Starship Reached Space. What Now?

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Producer/Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus
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[orashadow]

I came to watch a video about Starship and got attacked for owning a Miata. What a twist.

[mrtoastyman]

As a 33yo going through a divorce with a Miata, I feel personally attacked.

[HelionDark]

Rapid unscheduled disassembly always make me smile

[itsvondell]

A Miata is capable of carrying more than one person, it's just statistically extremely unlikely.

[AbbreviatedReviews]

Those simple Miata folks didn't deserve that.

[arekkasu]

My cousin works at starbase as a welder for years now, spacex began with your conventional welders & trained them to weld rockets & are the only ones who used regular welders, they made it clear that their work can withstand anything at this point!

[Levitiy]

As far as I know, there is reentry plasma footage of the Shuttle from the inside looking out the windows, from Falcon 9 fairings, and right before Starship launched, the Varda capsule.

The Shuttle's was not live or HD.
Falcon 9 fairing's was not live or HD.
Varda's was HD but not live.
Starship's was live and HD.

[rbesfe]

When I saw the plasma during the livestream my jaw was on the floor. I hope people understand how insane it is to see that in HD, and that the cameras kept transmitting for so long

[moonasha]

I misheard the first sentence as "spaceX's turd integrated flight test". Laughs aside, very excited for the future of this vehicle

[oooChickenatorXooo]

We're a minute in and so far:

- The launch was March 14th, not June 14th
- IFT-3 apogee of 234 km is nowhere near the ISS altitude, 408 km (220 nautical miles)
- IFT-3 was not the first to make it to space. IFT-2 got up to 140 km, which is above the Karman Line. IFT-3 was the first to make it to orbit.

[mavericke]

Who’s here after starship splahed down with a burned up fin?

[aidanlua]

The insane footage we got as a result of the new Star link terminals are just insane, its hard to believe it's not CGI, Especially during re-entry

[NoResultFound]

Catching a skyscraper bomb out of the sky with chopsticks... Now that I'd need to see to believe.

[ryndrssn]

9:10 the grid fin turning so quickly is absolutely insane to see, that thing is the size of a car, if not bigger

[FlorianGerlich]

A couple of things to correct (I believe):
- IFT2 did Cross the karman line
- Starship’s “reentry” burn wasn’t meant to be a reentry burn, it was an in-orbit test burn. While it will need deorbit burns in the future, it does not need a “slow down burn”, but reenters as full speed, as shown in your video.

Furthermore, while, as a space nerd, I appreciate your deep dive into FFSC, it doesn’t contribute to answering your video’s title question: what now?

[orrax]

if you break up with your significant other while in space they become your space ex

[Logqnty]

9:20 "Experienced a rapid, unscheduled disassembly" is portably the most scientific way of saying it blew tf up

[dryatish]

Every divorced middle aged billionaire 😂😂 got me..

[bryanttspross]

2:45 I feel personally attacked. My car isn't that empty and I'm not that desperate😢

[sandman_-_]

i remember when falcon 9 was being built and people were in denial with the possibility of landing a rocket upright.

the problems Starship has left are minor in the scale of progress SpaceX has gone forward