This is the first fully integrated full stack test flight of Starship and the mighty Super Heavy booster. At lift off, it will become the largest and most most powerful rocket to ever fly producing over twice as much thrust as the Saturn V that took humans to the moon.
The goal of the test is to get as far along in the mission as possible with a handful of important goals such as; clearing the launch pad, reaching max Q, getting to stage separation, ignition of Starship, burn Starship’s engines for 7 minutes and 20 seconds which would get Starship up to nearly orbital velocities and would place Starship on a suborbital trajectory that will cause it to reenter just north of Hawaii. This would allow the teams to test the reentry profile and heat shields for the first time from orbital velocities.
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00:00 – Intro
03:47 – Prelaunch Preview
12:30 – Q&A
2:02:25 – LIFTOFF!
2:14:18 – Raining Dirt!
2:15:30 – Q&A
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Hey Tim
What u think about the size of the launchpad ? it is not to small for the super heavy??
cheers from Portugal
I did not watch you live, but I watched the entire length replay. The debris rain was an fascinating piece of the broadcast. I remember giraffe-tronauts.
Actually maybe I'm a bad person, but the fact it didn't make it on the first attempt kinda made it more exiting. It highlights how hard it is to do these things too, which sometimes is forgotten when SpaceX just successfully landed the 100th F9 booster in a row on their droneship lol. I think they had 0 landing failures in 2022? No launch failure since what? 2016? I'm sure they will figure it out. I remember their first tests with the Grasshopper (not starhopper this is intended ;)) when they had basically no clue what they were doing 😀 look at them now, basically the best engines on earth, the most powerful rocket.
I think anything past Max-Q was a huge success, especially to see it launch and then fly so stable with multiple engines failing. And the next test vehicle with much improved design is already waiting. Just gotta fix that pad :'D
went throgh 100 refreshes on youtbe didnt recmend you
Absolutely incredible launch!! Thanks for the amazing video and I have to say watching the two of you when it first lifted off made my day over and over again great work look forward to the next one🎉😄😄
What an accomplishment!
Best launch commentary EVER! So real and emotional. Bought a tear to my eye. Thanks guys! Here to the next attempt…
Super nice tracking shot you guy got 🙂
Don't you think, lifting off a random place on Mars (or whatever) would be extremely risky due to shrapnels made by the engines' plumes? While well prepared concrete surface in Boca Chica couldn't stand it.
Hi Tim, I have questions and opinions in a comment I posted on another channel and am posting here because, well I believe you're the right person and this is the right channel to ask and run my opinions by you in a quest to know if my opinions have a leg to stand on. I would really like to know yours and anyone one else's thoughts on my 3 absolutes??
I've had this discussion with a few people when SpaceX first showed the construction of their Starship launching pad that showed no flame deflecting trench and proper water deluge system and we all had a consensus that without a proper launch pad SpaceX was asking for trouble and this would bite them in the arse sooner than later (we were right). The launch pad was the mistake from the start, pieces flew into the engine bays and that was it. If SpaceX had not decided to skip steps because they were in a hurry, they would have constructed a better launch pad with the right water deluge system and more clearance from the ground to the engines. SpaceX will have to build a launch pad with a flame deflecting trench and a proper water deluge system. Also, just a thought, could have the fixed grid fins been acting as a distibiliser at MaX-Q? Something that in SpaceX wisdom, they could not anticipate? We all know the basic aerodynamics/atmosphere resistance, that's why airplanes, cars, rockets and so on are built a specific certain way. Having fixed grid fins on the way upwards, doesn't get the same effect as when the rocket/booster is coming back downwards. You have the engines gimballing and the grid fins holding the rocket in a position that maybe the engine gimbal can't stabilize or overpower the aerodynamics due to the grid fins affecting the trajectory on the rocket's upward ascent, pushing to escape earth's gravity.
When the booster of a Falcon 9 is coming back down in a control entry, the grid fins are deployed and they work so good that they maneuver the booster down to a perfect bullseye landing zone, so it shows how pertinent and just how big of a role the grid fins have in positioning the booster for perfect landings. So, those fixed grid fins may play a major unanticipated role when the rocket is going upwards and maybe working against the gimbal of the engines to keep the rocket straight and stabilized. But what do I know, I'm no rocket scientist and don't earn the big bucks due to that lack of knowledge.
I know that Starship is built to land and take off from the moon and Mars surface in mind, which will be all rocks and dust. Maybe Starship will need to be build in two stages so that the third stage is built only for landing and take off from such surfaces. Pretty much like the first moon landing was built for. Also, one thing is for sure, Starship is going to need legs, that's not even a question anymore but rather an absolute. SpaceX can't have their cake and eat it too, meaning yeah they want to minimize the weight of the spacecraft in order to carry more cargo weight, but legs will be required no matter what they say and if not accepted as fact because they don't want to go there, Starship or any future Spacecraft is going to require legs and that's that.
I truly and absolutely believe that if the launch pad was built right with a flame deflecting trench and proper water deluge system, Starship might have been able to complete its first flight test to the end or at least farther than it went. I don't think that the result of this test flight is due to the booster, its engines and/or Starship, but rather because of the launch pad. This is definitely a "back to the drawing board" situation/moment and it will have to start with the launch pad. It doesn't matter what new and advanced upgrades they do to the booster, its engines and/or Starship if they don't address the launch pad issues first, all Starship test flights are in danger/jeopardy of failing lift off no matter their upgrades if SpaceX keeps their launch pads as it stands right now. If they don't totally recreate their launch pad, Starship will never pass the first test of launching into LEO. Other than what they've learned from all the data they were able to gain from this first test flight and what new upgrades they make to the entire rocket, the launch pad needs to be completely destroyed and rebuilt in order to give Starship a chance to complete a full test flight. Get the rocket to complete its first full successful first flight and then go from there on figuring out how to land and lift off from the Moon and Mars surfaces later. So, the three absolutes in my mind and opinion which doesn't come from a rocket scientist/engineer, but just basic knowledge of common sense. Which I could definitely be wrong, hence this post in hopes that someone easily smarter than me can address.
Launch pad first, legs second and fixed grid fins rethinking are the 3 absolutes in my opinion.
I know this is a long comment but I would really like to get opinions from more knowledgeable/smarter people than me on my questions and opinions stated above, please.
this rocket is like
wait, we have lost a fourth of our engines, nah, anyways
The child commenting the liftoff are … pathetic…
Very impressive 😂. Mars we are coming in year 3209!
And the Circus Atmosphere surrounding SpaceX coverage continues . . . Gr8 video . . . w/o the sound track. What a Buffoon.
All the hype but SpaceX need to rethink this. Uncontrolled debris ejection was always going to be on the cards. Debris though smaller even reaching South Padre. Newton's third law of motion is still valid today. SpaceX needs to rethink this. FAA has grounded Starship and while some say it's just a routine grounding after a "mishap" the grounding will be prolonged in my opinion because of the uncontrolled manner debris is being ejected from the launch site.
Missed the launch, so I'm watching this on the following lazy Saturday, pretending it's live, as one does, getting the full flavour of the casual chit-chat and mission technical information leading up to the big fwoooshy!
Tim, your mic sounds perfectly fine here, but I guess there could have been issues with the live stream.
Scott Manley speculated during the livestream that they did not deliberately flipp the rocket to separate it, but that they just lost control. At first glance his argument sounds reasonable that they didn't try to perform the separation since they didn't stop the engines as other rockets work that way, but …. If I remember correctly, they need stage zero to start the outer engines. What if the cartwheel was done intentionally without shutting down the engines so they wouldn't have to re-ignite them for the boostback burn?
my time as a longshoreman.
I learned if we had a surface we didn't want to destroy or damaged.
We would just roll out a steel plate with the left and set it in the appropriate place and work over it.
A steel plate with the appropriate thickness could have saved the LaunchPad base structure beneath starship. 🚀
omg your over acting fake emotions is so cringey I can't even watch.
Spencer is your legit stunt double😂
I would like to look up the song he talked about, can't find the spot where they said the title under "everyday astronaut".
Eventhough there are already many updates out, thought for sure we'd have a E.A. follow up by now. Tim, hope your working on a one-on-one with Elon to recount this historic event; that would be epic. 👍
Watching it explode a minute after he screamed, "I'M GOING TO BE ON THAT!" did not feel great.
Thank God no one was in it. Except Elon bank book.
Why not just do Stage separation by using a screw mechanism between the two stages to achieve downward velocity of booster, so using screw between the two as connection and either turning starship or booster to achieve unscrewing and separation without crazy flip?
Our eyes see color because they can actually determine the frequency of light landing on our retinas which means we have to be processing the information faster than the speed of light in order to see depth or even pick up color on any image that reflects have to speed of light reflects like an echo back into our eyes
I want Tim to make a video about rocket launch pads
와~~ 이런 인류 최대규모의 로켓으로 이렇게 장난스러운 도전을 한다는게 머스크의 위대함이다.
동양국가나 한국에서는 저렇게 실폐하면 사형 당한다.
Your excitement is amazing once again
Starship would have made it if it wasn’t for the launch pad. Good thing they didn’t use full power the fragments and shockwave reverberations would have torn it apart.
Will Starship be able to initiate an escape separation in case of an issue with the super heavy booster? I know they want to do a "spin to separate" after the booster engines cut off, but it seems like Starship should be able to light its engines to separate if the superheavy is having issues just like the Dragon has the draco escape engines.
It’s occurred to me as I’m sure it has occurred to others that the damage to both launch pad and engines was not due to any weakness in the concrete but instead due to an explosion UNDER the concrete. Let’s remember that the pad is built upon porous grade and that the pad was soaked recently during noise abatement water tests. When Starship fired up it heated the concrete and the ground below sufficient to cause the groundwater to flash to steam… a very powerful steam explosion resulted, blowing the concrete from below and likely doing considerable damage to the underside of Starship. How on earth it didn’t rupture the lower tank is testament to how well they built it!
A very easy solution is to dig out the pad and replace the under grade with solid concrete. Therefore a flame trench may be completely unnecessary, although probably desirable. The point is, make the pad waterproof and this shouldn’t occur.
Dude, are you staying in Port Isabel? Great view
What did she mean by "partners in crime.. all the crimes… So crimie"?!? She says later her "husband is tracking the rocket". 😬
Nozzles don't burn up like the pad did..The thank farm is close buy, so just make a cooled floor system like a nozzle.. cooled metal beats dumb concrete any day of the week.
Why did the booster fly with the grid fins extended?
Did Tim say «im gonna pee on that thing»
'I'm gonna be on that thing'. be careful what u wish for!
So why can't they just make a trench and let the water fill up the trench for the flame diverters. What would happen if they had a trench full of water when starship launches. Or get enough pumps to pump it dry into a elevated storage tank and use that water for the flame diverters? And could they also use the old starship heat tiles to cover the top of the steal plate with. If they get destroyed, so be it atleast your reusing trash items.
Omg
I bet there are some heated "I told you so" arguments at Spacex . If not, there should be.