Analyzing the Aftermath of Ship 24's 6 Engine Static Fire Test

Analysis of the damage sustained to Starship 24 and the suborbital test stand during the recent 6 Engine Static Fire test.

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Brush Fire Damage
5:05 - RVac Replacement Cause
6:02 - Searching for Debris
6:30 - Upgrades to the Pad
8:08 - Concrete Vaporized
9:34 - Viewing the Aftermath
12:25 - Elon's response tweet
13:00 - Camera Damage
14:53 - Possible solutions
16:45 - S24 Structural Damage?

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[charleslord]

Zack, your reports keep getting better and better! Keep up the good work!

[animal]

Great analysis...I've subscribed! Looking forward to your future posts.

[justryan]

First a seven engine Static Fire and now a new episode? I must be in SpaceX Heaven!

[thejesuschrist]

You just earned my holy subscription. Good work. Keep this up. Great vibe. Good presentation style. Great analysis, interesting hypothesis. Production value is spot on. You're definitely a dude I would love to chat about the future of humanity with. Attention to detail is impeccable I would say a breath of fresh air from the SpaceX content that Youtube has been trying to cram down my throat lately.. you know what I'm talking about, click baity titles with computer generated narration, or worse yet, a mediocre voice actor reading a script that was sounds like it was written by poor IA. Your music choices are rad. Nothing feels repetitive or too dumbed down. This video felt like a "thanksgiving dinner of videos". This left me with a lot to think about.. which is a hallmark for an epic video. If the primetime show "CSI" was "actually" good and taught you something and left you inspired for humanity. No counter arguments from me, but I super appreciate you being of that mindset. I would say that I'm confident that SpaceX doesn't have many happy accidents as we'd like to think, rather everything is well thought out and planned. So, the flaps being extended was more than likely a failure test.Keep doing you.Other Space-tubers take note, this is the way.

[JoshuaJohnsonHou]

Thanks, great video with amazing analysis. The rain of debris was a great catch.

[livergen]

Outstanding Mr. Zack, your investigative and analytical observations are a breath of fresh air. Thank you for your time and effort Sir, your reporting is measured and easy to follow, I know everyone appreciates what you are doing for inquisitive minds that just can't get enough of what we are witnessing as history is being made daily....

[ptolomaeer]

Nice work and more informative than most other spacex-tubers!

[iDuckman]

Outstanding! Again. I really look forward to each episode. You do us proud.

[bertschb]

I really look forward to your videos Zach. Your analysis is top notch and super informative. Well done!

[robn]

Now that is a professional analysis. Amazing work!

[CausticLemons]

Great work! These deep dives give me life.

[rudyzensky]

zack, following your progress since day 1 and your videos have been a really good companion of mine during my deployment, i just want to say keep up the good work, you're awesome <3

[astrojoe]

Very well done Zack!!! (The most interesting man of Starbase - He doesn't just say "Debris" but switches freely between "Debreez" and "Debree"!!!) 😆Luv ya buddy!

[squidking]

I've always loved your tweets but never knew you did YouTube! I'm so happy right now! Amazing presentation. Will definitely be coming back. Keep up the good work man!

[picksalot]

Excellent detailed and comprehensive report, given the available data. This is the first video of yours that I've seen, and I look forward to watching more. Thanks!

[bbirda]

I hope all the SpaceX engineers are subscribed to your channel. You provide a very valuable service

[ashh]

I like SpaceX's design approach where they have a bias for not adding parts/features early in anticipation of potential future problems. Instead they wait until they see real problems like this, and once they're convinced a new feature is necessary on a first principles basis, they will add it. This way they don't add a whole lot of unnecessary features to work around problems that never actually occur.

[connecticutaggie]

Nice analysis. Keep up the good work.

[SLPCaires]

Keep up the good work, its very well done!

[mojomagic]

Fantastic sleuthing, Zack, and excellent delivery. I'll Be Back! 🖖