SpaceX Starship Superheavy Tower 6 Stacks High, Newest Superheavy Prototype will be a Pathfinder

Superheavy's orbital flight will now be with the 3rd full-size booster (BN4), the launch integration tower is now 6 stacks high, and SN16 remains in limbo. Also in the news, Soyuz was the only rocket to successfully orbit last week, after VirginOrbit and SpaceX see delays.

Full Space News Playlist:

Starship, Starbase, and all other rocket Photographers:

All the 3D Animations and Renders were by the amazing:

#SpaceX #Superheavy #SN16

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Starship Updates
04:43 Last Week's Events
06:28 This Week's Events
08:40 This Week through History
14:58 Closing Thoughts

[coreymarshall]

i love how matt is an eye doctor of some sort and is educating and entertaining us on rocket science

[formalcape]

That starship lighthouse caught me off guard I couldn't stop laughing

[redpug]

the fact that the N-1's launch escape system worked perfectly despite the massive explosion is impressive! The best test of those is an unintentional one. Same with the Apollo capsule. It was gonna do a launch escape test but the rocket that brought it up to do that test had a loss of structure and the escape system worked perfectly.

[Zelurpio]

Come on Elon, just let Matt be the whiskey tester.

[JoeBoatT]

8:48 R.I.P. we appreciate your service.

[alexgee]

Someone tweet Elon, let's get the idea of an SN16 lighthouse rolling.

[goobot]

we dont even need the real launches these animations are getting so good

[coreymarshall]

i feel as if its my dudy to leave a witty comment on every STW video.

[Mattsh]

14:13
what a cool way of landing on another planet

[CT_]

Matt missed that SpaceX lauched fireworks and had disco lights in the high bay bar yesterday night!

[fegsterr]

2:16 I think you were right with a grabbing arm to hold Superheavy because those pin-looking things could fit in the spaces in the grid fins to hold it in place

[davisdf]

Brazilian here! SO FREAKING HAPPY in seeing at least SOMETHING of a progress in spaceflight being made by my country (i still hate here, please, help).

[wyattclosser]

watching this at 3:21AM this is more important than my sleep schedule

[solowarrior]

5:29, 6:13 Nice those were on my birthday 🥳 I feel special

[snoodge-cvfj]

I wish I could see these right when they go live, but they get posted at 2 am for me.

[kommandantgalileo]

the fact that the rollout solar arrays are not symmetrical is bugging me

[grandengin]

i look forward to this every monday morning, might join and make it sunday morning. Love your content man!

[Theover]

For once being sick in the middle of the night is beneficial to me!

[skoovee]

The new mystery part looks like a medieval torture device

[CosmicAggressor]

I did not know about the space X towers until I saw this video. I should probobly keep up with this series.