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SpaceX Starship flight 9 Update #news #starship · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Stage 0 News.
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  I'm your host, Will Walden. And on today's episode, we're
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  going to be talking about Spacex's Starship Flight 9,
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  which will be happening Tuesday afternoon at 6:30 PM Central
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  time from the tip of Texas star base, Texas.
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  Now this is an unprecedented flight.
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  The last two flights of the ship ended in disaster.
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  Both of them blew up Flight 7 and Flight 8 blew up mid flight.
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  Now Flight 9, apparently they fixed the issues that were
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  happening with those last two flights.
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  And we have some information from an engineer at SpaceX that
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  I'd like to share with you about how they got to this point of
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  flying for the ninth flight of Starship.
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  Now, one thing that I have to remind you of is that the only
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  place to officially watch the Starship flight is on the Space
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  XX account. So it's x.com/spacex.
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  That's the only official channel I've gotten.
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  I don't know, probably dozens, 50 or 60 DMS on X and on
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  YouTube, just comments about where can I watch the launch.
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  There you go, x.com/spacex. So these are some photos that
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  SpaceX posted on the Rex account about the ship and the booster
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  going to the launch site because they're ready to fly this thing.
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  They're on final preparations right now.
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  The FTS will be set up soon. That's the flight termination
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  system. Basically.
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  It can blow the thing up. If it's mid flight and something
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  happens, they'll blow it up on purpose.
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  But also the final crews are down there making sure that
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  everything fits properly, making sure the ground crew is doing
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  their job, making sure that everything on the ground is
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  functioning. Because it doesn't just take
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  like 5 or 10 people, maybe not even 100 people.
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  It takes thousands of people in order to fly one of these
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  rockets because it's not only the systems engineers, the
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  software engineers, the people that are building the Rockets
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  themselves, but it's also the people at the office, the people
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  that manage the people. It's the people on the ground
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  that are moving tankers and moving metal back and forth.
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  It's a hard job. Everybody in the warehouses,
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  everybody in the production facilities, there's thousands of
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  people that come in and out of Starbase.
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  So it takes a lot of work to launch one rocket.
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  So if we get these done in a few months and we get to watch
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  another launch in a few months, that is ridiculous.
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  But it takes thousands of people in order for that to happen.
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  So big shout out to everybody who's working at SpaceX to get
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  that done. Now, we reported that SpaceX was
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  having some internal issues and that Elon Musk wasn't at SpaceX
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  as much as he needed to be because he was off in Washington
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  doing his DOGE thing. And he tweeted that he'll be
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  back at Starbase before the next launch.
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  So tomorrow morning, Tuesday morning, Elon will be at
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  Starbase. I think it's 1:00 in the
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  afternoon. He'll be at Starbase, and we'll
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  talk about that in a little bit too.
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  But he's going to lay out sort of the road map for SpaceX to
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  get to Mars because that's the next big mission.
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  Like all these flight tests, these are great, but the next
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  real thing is SpaceX flying Starships to Mars.
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  OK, so that's, that's a huge deal because eventually Elon
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  Musk wants to populate Mars, send the the light of
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  consciousness to another planet just in case something happens
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  to this one. We all know the rhetoric after
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  he's been been spewing it out for the last 10 years.
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  We know the we know the speech, we know what he's talking about.
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  This is the next big thing. So this flight night is very,
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  very important, OK? And that's the huge thing.
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  There's another thing that's in between that though, which is
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  Starlink on Starship and there are dummy Starlinks on the next
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  Starship flight. So does that mean they'll be
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  deployed? Maybe there are Starlink dummy
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  satellites inside of this Starship, inside the mechanism
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  that would the Pez dispenser, if you will, that would dispense
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  them into space. But I think what they're going
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  to do with this flight is they're going to test and make
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  sure that Starship can stay aligned and it doesn't blow up
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  mid flight. And if everything seems to be
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  going OK, maybe. I doubt it though.
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  I don't think they're going to let me know in the comments down
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  below what you think. I think they'll actually eject
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  these Starship or these Starlinks out of Starship
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  because it doesn't seem like that's a smart thing to do at
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  this point. They just have to make sure that
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  Starship survives this flight. That's what I'm thinking.
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  Can Starship survive this flight?
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  But SpaceX engineers have been working around the clock to make
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  sure that Starship is good to go, and it's better than
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  Starship Flight 7 in Flight 8. So we're going to move on to the
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  next, which is Shana Diaz, who's an engineer at SpaceX.
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  And we're going to talk about this tweet, she said after a
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  long few months in a heroic effort by the ship test team
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  yesterday doing a final verification test at Massey's.
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  That's where they test all the ships and the boosters.
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  Ship 35 and booster 14 are in final checkouts will be heading
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  to the pad this weekend. So they're already at the pad.
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  This is posted a few days ago, Shana said.
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  I've been pretty quiet here because there have has been a
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  lot of work needed to get ready for a flight test on Tuesday,
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  tomorrow the 27th at 6:30 PM Central time.
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  Big launch for Starship and as always, lots of things in test.
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  First flight proven booster. So this booster is flying again
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  with a stress test and water landing.
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  We reported on that weeks ago, months ago, like a month ago
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  that there was going to be a water landing and not a
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  chopstick catch. So they also have corrective
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  actions from the last flight of the Raptor front.
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  And then we still have that re entry gauntlet set for the ship
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  once it gets to that portion of the flight.
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  This one's going to be stressful for the whole time, but lots of
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  opportunities to learn. So there's a, there's a two ways
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  of thinking here. You do a test flight the old
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  fashioned way, right? Old space way, if you will, a
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  test flight is something that will prove the flight for the
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  next rocket and every rocket is perfect and built to perfection
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  and then the next flight that one goes well, you do the the
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  actual mission right. So for Starship, it's a little
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  bit different. It's iterative processing.
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  So you go back to first principles.
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  You build whatever you can with as least amount of parts as
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  possible. Basically make an MVPA minimum
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  viable product. Hopefully it launches and it
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  works, and this one did. So flight 1 worked great.
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  Then every flight after that, you learn something.
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  You don't expect it to do the complete flight you want it to.
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  You want it to do the best that it can do, but you might get
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  some sort of explosion along the way.
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  That's what's great about SpaceX is that, as Elon says,
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  excitement is guaranteed every time there's a flight.
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  Something might go wild, the ship might blow up, the booster
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  might go weird, something might fly somewhere that's not
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  supposed to, and something might happen.
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  So excitement is guaranteed for this flight, but it's the
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  iterative process where if Flight 7 and Flight 8 didn't
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  work, what was it that didn't work?
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  What's the data that they gathered in?
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  This last sentence from Shayna is exactly what SpaceX is all
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  about. They said this one's going to be
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  stressful the whole time, but lots of opportunities to learn.
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  They have the data from 7:00 and 8:00.
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  So hopefully they learned from those two flights and also the
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  the flights before that too. But hopefully they learned
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  before those before Flight 9, what happened in seven and eight
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  fixed it up. And then Flight 9, they're going
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  to be OK and they'll be able to do the full mission.
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  Now, will they release those Starlinks into orbit?
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  Probably not. They're dummy Starlinks, so
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  there'd be really no reason to launch them into orbit.
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  I still want to know what your what your thoughts are in the
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  comments down below so we can have a conversation about this.
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  Now, this is a primary backup. This is from the FAA Starship
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  flight 9, Boca Chica, Texas. It's actually called Starbase
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  Texas now primary date 5/27/20, 3:30 through 0134.
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  So basically like the morning until whenever they're done on
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  the 27th and then the backup date is the 28th.
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  So I just want to show you the FAA approval.
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  Here's a no Tam and this is around Piarco, ACC, Trinidad and
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  Tobago. And this is like don't, this is
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  a no fly zone. Basically, don't go in here,
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  don't get in here with your boats, don't go in here with
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  your ships, don't go in here with anything that's in the air,
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  don't go anywhere near this stuff, but this is from the FAA,
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  so we know the flight path is going to be around here.
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  All right, let's move on to the next one.
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  talk about Starship and everything Elon Musk Now let's
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  get back to the content. There's some weather happening
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  right E5556 weather update for IFT 9.
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  So far the models have not agreed on the cloud conditions.
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  Some show cloudy conditions and below some show clear
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  conditions. GFS below the models all seem to
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  range around 12 to 15 mile an hour winds with to 20 mile an
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  hour gusts, which is not bad for a launch.
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  So Starship will be able to launch in these conditions and
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  it looks like it's clear, it's just a little bit cloudy and
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  Starship will be able to launch in these conditions.
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  That's usually usually what happens for Starship because
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  everything has been tested so well from the crew, the ground
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  crew, the ship crew, the booster crew, everybody on site,
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  everything's been tested. So the only thing they really
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  have to worry about is weather. And you can't predict the
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  weather 100% and you can't control the weather.
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  So at this point it looks like the weather forecast is OK and
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  go for Starship Flight 9. This is going to be, it's going
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  to be an amazing flight. I hope it works out well.
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  And since they're not going to be catching the booster, of
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  course, it's going to be a less dramatic hopefully landing of
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  the booster. But you never know with SpaceX
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  and Starship. It could be even more than last
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  time. Who knows?
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  It could be more dramatic than last time.
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  Now we have another e-mail that was sent to me by SpaceX.
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  Join Elon on the morning of Starship night flight for
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  discussion with SpaceX employees on Spacex's plans for
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  establishing a permanent human settlement in cities on Mars.
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  It's at 12:00 PM Central time on Tuesday, May 27th.
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  So tune into that. And this is this is interesting.
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  Elon will discuss the development work ahead for
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  SpaceX Starship. And now SpaceX will use the
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  world's most powerful and capable rocket to build a human
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  presence on the Red Planet over the next decade.
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  Next opportunity to launch from Earth to Mars opens in late
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  2026. So a year from now, a year and a
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  few months from now, we're going to possibly have a Starship
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  launching to Mars. Now what will they launch to
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  Mars? And they could have possible
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  multiple ships. We're just going to speculate
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  here. Let's speculate.
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  They're going to launch five ships to Mars.
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  They have to refuel all those ships in orbit of Earth.
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  So they have to have a bunch of tankers ready to fill up the
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  ships on the way to Mars. They have to have all of the
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  systems in place to communicate between the Starship and Earth
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  while it's on its way to Mars. Because we know SpaceX and
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  they're not just going to send it out there blind with no
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  information. They're going to give us
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  everything that we need so we can track the Starship on its
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  way to Mars. Because it's going to be a
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  journey that anywhere between 6:00 and 9:00 months to get to
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  Mars for this thing. Raptor 3, there was a, there was
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  a study that just came out the other day that said they could
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  cut the time down to three months.
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  I didn't get a chance to look at the whole study, but if they can
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  get this down to three months, that would be ridiculous.
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  They could fly people to Mars in three months.
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  That'd be incredible. And it's because of the Raptor 3
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  engines apparently didn't get all the way into it, but I read,
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  I basically read the brief on it.
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  So there's a possibility that they could, let's just say 5
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  ships, like I said before, one of the ships could be a demo
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  test that goes around Mars and orbits it.
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  One of the ships could be a Lander.
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  See if we can actually land on Mars.
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  Two of the ships could be Landers.
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  Three of the ships could be Landers.
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  See which one does the best. 4th ship could be ship that goes to
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  Mars, comes back to Earth, does a whole round trip.
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  And a fifth ship could do something similar to that where
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  they could go all the way to Mars, could do a few orbits and
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  then fling themselves back to Earth and see how long it takes.
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  See if the ship can survive that.
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  I mean, they can. They better send as many ships
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  as they can because they need as much data in order to do the
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  next flights. Because 2026 they need to send
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  as many ships as possible. And I'm guessing Elon will say
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  that they're going to send some cargo to the surface of Mars.
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  They have to, they have to. Why wouldn't they?
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  Why wouldn't they sent the the the first steps for the human
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  civilization on Mars send something that either people can
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  build when we get there or I mean, this is another thing too.
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  This is far fetched, but it's possible the optimist robots
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  could possibly be the first astronauts that go to Mars.
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  It's not going to be people. The first things that go to
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  another planet are already robots.
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  We have Rovers on other planets, we have Rovers on Mars.
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  So why not have a bipedal robot that looks like a person to
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  gather data about how people will interact with the Mars
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  atmosphere and how they will walk on the surface of Mars?
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  What it's like, like there's going to be incredible amounts
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  of data. They'll be beamed from the
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  optimist robots to the ship back to Earth.
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  It's going to be incredible. So I believe there's going to be
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  optimist robots in every one of those ships.
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  But you never know. I mean, there it could just be
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  a, a hollow ship. The first one could just be, but
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  there's no reason why they shouldn't send a robot.
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  That's all I'm thinking. And if they can, they might as
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  well just so they can get as much data as possible.
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  They're basically crash test dummies at that point.
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  So let me know what you think about that too.
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  before Elon does his talk. So leave a comment down below
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  what you think is going to happen when they launch these to
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  Mars. And now this is the launch road
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  to making the making life like multi planetary.
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