SpaceX Reveal Starship V2's Raptor Engines, Flight 6 is NEXT WEEK, & China's "Not Starship"

[@archierush868]

Minor correction about ship reentry: It’s only gonna do the higher angle near the end of the reentry profile and not for the entire reentry sequence, and this is also not the reason why it’s gonna reenter in daylight, it’s just gonna launch much later, 4PM rather than the regular 7AM local. Edit:Also, I’d probably recommend delaying the next STW (Space This Week) until Tuesday so that you could actually fit the flight into next week’s episode. It’s expected to launch for us Brits at around 10PM

[@Duckly97]

3:00 That decal is very close to the flap, I wonder if it's a way to check how much heat gets through the hinge gap

[@anthonyperks2201]

That'd would assume that you're going to check it after you fish it out of the ocean...

[@Duckly97]

@@anthonyperks2201 Well there's cameras

[@coconutbara1366]

First time I have ever watched space this week with in an hour of release and I’ve been watching Matt Lowne for like 5 years

[@Schinkeldink]

57min gang xD

[@dextynlabelle9326]

muahahahaha

[@spaceman4782]

I can’t believe I’ve been watching these since my freshman year in high school when I used them for my weekly current event paper!

[@HeitorSFS]

Flight 6 is next week, imagine at a moment that every week theres a Flight of Starship

[@kemsmith]

Weekly flights will be here sooner than we think! It's a matter of producing updated 2nd stages fast enough.

[@TheEvilmooseofdoom]

@@kemsmith Doubtful. There are versions planned past 2.

[@HeitorSFS]

@@kemsmith that makes sense, the world is evolving fast, really fast

[@DanyalAdam-n3n]

The Americans said to the Chinese: this is how to use chopsticks!... so they replied: hahaha let us show you how to use them properly!...

[@Sheepo-gk9yx]

i cant wait to see what starship V2 will do, its so exciting to see so much development within a new era of technology.

[@tacobells5-layerburrito119]

planet coaster 2... id love to see a series!

[@alexb-mc4jo]

He said no because the ui is too clunky and that he might do it if they improve the game

[@mrgaming-120]

peanut butter jelly banana going to space is so cool

[@Sundablakr]

China hasn't even managed to clone Falcon 9 yet, how are they trying to clone Starship already?

[@Philipasu]

They are in the business of cloning and copying, not in the business of succeeding. Why bother pushing for success when they can copy some more?

[@DeadBaron]

Imagine the lumber industry eg in Maine being revitalized because there becomes a growing demand for wood in the freaking space industry. What a time to be alive

[@Kovnik-08]

This is insane masive props to SpaceX

[@josephlloyd9542]

Oh look a fellow rain world fan

[@Kovnik-08]

@@josephlloyd9542 We are all over the internet hiding in the shadows with the gowing slugcats

[@sethdebiase7845]

I've now been watching you for two+ years. I look forward to every Monday to watch your in space this week episode!!

[@zenothksp]

Awesome that you showed Starbase Sim, it'd be cool if you could make a vid on it sometime

[@wezleyjackson9918]

Hi Matt - at 4:00 you say "..And thanks to the steeper re-entry angle the ship should hopefully land during the daylight" From what I can tell, the re-entry angle has nothing to do with the ship landing in daylight. It's because Starship/SH is launching at 22:00UTC, as opposed to flight 5 that launched at 12:25UTC - 10 hours difference ... Starship is landing in a similar location off the West Coast of Australia and I suspect the steeper re-entry angle would only make a few minutes difference - not hours... I just saw another poster pointed this out.. I love your channel - Great work.. Sorry to nitpick

[@SleepyGamerPR]

Your should do a live stream of IFT-6

[@Slimey_snail]

Hi, could you possibly do a video on how to get to laythe with a stock rocket?

[@voltage4039]

Love ur vids man

[@MrMonkey3]

Next flight is next week already HOW?

[@picipi1822]

***magic***

[@zhongxina9420]

ift 5 felt like yesrerday

[@Hungary_0987]

@@zhongxina9420ikr

[@GrandlLineSymphony]

How? Even flight 7 ships are already made.

[@allenfunstuff]

A starship weighs about 45 million bananas 🍌

[@joeteichert6821]

10:34 What a cool drone shot!

[@brycedarnell7395]

Weekly launches soon?

[@Vatsyayana87]

Soon is a relative word. So if you mean within the next few years, probably. If you mean in the next few months, probably not.

[@elsupremoclash7419]

Matt, can you make a ksp video about "reusability insanity" reusing non ssto rockets without quicksaves???

[@FinleyHarman-i2m]

Yooo here on 1 min 🎉

[@traviscecil3903]

Im loving the new teaser footage of KSA. Looks so real.

[@MK-4-Ğ]

I instantly clicked the video as a saw it. Have a nice week everyone

[@mr.ackermann807]

When they do decide to catch starship upper stage is it possible to instead of threading the chopsticks grabbers into the slot could they use internal linear or pneumatic bars to extend out just below where the fin connections are out of the slots and land like super heavy booster? Im not certain as to how much extra weight that would be, but it would mean it would have to hover in place for them to get into position and could be as fast as the first catch while potentially being safer.

[@JohnFoerster-i5y]

Would aquaculture be a viable option for raising food in interplanetary space, low Earth orbit, lunar orbit, lunar base, and martian transit flights?

[@JtM8292]

😲 🙌 China has the doppest drone shots !

[@davidlee8551]

Thank you.

[@TheRealEquinox]

Mr. 305! Mr. Worldwide!

[@NemoConsequentae]

Wooden satellites? Now we just need to engineer some _Stage Trees..._

[@microbeMan]

Hello Matt!

[@bmercil4577]

Noice!!!

[@javierchesav]

Is it gonna be "Wednesday my dudes" on next Wednesday?????? I can't wait for that

[@dextynlabelle9326]

HI MATT LOWNE!

[@ashtorak]

Good video! :)

[@BlackMesa322]

Please gib more KSP videos!

[@wildaviation5528]

If everything goes to plan, a starship flight every couple of weeks would be a massive failure. The ambition and ability to meet it of spacex is truly remarkable!

[@alexalvesferreira]

Failure?

[@zhongxina9420]

​@@alexalvesferreiraby SpaceX's goals launching a starship every couple of weeks is a failure in their eyes because they plan to launch every week. it's just mind boggling that the standards are so low for the rest that spacex's considered failure is unthinkable for any other company or space agency

[@KyleJohnson-ny7uu]

Rumored name for the chinese rocket is the Wii Tu Lo

[@AbeDillon]

SpaceX seems comparatively much less aggressive in testing Starship vs. the booster. Didn't they plan on testing internal fuel transfer systems a while back? It seems like there's so much else they could be testing while trying to dial in the heat shielding and landing system.

[@observer7070]

They did that already actually. I think during IFT 4. SpaceX is being cautious with starship because it is literally a few hundred tons of steel that can survive reentry. A lot of the tests need to be done in orbit but these can't be done unless starship is guaranteed safe. Success with IFT 6 should be enough for them to go full orbit. Then they also need a test to show starship sustainability and controllability for long duration missions. They really don't want a repeat of IFT 3 while in orbit.

[@MOHA_1484.]

Cant wait bro

[@JohnSmith-cb6qx]

Is it really a Chinese start-up if they're making a do-over?

[@Chromaz]

Why cant china just come up with an original ideas? Like they dont even attempt to change the homework to make it look like theirs

[@gopr3117]

Their whole tech sector is built on espionage

[@radiofreemongoliaofficial]

Because they can get away with it, that’s why.

[@EMichaelBall]

Their government is afraid of original thought, so they beat it out of their children.

[@Furebel]

You're not old enough if you don't recognize this banana as one of the first internet memes

[@ADonutMan]

6:54 * Obligatory outer wilds joke *

[@TlalocTemporal]

Hopefully they've fixed the exploding...

[@mewhenthetherealone]

for how long have you been doing space this week?

[@otiebrown9999]

Wish MUSK LUCK!

[@Polaris2025]

Together we are Toyota Matt 🙏🤑💸🫰

[@tedarcher9120]

Kinda cool that Japan launches rockets in the same place that 500 years ago produced first japanese guns and rockets

[@wesleyfilips7052]

6:50 Ligno ballz

[@Darsh0606]

How will they land on mars if they catch the ship?

[@fireX30]

Speaking of Starship clones, you didn’t mention Long March 9….

[@tippyc2]

10:38 RIP drone.

[@c00l_n00dles]

havent watched other youtubers cuz im waiting on your planet coaster 2 content.

[@chrispepper90]

Greetings from Crewe 😂

[@koffeekage]

We go mars

[@Halengar-o7]

That Chinese superheavy might nuke the pad if they try it first time.

[@Papershields001]

The Chinese drone footage game is getting strong these days.

[@PEK-97]

You forgot to mention the Shenzhou 18 & 19 crew swap over at the Tiangong Space Station!

[@Saturn_Enslaved]

7:25 Ligma Sat is a wild name

[@Blatant-pidgeon2]

of course itll launch on a Monday because why not

[@legobuildinggamer4048]

Props to Matt making a big space recaps as reliable as china copying spacex

[@SebastianWellsTL]

"Differently not a Starship clone". 😂 China is good at one thing: copying other peoples accomplishments and making them cheaper.

[@MustardM00se]

Isn't that the point?

[@YourArmsGone]

I'm not going to complain, Cheaper and more accessible space flights are the entire point.

[@yungwoodsgaming2875]

Thiugh this was honna be a ksp video 😅

[@Jeb_bezos]

Thiugh? honna?

[@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

I wonder if they'll build the Starship catch points from something like Tantalum-hafnium carbide? They need something that won't disintegrate on reentry, even if it is expensive..... :)

[@michaelreid2329]

Or make them deployable, such as a pin that pop out of the body

[@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

@@michaelreid2329 Could do! :) They need to take the weight of a Starship tho, so they need to be seriously sturdy!

[@BrianKelsay]

Is that a metric banana? 🍌🤔

[@dwelsman]

Does China put some kind of chemical in their rocket fuel to create red smoke during launches?

[@EMichaelBall]

No; that’s just the effects of hypergolics.

[@alexb-mc4jo]

Hypergolics are like super toxic as well, wouldnt want to go near the crash site of the boosters

[@welcometowherever7475]

Ayo

[@R-BGamingUK]

MONDAY EL MATTO

[@yummy_yummy_radiation]

one minute

[@Blurgert]

Day 79 of asking you to play REAL SOLAR SYSTEM the KERBAL SPACE PROMGRAM 1 Mod

[@TNT_FPV]

how can anything be worse than ksp2 ui?

[@leventeszecsy6262]

I wish US launches used more drones like China. Those dynamic drone shots are just so awesome.

[@MichaelDb-uq9dn]

why not land the ship in the cove , since its landing perfect in the water anyway , why not do close to space x , Then everybody can see , i’d have a bunch of air bags deploy when in water so they can take it out of water and back to Space X

[@Jeb_bezos]

Then it has too overfly Florida and Mexico or west coast. That is dangerous

[@alexb-mc4jo]

You know it's dangerous when jeb says no

[@Blurgert]

Day 80 of asking you to play REAL SOLAR SYSTEM the KERBAL SPACE PROMGRAM 1 Mod

[@jaydenwille2554]

6 views and 14 likes...

[@richiebordelon8164]

We need the Trump super heavy

[@Localnimation]

China? Siriously? Space race now are lame, i was expecting great inovation and uniq space craft from both side, now that i know one country just copy the other its just lame

[@EMichaelBall]

They may beat the US to the moon.

[@hegotdrip1319]

Early

[@Funnyvideosorcoolcontent]

WWWW

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

To be fair the only thing that China could clone of starship is the raptor engines. As that is the only new and exclusive tech on the veehilce right now or really have every been reviled. Which Starship does not need by the way as is more of a liblity if I'm honest. Given the vast majority of destroyed star ships was soly because of the engines being prototypes. So in theory China could have a working Star ship long before Space X does. Unless Musk drops the engines and just uses off the rack ones instead ofcorse. But this is china that has been using that same rocket tech forever so I dodut they can pull it off with out it being just a reskinned long march... But they can and Musk should be worried as that could take away all his juicy sub orbital stuff. although I doudt china could do that outside of the axis of evil but still... Also that would be a boon to the axis of evil given how blockaided they are and a sub orbit transport service between them would be nice. But yeah while this is a clone I can't say it is stolen tech as all what starship is, is very public infomation.

[@eikopoppy29]

The Raptors, and the orbital refueling tech are the only thing that will make it work. You can't just make a big tank and some catching arms and have a Mars colonizer. If you have a huge heavy rocket you need extremely efficient engines AND orbital refueling or else it won't have any useful payload. That's why Saturn V could launch a mission to and back from the moon but Starship currently can barely get an empty ship into LEO. It'll be a game changer if they can invent both of those technologies but only if. And China certainly won't any time soon. They can't even make airplanes let alone space ships.

[@AHC-MNR]

Bro you talk about space x too much

[@LoreBank]

1 veiw 15 seconds fell off 😔

[@brycedarnell7395]

1 like 3 minutes bro’s comments fell off

[@mrjnuts1]

Hey mat. I swear you built one or two planes and that from fiction. wonder if you have seen hawkwing from terrahawks

[@yummy_yummy_radiation]

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