SpaceX Stacks Ship 28 on Booster 10

SpaceX stacks Ship 28 on Booster 10 as the company prepares for Starship's third integrated flight test. The stack is likely preparing for a test campaign, which might involve a WDR as part of the test sequence.
So far, the stack has not performed joined testing.
Booster 10:
The Booster already features 33 Raptors. Booster 10 is the first stage for the third flight of Starship. The Booster previously was static fired once and performed 4 cryogenic pressure tests.
Learn More: nextspaceflight.com/starship/...
Ship 28:
Ship 28 is a Starship upper-stage prototype planned to launch on the third Starship flight test.
Learn More: nextspaceflight.com/starship/...
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[@MickRonald]

I just love it when SpaceX does "stuff" during the early morning hours, NOT. Thank you Jack, Chris B, Trevor, Ryan W, Alex, and Jay for helping me stay awake with your lively commentary. Oh, and thanks for the earlier "scrubbed lift" stream as well.

[@hilaryminias9603]

Neil is great but I am the direct defendant from my grandfather to each grandfather until 1200.

[@anonymoususer3561]

Who is NOT?

[@clems6989]

"Stuff" rules !...... :)

[@MaunderMaximum]

The year has been a good one for the Royal Society for Putting Things On Top of Other Things.

[@xSnowcappX]

To be a part of this. To be on this team. I’ve never been more excited about anything!!!

[@DODFather]

This is by far the best intro music and sequence on the internet.

[@joachim2464]

1:43:25 Damn, that was a lot of weight shifting quickly. Looks like it was already resting on it and then shifted into place.

[@user-ce7ic1ze2u]

Did u hear the loud boom that followed a few seconds later?

[@ryansaving]

I’m trying to go to bed and I’m just watching your live video that actually interest me and People need to get laid

[@ryansaving]

And I mean, my woman that are not heavy enough to ever get off of earth

[@ryansaving]

I think it’s funny that all you people watch this with your seatbelts all that we have other means together in space and y’all just wanna make a video on it

[@ryansaving]

How much money do they spend on giving into space compared to what we don’t spend together in the space

[@134StormShadow]

To all at NSF Good morning from Ormskirk UK... ❤

[@sirroberthampton]

Joking back and forth is great fun but it looks like Jack was taken a little too serious. It's good that harmony and love have been restored🤟😂❤

[@shawncarr8407]

I am so excited for this launch! I watch the other two and as many launches as I could and it never gets old. Lol. Keep Moving Forward guys! Just watching SpaceX launches are life changing. ❤

[@corrinastanley125]

Fun stream ,thanks NSF team .

[@stiffydart1558]

Re: Static Wicks. Yes, you're right, they are there to dissipate the static charge that builds up due to the air molecules interacting with the surface of the Starship. On aircraft they are necessary to allow the radios to work .without them there would be a constant white noise of static making speech comms impossible. Maybe SpaceX realise they need this to clean up their telemetry channels. It is a fallacy to suggest they are there to limit damage from lightning strikes. They just happen to be fragile enough to be sacrificed easily.

[@wizardofhoz7216]

Wee hours of the morning, detailed orientation thank you NSF!❤to👀

[@arnoldsmith5754]

was late but still got to watch stacking

[@Buy.YT.Views.497]

This taught me something new

[@MalrusOSC]

I love how we thought this was INSANE the first time it happened, and now it’s like “oh! cool!”

[@clems6989]

How cool to wake up to this.....thanks..

[@Stargazergirl79]

Thanks guys

[@Tankwatcher_Vince]

Great entertainment and fun. Enjoyed the music. Thanks for the great coverage and humor.

[@oldmanstumpie1061]

I'm surprised they don't have a better alignment technique.

[@amilasandaruwan8601]

Great Job Space x 🎉⌚

[@zapfanzapfan]

Hoping for WDR on Monday!

[@jenohathazi920]

Thank a lot, bravo SpaceX

[@mabeljeffers656]

AWESOME 👌

[@michaeldemarco9950]

Chris B ! I was with you back in the Direct J-130 days. With KRAISEY.

[@Lopez_rc]

1:43:20 zoom in on that tube! You can see it falling down when you hear that boom

[@sixstringsimpleton]

1:25:29 That was quite the shift! I've never seen it do that!

[@albertorafaelcisnerosperfe4899]

Fabulous 🤗👏👏🥰

[@markhuebner7580]

Can't have a launch without a stack! Not a guarantee though.

[@ra3or]

6:37 friends with boosterfits

[@MYWORKINFO2012]

🚀 yes, stacking now just awaiting launch.

[@daleamon2547]

Hooray and up she rises, hooray and up she rises, hooray and up she rises, earliiy in the morning...

[@BritDad]

Nice

[@cheryldcosta2200]

This is probably gonna be the fastest starship stacking

[@joseluizdesouzasouza8748]

Negócio complexo, eu admiro os cientistas aeroespacial, é um verdadeiro desafio

[@Papershields001]

I think the Thermal Protection system is such a huge challenge. The latest WB57 footage showed an unbelievable amount of tile damage, like enough that they need to rethink how they are doing the whole system. With the ships already ready to go, it’s going to be quite a few flights before iteration can even begin on fixing that system. Fixing the TPS is absolutely mission critical to meet the needs of the HLS contract so they need to start launching and a lot.

[@ale131296]

Ship 25's heat shield was never properly taken care of, the tiles fell off precisely because they never paid much attention to that. Ship 28 on the other hand has had a good amount of work done to the tiles, including testing the adhesive properties of each and every one of them to make sure they stick to the body of the vehicle. It will still probably have tiles falling off but it should be substantially less than with Ship 25. Like... a lot lot less.

[@Papershields001]

@@ale131296 I definitely hope so. Starship tiles are going to be a lot harder to maintain and replace than the shuttle were. Simple reason is starship is going to be maintained vertically, the shuttle would be worked on horizontally so the tiles would be right next to the ground. Also spacex has ambitions to have ships entering from lunar orbits, GTO, maybe even interplanetary one day. Those tiles are going to be put under a lot more stress than the shuttle.

[@ale131296]

@@Papershields001 SpaceX has lots of scaffolding and access locations inside of the bays to work on Starship's heatshield in vertical. It's basically the same as the shuttle (it also had scaffolding all around and its heatshield was not just the black side, the white side was also heatshield)

[@hawkdsl]

Watching something like this, is akin to watching the grounds crew paint lines on a football field. Talk about mundane. However, NSF chatter is always fun, and the sole reason to tune in.

[@wildlyoptimistic1352]

Tanker question: if you launched a super heavy without a starship just a simple nose cone could it make it to orbit? It could serve as a really big fuel depot.

[@robertmann1423]

Good question but I'm guessing not . I think from what I understand of the design you would use the boaster to push a fuel tank into orbit that would be like a starship but nothing but fuel as Payload .

[@TheMovieLoft]

Mint

[@RXTRUX1]

Does it have a dummy payload so there isn't a repeat of the second test failure?

[@sixstringsimpleton]

That connection was rough!

[@Garth_Bowen]

Hi Folks. Very well done on your brilliant work on all this. I have a 'Trevor' question though.... I know what a thruster is but.... What is 'Olage' or 'Oelage'. Thanks. You are busy I know but I'd appreciate your help, I cannot find a definition anywhere - Garth

[@markhuebner7580]

How would 2 arms catch a 3 grid-fin booster?

[@kenkahn138]

Do they have any information releases on what type of baffling they put In the boosters and where ?

[@johnpettit6886]

well we have stubby, thanks trev

[@aardvark2zz]

Final contact at 1:43:28 video time, 1:25:30 CST. Poor connector between upper and lower stage pipe interconnect in center of video Anybody have any opinion of this load between connectors !?

[@randyknudsen7161]

Since the top ring is separate why not do a fit between it and Starship prior to stacking?

[@rafaelo1]

Now destack and ship static fire with new engines?

[@proudpoppag]

How do you get in line to get a gifted membership, and how do you buy memberships to gift to others?

[@tomasbenedictomaza]

Donde puedo descargar el tema principal de la cabecera si no tiene derechos de autor

[@johnpettit6886]

full kerball?

[@thomasttrr]

Was that sound normal? That gap closed up quickly

[@Ogopogo313]

So no SF for Ship 28 after engine switch?

[@mrtim7372]

Why are things happening when I sleep🤣

[@jamieevans6395]

When is the next flight?

[@markhuebner7580]

Don't forget buoyancy! A vacuum container would be buoyed-up by the sea of air around it!

[@whiplash8011]

The ship can build up an electric static charge just by being suspended from the crane or the arms doesn’t have to be in flight electrical wires that are not energized, but our a lot can build up and electrical charge that when you touch it well Ouch.

[@avalonhomestead9077]

They need to get to using lasers to line up for stacking and placing the booster on Stage one.

[@crixmorgan]

If she were your ship... that you control... You'd name her!

[@user-qq1uo5kz5b]

🚀

[@hilaryminias9603]

#love ❤️ 🌼

[@johnpettit6886]

kmph^2 but velocity

[@ra3or]

1:43:25

[@chetbaker6432]

What holds the stages together during flight?

[@ale131296]

Three pins with hooks inside that basically grapple onto the aft end of the ship and keep it all in place.

[@pixelpixelpixel7697]

😂 ​@@morganoverbay8783

[@eyesuckle]

@@morganoverbay8783 _"Oh, the gravity of the situation. It's only my willpower that keeps this thing in operation"_ -- 10cc

[@Marszczak]

Wen hop?

[@johnpettit6886]

[@S1nwar]

So they really go for a launch with several untested engines on ship 28?

[@dorkvadorgd4015]

1:47:30 lol

[@stevenmoore7782]

What are the pins or rods extending down from the lower flaps?

[@stiffydart1558]

Static wicks?

[@stevenmoore7782]

@@stiffydart1558 Thanks, that makes sense

[@johnpettit6886]

it's a physics question tbf, however you might need to wrap youself in cotton-wool before Alex is the prob

[@daleamon2547]

Lets see who is cultured enough to get the reference... :-)

[@billskinner7331]

Why no drone?

[@gibo5863]

@ 55;05 clunk ! alldone....:)

[@Jerry-br7cv]

🎉

[@themanwnoname3454]

🥂🥂

[@smavtmb2196]

It will seriously suck if SN15 is the last Starship to ever land on legs.

[@iamaduckquack]

1:43:15 Yeet!

[@johnpettit6886]

Photographer lols too. Alex go.

[@musk.e]

Finally 😂

[@jimmywright4962]

[@vashgates4187]

Let me cook😂

[@clems6989]

So, they will unstack them again ? Why ?

[@gabrielgolding5380]

To arm the FTS

[@chrishoedt]

You know what's gone happen; stack, re-stack, engine swap, stack, re-stack..... before launch

[@antonybastin3432]

👍👍👍🇮🇳

[@VZIVO]

Yes - it was woblle

[@ericcagle1192]

Form follows function!,!,!,!,

[@ianjohnson9299]

Apologies if this is controversial, but why "pause live commentary" and play music that may not be to everyone's taste - why not just pause the stream entirely and resume when the lift is about to go?

[@user-du1ff6vw3q]

It's just going blow up too big too heavy 😂

[@johnpettit6886]

or just basic optics

[@br8801]

Eye-roll on your having issues with calling ships "she". As with just about everything else that wokism gets ass-backward, it's a term of affection & gratitude, and an allusion to the ship being the caretaker of its inhabitants. Reflexively rejecting tradition in favor of reflexively instituting wokism is petulant and counterproductive, and this tradition is not "rightly going away" anywhere outside of those infected with the mind virus. The rest of us are more than happy to call our ships "she" with the deep respect that the term commands.

[@johnpettit6886]

probably no

[@Bag_of_chips_real]

4th

[@ryansaving]

My bad I’m sorry couple hundred thousand years technology that y’all are putting on the back

[@johnpettit6886]

yeah engines are nasty. no one wants to steal his video

[@codeforce5556]

Starship 0-3 prediction, booster explodes again, starship rips into two pieces, the rest burn up due to tiles falling off😂

[@AGENT47ist]

Another arm chair engineer, or a troll of the Internet

[@codeforce5556]

@@AGENT47ist didn't all starship booster explode, aren't space tiles dropping off starship, which will prevent reentry, didn't both starship rip in half more 6 times already 😂facts aren't trolling and additional we should on Mars by 2024😂😂

[@AGENT47ist]

@@codeforce5556 Go back to your basement troll/bot of soros

[@edd4816]

​Keep laughing chuckles. I'll see you on Mars

[@codeforce5556]

@@edd4816 when😂

[@eyesuckle]

I was with Trevor until he sided with pancakes.

[@cepopeye]

space is full pof clones and droids yawn

[@barneyrubble8107]