Incredible Flight! How Starship Flight 4 Changes SpaceX’s Plans!

SpaceX´s Starship launched for the fourth time! I do an in depth analysis of what exactly happened and what this will mean for the future of the Starship program!

#SpaceX #starship #elonmusk #starbase

Editing: John Young, Alex Potvin, Stefanie Schlang
Photography: John Cargile, John Winkopp & Stefanie Schlang
3D Animation: Voop3D
Script & Research: Eryk Gawron, Oskar Wrobel, Felix Schlang
LIVE Production: Astro Roadie
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]

Show the SpaceX Crew how you feel about Flight 4 and what´s to come!

[mattfromwiisports]

That flap is gonna be in a museum one day.

[timdoyon]

That was one of the most exciting things I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life, (and I’m an old fart)! My best friend and I were glued to the computer watching it live as it all unfolded. Watching that flap burn and begin to disintegrate had my heart pounding. We were both screaming like teenagers at a Michael Jackson concert! What fun that was! I can’t wait until the next launch!

[anthonysauter]

the Space X crew is the most crazy bunch of people. They deserve more appreciation amongst the public.

[AA.]

That plasma color show was so mesmerising🥺

[mattgaming]

That flap movement was the ultimate flex in rocket history. SpaceX really made a historic test run on #4

[xgnbarkie]

The flap that half melted still functioned and moved come the flip. That's some crazy engineering to crate something that can take so much damage, heat and warping and still function.

[shannonkohl]

I'm guessing 100% of the people watching the reentry thought the Starship would end up like Columbia when we saw those hot gasses coming out of the joint. And even more so when it started to disintegrate. And yet it somehow not only held together but was able to compensate for the changed aerodynamics. Easily the most impressive "failure" since Apollo-13. SpaceX is truly an impressive team from Stage Zero, to hardware, to the software.

[DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Ship 29 took the poem literally, and as words to live by...
*_“Do not go gentle into that good night._*
*_Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”_*
Ship 29 🚀 🫡

[thunderforthrc]

This flight was incredible that flap has got the endurance of A-10 warthog 😮❤

[adurtyjeep]

My wife and I have been coming to Boca Chica monthly for the past three years. We are extremely grateful for everyone working at Starbase making it so exciting every time we drive by. Especially Felix and his team. We hope that tours will be on the menu someday. My uncle was an engineer at NASA during the 70s and 80s so I grew up around the space shuttle program. I introduced the excitement to my wife through your efforts in Texas. Needless to say she’s in love with SpaceX and feels blessed to live in South Texas during these amazing advancements. Thanks again Felix and SpaceX for being the best part of humanity.

[PiDsPagePrototypes]

While we're all watching for Re-Use, .. It seems we're all overlooking one thing. Right now, if SpaceX wanted to, they could put the current hardware in to use as a fully expendable Heavy Lift service, capable of putting more mass to orbit then any other rocket, and do it a price that's likely to be below that of a Falcon9 launch.
Spare Hubble, done. 1/3rd of the ISS needing replacement? Done. TransHab/BEAM/Life module to ISS? How many would you like delivered?.
Imagine if you would, a version of Starship with no wing flaps, and where the entire upper section is two large jettison-able fairings, that pop open outside of the atmosphere to reveal a payload made of multiple Rocket Lab Electron first stages strapped together as boosters around a regular Electron with a it's normal payload, ... Electron can already push to orbital velocity, and now you give it a running start, one alone would double it's speed, several as boosters, starting from that speed.
How fast do you want to get anywhere in the Solar System?
Yeah, that's where we're at folks, and that without the next steps to full reuseability.

[captain_commenter]

That flap is the true MVP of this flight 😂

[chrissmith]

I wouldn't want my worst enemy on Boeing Star Liner. One look at Boeing's recent record not to mention Star Liners setbacks shows that the company has fallen from it's once prestigious heights. No pun intended.

[scottymoondogjakubin]

Soon there will be hundreds of starship flights yearly ! What a great time to be a fan of space and spaceflight !

[spetedaq]

Nothing but admiration for the amazing people of Spacex. This is like optimistic, courageous, mindful science fiction coming true, and you have a bunch of old (some of us old enough to watch Shepard's suborbital live) space nerds cheering for you every day. Heroes.

[epsilon]

Was actually insane watching the livestream

[mysteryguest]

The folks at SpaceX continue to amaze. They definitely have the best and the brightest minds working there. They're setting the new gold standard in rocket technology.

[imaginebeinglevi]

I also love how the video feed was nearly perfect throughout the whole flight. SpaceX is developing this rocket with us fans in mind. <3

[devoof]

Blue Origin: slow and steady wins the race
NASA: delayed again
Space X: Another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one