SpaceX Finally Gives Out The BIG Starship News!

SpaceX continues Stacking Starship Tower B! The Flight 5 Starship is hitting a bump! Are new engines needed? SpaceX unveils its incredible Raptor 3 Starship engine! Musk explains why it is so incredibly special! Will Starships fly from Australia?

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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, Jonathan 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]

What do you think? Will all this even work reliably? Let me know your thoughts about Raptor 3!!!

[FedeGGG]

Raptor 3 looks like something straight out of a sci fi movie

[beany]

Rocket engines have always looked like complex machines with thousands of parts, yet space x has made them look beautiful and almost unreal. It
genuinely looks like a rendered image before it's made, a concept design from far in the future.

[DynesLair-kbqs]

Look at raptor 1 side by side with 2 and 3. It literally looks like 4 decades of progress. Realizing that all happened within a few years is astonishing and goes to show the pace of innovation and advancement is unparalleled.

[AaronBrooks]

You know your crane is big when the FAA knows about it.

[dphuntsman]

The thing about cutting into Raptor 3 to have to do any maintenance on it….the flip side of that is that since SpaceX is building such a large production capacity- which itself covers a multitude of sins- any problem with any engine after its installed on a vehicle, they’ll just be spring-loaded to change it out immediately since they’ll have another one immediately at hand- send the removed one back to the shop, where they can take their time with the diagnostic and only do as much true ‘cutting’ as is needed. - Dave Huntsman

[OubleJum]

If Raptor wasn't the most sophisticated rocket engine in the world before, it is now.

[philipgrice]

" ... that's more than I can bench." " ... upside down Starbase ... ". I love Felix' scripting. Brilliant!

[mikegardner]

If they cut into an engine it’s to dissect it to see what’s wrong with it, what’s worn, what failed. It’s not surgery to repair and reuse it, it’s its final autopsy.

[twelvewingproductions]

17:25
I was thinking about this a couple months ago when Tim Dodd did his walk through.
Basically there is nothing you can do to work on any rocket engine that would take you less than a day to do.
With that in mind...
... Space X is producing these engines at a rate of one every day and a half.
So it may simply be the case that it is better to make the engine so robust that there isn't going to be a failure during its service life... and when there is... it is simply quicker to replace it and recycle the materials from the old one than it is to try and repair it.

[Ziomalskyy]

You're one of the very few channels that actually doesn't repeat same news over and over again. Thank you for that Felix, love your content. Keep it up!

[michaelotoole]

marcus is going to shout the biggest HEY! HEY! of his career if he's going to get an australian starbase.

[colinleeson]

As an Australian, the possibility of having a starbase here would be amazing... HOWEVER, our bureaucracy here is so out of control that sadly it's already a non-starter. We have a company here trying to get some space flights started who have had a ship sitting on a pad for months waiting for some Gov't department to tick a box. (not till next year reports say.)
No other country - and certainly not SpaceX - would work with that.

[otpyrcralphpierre]

"Upside Down StarBase" got me laughing!

[davincimachen]

Felix, ya gotta get someone in Australia to get us the footage there after spacex starts breaking ground

[carpandrei]

Watching this video I realized something: it's not just having the system work properly (achieve orbit, deliver payloads, return in re-usable shape) but it's also about understating everything needed to build the booster and ship with the needed quality and cadence for commercial flight. I mean, just look how nice the ship and booster look now, versus how the first prototypes looked.
There are so many layers here, and I'm grateful that SpaceX does all this in plain sight and with so much transparency.
I wish other players in the aerospace industry would do the same. I would help shift the people's mindset and also inspire a new generation to pursue STEM fields.

[SladeBling]

I'm from the 70's..yes, the 1970's. We used to read sci-fi books that had imaginary characters like Elon Musk. You know, billionaires that dared to spend their money on fantastic machines and now it's finally happening in real life!

[jeffk]

We NEED the Zefram Cochrane moment - but - in the meantime this (Raptor V3) is at *least* an Edison moment. Somewhere in between the two. That’s jaw-dropping engineering on display here!

[robwagnon]

What I appreciated most about SpaceX is they build and expand the way America used to build!!

[guyosburn]

Yours is by far my favorite “SpaceX information channel.
Your efforts of breaking down the complexity of hardware changes are very helpful for the Layman.