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