Booster 13 Conducts Cryo Proof Testing at the Massey Outpost | SpaceX Boca Chica

More development hardware for Starship version 2 was spotted, the launch mount and chopsticks were tested, and Booster 13 underwent a cryo proof at the Massey Outpost.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Glass Installed on Starfactory
0:23 Fan Motors in Starfactory
0:34 Parking Garage Construction
0:56 Parking Garage Section
1:10 Dev Barrel With Edome
1:36 B14.1 Common Dome Section
1:46 Drilling Machine Arrives
2:13 LR 11000 Moved to the OLM
2:46 Parking Garage Verticals Installed
3:01 Ship 30 in the New High Bay
3:13 Starfactory
3:31 Office Building Construction
3:46 Earthwork in Front of Sign
4:11 Foundation Work for Second Pad
4:21 Parts Unloaded From Truck
4:29 Jersey Barrier Moved
4:41 Tower Removed
4:57 The OLM and Chopsticks
5:09 Work on the BQD
5:40 LR 11000 Crane Hooked to Adapter
6:25 OLM Hold Down Tested
6:35 The Chopsticks
6:44 Work on the Tank Farm
6:55 Vacuum Trucks at the Tank Farm
7:16 The Ship QD Arm
7:28 Booster 13 Cryo Testing
8:10 LR 11000 Moved to Pad B
8:35 Chopstick and Tank Farm Testing
8:56 Chopstick Control Testing

[@MrKellymcilrath]

Thanks Mary, Jack, Sean, & NSF great videos. Thank you NSF For Another Great SpaceX Boca Chica Update!!!

[@andrewwilliamson3513]

At 6:45 the "pair of disks" is something called a spectacle blind. It's a combination of a blind flange that is used to isolate equipment or piping along with a spacer ring that takes up the gap in the flange while allowing normal flow through the pipe. These are permanently installed in areas that have been identified as a common spot to isolate via blinding when maintenance work needs to be done, and allow for very quick visual inspection as to the blind's orientation (blind or open). The operations side of running a tank farm full of cryo liquids is largely ignored because people mostly care about "rocket go burrrr" 😂 Without the ops people and the millwrights/pipe fitters, nothing gets off the ground and no welding or pipe work is permitted to happen.

[@dphuntsman]

I’m showing ignorance here; is what you’re calling a ‘blind’ essentially an isolation valve, to be closed for when work needs to be done? Or am I way off base?

[@chernoknignik]

Похоже, если сварку на трубе или рядом, где есть утечка газ - кислород, будет атомный апокалипсис. Ура специалистам работающим с криожидкостями

[@dphuntsman]

@@chernoknignik Sorry, there’s no Translate in the Comments section; also, KZbin doesn’t allow Copy/Paste so I can’t use a translate app.

[@bryanillenberg]

@@dphuntsman Translation: "It seems that if welding is done on or near a pipe where there is a gas-oxygen leak, there will be a nuclear apocalypse. Hurray for specialists working with cryofluids"

[@chernoknignik]

@@dphuntsman translation system glitch. click comment. you read where he is, according to the meaning. press video, cube of the video itself. you are looking for a comment in the text. translation works there. I realized it a long time ago.

[@DebraJean196]

Please be sure to hit 👍to thank the guys and gals at NSF for all their hard work!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@AdamJ03]

Those "Big A** Fans" are really awesome. I have seen them at baseball field overhangs, large warehouses, etc. They really move air! Anyways awesome video as always!!! ❤

[@lucass.decordoba8195]

Holy chist! I hadn't seen that chopstick test! Dayumm that was fast! That swing at the end of the movement through...😂 booster better not shutdown While it's swing away or it's going with the ass straight to the ground. Maybe that's the reason for stub sticks. I know that this is not news and many have theorized that before btw...

[@raytribble8075]

Love those Big Ass Fans (real name) as I had them in all my shops in south Texas. They can move some air.

[@stevengaming3689]

We're close to seeing the chopsticks catching!

[@anthonylosego]

They really need to use F9 suicide burn calculations on the movement of the chopsticks. So it stops right where it needs to.

[@RichardFrost800]

what they should have done was built second tower on its own, no launch pad and used that so if something went wrong it didnt kill ground zero

[@Lu.capuchino]

cant detank CH4 without olm​@@RichardFrost800

[@FastSloth87]

@@anthonylosegothe new tower will have shorter arms, so at least that one will wobble a bit less.

[@bofh85]

Minimum 6 months from now still isn't "close" in my eyes.

[@Mattguyverr]

That dude backing up the truck with the drill on it is a surgeon! He never pulled forward once and had at least 3 pivot points in the hitch.

[@jamesrosar3823]

For most mortals, backing a simple trailer is hard enough. A double trailer will trouble all but the true pros. I would not have thought it possible to back a triple, except that I saw it!

[@heartysteer8752]

@@jamesrosar3823 No, you didn't see it. See the guy standing on the side of the back? He was steering the rear. The back steers too so they can get around tighter corners.

[@nirbhay_raghav]

​@@heartysteer8752 he also probably has a radio and guiding the driver. But it is still tough nonetheless.

[@JakeSilvester]

Great vid as always guys!

[@corrinastanley125]

Thanks NSF team great update .

[@Antykain]

The progress is still mind boggling.. Been watching this progress since the beginning, and it still amazes me.. 🤘

[@fredpryde8555]

thanks for sharing that incredible footage awesome camera work well done

[@iwayini]

Brilliant. Many thanks!

[@JR-ey3oo]

As an electrician I love the Big Ass fans!

[@GeekyBrian96]

Crazy seeing it grow from nothing to a town in a few year's.

[@jack4socal]

Thank you!

[@jellybean7994]

9:00 Just realized they might actually only swing one arm at that speed, since it being caught on that side of the olm

[@MustafaKemal-oe8ie]

I’d love to work there one day.

[@badrinair]

Thank you Mary,. Jack, Sean and NSF team for sharing these wonderful updates. Relly hoping to see IFT4 this month

[@officialwildcardadventures]

I love this so much. Just a few short months ago Massey's was nothing but a compact, flat, dirt surface. Great work NSF.

[@not2busy]

Hhmmm . . . . . making a Martian landscape in front of the Gateway to Mars sign !

[@favesongslist]

Exciting to see the buildings going up, yet alone the booster testing etc.

[@MrCrystalcranium]

I love this ongoing update and continual coverage of this massive endeavor. The one thing that claws at me is this entire enterprise is driven by the vision and the money of one man and his company. What happens if...something happens to either him or the cashflow? I hope there's an infrastructure in place to support the work and the goals for the long term. It would be heartbreaking and a great tragedy to visit BC and Starbase in a decade only to see an urban ruin. This is a great gamble. Musk is driving his company, its people and all of us space nuts to believe we can take a huge leap and dream unimaginable things. I'm onboard but terrified this is all too good to be true. With each Starship launch my hopes and dreams soar on that long blue plume. They'll be many challenges and setbacks along the way. My prayers are with all of these visionaries who are daring to dream, not just big, but to go where no man has gone before! Live Long and Prosper Elon!

[@duarteper27]

Good news 😊

[@dissaid]

Awesome guys! 😎😎😎

[@PatrickLipsinic]

SpaceX are fans of Big Ass Fans

[@roucoupse]

How do they fix a hypothetical leak after a test?

[@marklipsinic7916]

That sir/madam is a Big Ass Fan.

[@heartysteer8752]

Yeah

[@jblob5764]

Constant state of change around there

[@officialwildcardadventures]

Chopstick speed looks good. re: the footage that's not sped up.

[@Wild-Eye]

6:47 That’s a huge spectacle blind 👍🏻 looks like the are blocking off that port.

[@CrasyFingers]

launch it!!!! omg can't wait until they have regular launches, i wonder how many starlink satellites is it gonna launch at once, like 100-200?

[@NateBaxley]

1) I'd love to see a side-by-side, real-time comparison of chopstick arm speed before and after. 2) When will we see a Mexico-based Massey cam!?

[@stuartsulewski5569]

Did anyone notice the Swirl marks on the Ring section with E-Dome?? What do you think? Friction Welding or sanding????

[@Gufty9s]

Was that a nose cone section at 1:13. Shown again later at 1:40. Why so small? Could it be a docking version?

[@tazerface8659]

Them windows are some thicc bois

[@scottpritchard5677]

Starbase has certainly grown the last couple of years. Makes sense since SpaceX is crammed in Hawthorn.

[@Cherzo-ru5fv]

Remarkable that everything at starbase is made from steel beams, except the parking structure is all prefab concrete 🤔

[@officialwildcardadventures]

@7:00 what is the purpose of the perlite? To minimize radiative energy transfer between the inner tank liner and outer tank surface? I googled this one. I have previously only known perlite as a soil additive. Learn something new everyday. Thank you NSF.

[@thomashayden804]

Yep! Just a good insulator that they could easily fill them up with

[@smavtmb2196]

SpaceX has replaced/upgraded 1 of the chopstick actuators so far and has been speed testing it, but when they go to stop. The chopstick arm oscillates back & forth for a few seconds. That extra movement isn't good when trying to catch a booster. Reducing weight would likely reduce that movement. We already know the chopsticks on the 2nd launch tower will be shorter. So I wonder if SpaceX could just trim off the unnecessary extra length on the current chopsticks. This would significantly reduce their weight, aswell as unwanted back and forth movement when trying to stop quickly.

[@juliefizpatrick513]

👍👍

[@SamuelLopez-id4po]

The time run

[@i31215]

[@James_Scheid]

0:28 that's a Big Ass fan! 😺

[@fnowat]

I wonder. If they're recycling that perlite insulation from the tank farm? Why not utilize that in the exterior of the office building? I don't know what the "R" factor would be but you already purchased that perlite, why not use it?

[@heartysteer8752]

Tends to be messy because of how it flows.

[@locomanjim1554]

3:44 Gunshot of did someone drop something?

[@shaungisler6604]

I moved to Brownsville so I can be in the middle of all this. Where else you gonna see interplanetary spaceships being built on the side of the road?

[@adenwellsmith6908]

Interesting that the crawler doesn't have wheels. It's a flat surface on the tracks.

[@MrLuumpy]

The chopsticks should have been designed to open wider to avoid exhaust plume. Repair after repair isn't working well.

[@northendgaming3831]

Watching the end of the chopsticks swing about after they should have stopped is not encouraging. Catching a booster is going to be very hard.

[@giacomomartelli5771]

Ludicrous mode on chopsticks : done

[@SolarWindsRider]

That garage seems to be too small. One would think you potentially need hundreds of parking spots (maybe 1000+) for the production site.

[@joshuabruno]

It's a G move to post all this uninterrupted b-roll & let the community run with it. If I ever meet the MSF cats, it's going to be high fives all around and a round of drinks on me.

[@PeteSty]

I still don't get the constant work on the booster quick disconnect. Just let it burn off and done. Put on a new one.

[@MrFoxRobert]

👋👍

[@chernoknignik]

Привет Бока Чика! Я для вас рисую эскиз , посадочный модуль для грузовика Starship. Можно сесть на Луну. И приземлиться на Землю. Вам останется только начертить , собрать и испытать. Диаметр до 8 метров в собранном виде. Длина 15 метров.

[@user-sv1eh6ej9e]

Tiếng ke ke đó nghe ở đâu đó rồi, à, trên trái đất nhé

[@MikesTropicalTech]

Those are literally called 'Big Ass Fans'.

[@antonybastin3432]

👍👍👍🇮🇳

[@martounis630]

Elon really builds like he is in simcity

[@GabroPlayz]

Simcity but it's IRL 😅

[@chernoknignik]

Опасная у них работа

[@BabyMakR]

They have a guy pushing a broom? Labour costs must really be low if they're paying a guy to push a broom.

[@TheRyanbye]

booster 13 from j and j or , Pfizer

[@JoeDaManTheHC]

👀🐔👀🐔😁