1:38 Slow motion hero walk by the construction crew 😂🎉🎉

@ronr.53400

10 күн бұрын

cameo crew 😂

@TheDNAlucky

9 күн бұрын

I was going to say this exact thing haha. Those men are building the future

@tolson57

7 күн бұрын

I would like to see some interviews with the construction crew. Is this something special to them or just another job?

I have watched every single one of these. Ever. For years. Hundreds. Thanks for continuing to make them!

@jameswilson5165

8 күн бұрын

History in the making.

Landing between the chopsticks will be another holy crap moment in this journey.

@sdebeaubien

10 күн бұрын

Excitement GUARANTEED!

@riparianlife97701

10 күн бұрын

The second launch tower is going vertical now. It's almost time. I want to see a super heavy booster fly from Texas to Florida and land on the tower there.

@TaurusSpace

10 күн бұрын

@@riparianlife97701Booster cannot travel that distance

@riparianlife97701

10 күн бұрын

@@TaurusSpace Even without a Starship on it? How about with a carbon fiber nosecone?

@ralanham76

10 күн бұрын

​@@TaurusSpace it's going 5000kmh it can't coast 1600 km ? I think safety and permission is a bigger deal.

All these shots from Mary, I love it. Thank you Mary!!❤

10 minutes of amazing footage!!!!

And work continues at the launch SITES . Thanks NSF team.

Absolutely foot to the floor. It's crazy. I cannot wait for the 2nd tower and the huge crane to start going up. Texas tank watching from the south of France!

Bring back the daily dailies please!

Woohoo! I didn't think this week could be anywhere near as exciting as last week.... But what do I know? Wow!

Semse the fourth launch, we all thought that flap would fail, but it didn't! Now their replacing tiles entirely to make sure it doesn't happen again!

Anyone remember the first hop? Now we are preparing for Orbital Test 5. I grew up in the age of Apollo and watched the first moon landing on my 9th birthday. Now I am watching this take place is front of me and I have to admit, it's a great time to be alive. If I could live long enough to watch the first manned Starship landing on Mars I could go out knowing we got a shot at becoming a multiplanetary species.

Love Mary's photography ! Thank you for sharing this good work

This part of the work is mind-blowing, how crazy, congratulations 👍🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 and your channel is also to be congratulated for the coverage you are giving to show the world how it's done

The day-to-day transparency and git'r done work ethic is simple amazing. The worlds governments could very much learn from SpaceX.

Love the time-lapse videos. Thank you NSF.

Thanks again Mary, Jack, Sean, & SBL for another great Starbase Update and some awesome video footage!!! Thank you so very much!!!

I can imagine that removing the tiles is a very unpleasant job.

@mrdebris1217

10 күн бұрын

Maybe every worker has to start as a tile guy.

@davidstinger1134

9 күн бұрын

More like tedious.

@thijsderkx9479

9 күн бұрын

the more people are removing and placing tiles , the more practicing and the more learning and experiecing they become in placing and replacing tiles

@CATech1138

7 күн бұрын

but well paying...

Great camera work! Thanks for sharing the video!

Absolute monster of a crane.

@imconsequetau5275

10 күн бұрын

CC 8800-1 Crawler Crane. Probably is going to get a double-wide boom for extra load capacity.

@iamaduckquack

10 күн бұрын

@@imconsequetau5275 Boom booster believe it is called.

Thanks for continued coverage

We are the hard working in Starbase building. WOW ! Awesome . I interest she in Starbase … perfect 🤩😍🔥🚀🚀👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Um grande projeto é muito suor trabalho pessoas envolvidas e sempre acreditar 🙏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Always awesome to see so much activity!

thank you guys

Great shots, keep’ em coming.

Thanks!

That long pan up at @7:00 reminded me of the opening of Space Balls, The Motion Picture.

Excellent Video all...well done

impressive amount of work

Progress! Beautiful!

You guys are the best!!!

Always striving for perfection...!

That’s a lot of action!

Tank watching will become crane watching again for a few months :)

Hey guys, make sure you have on the proper PPE, OSHA is watching! I see a lot of fitted masks on those removing tiles then .. Guy on right 6:56!

Thanks

3:45 It looks...Super heavy !! x)

@imconsequetau5275

10 күн бұрын

It's also going to be filled with heavy concrete.

What happens to FTS on unrecovered booster(s) and ship(s)? Presumably these remain a hazard now for whomever might come across them, assuming that at some point some salvage company will attempt to recover them or some entrepreneur will decide to launch tours to IFT 4 space tourism sites….. Is there likely to be a NASA or USSF requirement to salvage them?

great footage. mary and sean on a roll. yo looks like olit2 gonna be up quickly. the parts are there or en route. we'll see how the tile replacement goes. i still see pressure traps and heat vortexes that melt the flaps. v2 baby. hmm

3:08 lovely shot.

Looks good

Very interesting

always a good time to see the progress at starbase, thanks. before it was a video every day now one a week, and some of the cuts during editing are too close together, we don't have time to notice

Just impossible to understand the work going on right now. The pace is mind boggling.

Unbelievable.

Looks like a shipyard!

7:40, 8:28 The large oval hole provides access for workers to insert and torque nuts and bolts. Also may permit poured concrete to surround the cube.

Kinda funny how fast SpaceX is erecting high-tech equipment for the rockets, and building the rockets themselves, yet the office building - very low tech in comparison - seemingly takes forever LOL! Not that I mind - SpaceX has their priorities straight! IFT-5 is going to ROCK!!

It seemed to me when watching Ship 4 traveling through the plasma that the heat shield was softening with the appearance of soft chocolate instead of the clear edges between the tiles.

4:32 Vertical movement of Landing Rail. Arms and Landing Rail converg to the rocket stage position, so the Booster or Ship only has to hover.

Action packet. Wowza!

They need a dedicated tower without a launch mount for catching because if they miss the booster is going to damage the launch mount etc.

3:41 "Pad B Tower Base Parts" Probably not ladder rungs, but for vertical cable/pipe fasteners?

2:00 Looks like the bottle is on a pivot that holds it vertical/plumb, or reduces sloshing.

with that much work on Ship 30. will 42 be the magic answer for Space X?

7:23 Note the large metal caster wheels on the AFT Barrel Stand.

I can't wait to see the first booster with the integrated hot staging section, and the first ship with the flaps moved leeward...

cool video of the riggers at 1:37 could have been longer even.

puttin in the work 😂 gettin er dunnn

1:35 It looks like the tops of these cargo containers come off.

Ship 30 looking sad without its tiles! Hope they have something GREAT to replace them with!

Either they're replacing it bc it's old, or they found a new way to protect starship from what just happened. Update: its a new ablative layer underneath the hard layer, i don't think this should really affect the orbital capabilities of the rocket in terms of weight

@bryanillenberg

10 күн бұрын

They are adding a secondary ablative layer underneath, so that a loss of tile event doesn't doom the ship.

@ghost307

10 күн бұрын

I don't think anything at Starbase hangs around long enough to be called 'old'.

@ethanslife7851

10 күн бұрын

​@bryanillenberg ohh ok, a secondary preventative against what happened during ift4 reentry?

@ethanslife7851

10 күн бұрын

​@@ghost307that's just the thing, it moves so fast, that new or up to date becomes the old

@bryanillenberg

10 күн бұрын

@@ethanslife7851 maybe? It may just be to improve redundancy

That oughta do it.

Wonder if the old tiles could be used on OLM legs?

3:47 Are these hot zinc dip galvanized?

@0:54 I have worked in an aerial lift and rigged an umbrella just lke that. No sense roasting in the sun if you dont have to!

4:25 this knobby part looks like it could extend into a Starship hardpoint socket. Probably will be mounted on the arm's Rail.

Seeing the second tower got me thinking... we could see two superheavys land at the same time

Did look like they were removing the blanket?

Will any of the current stock of ships fly? I thought the next ship was going to be a V2.

Is this new Tower going to be catch only? As there are no pipes or tanks.

All those workers must be hot after working with all that stuff they have to wear. Hope they get good shift breaks to hydrate and cool down.

@Adrian Can we have a metal print of 4:09 please

They are going to catch the booster I think😮😮

I´m curious what will be ready first the completion of the Shell of Tower 2 or Flight 5

@imconsequetau5275

10 күн бұрын

Flight 5 is going to be prioritized.

Construct a mold the size of the star ship. Center-up the star ship within the mold and pour the heat-shielding material onto the star ship. Of course you'll need to have certain removable materials in strategic places to allow for movement clearances. One solid heat-shield with no seams.

@Andy-qv9tb

10 күн бұрын

The heat shield has to withstand the vibrations etc. during start-up. I have doubts that such a large ceramic structure can withstand this. The heat shield needs a certain flexibility. apart from the challenges in manufacturing

@patmancrowley8509

10 күн бұрын

@@Andy-qv9tb Most folks enjoy a challenge!

@kennybevan11

10 күн бұрын

​@@Andy-qv9tbplus with temperature changes, the tiles expand and contract slightly too

@Andy-qv9tb

10 күн бұрын

@@kennybevan11 It would also be extremely difficult to handle such a large, thin-walled and fragile structure weighing a few tons. Quartz glass has a very low thermal expansion and a porous structure is created during manufacturing, so it is possible that it could withstand the heat difference. You would have to test it or ask a good material scientist :) We have an economics minister (Mr. Habeck) here who used to write children's books. He also has ideas that no one can implement and the experts just shake their heads.

@imconsequetau5275

10 күн бұрын

Ceramic foam tiles need to be baked before and after coating with the black borosilicate layer. How can you bake an entire Starship all at once?

think i would wait until the new tower is operational be for i did a catch, maybe not even have the tank farm hooked up to it even, ship 26 how about coat with foam like shuttle tank and set up as an orbital fuel station test unit???

Did they also remove the tile pins? In one shot it looked like they were gone. But then there was another that looked like they were still there?

@thomashayden804

10 күн бұрын

They're certainly trying to keep them. It can be hard to tell depending on the lighting since they're relatively small, but it's also possible they accidentally broke some off

I just don’t see how we can launch within a month with a full heat shield replacement and a license modification but I hope it happens very soon! If it was NASA that needed to replace an entire heat shield it would take like two years!

@imconsequetau5275

10 күн бұрын

The Shuttle didn't have a single snap-in thermal tile. Every single one had a backing layer of high temperature felt and required Silicon adhesive. Also, *_Every Single Tile_* was specified to have a different unique shape, and the tiles were *_Cost-Plus contracting expensive._*

I reckon IFT-5 will be in August the 6th

They are putting an ablative under layer and a new harder tile ontop

@GuardianSoulkeeper

10 күн бұрын

How would an ablative layer _under_ the harder tiles work? I'm struggling to wrap my head around that one.

@ethanslife7851

10 күн бұрын

​@GuardianSoulkeeper In case the hard layer peels away in some areas, they'll have an ablative layer underneath

@GuardianSoulkeeper

10 күн бұрын

@@ethanslife7851 That occurred to me immediately after I posted. Makes sense.

@julianfp1952

10 күн бұрын

Yeah. A last resort safety measure I assume, like airbags in a car that you never want to see going off, since having that ablative layer experience any appreciable ablation during a nominal re-entry would seem to me to be totally antithetical to rapid reuse.

@dudermcdudeface3674

10 күн бұрын

@@julianfp1952 Yup, just a backup. I assume once they're flying confidently, they'll only bother to do that for the human flights.

Has Flap Norris paddled the remains of the last flight back to base yet ? It needs a heroes place in SpaceX's headquarters (and history)

@kennybevan11

10 күн бұрын

It's probably at the bottom of the Indian ocean by now 😢

@imconsequetau5275

10 күн бұрын

I would be astonished if they even approached Starship before scuttling it. Maybe an airborne camera drone deployed from a hull compartment...

I'd like to see one made from titanium 😃

Are they going to remove all the tiles and add the thinner tiles underneath? Or, are they just doing this in vulnerable areas?

@kennybevan11

10 күн бұрын

Looks like they learnt a lot from the last flight, especially around heat tiles. I'm guessing they're replacing all the tiles

we have the foundation half set in place better install some lights so we can work all night long they are machines

Anyone think that the OLM would suffer less if they put the same heat shielding tiles (but different shapes) on the OLM and so the heat from the booster would not be a problem? Perhaps large shields so they can be attached firmly enough to withstand the blast force they get?

@imconsequetau5275

10 күн бұрын

Tiles are way too delicate. Steel is tough. But, I'm wondering when the coats of paint will be obsolete.

So will they try an ablative heat shield now?

@billstevens3796

10 күн бұрын

No.

Why not make the fins out of a higher melting point metal such as Molybdenum because covering them with heat shield tiles may not be necessary?

@ghost307

10 күн бұрын

Probably prohibitively expensive.

@Andy-qv9tb

10 күн бұрын

Heat conduction in metals is high, plus a high density

@chrismeys4791

10 күн бұрын

​@@ghost307 Claude Ai states around $25 per pound. 2623°c melting point.

@chrismeys4791

10 күн бұрын

​@@Andy-qv9tbClaude ai states that Molybdenum has a higher strength to weight than stainless steel.

@chrismeys4791

10 күн бұрын

​​@@Andy-qv9tb"Heat conduction in metals is high" Good point. Claude ai states that the heat conduction of Molybdenum is many times higher than Stainless steel.

Sooner or later they will need to invent a robot or some other automated means of quickly installing and removing those tiles. Or some other kind of heat shield, maybe a 3D printed ceramic sheath form-fitted to the fuselage in many fewer pieces.

@Direwizardry

10 күн бұрын

They do, the majority of tiles are currently attached via robot.

@MikeC2K10

10 күн бұрын

@@Direwizardry sooner it is, then! haha

So the new tower is going to be taller? If you have the 9 sections and the base has those extensions means??? 🤔

@thomashayden804

9 күн бұрын

It should be the same height. Pad A has a different base design but pretty much the same dimensions (Pad B adds a bunch more steel). Then the naming scheme has become numbering the sections up to 9, but Pad A had the same set, the last two were just called 8a and 8b (instead of 8 and 9) since they're not full height

@Ch33ziTzsk8R

9 күн бұрын

@@thomashayden804 interesting 👍

how much Red Bull is consumed in the Starbase? Judging by the speed of the trucks, cranes and people working, it is like they are all on an overdose of red Bull. No wonder Spacex accomplisjes so much in so little time 🙂

Hello to all the tough guys working at the galactic space station

I can see the Boys now: "All right, " said Fred, "Have to take the feet off To get them feet off wouldn't take a mo" Took its feet off, even took the seat off Should have got us somewhere but no! So Fred said, "Let's have another cuppa tea" And we said, "right-o"

That means the data from IFT4 paid off, and they know (more or less) what works now.

@NASASpaceflight

10 күн бұрын

Well, Flight 4 taught them what didn't work, flap hinge and tile wise. Might still take a couple tries to determine what *works*, but excitement guaranteed! - Das

I love the access SpaceX allows for, unlike Blue Origin for example. This allows for the public to feel like part of the process, and helps Elon’s goal of making life multi-planetary by SpaceX engaging with the public, and drumming up excitement. Even if China is actively trying to copy SpaceX. SpaceX isn’t afraid if that because they know China will never be able to successfully copy SpaceX designs.

@imconsequetau5275

10 күн бұрын

I disagree. The Chinese will copy everything and implement their own way. But that doesn't matter, since SpaceX will always be innovative.

I said they would be completely replaced days ago when Elon video was released.

Multiple layers of thin tiles, better than1 layer of thick tiles. Like skin cells. Cheers mates.

Using Geopolymer Concrete inside legs?.

Thank you very much again for the summary video. A little critique though: Doing fast forward during nearly the entire video creates a pretty hectic impression. Perhaps reduce the fast forward? I couldn't even read the description and spot the respective sections on screen anymore because the video already cut to the next scene.

@knowledgeisgood9645

10 күн бұрын

I think they try to find a middle way between those who want it to be 2 minutes and those who want 2 hours. No way to please everyone.

@joew.6380

10 күн бұрын

play it at half speed...

@imconsequetau5275

10 күн бұрын

Be prepared to pause...

@jonny3003

Күн бұрын

@@knowledgeisgood9645 Yes you are right, it's probably difficult, but in this video it was almost only fast forward.

132 Raptors at the bottom of the sea and counting.