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SpaceX will RUD Starship Flight 10 · Elon Musk Podcast

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Hey, everybody, welcome back to the show.
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This is Stage 0. My name is Will Walden, I'm your
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host, and today we're going to be talking about Starship Flight
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10 from Star Base, Texas. Now, you may be wondering what
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is going to be happening with Starship this time?
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What's going to be happening with a ship?
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What's going to be happening with a booster?
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I'm going to go over all of that today in this episode.
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Now, I want to urge you, though, to watch the Starship launch
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this weekend. It's going to be phenomenal.
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Flight 10, which is going to be setting up Starship not only for
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Flight 11, Flight 12, but for Block 3.
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Right now they're using Block 2 for the Starship flights, and
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they're going to be upgrading to flight to Block 3, which is a
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more powerful rocket in the future.
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And everything that they do with Block 2 and with this flight,
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Flight 10 and all the data that they collect from this flight
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will be used in the Block 3 configuration.
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Now, what will they be doing during this flight?
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There are a few things that they're going to be doing.
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They're going to be launching the booster and the ship, as per
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usual from Starbase. They're going to be collecting
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immense amounts of data from the booster.
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It's going to be doing the pretty normal booster stuff.
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It's going to launch the ship. Ship's going to detach.
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Booster's going to be doing the flip move slowly precisely
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landing in the Gulf of Mex America got to see it both
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things because people get really mad at the comments if I say
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Gulf of Mexico and some people get really mad when I say Gulf
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of America. So you kind of say both of them.
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So those are, that's one of the things that's going to be doing
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a slow descent into the Gulf. And during that time they're
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going to be collecting data for the next flight and then the
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next flight as well. So they're not going to be
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coming back to the launch area at all.
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Now, the ship, the ship is important.
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The last three ships blew up. Who would have thought, right?
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Three ships in a row blew up when they were flying at certain
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different distances and speeds and heights.
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Now, what is SpaceX have to say about all this stuff?
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Of course, 10th flight test, August 24th on Sunday, flight
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time starts at, I think 6:00 PM. Let's let's take a look real
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quick. 6:30 PM Central time, SpaceX goes over this on their
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website. They say of course on their X
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account they're going to be streaming it and they're going
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to start like 30 minutes before the launch actually starts after
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completion. Completing the investigations in
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the loss of Starship on its 9th test flight, which is this one
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FAA required investigation to Starship.
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This is the FAA website. By the way, SpaceX Starship
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flight 9 mishap is closed. The FAA is happy that SpaceX
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invested them, investigated themselves and found no
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wrongdoing. There's no reports of public
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injury or damage to public property.
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The FAA oversaw it accept the findings of SpaceX LED
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investigation. The final mishap report cites
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the probable root cause for the loss of the Starship vehicle as
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a failure of a fuel component. So basically what SpaceX has to
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do here or what they had to do is they had to take the data
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that they got from Flight 9. What the heck happened?
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And of course, the FAA says a failed fuel component.
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SpaceX knows that. I said, hey, FAA, this is what
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happened and this is how we're going to fix it.
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We're going to show you exactly the steps we're going to take,
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and then we're actually going to fix it.
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We're going to show you that, too.
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That's what SpaceX did. And then the FAA said, good job,
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SpaceX. Let's get you flying again.
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So right here, SpaceX identified the corrected actions to prevent
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the recurrence of the event. SpaceX also has said the same
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thing, basically. Now let's get into the flight a
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little bit, and this is from Spacex's website.
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Upcoming flight will continue to expand the operating envelope on
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the Super Heavy booster. I love this wording with
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multiple landing burn tests planned and will also target
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similar objectives as previous missions.
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Basically going to be the same thing, including Starship's
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first payload deployment and multiple re entry experiments
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geared towards returning the upper stage to the launch site
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for catch. So they're not going to send the
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upper stage to the launch site for catch yet.
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Now these are experiments. Re entry experiments geared
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towards returning the upper stage.
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Meaning the upper stage is going to do experiments, they're going
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to take that data and they're going to use it on future
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flights. That's how are they going to get
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the ship back to the launch site.
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Now, they haven't been able to land the ship in a while.
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Last three flights, kaboom. No way to land it when it's in a
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million pieces. I mean, I guess technically the
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pieces landed, but the ship as a hold in the land.
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The booster for the flight is attempting several flight
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experiments to gather real world performance data on future
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flight profiles and off nominal scenarios.
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So we could see, and this is all speculation, we could see the
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booster do a routine landing burn, pretty standard stuff.
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They've shown that they can do that so many times.
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But why would they do that again?
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They've caught the booster at the launch site.
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Why would they do that again off nominal scenarios?
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Could they just be testing this thing to fail?
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It's a possibility. It's a possibility of that they
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could. I got a water bottle, right?
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Pretend this is the booster. Booster comes in pretty normal,
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flows down pretty pretty simple. Now if the booster is off
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nominal and coming towards a tower, what do they do?
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If it's off nominal coming towards the tower, they have to
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reorient it, fix it to fix it in flight.
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Because if they don't fix it in flight after a certain time
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frame, wipes out the tower, wipes out the launchpad.
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SpaceX is set back months, if not years, because the FAA will
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investigate it and they'll shut it down.
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So these off nominal scenarios, it's not just for fun, people.
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This is because SpaceX wants to check out every scenario before
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the bad stuff happens. SpaceX is wild, right?
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We know they're wild. They do wild things.
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When the original kind of skunk works of Starship, when I was
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there, they were just kind of throwing things at the wall
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hoping things worked. You know, when they were down,
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when they were doing the, the, the original tests, right?
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And they had all the, the single engines and things and they were
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flying those down at Starbase and all they had was gravel and
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sand in a few like army tents. You know what, like that was
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wild. That was an experiment.
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That was them thinking it might work.
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Now they know that it does work. And now they have to get to the
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next phase, which is we're going to be launching 10 boosters per
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day if we're going to send a ship to Mars, right?
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If we're going to send a ship to Mars, what they need to do is
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get fuel into orbit as fast as possible into the tankers.
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So they need to have these boosters coming back, loading
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back up ships as fast as possible.
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So if anything's off nominal and they have to ditch the booster
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in the Gulf, they lose a booster, they lose time, they
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lose money, and they also lose the ability to refuel that ship
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in a time frame that they expected.
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So anything that's off nominal, the booster, woo Hoo, you know,
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going wow all over the place. They have to fix that mid
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flight. How do they do that?
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They test it in real world conditions.
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That's what they're going to be doing with this and hopefully
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we'll be able to see that this weekend.
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We'll attempt these experiments while on a trajectory to an
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offshore landing point and not return to the launch site
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following stage separation of the booster will do a flip
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control direction before initiating its boost back burn.
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This maneuver will demonstrate for the first time on Flight 9
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or it was demonstrated on the first time Flight 9 and requires
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less propellant to be held in reserve.
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Primary test objectives for the booster will be focused on its
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landing burn and will use unique engine configurations.
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One of the three center engine used for the final phase of
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landing will be intentionally disabled.
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This could make it spin out of control, Could make it go wild.
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But that's what they want. They have to gather real world
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data on the ability for a backup engine from the middle ring to
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complete a landing burn. Wild.
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It's crazy. Buser will then transition to
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only two center engines for the end of the landing burn,
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entering a full hover while still above the ocean surface,
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followed by a shutdown and drop into the Gulf of Ameriko.
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Americo Starship upper stage will again target multiple in
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space objectives. Starlink simulators.
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I got to open that door. People on Reddit love to yell
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about this and scream about this into the void.
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How can SpaceX? Make a rocket.
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How can they make a giant rocket that's 400 and 500 feet tall but
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the kid just. Open up a.
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Door in space. I've said it.
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I'm going to own up to it. I'm that I'm one of those
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people. How do you, how do you make a
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giant rocket and then you can't open up a door?
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I know it's harder than that. It's not a garage door where you
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push a button and it goes up. I know it's more difficult than
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that, but it's still funny. You know, you got to call them
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out on some of this stuff and I'm sure the engineers are like,
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oh man, right. So you're going to be doing
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several experiments. Significant number of tiles have
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been removed from Starship to stress test vulnerable areas
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across the vehicle during re entry.
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The stress test might just blow up another Starship.
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Multi motelic tile options, including one with active
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cooling, will test alternative materials for protecting
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Starship during re entry. If they could reduce the amount
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of tiles, they will reduce the complexity of the ship and will
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reduce the complexity of the reentry of the ship, which in
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the future will be great because A they can build ships faster
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and B they can refurbish ships faster to fly again.
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Because if you have think about it like this, if you can cut
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down 1000 tiles, say if the thing has 2000 tiles, you cut
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that in half, you have 1000 tiles.
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That's half the work and either way, building it or recovering
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it. So on the size of the vehicle,
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functional catch fittings are installed and we'll test the
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fittings thermal and structural performance because they have to
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catch this thing eventually. Along with a section of the tail
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line receiving a smooth and tapered edge to address hotspots
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observed during re entry, a Starship 6th test flight.
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So as you can see, flights way back to six are determining what
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they're doing for Flight 10. So anything for Flight 10 could
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determine what they're going to be doing for Flight 16.
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Something like, I don't know, somewhere in the future.
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Everything builds on each other, right?
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All the data that they get from Flight 1 builds up to Flight 10.
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It's all in a part of the same system.
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Starship for entry profile is designed to intentionally stress
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the structural limits of the upper stages, rear flaps while
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at the point of maximum entry, dynamic pressure.
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Now I'm going to say it, and I want you to probably say it too,
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but RIP in peace for the ship because they're going to be
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structurally testing the limits of the upper stages rear flaps.
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I don't think that's going to make it it while at the point of
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maximum entry dynamic pressure. They've never done this before.
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This is the first Test of this. So let me know in the comments,
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what do you think? Oh, please, please.
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What do you think? Do you think it's going to make
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it? This is stressing me out, Elon.
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The intentional stress, the structural limits of the upper
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stages, rear flaps without the maximum point of of entry,
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dynamic pressure. Come on, SpaceX, we don't want
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to lose another ship. What are you going to do?
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Can't do anything. It's going to blow up.
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The thing's going to things going to blow up.
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It's over. I'm done.
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I'm just I'm done. Goodbye.
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Flight tests continue to provide valuable learnings to inform the
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design of the next generation Starship.
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Super heavy vehicles production ramping up.
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OK, so it's going to blow up. Starship's going to blow up.
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Boosters going to blow up. Maybe, who knows, maybe we'll
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lose both FAA they're OK everything's going for the FAA
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Flight 10 August 4th. This is a long time ago, July
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11th, but this is a post by Luke LFG.
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Of course, this is for the for the flight operations of
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Starship Flight 10 launch vehicle communications for test
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Flight 10 mission launching from Starbase, Texas.
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And this is for the Super heavy booster.
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And basically the FCC is saying it's OK for them to communicate
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between the booster, the ship and the ground.
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So that's all go there's a no Tim now for French Guyana, a
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risks of elements fallout during launch of ship flight 10
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Starship flight 10 August 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th September
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2nd September 3rd. So those are kind of a, an idea
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of the flight dates. If something doesn't work on the
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24th, which is this Sunday, the 25th is a possibility, 26th is a
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possibility, 27th is a possibility, etcetera, etcetera.
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Same for Cuba, Havana, Havana, August 25th, 26th, 27th,
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September 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th.
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So basically what we're expecting is Starship to fly
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this Sunday and if it doesn't, then you know, basically a
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backup days. That's what that is.
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It's backup days for the ship flight 10.
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And of course, before we actually get to it and know
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exactly when it's going to fly, we always go to the road
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closures, Rd. closures. Since it's Sunday, today is what
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day is today, Tuesday, today's Wednesday.
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So we still, we still have a few days before the road closures
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will actually come into effect, maybe tomorrow, maybe the next
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day, but we're going to see if the Starship, if Starbase is
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going to close down the roads. And you know, SpaceX has better
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reach on this stuff because they have the, the orders to close
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down these roads. So they'll close them down when
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they need to. But there's no, there's no word
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from the government yet about closing down the roads of Hwy.
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4. Highway 4, if you're not
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familiar, is the road that goes all the way down Starbase.
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You can drive along Hwy. 4 and you can basically drive like
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kind of through Starbase. It's really, it's a really weird
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thing. I lived there for about a year
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and did on the on the road reporting and I was you
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basically drive down Hwy. 4 the whole way all the way to the
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beach. And on the way to the beach, on
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the left side there is the production facility and on the
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right side now there's Massey's too, which is the one test
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facility before you actually get to like star base proper.
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But on the left side there's the big star base facility.
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And then if you keep going down about a mile, going around kind
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of a curvy curve and at like right by the beach, there's a
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giant rocket launch facility that you can just pull up on.
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It's wild. And they close it down for these
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rocket launches because they don't want anybody to get hurt,
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basically. And there's a 7 mile kind of
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radius around it, 7:00-ish mile radius around it where you're
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not supposed to be on your boat in your plane or in person or
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anything, any, anything near it. So they closed all of that off
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before, you know, before they do any of these flights.
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So if you're going to one, if you're going to flight 10, I
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urge you to stay outside of the seven mile range.
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You can go to South Padre Island.
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South Padre Island is pretty cool.
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Was there a bunch during doing reporting and talking to people
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before the flights and things? And I was there before the 1st
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flight, so I didn't get a chance to see one of these flights.
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I'm actually working on it, so hopefully I'll get to see one of
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these flights. And if some of you are wondering
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where I've been, life is wild. That's all I got to say.
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Very happy. Life is wild and it's just good
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stuff. And for some of the people out
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there that have been following this channel for a long time,
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you've noticed some changes going on, right?
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Started talking about helping people with their Youtubes or
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their podcasts. So those are the things that I
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do. I do those for a living.
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I've been helping people with their channels for a long time.
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They've been helping people with their podcasts for a long time,
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been helping people with their digital presence for a very long
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time. So that's why you've seen some
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of these things because this is my channel and it's always been
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sort of when I started, it was like I did SpaceX stuff, I did
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Space Flight, I did video games, I did vlogs, I did all sorts of
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things. And then I just recently I've
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been moving back into doing like more personal, like my kind of
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stuff. Even though I love SpaceX and I
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love Starship, I'm doing a little bit more.
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But if you like SpaceX and like Starship, please stick around.
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Don't don't leave because the stuff is going to happen again.
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OK, Take care of yourselves and also take care of each other.
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Bye. All right, I'm going to hit the
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button, the stop recording button.
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Where is it? So we're here.
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OK, bye.