And Elon provided a Starbase update: Video and notes: twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1776676390735163511

@johnhall298

Ай бұрын

Ha! Literally just referenced that below. V2 and 3 renders were on display. V2 is indeed stretched and the flaps are redesigned on both

@JakeSilvester

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! Your overview was a greatvread

@iamaduckquack

Ай бұрын

@@johnhall298 OMG we're getting a long boi ship sooner than I thought! E: Nevermind, V2 only a little bigger. V3 should be the long boi stretch.

@PeterJCalkins

Ай бұрын

Y’all should totally make a video covering all that was talked about. And we finally know what starship v2 will look like!

@mikegardner107

Ай бұрын

Industries needed on Mars. He mentioned a “pizza joint / Mars bar” but left out hydro farming. Moon Base Alpha and Mars Colony One have to grow ALL their own food and recycle ALL their own waste! “Astronaut Farmer?” We need lots of you. Fortunately NASA is already growing plants in zero G on the ISS and the astronauts aboard are already eating them. If you are interested in hydroponics, farming, and being an astronaut start talking to NASA now and begin working on your qualifications, including masters and PhD(s) in plant biology, engineering, hydroponics, waste management , and related fields.

Folks, I think this is one of the best of these you’ve ever done! You keep on getting incrementally better! CONTINUE TO PROCEED UNTIL APPREHENDED!! - Dave Huntsman

With this most recent update NSF have further raised the bar. Shots looking up at booster 11 with stars beyond...delightful. I'm very impressed Chris B et al!!

@TheGalacticIndian

Ай бұрын

Lots of shots from new places and new angles, thank you!🚀🚀

20:00 great video following booster Jack.

@EMichaelBall

Ай бұрын

JackCam

Great close ups, thanks for the updates NSF team.

6:45 is award worthy cinematography

Love the video photography, just beautiful work from the camera people!

That starfield was some nice work, Sean.

As for the grinding on the nosecone, you have to grind metal before applying adhesive, or else it won't stick. Gives it more surface area to adhere to...

Every three days they’re gonna be pumping out a starship. All those boosters and ships and static fires and launches and landings. Its gonna be awesome.

@iamaduckquack

Ай бұрын

Thats just the shell, right? They still have to outfit the vehicles dont they?

@tmikkelsen8066

Ай бұрын

@@iamaduckquack i dont know man. I just heard starship every three days?

@mikegardner107

Ай бұрын

@@iamaduckquack I’m sure they are designing / scrapping / redesigning different interiors for different uses as we speak. By flight time, they will be ready, beginning with Artemis.

@Astromath

Ай бұрын

They actually plan on building three Starships per day!

Mary, Jack, & Sean, great videos, Thank you and thank you NSF!!

Thanks for the beautiful photos Mary. Best I've seen yet! 😊

Been a while since I watched one of these. Y'all have really upped the production value! These aren't just update videos anymore they're works of art! Incredible work

@EMichaelBall

Ай бұрын

It’s easy to make it art when Jack is your most technical photographer.

Awesome video, perfect blend of informational and arty visually stunning shots and such good quality. Congratulations and many thanks to the whole team on your never ending hard work on our behalf

You are all doing an excellent job in providing us with great video even though more and more gets obscured by buildings and terrain closing off. Hats of to you #TeamNSF 🤠

Loving the new Camera Filters

MOAR SUNRISES!!! I really miss those....

30 mins? Holy moly!

I love the content, you guys and gals have gotten very good at this. The improvements to your operation is the best out here. Thank you all for your efforts.

0:21 I'm actually a little surprised that the areas of Starship that use adhesive to attach heat tiles weren't roughed up from the start. Thought it was common knowledge that you want a rough surface so the glue has something to hold onto. Just flat to flat is way more likely to come apart otherwise.

BCG great work on full display.

Fantastic! What a lot of work goes into these videos. Thanks all. 👍

love this. loved seeing the stars roll thru the sky.

Exceptional photography ! Well done. Thanx.

The footage of the booster roll out is EPIC! Amazing work folks!

Their office complex steelwork really progressing !

Awesome shots Y'all

Always Great...

many thanks to all nsf fotografers

Thanks for the coverage

Greatest space content in the industry Thanks NSF!

3:48 That sounds like the breakdown of a metal song.

That was pretty cool... I've been watching since the tower construction, you guys are my go to channel for all things Starship.

Thanks!

Congrats 👍 🙏 🙌 💯

21:27 The Hornburg needs a bit of a retune. Someone get Gimli on the fire beacon...

@YovanNoel

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

Posted just as SpaceX released their mini update from Elon addressing some of the employees. We got a first look at an official Spacex Starship V2 render

New adhesive, or a completely different method for the nosecone TPS?

@karlfortner887

Ай бұрын

My understanding is that they will still use adhesive but they are removing the finish from the stainless to allow a better cohesion between the stainless and the adhesive creating a much better bond..

@mikegardner107

Ай бұрын

Grind the surface in both the metal and tile to produce a better mechanical bond. Spray on a primer coat to prevent corrosion on the metal. A hot bond adhesive cooked on under vacuum might provide a better bond with the tiles.

@Knightfang1

Ай бұрын

I wonder if this has anything to do with all the debris shedding we seen on flight 3 at the start of reentry. Looked like it was coming from somewhere around the nose section

Pukka video should make one half hour video like this every week

Me, at 27m25s into this video for completely normal reasons: Moon! Moon! Moon! MOON! MOON! MOON!

The little notes on the starship tiles are incredible. No idea what they mean though.

_Who's_ got the cutest little booster booties? _You_ do! Yes you _do!_ Such cute little booster booties!

They should do the rings in reverse order. As it is they have to relocate their workflow every time they add a ring. they should build a work jig at the bottom and raise the stacked sections above them bringing in the next ring down each time, these could also have the guides reinstalled. This way the workers stay at the bottom and never have to relocate their equipment or use man lifts.

Watching the SPMT's in this made me think are those SPMT units the most heavily used in the world because most of the time when they are needed you move an item or 2 then they get transported elsewhere to do another job. Here its every day and night moving rockets or parts around the site.

I didn't realize that the star factory looks like it will have a nice light line incorporated into it. I also hope that they move to a sliding PEZ door with tongue and groove on three sides to help stabilize it more. Seems that would be a highly efficient approach.

@themazeecho9336

Ай бұрын

I think the straight line of windows coming from the east will expand in the shape of the triangle outlined by the angled double beam. And it looks like the façade looking to the high bay will have the same window triangle, but reversed. We might still be able to see inside the Starfactory, when light from inside.

Next gen…. Who’s readyyyyy?

@EMichaelBall

Ай бұрын

Not Arianespace

@bryanillenberg

Ай бұрын

@@EMichaelBall or ULA

12:22 ship deformation during flight is the biggest enemy of heat tiles.

Amazing work team, hey Sean, looks like your lens may have taken a fall? I know that soft edges look very well, sadly. :(

16:49 Seagulls are excited for flight 4.

Given all the weight those SPMTs have to transport, I wonder how often they need to replace their tires.

9:30 is a usually done with cryo systems to purge out debris from maintenance or parts replacement. Then you hook it back up and you're good to go.

Sounds like those pully wheels need some greasing up, especially when lifting such brilliant work by the Starship builders and all. 🤔😯

Can always try to catch them later after learning how to stick the landings...

It's going to be a weird world when their ship building speed and launches become mundane, but I'm all about it 🎉

Rusty looking high bay at the beginning there.

SpaceX needs to make a reinforced carbon carbon nose cone for SS just like Shuttle. This would fix the tiling issue.

@JackABeyer

Ай бұрын

plus, it would look sick

@dancingdog2790

Ай бұрын

You mean, it could shatter and lead to loss of vehicle?

@ericpaul4575

Ай бұрын

@@dancingdog2790 shatter from what? No ice above it. Bird strike? Maybe.

@bryanillenberg

Ай бұрын

@@ericpaul4575 Aerodynamic forces. A tile loss is unlikely, but with a tile that big, its guaranteed LOSS of VEHICLE

Steel work on the high bay needs some rust protection already with corrosion from the salty air. Is the level of noise constant off-site? We are used to noisy industry, but is the noise from Boca Chica 24/7?

Did anyone else see the graphic detailing Starship v2 and v3 during the presentation Elon gave at Starbase a few days ago? Apparently the Ship on v3 will have more than double the current thrust and the booster will get an additional ~40% thrust. Full stack is supposed to be 20% taller

21:28 Why did that sound like something from Lord of the Rings?!

1:33 a big curtain wall window.

Do you have the full video of the speech he made recently? SpaceX only uploaded an abbreviated version of it.

@NASASpaceflight

Ай бұрын

44 minute vid - unless that's what you're after - pinned in the comments here, with notes. :) Anything additional was not published.

@gslTM

Ай бұрын

Yeah there's a full version on twitter

Absolutely brilliant videos of space X progress, but can they make the heat shield tiles like tongue and grove paneling so that the tiles do not fall off, of the there would have to have an expansion gap between the tiles. 🤔🌝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇲

@NASASpaceflight were they able to recover any of the flight 3 ship or booster parts? Or do they just get data from sensors cameras and whatever else that they have on the vehicles for data gathering?

@EMichaelBall

Ай бұрын

All data, including camera views not shown on the live feed or otherwise.

Bonjour, ces image sont-elles soumises à la vision de Spacex ? Merci.😉

I wonder if the site layout designers took into account the wind tunnel effect of the wind hitting the side of new warehouse and channeling high speed wind down towards the high bays and if it will effect operations in those buildings.

Offices arent being built with fresh air duct work, as all the I-beams are solid. Isint the booster missing the hot stageing ring?? Also appears the close end of the star factory is going to be glazed nearly too the roof level.

Working off a lift astounds me. Where's the custom scaffolding for nose work??

Me walking. Does that make me a "Mewok"?

Remember Elon, you only have until the twentieth. Elon:"Two Weeks!"

Also does anyone know what all the smoke at Canaveral was about yesterday?

@JackABeyer

Ай бұрын

controlled burn

@tmikkelsen8066

Ай бұрын

@@JackABeyerthanks!

What dictated the original diameter of the booster and ship? After watching Elon's video about making the starship taller, I got to thinking. Why not just increase the diameter of the two and not make it as tall? If it was larger in diameter, it seems that it would be more stable and not so tip heavy.... What would have been the restrictions of a larger diameter over a taller ship?

The imbedded metal to fasten the ceramic tile to the pins is reacting with the ceramic, causing deformation and cracking. Maybe a honey comb mesh sandwiched in the ceramic wouldn't deform and a locking pin from the side of the tiles would work ?

@MrRXR1

Ай бұрын

Frequency Resonation is separating the tiles, Splitting them where the heavy mettle brackets are imbedded in the ceramic. Vibrating them to pieces :P

@bryanillenberg

Ай бұрын

@@MrRXR1 the tiles coming off are glued on.

The first guy grinding on the nose cone has NO PPE! The second has an almost completely ineffective dust mask. Finally, the third guy is using filters. But the dust is floating away contaminating everything and everyone in the building and blowing out the door when it’s opened. They need to have occasional vacuum blow downs where they blow dirt and dust off every surface and vacuum it up.

@johnrday2023

Ай бұрын

Good observations! You would think that metal dust may be a concern as there are 3 ships inside the one bldg.

anti-challenger 2.0 new rings

What number booster is the first of v2?, does anyone know

@EMichaelBall

Ай бұрын

Supposedly 36

@EMichaelBall

Ай бұрын

Oops, that’s ship. Booster? Don’t know

@bryanillenberg

Ай бұрын

At earliest, 15

Maybe round is better than pointy 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

I wonder what would prevent Starship from using the same heat resistant material as they use in their Dragons instead of attaching thousands of heat shield tiles on the surface? I assume Dragon doesn't have heat shield tiles and the material used per se has high heat resistance. If someone could help me understand, it'd be great. Thanks

@dancingdog2790

Ай бұрын

Dragon has an ablative heat shield - it burns away, and carries off heat in the process. Not really what you want for a short turn-around like Starship is planning to achieve.

@ale131296

Ай бұрын

Dragon's heatshield is also composed of tiles, they're also ablative instead of ceramic so not really good for hundreds of reuses

@srinivasr.9976

Ай бұрын

Thanks for clarifying! Any idea on how many possible orbital round trips could the heat shield tiles support without any major maintenance work?

@michaeldeierhoi4096

Ай бұрын

​@@srinivasr.9976 First Space X needs to figure out how to keep them from falling off then after several flights with successful reentries they can project how the TPS stands up over x number of flights. Otherwise it would be guessing imo.

So, It's not pointy enough?

I bet the man that controls the spmt gets in his truck to drive home and then thinks “dam, this truck drives like a piece of sh;t”.

“Ship29” the nose cone tiles already flew off before flight… how do we solve this one everybody?

@EMichaelBall

Ай бұрын

Rumors are that the tiles were deliberately removed on ground as result of data learning from IFT-3.

@Ch33ziTzsk8R

Ай бұрын

@@EMichaelBall I was joking obviously, but I’m sure they found something to improve, only the real data gets them further into what really needs to be done!

Sssssmmmmooooottttthhhhhhh

👀🚧🛠️🔎👍

No one talks about this much but I think the need to go ahead and invest the time and effort into establishing landing legs now for the boosters. They are no way ready to catch one and if they practice landing them on the ground instead of letting them be destroyed they can gather much more valuable data from them.They have to have legs on the ships to land on the moon and mars any way so why not do the boosters too. Just makes more practical sense, way to lofty a goal to catch them and take that kind of chance of destroying the infrastructure, some one has to talk sense into Elon about this! Just saying...

@EMichaelBall

Ай бұрын

Best part no part

@user-ig6qe1ix5d

Ай бұрын

that thinking doesn't always apply, they added the ring to aid in separation, "no part" before and it did loop t loops...added ring and it separates properly...so much for the best part no part theory...

👀🤳💪👍

Do you wanna give construction updates, or do you wanna make art? What's up with all the weird angles and "interesting perspectives"?

@EMichaelBall

Ай бұрын

Why not do both?

Prototypes would suggest that each starship and booster are different 😂 they aren't,they built three in a row at the same time

First

Very good clear photography - but why is yr editing jumping all over the place?

It's amazing what progress can be made, when you're based in a State, that allows you to give the middle finger to OHS !!

Launch a actual bandwagon to orbit on the falcon 9😂

Try narrating on whats going on

@knowledgeisgood9645

Ай бұрын

They have 2 types of videos. This is the silent one. The narrated ones come soon after.

@ale131296

Ай бұрын

Every Monday morning you have a narrated vid summarizing the stuff of the week called Starbase Update

@Spectator1959

Ай бұрын

There are plenty of narrated vids. It’s nice to not have someone nattering away all the time.

78,000 metric tons Carbon Dioxide for each test launch. Tell me again we care about our environment and not just controlling people.

Why did Ship 30 seem so majestic