SpaceX Starship SN11 Aftermath

Starship SN11 aftermath.
Boca Chica, TX
March 31, 2021
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#deepskydude #sn11 #starship

[@y2n610]

Expensive way to hold the company Easter Egg hunt.

[@AdamEdward]

hahaha indeed 😆

[@jessyjames7508]

I was thinkin' more like Humpty Dumpty. THAT could have been catastrophic? Guess nobody at the FAA is watching....

[@teresale1259]

Lololol

[@NovelIdeaIndeed]

Amazing debris field views. Haven’t seen anything like this boots-on-the-ground footage on any other channel.

[@abritishguy7295]

NSF's camera got hit during the explosion and you could see debris landing everywhere, but i never realised it was spread so far, defiantly a good perspective

[@ritzcheeze7641]

I hope Star Hopper is ok, poor little guy must have been scared.

[@banana_junior_9000]

She's A-okay!

[@chitrakaseri5203]

Hoppy is tough and immortal 💪

[@psmirage8584]

Every... time. The rocket version of PTSD.

[@Electronjames]

@@downyourtube I am going to have to debunk you on this one Chernobyl translates to wormwood from Russian wormwood already happened

[@FoxBoi69]

in video by cosmic perspective you can see hoppy gets hit by something but seems to be relatively unharmed

[@Bruins19able]

Someone else said it but yeah....haven’t seen anything like this anywhere else. Thanks from those of us who would love to be down there for these epic launches to see ground breaking space exploration work. You can’t get a “feel” for the destruction without content like this. Well done, more content!!!!!

[@xenotriver]

Damn that's a lot of debris... Kinda sad we didn't actually get to see it explode.

[@matthewerwin4677]

It's a damm shame! She blew up real good.

[@minnesotachris7884]

They required an FAA inspector to be onsite to supervise. Elon was like, yea, well you're not gonna see anything even if you're here.

[@adamc6371]

@@minnesotachris7884 i'm not saying spaceX is rushing things but things like launching in terrible weather for observation purposes and having stuff blow up and spread shrapnel for thousands of yards in every direction is just giving the FAA an excuse to shut them down. No military test flight would even think of testing in VFR conditions unless that was the direction purpose of that test even if technically IFR/VFR shouldn't matter; if something goes wrong you don't want to add to the list of potential liabilities in troubleshooting the cause of the problem.

[@matthewbeasley7765]

It is a real shame that someone didn't have an aircraft up and record the launch. I'm betting the explosion occurred above the fog bank.

[@Gamble661]

@@adamc6371 True; having the things explode on the pad when coming into contact with the ground after a hard/botched landing in one thing. Having one explode at altitude is another animal all together. The FAA is no doubt asking what would happen if it had exploded at the flights apogee or close to it? Where would those large pieces of debris have landed then? I have a feeling their investigation this time is going to take a while.

[@TheCourtneyProject]

Incredible video! Thanks for documenting this!

[@psmirage8584]

As a general rule of thumb, rockets should land themselves in one piece, preferably on the landing pad. Scattering themselves across acres of land will make it more difficult to gather up all the pieces and reassemble them.

[@thrillbilly41]

Good fairly short, not so nerdy vid, shows how much raw destruction sn11's explosion caused. Thanks dude. Thumbs up

[@mehnoh3041]

2:22 That's the closest I've ever been (or will ever be, more than likely) to a bit of Starship. Thanks dude. Fantastic footage.

[@georgesealy4706]

It won't be long before all that area will be totally off limits. They'll probably reroute the main road to the beach too. Lots more testing to do!

[@HeidenLam]

@Ro Herms That’s why they hope to have a Loop system around the Starbase

[@chuckmvs]

That landing pad has seen some action!💣💣

[@agvulpine]

For a ship whose length only spans the wings of a large airplane, that is one massive debris field. I do hope some footage of the mid flight disassembly eventually surfaces.

[@maticz3923]

Imagine if the new BN explodes mid air Would be an ever larger debry field :P

[@rolandb.1866]

@@maticz3923 sadly we will not see BN1 explode. It will get disassembled very soon. But BN2 has a chance.

[@maticz3923]

@@rolandb.1866 lol I hope bn2 doesnt explode cause it could cause lotta damage xd

[@Seafox0011]

We need a radar trace.

[@elconquistador932]

Nice work Amigo! 👍 (Side note: I think that one thumbs down vote is from that FAA guy, he has a ton of paper work)

[@gerson_23]

spañol

[@maticz3923]

Ikr The faa must be pissed

[@elconquistador932]

@@maticz3923 It will give them something to do. We pay them enough so they might as well get hopping lmao.

[@dotancohen]

Makes sense that the FAA guy would be on KZbin when he's got too much work to do. That's why I'm on KZbin as well!

[@elconquistador932]

@@dotancohen Im guilty of the same activity lol.

[@aparfeno]

Time to get a souvenir! It should be very valuable in years to come

[@cosmicninjaSN8]

It's legal to pick up. Scrap metal in a state park

[@Marcoose81]

@@p1zd3c it's the law of the sea!

[@Electronjames]

Star Hopper is a legend he survived an explosion from 1 km in the air

[@sumit8743]

Why did they hurried this time. SN10 was near success. So they must have done a bit more research

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

@@sumit8743 I think they just wanted SN11 out of the way. SN15 with a lot of changes is in the making and there isn't a lot to learn with another flight of a model that obviously doesn't work. That's why SN12-14 is canceled. I know a lot about testing and analyzing test data. If they needed the data from this flight, they never would start without being able to get video footage. After such a test, success or not, you always want to match the video data frame by frame with the measurements of all the sensors on the object. Actually, I think they switched the best raptor engine out against a bad one to save it for more important flights.

[@SynthOSphere]

Pretty cool to see this with this kind of perspective. Thanks!

[@davidnunez4932]

This looks fun , gathering parts from a starship

[@fridayray8891]

look at all those Jawas....drooling over the fields of progress filled with treats...

[@robertlinder6414]

That's one way to test the welding

[@jessicakirsh]

Great footage! Thanks for sharing!

[@amiman23]

It looks like an art project called "Exploded Rocket"

[@mosialive]

Sound Quality is Lit... Wow!!

[@bobstx]

Wow! That debris field is huge!

[@sailingvlogs1726]

Looks very much like the Flight Termination system was activated remotely or automatically from a height before ground impact. None of the previous “landings” had such a large wreckage dispersion footprint.

[@maticz3923]

Some people claim that the wall between lox and methane got breached (you can see the starship pitch alter during descent perhaps due to center of gravity change from that And when the engines fired this explosive mixture exploded

[@Szaboo92]

@@maticz3923 Interesting, I did find the view strange right before the landing burn. It looked like the vehicle was already straightening.

[@maticz3923]

@@Szaboo92 you cant really tell it will probably remain a mystery

[@scotedler3984]

The rocket was 500-600 feet above ground. That’s why the debris field is so large. The FTS was not used as both were collected unharmed.

[@LoveatFirstHike]

@@maticz3923 while I was watching the feed, I definitely felt something was off with it's pitch. As though it was trying much hard than usual to maintain stability. Then there was the loud tinny pop as soon as the first engine fired right before the feed cut.

[@PatrickStewarts]

In a year you'll probably still be able to take a metal detector and find species of SN 11 it blew up so hard.

[@Marcoose81]

Wait until it rusts a bit in the salty air then hang out over your dining room table as a chandelier. You'll have the best conversation starter for dinner parties.

[@964cuplove]

@@Marcoose81 isn’t it stainless ? Long wait....

[@andyalder7910]

@@964cuplove Stainless steel rusts, just not as quickly as non-stainless.

[@Whenevercanever]

Way better to encounter these scenarios during testing, you can just imagine the Counter measures being thought up at the moment fix the issues encountered during this flight

[@davidroberts5602]

Hello deep sky dude certainly a mess every were no doubt those hard working people will clean it up again wonder how many times before thy Get it right great 👍 video dude 🇬🇧❤️👍🚀🔥

[@k.c.sunshine1934]

I expect to see some good opportunities to buy pieces of SN11 on ebay soon.

[@SMunro]

Every fragment needs to be accounted for.

[@jameshogue1639]

1:00 . SpaceX keeps the grounds so nice ; They even grate the sides of the roads. 👍

[@uriahheep8470]

Watch out for the snakes. Diamondbacks as large as a small car down there. And those Diablo scorpions.

[@oldmech619]

Wow to the forensic recovery method of towing recovered parts with a tractor.

[@tknight8478]

Allll right....i need to make a lil trip down to Boca to witness this myself. Everyones vids are amazing!

[@TheBowersj]

reminds me of a scene of an alien crash site on xfiles or something on FOX

[@elonironspace2968]

Starhopper in sn10 : this is fine Starhopper in sn11 : oh fu-

[@jamesp13152]

I'm moving there and opening a metal detector store. Lots of scrap stainless steel in the area I here...

[@matismf]

THIS is why the FAA needs to make sure they have someone on site for each launch! Just wait until SpaceX drops one on downtown Houston!!!

[@jackwhitlock1]

Having someone on site isn’t going to be much help. Also, SpaceX don’t fly over Houston

[@kevin-l7r7p]

The amount of pieces does look like flight termination system was set off, not saying it was the trigger but perhaps on top off whatever happened.

[@AdamEdward]

it must have exploded high up, probably when the engines re-ignited for the landing

[@andrewmorris483]

Actually, that's exactly when the cams cut out. I've started then no video footage.

[@listerdave1240]

@@andrewmorris483 There's also a loud bang followed by silence just a second after the engine/s started for the landing.

[@FicarAmriza]

i like videos like this

[@rodneyrodersons3083]

Can’t wait to snag my piece of SN11 off eBay

[@Fade2GrayOG]

The must have been one hell of an explosion

[@wormhole331]

The best one but couldn't even see it.

[@jgunther3398]

I see the fog finally lifted.

[@CapriceV6]

I have lost my spaceship, has anyone seen it? Last time I saw it it was disappearing into a fog cloud.

[@forgeskygaming3355]

It's on the ground infront of you in the vid

[@carlamurray9696]

Grateful its unmanned

[@jackeppington6488]

I don't see magnets in use anywhere, which tells you a little about the alloy in the stainless.

[@Doggeslife]

I got a kick when he passed the white, tracked backhoe and said "Crater". I have the exact same machine sitting in my front yard (a rental). $400 for 8 hours. They pick it back up today.

[@Jerew]

why have they not cleaned this up yet forensic analysis or something?

[@UncleFjester]

So much for putting a Spectator area there

[@aaronostopchuk7675]

Cool

[@specio]

SpaceX Go, catch them all

[@Fux3r]

I would love to get a piece of sn11

[@jaimes350]

hopefully this does not cause spaceX any long term issues.

[@billsimpson604]

Because of China, it probably won't.

[@listerdave1240]

Perhaps Spacex needs to get iRobot to build them an oversize Roomba for such situations.

[@RobertMOdell]

how are they going to pick all that up? Hard to even get a truck out of the sand.

[@Zoomer30_]

Eh, that's someone else's problem. Musk is up in his penthouses eating bon bons 😄

[@Cydonius1]

@@Zoomer30_ that would be Jeff Who. I'd totally see Musk down on that beach lugging a large part of metal to the trucks

[@billsimpson604]

Vehicles with treads to distribute the weight, like a Bobcat.

[@RobertMOdell]

@@billsimpson604 Haven't seen them using those, and certainly not in the water.

[@billsimpson604]

@@RobertMOdell Don't feel bad, I never saw large bulldozers driving out into the Gulf of Mexico either, until last year. They are wasting billions of dollars from the BP oil spill payout to try and slow down the erosion along parts of the Louisiana coast. It used to get refreshed by sediment from the spring flood on the Mississippi River, until they built levees, which now send the clay and sand far out into the Gulf. Anyway, last year a local TV station was doing a feature on fighting coastal erosion, and there was a big Caterpillar bulldozer pushing dirt from land out into the Gulf, until the water was nearly 2 feet deep. It looked really strange, seeing a bulldozer driving around with nothing but water in the background. I laughed, thinking how happy the Cat dealer would be to see an expensive bulldozer driving around in a couple of feet of salt water. The Cat people must be thinking, 'how can we spread this idea to more ocean coastal areas'?

[@geyserink]

find any souvenir's? Like pocket size?

[@Mrs.Harris-e5x]

no matter which country,the police car all looks like a cute rabbit~

[@hoodbillytm2102]

We got a lot of rocket scientists in the comments it would seem.

[@georgesealy4706]

Well, it was a pretty big thing that blew up. So, there's lot of stuff to be found.

[@RedSkysAreOnFire]

the hole in the road was caused by a raptor, it could be seen on one of labpadre camera feeds.

[@merxellus1456]

The steel looks wayyy thinner then i imagine..

[@jeffpaul6341]

no way it blew up on landing pad , with debris spread that far it had to blow pretty high up , prob when it tried to relight.

[@PN20____]

It blew up in the air dumb dumb

[@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968]

Good , a souvenir hunt.

[@ramonmedina2160]

how much does the debris cost

[@silentflier5144]

Awww shucks guys... Even using the "Scatter gun" landing technique we still can't hit center of the landing pad

[@consentofthegoverned5145]

Makes me think they ought to protect the tank farm a little better.

[@rivernet62]

Such a scatter... I feel like it had to RUD at altitude... but they're saying it was not initiated by FTS. Really wish we had footage of the explosion. Seems like the only way to get this amount of destruction is to have mixing of the MeOH and O2 inside the ship and have that detonate. But how?

[@billsimpson604]

Broken pipe inside a tank, maybe from backpressure from one of the engines? Video may have aided in showing where it first started.

[@Steve-Richter]

What type of fuel will starship use when landing on Mars? Not the same liquid oxygen and methane, correct?

[@billsimpson604]

Nope. They will refuel 5 times in Earth orbit, then fire up the vacuum Raptors and head for Mars, only 9 months away! On arrival at Mars, they will use the Raptors to land, expending nearly all of the remaining fuel in that process. So now you are on Mars, but low on methane and oxygen. How to get back? Mars' very thin atmosphere is carbon dioxide, with polluted water in the frozen soil. They plan to break both of them apart, and use the carbon from the CO2, along with the hydrogen from the water, to make methane, CH4, for the trip home. The oxygen will come from the water molecules. They can breathe the oxygen, but I think pure oxygen eventually becomes toxic. And if a fire starts in an atmosphere of pure oxygen, you're toast quite quickly. If that sounds nearly impossible to actually do, on a planet where you can't survive a couple of seconds without being inside a space suit, you're right. The plan is to send machines to do the fuel processing before people go, so they won't be stuck there and die, in case the fuel production doesn't work. It is so complex, that I doubt it can ever be made to work at the scale needed to produce hundreds of tons of methane and liquid oxygen. And you have to store and pump it, after you've made it. Robots can't repair ANYTHING, so if anything needs fixing, everything shuts down. If Mars had some kind of substantial atmosphere, it might be possible. But with a near vacuum, no liquid water, only weak solar power for energy, and dangerous cold every night, it will probably never happen. But it will be fun to watch them try. And I could be wrong.

[@Steve-Richter]

@@billsimpson604 thanks. This is totally nuts. So much time will be wasted. Tell Elon to work on improving the Mars rover process. Send diggers and other machines to Mars.

[@jackwhitlock1]

@@billsimpson604 It will refuel 2 times in orbit and take 4 to 6 months to get to Mars

[@billsimpson604]

@@jackwhitlock1 You can't get to Mars using a chemical rocket in less than 6 months.

[@rahul0754]

2:44 speed 0.5x I spotted a meteorite maybe Exactly at 2:46 - 2:47

[@ZeroSpawn]

Holy shit nice catch!

[@dalerichardson7202]

Look at the middle of the shot, near the top of the frame, streaking from right to left. I had to replay it several times and thought it was an april fools joke.. Nice catch!

[@SynthOSphere]

Nah... I dont think so. Rather: Airplane/Chemtrail. Video is already sped up. Meteorites not that slow.

[@DeepSkyDude]

It’s an airplane. That was a time lapse I filmed. 🤘

[@arisan_kuy]

Cari rongsokan roket gan

[@robertoquirogabarraza4053]

hizo pum

[@mtcruse]

@1:01 sounded like a Ford on a good day...

[@watkinscopicat]

Ron Swanson filling a pothole at 1:28

[@tantumDicoQuodCogito]

"crater hehehe" XD

[@wbuttry1]

hell of a mess when it blew up it went hard sn15 i hope fares better. Some of those parts hit a person split them right in two.

[@ab8jeh]

I'm starting to sway toward the thought that human travel to Mars really isn't worth it. The place is completely dead, and what we have here is humanity effing up the Earth in pursuit of getting to a dead planet. It really makes little sense. We should be using our wealth to improve life on Earth, I'm starting to lose faith that this is the correct path for humanity.

[@ab8jeh]

And just to say I absolutely LOVE watching Starship launches, I just feel there's a wider point to be made here. Anyway.

[@johnkmatsch]

I would love to have a big piece of the steel hull. Id make commemorative medallions.

[@cellogirl11rw55]

I would suggest blurring the license plate, as it's a personal identifier.

[@stl_scionrcscg4900]

It bites there was fog that morning that it would have been bad to see blow up

[@faizazm9373]

Lucky for those who can take the pieces of SN11

[@lexon7vod]

Look how thin is starship structure :/ I know its about weight but at the same time its super weak.

[@peterbarratt8699]

Hmmm, FAA headache now.

[@eswar_artworld1769]

Those cops had the best job ever

[@TropicalGardenGuy]

Had that been a government issue.... it would have taken 1 year to start fixing stuff

[@ajay_constantine]

Disappointed with SN 11, not because it got RUD. Why did they launched it in poor visibility? Could have at least waited till noon....

[@KunehKun]

The weather wasn't good for launch after 9AM local

[@I_Spaced_Out]

Space X launches their rockets to advance their capabilities. They do not launch them just to entertain you. Visibility is irrelevant to a rocket with no eyes.

[@NovelIdeaIndeed]

@@I_Spaced_Out Yes but since their telemetry and onboard cameras were unreliable on this launch, they could have used visual input.

[@matthewerwin4677]

They environmentalists will have a field day with this.

[@andrewmorris483]

They'll try. That being said, SpaceX should only have to say "Aren't you glad we didn't use monopropellant?"

[@dingo5827]

Back to drawing board guys 🥴

[@jackwhitlock1]

Not really, SN15 is already complete

[@UncleKennysPlace]

Who else is watching eBay for idiots trying to sell bits of SN11?

[@billsimpson604]

Good one.

[@iditarod4081]

2:51 Mare Debrium? Looks like hardpack..

[@imamystery6024]

Hope you... helped clean up litter and took some home for proper disposal. /wink

[@jackwhitlock1]

You aren’t allowed as it could help the investigation

[@JohnJTraston]

They have a looooot of cleaning to do.

[@gameImmersioner]

How thick?

[@DeepSkyDude]

The metal? Probably about 1'4 inch or so?

[@gameImmersioner]

@@DeepSkyDude I was talking about plating thickness( was said about 2, 3 or 4 mm)

[@Zoomer30_]

So, who gets the first shot at Musk, the FAA or Cameron County DOT?

[@egm7671]

$30M donation took care of it.

[@zahraaesckander]

Why should they attack him?

[@billsimpson604]

@@egm7671 And all those high paying jobs, and purchases of supplies and equipment.

[@InfiniteSpaceMedia]

Hello! Would you be interested in becoming a videographer? If so could you give us an email where we can discuss this further? Thank you for your time!

[@DeepSkyDude]

Hi! Email me at [e-mail] and we can chat.

[@chrisbragdon5901]

What’s with the man out standing in his field?

[@Szaboo92]

Perhaps keeping people out of the debry zone?

[@jaydeister9305]

"Thanks Dude for all the 'man on the scene' video!"

[@danielramsey1959]

I can still hear the nerds giggling and laughing from their broadcasts.

[@usernamenotknown]

Hey musk, what do you say? How many birds did you kill today?

[@420billybobslice]

You a bumb

[@berlon-mtl]

Recycles for Cybertruck