SpaceX Starship Landing Achieved! – Why Did It Work This Time?

SpaceX’s Starship SN15 did it. It’s the first Starship to launch out of Boca Chica Texas and actually survive. Let’s analyze the flight and take a look at what kind of implications this incredible milestone has for SpaceX and our future!

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Editing: Brian Klug
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[mr.panda_]

Can't wait for orbital luanch. Now that will be a sight to see!

[franklinz]

Can imagine documentaries 20 years later talking about how SN10 is actually the first starship to land instead of the more widely acknowledged SN15, but it exploded 10mins after landing.

[achimaufachse]

Apart from all ambitions to land on Mars, Starship gives me goosebumps because we finally can build megastructures up there because Starship will bring up tons and tons of heavy mashinery.

[rabbidmission]

SN15 landed on my birthday! A great birthday present from SpaceX haha

[ThomasKelly.]

I’ve been looking forward to this SN15 post flight video from Felix!

[Ofca_PL]

Now that's how my parents was feeling watching Apollo missions...

[tmln]

Thank you Spacex for doing this it's so great

[cazog]

I fracking love that you called the belly flop the Adama Manoever. I love BSG.

[billfoster]

One of my favourite things is how much space x star ship looks like a space ship from an old sci-fi movie. Their like making the old dreams of the 1960s a realty, I love it.🤗

[XxSPAZxX]

I believe that what makes this important is that it is so inspiring to the younger generations. I was talking to a friend today and telling him that when we get to pluto or outside of our solar system it might be late in our lifetimes. He said no way. I responded with how many young kids do you think are watching this and thinking O.O "WOOOOWW, I wanna work on those when i grow up mom/dad!"

[DieSalami]

Respect for calling it the Adama Manouver! BSG <3!

[MorcsKSP]

The Sn15 Launch Stream On Spacex's youtube channel is currently trending. The Last time I check it was number three on the most trending videos currently youtube. THE SPACE COMMUNITY IS TOO STRONG

[randomhumanoid]

I would imagine it'd take a little longer for SN16 to begin testing given all the data they can retrieve from SN15 and all the adjustments/improvements that would follow.

[ExpatZ]

It is the dawn of production line space craft production, this is how we get off the planet and into the system.
Without this we never get further than we already have.
SpaceX is knocking it out of the park.

[masu]

Kudos to you and the entire WAI family! I really enjoyed your stream with SN15 and Kage!

[glennpearson]

As always, fantastic coverage, Felix! You and the WAI team are knocking it out of the park. I was on your channel when SN15 successfully launched, flipped and landed. Your unbridled joy and enthusiasm for these test launches is infectious. Best of luck to you and the family on your move to Florida!

[RyanHorrar]

You are my favorite channel to get updates on Starship and all things space. Always having very in-depth analysis.
Keep doing what you’re doing!

[bradmanwaring]

Nothing like a video from Felix to make a day great!

[_photonx]

What changes will Starship bring? Everyone here already intuitively knows this is a game changer.

Looking back over history, there are always sentinel events that mark paradigm shifts. The creation of the Boeing 707 cemented the jet age, as the Douglas DC-3 did for the propeller air transport. The Ford Model T brought cars to the masses. Before that, the transatlantic steamship, the steam locomotive, the Spanish galleon, the Greek trireme, the invention of the sail, Roman roads. Before all of it, the invention of the wheel. We can quibble about this or that paradigm marker, but that's the long and short of it.

Until now, there has been no such marker to the Space Age. The Space Shuttle was supposed to be it, but proved to be nothing more than an expensive extravagance. The workhorse Soyuz, as good as it is, has delivered only a thousand or so people to space. NASA's upcoming SMS will cost a billion dollars per launch--if it ever flies manned at all--and is hardly a sustainable program at that price.

SpaceX's Starship, though, promises to reduce that cost by over two orders of magnitude, and with the Falcon 9--and now the first successful Starship landing--has shown it can do it. Starship's construction cost is so low that it can be economically built by the hundreds, if not thousands. It still must prove itself orbit-capable and reentry-capable, but I'm confident it will be. And if the cost of a Starship launch falls as low as the projected two million dollars, and especially if Musk's point-to-point fantasy proves real, people will be booking flights just for the suborbital experience alone. We can economically throw tonnage into space that we could only dream of before SpaceX came along. And that changes everything.

[max]

I´m totally amazed everytime a Starship does it´s fligth. It´s history, live on youtube. Very cool!