One of the best animations we've seen thus far, Bravo!

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks so much!

@KrustyKlown

2 жыл бұрын

He left out the multiple week refurbishment of booster and starship in the high bay, between launches. Be serious, Falcon 9 was supposed to be relaunch ready in 24 hours.. and is averaging over 50 days now.

@dixon_est

2 жыл бұрын

@@KrustyKlown You sure, that the 50 days is not about cargo integration?

@KrustyKlown

2 жыл бұрын

@@dixon_est The FASTEST refurb turn around EVER for Falcon 9 has been 27 days. The first stage booster is independent of the cargo carried in the 2nd stage. That said.. 27 days is about 1/2 the best refurb to launch time of the Space Shuttle. For SpaceX to relaunch 2 or 3 times in a single day, would mean NO REFURB work at all.. just a systems check, stacking a Starship / Booster, fueling and launching. It is preposterous that NO Refurb work will be required.. space launches are extreme events of stress, vibration and heat cycling .. which make airline flight seem like a picnic. But have no worries.. if SpaceX can refurb and relaunch inside 1-2 weeks, they should be able to hit their launch frequency & cost requirements for Starlink lanches .. which is the main business purpose of Starship/Superheavy.

@ingentingbra

2 жыл бұрын

@@KrustyKlown Falcon 9 is using rocket-grade kerosene, Starship will use much cleaner burning methalox so that will cut down time significantly

Stunning animation Nick, you can tell so much effort went into this. All the effects, all the different scenes, with so much attention to detail. Awesome 🚀🤘

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

😁 thanks so much Caspar

@borshik2054

Жыл бұрын

В видео вложено много сил и сыра

@yummysatay

Жыл бұрын

@3:44 and @5:52 indicate four refueling processes. The tanker looks to be same size as the lunar starship which itself has 1200t propellant capacity. A tanker surely must have more fuel capacity since it will have larger tank in place of cargo payload. What is the tanker refueling that needs to be repeated four times? In other words, say you have an 80 gallon SUV which is not empty, then you have say 120 gallon tanker trying to refuel your SUV and then again and again and again. How do you jam 120x4=480 gallon of fuel into your 80 gallon SUV?

@Mister_Durden

Жыл бұрын

@@yummysatay tanker burns to get into orbit and to get back to ground? So its not transferring 100%? I have no idea what im talking about just a guess.

@yummysatay

Жыл бұрын

@@Mister_Durden You are right about the fuel in the tanker. I now understood the process. Booster has a max launch weight of the starship: payload of 150T + its dry weight (no fuel). So the first launch is starship with payload but with empty fuel tank. Subsequent launches of the tanker with fuel of only 150T. Starship (in orbit) fuel capacity is 1200T. (1200 / 150) = 8. So my guess is it needs to launch tanker eight times to fill up the starship in orbit.

HA! I LOVE the wheel of cheese at the end XD Astounding work on this! Man, SpaceX really should just borrow animations from the community to demonstrate their missions. You showed it perfectly. It all feels so real and attainable too, with all the hardware we've seen. The tower, the catch arms, the QD's, the flip maneuver... We've seen them function. Now we just need the vehicles to perform as expected. What a time to be alive.

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Had to add the chesse!

@ErikGoff

2 жыл бұрын

@@NickHenning3D Loved the cheese ! Technically though there already is cheese on the moon. The Beresheet mission that crashed a few years go had cheese on board :)

@walidhmd

2 жыл бұрын

no wonder space x gonna do something like this XD

@skateboardingjesus4006

2 жыл бұрын

Except for their lunar lander. It's unfeasibly tall, with way too much mass above It's centre of gravity. The Apollo descent modules were squat, with a broad base, yet they even had concerns.

@johndododoe1411

2 жыл бұрын

@@skateboardingjesus4006 That's because the SpaceX HLS is a modified Starship. The Starship is designed to return humans from Mars, thus is optimized to launch through the Martian atmosphere. Now the flaps for atmospheric landing have been removed and lunar thrusters added above the center of gravity (seen in other animations).

I seriously can’t imagine that I might see this in real life:)

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

I know right!! Can't wait.

@willdmann363

2 жыл бұрын

@BlackholeTtson452 The first Artimas Moon landing I think is scheduled sometime 2026 or 2028 but those dates will probably change a little.

@paranaenselol

Жыл бұрын

@@BadTakesGuy bruh artemis one already happened in 2022

Really amazing animation, seriously. The high quality of rendering and accuracy of the launch site and launch vehicles were incredible! Ever thought about working for Spacex's graphic design team? It was so cool seeing the whole process from the launch of the lunar starship to the in orbit refueling. Not to mention the QD arm for the starship and booster, its clear that you've been following the program closely and its cool to see. Can't wait to see that orbital launch in real life!

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this great comment. I lt is definitely a project of love for me!

No words can describe what a masterpiece you have created. Well done!

Very very nice, quite cinematic with the funny cheese payoff. A particularly tasty touch was the very slight greenish tone applied as if with an airbrush to the lunar surface as the ship approached landing. Also, the engine sound is a necessary bit of stage magic that speaks of the power involved despite the fact that there would be none from the camera POV after atmospheric departure. It's a well taken liberty. The landing dust cloud was a standout as well. I'm jealous of the tools available to animators today. Why, back in my day, whippersnsppers, grumble, grumble ..... never mind, it's nap time. Thanks.

Beautiful work, all of it. Laughed out loud when the test payload was released on the lunar surface. Congratulations to you and the whole team.

Incredible and detailed animation. It was like looking into the future, the not so distant future! I am a new big fan! I’m sure many others will be as well. Many kudos.

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

This is exactly what makes me so much more excited about HLS compared to SLS SLS just feels like we're doing the same thing as Saturn, with modern improvements. HLS/Starship is gonna be crazy to see.

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to see! Fun future ahead!

@jorge9312

2 жыл бұрын

Para mi el modulo lunar de Blue Origin es mas sencillo de desarrollar que este gigantesco mecano que debe funcionar bien todos los pasos y son muchos, la posibilidad de fallo aumenta con tantos vuelos y maniobras. Espero que la nasa no se haya equivocado porque será mas barato pero es mas complicado que los otros módulos lunares. El SLS es un gran cohete y Orión también.

@Randhawatrader9

2 жыл бұрын

Just starship beat if successful man rating achieve 🍫🌹

@shawnschaitel838

2 жыл бұрын

Starship is largely using obsolete tech with a new spin under the guise of reducing cost via reusability when if fact while it may do that it's still has the same issues as all of the old designs and that is rockets are really not that effecient perse as most of the rocket is fuel and thus the biggest cost if they really wanted to make something truly innovative they need to design a system /engine that doesn't need to be such a fuel hog to go into space

@shawnschaitel838

2 жыл бұрын

​@@BadTakesGuy keep drinking that koolaid its never going to be that cheap as to get there it will need to take thousands of starship launches to do that the thing can only get at max 150 tons into low earth orbit a hundred to geo synch orbit hence all the refueling BS to get it to even be able to go to the moon or anywhere else thus not making it anymore fuel efficient in many ways than a Saturn v in fact it most likely worse even elon musk has admitted starship will make or break the company because there axing falcon entirely and thus while his goal is humans on mars without massive government support for such an endeavor after he tries to prove via a couple missions that his concept are viable it eon't actually happen then

Thank you for that. This is an excellent way to show my family what SpaceX is planning on accomplishing.

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Aw that's so cool to hear!

This gives me chills, I hope we can see starship flying soon, making all kinds of things possible.

That is a really interesting refueling setup though according to the GAO documents SpaceX will refuel a propellant depot (possibly a stretched Starship I'd guess) with tankers and then once its topped up then have the HLS ship dock and refuel everything in one go, much less risky and more time flexible that way. Though the refuel setup you showed looks logical for how it would be done from tanker to depot and depot to HLS so that's really cool, the airbag buffer is a nice idea

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I was thinking this may be the fasted way to demonstrate the tech but I think big depots will be the way they go eventually.

@josephvanwanzeele5125

2 жыл бұрын

@@NickHenning3D I would agree with what was shown would be a very good way to repetitively demonstrate the re-fuel and maintain process while in space prior to moving forward with a depot. Great rendering of the process!

@nigelwoods6979

2 жыл бұрын

@@NickHenning3D YES!. Congrats to Nick for an awesome animation, including Starship QD as the transfer mechanism, so herein my 2 cents worth. As mentioned, there will be a depot Starship. As per your brilliant animation, it will have QD. Depot will be a stretched, no flaps, likely no Sea Level Raptor (it's NEVER coming back, except as a shower of sparks) Starship. The nosecone will be blunt, just aerodynamic enough for launch (Elon has mentioned Starship is 'pointier' than necessary, for aesthetics). Both Depot and Starship will face they same direction (why spend fuel mass to change orientation?? total waste). For staging, there are currently NO Cold Gas Thrusters on Booster. Elon has said Booster will be 'kicking' Starship loose by vectoring the Raptors . B4 and (likely) B7 will launch with no CGT, to test if the Grid Fin/Raptor combo is sufficient control authority for landing. If yes, there's no reason to go down that path, ever... As Elon says "Best part is NO part"

@tarnvedra9952

2 жыл бұрын

I think you meant to say: "SpaceX will refuel a [REDACTED] with tankers."

@chrismantonuk

2 жыл бұрын

@@NickHenning3D yeah I'd guess they'll eventually keep one big depot topped up in space, so that HLS (and Mars!) flights aren't waiting on other launch operations. How cool is that, an in-space refuelling depot!

Love the QD fueling plate on the gas truck! Best part is no part

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Good eye! Thanks

WOW just Wow! No other words needed

Now this is what i call a class A professional eye candy video! TEAM SPACE ALL THE WAY! And the cheese at the end was hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@chamagical

2 жыл бұрын

first I thought it was a piece of cake!

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice words! Team space!

Nice! I like the ambition and it even has a funny note (to me at least) with that insane thrust-to-weight ratio at lift-off :D

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah its a bit exaggerated, Thanks.

Thank you for this incredible effort, Nick!

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

THANK YOU! you are one of few that gets this right. 1st HLS Demo1 then Demo-2/Art-3.

Can't believe I'm going to watch a video of this thing landing and then immediately tipping over on the news several years from now

What a remarkable piece of work. Truly remarkable, and inspiring. Thanks for the incredible effort to put this together for everyone to visualize our future.

Greatest animation yet. Cant wait for more animations like these. As always keep up the outstanding work! #TeamSpace

Wow. This gave me tears of joy... Impeccable work.

Astonishing. Most beautiful and realistic animation right now. Thx!

I can watch this all day long, its a Masterclass in 3D Animation. Bravo, brilliant Nick. ❤

Great job!! This looks amazing, and is very informative for everyone. Please keep up the great art.

WOW!!! Made me cry. Thanks for your excellent work!

Stunning. Thanks so much.

Absolutely incredible work, all the details are just amazing!

This is absolutely breathtaking awesome work

That was very, very…beautiful, inspiring! Thank you for making this!

I'm simply speechless by the quality of this animation! What an exciting time to be alive!

I liked the refueling part!

This the most accurate space launch animation I've ever seen ❤️ beautiful details and exciting

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

One of the coolest and most inspirational things I've seen in a long time. Thank you for the treat! I like a future that makes you smile and get excited.

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! And I agree!

Stunning!

SpaceX should be hiring you for their visuals... so amazing. can't wait to see this happen for real

The disconnect closeup segments are amazing! I especially like the shot from the far end of the upper stage fueling disconnect @0:44. If you didn't know it was a 3D render, you'd swear it was a real camera shot. Truly impressive work Nick, et al!

_ABSOLUTE PERFECTION. I LOVED THIS._ ♥️✨🥰

Magnificent job. This is my new favorite Starship launch/recovery video to date. Hats off to the entire crew that made this happen.

Im speechless by this incredible piece of art

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!!

Awsaome! Inspiring! Great! Guess NASA and Artemis deserve you as their official animator! Just some little improvements. Any spectator in the vacuum of space won't listen anything from the rockets when they burn... sound are gas pressure waves and where there is no gas, there is no sound... Second, Deorbiting begins at around 28,000 Km/h and reentry ends, i certainly don't know, but very probably at supersonic speeds. So, I'd add more velocity "feel" to the scene of reentry of refuelling Starship. Ionized plasma seems to swirl as if the artificial meteorite that would be Starship was entering at merely 200 - 300 Km/h. And third, one of things that became quite clear on Apollo missions was that under the efflux of hot gases from LM descending stage, a lot of dust and particles raised upon the surface and were expelled a high speed away by those same gases. It is to be expected something similar may occur with Artemis missions; but remember, Lunar Starship uses the ring of thrusters right under the crew station to land, and not its rear mounted Raptors just to avoid dust removal in great amounts and eventual risk to receive damage from some foreign object from the ground. Gas efflux in the lunar almost-void, from the height of that thrusters ring, won't have a serious impact on surface regolith or small stones. So the cloud of expected dust when Lunar Starship lands would have to be largely smaller than depicted in the landing scene. Moreover, not existing any peceivable atmosphere on the Moon, any dust cannot remain in suspension because nothing can suspend anything there. You can form a great cloud of dust by kicking on the lunar dust, but that cloud is surprisingly short-lived compared with a similar situation on Mother Earth. It will disappear in a couple of seconds as if nothing had happened. If you want to have an idea of dust clouds behavior on the Moon, watch this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k65t0KirnqaxZpM.html .

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the great notes and nice words! I'll keep this in mind going forward.

@ibluap

2 жыл бұрын

@@NickHenning3D However, the quality of sounds is fan-tas-tic. Can't figure out how could you synthetise them! Their mere quality justifies their presence in the airless void! For future works, don't forget that even though sound is not transmitted by the emptiness of space, it actually is by solid structures, and all those sounds will eventually be on their way to any pressurized compartment throughout the solid structures. In spacecraft missions, astronauts and cosmonauts heard almost anything going on in their ships via transmission through solid structures. It is superbly dramatized on the movie Apollo 13 wnen CSM docks LEM. It is clearly heard when the CSM probe grazes on the LEM drogue until it catches the primary hooks and then the series of locks ac tivated after the probe retraction.

Wonderful! He gave me goosebumps. I congratulate the entire team of animators and sponsors

Gobsmacked, speechless, awesomeness, great work, ......thank you!

Nice animation🤩

looks dope

Ever heard a word speechless . That's my situation now. Amazing work .

Incredible work you've accomplished. This is hands down my favorite SpaceX simulation. /Applaud

Amazing I can’t imagine how long this took to create

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Just a few month.....and that with 3 computer rendering almost 24/7

Superb 😁😁😁

Fantastic job, Nick! We are all impressed!

What a great demonstration, makes it really clearly what the idea will be. Thanx for the effort 👌 good addition on Felix's and marcus' work

THIS. IS. ABSOLUTELY. AMAZING!!!!! Please tell me how I can donate to you. You literally just put a smile on my face for the entire 10 minutes. Seriously, this is FANTASTIC! Thank you so much for putting the time into this. So how do we donate?

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I appreciate it but nowhere to donate.

@jeffk1482

Жыл бұрын

@@NickHenning3D A true labor of love! IMO you deserve to go on one of these first missions. Then render it for us to tell your story of the amazing trip. Wishful thinking probably, but still...

Im very interested in the refuelling system presented in this video, can we have some more details on this?

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

It's not official, just the most logical I could come with. I may do more on it, thanks!

Dude! Awesome, simply awesome! Thank you for sharing!

Excellent production! Thank you. 🤙🏼

Its crazy there still even attempting half this shit

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

I know huh? Can't wait.

wheel of cheese nice lol

That was…very, very beautiful…inspiring. Thank you for making this!

Awesome!

Haha 9:46 (No spoilers)

🧀 CHEESE 🧀

@es14689

Күн бұрын

🧀 CHEESE 🧀

Brilliant ending, made me laugh out loud. Great work. Thanks.

Another epic animation. Thank you so much, love it. Especially the orbital refueling, great idea.

Realy AMAZING job ! Very well done ! Thank you for the great work.

Absolutely killer animation! Excellent work!

Super Animation. Fantastic realistic. Thank you very much.

Absolutely fantastic. An awesome amount of beautiful work. And a cheesy ending!

Spectacular renderings and animation. I hope when it comes time, the actual mission goes this smoothly.

This is crazy well done. Perhaps 80% of what SpaceX has planned ... At least what they've shown to date. Well done. Ending was a stroke of genius.

Thank you so much! I love this stuff!

This is just amazing work!!

Words are powerless. I simply love it. Further developments may occur but, as far as we know, this is amazing.

Wonderfully done. Thanks for such an inspiring movie.

An absolutely stunning presentation!!! Can't wait to see it IRL.

Amazing video! Very exciting to watch. Thank you.

Amazing. Love the end twist.

The space comunerty is lucky to have people like you Thank you🙏

Awesome! :D

Brilliant. Especially loved the fenders on the tanker ship.

Spectacular work. Man the catching of the booster and ship was clean. In real life, this is gonna be nerve wrecking to watch. You have raised the bar Nick. Keep grinding man

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

With the amount of work that have gone into the catch arms I will so nervous! Going to be spectacular no matter what!

Amazing

The most hopeful thing I've seen this 2022 so far

Incredible, mind-blowing, words aren't sufficient enough to describe the feelings that this evokes.. kudos to the artist, to the illustrators, and most of all to the imagineers the thought of this.

Amazing ! Thanks for your work. That was very cool

Absolutely beautiful piece of work Nick and all who contributed.

@NickHenning3D

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

Super cool. Fantastic work. thank you 😊 💓

Awesome job...and the end was perfect...

Totally EPIC! Go humans!!

Fantastic indeed. Thanks for sharing with us. Much appreciated

Bro! this is freaking dope! Incredible work!

Some of the finest animation I've seen 👍👍👍

Brilliant animation, and a few laughs to keep us entertained!

Best ever, of any on the internet. Bravo! Incredible work. Nice cheesy touch!

Outstanding work!

Excellent work by the Animator here. Just inspiring, as it is so attainable with today's technology. Each element shown can be achieved by what has almost already been demonstrated by companies such as SpaceX. **The Future is bright! **

Outstanding!

Thank you!! That was awesome!!

Companies pay a fortune for such high quality animations, if they could get such quality anyway!

A true master of your craft. God bless.