We're going to be talking about Starbase.
We're going to be talking a little bit about Falcon Heavy
and the upcoming mission on the 26th, and we're also going to be
talking about SpaceX and whatever comes to our mind.
So first, there's nothing happening at Starbase.
No. And no testing happening.
Nothing happening at Starbase. There's a bunch of stuff
happening at Starbase, but there's no testing, larger
testing and like cryogenic testing or things that could
close down the roadways for the foreseeable future.
Closures were canceled for the 24th and the 25th of this week,
so we're going to be moving on hopefully to maybe later this
week, I'm 100% sure about that. But they already did some
testing on Booster and they've already done a bunch of testing
on the ship. So it seems like the next step
would be to maybe, I don't even know what the next step would be
because they have the whole deluge system they have, the OLM
is revamped. There's so many things that
could happen and we don't know the procedure for that anymore.
And last week we've seen testing on Chip 25, we've seen testing
on Boosters 9 and 10. The Orbit launch mount also got
tested fully. So we've seen the Dellage
system. We've served like the new plane
at the bottom. We've seen the quick
disconnects, both of them working, the obviously the
chopsticks are working because they lifted up Booster 9 to put
it on the launch mount. So it seems like it's a fully
functional. Stage 0, it looks like it, but
yeah, it seems like they're in a spot where they could what they
know more now than they did before the first launch.
It seems like they've got the processes figured out.
They have, They've streamlined a lot of the processes because
they need to be able to crank these things out.
They want to launch two or three a day at some point.
It would be nice to see that they'll be insane.
I wouldn't know what to think at that point.
Yeah, it's pretty impressive to watch how the last three months,
I guess it's been or so since the first one, since the first
orbital attempt and all the changes.
And they're coming out of this way stronger than they went into
it, and it should be really interesting to see.
And as is typical with SpaceX, once they do something.
Once they know they've got it and they move on to the next
thing. So they've already launched this
once. It didn't make it to orbit, had
some issues. But they were designed once so
they know what they're doing and now they're just moving on to
what the next stage, whatever that is, fixing the launch
mountain and all those things tread looking into the hot fire
situation, which I'm not exactly sure how that's going to stand
out in the end, but we'll see. Yeah, the separate, the stage
separation is going to be the most exciting part.
The launch, I think they're going to be Okay.
I don't know. We're not 100% sure if they're
going to be okay with that one, but the stage separation is
going to be wild. But it's going to.
If the engineers and everybody at SpaceX thinks that's the way
to go, it seems like a really proper way to separate this
thing because it is freaking massive.
Yeah. Do you know, do you know if
Booster 9 and Ship 25 are set up for that?
I don't believe they are. I don't believe they're set up
for separation. Elon said something about it in
a tweet, but I'm not exactly sure what he said about it or
what booster or ship will be the first the for a separation like
that. It might be they might have
already set it up, but I like I've seen all the pictures and
the videos and things of the booster I'm sure, but I'm.
Pretty sure it's still in development stage, yeah.
These two vehicles are designed for it.
Yeah. It seems like a new thing where
they're like, ooh, that didn't work.
Well, they'll probably want to test that at Massey's or
something, but want to test the fire on the Dome to make sure
that it's not going to melt through or whatever.
Yeah, I'm trying to get it. I guess top to you.
Yeah, I don't believe that's. I don't think these are set up
for it, for sure. Yeah, I don't think so either.
Like, you and I were talking before the broadcast started
about the massiveness of this rocket and how, like, how big.
And I always say it like every time I get online, I'm like,
this thing's freaking huge. Yeah, but this shows.
Think about how big your car is and how big you are, and then
look at the scale of this compared to a vehicle, like just
a regular car. It's absolutely massive.
So absolutely, so crazy. It's it still blows my mind.
Like I like I've seen in person, so I know how big it is.
But just even seeing pictures of it, I'm like okay.
This reminds me of how big massive it is to think about
launching A skyscraper. They're basically launching A
skyscraper to orbit and how do they do that 33 Raptor engines
and that works like. That's a lot of fuel.
That's a lot of awful lot of fuel, awful lot of thrust, and
they made it off the pad last time.
So the deluge system was tested. We know that.
We know the deluge system was tested.
Are they going to do you think they're going to do a static
fire with the deluge system to test this deluge and the static
fire at the same time? Absolutely.
Yes, absolutely. Yeah.
I was just thinking about that well before we went on as well.
Yeah, I think that every static. Fire from a booster.
From now on, we'll have the deluge running.
Yeah, I think so too. I think it's ongoing testing as
well as protection of the launch map.
Yeah, and as long as obviously the village system works and it
doesn't completely need to rip it apart, I get to the country
class, the skip real, real quick.
Back to how big this thing is. Rocket Future.
Andrew C at the Rocket Future on Twitter, you can see a person.
This is the this is like 1/4 of the way up this thing.
Yeah, and what a beautiful shot. A great shot, yeah.
And I don't even understand how these people have the nerve to
get into this lift, for one, because I'm afraid of heights.
I'm not sure exactly what ship he's working on.
But two, and then they have to do, like, one of the world's
most complicated engineering feats.
So they have the pressure of, Oh yeah, I'm 150 feet off the
ground or whatever. Also, I have to do these things
that are crucial to get this thing off the ground and not
blow up. So yeah, obviously that's the
rocket. My gas in this Booster 10.
I don't know why they would be. Have anybody up on one of the
retired boosters, if you will. Yeah, my guess is that's Booster
10, but I haven't confirmed that.
We just saw that picture just before we go on.
Yeah, shout out to anybody that that goes up in these things.
And shout out to Andrew. See from the Rocket Future for
taking beautiful shots repeatedly at Starbase.
So at the Rocket future on Twitter, you'll follow him.
Awesome dude. And also awesome shots.
Booster 9, like we said was lifted up onto the launch mount.
What a beautiful shot too. Like how cool is this?
Yeah gorgeous. They got the shot from below and
also all the stars above in the sky.
It's such a cool shot and the lighting on the launch mount it
makes it look just illuminated and amazing and chopstick as you
said before they work which is great.
Apparently they seem to be working fine as can you notice
the there's some cladding at the bottom of the launch tower too.
See that There's some? It looks like there's some
reinforcements at the. For sure, yeah.
At the tower, it looks like. Yeah, they figured.
All the plan actually was to clad the entire tower in
something. Whether it was going to be as
protective as this is, I don't know, but to this certainly
seems to be productive. I love this shot because it
looks like there's camo drawn all over the Starship.
Because of the shadows, I didn't even notice.
That new Starship saying it looks like it looks really
futuristic? Yeah, that's really cool.
Yeah, I didn't even notice that. Wow.
Yeah. And then there's another one
they have from a little bit different angle.
But yeah, it's still the Texas night sky, which is absolutely
beautiful. That's one thing that I can say
about my time down there is that you could see all the stars,
everything, because it was 25 miles away from Brownsville and
everything else. You could look up and you could
see everything. I would spend some nights down
there just to get away from the the lights of the city and I
would just go to the beach late at night, just hang out, look at
the rocket and just just stare up at the stars.
I would just lay on. I didn't really lay on the sand
because it's you get sand everywhere.
And of course it's just like Anakin knows it's everywhere.
It gets everywhere and it's coarse, it's coarse.
So I lay on my car like late at night, look up at the sky and
just like, look over. Oh yeah, there's a big rocket
there too. But it's a beautiful place,
Yeah. And it's a great place to launch
a rocket, too. Yeah, what a great shot, though.
We're getting into the beauty of all of this as well because
we're like, it's such a cool thing that Starship is going to
be capable of in the future, bringing huge loads to space.
And it's going to be, it's going to be wild what happens.
And I'm not sure whether it's actually going to happen.
I don't know if it's actually going to happen, but once
they've got this thing down pat and they're launching.
Right, left and center. I hope that they put some
attention to the aesthetics of it all.
Certainly it's beautiful ship, all stainless steel and pretty,
but it would be nice if we started seeing that science
fiction future at some point right at once.
They've got they're launching 100 of these a month or whatever
they do want to do, they start to look into it and go.
OK, how can we make this not only functional, but look really
awesome as well? Because.
That's one thing that society's lost, I think, in the last 30
years or so is that aesthetics of things.
But we're so concerned about making things as cheap as
possible that we've we've made it as as industrial as possible
as well. It'll be nice to get back to
those circles, aesthetic values, up the 50s where you've got the
streamlining or shapes and whatnot.
It'd be cool to see that come back.
I didn't even think about that future.
So do you think they would, Do you think they would paint the
whole rocket or do you think they would just slap a logo on
it? What do you how are you feeling
about this? I don't.
Know what I'm thinking. I don't know what it is, but
maybe the maybe the cladding over some of the plumbing on the
booster gets a little bit of a a treatment where it's a little
bit smoother or a little more aerodynamics, OK, as opposed to
the sort of square bulky look that we've got now.
I don't know. I don't know.
I'm not responsible for that. If they want me to be
responsible for it, I'm available.
The moment I hadn't put too much thought into it.
Yeah, no, that sounds awesome. But I'm just going back to to,
we were discussing them putting the, the cladding up the tower,
right? Yeah, it's in all the drawings,
but they never did it. Little things like that are even
one step closer. Plus, we're talking about
Starbase. He wants to build a city there,
right? Yeah, that's to support all the
the launches in construction. Whatnot's going on down there in
development? It'd be nice to see Starbase.
Become a little bit more aesthetic than factory.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think how be you amazing. Make it a tourist destination
right now it is. But it's like you got to really
be end of this stuff to go down there.
You got to sacrifice a little bit to get down there.
Yeah, I think it's something Kennedy Space Center.
It's a it's like Disney little bit.
People go there just to go see rockets and stuff that are
interested in Space Flight and engineering and maybe just like
the unknown people are like hey this is a giant rocket or hey,
this is what Saturn does or whatever.
There's engineering and science all over the place down there.
So the I think this would be a really cool thing.
Have tours of it when they're not actually launching or when
they're not, whether or not testing, have a guided tour of
the facility or something like that.
I don't know if ITAR would allow that, but you could have a
guided tour along the road and show people hey, this is this,
Bay does this, we're building this here, blah blah blah.
It would also be really cool if they they can even do that on
their socials instead of having people down there in person.
It would be really neat if Elon did a tour of everything like he
did with Tim at the Everyday Astronaut, but he does it like
for a produced video for SpaceX, which would be really cool and
to show hey, this is what we do here now, but we want to do this
here too. That'd be really interesting to
see too. Absolutely have a manager or
something. It doesn't have to be Elon, but
Elon would get the most. Of it has to be Elon.
Yeah, one of his clones. Yeah.
Maybe Gwen could do it.
That would be cool. Yeah.
They're not doing anything
right. Yeah, Gwen's not doing anything.
She's not. Don't mind coming out and do a
tour for regular folk. Yeah, she's not building the
future over there. Not at all.
Yeah. So the Yeah, so the future
starbase looks pretty bright in the next few.
I don't know. So they're so we were talking
about the processes before and how they've streamlined
everything, but do you think they've streamlined it to to a
better place where they could launch this in August?
I reached out to a few people on face or not on Facebook, but on
on YouTube and on Twitter and a little bit on Discord.
And here's here's one person, old gamer noob on YouTube said
the way the ship was tested with an engine static fire right off
the bat, and with the booster now having already been fully
filled with cryogenic liquids adventure, they'll unify some
tests and make quick work of things.
The FAA will be the main hold up this time, I think.
So I have to agree that I think the FAA is going to be the last
step. Of course I'm going to do Going
to show that there it is right there, old gamer noob.
Yeah, I I I believe I'm on record several places back when
the back when the first launch happened and we saw the damage.
I said the weekend of August 19th for a for a launch and I
still stand on that. I think we're still go on that.
On a go on that if the FAA gave them permission today, I think
they could probably attend the launch in a week.
I think that they're at that stage, they need to static fire.
They've already static fires 25 and they were happy they didn't
replace any Raptors and whatnot. Yep, they need to static fire 9.
Booster 9 and I think that they could be ready to go right after
that as long as everything was just was operating as it was.
I think the hold up again will be as you say the FAAI think
there was a lot of damage to the the compound as but as well as
the a lot of concrete spread over the area around the launch
site. So I think that there's some
concern there that they'll want to address and get answered and
then they're likely doing that already from the day at launch,
I'm sure they've been talking to.
Yeah, and giving reports on everything they're doing to
repair things and whatnot and prevent it from happening again.
The future. So I don't think it's going to
be as. Long a wait for the FA.
To to secure this, but it's just a matter of time.
But yeah, I think that's a little less than a month we'll
be launching this thing. Wow.
Yeah. Stay by it.
I stand by it. I think you're pretty right.
I'm going to venture to say it's going to be a little bit later
maybe. Septemberish, maybe.
But Elon, even Elon was like, yeah, middle of August can be
ready by the middle of August. And like you said they were
talking to, they've been talking to the FA probably an hour, like
within hours of the last launch. Within probably minutes.
Within the last launch. Like the FAA was probably on the
horn. Hey, what just happened, buddy?
That just blew everything out there and they had these steps
in place before they launched the first one and like they had
lots of rockets. Over the years.
Lots of rockets over the years that have blown up on the
launchpad. Yep.
Causing all kinds of damage. Yep.
It's just this is just another one.
Yeah, and this didn't blow up in launchpad, it blew up the
launchpad. Same sort of deal, same kind of
damage probably. I would imagine the only
difference being that the tanks for all the cryogenic fluid and
stuff were a little bit closer at the launch site than they
were the Cape, I believe. But so that's probably the big
difference here. I think that the.
It's just a matter of time to get past these things.
But it's happened before. And you know what?
They expected it to blow up in the sky, then they expected to
get off the launchpad, and the FAA knew that.
So it's just a matter of satisfying them and I think that
that won't be hard at all. Yeah, I agree with you.
I think. I think they like they're
showing them all the data that they get as they get it.
They're showing them how were they're mitigating the problems
that were on the pad and I think they'll just go, it'll break as
much as they can, they'll breeze through this and then they'll be
ready to launch. Now if the water deliard system
and the static fire, static fires work perfectly the first
time, they might do like A7 static fire like A7 engine and
then a 14 or whatever and then go to 21 and be like can't
static fire everything. So now we're going to launch it,
then they'll stack it up and do a fill test probably on both the
rocket or the ship and the booster maybe like and then
launch it up one more time just to make sure all the systems
work and then. Yeah.
Did they do a static fire with the ship, with ship 24 on top of
eight? I don't think so, no.
I don't think they did. Yeah, they were just.
They don't do. I'm surprised they don't do
that, to be honest. I am.
But I'm also, I totally understand why they don't,
because if they do a static fire again one, it's almost like
they're wasting time. I think because they've already
done it. They've already tested those
engines, and I've already tested all the systems.
The only system that they wouldn't be able to test without
the ship on top was like, is the ship going to fall off the
booster? Yeah.
And but that was part of the problem, right?
Is that it didn't release, yeah. So is there anything to be seen
observed from a static fire and how those lock pins work while
at some place I would like to see that and?
They did it. They've already launched this
once. We talked about this earlier.
SpaceX is very happy doing things once, having it work and
moving on and saying that's the way we're going to do it every
time. Yep.
They only they've only really landed one ship successfully.
Oh yeah, you're right, they moved on.
They immediately move on to say we've done it, we're good.
We did it. Move on.
Yeah, yeah. And then you're going to need to
prove that again. In my mind, but not in their
minds. Apparently they've already
launched the ship once in their minds.
Is everything cool? Let's just go for it.
Do they put 25 on top of nine and then statifier and then
launch? I don't think.
I don't think they need to. Yes, but as opposed to, I'm
sorry, as opposed to Statifier 9 on its own.
Ooh, OK do they just? Jump to the launch, basically
okay. So this is.
I think this could be an issue because if they static fire with
the ship on top of the booster, could the ship get rattled?
Move out of place? They might have to readjust it.
That's better point. Which is better than when it's
in the air, yeah. I think that's the whole point
of static firing with the ship on top is to see that that would
make sense. Yeah, that would make 100%
sense. Will SpaceX do that?
Probably not, because they're just like work last time.
We didn't do it last time and it seemed to work.
I don't know I can. I'm leaning more towards them
not static firing 9 before the ship's on top center, firing it
once and then launching. Oh like a 20 something odd.
Engine static fire maybe? Yeah, something like that with
the ship on top and this. Hey, it didn't fall out saying
Let. Go, guys, Everything looks cool.
Let's launch tomorrow. Yep.
That makes more. Sense, which is the standard
process for Falcon launch as well, right?
Yeah. Yeah, they put it on the thing,
they static fire and then the next day or two they launch.
Yeah, so the ship would be something like the like a
fairing or something on a regular on a Falcon rocket.
Just like the same thing, just a huge fairing.
It's a second stage, right? Yeah, second stage, gigantic
second stage. So that would make sense that
they do that. That's where they want to get
to. I think that's where you have to
get to eventually. It's the skips, what like a week
and a half of testing because they do a static fire, then they
like have to close down the roads.
You have to get the data from that static fire, wait about 3
days or so, refuel it. That makes way more sense.
Way more sense Will they do it for this one.
Yeah, but to say if not this one, then the next one, I bet
they try and do it. Yeah, yeah, I I would love them.
I didn't even think about that until you just said that.
So my mind's going crazy, but it seems like they're just Wis.
Just like straight through all these tests.
This happened real quick. They already had the booster
there. The ship.
Yeah, Everything is being tested at Massey's beforehand.
Everything's getting ready to roll.
I don't. Remember when it was that?
Yeah, I don't remember when it was that my fear went away that
the ship was going to implode when they're doing a cryo test,
probably 6-7, maybe not seven, but maybe ship eight.
That is when I started to think, OK, this thing's going to
actually not going to implode and it's going to work and.
I still it boggles my mind that we're talking about four
millimeters of or five millimeters of stainless steel
holding all this cryogenic fluid in place.
Yet at least I feel confident that it's not going to implode
that of course Speaking of implosions, the test ship set of
27 that you can see the Dome top Dome of that imploded after the
last testing. That is interesting.
Obviously we're testing that to failure.
They wanted. They wanted that to happen.
Yeah, I think an implosion is better than an explosion in that
case. Yep.
I think they're probably quite happy with the results of that.
Yep to this. Whatever they were testing,
yeah. Whatever they were testing.
New steel or new systems or whatever happened to be, Yeah, I
think they're yeah. And if they move past that,
they'll have Ship 28, Ship 29. I don't even know how many ships
are down there. Now I have I've lost count of
which ships are down there and what boosters are of like
readily available because I'm focusing on the ship that's
going to launch and the other stuff that's happening.
It's super important. But also like it's off there
somewhere and I think that's where everybody else is at too,
is that this is an amazing feat that will happen.
Like you said, Ship 10, Ship 10 head or not ship 10, but
booster, they're doing the booster, all sorts of boosters
and ships and testing everything.
It's like, how can I keep track of everything?
Yeah. And I'll just, I'll leave that
space I have. An Excel spreadsheet.
To be honest with you, they're probably yeah, yeah, they're
fine, They're fine. Yeah, I know that they're
building Ship 30 right now. Believe they're setting that and
it looks pretty slick, like it's starting to really look like
they know what they're doing as far as the tiles go and all of
that. It just happens now.
And it's got a, it's got the. That would be insane even.
I think it. We need to keep thinking that
they're moving forward, right? We need to keep thinking that
they're thinking, what's the next step?
This next ship's going to make it orbit.
So next one after that why don't we throw some startlings up?
May as well that that makes they have to move forward with the
starlink program as fast as possible.
They need to make money and getting eczema.
What is it like 10 I think at the at this time for the regular
like? Falcon Money Nine, Yeah, yeah,
something like that for a Falcon launch.
Like they're like throwing away money at this point when they
can get like 20 or 30 in a Starship.
So does one Starship launch, even if it's an expendable
Starship, which is probably going to happen for the next 10
starships, then at least get some star links up there and
make the money back from the Starship launch?
Yep. So yeah, make that money back,
fund Starship and just keep going with it.
And that's how they're going to fund the Starship program going
forward is I think with the Star Link launches and they also
have, they have some customers like at Bay like just ready to
launch on this thing, it's once it's ready to go.
Once it's proven, yeah, Once it's proven and they know that
they can get satellites into orbit, they know they can get
heavy. They need a heavy lift rocket to
get some stuff up there. I wonder.
If we see, I wonder if we start to see satellite companies
building flat satellites that could be just has dispensed if
you will as opposed to the traditional box shape.
Satellite. Whether they start to compress
them and make them fit out that door, that's a good idea.
But maybe they can assemble themselves once they're launched
or something like that. Yeah, like a the solar panels
rolled out and whatnot, like how the James Webb telescope
unfurled it. And yeah.
Exactly like that. It would certainly make
everything less complicated. And you could put 15 Starlink
and three regular satellites and this, that and the other just
stack them. In order in the Starship and
keep launching about as you need to.
That'd be incredible. I'm trying to find at this
point. Remember they had a PES, They
had a Starship where the front opened like I was trying to find
that graphic but I can't find. It that was what's in my head,
I'm thinking. I wonder if that even makes
sense anymore. I don't Unless you're.
Perhaps collecting an old satellite to fix it or just to
get rid of space check or something like that.
I wonder if that even makes sense anymore, whether the pest
dispenser is the way the future for that sort of thing, because
how big of a satellite you really need to launch these days
with micro everything, right? Yeah, this thing is still going
to be what's probably 6 meters wide, I would imagine.
At the very least, Yeah. And who?
And that's probably. I don't know how tall the pest
Spencer is, but probably a meter at least, if not more.
Yeah, so 6 meters by 1 meter and then unfurls to whatever size
you need. I don't know that you need a set
weight larger than that these days.
Yeah, everything's smaller. Now you can.
We have the world's knowledge. So much in these box satellites
they're sending up and the yeah, the cube sats and everything.
Yeah, that's what I meant to say.
Same thing. They're a box.
Yeah, so Speaking of satellites, this whole start Starship thing
is predicated by the Falcon Heavy launch, so there's a
readiness review happen for a target of Wednesday, July 26th
for Falcon Heavy's launch of the Hughes Connects Jupiter 3E Star
14 said. Like why do they make these
names? You got enough names?
Come on, man. This kid somebody.
Short of it, it's a communication satellite.
Yeah, yeah, it's a communication satellite.
It's going to be the heaviest geostationary satellite ever
launched at just over 9 metric tons.
Wow size. It is probably not.
No, I don't think they. I don't think they gave us.
Any sort of size, it fits inside the basically 4 meter wide, I
guess Probably 5 meter wide faring right?
Yeah, yeah. So it it's quite large.
I'm sure it's nine metric tons. The thing is like 9 tons for a
satellite. What is in there?
That's and this is supposed to be.
Graded all new technology, micro technology version of this,
these types of satellites. This is the obviously the
state-of-the-art communication satellite.
Interesting that it's still that big.
Yeah, not 9 tons. It's so how.
What? A couple tons for a car?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Five cars based, yeah.
Or maybe maybe five cars. That's how much it weighs.
Like what's in this thing? We don't know.
Like how much technology can you pack into this thing?
There's a KA band. It's a KA Band Satellite
Multispot BMKA Band satellite based on the highly reliable SSL
1300 space proven platform which provides the flexibility to
support a Broadway. In your head to you, dude.
I'm just. I know IT and technology
advances and I I just know some stuff.
It features an entirely new architecture architecture based
on broad range of technology advances, including the mini
miniaturization of electronics. OK, miniaturization. 9 tons.
Does that make sense? They're still made of gold.
Yeah, that features entirely new.
Architecture best we did look this up.
Yeah, the KA band is microwave band.
Microwave range. That's how it's setting.
Beaming things back and forth to Earth?
Yep. So that's coming up on the 26th.
That's going to be a pretty wild launch and they say
approximately 8 minutes after launch Falcon Heavy side
boosters will return to Earth and land on landing zones one
and two. So we're going to take a look at
how that. Works.
That's my favorite kind of landing for these.
Yeah, side by side. So cool, man.
Amazing. Keep in mind these things are
seven story buildings, yeah, and they just gently place them back
onto Earth. And it's so cool.
I love how the legs open for last second.
Everything's just so well timed. There's no, they don't cover
anything. They just come down at a very
consistent rate and settle down to Earth so beautifully.
Yeah. I mean target I So I think about
these landings and then I think about Blue Origins landings and
I'm always afraid when Blue Origin lands its booster because
it bounces like these go like these do a little tiny shuffle
and kind of little tiny sway but Blue Origins kind of like point,
point point. And you're like and the clever
like, They're not quite sure. Are we actually going to do
this? And then instead of gradually,
slowly, like lowering your booster back, OK, we get to the
last what, 7 feet or something? Those are.
I don't know the actual size, but they're probably 1/4 the
height of this. It's just completely different.
Yeah. It's so cool, man.
Like we we are literally living in the future.
This is insane. This is something.
Happening. Yeah, this is pretty normal.
We expect these. Boosters of lands?
No problem. Tomorrow.
Yeah, something goes wrong. We'll be like.
Whoa, yeah, you know, we'll have questions for months.
But yeah, And as you can see how big they are, you can see the
architecture around it. These pipes are quite large.
There's little buildings, there's there's fuel tanks,
there's some ground systems here.
All these things are quite large.
But like you said, it's like a seven story building.
Huge. It's gigantic.
Massive, yeah. And they just hover down.
Maybe you can see the top of the boosters.
They have the. I forgot what they're called.
The the engines at the top that put the puff engines.
What are they called? I can't remember what they're
called, but why can't I think of that?
The puff engines, So the little puff puffs at the top there that
guide them in, I believe. It's called the.
Yeah, yeah, you can see them guiding them in and they go real
fast too. Like it's ridiculous how fast
these systems go as you're landing A7 story building.
So yeah, absolutely insane. Absolutely crazy that this is
actually happening again because Falcon heavies gigantic still
but nine metric tons for a satellite that yeah makes sense.
I don't know it's it's yeah it's made of lead Thor's hammers in
there. I.
Wonder how many more Heavy launches we have.
Falcon Heavy launches? Yeah, Falcon Heavy launches.
I wonder how many more there are left.
Because yeah, I think Starship takes it over.
It's cheaper, I think, launch Starship than it is Falcon
Heavy. I think so too.
I think the usable I think three years.
I mean I don't think they'll I don't think they'll retire it.
I think it'll be there for specific use cases, but I don't
think. I don't think we're going to see
as many. I think 1 Starship is moon ready
in the next few years. I think like the low earth orbit
stuff is going to be no big deal.
So three years, you're thinking 6 launches, something like that,
yeah, maybe, yeah, 5-6 launches and then that's it.
Like, I think unless, like I was saying like there's certain use
cases for it, but I don't see why Starship wouldn't be able to
do those use cases as well. Starship.
Would do everything this thing can do And tent that is more,
yeah. And is it?
Maybe if there's something that's not big enough to go into
a Starship, Something that's like just only needs a fairing
for a Falcon Heavy. Or a Falcon.
That's why I say you just pack it in, put it in the best
dispenser and shoot it out as needed and send some more
stylics up. SpaceX revolutionized rockets,
so why wouldn't they revolutionize the delivery
system as well? And if they're like, hey, if you
want to launch out of Starship, you have to build your
architecture for our device. It's like your phone.
Like, yeah, you're if you're going to build an app for a
phone, you have to build it according to Apple's procedures.
So if you're going to build a satellite for our rocket, you
have to build according to our procedures.
Yeah. Or you can use the Falcon Heavy.
But it's going to cost you three times as much.
Yeah. Planned obsolescence.
Good job, SpaceX. Good job.
They did it. Oh man, they did it.
They're a tech company. They did it.
Steve Jobs would be proud. I can't wait for Starship to
have some DLC. Oh yeah, $0.99 DLC is all.
Right. Your satellite's up there Now.
In order to launch it, we're going to need. $11 million,
Yeah, we're going to be the million dollar subscription plan
per month or you can buy the one year subscription plan for 11
months. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So I think that's it for today. I think we covered everything we
want to cover. So what we got out of this is
that maybe they'll stack a ship on top of the booster and static
fire it. That's my take away from this is
that might be a really interesting and exciting thing.
And we're thinking a month or two for a launch.
Yep. Yep.
That'll be absolutely insane. I can't wait.
I think it's going to be really cool.
And I can't wait for the just. It's going to be the most
impressive thing if it actually works.
Yeah, very cool, man. Yeah, Same here.
All right, I guess that's it. Bye, everybody.
I don't have a goodbye screen because we're doing.
A different platform, Yeah. Thanks, Neil.
Thank you for continuing to bring all this awesome info to
all your fans. Yeah, thanks to all the fans.
And thank you for helping out. And yeah, thanks to everybody
for spending your time here with me today.
Take care of yourselves and each other.
Bye. Bye.