SpaceX Finally Gives Out The Big Starship News!

New details regarding Starship’s third orbital launch! We have a date! What about propellant transfer? SpaceX is moving engine testing to Massey’s! How’s that possible? Will we finally see a flame trench? ULA launches the first Vulcan Centaur! How did it go? What about the payload? And NASA is delaying the Artemis timeline. Will we return to the moon before 2030?

#SpaceX #starship #elonmusk #starbase #ULA #Vulcanrocket #peregrine #artemis

Editing: John Young, Alex Potvin, Stefanie Schlang
Photography: John Cargile, John Winkopp & Stefanie Schlang
3D Animation: Voop3D
Script & Research: Eryk Gawron, Oskar Wrobel, Felix Schlang
Host: Felix Schlang
Production: Stefanie & Felix Schlang
Graphics & Media Processing: Jonathan Heuer, Felix Schlang

Credit:

⭐SpaceX
⭐NASA
⭐VirtualSpace_3D on X: @Lolomatico3d
⭐The Ring Watchers on X: @RingWatchers

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[Whataboutit]

Do you think they can make the February Launch happen?

[twelvewingproductions]

Congrats to ULA and Blue Origin for the mission.
Blue Origin has received a LOT of well deserved crap over the last few years for not having flown any orbital hardware.
This was great to see and I'm glad the engines functioned as advertised.

[DTHRocket]

As a valve engineer working on space propulsion, I concur. Valves are a major propulsion subsystem as persnickety as pumps, combustion devices, and igniters, and often overlooked. To many system engineers, the valve is reduced to a fluid schematic symbol.

[SuperiorDave]

Gotta get down there for that next launch. I missed flight 1, watched flight 2, and can't miss the next one.

[otpyrcralphpierre]

A Feb 14 launch of Test Flight 3 would be a Heart-felt date!

[marcheld]

9:50 Love the "Stargate" analogy!

[BluhmGardens]

Personally, I believe the second tower should be the catch tower so they don't destroy the launch tower while attempting to catch Boosters. Or use the new tower as an upgraded launch tower and retire the old tower to catch-duties.

[jayanspaliwal]

While the setbacks on Artemis are not good, on the bright side, it gives the SpaceX team more time to test starship to make sure it performs flawlessly in the lunar mission.

[Vastafari]

I always get a little chuckle when I hear how difficult it is for Felix to say "Earth's." To be fair that combination of the /th/ phoneme directly preceding a /s/ phoneme is definitely a tricky one for mouths to articulate.

[neoanderson]

February is going to be interesting! 👏🏻
Go Starship go!! 🤞🏻👏🏻

[GaryBickford]

Wild thought WRT the Space Force "fast delivery" objective. When a Starship is landed at some place around the world there needs to be a way to move it from there to get it back to base. Perhaps, with a light fuel load, the Starship could launch into a low-level hop and migrate up to a couple of miles to a drone ship for shipping back to Starbase.

[LordDustinDeWynd]

4:25 Vertical tanks will be replaced with horizontal. A lower profile and berms will protect tanks better.

[Cigarsnguitars]

I am a first timer to your site. Thoroughly enjoyed your detailed information presentation. Hope to check out more soon.

[miscbits]

one of the things which has surprised me is that SpaceX haven't (yet) put towers and chopsticks/cranes on the test stand locations to speed up handling. They're spending a lot of "fiddle time" needing to have mobile cranes in the right place and being more susceptible to wind issues where dedicated booms would probably be cheaper/safer overall

[thundervirtual]

Moon? Mooon! Watched the Vulcan launch live and I didn't realy think to follow up on the payload so thanks for the update guys!❤ fingers crossed peregrine can make a miracle!

[QuantumAstronavt]

I miss Stargate Universe so much that this frame brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for including it.

[simongeard]

Supposedly the New Glenn footage shows real hardware for their first test flight, not just a mockup. Obviously not complete yet, but it's a promising sign that we might finally see them do *something* this year, even if they don't manage a debut flight.

[Lordjerm]

Thank you for everything your team does. I have been following you for a few years now. Easy to follow and great information.

[leodikinis]

Hello Felix and Company: Thanks as always for the great content. Looking forward to the coming year.

[KenOtwell]

Why not do a star-hopper kind of test for the chopsticks' landing catch? Seems foolish to use a full booster which, if there are any issues at all, could literally destroy stage zero.