SpaceX Starship Destacked for FINAL Time, Superheavy Stress-Tested, & Stoke Space NAILS The Landing!

Another jam packed week for Space News! SpaceX destacked Ship 25 for the final time, so its FTS could be armed, Superheavy Booster 10 underwent cryo and structural testing, and SpaceX pulled off 2 more Falcon 9 missions. Elsewhere, Stoke Space conducted a successful hop test for their reusable rocket second stage, 3 astronauts join the crew of the ISS, OSIRIS-REx prepares for re-entry, Firefly Aerospace SMASHES the Tactically Responsive Space-3 (TacRS-3) mission, and much, much more! Enjoy!

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Booster 10 Rollout
00:59 Booster 10 CH4 Cryo test
01:06 Booster 10 Thrust Simulation
01:29 Booster 10 Ox Cryo test
01:44 Ship QD Disconnected
01:55 Ship 25 Destacked
02:16 When To Expect Starship Launch 2
03:30 Employee Photo Op
03:43 Ship 20 Prepared for Launch?
04:13 Booster 11 Moved to Megabay
04:32 Booster 13 Stacked
04:38 Ship 31 Stacked
04:41 Starbase Kennedy
05:01 SLC-40 Crew Tower
05:52 SLS Launch Tower Rollout
06:15 SLS Block 1B Launch Tower
06:23 Blue Origin/New Glenn Updates
07:12 Stoke Space Hop Test
07:47 Stoke Space's Rocket
08:31 Soyuz MS-24 Launch
09:00 US Spaceflight Record Broken
09:28 ISS Bioprinting Knee Cartilage
09:59 OSIRIS-REx Return
10:24 Starlink Group 7-2
10:45 Starlink Group 6-16
10:59 Firefly Alpha TacRS-3 mission
12:05 Long March 2D Y83
12:26 KSP 2 Updates

[MattLowne]

05:34 - poor wording, I meant "second launch site" for right now, obviously the US has had more than just 39A througout history! 😀

[fiveoneecho]

Stoke is doing some really cool stuff! It's neat to see that they've gotten to a hop test. That thing really flew like a myFirstHover flight in a Kerbal Operating System hop test :P

Edit: Holy crap Firefly launching within 27 hours of receiving the order is insane!

[Blake_Sears]

Hi Matt, I wanted to tell you that you were the reason I purchased KSP and yesterday I landed on the mun for the first time

[Rbobbe]

My favourite launch was the rapid fire, Firefly launch, I think that was an outstanding achievement to get it all successfully done in such a short time frame!

[steveaustin]

5:33 Second ever SpaceX crewed launch site. For the US, LC-5 and LC-14 were used in Mercury crew flights. LC-19 was used for all the Gemini crew flights. LC-34, LC-39A, and LC-39B were all used in the Apollo crew flights. And the Shuttles used both LC-39A and LC-39B.

[UnexpectedInquisition]

I love when astronauts come back from space and give interviews and occasionally forget that Gravity exists again xD

[JaydenMarshall-nogo]

I always can't wait to get out of school for this it makes Monday so much better.

[oogalook]

I'm one of the 3 still watching! I liked the not-quite-aerospike hop test. It was a great little grain silo!

[themoonman-]

Bravo Matt, really digging your updates, Thank You!

[YuriKurokhtin]

hmm... my favorite launch was probably stoke hopper or 24h fireflies mission )

[benjewell]

Seeing starship being moved by the chopsticks is truely amazing! I’ve been keeping up with spacex for years thanks to you Matt, and it’s awesome to see things in such a refined state. Heres hoping for a good launch!

[nolansykinsley]

I think they are going to be getting rid of the launch points on the front on future iterations so they don't need to be sealed after positioning. They will be using the under winglet lift points to transfer the vehicle so the nose lift points should no longer be required after the heat shield is in place.

[derjohnnyb]

Wait, is the Stoke hopper the first Aerospike ever flown now? That's huge!

[JohnSmith-cbqx]

These updates always make my week, thank you!!

[halofan]

Thanks for the updates Matt! Your videos got me back into KSP recently, currently working on a new science save.

[wombatrick]

You are the only reason I look forward to Monday’s.

[davidroberts]

Hi Matt thanks for your amazing video of the space industry and your content david 🚀👌🇬🇧❤️👍

[darthmemeious]

i was pretty stoked about the stoke space hop test, nearly jumped out my chair when i saw how inovative that could be.

[pleb]

Personally i'm much more worried about what the Fish and Wildlife Service have to say than Matt seems to be.

Given that launch one resulted in them throwing large chunks of concrete far and wide as well as coating a large chunk of nature reserve in a layer of concrete dust, which apparently was an outcome they hadn't even identified as a potential outcome for launch one.

Hopefully they've done enough to convince everyone that the launch pad can't fail in that way again and that launch two results in no significant damage to the pad, otherwise if something similar happens again i could see them being forced to build a completely new launch pad before being allowed to conduct launch 3, which would take a

[thechieftain]

The second launch site is amazing, momentous progress.