What Exactly Happened On SpaceX's Fourth Starship Launch Attempt?

Early this morning SpaceX launched Starship for the fourth time and it was easily the most impressive one yet. The last flight was back in March earlier this year and ended a bit early with both the booster and upper stage being destroyed.

This time around, however, the company made a few key changes and upgrades to the entire vehicle and mission plan that helped Starship reach a couple of significant new milestones. Here I will go more in-depth into the fourth flight, exactly what happened, what to expect in the near future, and more.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Fourth Launch Attempt

[spitfirek]

I thought for sure when we began seeing the flap disintegrate that we were going to lose the ship entirely! Some engineers need to be patted on the shoulder!

[Bamdd]

I think this flight would best be described as “scrappy”, the booster and ship both had issues and despite the issues both successfully completed their missions. Pretty crazy

[wilsonalwaris]

Not word or second wasted. Very nicely summarised. Exactly what I was looking for thank you 😊

[zanpsimer]

That melting flap held on like a hero from old stories.

[kjetilknyttnev]

The most important takeback from this is that there IS actually some leeway for error in the window of success. In a way this launch made me more confident than a complete success with no problems whatsoever.

[uCruz_]

Bro, that flap fought until the end, holy shit, usually this extent of damage in any spacecraft would be the end of it, but just shows how resiliant Starship is, probably down to the material it's made, and it's construction, just show that even in the worse situation, it's still possible to get it to land.

[craigmillan]

The best, most detailed and concise summary of this launch. Well done

[svenp]

They've got to retrieve that ship. What a piece of history!

[FerociousPancake]

How are you getting these videos out so quickly! Awesome job. Underrated channel.

[Grayando]

Just a jaw dropping event all Something i will remember all my life just as the falcon heavy We will sail throughout the Cosmos...., o7

[Syclone]

This was extremely thrilling to watch live!!

[TheRussianFloofCat]

Was able to watch the launch live through the stream. Hats off to the engineers and controllers at SpaceX

[LeftOverMacNCheese]

We demand an apology to peoples saying using stainless steel for rocket is stupid.

[colourist.]

the most based flap in space flight history!

[fedorbutochnikow]

Very good summary, thank for doing this.

[trueluscao]

i'm ashamed of myself for forgetting about this, i will try my best to follow this program again.

[ARWest-bpyb]

What an amazing success, can't wait for ITF 5!🚀🚀👍👍

[baptistemain]

Lol 2:46 I knew it was the HSR 😂😂! Great videos as usual.

[mustang]

Not having to file another mishap report with the FAA would be a great accomplishment.

[schrodingerscat]

First time all mission objectives met, this is a major milestone in the Starship program, now comes the long task of analysing all the data and making necessary changes to make sure the flaps stay in one piece. The booster had a pretty much flawless flight, hope it stuck the landing because if it did they may actually try to catch it next flight.