SpaceX Boca Chica: Starship SN11 Rolls Out to the Launch Pad

[@NASASpaceflight]

Time Stamps! 0:00​ Starship SN11 Prepares to Roll Out 0:30​ SN11 Closeup Pan 2:35​ Final Inspections are Made for Roll Out 4:30​ SN11 Leaves the Production Site 5:55​ SN11 Moves Down Highway 4 7:11​ SN11 Makes the Final Turn into the Launch Pad 8:08​ Tankzilla Prepares to Lift SN11 8:32​ Crews Attach Straps to SN11 9:10​ Concrete Continues to Arrive 11:23​ Final Checks are Made for the Lift 12:05​ SN11 Lifted from the Transporters 12:47​ Pad View of First Lift 13:43​ SN11 Lifted onto the Launch Mount 14:30​ Mary’s View of Final Lift 15:17​ Beach View of Final Lift 16:05​ SN11 is Mounted to the Pad 16:35​ Starship Sunset

[@ryandavis4448]

@@qwertyeet all day man. Their live stream started that morning and ended that night. But she's up and ready to be fitted with a fire breathing rapture.

[@daniilpashuk6017]

Is there a launch date already?

[@sagarmali9492]

Launch new date???

[@ryandavis4448]

@@sagarmali9492 not yet, they still have to cryo test, and static fire, before setting a launch time. Most likely a couple weeks.

[@HarbingerOfTears]

So the waiting and anticipation begins again... Ah, what a marvelous project to follow!

[@ArthurrJenkins]

Welcome to the future bro 😂😂🤙🏻

[@VedafoneYT]

The suspense begun....

[@HarbingerOfTears]

@@ArthurrJenkins I’m definitely getting onboard on one of these in the near future! Just waiting for them to get human-rated, haha.

[@donjones4719]

Not a short wait. Elon tweeted today they are working on multiple fixes on SN11. including fuel flow to the engine. Not mentioned by him, but probably included in the "multiple," the fire in the engine bay hasn't been addressed.

[@irelae]

The best part is the buildup of excitement from when components start being spotted all the way up to assembly, pad rollout, and finally flight

[@starshipsn1056]

Finally after around 6 days, we don't have to see a sunrise without a Starship 🤩

[@wenpablo]

we miss you.

[@fish7nz16]

Legend sn10

[@zynix.2143]

See your little brother fly for tye first time

[@starshipsn8445]

Miss you son

[@anwar4227]

@@starshipsn8445 he or she ?

[@warzone8023]

This is legit the best channel for space activity updates ... THANX guys!!!!!

[@BodhiPolitic]

Marcus House is really good too for the weekly recaps. But this... the NSF gang feels like family.

[@IsMaski]

That sunset shot at the end is beautiful. Thank you Mary and Jack for capturing all of this. Everyone at NSF is just doing a fantastic job. Kudos you lot.. SN11, time for your success story.

[@albertoc4393]

Seriously, WHO is giving this a thumb down? Really? Come on, be supportive of the work and efforts of others. Thanks to them the whole world is moving forward. Instead of being negative, be nice and keep your thumb down to yourself. Kudos to the whole team at NSF, SpaceX and every decent human being out there that chooses to do something good. THANK YOU!!

[@TiJayFLY]

37 folks work on SLS

[@pounix3229]

This is insane. I can't believe we get to see this in our lifetimes!

[@tjguzik]

I remember a third moon-landing... a first computer (not PC)... ..... first celular phone... in 50 years the technology has changed...

[@cut--]

@@tjguzik I remember getting internet in the early 90's - (Prodigy, later AOL)- All it had was a black screen but you could chat with other people. A few of my friends asked me what used it for. After I told them I added soon there will be color pictures. They looked at me like I had 3 heads. "That's what TV is for.. that fad will never last" :)

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@@iamjadedhobo :):)

[@David-yo5ws]

@@SlartiMarvinbartfast 💯% agree with you. I spoke to a fellow group member at the dance night and had to tell him SN10 did not blow up till 7-8 minutes after the landing. The way the news showed it, he thought it was ON landing. Would it have even got on the News 'Slot', if it had never blown??? NASAsf is our saviour for REAL news.

[@BradiKal61]

back in the days of the Apollo program you got to see a launch every few YEARS. To see another ship on the pad after just a week is blowing my mind. Of course back then when there was an explosion or failure NASA locked down and went into CSI mode to see 'what went wrong'. any kind of failure was depressing because you knew that youd be waiting even longer before the next launch happened. the new mentality of 'do it till we get it right' is much more fun.

[@owensparks5013]

The counterintuitive thing being we have way better simulation tools today, so you'd expect the previous generation's development to be by practical experimentation and today's be by computer modelling.

[@patriciocobos]

Many thanks to the NSF Team represented by: Mary, Jack and Brady. You cannot imagine how important your work is. These videos have become a necessity and pages of history. thank you very much for what you do. Greetings from Santiago de CHILE.

[@peterbarratt8699]

Nice to have a window open on a daily basis; not like the old days when we were lucky to see an event after months, sometimes years, of anticipation. Thanks BCGal, & team.

[@philbendily8713]

Thanks for all the great updates!

[@waynelevett3632]

Wow. What a beautiful sight. I hope SN11 shows them all how it's done. Thank you for your amazing work for all our benefit.

[@honglianglim8637]

2:43 wasn't an inspection. It got a pat on the nose with a "you take care now" from it's dad. Like sending your son to college

[@badrinair]

WHen i got up this morning, I was sad that there was no new clip from NSF team. but realised that you gus had streamed for hours the big move . Mary and NSF team did not let me down. even if late, they delivered an amazing time lapse of the move. thank you very much guys. Love you.

[@acemax1124]

Great footage I love this stuff. So many rockets and they can produce them faster than I have seen anyone else in the business.

[@David-yo5ws]

Who else makes Starships?

[@nickholmer175]

Every time one of these rolls out it like seeing an old friend you haven't seen in a long time. I keep forgetting that they are all different.

[@lrees6412]

What a gorgeous sunset at the end of the video I'm a 56 year-old man and I lived on South Padre Island in my youth I somewhat wish I still live there today just to see all the stuff that's happening at the rocket site today

[@scottymoondogjakubin4766]

The sun setting with sn11 in the foreground was a really nice ending !

[@absolutelynotLily]

This is really awesome. I love how quickly they get things done

[@graceryan9895]

Right love to start the day with these

[@danparker6178]

Thanks for these daily updates

[@joshuawiggins3891]

love the big patch of heat tiles and sure hope they looked into the legs that didn't latch on SN10 great work Mary

[@DerkMiester]

That sunset shot! *Chef's kiss*

[@Jacob-ic8nb]

The fast pace spacex work is.mindvlowing

[@antonvilarchan]

Preciosa puesta de Sol. Impresionante trabajo y maquinas para pedazo cohetes...que miveis. Ya casi lo teneis controlado al 100% .Seguid así.

[@christiancassiram1713]

Loved the sunset outro!!!😍

[@davidroberts5602]

Hi Mary great thanks for your video best view of starship to date David 🚀❤️🇬🇧👍🙋‍♂️

[@dnatsa]

Wonderful sunset, Thank you1

[@danapeck5382]

Thanks! Much appreciated

[@sandrafigueiredo830]

Fico imaginando a emoção em ser parte de um projeto desse! Simplesmente extraordinário! É muito show isso! 👏👏👏👏

[@chonk3358]

Here we go SN11!!!!

[@cubeko1213]

I really hope it lands

[@Gubby-Man]

@@cubeko1213 Really hope it doesn’t explode after landing.

[@cubeko1213]

@@Gubby-Man and that XD

[@alexandergunda8916]

hopefully this time all landing legs will lock properly. Fingers crossed!

[@porkinator863]

But on the other hand, we could see another beautiful explosion

[@plasmic4727]

The issue wasn't only the landing legs, it also had a hard landing but yes I hope the legs properly deploy and stay deployed lol

[@JTube571]

@@porkinator863 Hopefully not. If that is all you're here for, you're in the wrong place.

[@alexandergunda8916]

@@plasmic4727 the landing legs are also the main shock absorbers. By failing to deploy all of them SN10 hit the ground with the skirt and maybe even with the engine nozzles -> big Bada Boom

[@David-yo5ws]

Yes, they should fit stronger springs and bigger catch's to Lock & Load. Also need to make some tweeks to the landing software.

[@seoliver]

Sunset shot is fantastic !

[@luffysenpai7658]

That's insane how huge is the StarShip!!

[@BonastreBiel]

How long did all this process take? A clock or a timer for the timelapse would be nice. The first thing I do in the morning, here in Barcelona, is watching these videos. Keep it up!

[@brett4264]

As I was watching SN-11 go down the road, the phrase "Dead Man Walking!" popped into my head. I sure hope I'm wrong!

[@sluxi]

Don't tell SN11 what happened to SN8-10

[@lamquangnguyen2758]

nigh pretty sure 11 say what happened to SN10 from the High Bay

[@rickster9993]

It would appear that each Star Ship has learned from the last. If we keep that up, we're on our way to the moon. It won't take much to go to the moon and we will learn a lot.

[@Leutchik]

@@rickster9993 The Russians and Chinese plan to build a moon base together. I hope they don't get ideas about 'staking claims to territory'.

[@David-yo5ws]

@@Leutchik Read the signed Space Treaty between nations. No claims on other planets!

[@jhunjhuncastro3811]

Watching from Rosario Pasig City Manila Philippines 🇵🇭 they are very fast building spaceship .

[@tripakastayw6872]

Same

[@ironage5471]

Dangerous complicated work, so simplified.

[@vitorcampos7077]

A huge stainless steel starship, looks like a warship :-D

[@gandontan]

:(

[@frozenwalkway]

@@gandontan even warships can fight on behalf of good

[@sixdfx]

Let's hope SN15 gets the rumored phaser banks

[@vitorcampos7077]

@@sixdfx or almost a pair of photon torpedoes

[@mawroom]

Like the timelapse of clouds moving in the background

[@SecretionOrb]

15:00 That must be surreal to stand at the bottom of that thing while it hovers there. An incomprehensibly huge mass of metal. I guess there are boats.. but they aren’t typically bare metal, or standing upright.

[@kingoface5996]

Thank god it didn't see SN10 explode

[@lazararck7627]

Launchpad is visible from the highbay y’know

[@starshipsn1056]

@@lazararck7627 Hope she (SN11) didn't saw that big ball of fire from midbay 😂

[@kingoface5996]

@@lazararck7627 dangit, Sn11 will make us proud!!

[@lazararck7627]

king of ace sure hope so.

[@porkinator863]

No, but she did hear it

[@jmow-t5023]

I have a good feeling about this one.

[@ThexBorg]

Exciting!

[@stuartlast8156]

Those guys at the beginning doing inspection before it left have got some bottle to go that height in a cherry picker !!!

[@ne1cup]

a little windy too

[@badram0204]

Not even for a million bucks , no way

[@mawroom]

And that is a routine task for those dudes 😎

[@Alex-lc1bv]

@@badram0204 I would do it for $100

[@blackdeath4u]

Saw your footage on the Colbert show of Sn10....NICE.

[@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot]

In the first clip it looks like half of sn11 is covered in heat tiles. I was taken aback for a second. Looks dope!

[@fjellgutten1603]

I'm rollin', rollin', rollin' Down the road, there ain't no stoppin Can't put nothing in my way I'ma keep rollin' to a brighter day Good things never come easy Yeah

[@sdv73168]

What would we ever do with out a fast forward button :)

[@hornethurdler]

If we’re going to depend on those legs again, i hope they all flip down and the engine throttles down more for a soft landing.

[@paulmoffat9306]

Just a thought: As the Starship will need solar panels in space, why not use the 'top' side of the body for them? May have enough protection during re entry due to being in the 'backdraft' position. Alternately, they could be under a cover that swings open when in space (has the advantage that 2x the area is available), closes up for re-entry - much like the Shuttle cargo doors.

[@bribrim]

it. Wonder if Mary, Jack and Brady (and the entire NSF team would consider putting the speed the video is app during sequences? Thanks!!

[@ThatArmchairRocketGuy]

Might only be 33yrs old, but the sight of SN11 going to the launch site in fast motion, kept making me think of the robot on the Jetsons!!!😂

[@Obsolit]

I got an ad about grain silos while watching this lmao

[@sixdfx]

Who doesn't love grain silos ?

[@David-yo5ws]

YT crams so many ads in, that my viewing pauses while it works out which 'local' ad to show me. Then they have the cheek to ask me if I want to pay for ad free YT!!! What a low life company!! The Catch22: If I had work, I could afford it, but not have time to watch it. Because I am out of work I have time to watch it but can't afford to watch ad free. 🤪

[@SodaPopin5ki]

Lovely Silhouette shot byJack Beyer at the end!

[@janedaniel7288]

Amazing footage. Thank you. xxJane

[@Etaukan]

Incredible coverage guys!

[@dgsantafedave1]

Job Interview 1st question at SpaceX Boca Chica, "are you scared of heights".

[@sleepdeep305]

Yep...almost everyone who works for spacex can't be afraid of heights

[@mauriciochaar]

Crazy. Amazing.

[@Mick_92]

Watch it rolling, watch it go.

[@chrust3k270]

Hurray new upload 🤤

[@jacobcharleszimmerman7934]

Something about those lifts moving around in fast motion is very entertaining. It has something to do with how much they wiggle I think, and how unnaturally long they are for their size.

[@raumzeit5949]

I have a good feeling about this one 🙌🦅

[@joejack8659]

Seriously. These guys are driving Flash Gordon ROCKET SHIPS down the HIGHWAY! It doesn't get much better than this. Sn11 making a soft landing on "X marks the spot" next.

[@rickster9993]

I wonder if a torus shape oxygen tank up front with baffles would help prevent fuel slosh. Plus might allow for a docking port up front.

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

Thanks guys 🥰

[@milankaperic6902]

Great video 🔝"SN11 Leaves ... into the Launch Pad"😂😆Wolk on / NSF 👏♥🌞

[@BradiKal61]

I'm wondering how the balance of Starship will change once they start flying a crewed version. the will the placement of the LOX header tank be moved to make room for crew?

[@alexanderd2540]

Most likely is kept as a radiation shilding

[@robe8274]

wen they get to production... are we going to have this transfer 1 or 2 times a day?

[@frabulakris6481]

😎

[@darkleome5409]

When, do you think, flight is expected?

[@apexpredator1018]

BETTER LEGS? (Not visible here) 2 BOOSTERS (NOT just 1) THROUGHOUT LANDING? 🤔 (If not, I'm skeptical...) Also, support NASA/SpaceX through joining the channel y'all!

[@tammymccaslin4787]

It’s nice to see Tankzilla doing her thing again. She was parked for quite a while this time.

[@JackdeDuCoeur]

Boy! I see the branches of trees shaking in the wind and I look at that tall, hollow windbreak being rolled to the launchpad secured only at the bottom, and I wonder "what could go wrong?"

[@BistroGlicerin3]

Yes yes yes, we are so close to Mars now

[@VedafoneYT]

Question ahead... If SN11 landed safely will it stay for further testing or the sequence go with SN15 also as planned.

[@michaelschmeidl4942]

what's the idea behind the concrete?

[@miguelromobalangon3048]

they putting some aerodynamics now🤩🤩🤩

[@tammymccaslin4787]

What happened to Mary’s camera that was set up outside the production site entrance?

[@robertcarbno3914]

I have ask this question on other sites but no one seems to know so here I go does anyone know what the hurricane mitigation plans for the construction and launch site are and are these sites prone to hurricane flooding.

[@HoppersLab]

I would suggest a 5 to 10 deg radial taper on the bottom of the rear fins.

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalex]

Guys, can someone tell me if we can listen to the ending music somewhere? I would like to have the link if there is :)

[@bribrim]

The Shazam app should be able to catch ot.

[@milesking6245]

What's new in SN11? Legs? Materials? Flaps? ...bar a few tiles?

[@chrisethompson]

I suspect it is mostly new software alongside incremental improvements to the raptors. More major changes are in SN15.

[@milesking6245]

@@chrisethompson Many thanks Chris - what I thought, but would welcome any other info. I think SN15 has new legs and thinner walls etc. Best wishes.

[@hayden1178]

Hopefully, they can get Sn11 flying before April!

[@joyl7842]

beautiful sunset!

[@JustSomeCanuck]

You missed having "Also sprach Zarathustra" playing in the background of that pan shot up SN11. Would have been perfect!

[@larsbaten6369]

how much times is this footage sped up?

[@svenp6504]

That looks like a scary setup with that wind ripping like it is...

[@markissboi3583]

Amazing how simpler spacex has made all rocket launches .

[@David-yo5ws]

I would not use the word 'simpler'. More like 'simply routine' launches. They make it look easy, though with the scrubs, they are not getting complacent. A good sign.

[@DukeofBabes]

If they want to vertically land shouldn't the rocket have better legs? With hydraulic cushions? The added weight wouldn't bother those nine Falcons.

[@tripakastayw6872]

They are now working on better legs

[@jasonmcgee7457]

No idea if this came from my comment or not but either way, I'm glad it's here

[@elliotharker2985]

What is that NASA fairing at about 2:00?

[@Mythricia1988]

It's a mock-up for the lunar version of Starship. Apparently NASA personnel is on site and the insides of that nosecone is being used for experiments regarding the NASA Human Landing System program (which Starship is part of). It's not a functional prototype, just a mock-up to allow them to try things out.

[@Backinthegame.]

Thanks Mary.

[@jayrymer2097]

They should have a big conveyor belt that is connected to the build facility and the launch site, so they can really pump starships out.

[@stevec404]

Amazing to see how high the cherry picker goes!

[@joyl7842]

Is there any purpose to all the flashing lights on the escort vehicles during daytime? They look lit up like Christmas trees.

[@JackdeDuCoeur]

NSF never disappoints! Thanks to you, for sure!

[@Dawgsofwinter]

panel hanging off side halfway between large patch and upper patch of tiles. any guesses what that is?

[@Mythricia1988]

Noticed that too. Not sure if that has been on previous prototypes.

[@slicksalmon6948]

Any news on the redesign of the landing legs?

[@tripakastayw6872]

For me idk yet

[@michaelsmith2723]

SN11 marching to its fate oblivious to the fate of its brothers. What a brave grain silo.

[@kerbal8216]

Some of the heat tiles appear to be halved?