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Starship Flight 7 POSTPONED · Elon Musk Podcast

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Hey everybody, welcome back to the Elon Musk Podcast.
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This is a show where we discuss the critical crossroads, the
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shape, SpaceX, Tesla X, The Boring Company and Neurolink.
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I'm your host, Will Walden. There we go.
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OK, so I'm going to I'm going to show you something that happened
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earlier today, which I wasn't expecting at all.
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I was not expecting this whatsoever, but Flight 7 has
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been a little bit postponed. And this is according to two
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sources that I have right now. One is one source is Elon Musk,
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and that happened during his live stream on X.
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And the other one is from the OIS, which basically tracks all
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the space flights, you know, Starling flights, the new Blue
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Origin flight, which is coming up, which if Blue Origin does
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this, it's going to be pretty sick because if they beat SpaceX
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to orbit and deploy before Starship, oh man, Elon is going
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to a a is going to lose it in a good way.
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I think he like he's going to be cool with Bezos and Blue Origin
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making to orbit before them, but he's extremely competitive.
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Elon's so competitive, and if Bezos and Blue Origin get to
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orbit and deploy something before Elon, it doesn't matter
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what it is as long as they deploy something.
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Elon's going to flip his limb. I think he's going to flip out.
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I it's either going to be a good flip out or a bad flip out.
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Elon's going to get real mad. I think at some of the engineers
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at SpaceX be disappointed, I should say, because they've been
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working so hard for so long on the Starship that there's a
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possibility that Elon Musk would get a little bit upset with all
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that's going on. So I don't know there, there's
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a, it's a part of me that wants to think that SpaceX is going to
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deploy. I mean, they're going to deploy
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something this round. But who does it first, Elon or
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Bezos? And a Bezos does this.
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And we know Bezos is getting jacked, brother.
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He's getting, he's getting, I don't know what he's doing his,
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his whole body. He's he's becoming like alpha
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male, right. So Bezos is extremely hyper
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competitive, but also has a similar mindset to Elon about
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Space Flight. Make a big rocket, send things
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to orbit. Eventually they'll send stuff to
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space that can build a space station.
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They can build habitats in space.
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And one of, you know, 100 years down the line, space will be a
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place that people go. It's just on a normal, on a
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normal everyday basis, people will be going up there on
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vacations, living in space, working in space, going to the
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moon, deploying habitats throughout the solar system in
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100 years, 200 years, something like that's what they both want.
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Elon wants that and Bezos wants that.
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So if Elon and Starship get to orbit before Bezos, and of
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course Elon has said that the Starlinks that they're going to
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deploy for, for Starship Flight 7 aren't they're, they're
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basically dummy Starlinks. They're test Starlinks.
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They don't want to ruin the technology.
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They don't want to send real Starlinks to orbit on a test
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flight. That would just be a waste of
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money. They can also send those
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Starlinks later on the next Starship flight, or they can
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send them on a Falcon 9. So there's no reason for them to
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fly them on this Starship Flight 7 test.
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Mind you, Starship is still a test vehicle.
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Starship isn't completed. We know what you know, we know
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what it's going to be like when it's done, you know, Ilana said.
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You know, there's three different versions of Starship.
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Block One, Block 2, Block 3, Block 2 is coming up.
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Block 3, super powerful, but block one, we've seen what
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happens to block one. Sometimes it doesn't work.
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Block 2, this is the first block 2 configuration of Starship, so
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we don't know if it's going to work.
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Everything from block one seems to be great, but block 2 is
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bigger, more powerful, can hold more cargo.
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So we don't know if it's going to work.
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I mean, the engineers at SpaceX have a pretty good idea if it's
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going to work, but we don't know exactly, you know, if it's going
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to be completely successful. So why waste those Starlink
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satellites on something that may not work?
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Some of this is not proven. I hope it works.
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I really don't. I really do.
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I'm a huge SpaceX fan, Phil, if if you're not familiar, I spent
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about 10 to 12 months, almost a year down at Starbase.
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And I, I recognize your name, but there's a lot of Phillips on
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on YouTube. So I'm not sure which Phillip
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you are. I'm from space, from the space
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news pod channel. There's another Phillip over
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there and I'm not sure it's the same one, but I spent about a
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year down at Starbase just watching SpaceX build this
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rocket, the first iteration booster, you know, booster 420
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in a booster on ship 420. So I was down there for the very
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beginning and I've been following them very closely for
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the last X amount of years. They've been building this
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thing. I, it changed my life, literally
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changed my life to what it is now.
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And I love doing this podcast, the Elon Musk podcast, but I
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also have space news pod, which is not a YouTube channel now and
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also a podcast. So I really want this to work.
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This next block, Block 2 version of Starship will be
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fundamentally bigger, better, faster, more powerful, can take
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more cargo. Apparently it has, you know, the
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ability to launch Starlinks. Yeah, I knew it, Phillip.
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I knew you. I Yeah, I recognize you.
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Yeah. Three to four years.
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Yeah. And I've.
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I think I've seen you in live streams before.
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So there's other there's a couple other Phillips too, but
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not just Phillip. So yeah, thanks for also thanks
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for hanging out and watching for so long.
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I appreciate it. That's awesome.
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That's awesome. So over the last, you know,
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month, I guess I should like reel this back in a little bit
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Over the last month or two, I haven't been updating Space News
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pod as much. I've been working on this.
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I've been working on this podcast in this channel.
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Not really this channel as much, but I'm working on the Elon Musk
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podcast, the actual podcast. I have 860 some odd episodes of
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that show. Been doing it forever, almost as
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long as the space news pod. So this is kind of like dip in
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and out of the space news pod now and I'm focusing on this.
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But space news pod still exists and that will be updated soon
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too. So and probably a live video in
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the next few days. Probably going to go live in the
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next few days. So there is a postponement
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though. Let's get to that.
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I've been talking about that postponing thing for a little
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bit. Primary launch day, 11th
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January, backup launch day, the 13th, January 13th backup is the
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15th and also the 16th. So 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th,
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16th. All those days are for the
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launch of Starship. Possibly.
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Now there is a possibility that SpaceX is running into some bad
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weather here. So SpaceX down in the Gulf of
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Mexico, right on the tip of Texas.
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Starbase, Texas 7 day forecast. It's going to be not that good.
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30% chance of showers this afternoon tonight showers,
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showers Wednesday showers Wednesday night, 50% chance of
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showers Thursday Friday, 30% chance of showers Saturday
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mostly sunny, but what are those winds five to seven mph becoming
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east in the afternoon on Saturday partly cloudy on
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Saturday night. And most of the time things are
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postponed because of horrible weather, you know, or like some,
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some sort of event that happened to the launch area or to the
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rocket. But mainly it's usually weather.
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Usually it's like we just have high winds.
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We can't do this. Or with a Falcon 9, we have
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choppy seas. We can't land the rocket where
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we want to land it. So they'll postpone it a day or
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two, but the weather looks horrible for the next whatever
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1234, you know, for the whole week basically.
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So Friday night, Saturday, much better, much better.
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So hopefully we can get a launch on Saturday, the 11th, 12th,
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13th. But we had another thing from
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our discord on our space news on the Elon Musk podcast discord on
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the Twitter live stream that's AX live stream.
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Elon Musk says that Starship's 7th flight is delayed to
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sometime next week. Don't know when that is.
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So I watched the I watched the live stream.
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I don't know when that is though.
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I don't You said sometime next week, right.
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So so it's about a week after which what was thought to be the
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flight of this Starship. So seven days possible weather.
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And then we have Elon saying maybe next week.
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So could could possibly be a week from today.
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Could be what day is that on 11th on Saturday, 12th on
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Sunday, Monday the 13th through the 17th, something like that.
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So we have the 16th and like anything from the 11th to the
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16th is available. So we have Monday, the 13th,
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday is up to the 16th right now.
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So the possibility we could get flight next week and that means
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that SpaceX is probably going to get beat by Blue Origin.
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Now the other thing that we always look at here is the road
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closures. Public notice Cameron County
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order temporary close State Highway 4 and Boca Chica Beach 0
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Rd. closures and except for these ones, 4:00 AM to 5:00 AM.
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2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Eighth, intermittent, temporary and
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intermittent State Highway 4 Rd. delay.
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So Rd. full Rd. closures. It's usually for the whole day.
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You know, they'll be like, huh. 4:00 AM to 5:00 AM this one
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hour, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Three hours, 12:00 AM to 3:00
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AM. Those aren't for the launch.
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Those aren't for the launch at all.
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So 8th and the 9th. What are they doing on the 8th?
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The 9th, I'm not sure. 4:00 to 5:00 AM.
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So let's see what it says for the road closures we'll be
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conducting Texas State of Department approved
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transportation operations on Hwy. 4.
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So they're moving something on the 8th and the 9th from the
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factory to the launchpad between 7:00.
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Between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM. January 9th from 12:00 AM to
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3:00 AM. The transport will take
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approximately 1 hour. So what are they doing between
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that time between the 8th and the 9th?
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Definitely not launching a Starship.
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Let's go back here. That menu, that big mega menu at
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the top is horrible by the way, whoever designed that oof,
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sorry, sorry bro, I mean this, it's great.
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I'm a web developer, so I look at these things and I'm like,
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oof, that's just gets in the way.
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Like if I accidentally mouse up there, not good Anyway, So yeah.
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Hey, what's up, Simon? How you doing?
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Yeah. So I'm not, I'm not sure what
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they're going to be doing. The launch site from from the
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Starbase facility, the build facility down to the launch
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facility. I'm not sure what they're doing.
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So we'll see what happens. I I think they're moving a hot
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staging ring. They did that with the last
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flight too. And apparently they somebody
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moved it last time or somebody, somebody saw it.
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I forgot where I saw that. I think it was on Reddit or
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something. Maybe it was on Discord.
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I'm not sure. But we have a Discord at the top
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of chat too. If you're, if you're interested
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in this kind of content. And this is all Elon Musk's
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show. This isn't just SpaceX.
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So it'll be SpaceX. It'll be anything to do with
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Elon Musk, any of his stuff. So today more closures for the
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rollout, 8th and the 9th yeah, so S ship 33's rollout is
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probably what's going to be what's going to be happening
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payload door. So there's been tests as well
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and I'm I don't this is the discord so I don't have this
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pulled up but I'm just going to read it off the discord for you
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so you know what's going on. Ship 33's payload Bay door was
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closed and a road closure was put in place for pad to factory.
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Please note this may be a typo as B14 cannot leave the pad
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unless it's under its own power. 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM Rd. closure
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identified to be a three hour roll out of a vehicle.
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We all know which vehicle that is from the star factory to the
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launch site. So it looks like they're moving
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ship 33 from the factory to the pad.
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So if yeah, so they said this is in our discord.
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So B14 cannot leave the pad unless it's under its own power.
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So we know it's ship 33 moving to the pad.
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So it looks like they're getting ready for this flight.
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I'm going to put my my hoodie back on.
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It was like it was hot doors open.
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I let my dog out too, by the way.
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There's a whole is my dog is like, I don't know, he's cool,
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he's fun, but try to get him out to go out for like the last hour
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before I went live And then literally the minute like the I
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was 3 minutes late because my dog didn't want to go out until
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literally the last minute. I was like, come on, man.
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And I had to because I can't have dog, you know, go to the
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bathroom in the house. So I was like, all right, bro,
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it's time, it's time now. So it looks like it really does
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look like ship 33 is moving down to the pad on January 8th or
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sorry, January 9th, January 8th or January 9th between 4:00 AM
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and 5:00 AM on the eighth and 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM is another
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primary date. And then January 9th, 2025.
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Here you go. Here's the the times again.
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12:00 AM to 3:00 AM will be some sort of roll out three hour roll
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out 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM will be the roll out of the Starship
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ship 33 to the pad to join the booster booster 14.
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It's going to be, it's going to be a, a, a, a sweet flight too.
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And I want to give you guys some updates about like what's going
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on with this flight. Tesla Oracle had an article.
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I'm going to, I'm going to help or this is going to help me out
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tremendously by going this article because they have a
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bunch of the stuff already listed out.
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And I, you know, I'll set my sources.
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I'm not, I'm not above that, right?
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Like, yeah, it's funny. There's other reporters on on
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YouTube that report things as if they did it themselves, but they
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all get it from the same place. They all get it from the same
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place as I do. It's pretty funny.
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And then they want to be known as as somebody who's a trusted
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news source, but they all get the same news from everybody
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else, the same thing. We have this recycle it, but
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it's fun. Forward flaps have been reduced
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in size and shifted towards the vehicle tip and away from the
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heat shield, significantly reducing their exposure to re
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entry heating while simplifying the underlying mechanisms.
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Redesigned propulsion system, including a 25% increase in
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propellant volume. 25% increase is huge.
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That's a huge, huge amount. A new fuel feed line system for
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Raptor vacuum engines. Redesigned vacuum jacketing of
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feed lines improved. Improved propulsion avionics
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module controlling vehicle valves and reading sensors.
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All of the above upgrades and additional vehicle performance
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in the ability to fly longer missions.
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New heat tile Shields or heat shield tiles.
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Backup layer to protect from missing or damaged tiles.
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Completely redesigned vehicle avionics, adding additional
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capability and redundancy for increasingly complex missions.
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Avionics upgrades Powerful flight computer A more powerful
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flight computer Upgrade that baby Integrated antennas that
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combine Starlink, GNSS and backup RF communications
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functions into one unit. Redesigned inertial navigation
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and star tracking sensors. Integrated smart batteries and
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power units that distribute data and 2.7 MWS of power across the
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ship to 24 Volt, 24 high voltage actuators in an increase to more
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than 30 vehicle cameras. Please Tesla, give us cameras.
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We want to see it all. I'm clapping.
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I would be so happy to see just fast cuts of cool stuff.
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Not like pro wrestling cuts or anything from the 90s.
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I'm saying or like action movie cuts.
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You know, I want to see cuts from like the launch tower as
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it's launching to a wide shot of it launching to a nose camera of
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it launching of its like as they can see the ground from the Cam
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from the nose, a drone camera. I want to see all these cuts and
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if they're going to have 30 cameras, I want to see all of
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them including like inside of the ship, inside of the booster.
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I want to see all of those cameras.
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Come on SpaceX, let's do this 30 cameras.
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I don't know what their ability is to stream all of those
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cameras, but the GoPro CEO said that they worked with SpaceX to
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get all these cameras functioning on Starship.
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So they have the ability to actually like record all of this
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and or it's going to be a wicked highlight reel and or street
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live stream in so. So, but then there we go.
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Starlink vehicle is capable of streaming more than 120
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megabytes per second of real time high definition video and
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telemetry in every phase of flight, providing invaluable
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engineering data to rapidly iterate across all systems.
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There we go. Send it to the engineers and
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then give us what you can. I that's all I ask.
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It's going to be sweet. It's going to be sweet.
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It's going to be awesome. I can't wait for that.
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We also have to make sure that everybody that is watching this
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has all the coolest footage, because how else do you get
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people excited if you don't show them this cool footage from 30
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different cameras? First Starship payload
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deployment of Starlink simulators, well, in Starship,
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all right. While in space, Starship will
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deploy 10 Starlink simulator similar in size and weight.
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The next generation Starlink satellites as the first exercise
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of a satellite deploy mission. The Starlink simulators will be
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on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship with
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splashdown targeted in the Indian Ocean.
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A relay of a single Raptor engine while in space is also
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planned. And that's a pretty big one.
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It was just like all these Starlinks and then this is a
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pretty big deal. A relay of a single Raptor
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engine while in space is also planned.
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That single Raptor engine in space is a huge deal because not
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only could it propel SpaceX into orbit, they have to test all the
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engines before they go to orbit. But as their, you know, their
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trajectory, suborbital trajectory, they have to move
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up, they go into orbit. So this one Raptor, if they can
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relight this in suborbital conditions, kick it up into
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orbit. So cool in a in a future flight.
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Of course not this flight. The South Starlink V2 satellites
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will deploy to low Earth orbit using Starship in the future
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experiments. Flight tests will include
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several experiments focused on ship return to launch site and
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catch a Starship's upper stage. A significant number of tiles
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will be removed to stress test vulnerable areas across the
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vehicle the side of the vehicle. Non structural versions of ship
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catch fittings are installed to test the fittings thermal
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performance along with a smooth and tapered edge of the tile
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line to address hotspots observed during re entry on
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Starship's sixth flight test. So meaning that last flight test
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they had cameras and also sensors all over this thing.
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So 30 cameras. Now you'll be able to see
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everything that goes wrong with Starship.
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So everything that goes wrong, they can fix.
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For Flight 8, the ship's re entry profile is being designed
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to intentionally stress the structural limits of the flaps
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will, at the point of maximum entry, dynamic pressure.
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That's amazing. They want to test it to failure
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almost. They want to make sure that it
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almost fails, but they also want that soft water landing.
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They don't want it to blow up on the way in.
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It might, but they don't want it to.
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Finally, several radar sensors will be tested on the chopsticks
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with the goal of increasing the accuracy while measuring
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distances between the chopsticks in a returning vehicle during
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catch. Hardware upgrade to the launch
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and catch tower will increase reliability for booster catch,
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including protections to the sensors on the tower chopsticks
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that were damaged at launch and resulted in the booster offshore
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divert on Starship's previous flight test.
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I wonder what this is just going to.
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Yeah, OK. I thought they'd have a picture
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or something. I've seen them, but I thought it
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would just be something to show you guys.
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So Flight 5 Raptor is being reused in Flight 7 and that is
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it. Yeah.
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Flight proven hardware for the first time, Raptor engine from
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the booster launched in return of Starship's fifth test flight
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launched will increase reliability for booster
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catching. So I'm excited about this.
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I'm, I'm really excited about this.
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I hope it works out and I really hope that SpaceX does a
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chopsticks landing this time because I'm excited about that.
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Let me know and chat like what do you guys want to see?
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I mean, I want to see I want to see Starship come back.
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It's not going to happen this flight, but I would love to see
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it come back. I would love to see SpaceX
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flying a booster back, catch that.
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And then in tower 2, they catch a ship, you know, in the future
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when they get that all fixed up, when they get that all built.
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Yeah. Let me know what you think.
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I'd like to know, you know, in the comments and if you're on
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Spotify or you know, any other platform that we're on right
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now, make sure you let me know in the comments because I want
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to know what you want to see from this flight.
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It's going to be a wild flight, man.
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It's going to be a really, really wild time.
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I think. I also think there's going to be
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some, you know, there's going to be some improvements for Flight
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8, of course, from whatever they find from Flight 7.
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But they're already working on Flight 8.
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And whatever they find in Flight 7, it's going to transfer into
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Flight 8. And if they find something that
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really needs attention, they're going to stop everything, fix
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that thing. And then for Flight 8, whenever
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that's going to be, we don't know.
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We don't know what Flight 8's going to be, but Flight 7 might
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be next week. If you're just joining us,
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Flight 7 has been postponed according to Elon Musk during
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his live stream. I'll show you the the screenshot
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during his live stream today and I didn't get to see it live but
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Elon Musk says that Starship's flight 7 is delayed to sometime
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next week. So there's a video here of this.
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So let let me see if I can find the video for you and then we
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can watch it see if we can get the audio too.
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It's going to be difficult because this thing is not
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working well for me. So we're going to we're going to
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see if we can get you some audio as well.
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It doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work.
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Oh well, I couldn't get it to work anyway.
26:25
Elon, he said Starship Flight 7 looks like it's pushed about 3
26:35
or 4 days according to Elon Musk.
26:37
And this does mean that we're going to get Flight 7 sometime
26:41
next week, sometime next week. So here's the screenshot of
26:45
that. Just so you know, Flight 7
26:48
sometime next week. Really hope that they catch this
26:50
booster because I think they might need it to need it to
26:54
reuse it. The other boosters are a little
26:56
bit behind. Oh, that's a yeah, that's a good
27:03
point, Phillip. That's a good point.
27:11
So if they so if they catch this one and they could reuse it, do
27:16
you think they would fly on flight 8 or do you think they
27:19
would they'd fly the same booster on flight 8 if
27:21
everything works. It would take them a while for
27:24
them to bet this out, though. It would take them, I don't even
27:28
know how long it would take them to refurbish this thing and do a
27:31
full flight of this. That would be wild.
27:36
It would be really wild. I, I don't know, I think I think
27:40
it would take them a few flights to reuse this, but if they can
27:45
refurbish it because they're right in the middle.
27:48
So I, it, it, there's a few things that I that I want to
27:51
touch on here because they're right in the middle of very
27:54
important testing, right? So the star links that they're
27:58
testing for flight 7 relight of an engine.
28:02
Of course, that's a huge deal. Maybe Flight 9 says Philip and
28:08
they're they're still trying to figure out everything.
28:11
You know, it's a brand new Block 2.
28:14
Everything's Block 2 coming up in the future.
28:17
So would they take this ship in the well, maybe not the ship,
28:23
but because the ship probably going to blow up and be
28:25
destroyed. So but they'll take this booster
28:29
and reuse every single piece of it.
28:30
Do you think they'd swap out some engines?
28:33
Because when they catch it, I don't know what the stresses are
28:35
like for the booster. You know, do did they figure out
28:39
how to catch this with such such precision that it doesn't harm
28:49
the structural integrity of the booster?
28:52
The first time they caught it, it looked like he was pretty
28:55
soft landing. But we don't know any of the
28:58
statistics. We don't know any of the of the
29:01
engineering from like something that's I have a water bottle
29:05
here. Almost dropped it.
29:08
So if you just listen to this, I apologize, but I'm going to do a
29:10
little video demonstration here. The booster came in pretty hot,
29:16
you know, and these chopsticks came pretty hot and just kind of
29:19
like it looked like it was a soft landing, but it kind of
29:21
clunked down. So that pressure pulls down on
29:26
the bottom of the booster and did that kind of stretch out the
29:30
booster and like everything in it, I don't know.
29:33
I don't know. Is it structurally intact from
29:36
the from the catch? I'm not sure.
29:39
But could this new booster, you know, could they could they
29:44
figure out the precision of the landing that they could reuse
29:47
this booster? Philip, that's a really great
29:48
point, though. When will they start reusing it?
29:52
I hope it's designed to handle that kind of landing.
29:54
I hope it's designed to I, I'm pretty sure the SpaceX engineers
29:57
are really good at what they do. So I really hope they they took
30:00
that into account. But also, like, you never know
30:04
until you do it. Like, and that's what SpaceX
30:07
does at Starbase, you know, they fly these Starships.
30:12
And the fact that, like, it doesn't always go right and they
30:16
have to fix things. They are really good at doing
30:21
iterative processes. So if it doesn't work right,
30:25
that's OK. They'll just build it better.
30:26
You know, this is what they do. But if it doesn't work right the
30:30
first time, maybe they did make those structural changes
30:36
reinforce the booster and maybe they will be able to reuse one
30:39
of these boosters. Flight 7.
30:41
Not 100% sure. Not 100% sure.
30:44
I I hope so, but I'm trying to think of I don't think it was on
30:50
that sheet at all. Was it?
30:51
Let me see. I don't think they did any fuel
30:59
lines. And this is from Tesla Oracle
31:04
upgrades Starship V2 start V taller compared Starship V2
31:10
Starship, Starship Starship propulsion vehicle performance
31:15
all the above again, additional vehicle, improved new
31:16
generation, thermal protection, backup layer vehicle, vehicle,
31:20
vehicle. Yeah, this is all mostly not not
31:26
really a lot of booster stuff, just avionics and things like
31:30
that. I don't think they said anything
31:33
about the booster, only this. Several radar sensors will be
31:37
tested on the tower chopsticks with the goal of increasing
31:39
accuracy. So that could be part of this.
31:44
What you were talking about hardware upgrades to the launch
31:47
tower. Launch catch tower will increase
31:49
reliability for booster catch, including protections to the
31:52
sensors on the tower chopsticks that were damaged.
31:58
Yeah, I, I mean, it's really up in the air.
32:01
I think it'd be pretty cool if they could do it Flight 9.
32:04
Yeah, I, I really, I think that if they do it on 7 and they
32:08
catch it and they refurbish it, Flight 9 would be a good time to
32:13
do that, to reuse at least some of it.
32:17
You know, maybe they have a, you know, they have a booster, but
32:20
they don't have all the engines, so maybe they have to use some
32:22
different engines. That's the only thing I can
32:24
think of that they might not be able to reuse because if
32:27
everything works, there's no reason why they shouldn't do it
32:30
again. They shouldn't reuse it because
32:32
if they can start reusing rapidly reusing these boosters,
32:36
that would be great. Fly it once or twice at least,
32:41
and then just retire it, you know, fly it 3-4 times, then
32:43
retire it. Be like, oh, OK, that one's
32:45
getting sketchy, you know, get rid of that one.
32:48
Send it out to the to the Rocket Garden.
32:51
But yeah, the, it, it'll be, it'll be a little, I think it'll
32:56
be a little while. I think 7 is going to be better
32:59
than the last one, the last catch.
33:01
But I, I don't know, man. I'm this conversation is all up
33:06
in the air and I want it to work.
33:07
Though the only reason why I'm thinking they might use booster
33:12
14 is from everything I've seen, it takes them about two to three
33:15
months to put all engines on a booster.
33:17
Booster 15 does not have engines yet.
33:19
They might just swap out the most important engine on booster
33:22
14 in the middle ones. Yeah, it's I mean, there's no
33:26
reason why they shouldn't. And two to three months, yeah,
33:29
the reef like the rebuild, like putting all the engines on two
33:33
to three months. That's a long time.
33:35
And so think about that. 369124 flights in a year.
33:44
That's it, that's it. If they do one at a time, that's
33:50
not that many flights, four flights.
33:52
And they have to get, you know, 50 flights under their belt
33:57
before the moon. I don't know.
34:01
It's it seems like a daunting task.
34:03
And I know they're, you know, they postponed the moon
34:05
missions. But, and I'm not a naysayer.
34:08
I love SpaceX and I want it to work, but they have to have so
34:12
many flights under their belt because it has to be reliable to
34:14
send a moon Starship, like a lunar Starship to the moon, the
34:21
moon's orbit. I don't know.
34:24
I think, I think it could be, you know, if they're if they do
34:28
4 per year, that's not enough. That's not enough because then
34:32
they'll have what, 15 by the time they do the the flight
34:37
around the moon or the flight of the moon the first time.
34:39
That's not Yeah, I don't know, except if they start
34:43
refurbishing booster 12. I don't think so.
34:45
They want to fly that thing, though.
34:46
Yeah. I mean, if they if they if they
34:49
fly this, I think it's going to I think if they don't do with
34:53
this one, I think it's going to be soon though.
34:56
Whatever they do, they have to start doing it soon.
35:02
But can they risk failure? What's the risk to reward of
35:06
that? Because every Starship cost
35:09
money and time. So building a Starship and also
35:15
building a booster, so that time to build the ships and get them
35:20
all perfectly fine working in the building the booster and
35:24
putting all the engines on four months for per booster, you
35:28
know, and during that time you test the Starship while the
35:32
booster is being built and then you build more starships.
35:36
It's a, it's a tough, it's a tough situation for them because
35:41
it seems like they could, you know, they could do it, you
35:46
know, if they start refurbishing and reusing these boosters,
35:48
sure. And especially if they start
35:50
reusing starships for Starlink, Oh my God, that's going to be
35:55
wow. Bye bye Amazon, bye bye.
35:59
You know, who would, who would use project wiper, right?
36:02
Nobody, 0 people, especially if you have Starlink, like there's
36:06
no reason. And also the Department of
36:07
Defense is like they're, they're like salivating over Starlink.
36:14
So there's no reason why they can't find a way to reuse these
36:18
things as soon as possible. When will they do it?
36:22
I'm not 100% sure. I hope it's.
36:24
I hope it's in the next few flights.
36:28
That'd be great. Yeah.
36:32
They have more ships. Yeah, Phillips just said they
36:33
have more ships than booster that.
36:35
Yeah. But you know, if they even if
36:39
they do reuse a booster and it fails, they lose a ship.
36:45
So they lose a ship in the process, unless of course, they
36:48
are, you know, they separate. But if they're getting to Max Q,
36:52
if they can't survive Max Q, then that ship is done.
36:55
So is that risk worth it? I don't know, man.
37:00
It seems it seems pretty risky to me.
37:02
And I'm not like I'm always like, go, go, go do it fast, do
37:05
it hard. Like just go SpaceX, go, you
37:08
know, just go for it. I wanted to launch, but I'm also
37:12
an engineer myself. So I know that like the work
37:15
that you do to build these systems, even I do software, but
37:20
like the, the work that you do to build these systems takes so
37:24
long and it's such an effort to get everybody to do the work and
37:30
for the the thing that work that you don't want to mess it up.
37:36
You don't want to launch a product that's going to be buggy
37:40
for software and you don't want to launch a rocket that's going
37:43
to destroy your other part of the rocket.
37:45
So building the booster, if they can figure out how to build
37:49
boosters faster, that would be great, but I don't know it's
37:54
it's going to be tough. That's a great question though.
37:56
I, I think Phillip, that's a really great observation and a a
37:59
really good talking point like when are they going to start
38:04
reusing these things? Because we're used to Falcon
38:06
nines, right? Like they reuse them all the
38:08
time, but starships, we haven't seen one yet, but it's still,
38:14
you know, 7th flight. It's still a very experimental
38:16
rocket, super experimental rocket.
38:20
So we don't know, you know, I, I wish I knew.
38:22
I really do. I, I wish I knew when they're
38:24
going to do it. I think it'd be great to
38:27
speculate, but I don't I can't. I wish I could wish I knew more.
38:31
I wish I knew more about the, about the flights, like the
38:37
upcoming flights. So anyway, I think that's it for
38:44
today. Everybody, I, we've covered
38:46
pretty much everything for Flight 7.
38:47
It's been postponed a little bit.
38:50
So let's, let's go back to this. Let's just one more time.
38:52
We'll reiterate there's going to be Rd. closures the 8th 2:00 PM
38:57
to 5:00 PM, the 9th 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM and the 12:00 AM to 3:00
39:02
AM. This is that one.
39:11
Approved transportation operations for Hwy. 4 from
39:14
factory to launchpad between 4:00 and 8:00 PM.
39:16
Oh wait, that's the wrong one. I was like December 30th.
39:20
No go back up there. Didn't I click the right one?
39:27
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. OK there we go, it's this one.
39:31
I scrolled down and I saw the wrong 1:12 AM to 3:00 PM from
39:39
the factory to the launchpad. From 12:00 AM to 3:00 M,
39:43
transport will take approximately 1 hour.
39:44
The beach and Hwy. will remain open so expect some footage from
39:49
people on the street down there. But SpaceX, Elon Musk has said
39:54
more than likely it's going to happen next week.
39:57
The flight's going to happen next week.
39:58
Not this week, not in the 11th, but more than likely.
40:02
He said next week. Give it a few days.
40:04
So 1314 Fifteen 16th are available next week for flights
40:08
of Starship. So it looks like Bezos and Blue
40:12
Origin, Blue Origin, Pathfinder launch primary launch day, the
40:18
10th of January, back up the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th.
40:24
Yeah, But there's always a possibility, There's always a
40:27
possibility that Blue Origin, there's something wrong with the
40:32
pad or there's high winds or something.
40:34
So we'll see if Bezos beats Musk to orbit, baby, that's going to
40:41
be a fight. Elon is not going to be happy.
40:44
And especially if they land their booster, if if Bezos lands
40:51
the booster and reuses it before Musk, oh, it's going to be a
40:54
fight. Even though it's not the same
40:57
rocket. We all know it's not the same
40:58
rocket, but it's super heavy. So it's, you know, similar,
41:05
similar rocket, but it would be, it would be nice if they did
41:09
that. I want there to be competition.
41:11
I don't want SpaceX to take it all because if there's
41:13
competition, that means that SpaceX is going to work harder
41:15
and they're going to build better ships in the future.
41:18
So will Bezos, so will Blue Origin.
41:20
That's just what happens. If there's competition,
41:22
someone's going to try and take somebody out.
41:25
How do you, how do you stop them from you know what, you build a
41:28
better whatever. And that's what Bezos would do.
41:30
Like the Origin would do that and SpaceX would do that too.
41:34
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