SpaceX Starship: Mega Pad Upgrade to Tame the Thrust, Boeing Starliner Delayed Indefinitely

Today, Starship and Starbase work screaming along. Huge work on a SpaceX Starship Mega Pad Upgrade to Tame the Thrust The Axiom Space 2 mission conducts amazing research before returning home. With the huge success of Crew Dragon's 10th crewed flight though, Boeing Starliner Delayed Indefinitely is now the breaking news. Why is there another push back to its first crewed flight? We have brand new footage from the Artemis 1 mission, more humans in orbit than ever before, and much more.

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[jonbjo]

Falcon 9 "only taking one flight this week." That had me laughing -- "this week, " the new normal of multiple flights a week is still incredible. Remember when more than one flight a month was pretty cool?

[heartofdawn]

Falcon 9 now has more successful consecutive _landings_ than other rockets have launches. That was something completely unimaginable just a few years ago.

[d_mcg]

Hi Marcus, the SRBs detach from the first stage before staging due to residual thrust. SRBs take a while to flame out. If they were still attached, the first stage could run into the back of the 2nd stage.

[MakersEase]

Starlink is amazing. My parents, who live about 15 miles from a major city, had been putting up with 1mbs x 128kbs (on a good day). I convinced them to try to get into the Starlink beta. They did. They got the equipment and within a and hour - they had 100mbs x 10mbs. Its uptime has been way better than dsl. It just works. I really hope it screws some of the isp's that have not put any money into infrastructure.. (this is the US)

[poormantravelers]

I went down to starbase last weekend on my motorcycle it was amazing finally seeing it in person!!!! It put it all In perspective!!!!

[SimonAmazingClarke]

Starlink in the UK has just dropped from £450 to £99 for rural areas.

[sgfx]

12:22 Since the Starliner's initial failed orbit attempt, everything we know and have witnessed regarding Starships and Starbase has been developed and constructed, excluding the original Hopper test.

[stalthyone]

At this point Starliner is fucked. They’ve had so many delays that SpaceX has become the defacto ride for Astronauts to the ISS. On another note, it’s amazing how quickly SpaceX is repairing all the damage caused by the launch last month. Thanks for the timely updated, Marcus, excellent as always.

[chrislong]

5:02 - Five years ago, I couldn't have imagined such a sight!!!
It truly is a production facility and is nothing short of amazing!

[zaguar]

19:30 where you ask why Long March doesn't leave side boosters attached. My guess would be to make absolutely certain that there is no thrust coming from the SRB's at the time of main booster cutoff/stage separation.

[jeremycovelli]

The sheet pilings will be the "outter walls" of the pile cap. They've already dug out about 12 feet around the back half (half near the tower) and will dig out the front half soon. I assume the pile cap will be 10 feet thick and the metal blast plate system will be 2 feet thick on top of that. The entire thing will end up flush with the existing ground level.

[YllowMustang]

Boeing's incompetence with the Starliner says a lot why minimal progress has been made on commercial jets for past 60 years.

[airborneal]

Your videos are the "space nerd" highlight of my week, Marcus. Also, if I could give Henson a 6-Star rating, I would. Great product and I'm glad the are continuing their support of your work.

[MaxKito]

A blessing having Marcus updating us on all Space X & similar other companies. Thank you👍

[robfive]

Good video as usual. .
It's easy to forget just how much work goes into these launch sites..
Thank you MH + Team for all your hard work!

[jaseastroboy]

Best guess on the boosters separating just before the core stage would be for safety. Any booster that had failed to fully shutdown would be ejected and would leave on a trajectory away from the rocket. If they just separated the core stage with the boosters still attached and one or more boosters had failed to shut down. Well then you may have the core stage impacting the rocket.

[charlesblithfield]

The fact that there is a flammable tape issue at all makes me think of Apollo One and also the issues with the first lunar lander, deep flaws that were detected but unfortunately too late for crew on Apollo One.

[cocodalish]

That progress bar during the sponsor message really does work. It made me not want to skip and just watch it because I knew how long it would take. Interesting!

[pauljcampbell]

One of my favourite times of the week. A new Marcus House video! Thanks for what you do mate!

[Norantio]

Best space commentator out there! Keep it up Marcus! Thank you for all you do