SpaceX’s IFT4 Was expected to push the flight envelope out further, joining the dots between the orbital speeds and the flip and burn landings which had been demonstrated a few years ago. There were a few changes to this flight profile, and in particular, intentionally discarding the hot staging ring appears to have freed up enough margin to make a soft landing of the booster possible. But the real story of this flight was watching as the heat of atmospheric entry burned through at least one of the control flaps, but the spacecraft kept flying, remained in control and proceeded to a soft touchdown in the Indian ocean. The hardware was on show, but the software was performing the real miracles today. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley

Part 2 is live now! – https://youtu.be/InJOlT6WdHc Join Elon Musk for a tour inside SpaceX’s Starbase and the brand new Starfactory. This video was shot the day before Flight 4, on June 5th, 2024. 00:00 – Intro 00:28 – Interview Starts 10:12 – Starships in Highbay 21:24 – Manufacturing talk 23:50 – Reusability 27:00 – Ice / Thruster talk 31:30 – Megabay 41:15 – Raptors 49:07 – Inside Starfactory 1:03:03 – Outro Become a Patreon Supporter, YouTube Member or X Subscriber for review access to Part 2 now! – http://patreon.com/everydayastronaut The best place for all your space merch needs! https://everydayastronaut.com/shop/ All music is original! Search “Everyday Astronaut” wherever you stream music!

Today we’re going up SpaceX’s Orbital Launch Tower with the ultimate tour guide, Elon Musk. He’s going to walk us around the bottom, explain how they plan to catch the booster with the chopsticks and then we’ll go up the elevator stopping at the quick disconnect and on the upper deck! Recommended videos to help with some context [Playlist] – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWzKfs3icbT55w6f9wGqXkhk_SlanIhnr Huge thanks to Ryan Chylinksi from Cosmic Perspective for helping shoot this video! – https://www.youtube.com/c/CosmicPerspective & http://patreon.com/cosmicperspective 00:00 – Intro 00:45 – Tour Begins 02:00 – How to catch Starship 10:45 – Starlink 2 details 12:40 – Elevator up the tower 14:15 – Quick Disconnect Arm 17:20 – Top of tower 20:20 – The importance of making humans multi-planetary 26:00 – Growing the economy 30:20 – Orbital Propellant Farm 32:00 – Outro ————————– Want to support what I do? Consider becoming a Patreon supporter for access to exclusive livestreams, our discord channel! – http://patreon.com/everydayastronaut And extra big thanks to our Mission Directors! Get your name in the credits by becoming a Mission Director on Patreon! Mac Malkawi, Ole Mathias Aarseth Heggem, Tomdmay , Jared smith, TTTA , Max Haot, John Malkin, DLB, Héctor Ramos, David Glover, Simon Pilkington, Tristan Edwards, Arthur Carty, Frans de Wet, Chad Souter, Sam Fisher, Chris Dibbs, Seth Pascale, Manalope , Vincent Argiro, Taron Lexton, Corey Coddington, Tim Engle, David A. Greer, Robin Haerens, Ares Lovlyn, Mark Krieger, Roger Oldfield, Vignan Velivela, Damian Borth, Scott Ferreira, Steven Hosac, Bravishma Narayan, Eric Johnson, Robert Maynard, Dakota [More]

Song: “Cryo” by Everyday Astronaut Here’s what we captured with our tracking telescope for #Starship #flight3! We’re using a 8” Meade scope on a Ross VR600 mount and a RED Komodo-X. See the full mega cut on our YouTube channel. @CosmicPerspective #spacex #ift3

Elon Musk’s rocket company first began developing working prototypes of the Starship rocket in early 2019 at Boca Chica, Texas. The goal is to build a fully functional reusable rocket that can one day journey to the Moon and Mars. Check out our supercut of the many iterations of Starship up to the latest successful launch and landing of SN15. Never miss a deal again! See CNET’s browser extension 👉 https://bit.ly/39Ub3bv 0:00 Starhopper 1:00 Starship SN5 1:58 Starship SN6 2:51 Starship SN8 4:49 Starship SN9 6:23 Starship SN10 8:02 Starship SN11 8:21 Starship SN15 #starship #spacex #elonmusk

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