Vulcan Booster Fail, yet Still Completed Mission, and SpaceX Starship Flight 5 in Only Days!?

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Once again it is time for another breakdown of the most important, the most intriguing and inspiring updates around the space industry. If you are tuning in as friends of the channel, welcome back! If someone new that may not have visited before, so glad you have joined us because this week, there is such incredible stuff to share. Really awesome updates around the Starship project as always, but Crew Dragon!? You’ll be blown away for a number of reasons here.
We attempt to clear up Starship Launch Date Confusion, and talk about how SpaceX Ground Themselves!? We have glorious new JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) images to dive into, along with that unusual Vulcan launch. Woah! The Vulcan SRB Goes Boom! What on Earth happened there!?

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[danielprimern]

I just wanted to thank you, Marcus, for maintaining one of the only reliably professional and impartial voices among the many informative channels covering SpaceX and spaceflight news. Many other popular channels whine and criticize like zombie fanboys, and I truly appreciate how you manage to both inform and offer possible strategy, while altogether avoiding divisive speculation or drama. Keep up the amazing work, and please know just how much many of us look forward to Saturday mornings and catching up with your news and ideas.

[johnmckenna]

As a wide-eyed kid during the Gemini and Apollo missions, as well as an equally enthralled young adult at the start of the Shuttle missions, I fully get the obvious love and joy of all things space heard every time Marcus presents one of his brilliant videos. To me he speaks with passion and credibility and clearly articulates the incredible advances happening before us. Without Marcus it would be very hard to decipher fake news from real. Please do not stop Marcus, we are so proud of you in Australia.

[spooders]

I could not believe they fired a raptor for 15 minutes. That’s just insane. Assuming making propellant in space wasnt a problem, I wonder how far and fast a burn like that would get you starting in LEO

[brentselleck]

I'm very proud of the programmers working in the shadows that wrote the compensation software that kept the ULA rocket going into orbit. Good job, ladies and gentlemen, you rock!

[MikeCK]

It's not an acronym "A - R - P" as you said. It's a person's name. Objects in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies are named for its author, Halton Arp, who compiled it in 1966. "Arp 107" rhymes with "Harp 107" ;-)

[addickland]

Something that you're probably already working on but I would really love to see (and if not please make this, I think it would both do great in terms of views and be incredibly helpful) is a recap of the Starship vehicles during its "initial development" phase, since that era seems to be coming to an end, with (V2) Ship 33 beginning the "operational development" phase where things will still change a lot, but payloads will actually start to happen and the general architecture seems to be solidified to some degree.
The 5 years from Starhopper to Ship 32 on a timeline with a lot of pirctures and schematics would imho be an awesome and insanely well-fitting project for your channel!

[julianfp]

I'm not sure it's a given that SpaceX got all the data it needed from a partial tanking. All the data for now maybe but I don't think a full WDR before launch is by any means off the table.

One reason for not doing a full WDR now might be that presumably after a full WDR a lot of the cryo liquids can be returned to the tank farm for reuse for the actual launch but it takes energy and liquid nitrogen to keep them chilled down while waiting for the launch date. Maybe SpaceX didn't want to keep a full (or at least substantial tank farm load chilled down for 1 to 2 months waiting for FAA approval so they only did a partial test now but once they are much closer to a more predictable launch they will do a full WDR.

[bradbarker]

Your channel is the best out there for this news. I'm really grateful for your work, Marcus

[michaellee]

Great presentation as always! Without you, Scott Manley, and Anton Petrov, I'd be lost. A big Thank You to all of the science communication community. What a time to be alive!

[fiedag]

Thanks Marcus greetings from Adelaide.

[thedarkside]

21:03 I saw a comment someone have asked Tory "Can we get a trajectory of the nozzle?"

Tory's answer was "down." 😂😂😂😂

[TerryOnTuesday]

Great video as always, Marcus! The catch will be a huge historical event! Can't wait!

[hellhole]

I love watching yours videos to chill, keep up the great work!!

[RVaviator]

Hey hey, my Saturday is now GO for Launch...! Great update on all the Space News out there...! Thanks again Marcus and Team...!

[travelwithtesla]

Thank you for the video, Marcus&team! Always a pleasure to watch your updates.

[robfive]

Certainly looking forward to seeing the launch
Another great roundup of space goodness
Thank you MH + Team for everything

[michaelbaribeau]

I wouldn't say the chop sticks were 'sagging' since I see the whole chop stick unit lowered and rose, I'm guessing instead it was the cables stretching?

[DisasterxUs]

excellent work as always. thank you Marcus and team

[BMrider]

Thanks Marcus, excellent episode here.
I'm so glad you do the same thing as me : any ISS or satellite views with Earth features behind, I always study it intensely to try to work out 'where on Earth is this' ? We are blessed to have these incredible views.