We are under 10 days away. The first orbital flight, test
of Starships. Super-heavy from Boca Chica
Starbase Texas. And I'm super excited.
I hope you're excited too because this is literally the
biggest rocket that will ever fly in human history.
If it makes it off the launch pad over the Gulf of Mexico and
lands off the coast of kawaii. Now, this is an impressive feat
for anybody and Elon Musk has said it himself, it's possible.
It might not make it off the pad, but We are expecting
something super exciting in the next coming few weeks possibly.
So let me kind of back up a little bit.
This is literally the largest and most powerful rocket that
has ever been built. It's done on a platform that's
never been built before. Everything here is brand-new.
So this is an experimental rocket and it's super exciting
because it's an experimental rocket.
This is never been done and if this launches the first time it
is succeeds. The Time.
This is going to pave the way for future human space flight
for decades to come. Now let's look into a few things
that have been happening in this last week or so because this is
going to be leading up to an amazing event that's happening.
So Elon Musk tweeted this out, Elon Musk.
We do Starship preparing for launch a bunch of videos from
Starbase. Absolutely stunning stunning
drone shots from Starbase Texas. Absolutely crazy.
He did this on the 6th of April and as you can see from the top,
looking down onto the catch arms, out of the nose of the
Starship. It's so cool.
It's 400 feet tall, right? So I know you're excited about
this and it's going to be absolutely amazing.
Elon Musk also said, in and reply to SpaceX and SpaceX is
Twitter account on the 6th Starship fully stacked to
Starbase team is working towards a lodge.
Hersel next week followed by Starships first integrated
flight test about a week later pending regulatory approval and
then Elon retweeted that but added Starship, it stacked and
ready to launch next week. Pending regulatory approval
SpaceX said that they're working on that test launch rehearsal.
And then Ilan, said, stacked and ready to launch right at a lodge
next week, that's on the six there.
Was an initial timing of the 10th of April, that the, FAA put
out, but they postpone that now. And now it's up to the 17th and
I'm going to show you that the current operations right here.
Mike tweeted us might Mike mxc, Mike, see Maxie tweeted at us
and said, 417 is the date. So we checked it out current
operations. Here we go.
The FAA direct way down at the bottom here, space.
Starship, super heavy, Boca Chica Texas for 1723 to be
determined. So don't know what time and the
important thing is there's no backups quite yet on the FAA
website. So none of this is exactly ready
to go. Yet the FAA is just a
placeholder at this point. So we don't know what they plan
on doing for the future. Now, I want to show you this
other thing that I found which is really a super cool from Zach
golden. He noticed that all the
scaffolding has been removed from the top of the of the
launch orbital launch Mount. And the scaffolding was where
people would walk around and they use it as safety
precautions because they're in there working inside of this
thing. And on top of it all around it,
to get it ready for the orbital, flight test.
Right, so says it looks crazy. Like this for some reason,
loving the final touches Elon Musk and then Ilan replied to
Zeck High. Stainless steel armor is needed,
protect the launched and from the world's biggest blow torch
the most powerful rocket ever. Even steel will be eroded fast
by the Starship booster plume. We will need to make it water
cooled, steel jacket to achieve full reusability.
We thought everybody thought it was going to be a traditional
system where they flood everything with water.
There's a deluge system, but this is a little different
thing. The Elan says, even steel can be
eroded by the Starship booster plume.
We will need to make a water-cooled steel, jacket to
achieve full reusability. Nobody knows what that means at
this point, flame diverter at the bottom more than likely
also. What is a water-cooled steel
jacket? Look like probably similar to
the orbital launch Mount, it's going to be built into it.
So of course it's going to be just an add on to it, but what's
the steel jacket? Look like water cooled could be
anything at this point and it could be adding it before the
first flight but more than likely not more than likely
they're just going to launch this thing.
See how this works. See if there's wears down any
when they do launch it and then the work on the water cooling.
For the next one of the iterate like SpaceX normally does and we
saw some piping being moved in relatively earlier on in a
couple I think was a couple maybe a month.
And a half ago, there were some water cooling pipes moved in and
we thought it was a water Deluge system and I actually claimed
hey this is probably a water Deluge system and I was probably
wrong because I thought they were going to do before the
flight, but it looks like they're not going to be adding
the water Deluge system before. Before the flight this time, I
think what they're going to be doing is getting everything
prepared for the launch in next week on Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday of next week, there is a A road closure, scheduled from
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. basically saying, hey, we're gonna do as
many tests as we can get this ready for flight.
The FAA is going to award us, this flight contract, or the
flight license. And then we will be able to
launch the Starship over the Gulf of Mexico and land off the
coast of Kauai pretty substantial if this actually
happens. We've been waiting for years,
I've been waiting for few years went down there for about a
year, waited for about a year in Brownsville Texas for this thing
to launch, covering it for about a year and I'm super excited
about this. We may have a person on the
ground down there to to cover this whole event.
So, working on that. So just stay tuned for that
please. If you can also I want to show
you the flight path. Alejandro Alex Alex physics 13
on Twitter. Has the whole flight?
A path on their Twitter account. So the no Tim has been posted
for Mexican airspace to warn aviators of the launch of
Starship is Shows Daily Windows every day from the 10th to the
12th and you know starting at 7 a.m. now this is the flight path
I'm talking about right here. So this is it it shows in
there's a bigger bigger version of this right here.
You can see the blue part in the middle here.
This is the flight path. Everything purple.
And everything around it is that is a danger zone.
Basically, it could be space shrapnel, space debris, so
everything around it is space debris.
So we're going to we're going to move over here a little bit as
you can see and zoom out a little bit for you and as you
can see moves all the way across and that's it for that one, but
you can go back. Check this out, there's more to
this, not just this one. Is another one space debris
right here. And look at this, they did a
whole Google map about it. So this is interactive map of
this, which is absolutely amazing.
I'll leave a link to it in the description below but this map
shows everything and we can move this to the side for now claps
the map legend move to the side. Here you go directly from
Starbase. You can see the blue right here
that is the launch pattern. The launch path.
In this purple space debris. And this is the Mexican airspace
note and basically don't fly in that region.
But then to use zoom out a little bit, right?
So this is where the boosters going to land to.
So the boosters going to go out here, come back land around here
in the Gulf of Mexico. We're going to move over here a
little bit and as you can see the flight path should go down
this way but zoom out a little bit.
What is this? This is space debris.
Right comes up here, Honolulu Hawaii.
So we know it's going to be landing right around here.
North of Honolulu. Princeville, you'll be able to,
you'll have a great view if you're in Kawaii or on in
Honolulu. Yeah.
It's going to be an amazing view of the Starship Landing anybody
in Honolulu right now watching this because if you are, please
get a hold of me. That would be amazing to see
your photos. I think it'll be really cool,
even just tweeted at me. I think it'd be cool at space
news pod, but you can see right here, space debris.
All of this is space debris, possible.
You know, if something goes wrong.
This could all be space debris, coming back down through the
Marshall Islands, all the way across Micronesia like in that
region. All the way across space debris,
could scatter down from the Starship and into the ocean here
near Hawaii. So it does have a flight path
though. This whole debris, you know,
space debris. So very cool interactive map and
I'm going to post it in the description below.
So I hope you take a look at it. There's some few other things
RGV Ariel. Found this photo or took this
photo flame diverter Parts RGV aerial photos on Twitter.
Lame, de ver. Lame diver, what?
No, it's a flame diverter at Starbase Texas.
And if you see these pieces of metal, it is look like big
chunks of metal. Somebody in the comments here on
Twitter somewhere over here. I don't know where you are, but
you said It looks like 3 inch bar.
That's got to be like a three inch bar.
I think it might be Thicker Than 3 inches. 3 inches is about this
thick. It looks like it's probably
Thicker Than 3 inches, maybe 4 to 6 because it looks like it's
two layers. So it looks like there's an
outer layer, which is finished with a different color than the,
there's an inner layer and then there's sort of like a like, an
orangish pinkish layer at the top there.
Let me open this in a new tab so I can show you this.
Little bit closer. But as you can see, there's an
exterior to it and there's also an inner part to it.
I'm not sure what that's called. If you're into Metallurgy or if
you're know anything about steel, I don't know anything
about it. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't know
what to say about this, but it looks like it's Thicker Than 3
inches. It looks like it's four to six
inches. It it might be.
I don't know. I don't know if that's
steel-reinforced concrete or if that's steel like thick steel.
But that could be Diverting the Flames at the bottom, may be
shooting them up but we'll see what happens in the next few
days to next few weeks, because if this is installed, before the
orbital flight test will see it. But if not, we're gonna have to
wait for the orbital flight test for them to install these, thick
pieces of Steel. So, it doesn't erode the ground,
and also, the orbital flight Mount.
So, it's going to be an interesting time for SpaceX
interesting. Time for this.
Our ship. Let me know in the comments.
When do you think it's going to launch?
Because the next time is the 17th as we as I showed you
before, thanks to Mike for that. By the way for 17 primary date
for 17 primary, you think they're going to launch on the
first? Try on the 17th, if they get the
FAA license for this thing, I think they'll be really cool but
I'm not sure because most flights don't happen.
The first try. There's usually a scrub of some
sort, or like a postponement, something like that.
So maybe the whole day of the 17th, we'll see what happens
with the road closures coming up, but there's a possibility
that they get it all done the first go.
But yeah, like I said, Monday 8:00 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Tuesday. There's a noon till 2 p.m.
closure, Wednesday a noon to 2:00 p.m.
Closure on the 12th and the 13th and noon to 2:00.
Monday was canceled the beaches open.
So, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday actually.
So I misspoke earlier. So, Tuesday Wednesday and
Thursday between noon and 2. That's it.
They only have two hours to test this thing for the next week.
11th 12th and 13th. 12 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Oh wait. That's midnight.
To 2:00 p.m. what am I thinking? I thought it was 12:00 noon.
Okay. So they have a lot more time
than that. So yeah.
Let's let's just Let's just back up here a little bit.
Let me show you what I'm talking about.
This noon to two thing, April 11th, April 12, April 13th.
We have some things going on, Mondays, cancelled Easter
weekend, of course, people are going to be down there at the
beach celebrating with their families.
And also the families that SpaceX celebrating the initial
launch of the orbital flight test of the Starship, super
heavy rocket. So let me know in the comments,
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