SpaceX Massively Updates Starship! Ready For Flight 5!

We Spotted the first piece of a second Starship Block 2 nose cone, and that's only the beginning! In preparation for flight 5, SpaceX's teams begin… removing parts of the chopsticks?! Ship 33 gets its last pieces; testing is right around the corner! And scientists just made a massive discovery on Mars; it changes everything!

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Editing: John Young, Alex Potvin, Stefanie Schlang
Photography: Jordan Guidry, John Cargile, John Winkopp & Stefanie Schlang
3D Animation: Voop3D
Script & Research: Nathan, Soren, Oskar Wrobel, Felix Schlang
LIVE Production: Jonathan Heuer, Jordan Guidry
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 SpaceX should try testing this with a Falcon 9 first, or maybe you have another idea?Let me know!

[trevinom]

They can't use a Falcon for this maneuver because Falcon's can't 'hover' with their current Merlin engines. They are currently slamming into the earth and using the Merlin engines to kill the speed before hitting the ground. The raptors being used by Starship can be throttled down and Booster/Starship have enough weight to allow it to hover while lit. That is the only reason why Starship can be 'caught' while Falcon's can't.

[idomdotcom]

Flight 5 has felt 2-3 weeks away for 3 months

[WorkerDroid]

I like the new format. Cleaner, no distractions. Thanks for all you do Felix.

[Mac-ojvm]

Everyone who had criticized SpaceX for such brazen moves is only exemplifying the behavior that has kept our space program at a standstill/retraction. Pioneers do!

[neoanderson]

It’s astonishing how fast Spacex is able to do things.
Go starship go!! Can’t wait for Flight 5! 👏🏻

[Ittiz]

The booster would never hit the pad at full speed, it's going to dogleg over to the pad after the landing burn starts. And as Elon said if something goes wrong during the landing burn the booster will "YEET" itself into the ocean.

[lpete]

That much water on mars is mind blowing . Now we need to find a large cave .

[Damn-good-deal]

spacex is basically catching a skyscraper with chopsticks like mr miyagi

[SuperDave-vjen]

Felix, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have over one million subscribers. Your knowledge and revelations are second to none!

[kenstephens]

Boeings PR department probably costs millions, spaceX is zero because of people like you . From all us fans THANKS

[danceswithmules]

I suspect that SpaceX isn't too concerned about nuking Pad 1 simply because it's the old design which they've already revised, just like they had plans for some kind of deluge/diverter originally but let IFT 1 dig a hole anyway. Besides, seeing how the tower survives a failed catch attempt is useful data, too.

[de-bodgery]

Bump stops will get replaced with piston dampers. This creates outward load on the arms as they are closing so they don't bounce and stay under tension 100% of the time as they get close to the actual "catch". This is a common technique in machining to get rid of back lash in drive screws and gears.

[alihaidar]

Love the channel Felix! Best part of my Mornings!

[Leviathan.]

Felix you've been stuck at 2.8 million returning people that aren't subbed for months now. I think its safe to say your pitch isn't working

[craigquann]

That is some crazy Tony Stark level of awesome. I knew SpaceX was doing some cool stuff. But this is not what I was expecting.

[KyleBlumreisinger]

My thoughts for a smaller-scale catch test would be doing a hop. Having a barely-fuelled super heavy lift off, take it up like 10 meters, then lower it back down to be caught. Would verify that the chopsticks can support the weight at catch, determine the amount of damage to the booster, determine the amount of flame damage to the launch mount, and, if anything went wrong, a booster falling that slow from not very high up would only risk denting some metal they'd have to hammer back out, rather than completely KO-ing the entire launch mount and catch tower.

[RandallLowetx]

This is one of the best videos you've made. That was fantastic.

[rayjay]

Drilling 20km may go from impossible to improbable, but you first have to get 100km of drill pipe plus accessories there.

[johnkarpiscak]

Because Pad B is an improvement over Pad A, damage or loss of Pad A would not create a catastrophic loss for SpaceX or substantially slow Starship/Super Heavy Development development