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Will SpaceX Booster Fire 33 Engines? · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Booster 7 is currently in the mega Bay where SpaceX is,
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  installing the inner circle of 13, more Raptor, two engines,
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  which will bring the final count of booster engines 233 on the
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  booster. This will be enough for a full
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  static fire and for the orbital flight test in the future.
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  But do we think they will do a 33 engine?
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  Static fire. Well, fully stacked, and fully
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  fueled Starship. Is dangerous if they do a static
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  fire, a full static fire. So they might do 20 and then
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  they might do 13 after that stagger the testing don't make
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  it extremely violent with the 33 engines and those 33 engines in
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  the static fire. May damage nearby equipment in
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  the current configuration of the Starbase in Boca Chica Texas.
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  Now, that doesn't mean that they're not going to launch with
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  33 engines. It means that Things nearby may
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  get damaged. So they may have to just wait
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  for the launch to do the 33 engines in the future.
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  So they're adding 13 engines right now to booster 7 and in
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  the next few days, there are some road closures of Highway
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  for, which means SpaceX will be testing Starship.
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  Or booster 7 with, possibly more static fires, possibly a ring of
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  And possibly, a ring of 13. So we didn't see the outer 20
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  Raptor to engine full ring static fire.
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  Before we just saw a few Legends fire, there's a to spend Prime
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  test into static fires with booster seven so far.
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  And then, once the ad the other 13, Raptors the system will be
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  complete. They did a long-duration, static
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  fire tests as well. And that was about 20 seconds
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  long. And for the flight SpaceX will
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  need a Valued system before they do a 33 engine full Flight of
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  the booster and the Starship or even for the 33 engine, static
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  fire because they need to dampen the sound and they need to
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  dampen the damage that's going to be happening to the pad.
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  SpaceX also has done some little tiny bit of watering system, not
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  even a deluge system to the launch mount.
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  It was underneath the launch model.
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  Look like a you Sprinkler almost but is nothing like a space
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  shuttle or the Apollo W systems or even a falcon 9 Deluge system
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  where the absolutely flood the launch area.
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  Now these two static fires that the Raptors on the Starship and
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  also on the booster did they could just be for Gathering
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  data. They took the booster back to
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  the, the bay to fit more engines on it because they have enough
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  data to show that it's okay to add those engines.
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  Out of the Boost. And according to a recent FCC
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  filing SpaceX cannot launch Starship before September 1st of
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  2022. Now, that doesn't mean that they
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  will be launching Starship in September just means that the
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  FCC license only allows them from September 1st on and that
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  is an even an FAA launch license.
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  Yet SpaceX needs to show that they're completely safe with the
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  starship. Need to show that they've done
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  all the rigorous testing in order to make sure that nothing
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  will go wrong at the launch. But the FAA also knows that the
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  SpaceX Starship is an experimental craft.
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  So they understand that and they'll give them a launch
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  license if they think that it's okay to launch Starship.
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  So what's next for Starship? We may have another possible
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  Ilan backblaze.com. He'll on-chip 24 and we may also
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  have a static fire for booster 7 in this next week.
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  Now, how many Raptor engines will we see tested?
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  We saw a single engine fire test, before we've seen two
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  static fire tests from booster seven so far.
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  So there's a possibility that they do.
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  The inner ring, the 13, a single fire.
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  Fire Raptor test on the inner ring and also possibly a little
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  bit more long-duration, test on the ship itself on ship 24.
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  So look forward to that in the next week.
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  But knowing SpaceX, they may be taking it a little bit slow and
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  they may do some spin Prime tests for the inner engines
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  first and then they may do some spin Prime tests on some other
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  engines and possible flow test as well.
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  So we may not get another static fire this week so just keep that
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  in mind and just so you know there's still a lot of work to
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  do on the booster and also the ship.
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  So there's a possibility. Leti, we might not even get a
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  launch of Starship this year. Elon recently said it's going to
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  be between 1 and 12 months before a successful orbital test
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  flight of Starship. So what does that mean?
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  That means that some of the early tests may not even make it
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  off the pad. Maybe the first few might not
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  make it off the pad, maybe some of those May destroy some of the
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  equipment at the pad and they may have to rebuild some things.
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  So that could push them back a few months just to rebuild some
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  things that they run on the pad. So keep that in mind as you're
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  going forward, that these first tests though they're going to be
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  insanely. Cool, there's a future out there
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  where SpaceX may not do it right the first time and Elon is even
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  said he's going to be happy if it actually gets off the pad
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  because this has never been done before.
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  This is literally the most powerful rocket and the biggest
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  rocket that will ever fly. Even if they get it off the pad
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  in on, said, that's a huge success, but getting it to
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  orbit. That's another thing that's a
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  whole other thing, but if they do and when they do, this is
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  going to open up so many doors for spaceflight in the future.
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  This will open up doors for more science.
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  This will open up doors for human, spaceflight to other
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  planets. Mars of course but also human
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  space flight to the Moon with the Miss programs and Artemis,
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  one is actually launching at the end of August and people have
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  always been saying, you know, he will what's going to launch
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  first? The SLS or the Starship?
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  Well, it looks like now that the SLS is going to be launching
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  first because I don't think that Starship will be in any place to
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  launch before. Starship is completely done
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  because SLS on the 29th of this month, there are already ready
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  to go and Starship. Are doing preliminary testing
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  and they haven't even stacked Starship yet.
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  So when they have to stack Starship, it may take a few days
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  to get it all, ready to get it, you know, to get it in the right
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  position and then stack it then went to stack.
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  They have to gather data from that.
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  So they may gather data for a day or two just from the stack
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  and then they may do. Static fires of the booster few
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  engines at a time. Maybe one engine to start.
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  Then 2 then 5. Of the maybe 10 some in the
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  inner ring, some of the outer ring.
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  So that means that there's a possibility that it may take
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  another month, just for those static fires, to be completed
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  and also gather the data to make sure that Starship will actually
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  stay on top of booster before they launch.