Latest / Elon Musk Podcast / SpaceX prepares to fire all 33 Starship engines at once

Transcript

SpaceX prepares to fire all 33 Starship engines at once · Elon Musk Podcast

• 0:00
  SpaceX is preparing for a massive test of its Starship.
• 0:04
  Booster seven down at Boca, Chica Starbase Texas.
• 0:08
  They plan on firing all 33 Starship engines at the same
• 0:13
  time, which has never been done before.
• 0:15
  This is literally the most powerful rocket that's ever been
• 0:18
  built. And these 33 after engines will
• 0:20
  be the most powerful engines to ever fire at the same time.
• 0:25
  Now, this is coming from SpaceX president Gwynne.
• 0:27
  Shotwell who said on Wednesday that At the company, plans to
• 0:31
  attempt this major Starship Milestone this week on Thursday
• 0:36
  possibly on Friday to the SpaceX.
• 0:39
  Will attempt the static fire simultaneously testing all 33.
• 0:43
  Raptor two engines that are at the base of booster 7 and the
• 0:48
  company conducted 14. Engine static fire in November,
• 0:51
  in an eleven engine static fire before then and they are pushing
• 0:56
  to launch the Starship for an orbital flight test.
• 1:00
  Some time this year, now during FAS annual commercial, space
• 1:04
  Transportation conference in Washington.
• 1:06
  D.c. when Shotwell said tomorrow is a big day for SpaceX and
• 1:12
  Starship. It's about 400 feet tall, it's
• 1:15
  the size of a 40-story building. The thing is absolutely massive.
• 1:21
  It is designed to carry cargo and people to space.
• 1:25
  Some will be going to the moon and some will be going further
• 1:29
  than that. At, in the future during the
• 1:31
  Artemis three NASA mission to the moon, the Starship will land
• 1:35
  on the surface of the Moon in there will be astronauts inside
• 1:39
  of the Starship the first time since the Apollo program that
• 1:42
  people have gone back to the moon.
• 1:43
  And this is the final step before there's an actual launch
• 1:48
  of the Starship for the orbital flight test.
• 1:50
  Now last month the company completed, a wet dress rehearsal
• 1:54
  with Starship prototype 24. Stacked on top of super-heavy
• 1:58
  booster prototype. A seven and that's the most
• 2:02
  crucial test. That's happened recently.
• 2:04
  Now, during this conference that Gwynne Shotwell said to Morrow
• 2:08
  was a big day for SpaceX. She said, keep in mind, this
• 2:13
  first one is really a test flight.
• 2:15
  And the real goal is to not blow up the launch pad that is
• 2:19
  Success. Elon Musk has stated this
• 2:22
  numerous times. He said, if they get past the
• 2:24
  launch pad, if they get past the orbital launch Mount, then it is
• 2:29
  a assess. It is a win for SpaceX.
• 2:32
  He's expecting it to not make it, but also if they do make it,
• 2:37
  they will be going on this orbital flight test in the
• 2:39
  booster 7. The thing that I was talking
• 2:42
  about earlier with those 33 Raptor engines, that's going to
• 2:45
  land in the Gulf of Mexico. The Starship on top of it.
• 2:49
  Ship 24 will make its way near Kawaii, a little bit, south of
• 2:53
  Hawaii's big island, and also they're going to be gathering
• 2:56
  data through this whole flight and NASA is going to be backing
• 2:59
  the Up with a flight of their Observer jet that will be
• 3:04
  watching the star ship as it lands off the coast.
• 3:08
  Now SpaceX has been hoping for an orbital flight since 2021.
• 3:15
  Now there's delays in the progress of the actual building
• 3:18
  of the Starship of the boosters and the ship itself and the
• 3:21
  raptor1 engines at one point, they figured that wasn't really
• 3:25
  going to do it. They just held out for the
• 3:26
  Raptor, two engines. There's progress of Of that,
• 3:30
  that was kind of stalled and others regulatory approval,
• 3:34
  which been pushed back numerous times when SpaceX still needs a
• 3:38
  license for the Flight of the Starship from the FAA in order
• 3:43
  to launch the Starship now shot well said, I think we'll be
• 3:47
  ready to fly right at the time frame that we get the license.
• 3:52
  So basically they're going to be doing this 33 engine static fire
• 3:55
  test. They're going to submit all of
• 3:58
  this data to The FAA in when the FAA gets that data, they're
• 4:02
  going to comb through, they're going to find any anomalies.
• 4:05
  If there are any and if they find that the rocket is safe to
• 4:10
  launch. Now, mind you the rocket and the
• 4:13
  facility, those things are expendable to SpaceX and kind of
• 4:18
  to the FAA as well. What they really care about is
• 4:21
  private property and people, they really care about the
• 4:25
  people. So if the if the FAA see that
• 4:28
  there's any chance that That this thing could be a hazard to
• 4:32
  anybody within a 10-mile radius. They won't allow a launch of the
• 4:38
  Starship. Now that being said, Ilan has
• 4:41
  said in the past that the last boosters, the ones from last
• 4:45
  year 2021, they weren't quite ready yet.
• 4:48
  Now, there's been the development of the next level
• 4:52
  boosters booster, 8, booster 9 and coming up on booster 10.
• 4:57
  And those will be launching in the future.
• 5:01
  So this orbital flight test is a very important milestone for
• 5:05
  SpaceX. And for the FAA, now, the
• 5:08
  development side when shot while said there have been no big
• 5:12
  problems that caused delays for this booster.
• 5:16
  She says, there's a lot of little things to get done,
• 5:19
  especially because we weren't really focusing on the orbital
• 5:22
  ship, your focus on the production systems, that will
• 5:25
  build this sipped will build Ship, we know how to get to
• 5:29
  orbit. She's focused.
• 5:32
  She knows that SpaceX can get a ship to orbit.
• 5:35
  They've done it numerous times with a falcon 9 hundreds of
• 5:38
  times of the Falcon 9 successfully they've launched in
• 5:41
  landed that rocket so many times.
• 5:44
  Now, the thing is, the orbital launch Mount.
• 5:47
  That's a big deal building. The Rockets is a big deal.
• 5:51
  Getting the machines to build the machines, is what Gwynne
• 5:54
  Shotwell was put in charge of down at SpaceX?
• 5:57
  Starbase. And now with the company ramping
• 6:00
  up on it space for the Falcon 9 rocket to launch about.
• 6:04
  I don't know, two three times a week.
• 6:06
  Shout will says that the rockets that are they already have can't
• 6:10
  be produced on a daily rate. But we said they said, why can't
• 6:16
  we build a rocket every day? That's what we're focusing on
• 6:18
  with. Starship is attacking every part
• 6:21
  of the production process, to be able to build lots of these
• 6:24
  machines. And she went on to say, They
• 6:28
  want to be able to launch people in these Starships for the
• 6:32
  Artemis program, but they don't want to do it with you. 10:15
• 6:37
  launches, 20 launches, they want to do it with 100 launches, 200
• 6:43
  lodges in, then they will put people in the Starship.
• 6:47
  Now, this is the thing that Elon Musk has said before.
• 6:52
  He said, hundreds of flights before we fly people, it needs
• 6:56
  to be safe. NASA has two people approve,
• 7:00
  human prove, this flight. So if they can get hundreds of
• 7:04
  flight under their belt, and then I believe that NASA will
• 7:09
  say it's okay to send people to the moon on a Starship rocket
• 7:13
  and also hundreds of flights for a Starship.
• 7:17
  If anything goes wrong with this, 33 engine static fire
• 7:19
  tomorrow and if anything happens, As to the orbital
• 7:23
  launch Mount or stage 0 if you will then it's going to set them
• 7:28
  back possibly six months to a year and they have to rebuild
• 7:32
  every one of the systems that they kind of blew up when they
• 7:35
  do this orbital flight test or the 3rd three inch of static
• 7:38
  fire, excuse me. Well, they do the 33 engine,
• 7:40
  static fire down to Starbase Texas.
• 7:43
  It's going to be an exciting day.
• 7:45
  I will keep you up-to-date throughout the day.
• 7:48
  If you want to go on Twitter, you can catch me on space, and
• 7:52
  His pod and also the YouTube channel, space news pod for any
• 7:56
  space news. That's affiliated with the stage
• 7:59
  zero production company. So please take a second.
• 8:02
  Follow me on this podcast right now.
• 8:05
  On whatever podcast platform that you're on, please take a
• 8:08
  second follow And subscribe because really helpful and also
• 8:12
  you get all the SpaceX news as it happens.
• 8:15
  So I want to say thanks to everybody.
• 8:16
  Who's been doing that, we have a huge amount of growth recently,
• 8:20
  and I'm so happy. That you're here.
• 8:23
  So thanks again and I'll see you in the next one.
• 8:25
  Bye bye.