The Real Reason SpaceX Developed The Falcon 9!

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[@TheSpaceRaceYT]

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[@Stabruder]

Why Starship changed over the years

[@thedashbros]

PEREGRINE 1

[@Stabruder]

The future of the falcon 9

[@vinnylamoureux1187]

What those 4 things are that stick up on all 4 sides of every launch of anything at Canaveral.

[@svfreakitiki]

How about why you have @ssholes running your discord?

[@fledglingrockets]

What an incredible company SpaeX is. They reshaped the space industry so much over the past decades.

[@slamdunk103]

SpaceX is setting the standard for work performance and productivity globally! I wonder what the company is worth now. 🚀

[@jokerace8227]

Somewhat. I'm surprised the legacy rocket companies aren't trying harder to produce similar reusable designs to the Falcon 9R. (ツ) ☕☕(ツ)

[@TheAmericanCatholic]

@@jokerace8227that’s what Chinese companies are doing I also think Russia is building a reusable rocket and blue origin is also building a reusable rocket but the legacy space industry hasn’t stepped up and they will lose

[@vincep1c156]

Decades?

[@strawonwalls2534]

@@vincep1c156decade=10yrs, space x been around for 20 sum years now

[@SebastianWellsTL]

When considering the ambitious goals that SpaceX is still pursuing, it is easy to overlook the immense achievements they have accomplished in the past few years! Thanks for another great video!

[@BjayawesomeBlackDude]

We are doing everything humanly possible to shut down this planet the irony.

[@ObamanableSnowman]

@@BjayawesomeBlackDudewhat? Sorry I don’t understand what you mean

[@BjayawesomeBlackDude]

@@ObamanableSnowman Wars but maybe not Taiwan this year.

[@SendingFreedomTM]

@@BjayawesomeBlackDudeDude who is “we”? Most of the problem is Muslims and dictatorships like Russia and China. We are all mostly from the US, the one country spending billions preventing war.

[@johnstewart579]

Love these history lessons! Thank you for this in depth overview of the Falcon 9.

[@oalmikee1234]

Thanks for carring about all.

[@tazerface8659]

Elon Musk and SpaceX has reinvigorated my child like fascination with spaceflight

[@trojanhorse6029]

We just need some sick space missions or even landers. I am sure Elon wouldn't mind spending a few billion to get some rock samples or a decent few images of the out solar system.

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

​@@trojanhorse6029Wee need to get as many landers with rovers onto the moons in the outer solar system

[@rRekko]

Same. The moment i saw a recommended 1 month old clip of falcon heavy landing the 2 boosters side by side my jaw dropped and i just couldn't stop watching space related content, especially rockets development and launches.

[@silencedogood7297]

JWST, Hubble, Voyager 1 and 2 are reinvigorating imaginations of young and old. Musk had nothing to do with those.

[@TamagoHead]

I hope Jeff and Blue Origin can get it up (into orbit). My popcorn for the the next starship launch is ready.

[@markhollingsworth3262]

Thanks for the history lesson. I didn’t follow them until I saw a video of two boosters landing side by side. Amazing! I enjoy your videos very much

[@markhollingsworth3262]

@elonmuskceospaceX I am now in Oregon, but originally I came from Delaware ( south of Philadelphia).

[@shawnhoebeck7784]

​@@markhollingsworth3262 welcome to the west coast

[@FuriouslyFurious]

It was and still is crazy to think that SpaceX was able to land a rocket. It was a game changer in launching things into space. Even more amazing is that they continue to improve the design rather than remain stagnant with a working reusable rocket.

[@youerny]

Very true and still amazing at every flight 😊

[@WayneBagguley]

Rockets were landing in the 50s and 60s.

[@RichWolverton]

Thanks!

[@slister1911]

NASA experimented with the idea of reusable rockets decades ago, but they were never successful in landing the rockets. I believe that the US space program had devolved so much that until SpaceX came along, we were resorting to the use of Russian rockets for many/most of our launches. Great video!

[@besthomes4u]

The computer power was not fast enough then

[@thomasneal9291]

The entire concept that somehow moving humanity to mars was going to be EASIER than fixing the problems on earth is just insane. completely insane.

[@Jake_2046]

Because it makes a cooler story. 😆

[@chrisjager5370]

It's true! Mars has less humans...

[@jimnjele.bean-dayone3505]

The US and NATO are working on fixing earths problems...If they launch WW3 Nuclear war, they thinkthey will solve the issue of too many humans...Unfortunately for them, if this happens, I for one will not need government after they screw it all up, so yeah there's that...

[@mskettelhut]

Child, not all problems on earth can be solved.

[@seantaggart7382]

​@@mskettelhut not if you work in harmony and friendship! I've seen a unity event get us to the moon

[@larry-om9tg]

Don't worry, I'll be right behind you all the way rooting you on.

[@CabbotSanders-rn3bk]

B1058 has my signature on a grid fin following a successful landing sequence burn test I collaborated in.🎉

[@edvard5697]

Excellent history lesson! The best I've seen from the ten sites I follow. A bit early perhaps but a Falcon Heavy history would be welcome.

[@benoitferland]

Another very well done video! Really like the channel. Keep up the good work!

[@jimpatient7525]

I watched the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo missions and I feel the same excitement with SpaceX flights.

[@Ronolein]

Beste Grüße aus Deutschland und danke für die News! ;-)

[@RobynLianneMacINNIS-l4f]

You guys have come a long way from when you started, and I am amazed with the progress you all have made, keep working at it, safe and happy flights for future and thank you very much for making these steps you have taken visible to the rest of us ❤

[@peterose1023]

Really nice and thank you nice to see and appreciate all there work

[@TheSpaceRaceYT]

Thank you for supporting us and becoming a member! We really appreciate the help

[@francescoscarinci7109]

Very well done, complete and synthetic recap of the SpaceX's evolution until today. Thanks!

[@ijordo]

I follow alot about SpaceX and you still provided lots of new cool information about their changes of the Falcon 9. Thanks

[@_sus_.]

where/what do you use to stay up to date with this info

[@ijordo]

“What about it” he’s really into it

[@Procyon7986]

Really interesting and informative video but, at 8:36, are you sure that's a reentry burn? Looks like all 9 engines running and plume expansion shortly before MECO. Boost back and reentry use three engines, don't they?

[@EntropyConcept]

You’re probably right. The graphics on this video are not 100% accurate

[@jalesvevajayamare7198]

Amazing.... SpaceX has injected a sense of competition into an industry that was once dominated by a few government-backed giants. By offering competitive pricing and maintaining a remarkable launch success rate, SpaceX has forced legacy aerospace companies to innovate and reduce costs. This has created a more dynamic and progressive environment in the field of space exploration, benefiting humanity as a whole 🥇❤🇮🇩😘🥰

[@arthurwagar88]

Great video. Go SpaceX. Thanks.

[@melsuarez]

Incredible episode! You rock.

[@russ8211]

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing this. Space X really is an incredible company.

[@365SpaceNews]

SpaceX has redefined the space industry in incredible ways over the past years.

[@faithannryan9083]

Thank you for sharing this

[@rays2506]

Excellent information. "countless setbacks". More like a handful, all of which were overcome very quickly by the SpaceX engineers and technicians on the way to Falcon 9 Block 5, the SpaceX launch vehicle masterpiece. Falcon 9 met and won two of the most important challenges for the SpaceX Mars enterprise: Supersonic retropropulsion and vertical landing of an orbital class launch vehicle, i.e. the F9 booster. Those milestones were accomplished over eight years ago (22Dec2015).

[@Knowbody42]

They've learned a lot more from their failures than anyone else has from not even attempting things in the first place.

[@MichaelEBlake-kl8qq]

Totally Awesome the Falcon 9 Rocket. 2024😊

[@movax20h]

The photo at 0:31 is not SpaceX, this looks like Stoke Space to me.

[@johnstewart579]

You are correct

[@AlexFoster2291]

What a strange oversight by the channel

[@madelineremy5128]

Thanks for that. I wish Great SpaceX King and SpaceX Team achieved management abundant success 🎉🎉

[@gptiede]

Thanks for the historical review.

[@EmilioGameair]

Good video but also, when you showed the Merlin engine family you swaped the Merlin 1C with the Merlin 1D and the Merlin 1D with the Merlin 1C and putted 2 images of a Merlin 1D other than that perfect video and quite good

[@linneisenhower2571]

Wonderful history lesson !!!

[@michaelmarcotte8209]

Love the channel. I would love to see an in depth update on ULA's successful launch of it's new Vulcan rocket. Too bad about the lunar lander, would like to see an update on that as well. Keep up the great content!

[@Ineed2fabb]

Love these video's and the way you explain theories, thank you !....

[@joshdabeard3681]

Space x is amazing!

[@sanderschuringa1]

Third reason why parachutes wouldn’t work with the F9 compared to the Space Shuttle’s SRB’s: the SRB’s didn’t have complex engines but just nozzles from the solid rocket fuel. Hence, these type of engines could much better deal with salty ocean water…

[@thothheartmaat2833]

i messed with this in kerbal. adding parachutes and other recovery systems adds weight and reduces delta v meaning the rocket wont go as far and it can be drastic and also more expensive. the most efficient thing to do is strip it all down bare then do a little burn close to the surface.. youll have more fuel to do it because you saved it by cutting weight. adding a couple parachutes could be the difference of not having the fuel you otherwise would have had.

[@pierremainstone-mitchell8290]

Fascinating indeed!

[@eddjordan2399]

Amazing video dude. xx

[@yannisepitropoulos]

Jellyfish effect can be created only on the ascending phase, before sunrise and after sunset mostly

[@juliadean2473]

Its amazing and fantastic what the will to succeed can invent!! Would love if any developments being explored along the lines of Silent Running.

[@vivekh7662]

Correction, turbopump micro-cracks would actually happen on the test stand. It wasn't the flight that caused the cracks.

[@tcthetford]

Really great presentations. Thank You!🙏

[@nedj10]

Strange move when demonstrating the payload cost of the Falcon 9 by comparing it to decommissioned platform and not the active one like Soyuz, Proton, or Long March.

[@thegouse]

bro i'm not kidding a portion of this video is literally the exact same script as on their other video called how spacex reinvented the rocket

[@FabishmarksPodcast]

I know!! I thought I was rewatching the same video

[@charlespaluha1247]

I love everything you just did about the analyzation of how it works.. maybe instead of dumping my ashes into the sea maybe I'll eject them into space I mean how much does 1 lb of ashes cost to dump into space

[@luisrios6290]

To make part of the ship rotate after acceleration, it would not be necessary to use rockets. The living spaces could be designed in the form of two concentric rings, one inside the other, with an electric motor attached to one ring and what would be its pulley turning the other ring in the opposite direction.

[@TerryGacao-ls3kw]

So far so good. I walk around listening.

[@Indecisive7337]

Really good that video, thank you.

[@jeremiahruiz8130]

Keep it going,out standing,keep us informed. The excitement of growth in this country,what , What progress we've have made🎉

[@JPL85-k1b]

Breaking the law of physics

[@ForPopli]

Pull over and show me your license and PhD and keep your particles where I can see them.

[@Coyote27981]

Slight correction of the landing process. In the final burn for landing, its not "the engines", last burn is the single central engine. And its a single engine, because even at minimum thrust, its still too high to hover.

[@NMGOQITHAKHELI-p4y]

That's wonderful hero god bless you 🙏🏾❤❤❤🎉🎉SA

[@philippostiglione2011]

Could you cover other aerospace companies?

[@scottramson4591]

Why can’t the landing legs also be made of Titanium and shaped as additional Grid Fins? Wouldn’t this help slow and stabilize the Rockets reentry if extended at start of reentry?

[@EntropyConcept]

That would be expensive to an ungodly degree, not to mention that the design of the legs would have to be quite different

[@lizmramsey6852]

Luv you

[@ZorroComputers]

Dream on for Mars....

[@mustang607]

Freer minds and competition has resulted in the most reliable, reusable and cargo efficient rocket-ship on the planet.

[@christopherslaughter2263]

In my kerbal game i usually ad boosters till my TWR is usually around 1.5. that make my rockets accelleration anemic after booster sep.

[@BrianWilliamDoty]

build a space elevator complex with starship, please.

[@BROWNDIRTWARRIOR]

Buddy is leaving the planet with all his money and the planet itself is crashing. This is not a wise use of resources right now, He ought to be heavily invested in carbon capture and sequester technologies.

[@johnw65]

🤔😲 Amazing to me that Musk was able to further the rocket diversion from the EMF propulsion used by Space Force at this time...

[@odril]

During the "Space Shuttle Days", the cost to LEO was NOT (!) 10k$.

[@konkam744]

Yeah, you're right, now that I searched it, it was around $55k per kilogram, thanks for the correction. According to wikipedia, a single space shuttle launch cost about $1.5B and could carry ~27 tons. Convert these two and divide them to get a ratio of ~$55,000 per one Kg. Geez! Though, humanity has developed a lot in the aerospace industry... With Soyuz coming at around five and a half thousand dollars per kg and the falcon 9, with not much difference, at ~2.5K dollars per Kg. All these are cargo to Low Earth Orbit just to be clear...

[@odril]

@@konkam744 That's for STS. The cost to LEO in 2005 was $5000/kg for Ariane 5.

[@konkam744]

@@odril well yeah, but since we are referring to it as "Space Shuttle days" I thought I might ass well put the STS cost... It just made sense to me

[@N0Negatives]

The jellyfish effect is from a boost back burn. The 1st and 2nd stages are pointing at each other causing the exhaust to interact.

[@jilokizito1705]

I slept for only 12 hours and woke up realising a lot has changed.

[@jimmonsees9119]

THEY can’t trivialize the brilliant pursuit of ‘economical’ space access. Kudos SpaceX! This is an historically important tutorial!

[@garyfernald5159]

Thanks for the update. How do you secure the payloads &. Satolites?

[@abisoffer868]

Thanks very much for this nice overview. The question is not whether using falcon 9 is cheaper than the space shuttle, which was notoriously expensive, but rather how well it compares to older NASA (or even Russian) single use rockets. Can you comment on that?

[@youerny]

As far as I know one order of magnitude less

[@KerimaneMurtezi-u7d]

Geniale,e sono convinta che riuscira ,in quello che sie foccussatto, Mille Auguri🎉🌌

[@germansniper5277]

Without SpaceX I wouldn't be in a bachelor's program to become an Aerospace Engineer now. I can't wait to work on projects like this and get the EU up to speed.

[@BH195829]

Totally Amazing ❤

[@bryanwarmuth6434]

whats so hard to figure put rockets to go to mara tunnel machines to create dwellings and robots to build them and do whats needed on the surface

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Great video...👍

[@johnnylongfeather3086]

6:30 the shuttle should be upside down here

[@eneking2022]

I thought the jellyfish was the last part of the flight up, when the air is so thin and ends at MECO. THEN the flip & back-burn.

[@lizmramsey6852]

This is sooo awesome 👍

[@PatrickSiamol-zv1dd]

Great initiative, great invention. Cheers

[@TamagoHead]

John Carmack and Armadillo helped to pioneer computer controlled vertical landings

[@mikejones6898]

good job GB dude

[@RoBear-xo6zw]

Like Elon has said, Falcon Heavy can take men to the Moon … One asks, why SLS and Orion 😂

[@Space_Kade]

Amazing story, Elon really took something though impossible and made it possible. Thank Elon

[@jokerace8227]

The engineers and builders at SpaceX are all amazing folks, and also deserve a lot of credit for getting the Falcon 9R to work so reliably. (ツ) ☕☕(ツ)

[@Slaeowulf]

Just to be clear, he bought a stake in SpaceX. He has not been involved in decision making, just press statements. Don't lick his boots too hard.

[@Space_Kade]

@@jokerace8227 Your total right, it would have never been done without the people from SpaceX, there blood, sweat, and tears have made the impossible, and for that, there work will never be forgotten.

[@clavo3352]

Please cover how the decision is made, to only use turbo pump fuel pumps; and not consider some other means of rocket fuel delivery, to the engines. Are other means even being studied? What alternative designs for superheavy booster and spaceship recovery, besides Mechazilla, have been considered?

[@EntropyConcept]

The Chinese- not sure if it’s government or private- have plans for recovering boosters via catching them with an array of cables suspended above a platform. Rocket lab has experimented with helicopter capture, and ULA with the Vulcan will just try to recover and reuse the blue origin BE4 engines from the booster (dumped in the ocean)

[@clavo3352]

@@EntropyConcept Really like the multiple tactic approach. Have seen the helicopter attempt. Looked really dangerous. Still a drone copter with a dedicated design might work. A semi submerged swimming pool, so to speak, of ionized and filtered seawater may have some merit for saving an entire booster. It's too bad that there's a limit on the number of qualified technicians to execute all the plausible ideas !

[@youerny]

When you need to pump fluids the best tool is .. a pump. Then you can implement it with different methods, but turbine cycles are more thermodynamic efficient. Then there is the choose for throwing away part of the fuel and exhaust or reuse them (open vs close cycles). The second considerably more tricky. Then after launch options open for more propulsion methods in cruise phase, such as ion or thermal nuclear. But that’s another chapter completely

[@clavo3352]

@@youerny I like this reply. TY. Your ion allusion is most interesting though. If you could negatively charge both tanks and positively charge the fluid being transferred as it enters the empty tank, would that create a substantial push-pull effect on the fluid that could be electromagnetically pumped and accelerated from full tank to empty one?

[@ColinDaviesNZ]

The heat shield comment appears erroneous. The first burn of the stage 1 on reentry bleeds of speed to about Mach 8. This is at about 60k altitude. Then it reduces its speed to about Mach 3. It is a combination of speed and atmospheric density that causes the serious re-entry heat. So if you re-enter at a slow enough speed it is possible to avoid reentry burnout. The maths are also that after the top stage is lost and the most of the fuel spent, the total mass needed to deaccelerate is a lot less.

[@richardbriansmith8562]

Awesome Video 😊

[@StevenLonien]

So ozone hole insurance survival plan is ?

[@sagecoach]

Well done.

[@eurekachrome-pr5kd]

Not sure the young narrator of this video knew anything about the script he is reading until the minute is landed on the rostrum.

[@LifeMyWay007]

Space Shuttle was $10,000/kg 10 Years ago but what are the other CURRENT rockets charging per kg???

[@arthurmiller-vl6sw]

It’s at @17:00

[@LifeMyWay007]

​ @arthurmiller-vl6sw No it is not. He only says Falcon 9 at $2,700 vs Space Shuttle at $10,000 10 Years ago... What are the other CURRENT rockets charging??? meaning - What is Falcon 9's ACTUAL competitors charging?

[@arthurmiller-vl6sw]

@@LifeMyWay007 you may want to edit your original post to ask that

[@DigitalUberGeek]

Henry Ford would be proud... can't wait for the windshield wipers!

[@marl0oo]

There is an error on the video at 0:33. That is not a photo of the Spacex team. Since I'm making this comment I take the opportunity to mention that sometimes you put footage of things that don't totally match the news or event you are mentioning. For example, reporting on a present event but putting old footage of the people involved. The script is usually higher quality than the footage representing it, but in the aspect of matching things. Anyway, thanks for the content you are great.

[@KM-wn3cf]

Yeah I was wondering why Andy Lapsa was working at SpaceX with a Stoke T-shirt.

[@AlanPrentice-f2l]

Excellent

[@linyenchin6773]

1:39 Put your what, where?

[@lucychia6933]

A wonderful education on taking on risks on unknown to accomplish goals for benefit of mankind.

[@hemmel777]

@12:00 NASA had already landed a verticle rocket landing. It was not thought impossible.

[@thomasrobinson9678]

The launch is always enjoyable, but the return of the boosters is the awe inspiring experience that fascinates me the most! At 78 years old, I hope I’m still alive to see the landing on Mars!! Elon is the best!!

[@mr.ackermann807]

I'm curious why for the landing on either land or their sea platforms to have poles with cable mesh between them like a screen to flip up during a booster landing to act as hollow containing walls and to have cables strung up to hold the rocket body in place to ensure it doesn't fall over and is safely transported back? Use this concept correctly and it wouldn't even need the legs reduces the dry mass even more. I doubt they would try this and really dont expect any one to, but it is an interesting thought experiment of engineering. Also this method could also have been used for the upper stage for true full responsibility before starship was.

[@EntropyConcept]

The Chinese- not sure if govt. or private, though- are trying to go that route with the cables.

[@mr.ackermann807]

@EntropyConcept really, never heard of them doing that. Care to share how you know that? Is their an article or video I can see for that? Also, why do you suppose spacex hasn't done this method yet?

[@mr.ackermann807]

@EntropyConcept Also by doing this with a falcon 9 you could also use starship tech in 1 too and use this instead of a large and unnecessary rocket when you could have many smaller ones making it safer and easier to work with.

[@EntropyConcept]

​@@mr.ackermann807 unfortunately I can't find the source. I saw it either from Marcus house or Scott Manley.

[@EntropyConcept]

​@@mr.ackermann807 F9 would need a full redesign to accommodate for starship tech (methane design for rapid reuse, stainless body, etc). That would require an extensive RnD and flight certification campaign. Plus, starship is designed for oversized payloads (starlink v2/v3, earth-to-earth transport, mars missions), so the profile is different

[@Tomana_]

EXCELLENT channel

[@Hotwire_RCTrix]

Very very informative

[@scottcrowley2061]

Nice!