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Starship SN20 Goes UP in 2 Days · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hi everybody. Welcome back to the space news
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  power. This is a show about NASA and
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  space flight, I'm your host will Walden and on this episode,
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  we're going to be talking about the next steps for SpaceX is
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  Starship SN 20 down at Starbase because just recently they move
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  Starship, pretty close to the Chopsticks.
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  They moved it pretty close to the orbital launch integration
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  Tower and the launch pad over there.
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  So the cool thing is it's out of the way but it's closer to the
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  orbital launch Tower. So that means something pretty
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  big is going to be happening in the next few days.
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  So let me show you where it actually is because it's kind of
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  hard to judge where it is. How, how far away it is, right
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  now from the, from the catch arms, from the Chopsticks.
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  But it's about 50 ish meters away. 25 to 50 meters away right
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  now. So that means that they still
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  have a little bit of room in between the chopsticks.
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  And the Starship is a picture that I took yesterday when I was
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  down at Starbase. So that's about as far away as
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  you know that's that's as far away as the Starship is right
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  now about 50 issue meters from the Chopsticks.
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  Maybe a little bit less. Not exactly sure.
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  But they still have some room between the Starship in the
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  Chopsticks. That being said, the next few
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  days, we have some road closures, or we had some road
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  closures, the 24th and 25th have been Old the 26th all day long
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  10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 10 p.m. to 10 p.m. and then we have some more
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  road closures for Highway for from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the
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  27th and on the 28th from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the 28th is a
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  Friday. So usually they do the early
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  morning schedule because Friday is kind of like party time down
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  Dot the pieces are going to do, they're going to go party, have
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  some fun. So, they get done with this
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  stuff early at about 4:00. So everyone done with work and
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  go do their thing. So these road closures right
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  here, the 26 is the one. That's the one that we're
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  really. She hoping will be something
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  important for Starship SN 20 in the Chopsticks going forward.
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  So we have those road closures ready to go.
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  And let me, let me show you this real quick.
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  I'm going to, I'm going to show you another thing that I posted
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  two days ago, was it yesterday. But I posted this the other day.
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  There's a temporary closure of Highway for from Oklahoma Ave to
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  Boca Chica Beach, and I want to kind of give you guys a present.
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  Sense of what it's like, how far away that is from Oklahoma
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  Avenue, all the way down to the beach.
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  It's about a 25 to 30 minute drive.
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  So that's a, that's a big area. This is from Cameron County
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  Judge, Eddie Trevino, Junior. And that means that, within this
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  time frame within the 9:50 a.m. or 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. time
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  frame, they're going to be closing off like 20 miles of
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  Road. 15 to 20 miles of Road. And that means that something
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  pretty big and substantial is going to be happening at
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  Starbase in that time frame. So that's going to be on the
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  26th. So what's going to be happening
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  on the 22nd? Let's take a, let's take a
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  gander, let's take a quick think about this because I thought I
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  thought about this for the last few days, what could they be
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  doing? They moved Starship closer.
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  Right? They have to lift up Starship at
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  some point. What are they going to do for 12
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  hours straight? So first thing that I think
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  they're going to do, they're going to move Starship in a
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  position. Chopsticks are absolutely
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  massive. You don't understand how big
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  these things are, tied, still don't understand that and I'm
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  there every day. Like I go down there almost
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  every day and I see these things and I don't even comprehend how
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  big these things are, but they're gigantic, right?
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  So moving this gigantic ship that's 150.
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  Ish feet tall, Towards these Chopsticks that alone is pretty
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  intense. So moving it to the Chopsticks
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  and it's little it has like a little puck that it sits on
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  little. Not a little, it's huge.
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  It's about 30 to 40 feet diameter mover And it moves it
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  over to where the Chopsticks are and then it has to move it.
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  Another 50 meters or so 50. 25 to 50 meters to the Chopsticks.
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  I think the first thing they're going to do and let me know what
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  you think in the comments. What do you think they're going
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  to do? What do you think?
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  They're what do you think they're going to be doing on the
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  26th? But I think the first thing that
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  they're going to do is do a test fit for Starship on the
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  Chopsticks. I think that's going to take a
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  lot of time. I think that's going to take at
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  least two hours of that time because they have to move it all
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  into place. So the road closes at 10:00 in
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  the usually about I don't know. They have to clear the path.
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  They have to clear everybody out of there.
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  Make sure everything's ready now.
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  Clear the pad but clear everybody out of that is not
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  supposed to be there. You know, filmers photographers,
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  people that are just hanging out.
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  And then what they do from there is it's about an hour before
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  anything starts happening. So it about 11:00.
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  We're expecting something to happen. 10:30 11:00 make sure
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  everyone's out of there and then about 11:00 11:30 somewhere
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  around there. Maybe maybe noon they'll start
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  moving or their have moved Starship to the Chopsticks at
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  about noon. They're going to put it in place
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  12:00 12:30, they're going to put in place and then from there
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  they're going to do a fit test because the Chopsticks have an
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  adapter that will allow ship 20. To be lifted on it.
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  All right, so they have to do a fit test with Starship to make
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  sure that it fits on these Chopsticks properly.
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  So it can be lifted on top of booster for, right?
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  So what do you do with the rest of the ten hours that you have
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  left? So you do the initial stuff
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  place it on their incremental lifts.
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  I think that's what's going to be happening throughout the day.
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  And the reason why they did the road closure, is because if
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  something were to happen, If something were to malfunction,
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  you know, if that's one of the Chopsticks broke really bad,
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  things can happen. So that's why they closed it
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  down for 12 hours while they're doing this work.
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  I think they can do incremental lifts until they get to the top
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  of booster for and then they're going to hold it.
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  And do the height of booster for us about 250 feet up, I'm going
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  to hold it there for a while, kind of go through the motions
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  of putting it into place on top of the booster and holding it
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  there while they do that, you know, maybe for another hour
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  hour and a half while they do that.
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  Well, they get it all, you know, kind of make sure that the
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  Chopsticks work properly for that amount of time and then
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  lower it down. So by the time bite I'm assuming
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  by 8:00 at night, it's pretty lit up down there at night time.
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  So I'm assuming by 8:00 they're going to have a fully lifted on
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  top of where booster for would be and then they're going to
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  lower it down slowly that is if they use this whole time.
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  So it's possible they get to, you know, some increment you
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  know, maybe it's 100 feet up and they're like, this is good
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  enough. This is good enough for today
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  and we're going to move on and we're going to go to the next
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  real closure, which is The 27th between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. so
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  it's possible that they do have the 26 and a half on the 27th,
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  but there's no road closures, there's no full road closure
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  that. 20 mile road closure of Highway for on the 27th.
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  So that's between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. so let me know what you
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  think in the comments. What do you think they're going
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  to do? This is you know this is all
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  speculation to because we don't have any at Center formation
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  right now but what they're going to be doing, I've asked Around.
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  But I haven't heard anything back from anybody, so that's the
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  most I can do is kind of speculate what they're going to
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  be doing. So let me know what you think.
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  All right, thanks everybody for watching and if you like this,
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  I slide my gloves on I just did this whole show with my gloves
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  on. Okay, bye.