welcome back my friends to another week of incredible progress much of which I certainly wasn't expecting we are rocketing towards Starship flight test six faster than you may think and with that all the astounding activity required to make that happen as we get even more insight into flight test five less than two weeks ago added to that the busy week in all things space and as always it seems we have so much to dive into let's do this okay we can see you coming down the ladder now hey hey Marcus house with you here and
with flight 5 activity amazingly behind us now the court booster 12 had been moved back into the mega Bay Starship gazer actually caught a very nice label right here stating booster 12 flown Parts indeed they've already started to disassemble its after section to fully inspect everything and find areas that require Improvement SpaceX does not mess around because they are rapidly preparing for flight six right now a flight that may be coming a lot sooner than many expected remember that the fa has already approved the current flight 6 Mission profile and we're really just going to
be seeing SpaceX ticking off the pad and vehicle Readiness steps for this next launch it seems ship 31 the upper stage for this Mission has already completed a static fire and all that's really left for this is to finalize the heat shield work and any other adjustments needed to improve on flight five performance this ship remember is still undergoing a replacement to receive the upgraded heat shield tile along with a black ablative layer underneath as we witnessed for the flight 5 Mission it does look like this time around they are purely focusing on the high-risk
areas instead of a complete replacement though this should be the very last block one ship to fly that's because ship 32 hasn't received any recent detention as far as we can tell and still has missing flaps and an incomplete heat shield the first block two ship on the other hand ship number 33 is rapidly continuing its build process and should be ready for its cryogenic test campaign over at Massie soon so what about the flight 6 booster number 13 that indeed still needed a static fire given that the launch Mount was hit by the boosters
plume twice for flight five the catch of course being the second I really didn't think we would see another 70 M tall Beast rolling back to the orbital launch Mount quite so soon the lesson to be constantly drilled into us all is to not underestimate how darn fast SpaceX move yes here was the second newly designed boosted transport stand entering Mega Bay 1 on Monday that is a great sign that the burn plates and all other upgrades that they have installed at the orbital launch Mount must have worked a treat because repairs seemed to be
minimal it does have me wondering if flight 6 is actually going to be spacex's first attempt to demonstrate a fast flight turnaround from the gateway to Mars hopefully they're going to reinstall that littering by the way once the upgrades are done with pad West now last night Elon somehow seemed to almost leak an internal conversation with engineering while gaming which he left public anyway it is a little tricky to hear but listen to this we had a misconfigured SP gas support that didn't have quite the right ramp up time for bringing up spin pressure and
we were one second away from that tripping and telling the rocket to a and try to crash into the ground next to the tower instead of the just before Eng start up one of the CH covers ripped off which is something we were we were worried about these spot World margins on chin skin before flight we wouldn't predicted the exact right place but this cover that ripped off was right on top of a bunch of the like single point failure valves that like must work during the landing burn so thankfully none of those are the
harnessing got damaged but we ripped this CH cover off over some really critical equipment right as Landing burn was starting we have a plan to address that now there was a bunch more said too so I've got a link to that in the description it sounds like we were actually pretty darn lucky to have that catch succeed past those sport modes but they now get to move forward improve the system further and hopefully demonstrate a rapid return to flight that's not only vital for their own future Mars missions but also for their Luna Lander for
NASA's Artimus program sure enough booster 13 was being lifted onto that transport stand later in the evening with the grid fins rotated so that they could easily be seen by the team on the ground it started carefully navigating through the door of the bay and headed out onto Highway 4 check out that glorious reflection on the star Factory as it passes by that's just magic now while this was happening the arms at pad East were moved to the prelift position everything looked good to go as the booster rolled along the highway and turned in it
was maneuvered right between the arms and like clockwork it was promptly lifted by the tower on Tuesday evening and placed down on the mount all only 9 days after flight test 5 here we sat awaiting some fiery action once again on Wednesday the road was closed scaffolding was removed from the launch Mount and the work platform that gives workers the access to the engine bag was lowered down and moved away from the pad What followed was what seemed to just be some ambient testing of the systems around the site the pad was opened again and
Thursday morning the wonderful vixon X here spotted booster 13 doing some neat thrust vector control tests a good sign that something fun was coming the launch Mount was soon venting away and up the frost Rose once ready to go and the venting head died down the detonation suppression system under the launch Mount blasted away and it was go [Music] time hey that was a nice static fire at dusk for a change if I'm not mistaken that was the latest a booster static fire has ever kicked off and can you believe all this happened well under
two weeks after flight 5 absolutely a record turnaround and given that the launch also featured the first catch ever I really didn't think that they would be back to business this quickly with that out of the way it was lifted off the launch Mount but they took the opportunity to hoist it right up to its future catch height it seemed like they were wanting to run some additional checkouts up here before it was sent back to the production site it was later placed back down on a booster transport stand and rolling back to the production
site just hours ago at the same time they opened up the bay here to take further advantage of the road closures indeed ship 33 the first block two ship was rolling out for testing too another fun week is coming so we have a few updates around the incredible work being done at pad West the new tower and Launchpad development work is moving along really quickly RGV aerial photography caught some great shots from the sky showing the progress on that flame trench you can see the rebar that arrived a few weeks ago is being installed over
what we believe to be the supply line area for all required consumables for the orbital launch Mount those will be installed in pipes that run supplies like the propellant and the water for the expected Deluge system lines for the tower itself will take a different route and head directly to it very similar Commodities but for the ship Supply instead along with that we will have other unique inputs such as the power for the Draw Works hoist system that allows the arms to be so precisely raised and lowered they are moved up and down by the
multiple lines up the tower it's essentially a colossal pulley system to not only lift the the loads but now robotically catch boosters out of the sky in the near future the upper stage ships too now that hoist system only gives mechazilla the ability to raise and lower the arms for other tasks there are more complex systems in play a special cable chain acts as a guide for All Electronics Hydraulics and pneumatic lines that cable chain wasn't installed until this week being lifted on Monday now that they've got that done it's probably a good indication that
they intend to roll more Hardware to the pad very soon now we also saw some block 2 Hardware moving around as this ship after flap was partially unwrapped out in the open before moving into the star Factory it still doesn't look like the after flap design has been modified between block one and block 2 since the first generation ships are no longer being produced it's safe to assume that this is an AF flap for either ship 34 which is currently being stacked or potentially even the future ship 35 ship 34 by the way received its
common section early on Monday morning as it moved from the Star Factory to Mega Bay 2 this is the section that contains the majority of the liquid methane tank and connects it to the top of the liquid oxygen tank you can see the strange looking beehive part there same as we saw on ship 33 when it was being assembled that's the part that funnels liquid methane from the methane tank down to the three gimblin engines not yet installed though are the three similar individual downcomer pipes that now run from the methane tank to each individual
vacuum engine now there has also been some interesting activity out at Sea this week yeah following flight 5 and the successful booster catch the ridgewind vessel that we saw deployed to recover parts of booster 11's after section just a month ago now had made another run back out this time though it was heading for what we assumed was the hot staging ring that we showed you splashing down just off the coast thanks to Lucas last week given that this was intentionally jettisoned from the booster in Flight 5 there's a lot of data available here by
analyzing it it will ultimately help inform design choices for the next versions of boosters remember the Hot staging ring was added after flight one as a quick fix for an updated staging process in the future with the block two booster design this won't be jettisoned away as it is right now no it's expected to be a fully integrated segment with the forward Dome Starship gazer caught the ship hauling the ring out of the water on Tuesday placing it up onto the deck even though it was free falling into the ocean and had a hard impact
it looked pretty decent from what we can see here obviously some damage such as the Dome being bent SpaceX can now inspect it close and learn all they can for flight 6 it really has been quite an astounding experience watching them prepare for it again they already have approval for flight 6 assuming a very similar mission to flight 5 but all the same I would love to see some slight modifications in the plan that don't require a lengthy reapprovals by the faia could they be making subtle modifications to the Ford flap heat shield here to
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five engine ignitions within 2 minutes amazing right that was just a little showcase there because just 70 minutes later it performed no less than 34 ignitions within 9 Minutes Yes you heard that right I think it is safe to assume that whatever Raptor version was tested here this design is greatly improved with 39 ignitions Within 2 hours now a common question that I see a bunch in the comments is about the payload capability of Starship yes in Flight 5 when Starship gets to its near orbit it looks like there is barely any propellant left if
it is almost empty then it's fair to assume that it has almost zero payload capability yeah but keep in mind that because SpaceX are not going into orbit and deploying anything this would be by design it has been estimated that the current version of the ship which is really an early prototype design is able to put 40 to 50 tons into orbit given the indications right here that there is almost no propellant left you may ask if this is true now in these test flights you don't want a bunch of extra mass and propellant when
testing the upper stage ship re-entry and the soft Landing do you no you want to make sure that only the landing propellant is remaining as it is re-entering we believe SpaceX are not completely filling some of the tanks before LIF off to account for missing payload Mass this is speculative but if you look at flight one at launch thanks to Everyday astronaut the frost was higher on the tank as it had been sitting there for quite some time before liftoff in Flight five and other flights before it you can see that the frost in the
booster is lower also as was confirmed after Flight 2 SpaceX were dumping excess oxygen on the ship that was planned to occur before engine cut off and was of course one of the reasons which doomed ship 25 to an early end I think it's safe to assume one way or another that they have continued this on more recent flights as as well as there is quite a lot of venting visible from the ship right after the engine shut down and also while it is in space it's hard to say of course but I can guarantee
you they haven't spent billions of dollars developing a launch system that can't get any payload to orbit a bizarre claim that I've seen floating around various social feeds don't let anyone try to convince you that flight 5 wasn't the historic and incredible success that it was for both the booster and the ship performing exactly as intended oh speaking of which check this out just arrived in the mail a moment ago what's more you can pick up your brand new flight 5 patch merch with an awesome free shipping deal from now and over the next few
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of satellites competing against their own service indeed 21 web satellites were on board you can really tell you are dominating the industry when you're not only launching your own networks but also your Rivals as well booster 1082 had taken to the sky here from slick 4E at Vandenberg space force base in California and this mission was aiming to strengthen utel SATs load Earth orbit Broadband network with some of these additional spare satellites a great shot of the first stage separation there and you can see the shorter nozzle was used on the second stage Merlin vacuum
engine given this light payload SpaceX could get away with the lower performance configuration of the second stage the materials used to make vacuum engine bells are expensive so they just use a shorter version of that nozzle to save in cost another benefit of the low payload Mass was that this was an always exciting return to launch site mission some stunning visuals of the Boost back burn from the ground there as it rocketed back towards land in no time at all there it was kicking off its entry burn as it began to make its way back
into the thick atmosphere Falcon 9 isn't designed to re-enter without slowing down a little first and as the burn ends you can see the velocity has been reduced to around 2,800 kmph at 34 km in altitude it's good to comparatively check booster 12 which was moving at 4,280 kmph at the same altitude with no entry burn at all that's about a 53% increase in entry speed so that is why watching Starship make it through aive has been so astounding anyway there was the Falcon 9 booster successfully Landing back at Landing Zone 4 less than 8
minutes after launch beautiful double cam R views covering that one and Landing number seven for that booster a moment later there was the second engine cut off and we needed to wait until 55 minutes into the mission before the next event the near polar orbit there passing right over Antarctica the second stage ignited again right over Madagascar and just a few seconds there for that little circularization burn that was it just a few minutes later the satellites started to deploy one after the other and that was a very successful oneeb launch utat confirmed successful contact
with all of the newly deployed satellites and that brings the total for their constellation to 654 interestingly while the constellation is technically capable of providing Global coverage now service activation has has been delayed due to ground infrastructure setback so Global Services are now expected next year we had another flight midweek for Falcon 9 with starlink group 6 Mission 61 on Wednesday afternoon nice to have the daylight launch there from space launch complex 40 and the well-loved booster 1073 was on its 18th flight just after main engine cut off and Stage separation there was the view
of the styling stack on board now fairing separation from a starling mission was actually one of my highlights of the week why because SpaceX released this sweet video of a styling commission which was showing the separation from the perspective of the fairings themselves cameras in each half gave a wonderful view of the Merlin vacuum engines pushing the second stage onward and then lightly roasting the fairings on the way past that's an incredible perspective anyway this particular Mission had a batch of the 23 satellites on board riding to orbit while the booster ripped back down through
the atmosphere to touch down on the Drone ship a short fall of Gravitas a nice land ending in the daylight and that was also the 100th Flight of the year for SpaceX along with that of course was the nrol 167 Mission the next day on Thursday morning this is a secretive mission of course and what is publicly known is that this is the fourth batch of reconnaissance satellites for their constellation built by SpaceX and northr grman together for the national reconnaissance office a great morning view of the expanding exhaust there just before main engine cut
off now based on the similar Landing location for the Drone ship and all the timings that we see with fairing separation and whatnot the mission looks just like styling so we are betting that these are star Shield essentially a separated and presumably beefed up constellation to provide Imaging and other reconnaissance capability for the nro moments later the Drone ship taking the catch was of course I still love you and that wrapped up the 21st flight and Landing for booster 1063 so along with all that SpaceX action Crew 8 has also finally Departed the International Space
Station that completed their 7-month science Mission aboard the ISS and a neat fact for you Crew 8 spent 232 days docked to the station which is the longest Mission dragon has ever spent in orbit of course the entry and The Descent went like clockwork the shoots there removing most of the final velocity before splash down early Friday morning beautiful the SpaceX recovery team were on the ball hoisting Dragon up on board on the recovery ship followed minutes later by the crew standing for the first time in a full 1G obviously weather issues had pushed this
return back a while but hey space travel was never meant to be easy right the breaking news as I was exporting this video out is that one of the three NASA astronauts had experienced an unknown medical issue all four were flown to Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida and following that a medical evaluation at the hospital the other three have since departed arriving later at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston the one unnamed astronaut who remains in hospital is said to be in a stable condition so that's good news news keep an eye on social
media there fingers crossed that everything is okay new Shepard was also back with some unusual action this week interestingly this time blue origin launched their brand new crew capsule RSS kman for the first time and this was obviously an un crude verification flight carrying a dozen payloads on the booster and in the capsule blue origin did note that the upgraded vehicle did include some enhanced technology for improved performance and reusability as well as a new design and capability for accommodating payloads on the booster itself notable payloads for this Mission included Advanced navigation systems for both
the new shepher as well as the upcoming new Glenn rocket along with that two liar sensors intended for Luna operations so yeah all the very routine missions straight up and down with the first stage touching back down there and the capsule making a parachute Landing in the west Texas desert all of course While Blue origin dreamed to make it to orbit for the very first time with the upcoming new Clen launch stay tuned now I also think it's worth mentioning the recent update around axium spacers space suit yes the final design to be used for
astronauts has been revealed here the suits that will be worn by the crew as they touch back down on the surface of the Moon for the first time since the Apollo missions over five decades ago the Luna Eva space suit was shown off at the international astronautical Congress in Italy and was a little different from the glimpses that we've seen before at the time this dark suit was a teaser that was never going to remain dark interestingly axium space collaborated with Prada to design the suit not black of course as that would absorb a bunch
of radiation from the Sun but instead white just like the Apollo space suits to reflect that radiation and protect them from the extreme lunar temperatures it will of course need to withstand extreme heat at the lunar South Pole at the same time as enduring the super cold temperatures in the permanently shadowed regions they boast a number of big improvements to the design they talk here of increasing sizing and adjustability options so that a suit can provide a better Fit For A Wider range of astronauts and there are features to withstand the problems that occur from
the dusty environment of the lunar surface not that they go into much detail about that it has incorporated in the design both hard and soft joints which they state will provide a better range of motion not only making it more effortless to walk on the moon but also easier to perform the many geological and scientific tasks that will be asked of the crew always exciting to see progress towards the future Moon missions and with any luck these suits will be very close to what will be seen on the arimus 3 mission as is currently planned
there are of course many challenges with that overall plan with its many complex Parts which is kind of a whole video of its own for now you are up to date though so I hope you enjoyed this video if you did don't forget to hit subscribe so we get to keep making them if you have some more time to spare consider checking out our Deep dive here on the emus plan and the challenges if you missed it perhaps in this one why artificial gravity is so important or this one where we dive into the features
of starship's cryogenic Plumbing thanks as always for watching all this way through I will see you all in the next video
