SpaceX Confirms Starship Flight 5 Launch Intent for THIS WEEK! It's On!!!

Launch this week? The FAA releases a notice to air missions for a Starship flight next week. Will it happen? SpaceX confirms Starship launch intent for October 13th! SpaceX completes the last round of testing before flight 5. Will it work? SpaceX test-fired a Raptor 3 for a record amount of time, but why? Vulcan had a mishap during its recent test launch, and what the FAA said about it will shock you!

#spaceX #starship #starbase #nasa

Editing: John Young, Alex Potvin, Stefanie Schlang
Photography: Jordan Guidry, Sean Doherty, John Winkopp & Stefanie Schlang
3D Animation: Voop3D
Script & Research: Nathan, 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]

Be honest! Would you have predicted this October 13th launch date?

[pilgrimbruce]

The FAA not requiring an investigation for the Northrop Grumman booster anomaly is a gift to the lawyers for Spacex. Their court case claims that the FAA is not treating Spacex the same way as its competitors and this is a perfect example!

[Maelthras]

Running a rocket engine for 3 seconds short of 15 minutes is absolutely insane. Pushing it and seeing what components take damage for what is basically 3 launches worth of use at a single time with no refurbishment in between. This is mind blowing and goes to show just how tough this engine is and how crazy spacex is. NASA has problems running an engine for 3 minutes on proven hardware and spacex just straps their new engine to a stand and says look at this.

[curtisquick]

One possibility is that NASA is taking over supervision from the FAA for the Starship launch in support of Artemis. Neither the military nor NASA are subject to FAA regulations. If NASA decided to authorize Starship to launch, the FAA would not have jurisdiction to stop Starship.

[Anwesh-ootw]

Exciting for the next starship launch! Waiting for this to launch.

Edit: Thank you guys for 150 likes!

[JohnSostrom]

It is entirely possible that NASA has told everyone that they will issue the license, which they can do.😂

[daveamies]

Some consistency and transparency from the FAA is what's needed, but until they explain why ULA's severe failure doesn't need an investigation when SpaceX's less severe one's do, let's just conclude that probably ULA or Northrop Grumman just pays the FAA to look the other way and SpaceX probably doesn't

Lack of transparency and consistency is a the same clear marker of corruption, everywhere in the world

[lev]

October 13 is already the official goal of

[ErikBongers]

Finally someone properly pronounces "Schrödinger" on youtube.

[shannonkohl]

The FAA couldn't make it clearer what the reason is for hassling SpaceX is. The Vulcan booster failure was *far* more dangerous than the Falcon-9 landing failure. Had that nozzle damaged the gimbaling mechanism, you could have had it veer off course while still quite close to the ground. The Falcon-9 landing failure was clearly no danger to anyone.

[tomwinston]

I appreciate you making the distinctions regarding different treatments by the FAA of rocket companies and the investigations over mishaps.

[adctvuk]

The weight of the balls on the chopsticks was 700t

[ninehundreddollarluxuryyac]

Nasa Spaceflight channel did a deep dive into what agencies license which launches. NASA is normally in charge of licensing experimental and development flights, with the FAA beginning to license flights after they are out of the development phase and into regular commercial service. The FAA is overstepping its authority by trying to regulate starship flights this early in its development.

[Createsaur]

That meme with the double slit experiment got me Dx

[noliebowtie]

Yeah, the FAA is way overstepping the bounds of their usefulness into the territory of overbearing and unreasonable.

[gregsteele]

FAA: You blew a nozzle off your booster? No problem.
Also FAA: You're using drinking water to cool your launch pad? Woah now! Oh, we also think your falling heat tiles may pose a threat to anyone dumb enough to ignore the flight exclusion zones we make you post for every flight, so we're gonna have to delay you again.

[Vastafari]

Wait a minute, all these delays are FELIX'S FAULT!!! LETS GET EM' !!

[bdavr]

Its our government, just like they could not process my signed tax return because they claim its missing a signature. :D lol

[anonymoususer]

It's fortunate that the Vulcan was able to reach orbit safely

[stovebolt]

Are you suggesting that the FAA is playing