701! No bloody A, B, C, or D!

[@undertow2142]

Starship is getting so refined. Block 2 is going to be a superstar in 2025. So much will happen with starship over the next year. Their production rate is really going to ramp up. We’re going to see a lot of launches and first prototypes of the lunar ship and the fuel depot!

[@GutStabber-f1y]

You have the best SpaceX news and details, keep up the fantastic work!!!!!

[@karlstathakis7786]

Agreed with Musk about the SLS. It's a cool rocket for sure, but the cost is utterly insane: nearly $100B for a program that's fired off one test flight and will need close to another decade (and $50+B) before getting us back to the Moon. The failure doesn't stem from bad engineers or bad engineering. Rather, it stems from terrible technical requirements, micromanagement from Congress, a program structured for political stability over technical results, and a cost-plus contract structure. NASA is still capable of incredible things, and they have some amazing programs doing great science at a reasonable price. But the SLS program is the very definition of "fat, dumb, and happy."

[@KnugLidi]

SLS is a political creation, done solely to ensure valuable jobs stay in certain states. this is the result of corruption, which is simply rampant in the US

[@Jonathan-ru9zl]

Thanks !! Keep up the good work, at least until we'll get to Mars 💫😊

[@AffectiveApe]

Wow that cloud punch shot both from above and below was so freaking cool!!!! Thanks for that, I don't think I've seen that before!

[@carlwill5009]

Good morning marcus From chicago I do not miss no videos from you every Saturday morning when I wake up. Yes, yes, space industry is getting more interesting everyday.

[@bernie7984]

Great news!

[@toddabbott781]

These launches did show the engines are proving to be reliable as is the navigation and control systems. This is showing the program is advancing much faster now. What ever happened to the 2 oil platforms he was going to put a catch tower on?

[@MarcusHouse]

That slowmo of the inner 10 restart is freaking incredible.

[@jf7009]

those 2 oil platforms were sold again by Spacex. Seems like they got other plans.

[@MediaWML]

I believe that has been abandoned for now as it doesn't currently allow for rapid reusability (i.e. land re-fuel and relaunch within hours).

[@JoelSapp]

They sold the platforms. They got way ahead of themselves and probably - at the time - needed to be smarter with their money. 18 months and they will know their launch tower design and it would seem this would be back on the table. They could have a very high cadence with an offshore platform that had access to natural gas.

[@jackeppington6488]

@@JoelSapp I'm thinking about Australia, supposedly SpaceX's new friend. It really is about the only appropriate foreign place to build a full Starship launch/landing site to enable point-to-point cargo runs for Asia. Not to mention providing another hemisphere where ship could land.

[@KrizMo122]

them moving around the gridfins with the forklift shows the unreal scale

[@ThexBorg]

They'll need another drone ship to catch F9 boosters.

[@MarcusHouse]

Yea, unless they can get Starlinks to orbit with Starship soon, the 3 droneships are the limiting factor.

[@scottstewart5784]

@@MarcusHouse They could develop a barge with a crane, and remove the landed boosters at sea to allow the landing barges to stay on station.

[@andrewsarchus6036]

@@scottstewart5784 A good idea but deck/deck transfers at sea are a tricky business and fraught with damage risk.

[@scottstewart5784]

@@andrewsarchus6036 SpaceX solves problems. There's also risk in returning boosters vertical on the drone landing ships - they lost one that way recently. A barge with crane and horizontal transport tie downs could maybe carry 2 or 3 at a time.

[@multi_misa72]

I was every day astronaut fan, but then Marcus took over, i still nerd out over there but Marcus is the man now. Thank you Marcus for all you do.👌👍👏

[@MarcusHouse]

Love Tim's work with the cosmic Perspective team. Thanks for supporting the community out there!

[@Syritis]

sadly some misinformation in this video, 1 theres no evidence that the "antenna" on top of the tower has any coms hardware, it is however a weather station and potentially a lightning rod 2. the majority of the dirt at Pad B wasn't hauled away completely, it was leveled out over a large area.

[@hisgross]

Good Stuff! We're watching a transformation of spaceflight and innovation. Also It gives a sense of scale when they need cranes to build the crane.

[@garylester3976]

Great Video! I really got the feeling that Space Exploration is a booming business! Loved the sound of the Ship's homecoming burn. Sheer power! I think its safe to say the Space Age is rebooted... Pretty sure the Trumpster is gonna back the Space Programs bigly! I felt pretty alone on the forums there for awhile, getting political and urging we all back Elon at the ballot box, and that was before Elon and Donald really got going. And nothing pleases me more than seeing whats coming with the new admin and all its high caliber people... I feel sorry for those who tried to trash us as a country. The behind the scene financiers. "We're back! and soon better than ever!"

[@richardmerrill4036]

Thanks for sticking to the news. Getting very tired of the WAI schtick.

[@amitkoirala5087]

hey hey..

[@alanblasczyk1779]

Outstanding Marcus, well done mate. From Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA.

[@lanzer22]

Amazing how fast the FAA works now that they're at risk of being fired.

[@Syritis]

the launch license was for 2 launches unless spacex chose to modifiy it like they have every time so for EXCEPT for flight 6.

[@stevecoffman2559]

How long have you worked here? Ever since they threatened to fire me!

[@ikcalB]

Not too funny though.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

In fairness, I don't see how political pressure on a safety regulatory agency is a good thing just because we like one case. Do you want that standard applied to the lunches your children eat? "Oh, it's probably fine. I wouldn't want to 'overreach' here."

[@bigwangmark]

SpaceX is such an impressive company in how fast it does stuff. Feels like back in the moon race days with the fast pace rocket tech was designed and built and solutions found to fix issues as they popped up without slowing or stopping forward progress. I still see a lot of hate towards spaceX based purely on the fact elon is involved but that is also insulting to the thousands of people working at spaceX who are the real force behind the company vs just one man. As a middle aged guy I really thought I had missed any chance of ever seeing anything like this because we went from the moon race to slowing down space exploration by humans to not even having a launch system to take people into space after the canceled the space shuttle. But here we are in a new space race and it's so fing amazing...Im loving it. Just hope I live long enough to see us make it to mars...all be it decades late.

[@robfive2555]

Another excellent roundup as usual .. I love Space X but Elon Musk.... not so much. Thank you MH + Team for a great upload

[@MarcusHouse]

Hey there Rob! Always great to see you mate!

[@mbox314]

Every aerospace company has smart engineers and none of them are doing what spaceX is doing. Musk is the reason why SpaceX Is why spaceX Is what it ls. I would try to fogive musk for not being loyal to a political party that has repeatedly harrassed, hamstringed, and mistreated him.

[@jayhinds3937]

Another great video! Keep up the good work. I have checked out your Displate link, way cool. Thanks for all you do Marcus!

[@MarcusHouse]

Thank you Jay!

[@halfnelson6115]

The FAA can now see the writing on the walls...

[@bigianh]

Great video as usual Marcus! Is there no colaboration in the pipeline with Fraser & SCott for flight 6? It's been one of the highlights of each launch having you guys anylise the launch and bounce ideas off each other.

[@robertnorman2333]

Love your Channel Marcus, KZbin has there panties in a Bunch if you Click off their Ads, they like to mess with your stream or even your computer, that's also why their trying to push there own ad Blocker now, keep up the Great work, peace.

[@cipedead0777]

You do such amazing work. Ove seeing what you have each week. I bet you did not think you would go from KSP

[@rays2506]

Excellent video. Good work, Marcus. SpaceX will be able to launch 25 Starships per year from Starbase Boca Chica. That's 100 Starship launches within the next 4 years. That should be sufficient time for SpaceX to begin regular missions to the lunar surface using Block 3 Starships each carrying 20 passengers and 175t (metric tons) of cargo to establish permanent human presence there. SLS/Orion is out of picture (way too expensive). The route to the Moon would follow the Apollo missions from LEO to low lunar orbit (LLO) and back to Earth. That crewed Starship lander would be accompanied by an uncrewed Block 3 Starship drone tanker that carries the methalox needed for both Starships to return to an elliptical earth orbit (EEO) with perigee at 600 km altitude and apogee at 950 km altitude. The refilling operation would be done in LLO after the crewed Starship lander returns to LLO from the lunar surface and before the trans earth injection (TEI) burns are done by those two Starships. Ten Block 3 Starship Earth-to-LEO tankers are required to refill the Block 3 crewed Starship and the Block 3 uncrewed Starship drone tanker in LEO prior to their trans lunar injection (TLI) burns. Assuming that in four years the operations cost to send a Starship to LEO is $10M per launch, that part of the operations cost for this lunar mission would be $120M. Operations costs for the rest of the mission are TBD.

[@PDLM1221]

Wow what a busy video today and all great! Those metal pictures are awesome ! I love your collection of space vehicles in the back ground , the Space shuttle with “Hubble “ in the payload bay is really nice. I wish Blue Origin wasn’t so secretive about their Rocket looking forward to their first flight and reclaim of their stage one .

[@kevinwayne7546]

Coffee, Cigar, and Marcus! Great Saturday morning!

[@donrubottom8723]

“Beast”! Saw what you did there, Marcus. Good one!! Thanks for the quick output this week.

[@graemebrumfitt6668]

Rite Marcus Dude, Thanks for the update! TFS, GB :)

[@max2win]

I think the antennas got damaged because the stack was pushed towards the tower by the wind a little bit, so they needed a little more of vector thrust to clear the tower. This was the first true daytime launch and before it I was asking myself if the wind speed was still acceptable. The plume of cold and heavy nitrogen is a good indicator of the wind speed and it was blowing away from the tower quite fast

[@drivemind7142]

Please keep up with the boom updates it's very interesting love all of the videos you put out.

[@MarcusHouse]

More to come!

[@SpaceXStarshipX]

14:40 You have a great point, SLS is super expensive compared to anything SpaceX makes

[@TomDuFresne-z8q]

Great Videos Marcus, Thanks. Would you possibly be able to do a complete follow of a booster one day? ie From the droneship landing back to shore, and transport to wherever they are launched from next?

[@christheswiss390]

It's time Marcus got his first space flight! 🤞🤞

[@nobody_815]

Replacing SLS: Dock Orion with Straship in LEO or take away the nosecone of Straship (which seems to be just empty space in the images anyway) and launch Orion on top of the HSL (crew separately in Falcon 9). You don't need ICPS. Also safer to dock in LEO rather than LLO and the crew can live in Starship on the way.

[@admarsandbeyond]

You don't need Orion at all. Launch a Dragon with crew to Starship lunar transit and lander, send it to the moon, return (may need some extra refilling), and land crew with Dragon.

[@davidlittle6621]

Marcus knocking it out of the park again!

[@richardloewen7177]

I suspect that the FIRST moon lander--involving substantial freight--will have to prioritize equipment to slag regolith. To make a landing field without regolith debris tossing. Otherwise, debris puncturing will occur. Safe the environment first. Only then, start building up the lunar infrastructure.

[@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882]

I like it Marcus, when you say ‘form work’, that’s something I know and understand…🤣🤣🤣

[@RedRyan]

I loved the honorable mention for Stoke Space

[@TheWendell946]

Thanks Marcus Great team, Great show.

[@chrisdurrer6508]

Always top notch Marcus. Thank you. 👊

[@plainText384]

I don't know if launching ICPS on Falcon Heavy would be possible. It would definitely require significant alterations to the ground support equipment, the Falcon Heavy itself, and possibly even the HIF. Also ICPS, along with other DCSS stages are discontinued and aren't intended to fly on missions beyond Artemis 3. Finally Orion isn't really meant to be able to dock with ICPS backwards and docking nose-to-nose would mean performing the TLI burn while the astronauts in their seats are basically upside down. What might be more feasable would be to still launch Orion on something like Vulcan Centaur, but then have a HLS derrived transfer vehicle (either based on HLS Starship or Lockheed Martin's cislunar transporter) take it from LEO to TLI. The transfer stage would probably want a small crew capable orbital module with correctly oriented seats that would allow Orion to dock with it nose-to-nose and have the astronauts not hang upside down in their seats during the TLI burn, but unlike ICPS they'd probably have the performance budget to do that.

[@lyricbread]

Thank you Marcus and team! ❤

[@brucecampuzano5601]

Thanks for the Chris Gebhardt shout out!

[@MarcusHouse]

Miss Chris G on NSF. Was always one of my favs.

[@ianwhitworth3264]

What kind of stabilization rig was on that camera that caught the landing of Starship, what a stable image despite the waves!

[@roy5]

Loving the starship numbering on the moon. Hitchhiking to the Moon.

[@darkfur18]

I think the idea of a lunar space station is still pretty cool, even without SLS.

[@victorkrawchuk9141]

Perhaps they should finish the 2nd launch tower ASAP. If it was available with IFT-6 they might have been able to use it as a backup for the Booster catch.

[@lanav9679]

Super Cool Dude ! Yeah, Yeah, Oh Yeah !!

[@michaelsparks6084]

Marcus, always an informative presentation!❤

[@KittyKingBob]

Please start calling the olm's by what they will be used for. Tower 1 (original) will be the catcher, the new (with the flame trench) will be for launching only (hence the shorter arms)

[@MarcusHouse]

There is no evidence of this.

[@munso089]

"Beast" of a mission. Oh hey I see what you did there. 😂

[@clymerwright8591]

Great work as usually Marcus when are you coming to Texas to see a launch?

[@jroar123]

Marcus, the areas that you thought had missing heat shielding are correct. They left the tiles loose to ensure they would fall off to test the bladed material underneath them.

[@Lu.capuchino]

they dont let the tiles loose, they literally cant with the pin mechanism

[@jroar123]

@@Lu.capuchino You are absolutely correct. That is why SpaceX engineers purposely introduced potential problem to see the results. Remember, StarShip in still in the Testing phase.

[@imaginary_friend7300]

@@Lu.capuchino Is that not why they left the V1 tiles on it rather than replace them like they did on the prior flight? They wanted to stress test the TPS?

[@Lu.capuchino]

@@imaginary_friend7300 They didnt redo the whole heatshield because it was not needed in some areas, the real stress test was on the sides and on the forward flaps

[@gregedmand9939]

The only real solution to getting propellant to the launch site, in enough volume to supply a busy launch schedule is: bulk delivery. That means either a rail line or pipeline. It would take a dedicated fleet of tanker trucks running non-stop to deliver that quantity. This will require a much heavier duty roadway to support the weight and wide enough not to hinder other traffic. A rail spur to the site would be far less expensive than new roads and a dedicated fleet of trucks. A pipeline would be even better.

[@imaginary_friend7300]

That might be the plan, since last I heard missions will fly from the cape while Boca remains a primary R&D site.

[@PhotoArtBrussels]

SpaceX has said they can do a propulsive landing with Dragon now. Can you imagine that one landing back at the cape! That would be to cool!

[@imaginary_friend7300]

When and where did they say this? I know they wanted to that originally but was dropped and there is no landing hardware. What Dragon are they going to modify?

[@mikelee-i3b]

awesome presentation and content.....as usual.....Thanks😊

[@peter-hr1gl]

Seemed to visually be a perfect launch so curious to see what the 'regular' damage is to the OLM and the tower and quick disconnect. If those structures are burned each time to the point of requiring refurbishment, the design may need to be altered to support rapid reuse. Love seeing all the raptor engines and the diamond design.

[@imaginary_friend7300]

Yes, it's all still a giant WIP!

[@mrdebris1217]

Thanks for the update, Marcus.

[@mikedixon4979]

Always best updates. Thank you

[@notapplicable7292]

As a human, landing on a starship seems like a truely terrifying proposal.

[@GeraltofRivia5150]

Agreed, NASA, JPL and others are very good at making probes, landers and science missions. Leave the heavy haul business to private corps to compete with each other.

[@TheOriginalJAX]

I say I say those look like legs on that there Starship; Not sure how some people expected the thing to land reliably and actually take off again without blowing up without legs but there we go. Then again it is kind of funny that some people don't get simple things even after having it explained to them, good thing we have pretty pictures!

[@Miguel9t5]

Space X mentioned in the broadcast that some of the tiles were made of steel for testing, I think the strip of missing tiles are where the steel ones were and they burnt off