1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,760 Hey everybody, welcome back to the show. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:08,960 This Friday, 17th of November at 7:00 AMCT, SpaceX will be 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,360 launching their Starship Super Heavy rocket from Boca Chica 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,040 Starbase, Texas. And there's a little bit more 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,960 information that I want to share with you before that launch 6 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:21,200 happens, just because there just so much stuff going on down at 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,320 Starbase right now. And they're prepping the base 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:26,960 systems, they're prepping the rocket, they're prepping the 9 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,160 whole facility, the prepping the people. 10 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,200 This is a, this is a big deal. The Sheriff's Department has to 11 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,680 be down there. There's infrastructure that has 12 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,680 to go on, you know, on notice for the next 24 hours because 13 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,880 we're less than 24 hours away from the launch, which is 14 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,120 incredible, which is absolutely incredible. 15 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,640 But there are a few things that happened today and last night 16 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,480 that I just wanted to like bring up with you guys so you can know 17 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:54,160 what's going on. So first thing that I want to 18 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,480 talk about, there's a new TFR for Sunday. 19 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,480 So ATFR is basically a temporary flight restriction. 20 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,760 It's basically a temporary don't fly in this area restriction 21 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,680 zone. So this is space TFR on on 22 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,520 Twitter on X Brownsville, SpaceX Starship facility temporary 23 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,400 restriction Sunday, November 19th. 24 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,000 We only had Friday and Saturday before and this is from early in 25 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,200 the morning until in the afternoon. 26 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,240 And here's the official TFR which is basically the same one 27 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,880 As for Friday and Saturday, just they just changed the day to 28 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,000 Sunday on the TFR. So that's one of the newer 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,560 things that I didn't see in the last last 24 hours and that 30 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,800 happened last night. So Friday, Saturday or Sunday. 31 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,120 We thought maybe they were going to not do it on Sunday, possibly 32 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,040 because they have a an agreement with the Cameron County 33 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,600 Sheriff's Department and the whole Cameron County, actually, 34 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:55,240 because the the beach is a public beach and sometimes on 35 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,040 the weekends people want to hang out at the beach. 36 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:03,040 And SpaceX usually doesn't do things like this on a weekend 37 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:04,920 unless it's something really big. 38 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,600 If they're going to be doing some testing, it's usually 39 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,160 Thursday, Friday, and then on the weekend they kind of slow 40 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,440 down a little bit. They might do it on a Saturday, 41 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,360 but probably not on a Sunday. But this one is a little bit 42 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,800 different. This is a Sunday TFR and you can 43 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,440 see the flight restriction goes out over the Gulf of Mexico from 44 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,960 Boca Chica Beach there. And of course SpaceX says a 45 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,360 second test flight of fully integrated Starship is set to 46 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,040 launch on Friday, November 17th. A 2 hour launch window opens at 47 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:39,280 7:00 AM, so 7:00 AMCT until 9:00 AMCT. 48 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,160 So if it's after that, they just have a 2 hour launch window. 49 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:44,360 That's it. That's it. 50 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,880 And if they can't meet that window, they're just going to 51 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,440 shut it down until the next day, which will be Saturday, and then 52 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,120 after that, it'll be Sunday. So they have three TF Rs in 53 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:53,480 place. It's ready to go. 54 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,040 They have a flight license, so they're ready to go. 55 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,640 SpaceX posted this on their X account Starship stack for 56 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:02,000 flight. This is another chance to put 57 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,240 Starship in a true flight environment, maximizing how much 58 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,240 we learn. And that's the key thing here. 59 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,520 This is just the second flight of the Starship. 60 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,960 The first one went, I mean, as good as it could go. 61 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,400 It cleared the tower because if it didn't clear the tower there 62 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,320 would have been some monumental damage to that thing and that 63 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:23,920 would have taken the months to rebuild. 64 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:27,520 Rapid, iterative development is essential as we work to build a 65 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,800 fully reusable launch system capable of taking humans and 66 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,600 stuff to Mars basically. But they have some really 67 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,360 beautiful shots here as you can see the the sun rays coming 68 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,600 through as they're stacking the Starship on top of the booster. 69 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,120 And this is not amazing shots and there's people in this next 70 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,240 one, it's really cool, makes it really human, you know, like 71 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,280 hey, this person down here at the bottom right is like, hey 72 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:55,880 look at that giant rocket and the other people are just like 73 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,560 if you've never been there, it's. 74 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,000 I don't even know how to explain it but it's like this thing is 75 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,800 coming from the heavens in these photos. 76 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:08,640 It's absolutely a stunning photography and here we go. 77 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,840 We have some Rd. closures for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 78 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,440 We had these closures yesterday and here's the the actual 79 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:20,880 closure by the county. Cameron County Judge Eddie 80 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,960 Trevino has ordered a temporary closure of access to Boca Chica 81 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,960 Beach which is Hwy. 4. From far away, all the way down 82 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,560 to the beach which is right on the Gulf of Mexico, or to the 83 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,880 closure of the beach, protecting public from Space Flight 84 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,840 activities. Which of course, that's what 85 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:38,880 Spacex's gonna be doing. They're gonna try to launch this 86 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:45,200 thing for a orbital ish launch to Hawaii, basically. 87 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,200 So it'll be a vital 90 minute flight from Boca Chica Starbase, 88 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:54,000 Texas, all the way to off the coast of Kauai in a in a naval 89 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,600 graveyard out there. So you're gonna try to land the 90 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,840 Starship too. They're gonna be doing a soft 91 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:05,240 landing and it shows this in the in this infographic or I'm 92 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:07,400 sorry, not a it's going to be doing a belly flopper. 93 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:08,440 Belly. What is it called? 94 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,640 A belly flop? A belly smacker. 95 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,160 There we go. It's going to be doing a belly 96 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,560 smacker. You can't really see it under my 97 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,400 head, but maybe I can get this. I can't really show it to you, 98 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,920 but it's doing a belly smacker. Oh, there we go, Kind of see 99 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,480 that into the Gulf. So they're probably not going to 100 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,440 recover it. If they do recover it, it's just 101 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,760 going to be like pieces. You know, It's going to pretty 102 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:35,320 much break up on impact and the FAA and this is yesterday, 103 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,360 November 15th, this is the flight license, the FAA flight 104 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,160 license given license authorization for the second 105 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:42,800 launch of the Starship Super Heavy. 106 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,720 And here's a rundown of it all. This is the whole license right 107 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,280 here. It's a revised license from the 108 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:53,320 last time the revision history, April 14th, 2023, original 109 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:57,600 issuance and then November 15th. These are the new things that 110 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,240 they added or subtracted, removed concurrently from 111 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,400 paragraph two. Replaced Space Exploration 112 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,320 Technologies Corps Corp with Starship Super Heavy in 113 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,000 paragraph 3. Because it's just tech, it's 114 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 just minor things that they did. Change paragraph First flight to 115 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,280 Orbital test flight 2 mission additional measures. 116 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:16,960 SpaceX must comply with the conditions in November 15th. 117 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,200 So we're going to skip over this. 118 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:22,920 It's it's pretty bureaucratic and almost boring, but basically 119 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,240 saying it's super exciting because they do get this 120 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,400 license. But there are some important 121 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,760 things that the FAA did a statement about FAE has given 122 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,760 license authorization for the second launch of the Starship 123 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,120 Super Heavy vehicle background. The Fe is responsible for 124 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:41,320 regulating US commercial space transportation Industry license 125 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,520 applies to all phases of the proposed operation. 126 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,720 This includes pre flight preparations and lift off from 127 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,920 Texas. The water landing of the Super 128 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,880 heavy booster which it's going to land, it's going to try to do 129 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,560 a soft touchdown in the Gulf of Mexico, which is absolutely 130 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,520 bonkers at this point because this thing, it blew up the first 131 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,600 time. So if they can get this to land 132 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,320 on the second try in the Gulf of Mexico, this is going to propel 133 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:12,880 them forward super fast. So and then in a water landing 134 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,360 of the Starship vehicle in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii. 135 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,920 So that's the belly smacker I guess. 136 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,440 And after consultation with the US Fish and Wildlife Services is 137 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,480 the part where everyone was like it's going to take six months, 138 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,560 including myself. I was like, I don't know when 139 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:26,640 this is going to happen. Nobody really knew. 140 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,560 And a written evaluation of the 2022 programmatic environmental 141 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,400 assessment, the FAA concluded no significant environmental 142 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,920 changes. So basically with the FAA and 143 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,960 the US Fish and Wildlife Service came to the conclusion that 144 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,280 anything from from the water Dillard system that's shooting 145 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,640 up into the air, it's not going to cause anything more than like 146 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,480 just a regular rainfall. So it'd just be like once every 147 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,880 once in a while there's like a random rainstorm. 148 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,040 It doesn't change anything in the in the Gulf there. 149 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,920 It doesn't change anything with the surrounding environment or 150 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,440 the surrounding population of endangered species. 151 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,720 SpaceX applied for and received authorization for one launch. 152 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,240 So there we go. And then there's another part. 153 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,440 SpaceX is targeting November 17th for the 2nd integrated test 154 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,400 flight from Starbrace, Cameron County, Texas. 120 minute test 155 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,760 window opens at 7:00 AM so they do have two hours for this test 156 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,960 window. And this is this is a a 157 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,240 different part that we're normally not used or we're not 158 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,720 used to seeing during these releases. 159 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,120 But residents of Cameron County and those in the nearby area, 160 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:40,360 they hear a loud noise resulting from the Rockets 33 Raptor 161 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,320 engines firing up on ignition and as the as the vehicle 162 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,440 launches towards space. But what people experience will 163 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,040 depend on weather and other conditions. 164 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:55,680 So they're basically saying, hey, anybody nearby, you might 165 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:58,880 want to just hunker down and wear some of your plugs if you 166 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,000 have, If you have issues with your hearing or if you have 167 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,080 sensitive ears or something, there's going to be a loud 168 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,440 noise. And that's what happens when a 169 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,000 rocket launches. All the thrust from those 33 170 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,200 Raptor engines just shoot down into the ground and there is 171 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,320 noise suppression in the in the water deluge system. 172 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,440 So it'll it'll dampen some of the sound, but it is a big 173 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,720 rumble. I mean even for a Falcon Nine 174 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,520 you can feel it miles away, like you can feel it in your chest 175 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,680 miles away. So if you're you know something 176 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:33,440 that's 9/18/20 like three times plus more engines and more 177 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,480 powerful engines too. Like it's going to be loud and 178 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,880 it's going to shake your soul out of you if you're too close. 179 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,440 So wear your ear protection if you have sensitive ears. 180 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,320 So that was some of the things that I want to show you before 181 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:51,320 the test flight which will be happening on Friday 7 AMCT and 182 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:56,240 it'll be going from Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas, the boost 183 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,680 background. Another cool thing that I want 184 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:02,440 to show you real quick too. Main engine cut off is usually 185 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,960 the term that they use when the first the first stage stops 186 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,360 their engines and this one it's called Miko and this one at 2 187 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,600 minutes and 39 seconds after take off. 188 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,000 Let me see if we can get this bigger for you. 189 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:21,680 Most engines cut off, so we're not sure how many engines are 190 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:24,080 going to be cutting off during this time, but it's going to be 191 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,800 exciting no matter what. And that happens right after 192 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,360 like a minute and some odd seconds, a minute and 1/2 after 193 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:33,400 Max Q, my favorite part of any launch. 194 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,040 So hot staging is another cool thing that's going to be 195 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:39,840 happening right after that. So 239 most engines cut off from 196 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,840 the booster, and then right after that, hot staging, the 197 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,880 Starship Raptor ignition and the stage separation happens. 198 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:47,640 And it's going to be such a cool thing. 199 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,480 I cannot wait for hot staging. It's going to be so cool. 200 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,840 Hopefully it doesn't incinerate the booster when it does it. 201 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,760 And I I'm pretty sure SpaceX has figured out the dynamics for 202 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,720 that. But we're gonna see. 203 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,240 It's gonna be exciting. I'm so excited for this. 204 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:06,320 So join me here tomorrow morning for a a party. 205 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,000 We're gonna have a party for the launch. 206 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,960 And yeah, Friday morning. Let's get at it. 207 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,960 It's got to be so fun. So we have I'm gonna link down 208 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,720 below and I'm gonna put the video the the live stream over 209 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,160 here if I can. I don't know if I can put live 210 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,560 streams like over here in this little video over here, which 211 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:24,840 I'm going to put over here that way. 212 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,280 But yeah, check out the live stream. 213 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,600 I'll put a link in the description and also first 214 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,040 comment and then maybe over there, we'll see, We'll see what 215 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,440 happens. But anyway, thanks for watching. 216 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,800 Hit subscribe. And while you're down there, 217 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:40,040 just hit the thumbs up button and leave a comment if you want 218 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:41,280 to. 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