I think the first "fuel station" should have a name like, "Route 66" which helped to open up the auto industry? For a time, It would be the first stop on the way to the Moon or Mars, wouldn't it? I think the signage could read, "Last fuel for the next ~70 million miles -- or more!

A lovely flight of fancy going on here. Double the size of Starship and it never leaves the ground. 66 raptors to get the booster off the ground and another 12 for Starship to get into orbit? We are meant to build such mammoth structures in space where gravity or the lack thereof becomes our ally. Cheers!

From one who is old enough to remember Sputnik and the Discoverer (Jupiter C) that weighed less than 90 lbs, this is truly exciting! Go SpaceX

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

Yes, keep the CGI coming! Although I like Star Trek even more.

@nelsonlanglois9104

2 ай бұрын

Me too brother Me too

Elon: Make it THICCC

Maybe they should get the first one to work first

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

Works fine in computer animations, what can you expect more?

They are really building a rocket with advanced design of sea dragon.

A lot to consider, plain and implement into reality. Go USA, Go Musk and Go SpaceX. Even if the video was stale. 🌎

He has * giantomania* . Let's first launch Starship successfully at least once .😂

@samm928

4 ай бұрын

Ohh come onnnn .. I like fireworks 🎆

2 Teflon bags inside one crushable tank for Starship and for BFR would save 3 massive tanks being carried around. If you pressurize the tank, you might get sufficient flow to diminish either the size or the existence of turbo pumps, saving more weight. It would also make bubble-free movement of liquid propellants far easier. There are other advantages to my idea as well. Come on, Elon, ditch the baffles and most of the plumbing!

@miamijules2149

3 ай бұрын

Yeah…. those baffles are just a tad…. in the way huh? Lol Although that’s the point but you know what I mean. If they could engineering a solution to those related issues, you’re right, it would be fking huge.

When is the next starship launch ? Anyone know ?

Currently, Falcon Heavy is having difficulty getting payloads to launch. Falcon 9 is the workhorse and is currently lifting payloads originally envisioned for Falcon Heavy due to lift capability increases for Falcon 9 through engine improvements. Starship Super Heavy will have the most lifting capability in history and likely an even harder time finding work than Falcon Heavy. Massive payloads for tankers, lunar missions, and even orbital stations are the primary missions for Starship until Mars launches begin. Since colonization assumes the passengers staying, the Starship should be used as primary housing and fabrication units. The need for fuel to leave the Martian surface should be pursued for an "emergency" ship and local use but not for regular launches as those shouldn't be happening. Basically, it's a one-way trip for the first few years at least. The same goes for a lunar facility and even orbital stations. The only ships making "round-trips" would be tankers and supply ships for orbital stations. It's a scenario we have never experienced yet must develop IF we are going to utilize our moon, Mars, etc. for colonies, bases, manufacturing, resources, etc. I'm 66 and will likely not see it happen due to the interference from NASA, the ECONAZIS, FAA, and others who feel the need to "flex" their power and control.

@frankmcgowan9457

4 ай бұрын

Starship, the current model, has the freight capacity of a railroad boxcar - approximately 200,000 pounds. The new ones will go 150-200t, so we need to bear in mind that it's function is to haul freight in support of city-size colonies. That freight traffic *_must_* be both directions or the colonies will be abandoned as far too expensive to support. For that reason, the Starship cannot be wasted for use as habitation. It's capacity is large enough to bring inflatable habitation modules, construction equipment like bulldozers and cranes as well as food, photovoltaic arrays and greenhouse equipment as well as small to medium utility vehicles in the 1/4 to 3 ton payload plus 2 to 10 passengers range. Personally, I would include Alpaca class landers as freight in the initial shipments so short-hop flights can be used to greatly expand the exploration and economic development area. Obviously, a two month flurry of launches every two years does not provide adequate support or commerce. A steady stream would be far preferable. How can flights be scheduled for launch in a way that will provide - at a minimum - monthly arrivals at Mars?

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

For the time being Starship wasn't able to reach low earth orbit without any payload. The thing has enough problems getting enough speed with zero payload.

@frankmcgowan9457

4 ай бұрын

@@AdrieKooijman Absolutely true. Let's let the first spacecraft large enough to called a "space *_ship"_* develop a bit before declaring it a failure. Musk brought a bold vision to us when he announced his "BFR", now called Starship. His team has made huge strides in bringing it to reality. Let's see if he can finish the rather huge task he has set himself. Even if he fails he has achieved much but I think he will succeed.

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

​@@frankmcgowan9457although I'd love to be proven wrong, I don't expect 'city size' colonies for at least the next 50 years. Technologie hasn't been developed or tested and there is no 'business case': why would people want to leave earth and spend the rest of their live (barely) surviving in a cave? Just for fun?

Excellent stuff bro

I hope we will have some good beer IPA space X edition for the trip to going to Mars ))

Elon needs to build some shuttle's to go with Starship

Doesn´t a larger tank diameter make more sense?

Most likely the first few starships to mar will be with Quita few tesla bots to help to get habitation and life support and hydroponics up and running then concentrate on a fuel depot.

Thank you, awesome video!

@alphatech4966

4 ай бұрын

Thank you son much!

Multiple launches per day!

Great .. bigger fireworks .. is it 4th july🎉 yet ?

ILA IS CHANGING ITS NAME, TO SPACE X

@robertburton6409

4 ай бұрын

ULA

Has anybody coined the term yet -- "BFR?" Just wondering ;-)

Make it all one rocket and add the falcon heavy to the bottom, add a docking ring to the nose and make a special ring spacestation in orbit that can be docked with and flown to the moon or mars.

Its fun to dream.I get it. But we havent even made it to orbit yet😅.

Use co2 to propel rockets through space and recapture the Co2 on a continuous trust capture injector!

Soon he can send up an unfolded telescope 🔭

If the size of Starship goes from 9m and 50m to 18m and 62.5m, then cargo should become 5x greater, that is 750t (not 300t).

@dugnology

4 ай бұрын

And the weight should cube, not double.

At this rate of growth, in just a few years, we won’t need a rocket to get to Mars!

F-ing click bait. They aren't increasing ship's diameter from 9M to 18M. That is complete BS.

Why are the rockets not 30% more pointy can we please discuss.

There is doubt that a 9x50m spacecraft with little legs land on an 11° slope like Apollo 15 did. Now how about that spacecraft with 100t payload in the top half. Yea, good luck with that. Apollo had a wider stance that it was tall if you were wondering. Maybe SpaceX will be working on 20m long landing gear but it is not in the drawings.

Great Video ! Many versions of SpaceX Starship will be needed ! The SpaceX large heavy Starship Booster can launch from Starbase or the KSC and be recovered from a Drone Ship or a water landing to be relaunched at or near the KSC ! The SpaceX Starship will come in many versions ! The SpaceX Cargo Starship can take cargo to build the low inclination LEO CSS (Commercial Space Station/in about a 28.5 deg orbit) and the Fuel Depot that is in the same orbit nearby. The Cargo Starship after being fueled up (Tanker Starshiop) near the LEO CSS can land cargo at the Lunar Surface (LS) South Pole Lunar Outpost to expand to a Lunar Base to recover Lunar Water Ice (H2O). The Lunar Water can support a Fuel Depot at the LS Lunar Base. The Lunar Oxygen (LUNOX-TM/LOX) from the water and the minerals of the Lunar Regolith can be used to to off the Oxygen Tanks of the Cargo Starship to be used or sold at the LEO CSS ! The Oxygen is much heavier than methane (CH4) or Hydrogen (H2) ! This Lunar Oxygen will help protect the earth's biosphere ! The SpaceX Starship HLS can help support NASA mission to return to the moon to stay. With the Starship HLS being delayed the SpaceX Starship HLS could include a SpaceX Cyber Truck, Solar Panels and other supplies for the LS Lunar Outpost for Crew SAFETY (Lunar Workers). The Tech developed to return to the moon to stay, can take US to Mars and beyond ! tjl

@alphatech4966

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment!

I’m ready for an affordable trip to space. Maybe the moon and mars. Be nice to go to something like and airport and get a trip to the moon or mars.

Engine synergy? Whodathunkit?

Shagwell baby, yah!

"2023 is coming to an end".... how old is this video uploaded 19 hours ago?

@c.raysporleder648

3 ай бұрын

It’s 2024 now.

i just want to see someone walk on Mars before i die.. i will go now, one way, fill the cargo with vodka lol.. moon would be nice too..

So, no trip to the moon just jet....?

"the dome needs to be pointier "

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

If everything else is perfect you can start working on the details ... Never underestimate the value of the facade of Elon Musk projects. Requirement #1: the CGI has to look perfect in the eyes of the investors. Everything else is optional.

Not going to be anytime soon..!! Since all the new construction is based on SpaceX spaceship 2

Should maybe get one startship in space before starting a new one.

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

Even Elon is by now aware that Starship is a failed concept. New CGI footage is needed to attract new money from investors. Elon measures succes in dollars (on his bank account), not results.

@jessepollard7132

4 ай бұрын

already did that, twice and getting ready for a third time.

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

@@jessepollard7132 those didn't make it into space. The second attempt exploded at about 80km if I remember correctly.

@avgjoe5969

4 ай бұрын

@@AdrieKooijman Pretty sure the people outside your small bubble know that he is succeeding. Was thinking about responding with... facts (F9, Starlink, Starship progress, Raptor)... so many facts that contradict you, but you packed so much ignorance into two sentences that I can only assume that facts are not your friends. Please go back to your crayons and your bubble. Reality is harsh to baby trolls. If you must reemerge, try to bring a few facts.

Now, congrats..., but would this be another trip to no where...?

I had heard of the 18 meter version about 5 years ago - about the time he announced the hopper tests. it was a bit speculative at the time as the raptor v1 had just been produced, but now that raptor 3 is available, it is about time.

@avgjoe5969

4 ай бұрын

It would be easier to build that in LEO, then use it to shuttle goods from Earth to the moon and setup a subterranian moon base (using Boring machines) so that rings and maglev trains could provide 1.0 or 1.2 G to colonists to prevent muscle atrophy. Shipyards in Lunar orbit can supply mined materials to orbit with rail guns. Huge craft can then be built in lunar orbit. Mining 16Psyche or other asteroids can have small refineries and the tools to build larger ones out to promising asteroids and bring back tens of thousands of refined ore (gold, platinum, titanium) to lunar orbit to allow continued construction. A train of 100 or more 18m (dia) or larger Starships (with nuclear/ion engines when developed - well in advance of the shipyards in LEO) will cut down on intervals between metal supply. That would allow almost daily shipments of metal from the belt.

@ralphclark

4 ай бұрын

That’s a proper chode. I hope it gets built before Bezos’ Blue Origin is retired

Rehashing 2023? No thanks, you're wasting my time.

Amazing! Starship will become almost as big as Elon Musks' ego!

When will SpaceX increase the height of the Starship Tower to keep pace with the comments of increasing height of the integrated Starship and Booster Elon Musk has previously mentioned? It’s obvious that the tower will have to increase in size to accommodate the larger Starship and Booster. I would imagine that it would happen before any additional Towers are constructed.

Get the current one flying first..

@ryanab01

4 ай бұрын

Why? Do you think car companies only develop one vehicle at a time?

@chiaricharlie6608

4 ай бұрын

😂

GO SPACE X

@alphatech4966

4 ай бұрын

Yeah!

2023 is coming to an end? 2024 is coming? Why is this posted only 21 hours ago, in the middle of February 2024? What are you playing at????

I don't think the starships necessarily have to land upright on the Moon or Mars. The heatshield tile side could be an exoskeleton with landing legs & adequate thrusters to land perpendicular.

Was this video created by AI?

@alphatech4966

2 ай бұрын

Of course not!

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CO2 😂

Need to use nuclear engines on the starship to be serious.. ridiculous to use these fossil fuel engines .

@frankmcgowan9457

4 ай бұрын

While I agree that new engine types are required and that some are well advanced in theory, those new engines need to be built and developed. When did Robert Goddard build his first liquid fuel rocket? Entirely new engine types may take as much time to develop as we already have invested in liquid fuel types... We cannot wait.

@tobyw9573

4 ай бұрын

There are stories of fusion power beginning to arrive, fusion seems to potentially have replaced the need for actinide fuel and waste. The fear of a reactor containing tens and hundreds of thousands of years of waste falling from the sky on your city may be a concept that no amount of advertising can overcome.

@tobyw9573

4 ай бұрын

A nuclear power station reactor costs tens of Billion$ and is customarily delayed for 1-2 decades! Early reactors took a year, I read. An inertia principle fusion reactor might be transported to orbit via Starship and assembled at a reasonable weight. Check out new designs. No concrete or containment required!

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

And how exactly does a nuclear rocket engine work? Where does the nuclear debris end up after Elons' 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' experiments?

Did all the unemployed coal miners in the Eastern States find employment with Starbase? Seems like those guys should be highly employable at Starbase. Doesn't increasing the height of Starship violate Elon's first principle doctrine? Is the goal more payload; or is it, some grandiose pursuit of a record for height? What happens if the girth is increased 10% ?

im gonna grow watermelons on mars yes

❤❤ 👩🏻proud of ElON and the future of the world 🚀 To mr. Musk and the Space X team’s members. To dreams come true and Thank God forever and. In the Name century best known for Historical. North of more to come. God with good blessings of safety and love for all Americans In Jesus Christ lord Amen ❤❤🥰🥰

Last 2-3 videos are rehashes of previous videos.

The bigger the rocket the bigger the crater………………………………………………………….on the Moon, or Mars

HELLO MAHAL ELON 💕 HUMANA KO OG KAON KARON AKUNG SUD AN TUNA NAAY GULAY KAMATIS SALAD MAGHIMO NAKO KARON OG DAX NIMO NAA KO NIMO KANANG SA IMONG LIKOD MAGCGENG NA OG TINDOG HANTOD WALAY UNDANG ANG TINDOG KAY MAGCGENG NA OG ADTO SA MARS KAY NAA DIDTO TANAN ANG KALIPAY SA GINOO NAA SA LANGIT TANAN BAWAL ANG MGA BUSLOT MO ADTO SA MARS KAY SI HONEY NIMO MARLISA MO LARGA KO VIRGIN NA MAONA ANG NINDOT SA TANAN MAHAL LAB LAB HONEY DARLING ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

And how are the going to land on Mars? Dropping the feet of Starship in soft unstable Mars soil? 🤣🤣🤣Oh wait, they will first build a landing spot on Mars, piece of cake! 🤣🤣 They seriously overestimate themselves. I don't seem them landing on Mars within 25 years. With a 3 men crew! 😂😂😂😂

@markrose2475

4 ай бұрын

I would expect the first few Starships to land on Mars will be loaded with everything that mankind will need to start spending any time there. Musk will have a few dozen Tesla bots on those ships to start the assembly process. Maybe hundreds.. Why else would Tesla be working so hard on creating them?

@michaeldemarco9950

4 ай бұрын

@@markrose2475, yep. Every major business Musk has started (Tesla CyberTruck, Starlink, The Boring Company) is intended to further Mars colonization.

Gee, with larger tanks, maybe it can go nonstop from LA to Vegas, unlike a Tesla... 😂

@ryanab01

4 ай бұрын

Teslas don't have tanks, so really an unfit comparison.

@samm928

4 ай бұрын

Tesla is dead .. so are the idiots that fell for the scam ..

@antonetwas2415

4 ай бұрын

@@samm928why is Tesla dead?

@samm928

4 ай бұрын

@@antonetwas2415 would you risk your family in an EV if it leaves you stranded in a blizzard ? .. 100 mile range if you're lucky and not catch on fire to the next charging station ?? .. it was a scam from the start

@donotcomply1628

4 ай бұрын

Ooooooh - burn!

Where is the electric rocket? Seems they would be better for the climate.

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

I've seen 'electric rockets' on certain xxx toys webshops. 😆

WE USE IMPERIAL MEASUREMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Mic_Glow

4 ай бұрын

nein

@jamskinner

4 ай бұрын

Who is we?

@k.sullivan6303

4 ай бұрын

Not in Canada!

@highpointsights

4 ай бұрын

@@jamskinner the bulk of the lower 48 which I suspect is the bulk of your audience!!

40 stacked african elephants??? Unsubscribed...

Well, I'm glad Elon is pushing for bigger ships, so what we can lift out of the gravity well increases. I think people under estimate the potentials of Starlink to fund "Space Industrialization", considering how much humans like their communications and entertainments. When the first cell towers started going up, I knew it would be alot of money wasted when we should be improving Satellite versions. Luckily Elon had vision and money, and started working on it. And had done the work to create the Falcons. Sure alot of people laughed... Just like those laughing at Starship now... They wont be laughing when Starships are pumping out hundreds of Starlink satellites, or when Starships are bringing back things for refurbishing and upgrades. Also theres the potential of orbital solar power plants, and beaming power down to Earth, I would gladly pay my power bill to Elon, and have him forward humanity at ever accelerating rates. We aren't far from AI. And we should be thinking already of algorythms to solve physics questions, leading to a working model of the Universe, and how reality is put together. Pretty sure once we know how it all actually works, That FTL tech will be a by product. And that AI singularity is coming at us pretty fast now. What this means to me, is SpaceX working on larger lift ships, means working infrastructure to build much larger ships in space or on the Moon, and that we will likely have FTL tech, long before we have the ships built to put it to use. That it would be a wise investment to help Elon build a gazillion of these things, and make them as big as possible. Supposedly the Military is sniffing around now, hopefully they can bulldoze the bureaucrats out of the way, and start getting better funding going to SpaceX. Looks to me like SpaceX is getting serious results, and that Starship is actually small and primitive compared to whats coming way sooner than we think. And having a planetary defense force is way better than fighting with each other until Alien Arrival, and find ourselves screwed. Or waiting for that asteroid strike. Might be hard on that military retirement plan. Its not that Elon is so smart, its that the rest of us are being stupid. So I suggest you do whatever you can to help him, even if its just voting out the political group that seems to like to weaponize bureaucracies and the courts against Elon. Peace is most often obtained via deterrents. Nothing would be a better deterrent than knowing a cheap hunk of concrete in a heat shield can crater you from orbit. And not contaminate everything else. Our militaries are archaic and short sighted, and being chumped by contractors. Time for a new era where we get past the old patterns. Unknowns from space, is are our second most critical threat, behind our own stupidity.

think elon will set off a nuke in space for the 4th of july?

Tongetha my king, elon, don't forgat your wife grace is Czech Republic prague Plzeň

Everyone is all concerned about CO2 in our atmosphere - what about all or our oxygen that is getting shot into space with nearly daily launches of bigger and bigger rockets? I guess we’ll just have to electrolicize our oceans to make more O2. (Maybe that ties into the plan for hydrogen fueled vehicles)

@DunnickFayuro

4 ай бұрын

If you use Co2 to make methane to fuel the rocket, it cancels out :) That's what Elon wants to do. Because on Mars, it will be the only option.

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

Space industry is completely irrelevant on climate scale. Elon is not (really) intending to capture CO2, not on earth, not on Mars. His Tesla solar (failed) city provides about 0.5 percent of the electricity his cars use. Elon is the prototype of green-washing.

@avgjoe5969

4 ай бұрын

@@AdrieKooijman Agree that rocket industry pollution is a tiny fraction of airline industry or cars. That said, Methane is cleaner than Kerosene or H2 (given that it comes from Nat Gas... not... much more expensive electrolysis which is several times as expensive). Regards greenwashing... electric cars that people actually want with the highest eMPG ratings, much cleaner lithium mining, battery storage to reduce the use of wasteful peaker plants while lowering electricity rates. Rockets that use Methane rather than Blue H2 or Kerosene (with all those other pollutants). Cars that don't need paint (and all the solvents involved). Multiple improvements in car manufacture that replace hundreds of parts and weight of problematic/expensive metals. Batteries that use dry electrodes rather than gel that require nasty solvents to bond (cleaner battery production). Yeah... that must be greenwashing, because companies that promise to go EV and make alliances with ESG for better scores, while kicking the can down the road over and over... (Phillip Morris ESG score - 87, Tesla - 37) Who's greenwashing? An addictive carcinogen manufacturer vs Clean cars/energy. ESG and DEI are also hand in hand. If you discriminate against candidates that don't meet racial, sex and non-standard gener affiliations - you are penalized in your score. Apparently pushing freedom of speech will also get you dinged quite severely. And yes: pursuing a high ESG score IS green washing. You may be a bit colorblind.

Can't get the smaller one in the air so build a bigger failure.

@iancanty9875

4 ай бұрын

Ridiculous. It’s flown fly twice, albeit with catastrophic failures but the 2nd flight was so much better than the 1st that even a hater like you surely must see it. All rockets need development and all suffer failures at first. They are some of the most complex machines ever devised.

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

​@@iancanty9875a slightly better performance is not an indicator of future success...

@iancanty9875

4 ай бұрын

@@AdrieKooijman Look at the history of Falcon Nine as well as other rockets, and machines such as nuclear reactors and and tell me why Starship should be any different. I’m an engineer and have developed special machines which at first looked almost hopeless, but eventually worked reliably.

@AdrieKooijman

4 ай бұрын

​@@iancanty9875 Look at the history of Hyperloop "cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table". An engineering challenge being possible in theory is not by definition doable in practice. The Russians tried, and failed, while not the most unexperienced in spaceships. Falcon Nine is just development of existing technology, with small changes. Starship is a quantum leap ahead of everything else, there's absolutely no guarantee that this can actually work reliable enough for practical applications. So I agree: not impossible. But still unlikely to succeed within a reasonable timeframe. The wright brothers couldn't have build a 737 in their lifetime while it's a perfectly feasible product.

@iancanty9875

4 ай бұрын

@@AdrieKooijman Hyperloop is an extreme case and probably will not be done due to extreme cost, not to mention the fact that it’s a completely impractical idea that has no previous comparisons. However, regardless that you say Starship is a quantum leap, it’s still comparable to previous technology and has already flown and it is still in development. That means with the progress already made and with ongoing development, it is very likely to succeed. People said the moon landers wouldn’t succeed and yet now are part of the history of space flight. Barring any political or environmental pressure to confound Spacex, I’m confident we’ll see a starship in orbit.

Juts all Elon bullshit …

I'm waiting to see it not just get taller but wider! Imagine what it could do if the diameter was doubled! I still believe that Artemis is a joke and Space-X should just make their own lunar projects and leave NASA on the ground where they seem to be happiest. Space-X can do it better and faster than NASA can even imagine. News for the meatball that wrote this crap. 2023 is NOT coming to a close. It has been closed for two months! DUH?!