Starship Launch This Week! Flight Termination Systems Installed Ahead of Flight - SpaceX Weekly

[@MrKellymcilrath]

Thank you Lab Padre for another great SpaceX Weekly! also thank you & all your staff for all the hard work you do to make all this happen for all of us!❤❤❤

[@LabPadre]

Our pleasure!

[@mrmeany2u780]

Thank you once again for a great update. Love what you guys are doing

[@Liberty4Ever]

Flight 4 is so close. I can't wait. These weekly updates do more than just inform. They sustain me. It's so gratifying to see the strong steady progress. SpaceX is doing what an aerospace company does if the goal is the rapid development of safe and affordable access to space to create a Mars colony. Other aerospace companies seem to be in the business of bilking tax payers for the least development possible at the highest cost. Go SpaceX! Go Starship! Thanks LabPadre!

[@GerardHammond]

well done keeping up with all they starlink launches, Lab. Also incredible that SpaceX can make so many stage 2 and satellites each week.

[@grumpygreg7505]

Always enjoyable. A whole week in just a few minutes. Thanks!

[@LabPadre]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@teds8747]

I am a day late, and a buck short... but the update for the week was great! Thanks for keeping us informed! Thursday morning is blocked off in my calendar for the launch!

[@Capt.Turner]

Here's LabPadre for you with yet another beefy update. That's how I love 'em.

[@friendo760]

F - yeah! on that excitement in the air.

[@vix3779]

Great work @LabPadre I LOVE your weeklies!

[@davidwebb4904]

RIP Dear Moon… 😢

[@SpaceflightExplained]

Saddest news I've woken up to in a while. Hearing the crew members' responses about how they were given zero notice beforehand was awful. I have faith that Elon or someone can keep the mission alive, but what a terrible terrible perspective from Yusaku. He literally expected no delays from the largest and most ambitious launch vehicle ever made

[@TheMoneypresident]

Wasn't ever going to happen.

[@davidwebb4904]

@@TheMoneypresident I know. Yet Elons disciples will always believe science fiction over reality.

[@TheMoneypresident]

@davidwebb4904 people actually believe he's the designer engineer and paying out of pocket. 🤣

[@akkkbn]

@@davidwebb4904 Your kind is so in love with labelling. "Elon's disciples" = anyone who disagrees with the space deniers, flat earthers, grifters, and generally unintelligent deniers.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

great stuff, very informative.

[@Wrangler-fp4ei]

Wonderful update, I can't wait for flight! Looking forward joining in the coverage of the flight!

[@LabPadre]

You and me both!

[@allen1414]

Thanks Lab and team, another outstanding update .. I'm digging in for June 5th .. !! 🚀

[@DeadManWalking2]

And there you have it …. 🎉 Thanks for another amazing video

[@FrankBenlin]

Very good. Thanks, Lab.

[@johnnyh537]

Lets hope we can get a successful landing soon

[@TheEvilmooseofdoom]

My half assed estimate is 2 more test flights before they try.

[@anthonylosego]

Pretty sure ift5 will attempt a catch.

[@Liberty4Ever]

@@anthonylosego - Attempting a catch on IFT-5 is optimistic, but Starship is an aggressive and optimistic program. I assume SpaceX will have good evidence of stable precision landing capability before risking Stage 0 on a wild attempt. Honestly, catching a booster seems so audacious that I can't imagine anyone but SpaceX pulling off that trick. It's going to be awesome to see. I still watch the Falcon 9 booster landings with marvel and wonder. After all of these years it still looks like science fiction... particularly the dual booster landings from Falcon 9 Heavy launches.

[@joansparky4439]

thanks

[@ThexBorg]

Exciting times yet again, Big Wednesday.

[@oldmanstumpie1061]

Getting excited.

[@charleslord2433]

Nonstop action!

[@RWBHere]

Hank-you, Lewis. 🙂👍 I guess that your next report will be after the next Starship launch, if SpaceX receive an FCC launch license in good time.

[@noelle3551]

The cadence of Falcon 9 flights is impressive and have become a normal every day occurance! On a note about Starship heat tiles, it surprises me there hasn't been a substantial upgrade in relation to keeping them fixed in situ! It has been an issue since the Starship short flight tests! Maybe they have been. Since there have been upgrades on various parts of the booster and starship gleaned from the previous three tests, it is the tiles I have heard nothing much about that concern me the most!!

[@ginkinky]

The tiles have been a problem since way before Starship. All the space shuttles had the same problem. They couldn’t find a way to keep them adhered to the surface of the shuttle.

[@noelle3551]

@@ginkinky , I forgot about the space shuttle and the ongoing problems! 40 years and not being able to find an answer almost (dare I say) undermines everything! Hopefully someone will figure it out

[@alquinn8576]

@@noelle3551 i'm a regard, but i think the problem is the different thermal expansion coefficients of the metal and tile are a massive barrier to getting an integrated system to work. between cryogenic and reentry temps, there is just too much shear force being exerted in the interface

[@noelle3551]

@@alquinn8576 you have a point regarding the many factors!

[@trevorpickup3820]

Another good one.😊

[@LabPadre]

Thanks again!

[@allenpost3616]

6/6/2024! Lets do this!

[@clockwise104]

Let’s go

[@kmstanev]

at 8:55 typo - Booster 29 ;)

[@JULIANAHASSANI]

Yes ❤️🚀

[@swissyodelbear]

thanks uncle....

[@Ch33ziTzsk8R]

Lr11000 making a run for it!!!

[@dphuntsman]

LabPadre, what’s your feeling on what’s likely to happen to Ship 26 now?

[@paulsessions9751]

8:52 did you mean Ship 29 and not Booster 29?

[@LabPadre]

Ooops! 😏

[@mbaktari8194]

The launching is JUNE 5th or JUNE 6th ?????

[@LabPadre]

NET 6th

[@dphuntsman]

The chines contain engine-bay relight systems? Like what?

[@jimwhite640]

Nice! Ye Ha!!!!

[@CaptainEvillian]

the starship on the thumbnail looks like a sheeps head if you squint your eyes.

[@Steve-IN-Austin-Houston]

When 😮

[@allenpost3616]

Thursday, June 6, according to what was said at the end of the vid. Although I was thinking it would be Wednesday the 5th.

[@FrankBenlin]

Win.

[@1fastal1]

SpaceX should be put in charge of running the govt! THEY HAVE LOGISTICS DOWN TO A SCIENCE.

[@SpaceflightExplained]

@@allenpost3616 SpaceX released a statement on Twix (twitter/x) that said it was NET June 6

[@MrHichammohsen1]

HYPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@TheEvilmooseofdoom]

...?

[@MrHichammohsen1]

@@TheEvilmooseofdoom Can't wait

[@Skukkix23]

guys its gonna happen this week pinky promise elon never misses a date lets go tesla

[@Corvus.2606]

they dont arm the fts unless they're going for a lanch.

[@Skukkix23]

@@Corvus.2606 cant wait for lunch. wait you mean elon would lie? on the internet?

[@MySouLisBlue]

is this a typical Texas accent there ? (real question from a non US person, not even english native)

[@dphuntsman]

Having lived in the Houston-Galveston area for 15 years, I’m not sure there even is such a thing as a typical Texas accent. Not sure there’s anything that screams ‘Texan’ to me about this gentleman (I hope he doesn’t consider that an insult!). Just sayin’..

[@MySouLisBlue]

@@dphuntsman oh ok, not a "Texas accent" but just a "personal intonations" is what you mean ? or that there is no particular recognizable accent in Texas ?

[@alquinn8576]

that thing is not going to ever carry humans if it can't tolerate the loss of a single tile and the tiles fall off of it all of the time

[@alquinn8576]

have they tried Flex Seal?

[@lobotomizedjellyfish2171]

Don't be dumb. There is a reason that these are test launches/flights and no humans are loaded into them yet.

[@alquinn8576]

@@lobotomizedjellyfish2171 i'm saying i don't see a path to human flight. if there is 5% of a lost tile per flight and a lost tile is 90% a reentry failure, then this is not a viable system. if spacex can figure out how to glue these things down, i will update, but i am increasingly skeptical

[@dphuntsman]

He has a point: If what Elon said is literally true- that every single tile on the vehicle is Criticality one and can NEVER be allowed to come off at the wrong time- then it can’t be allowed to carry humans, no matter how low they get the tile loss percentage. - Dave Huntsman

[@user-vp1sc7tt4m]

Iteration, continual improvement, iteration... repeat. This is how SpaceX has achieved their many milestones. I am confident SpaceX will solve the heat shield issues.

[@antonybastin3432]

👍👍👍🇮🇳

[@JBurns-wg3sr]

Why is this KZbin channel 'dead' ???????????

[@clarencehopkins7832]

Not another taxpayer penny to Boeing

[@johnd.7792]

Agreed, unless its to blow something up, they are decent at that. 😅

[@Liberty4Ever]

The public impression is Boeing can't even compete in commercial aviation and aerospace is at least an order of magnitude more difficult. Space is hard! If it's Boeing, I ain't going.

[@randyblake2006]

90% out of focus, 10% obscured by fogged lenses. This episode was nowhere close to your usual quality.