Starship Flight 6 Approaches: Timeline, Tests & The Road Ahead! 🚀

[@GlideYNRG]

You don't appreciate how long you've been watching till a "recap" then you realise how far things have progressed in that amount of time. Thank you NSF for another great no nonsense update.

[@R0bobb1e]

I've been waiting for this since BFS was announced.

[@RocketMan200]

I've been following SpaceX since Falcon 1. I remember Star Hoppers' hop test. It is crazy how far SpaceX has come.

[@woodlanditguy2951]

a MAJOR milestone that so far ONLY SpaceX has done was also accomplished on Flight 3, and that is, steaming high bandwidth data during reentry. This has never been done until Starship.

[@artemkras]

Throughout the reentry, even the plasma phase!

[@ahealthybigmac]

As someone who just started following space x development closely after flight 5, thank you for the history rundown.

[@WeAllLaughDownHere-ne2ou]

Happy to see new space nerds being born! Welcome!

[@artemkras]

Welcome

[@GeekyBrian96]

It's only going to get cooler!

[@NASASpaceflight]

Welcome!

[@egooidios5061]

welcome aboard!

[@claudew5582]

This was an interesting reprise of Starship, well done NSF.

[@oldmanstumpie1061]

4:50 "The mega mach diamonds" makes me smile everytime :-)

[@GreatMewtwo]

💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎

[@JakeSilvester]

Amazing video! I watched every event of this whole program live thanks to your amazing coverage! The recap was a very nice touch!

[@WyoSavage1976]

You guys are my favorite on space news. No click bait or melodrama. Just the facts.

[@JohnFoerster-i5y]

SN 15 , I named it "la quincianerra" was the first survivor of the flight, bellyflop, and landing without a RUD.🎉🎉

[@liamb8379]

Another starship launch on my birthday.. Cant wait!!!

[@NetherLad]

Gotte catch them all.

[@basbekjenl]

It has been a journey to watch but we had faith in SpaceX. They proved their methods worked with falcon9, starship is the same just a whole lot crazier. I fully expect a starship in orbit getting fuel from a station in orbit next year. The landings and reuse would be great too but im most excited to see what starship is going to be able to do reusable or not. To me reusability is a luxury to make it far more affordable to go to space but it's optional as long as the rocket can do it's mission and put payloads on their target orbit.

[@imaginary_friend7300]

They plan to be their own biggest customer so lowering the cost per flight is their highest priority.

[@muhammadrizqanilmi1301]

Starship is way so insane for SpaceX but also coolest and the most futuristic looking rocket currently in development.

[@javaman4584]

This was a key video for Jack.

[@eerice704]

Thank you for the early history of Starship, I've been here since flight 1 but found it hard to find chronological information on the tests before that flight, I finally feel caught up now!

[@muhammadrizqanilmi1301]

25 flight in 2025 means that they *must launch at least 2-3 times each month* and that's insane cadence!

[@GeekyBrian96]

Once a month from each tower, I think it's possible, especially when the Florida tower is done that will be 3.

[@willbritton133]

@@GeekyBrian96 I think it will take far into 2025 to have pad B and its tower operational.

[@Urufu-san]

I would celebrate 16 flights in 2025, I don’t think 25 are realistic.

[@spaceyplumm]

Much love Jack, I wish you all the best birds and bacon, kayaks and kilts!

[@HFMcCormack]

This is a great recap of the Starship program, great job Jack, Alejandro, and the whole team. Can't wait to see the one you put out next year!

[@Bqd23]

Thanks Jack for the amazing recap. You can't really appreciate how far SpaceX has come until you do a recap summary and see the huge progress of every succession in the plan to get to Mars. Huge improvements each step of the way. I can't Thank the whole NSF Team enough for bringing us each step of the way watching and waiting for each successful step Spacex takes. Truly amazing the accomplishments in just 5 years for the starship program. Amazing. Thanks NSF Team for all you do.

[@YovanNoel]

This level of coverage and documentation is unmatched on the internet. Massive respect to the entire NSF team! ❤❤❤

[@notsomadscientist9602]

Exciting times we live in! LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!

[@Veptis]

If in the future, they attempt a ship landing/catch during a test flight. Where would that be? Once around to florida? Several orbits? Offshore platform? Back at Boca? Rhe moon/mars... Also I feel like you could gain a lot by doing some data visualization, such as timeline or a table of ship/booster pairs. Will we ever get to see a CRS-16 style landing attemp/abort?

[@TheNheg66]

Can't do once around launching from Texas, earth rotates too far in the 1,5h that it takes for the ship to orbit and starship doesn't have the crossrange abilities that the Shuttle did to compensate, so it will be almost certainly at least 4 orbits for landing at the launch site. (maybe 3 if they launch from texas and land at florida, but i don't see this happening. Starship would have to overfly heavily populated areas to land at FL)

[@RippanYT]

IFT-1 doing 360 kerbal spins will always be one of my highlights of the Starship program

[@DebraJean196]

Great historical recap!

[@badrinair]

THank you Jack adn NSF team . superb recap of all things that has happened so far. Enginering at its finest.

[@ozzyastronaut9299]

They caught a booster!!!

[@kalestarling6020]

They did?!

[@artemkras]

Really?! )

[@DebraJean196]

They did???!!!

[@jeremyblocker2609]

love you guys

[@wendyhood1006]

What a awesome video you really captured the essence of time and speed of SpaceX just amazing how far they have come in a short space of time and I watched it all with you guys thank you 😊

[@refurbansuburban]

Nice Hat! Great Report. Thanks, NSF!

[@kamikazeuk2434]

Awesome thanks 😊 love the content

[@jeeping32810]

I loved this recap video. While I have watched most if not all of the videos that made up the recap, I welcome just talking about this ANY TIME!!!

[@MarcusSHere23]

Thank you NASASpaceFlight!

[@JohanMsWorld]

Is it only a year since flight 2? I would have guessed a lot longer.

[@Radmsc]

Great video once again. Awesome to see how fast reiterative design can progress this fast. I'm missing one detail on the video though. Didn't they simulate a catch on the tower on flight 4 while the booster actually landed in the water?

[@59seank]

Thanks Jack. I appreciate your work.

[@michaelcox1071]

Great summary! Thanks!

[@John-t2b3gym]

Great work Jack, your a legend for NSF

[@RocketMan200]

Never thought I would say this, but im looking forward to a Monday.

[@wmason1961]

I can't wait to see a launch. The last time I went to South Padre, there was no tower yet. Or boosters. I did get fairly close to Starship. I look forward to the day when launches can be accurately scheduled so as to coincide with vacations.

[@BaconManStan]

I hope the ships get space shuttle like names so we can be extra happy when they are reused! Also, keeping the serial numbers will make it more sci-fi, which I'm fine with as well! 👍👍

[@artemkras]

I don't know, with the cadence they want to achieve... Would you care how Falcon 9 boosters are named? Man, I don't even watch them launch anymore. I guess, the prominent ones like Starhopper will be named, though.

[@DebraJean196]

They should name the ships for sure! True Starships are named!

[@mikegardner107]

@@DebraJean196Starting with ships to the moon and Ships to Mars.

[@BenjySparky]

Jack and NSF, y'all rock! ❤ Peace 🤘

[@joeponce9053]

Great work thx

[@corrinastanley125]

Great summary, thanks Jack and the NSF team.

[@Charlie-Oooooo]

Seems like only yesterday we were endlessly eyeing the cousins and early descendants of Star Hopper, steel tanks and Starships standing stoically next to the wild flora on the Boca Chica horizon, with the occasional clouds of gas from pressure testing - or the real treat of engine ignition and eventually glorious soaring flight, followed by a breath-taking touchdown (or the sudden surprise of a rapid unscheduled disassembly!). And then there was all the fun times listening to Jack narrate over 10x-speed Boca Chica Gal videos of Star Base, with mini bucket loaders cruising across the screen at NASCAR speeds! WAS THIS REALLY 5 YEARS AGO???

[@edthompson9569]

Please do a deep dive on the HLS.

[@JohnRine-q8o]

The NSF theme music is just BANGING. Id love to have a full track.

[@konkam744]

Thanks for the tribute, it really deserves it and I'm glad it gets its recognition

[@dennislaw9075]

Excellent episode Jack

[@markhuebner7580]

Go Jack, go! Awesome show!

[@samuelec]

Great recap, thank you

[@ttocsfitz]

Excellent video 👏

[@maxivy]

What a nice treat to have a Jack vid on a thursday

[@mongolloyd8310]

Can't wait for tanker/filler ships.

[@merxellus1456]

Petition to include Booster landing in the final intro

[@rohullahkarimi744]

Can't wait for IFT 6

[@alfref]

Really good recap. Could you explain a little what the diagram at 16:40 is?

[@GlockMan70]

They caught a booster?!?!?! NO WAY DUDE!!!

[@robert-brydson-1]

the tiles must be coming off the main body in all the tests for them to be still be changing them and adding extra layers underneath ?

[@paulschulte1064]

What was floating in the background at 15:06?

[@AstonRBLX_LLD7]

Nice

[@Flurdaman]

How do they purge all of the ice water out of the tank quickly. Liquid nitrogen flush?

[@RedSkysAreOnFire]

thats in the evening in the dark in the uk for flight 6

[@GreatMewtwo]

Flight 4 (Ship 29) was the "Nemo" Starship. That flap never gave up. Flight 5 was the "Rainbow Fish" Starship (and they caught flies with chopsticks).

[@ThexBorg]

DAAS Kerbel!

[@JDVT10]

Like this if NSF is the reason you’re studying engineering/stem… I’ll go first: 👍🏼

[@chadwynia5021]

Would be awesome if they always had a launch on 11/18 every year

[@stillatwork]

So flight 7 will be the first functional flight that will deliver a payload. Maybe not the first fully reusable one, that may be flight 8.

[@TroyRubert]

You aren't going to give us a content warning when showing the pipe being obliterated, How could you?!? I was not ready fo see that again.

[@mikegardner107]

“Pipe”?

[@TonyStinger]

Background song?

[@clay-tw5gc]

16:18 I thought it was mobetta, not more better.

[@jaypaint4855]

4/20 24/7 🤣🤣

[@m1079Chenhnh]

Simply wonderful! Thank you for your passion for what you do! 🔥😛

[@NESC33]

Who are these people self exhibiting themselves as an affiliate of NASA?

[@NESC33]

Using a similar name is against NASA's policies as NASA is a government agency. Are they profiting?

[@Starsoon1]

@@NESC33 They got permission from NASA

[@NESC33]

@Starsoon1 To profit from taxpayers? That is unlawful.

[@adamkatavic6914]

@@NESC33​​⁠​⁠you tell them!! Outrageous!! Only problem is the last of claim to be an affiliate… and their many, many years long relationship with not only NASA but virtually every large body/manufacturer in space flight, particularly USA… What was it that made you upset about their name? Something obviously did, with claims of tax payer violation etc…

[@SanidhyaShukla-dn4sg]

bro how may tumes are you gonna say “ key “

[@Lex-n1k]

And New Glen is getting ready for it's first test flight.

[@joshuapie5415]

$Banana for scale

[@dhen-marccastillon923]

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[@zoranocokoljic8927]

next milestone: get the bloody thing into orbit

[@nelsonlanglois9104]

SpaceX research 3 Steps Forward / 1 step back ...ok..next launch...

[@hoacha1]

The Chinese must be hoping a starship accidentally comes down within their borders

[@Wurtoz9643]

How would that happen. It would have to fail so hard for that.

[@John-nc4bl]

Cut to the chase man instead of rehasing over old stuff.

[@colemantrebor1610]

Lots of new views after booster catch

[@riot2136]

Did you just tell him to stop trying to make more money, brother?

[@adamkatavic6914]

Hahaha, I don’t think you understand.. the premise of this video is rehashing the history of Starship since manufacture began…

[@user-Atamigaputer]

Such a SHAME ROCKET MAN NOW DESPISED AS A RUZKI TRAITOR

[@ch4.hayabusa]

* it's not up to, EM said much more than 25. Why is NSF so pessimistic.

[@ale131296]

It's up to, that's what Kathy said that Elon would want them to launch 25 times in 2025. No, Elon did not say "much more than 25", not even sure where you've seen that. 25 launches in 2025 is not pessimistic, it's actually a whole lot of unicorn-under-the-flame-trench-land.

[@ch4.hayabusa]

​@@ale131296 November 10th, he responded to a “one Starship launch every two weeks by the end of 2025” with “We will be much faster than that”

[@ale131296]

@ that's like a whole different thing than claiming he said "more than 25". He's referring to the cadence at the end of the next year not about the total launches by the end of the year. In order to get 25 launches in 2025 the **average cadence** needs to be of one launch every two weeks but that's an average. Under the assumption they can even get to that number of launches, the start of the year will intrinsically start at a much lower cadence than a launch every two weeks, it's not an instantaneous change it is a ramp up. So in order to compensate for that, this cadence needs to be *much faster than that* by the end of the year in order to compensate the slower start of the year so that across the entirety of 2025 it averages one launch every two weeks.

[@adamkatavic6914]

@@ale131296ugh… full time job if one was going to try and correct/answer every stupid comment/assumption/question in the comments on NSF’s channel alone hey!! Really didn’t think it was so hard to tease a logical flight rate out of Musk’s statement…

[@mason6300]

Now Musk is in charge of government efficiency, I imagine dismantling and reorganizing the FAA will be his No 1 priority. So we shouldn't have the same ridiculous delays and stops that have plagued the program for the past few years.

[@HoboMRMc]

Wrong... your like the CNN of news about Space X Finally this and what eventually that but then say they are so fast and then diss about using cranes and prototype starships to configure the tower. Very confusing reporting!!

[@rubikmonat6589]

Very confusing comment!! What was wrong? Your single sentence has so many "then" and "and" that it doesn't make sense.

[@adamkatavic6914]

To be honest I agree with @Rubikmontat6589 …. Was pretty clear and easily digestible timeline, presented chronologically… unlike your comment that kind of trips over itself when read. What was “wrong”? I wouldn’t call it a diss about using cranes, more an observation of how much less advanced it appears compared to current methods of stacking…

[@linyenchin6773]

A lot more launching* the word "launches" is a verb, it is the proclivity to launch, you mouth-breathers adore misuse of verbs that en in "s" as if such verbs are simultaneously "plural nouns," few of them really arez most are lies of your laziness.