SpaceX REVEALS: Why did Starship Flight 7 destroy itself?

Starship takes flight for a seventh time, with a catch and a spectacular explosion! Why did it destroy itself? We do a full rundown of what happened! Musk reveals a drastic change to the Future of Starship’s block three design, and you won't believe how big it is!

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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]

What do you think? When will we see the next launch after this violent end to flight 7?

[Aerospace_Education]

That image of the raptor engines is mind blowing. The visual simplification of Raptor 3 over Raptors 1 and 2 is just insane.

[jimvandemoter]

I'm 72 years old and I remember Alan Shepherd's first sub orbital flight with the Mercury Program in 1961. I remember Neil Armstrong and "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" in 1969. It's hard to believe it's been that long. We, as a species, are driven to explore and hopefully this drive will continue. I just wish I could be the first to set foot on Mars.

[kidbleau]

Y'all did exquisite coverage yesterday, really, the best. And today too. Butt yesterday's launch was riveting and you all totally delivered. Thanks!

[trapjohnson]

Jokes on us, Marcus and Felix swapped days XD

[urshurlimann]

Deine Begeisterung ist so ansteckend und unterhaltsam.

[tombblades]

I hate seeing all the negativity after IFT 7... They caught a booster and tested the largest upper stage ever flown, which was basically a completely new design... The RUD seems to have proved that should a launch go wrong planes, boats and people are not in any serious danger. I truly, therefore, believe that considering this was a TEST flight, this was a grear success.

[cameryngallardo]

A double ad read before even a minute has passed is insane. You gotta earn my attention

[colinbarnard]

The demise of the Ship yesterday earily reminded me of Columbia's break-up in '03. Creeping anomalous sensor readings as the RCC leading edge panels were perforated, followed by a big debris trail. Thanks for your positivity, Felix. I cannot watch these DIY pundits crying about the 'disaster' that had just occurred. Except it isn't a disaster; it's an accepted and acceptable risk. No big deal. And, what a catch! Can't wait for ITF-8!

[ianmanion]

A few years back I left a snarky comment on one of his vids about the excessive animations and noises in the vid cuts.

I’m so glad I’ve continued to stay subscribed. He’s really got one of (if not the best) channels on all things SpaceX.

👏

[willamcombs]

Felix. The reason I like your SpaceX page compared to all the others? You always get right to the point. You NEVER demean anybody efforts in Space faring and your explanations are always easy to understand. You grasp that there is plenty of room for all of the other privately owned efforts to exploit the vast resources in space and that it's not who is better or best but who succeeds in their efforts. Thank you for a well grounded page. 👍👍👍

[DishNetworkDealerNEO]

There was a major leak and fire. This began disabling the engines, one by one until only one outer engine was still running and this imbalance took it off course probably beginning to tumble, so the Flight Safety System activated and blew it up. I don’t think the loose, flapping panel was the cause, but this defect was probably going to cause issues on the belly flop through the atmosphere, potentially dooming Starship with a different type of death.

[Znegil]

The in-Video commercials to content rate gets concerning

[skramij]

Just watched the Lex Fridman podcast with Elon Musk, and I’m all in on XAI01v now!

[roycsinclair]

The video of Starship breaking up keeps giving me flashbacks to the loss of the Columbia Space Shuttle.

[daoust]

i've watched all your videos, about Starship, you are the best keep the great work WAI

[mnmike]

Interesting how much has improved on the launch tower that is now protected/shielded from the heat of the engine flames on launch. I toured Cape Canaveral back in 1970 and saw first hand how much was melted on the launch tower that had to be replaced. Now things like the catch arms stay functional.

[humbertosoares]

Seeing the booster being caught by the chopsticks is literally breathtaking.

[GeorgeWeiss-sp]

I did not hear you proudly report that now famous Raptor serial 314 was used on flight #5, and re-installed for flight #7. USED ON TWO FLIGHTS ! ! !

[Nemophilist]

I think you're misunderstanding the comment about increasing the diameter. He was saying that they'd make it taller before they'd ever make it wider, he was not saying they plan to do both, and certainly not for block 3.