SpaceX Reveals New Starship Launch Pad To The World! Will It Work?

SpaceX’s Starship Booster 12 gets its last piece. How long till Flight 5? SpaceX reveals plans for the brand new launch site. Including the flame trench! SpaceX is in talks to recover the next Starship after splashdown. Will it work? United Launch Alliance has a brand new rocket, but can it compete in a rapidly evolving market? A new study maps the inside of a lunar cave for the first time. Could this be the location of our first real moonbase?

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Editing: John Young, Alex Potvin, Stefanie Schlang
Photography: John Cargile, John Winkopp & Stefanie Schlang
3D Animation: Voop3D
Script & Research: Nathan, Soren, Oskar Wrobel, Felix Schlang
LIVE Production: Astro Roadie, Jonahan Heuer
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]

Which variant of the new pad design do you like best? A, B or C?

[damonried]

OMG! Stefanie's replacement had exactly the same enthusiasm and delivery cadence as she has. Even the timing on the punch lines was on point. Felix, you rock!

[victorpatalon]

Felix... Your lovely wife did a great job for you while you were out!!

[ianPedlar]

We're going to the moon to become cavemen :)

[ajctrading]

A proper flame trench. Better late than never. A great exemption to the mantra of no part is best part

[jbanannas]

Would be great to see both of you hosting the show at the same time.

[seeker]

Hey welcome back @felix schlang
Your wife did a wonderful job the other day.. very proud of her and the job and the team are doing.. please keep it up.. give your wife more airtime too please both of you are great.. again thank you much love to u both

[daleernhout]

Seeing the picture showing how many trucks it's takes to fill a Starship is mind blowing!!

[CrazyScubaCouple]

8:08 option C, the farther the blast goes the safer for all the equipment.

[EmergentStardust]

The fuel chart at 5:40 is so fascinating. If they can improve matters by making their own fuel locally that'd be great.

[Robert-mls]

That’s great to hear about the caves, using regulus to line the caves for strength with a bit of water and there’s no need for those items to be shipped. Once mining starts, maybe copper aluminum or rare metals can be found for wiring and other manufacturing. So many ideas!! Great time to be alive☀️😎🇨🇦

[Werdna]

All I can think of is the asteroid “cave” that almost ate the millennium Falcon

[charlepaiso]

Returning from air separation, they could also implement the Sabatier process to produce their own methane. This method is superior because it saves both money and time. Additionally, it's an excellent opportunity to refine the technology they'll use for propellant generation on Mars. Think about it: they're not just learning, but also perfecting a critical system for future mission

[aaronak]

Great updates Felix. Your wife did a most excellent job with the last video. It takes courage to be in front of a camera. The Internet can be a brutal place. Cheers from Alaska!

[thadofalltrades]

Man the size of those rockets just rolling around is still hard to comprehend.

[WG-tthk]

I plan to be there again (I was there for flight #1). This is really fantastic. To someone my age (I remember Sputnik) this is life imitating art (re: scifi movies of the 50's). so my perspective is from the beginning of the "space age". 😎

[unpaintedleadsyndrome]

Hergé was a visionary, in Tin Tin on the moon they explore a cave on the moon, which had ice inside...

[mrvoyagerm]

Felix you are the very best at what you do. I don't bother to watch anywhere else for Space news. Thanks for all you do.

[michaelmicek]

At 4:32 don't forget that argon is used in Starlink satellites as Hall effect propellant for stationkeeping, so that may be used as well.

[frhyuhy]

ULA is currently the only provider who can launch all of the DoD payloads. SpaceX decided not to use the DoD's seed money to develop a vertical paylod integration capacity or a larger faring. The main challenge is Blue Origin, but I have not seen a report of it developing a vertical integration facility. Last time, ULA received over half of the contracts because they were the only bidder who could meet all of the capabilities. Yes, they did it with the Vulcan. If things follow suit, over half to the one with complete capabilities, and the rest can be shared with the other bidders.