How Structural Verification Testing Plays A Major Role in Starship Development

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With the first Orbital Test Flight of Starship right around the corner, now is the perfect time to review every test article and vehicle constructed by SpaceX. In this episode we will analyze every success and every failure from Starhopper up to Ship 20 & Booster 4.

In part 2 we will cover the current generation of Starship and take a deep dive into the difficulties SpaceX faced with preparing Ship 24 and Booster 7 for the first Orbital Flight Test.

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0:00 Intro to Structural Verification Testing
5:06 CSI Intro
11:38 Starhopper
12:26 Mark 1
14:43 Test Tank 1
16:10 Lox Header Test Tank
17:35 Test Tank 2
19:05 SN1 & SN2
20:24 Thrust Puck Explanation
21:15 Thrust Ram Explanation
23:31 SN3 & SN4
26:05 SN7 Test Tank
26:59 SN5 & SN6
27:44 SN7.1 Test Tank
30:08 SN8 & SN9
33:57 SN7.2 Test Tank
35:06 SN10 & SN11
36:23 SN12 & The Nose Cone Jail
45:03 SN15
48:10 BN2 Test Tank, Booster 3 & B2.1 Test Article
54:09 SN20
55:17 B2.1 re-appears
55:56 Can Crusher Construction and Description
1:00:09 B2.1 Testing
1:03:47 Part 2 teaser
1:04:29 Thanks and Credits

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25 thoughts on “How Structural Verification Testing Plays A Major Role in Starship Development”

  6. Just amazing to see what SpaceX technical teams have achieved. To have designed the individual elements that make this happen. Your explanation is brilliant, I bet Elon watches this to build on past and future stages. More like this please… thank you

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  10. I wonder if the higher ups at SpaceX realized how hard they were pushing 4-20 to launch and that if they did launch it, it would have failed at liftoff and could have destroyed stage 0. After they retired 4-20 something seems different there like they are being way more careful and precise and methodical.

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  16. Why would they do this in the fog?

    That was my response when Elon cut off 3rd party app access for all the perfect Twitter apps without notice, forcing all those users to move to the terrible official app….or quit Twitter altogether.

    Damn, why wouldn't they fix the official app first?

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  21. I just couldn't understand what was taking so long. The work seemed mostly finished two years ago, so I thought the fears were around the thermal protection system or the Raptor2 development. It turns out they really were not ready to fly with Booster 4/Ship 20 after all. When they put in a feature like the "pez dispenser" doors, you tend to assume they know what they are doing. Well, not necessarily I guess. But I still want them to fly, even if it fails. Not everything can be simulated. At some point you have to go fly. And Booster 7/Ship 24 looks a lot better now.

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