SpaceX Starship’s Major Upgrades for Flight 2

Join us as we delve into the significant upgrades SpaceX introduced for Starship’s second flight! From the intriguing hot staging ring, new vents, and gimbal changes to the major launchpad modifications, we leave no stone unturned. Relying on weeks of observations, official confirmations, and some theorizing, we uncover what makes Flight 2 unique. Strap in for a journey of exploration through SpaceX's engineering marvels. 🔥✨🚀

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🎥 Video from Jack Beyer, Sean Doherty, BocaChicaGal, Nic Ansuini, Michael Baylor, Sawyer Rosenstein, John Galloway, Chris Kleindl, Starbase Live, NASA, SpaceX, Elon Musk.

L2 Boca Chica (more clips and photos) from BC's very early days to today.

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[realfoggy]

My daughter and I can't wait to see this one lift off. She was very sad when the first one failed. Go Starship!

[Rosieplayz]

This iterative design process SpaceX is using sure makes each launch more exciting than the former. Great update!

[PurpleMrMojo]

Best video of anything spaceX all month. You do it 100% correct ✅. Thank you and the team. Please keep it up and more often. There are some super cheesy contributions out there. Your at the top of the best of !

[waynzignordics]

This guy's a great addition to the NSF team. Great presenter.

[Spacey]

4:29 I like when you are explaining stuf and there is just casually a starship flying in the background

[CooperHawkins]

Me and my grandpa have been following Starship from the very beginning and cannot wait till the next launch. Great video👍

[M_IkeLeBlanc]

Another great report Ryan! 👍👍👍

You guys have really upped your game.

[Eagle]

Great commentary Ryan! Nice delivery without the childish quips. Keep up the great work👍

[austyn]

Loving these concise yet comprehensive updates from Ryan! Very excited to watch IFT2 with everyone at NSF! Any speculation as to the Fish and Wildlife review?

[TexanMiror]

Thank you for this video, it's quite useful to have all these changes summarized.

[corrinastanley]

Thanks Ryan and everyone else on the NSF team.

[Alpha-Whiskey-Kilo]

Dude, hats off to you guys. Well done. Super informative. Please update on eta of next liftoff. Love yalls coverage in the lead ups to launch on the big test launches.

[christiantamminen]

Very concise NSF. Thank you. Great video. Its hard for us non space geeks to keep track. But nicely explained and very informative. Many thanks. Onwards and upwards.

[danswan]

Excellent video, and presented perfectly. Thanks for posting this informative video for those of us who can’t keep up with all the advancements at Starbase.

[innerspace]

Another nice summary update, guys. I'm always impressed by Ryan's enunciation on such quick dispatches of info. Hearing it called (yep, American here) "boostah" makes it all the better. Looking forward to IFT #2 to say the least!

[ghost]

11:22 When talking about testing the flight termination system you can clearly see a piece of equipment that is labeled "ULTRABOOM".

[ThompPL]

Great Job on the debrief ! . . . keep up the good work.

[phazix]

Its bonkers to think of everything happening in one moment at liftoff, water deflection system, quick disconnect retracting, fueling switching to internal tanks, co2 pumping to stop flames, copv's back pumping, raptors changing thrust and vectoring, electronics switching to flight mode, and so much more i cant think of, just insane stuff

[AndyOO]

the main reason to vent the 20 is to lower the fire risk on the skirt and dmg of controlling thrusters suppressing the outer ring will help consentrate the center avoiding explosions that could dmg the center.

[DebraJean]

Learned a lot. Wasn’t in from the beginning so I picked up a lot of basic knowledge as well as the info on the the changes. This was an incredible learning experience for me!!!! Thanks so much!!!