Solving the Biggest Starship Problem, Amazing Falcon Heavy Viasat 3 Launch & More

hey hey Marcus house with you here this week loads of new SpaceX Intel on starship's first flight test while repairs to the orbital launch site at Starbase Texas Rockets along Falcon heavy sent via sat 3 to geostationary orbit providing a bunch of amazing firsts and spectacular views along the way the starlink constellation continues to grow updates from the International Space Station in this Majestic spacewalk and some concerning news regarding the Jupiter icy moons Explorer a lot to cover today see you coming down the ladder now so in case some of you missed it Elon recently hosted a Twitter spaces event where he went real deep in all of the technicalities regarding the flight of booster 7 and ship 24 now just over two weeks ago man it feels so much longer than that doesn't it so let's go over a bunch of those details shared as there was a literal Gold Mine worth of information even before the liftoff in this flight Elon revealed that SpaceX had three engines that were not ignited at all so they were not immediately shut down due to concrete damage or anything like that a while back it was shown that the Raptor engines would run at 90 percent thrust putting that together this means that instead of having roughly 7590 metric tons of thrust with the three engines missing that meant that it was lifting off with around 6210 assuming that all 30 remaining engines were performing as intended now instead of lifting off with a Thrust to weight ratio of about 1.5 this left it at about 1.24 or so for fun we can actually show that all engines at full power should have had the full stack clearing the tower around four or five seconds earlier it's quite amazing what difference that extra thrust to weight ratio will give you now what about the concrete well SpaceX doesn't see evidence that the rock tornado as musk called it actually damaged the engines or the heat shields in a material way in one sense this is good news but also well kind of bad news for all those Raptor engines that ended up shutting down lighter it was also noted that the Tilted launch from the pad was not actually planned in fact the gigantic booster should have been going straight up and I know there's been a lot of speculation about this beforehand surprising exactly nobody environmental groups sued the FAA early in the week essentially arguing that they failed to conduct an appropriate environmental review before allowing SpaceX to move ahead with its Starship launch plans at Starbase time will tell if such things cause delays with the next flight but Elon did state that to the best of their knowledge there has not been any meaningful damage to the environment a lot of other interesting information revealed about the flight itself it's t plus 27 seconds SpaceX had lost communication to engine 19 almost at the same time an explosion happened causing them to lose the heat shields of ancient 17 18 19 and 20. now in case you're not aware those engine numbers refer to the designated location on the vehicle and not the actual Raptor serial numbers as we were able to see during the webcast the next major event happened at just under a minute and a half into the flight that's the moment where they lost all thrust vectoring control at this point of course both of the hydraulic pressure units had become inoperable and it's amazing that they actually kept on flying after this point with no active TVC control to counteract off axis thrust a lot of the Raptors at this point in time were shut down so perhaps they can utilize differential throttle to try and help compensate a little in this case Elon also confirmed that the vehicles were structurally a lot stronger than expected especially proven by the fact that the vehicle was somersaulting near the end of the flight this is good in one way but one thing that does strike me which leads a bunch of Investigation is the fact that SpaceX confirmed that they did indeed trigger the autonomous flight termination system now as many of us have speculated that seems to be best demonstrated by these events happening here but shouldn't a flight determination system blow the vehicle apart immediately well you would think so and musk said that it took about 40 seconds after the termination command before the rocket actually did break apart in fact he casually glossed over this saying that SpaceX needed more detonation Court it will of course be critical to ensure that they can disassemble the rocket a lot quicker in the future that is extremely important especially in the first minute or two of the flight if the rocket loses control and heads in the wrong direction it'd be great to see a test article created to demonstrate the updated flight termination charges they could use something like ship 25 after they remove its wrapped engines I mean it's pretty much confirmed to not fly at this point anyway with all of the other prototypes ahead speaking of the future Vehicles musk indicated that SpaceX intended to use booster 9 on the next flight but is not sure which ship to pair it with it's going to really depend on how quickly they can progress to flight Readiness after all of these repairs so we all know by now how bad the concrete pad held up where no flame diverter existed the booster tried to carve out one of its own it was estimated that the fondaga concrete was capable of resisting the incredible force of the super heavy booster however just beneath that is mostly just sand sand that can compress with all of that force on top the concrete starts to bend and crack and as soon as a gap appears well all bets are off right so on to all of the incredible scenes during this week at Starbase these SpaceX teams have been swarming all around the orbital launch site moving ground around the pad so much so that they created a gigantic ramp leading from the bottom of the crater that was dug by the booster now it might be hard to see from the ground level but check out this equipment moving about yes that crater is indeed quite deep so SpaceX worth fully removing any of the unstable ground before fully rebuilding the foundation required for the water Deluge and steel plating system how exactly it goes together the community is still trying to piece together but Ryan Hansen is as always on top of the game here SpaceX has already been hard at work with this system for multiple months now it's really looking like the water will blast out of all of these holes like a colossal shower head one thing that does puzzle me slightly is if the water will go straight up potentially hitting the booster or if there will be some sort of head on them to spray in all directions to cover the full Steel plight provided that the pressure and the volumes of the water flow is high enough I would say that this idea seems pretty good without enough volume known some of that could instantly vaporize when it comes into contact with the exhaust water turning into steam at its boiling point is about 1600 times the volume and that explosive pressure will go somewhere right above the ground the second staircase has now been fully installed on one of the olm legs heading all the way up to the walkway but wait how would the crew actually get inside there's no panels here to allow for a staircase and there's no entrance way oh there it is yes SpaceX simply just cut a hole in one of the panels at some point I'm certain that we'll see all of this neatly covered in shielding at the bottom of this leg of the launch mount it was now time to tear this off yes that is the doghouse shaped component that I mentioned last week that has been sitting at this odd angle there it goes swiftly lifted away showing the massacre that happened beneath especially that mangled pipe that was lifted with it that one was used for the engine chill systems on booster 7 guiding the used gaseous and liquid oxygen away from the launch Mount and into the pond where it could safely boil off the team is of course taking this opportunity to not just rapidly repair but also upgrade just look at this pile of raptor boost quick disconnects with their Pistons laying on the ground here all removed from the orbital launch Mount that system as you may recall provides the gases for the 20 outer Raptor boost engines to start up so next up the launch Tower as you might remember some of the cladding pieces on the base of the tower got banged right up SpaceX has since begun removing those to be replaced soon thankfully it does seem that the overall damage to the launch Tower is minimal even though it was peppered with quite significant amounts of concrete during the launch what about the vertical tank farm though well Elon indicated that most of these would be replaced anyway with so-called hot dog tanks that by the way seems to be the nickname for all of the horizontal tanks and they already use some of these to store liquid methane right here though is the outer shell of one of the liquid oxygen tanks being patched up so let's just hop over to the build site construction of the steel prefab sections of the new megabyte or the white buyers I think it should be called has started this week not right in front of the bay as we were initially expecting though instead over at the Sanchez site by using these construction jigs at the bottom here they don't need to pour concrete pads to Anchor these sections down instead they can just roll them down to the site ready for stacking with the spmts the actual foundations for the bay are now very nearly done and I suspect we're going to see a crane turning up soon to begin the construction of level one the main vertical pillars here have actually got a different mounting mechanism to Anchor them onto the foundations way further down the road at the massive site loads of activity too right next to ship 25 SpaceX bought out this rig what is it for well SpaceX has been hard at work removing all of the thrust ramps from suborbital pad a those will then swiftly repositioned next to ship 25. it also looks like they've been removing the full thrust simulating rig here from the pad most likely they're going to modify this back to be a static fire pad just like suborbital pad B now if there wasn't enough hype already regarding starship's first flight test Christian debney here released this brilliant short film and I was absolutely Blown Away now I don't want to spoil it for those who are yet to watch it but I must say I wasn't expecting so many extra heartfelt moments in there like this one and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that I had goosebumps the whole way through not to mention the sheer amount of detail in all of these different perspectives all the way through to that glorious landing on Mars I just can't fathom the insane amount of work and attention to detail that has gone into this the music the sound effects and the video quality they're all just breathtaking and highly recommend checking it out and subscribing to see his future work that helps more than you can imagine just like it does right here on this channel so thanks for supporting the community out there making this stuff and another great one by Corey going all the way back to Friendship Seven's flight with John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit the earth I just love your work guys the links to both of those are in in the description we of course had the Falcon heavy spectacle right at the start of the week here it was ready to launch three payloads at Kennedy Space Center in Florida now there were so many firsts in this Mission and how bizarre it looked right there two reused boosters one on its eighth flight and the other on its third the center core booster 1068 there on its first and last flight no legs no grid fins and the gray band on the second stage there to help keep the rp-1 fuel there from freezing for this very lengthy Mission yeah this flight was a lot of fun always incredible watching that gigantic plume liftoff but even more so in the evening Darkness now would you believe that this is only the sixth launch of Falcon heavy ever we don't really get to witness this a lot although it is the second flight just this year just check out the three boosters there roaring into the evening Sky lighting it up beautifully I'm going to show some speed comparisons from the January launch because the differences are quite staggering before we knew it we had booster and cut off and This brilliant scene of them separating away at 10 000 kilometers per hour well over four thousand more than the January launch sadly of course we were not treated to them returning to The Landing site in this Majestic display that is because pretty much this entire rocket the side boosters and the center booster were fully expanded that was the very first time the entire Falcon heavy has been intentionally discarded like this they needed to squeeze every ounce of performance out of this Beast for this Mission Center booster cutoff and upper stage separation there at an incredible 17 000 kilometers per hour compare this to say the last starlink mission and that is well over double the velocity at this point next up we had fearing separation although we didn't get to see this footage until later here was an absolutely sweet shot shared by SpaceX showing the camera footage from inside one of those fairings keep in mind this was jettisoned much faster than usual as well at almost 18 000 kilometers per hour compare that going to starlink at a little over eight thousand what we are actually looking at here is the fairing re-entering into the atmosphere the hottest and the fastest that SpaceX has ever attempted creating this incredible trial of plasma behind now in the Stream SpaceX did say that they were going to attempt recovery of these fairings with the vessel dug a long long way downrange how far downrange oh only about 2 000 kilometers about a third of the way to Africa and here they were arriving just yesterday captured by Kyle Montgomery a little toasty but still intact SpaceX shared a much higher quality shot of State separation and engine ignition and I've got to say I really hope that they keep sharing some of these higher quality shots because that is just a breathtaking view of the sunset there behind the bright glowing vacuum engine Bell now let's just compare the burn times for the upper stage the last starlink launch burned the second stage for around 365 seconds and they really push these missions to the Limit this Falcon heavy second stage burned for only 229 seconds yes there was much much more of this mission to come because For the First Time Ever Falcon heavy was sending these payloads into a geostationary orbit circularized somewhere above 30 000 kilometers in altitude this orbit is used all the time and it's because the satellites take exactly one day to orbit the earth due to that from the ground perspective the satellite appears to almost hang at the same point in the sky at all times great for communication satellites so the next burn of the second stage was two minutes long hurling the payloads into a geostationary transfer orbit it was then realized that SpaceX were actually going to stream the entire five hour event with some spectacular views of the Earth as it fell away from the camera's perspective the third and the final burn kicked off at 4 hours and 22 minutes and what may confuse many was that the velocity readout here dropped from close to 7000 kilometers per hour yes SpaceX seemed to be showing a relative ground speed rather than the orbital speed which kind of feels odd but essentially you can see them here getting the speed right down and then back up a little probably doing a slight inclination adjustment at the same time perhaps regardless they were very close at this point to a complete geostationary orbit from here only minimal adjustments needed for the payloads to settle into their final positions and they were about to be deployed first off was viosat 3. this one built by ViaSat in collaboration with Boeing is part of a small but powerful constellation a con installation made up of only three satellites it's going to provide high quality affordable bandwidth to almost anywhere on earth and the throughput is pretty astounding too given that each of these satellites can pump out over one terabit per second apparently the end users will be able to expect download speeds of 100 megabits per second even at a geostationary altitude that's pretty crazy right the first satellite named Americas will cover the continents of South and North America the second will cover Europe Middle East and Africa and the last for the Asia Pacific region next to deploy we had gravity space 1. this is the cubesat zipping off there weighing in at only about 22 kilograms and that houses many payloads and science experiments from around the globe there are a few remarkable suburb payloads on this one one of them being a space situational awareness payload called orbit guard to track resident space objects using Imaging and machine learning based techniques finally deployed there goes astronus's micro Geo satellite which is another Comsat this one's sole Focus though is Alaska and it's also the first satellite dedicated solely to a U.S state this one will operate in the Ku band and it aims to provide High throughput Broadband Services customers there would apparently be able to get download speeds of around 25 megabits per second so yes after deployment of those payloads SpaceX wrapped up the stream and that is I've got to admit a much more interesting Mission than I was anticipating considering that we missed out on booster Landing action it just goes to show how useful spacex's Falcon heavy is even when fully expanded really looking forward to the next fight of this monster later in the year another starlink launch this week with Falcon 9 this block of 56 styling satellites were heading into group 5-6 launching from slick 40 at Cape Canaveral in particular I thought that the ground shot of the plume in the night sky was a glorious shot that was just before stage separation a fairly standard sort of flight this one that Landing this time on the Drone ship a shortfall of Gravitas here this was booster 1069 Landing for the seventh time and the 189th successful landing at that getting quite close to that 200 mark now in last week's video we just missed covering the spacewalk done by NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen and UAE astronaut Sultan aliati more on that shortly but first a huge thank you to Henson shaving supporting this video last year Henson sent me this race to try hoping to work with me here on the channel when it arrived I was so impressed by its performance that all my old razors never got another look what makes the Henson Razer even more remarkable is that it was created by Aerospace machinists that started off creating space station Rover and satellite Parts although I had never used a safety razor before with this it's actually really simple to use since it doesn't get clogged and the blade is supported across the entire width reducing the risk of razor burn now sometimes this sort of irritation is evident but it is often something happening under the surface of your skin well Hanson actually did this wild experiment using Medical Imaging 60 volunteers shaved one side of their face or neck with the Hanson razor and the other with a leading brand multi-blade razor taking photos afterward with this special camera which looks to be something right out of Predator demonstrated a statistically significant Improvement delivering less razor burn it's really cool that Henson is working hard to scientifically quantify the results of using it rather than just making baseless bold claims this will last you a lifetime and all you need is a pack of blades blades that work out to be only about 10 cents each and it takes only a moment to switch them out in fact Henson shaving is offering a 100 pack completely free which will last you for ages all you need to do is go to hensonshaving.com select your preferred razor color and also add in the 100 blade pack to your cart enter in the code Marcus in the final step of the checkout process and those blades are now free upgrade your shaving experience to Aerospace grade thank you hints and shaving so yes this was a really fun space walk to watch play out Sultan there actually posting this terrific time lapse of the work going on while orbiting around that beautiful Blue Marble it was his very first spacewalk and the eighth for Bowen there between the two they completed the installation of cables and insulation on the starboard truss of the station again preparing for the installation of the next pair of roll out solar arrays four of these are Rosa arrays have already been installed but there's still two more to be added to the platform in the future this spacewalk was mostly about preparing for this event Unfortunately they were not able to free up an electronics box on the thrust associated with a degraded s band communication antenna that task was postponed until a future spacewalk now interestingly later in the week an experiment airlock was relocated from the rasvet module to the Noka science module this was originally sent to the station all the way back in 2010 on board sts-132 coincidence Stephen Bowen was also on board of that mission too it's funny how things work out like that you may also recall me talking about the recent Jupiter icy moons Explorer launch and the kickoff of this epic Mission well one little hiccup and hopefully one that remains little is that the 16 meter antenna has not made its grand entrance as planned sadly it's stuck in its mounting bracket unable to fully Break Free currently they think this is due to a tiny pin that is stuck every day though it does appear that there are more signs of movement this shot here shows a partial view of the radar and its Mount you can see here that it is partially extended but still also kind of stowed away about a third of its full intended length used to keep an eye on for sure but it isn't a disaster yet to me this is kind of reminiscent to the Galileo spacecraft which was the very first probe to orbit Jupiter during its Mission its foldable High Gain antenna failed to fully deploy the work around there was to Simply rely on the spacecraft's low gain antenna instead this meant to slow a data transfer speeds But ultimately the mission proved to to be a major success the brilliant mindset the European space agency's mission control along with these Science and Industry partners are working their magic to complete that deployment perhaps by the time you see this the problem will already be solved well there you go my friends another week of pretty awesome space updates for you there what did you think about all those new starship flight test insights early in the week there was a lot revealed there a 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Published: Sat May 06 2023