Why Is It Important To Fuel SpaceX's Starship So Fast?

I explain why SpaceX wants to minimize Starship fueling time!

#SpaceX #starship #elonmusk #starbase

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
LIVE Production: Astro Roadie
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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[teemo]

Beautiful pictures, beautiful animations. Sadly the text boxes are blocking a lot!

[paintballercali]

The close captions cover up the important parts of the diagram so people who don't fully understand starship are not getting the full picture.

[NobodiesBusinessimo]

This is literally and exactly why WD-40 was invented. Water Displacer, formula 40, designed for the soul purpose of keeping ice from forming on the outside of spacecraft while in the launch pad.


Or yknow just spray it on everything else like it's not the worst lube ever

[liamfoxy]

I think a lot of peoole don't understand that this is an entirely new type of rocket. They could easily make starship lift its payload, and even reland like falcon, but thats not the goal. The end goal is creating the mac truck of rockets. Something that can basically create a trucking route stright to orbit for dauly deliveries

[chrisbraid]

The quicker the loading the less fuel required and Starbase has only so much fuel and oxidiser on hand . The more propellant saved the more Starships can be filled … that’s going to be important in the near future if we want to launch Many Starships …

[deriecamo]

I can imagine it doesn't help that moisture (H20) and CO2 condensing and sticking to the rocket doesn't help either for liftoff weight.

[DrBrightSCP]

Maybe longer video on the fuel and process would be interesting. It's a lot of fuel just the logistics would be cool . You can't just call up your local welding store and order enough stuff to fuel a rocket.

[ColMustard]

If you're using "supercooled" methane but have to worry about it freezing, how do you prevent a supercooled fluid from freezing?

[jeremytaylor]

If Soace X welded a plate above and below the tanks, they could then create a vacuum between the tank wall, and the external wall, of Starship. This would create a thermos that is the best insulation possible. And it weighs less than air. So just the weight of the plates.

[cpowerbpower]

What are they going to do about refuelling on orbit?
Long periods of time between fuelling missions, varying temperatures, and a common dome separation between two liquid propellants with different boiling points 🤔

[mhxv]

Better bring out those reverse engineered antigravity systems instead. It’s time.

[drheaddamage]

Not to mention that venting methane is horrible for the environment..

[TimJSwan]

So does it prevent it from turning into gas or from freezing?

[VedafoneYT]

How will be the crew and internal cabins will be added to starship however till now all space took by fueling equipments Instead.

[zoranocokoljic]

And those thousands of dollars are something they can't afford to lose.

[markrix]

What about the weight of the condensation

[jeremytaylor]

instead of a vacuum that requires a sealed area, they could just pump aerogel bubbles into the gap prior to launch this would be freeze dried by the cryogenic tanks wall and weighs almost nothing this would provide short term super light insulation just for the launch. This would be destroyed by the launch shaking and vibration. But it would have done it's job by then.

[aeasus]

Why do we toss a plane/jet off a carrier deck but not toss rockets?

[trevorkolmatycki]

Is this not also a problem when in orbit? The temperatures in orbit are extreme. The sun facing side can see +120 ℃ and the shaded side -100 ℃.
How will they refuel and maintain cryogenics in orbit in these extremes without insulation?
It seems rational that orienting the reentry tile side towards the sun would make a tremendous difference. Do they need to harvest solar energy to run chilling systems to maintain fuel temperatures within a range?

[KhanCy-pjem]

Why not create a double walled ca vacuum chamber that is air tight?