SpaceX Finally Reveals Its First Real Starship Block 2! What's Different?

SpaceX Static fires their Gigantic Super-Heavy Starship rocket Booster. How did it go? SpaceXs 2nd starship launch tower is going up faster than a rocket. But it's still running late? SpaceX's new Block 2 Starship is now under construction. Is it really that much better? And NASA’s SLS Moon Rocket arrives in Florida for its first launch with people!

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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: Jonathan Heuer, Stefanie Schlang
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]

Will the upcoming Block 2 Starship perform a first payload deployment? What do you think?

[larsp]

Can you please add chapters to your videos?

[blakeb]

Bore Gel isn’t used for vertical drilling. It’s used for horizontal drilling. This means they will be running cables/pipes underground.

[blakeb]

The pit you asked about next to the new tower is likely a retention pit for the drilling fluid (Bore Gel) that will be pumped in and back out of the bore hole before the pipe is installed. When directional drilling, the hole is fully drilled before the pipe is pulled through. The drilling fluid is used during the drilling process to keep the hole from caving in before the pipe can take it's place.

[esseeTony]

Watch out for those Fireflys, they tend to be manned with some rowdy characters.

[dlewis]

Cool story from this past week - a crew completed a simulated Mars mission of about 387 days. NASA put four or five people in a 3D printed habitat of 1700 sq ft to monitor their use of resources. Apparently it went well.

[Bluelagoonstudios]

We have a skyscraper here, 115m high, every time I pass the building, I try to imagine, that building going up, too comparable to Starship. This must be a "holy cow" moment 😂

[mozzyquodo]

The pit may be for any employees who don't want to work hard enough for Elon.

[michaelmoak]

It’s funny how being local law enforcement gets you routine close ups with starship 😂

[amanuelamanuel]

Guten tag Felix!
Just wanna say I remember your channel from the very first video and that it's incredible how it's grown. From a single enthusiast to a proffesional team reporting on Starship. I check in as soon as I get a notification to make sure im up to date on the journey to mars. Keep it up and I hope you and your family enjoy Florida.
Cheers from Schweden!

[ceogauravjoshi]

Lifted flaps on block 2 will make it easier go through reentry and advantage of mass

[FeralRabbit]

I don't believe the hinge itself was the culprit in the last flight but the hinge gap. The low pressure area on the lee or upward side of the flap hinge resulted in plasma being sucked into the low pressure hinge gap, aided by the ram air effect on the direction of travel side, and with no static atmosphere in that space the plasma just kept adding energy to it till it found the material limits. I think either the hinge gaps will need to be tightened to resist flow or some sort of blocking device/material added.

[peterclarke]

I always think that these animations showing the Booster being caught, show the Booster coming down too fast ! I would expect the ‘vertical catch speed of the Booster’ to be much slower.
Maybe no more than 10 cms/sec at catch ?
The animations seem to show it travelling at about 5 meters per second vertically ! - Clearly far too fast.

[nightfox]

The random firefly photoshopped in at 4:20 was a nice touch 😂

[squashduos]

It finally happened…..Felix had a hair cut!

[fawakamaha]

Was Serenity meant to be some kind of easter egg for the chanel?

[wewejohnson]

im so happy i was born soon enough to see this starship start from a tiny can all the way to what it is now to what it will be in the future.! 🥳

[philippostiglione]

The SLS as well as the Orion capsule may just be another NASA lemon 🍋

[rodneylee]

I feel like it's going to need a hinge flange to keep the hinge protected.

[seeker]

@Felix schlang @what about it Segment 3 is already stacked on the 18th 2 days after segment 2 was stacked on the 16th and today installed what appears to be an elevator shaft segment inside tower 2 today between 7 and 8am on the 19th