Hey, everybody, welcome back to the show.
This is Stage 0. My name is Will Walden, I'm your
host, and today we're going to be talking about Starship Flight
10 from Star Base, Texas. Now, you may be wondering what
is going to be happening with Starship this time?
What's going to be happening with a ship?
What's going to be happening with a booster?
I'm going to go over all of that today in this episode.
Now, I want to urge you, though, to watch the Starship launch
this weekend. It's going to be phenomenal.
Flight 10, which is going to be setting up Starship not only for
Flight 11, Flight 12, but for Block 3.
Right now they're using Block 2 for the Starship flights, and
they're going to be upgrading to flight to Block 3, which is a
more powerful rocket in the future.
And everything that they do with Block 2 and with this flight,
Flight 10 and all the data that they collect from this flight
will be used in the Block 3 configuration.
Now, what will they be doing during this flight?
There are a few things that they're going to be doing.
They're going to be launching the booster and the ship, as per
usual from Starbase. They're going to be collecting
immense amounts of data from the booster.
It's going to be doing the pretty normal booster stuff.
It's going to launch the ship. Ship's going to detach.
Booster's going to be doing the flip move slowly precisely
landing in the Gulf of Mex America got to see it both
things because people get really mad at the comments if I say
Gulf of Mexico and some people get really mad when I say Gulf
of America. So you kind of say both of them.
So those are, that's one of the things that's going to be doing
a slow descent into the Gulf. And during that time they're
going to be collecting data for the next flight and then the
next flight as well. So they're not going to be
coming back to the launch area at all.
Now, the ship, the ship is important.
The last three ships blew up. Who would have thought, right?
Three ships in a row blew up when they were flying at certain
different distances and speeds and heights.
Now, what is SpaceX have to say about all this stuff?
Of course, 10th flight test, August 24th on Sunday, flight
time starts at, I think 6:00 PM. Let's let's take a look real
quick. 6:30 PM Central time, SpaceX goes over this on their
website. They say of course on their X
account they're going to be streaming it and they're going
to start like 30 minutes before the launch actually starts after
completion. Completing the investigations in
the loss of Starship on its 9th test flight, which is this one
FAA required investigation to Starship.
This is the FAA website. By the way, SpaceX Starship
flight 9 mishap is closed. The FAA is happy that SpaceX
invested them, investigated themselves and found no
wrongdoing. There's no reports of public
injury or damage to public property.
The FAA oversaw it accept the findings of SpaceX LED
investigation. The final mishap report cites
the probable root cause for the loss of the Starship vehicle as
a failure of a fuel component. So basically what SpaceX has to
do here or what they had to do is they had to take the data
that they got from Flight 9. What the heck happened?
And of course, the FAA says a failed fuel component.
SpaceX knows that. I said, hey, FAA, this is what
happened and this is how we're going to fix it.
We're going to show you exactly the steps we're going to take,
and then we're actually going to fix it.
We're going to show you that, too.
That's what SpaceX did. And then the FAA said, good job,
SpaceX. Let's get you flying again.
So right here, SpaceX identified the corrected actions to prevent
the recurrence of the event. SpaceX also has said the same
thing, basically. Now let's get into the flight a
little bit, and this is from Spacex's website.
Upcoming flight will continue to expand the operating envelope on
the Super Heavy booster. I love this wording with
multiple landing burn tests planned and will also target
similar objectives as previous missions.
Basically going to be the same thing, including Starship's
first payload deployment and multiple re entry experiments
geared towards returning the upper stage to the launch site
for catch. So they're not going to send the
upper stage to the launch site for catch yet.
Now these are experiments. Re entry experiments geared
towards returning the upper stage.
Meaning the upper stage is going to do experiments, they're going
to take that data and they're going to use it on future
flights. That's how are they going to get
the ship back to the launch site.
Now, they haven't been able to land the ship in a while.
Last three flights, kaboom. No way to land it when it's in a
million pieces. I mean, I guess technically the
pieces landed, but the ship as a hold in the land.
The booster for the flight is attempting several flight
experiments to gather real world performance data on future
flight profiles and off nominal scenarios.
So we could see, and this is all speculation, we could see the
booster do a routine landing burn, pretty standard stuff.
They've shown that they can do that so many times.
But why would they do that again?
They've caught the booster at the launch site.
Why would they do that again off nominal scenarios?
Could they just be testing this thing to fail?
It's a possibility. It's a possibility of that they
could. I got a water bottle, right?
Pretend this is the booster. Booster comes in pretty normal,
flows down pretty pretty simple. Now if the booster is off
nominal and coming towards a tower, what do they do?
If it's off nominal coming towards the tower, they have to
reorient it, fix it to fix it in flight.
Because if they don't fix it in flight after a certain time
frame, wipes out the tower, wipes out the launchpad.
SpaceX is set back months, if not years, because the FAA will
investigate it and they'll shut it down.
So these off nominal scenarios, it's not just for fun, people.
This is because SpaceX wants to check out every scenario before
the bad stuff happens. SpaceX is wild, right?
We know they're wild. They do wild things.
When the original kind of skunk works of Starship, when I was
there, they were just kind of throwing things at the wall
hoping things worked. You know, when they were down,
when they were doing the, the, the original tests, right?
And they had all the, the single engines and things and they were
flying those down at Starbase and all they had was gravel and
sand in a few like army tents. You know what, like that was
wild. That was an experiment.
That was them thinking it might work.
Now they know that it does work. And now they have to get to the
next phase, which is we're going to be launching 10 boosters per
day if we're going to send a ship to Mars, right?
If we're going to send a ship to Mars, what they need to do is
get fuel into orbit as fast as possible into the tankers.
So they need to have these boosters coming back, loading
back up ships as fast as possible.
So if anything's off nominal and they have to ditch the booster
in the Gulf, they lose a booster, they lose time, they
lose money, and they also lose the ability to refuel that ship
in a time frame that they expected.
So anything that's off nominal, the booster, woo Hoo, you know,
going wow all over the place. They have to fix that mid
flight. How do they do that?
They test it in real world conditions.
That's what they're going to be doing with this and hopefully
we'll be able to see that this weekend.
We'll attempt these experiments while on a trajectory to an
offshore landing point and not return to the launch site
following stage separation of the booster will do a flip
control direction before initiating its boost back burn.
This maneuver will demonstrate for the first time on Flight 9
or it was demonstrated on the first time Flight 9 and requires
less propellant to be held in reserve.
Primary test objectives for the booster will be focused on its
landing burn and will use unique engine configurations.
One of the three center engine used for the final phase of
landing will be intentionally disabled.
This could make it spin out of control, Could make it go wild.
But that's what they want. They have to gather real world
data on the ability for a backup engine from the middle ring to
complete a landing burn. Wild.
It's crazy. Buser will then transition to
only two center engines for the end of the landing burn,
entering a full hover while still above the ocean surface,
followed by a shutdown and drop into the Gulf of Ameriko.
Americo Starship upper stage will again target multiple in
space objectives. Starlink simulators.
I got to open that door. People on Reddit love to yell
about this and scream about this into the void.
How can SpaceX? Make a rocket.
How can they make a giant rocket that's 400 and 500 feet tall but
the kid just. Open up a.
Door in space. I've said it.
I'm going to own up to it. I'm that I'm one of those
people. How do you, how do you make a
giant rocket and then you can't open up a door?
I know it's harder than that. It's not a garage door where you
push a button and it goes up. I know it's more difficult than
that, but it's still funny. You know, you got to call them
out on some of this stuff and I'm sure the engineers are like,
oh man, right. So you're going to be doing
several experiments. Significant number of tiles have
been removed from Starship to stress test vulnerable areas
across the vehicle during re entry.
The stress test might just blow up another Starship.
Multi motelic tile options, including one with active
cooling, will test alternative materials for protecting
Starship during re entry. If they could reduce the amount
of tiles, they will reduce the complexity of the ship and will
reduce the complexity of the reentry of the ship, which in
the future will be great because A they can build ships faster
and B they can refurbish ships faster to fly again.
Because if you have think about it like this, if you can cut
down 1000 tiles, say if the thing has 2000 tiles, you cut
that in half, you have 1000 tiles.
That's half the work and either way, building it or recovering
it. So on the size of the vehicle,
functional catch fittings are installed and we'll test the
fittings thermal and structural performance because they have to
catch this thing eventually. Along with a section of the tail
line receiving a smooth and tapered edge to address hotspots
observed during re entry, a Starship 6th test flight.
So as you can see, flights way back to six are determining what
they're doing for Flight 10. So anything for Flight 10 could
determine what they're going to be doing for Flight 16.
Something like, I don't know, somewhere in the future.
Everything builds on each other, right?
All the data that they get from Flight 1 builds up to Flight 10.
It's all in a part of the same system.
Starship for entry profile is designed to intentionally stress
the structural limits of the upper stages, rear flaps while
at the point of maximum entry, dynamic pressure.
Now I'm going to say it, and I want you to probably say it too,
but RIP in peace for the ship because they're going to be
structurally testing the limits of the upper stages rear flaps.
I don't think that's going to make it it while at the point of
maximum entry dynamic pressure. They've never done this before.
This is the first Test of this. So let me know in the comments,
what do you think? Oh, please, please.
What do you think? Do you think it's going to make
it? This is stressing me out, Elon.
The intentional stress, the structural limits of the upper
stages, rear flaps without the maximum point of of entry,
dynamic pressure. Come on, SpaceX, we don't want
to lose another ship. What are you going to do?
Can't do anything. It's going to blow up.
The thing's going to things going to blow up.
It's over. I'm done.
I'm just I'm done. Goodbye.
Flight tests continue to provide valuable learnings to inform the
design of the next generation Starship.
Super heavy vehicles production ramping up.
OK, so it's going to blow up. Starship's going to blow up.
Boosters going to blow up. Maybe, who knows, maybe we'll
lose both FAA they're OK everything's going for the FAA
Flight 10 August 4th. This is a long time ago, July
11th, but this is a post by Luke LFG.
Of course, this is for the for the flight operations of
Starship Flight 10 launch vehicle communications for test
Flight 10 mission launching from Starbase, Texas.
And this is for the Super heavy booster.
And basically the FCC is saying it's OK for them to communicate
between the booster, the ship and the ground.
So that's all go there's a no Tim now for French Guyana, a
risks of elements fallout during launch of ship flight 10
Starship flight 10 August 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th September
2nd September 3rd. So those are kind of a, an idea
of the flight dates. If something doesn't work on the
24th, which is this Sunday, the 25th is a possibility, 26th is a
possibility, 27th is a possibility, etcetera, etcetera.
Same for Cuba, Havana, Havana, August 25th, 26th, 27th,
September 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th.
So basically what we're expecting is Starship to fly
this Sunday and if it doesn't, then you know, basically a
backup days. That's what that is.
It's backup days for the ship flight 10.
And of course, before we actually get to it and know
exactly when it's going to fly, we always go to the road
closures, Rd. closures. Since it's Sunday, today is what
day is today, Tuesday, today's Wednesday.
So we still, we still have a few days before the road closures
will actually come into effect, maybe tomorrow, maybe the next
day, but we're going to see if the Starship, if Starbase is
going to close down the roads. And you know, SpaceX has better
reach on this stuff because they have the, the orders to close
down these roads. So they'll close them down when
they need to. But there's no, there's no word
from the government yet about closing down the roads of Hwy.
4. Highway 4, if you're not
familiar, is the road that goes all the way down Starbase.
You can drive along Hwy. 4 and you can basically drive like
kind of through Starbase. It's really, it's a really weird
thing. I lived there for about a year
and did on the on the road reporting and I was you
basically drive down Hwy. 4 the whole way all the way to the
beach. And on the way to the beach, on
the left side there is the production facility and on the
right side now there's Massey's too, which is the one test
facility before you actually get to like star base proper.
But on the left side there's the big star base facility.
And then if you keep going down about a mile, going around kind
of a curvy curve and at like right by the beach, there's a
giant rocket launch facility that you can just pull up on.
It's wild. And they close it down for these
rocket launches because they don't want anybody to get hurt,
basically. And there's a 7 mile kind of
radius around it, 7:00-ish mile radius around it where you're
not supposed to be on your boat in your plane or in person or
anything, any, anything near it. So they closed all of that off
before, you know, before they do any of these flights.
So if you're going to one, if you're going to flight 10, I
urge you to stay outside of the seven mile range.
You can go to South Padre Island.
South Padre Island is pretty cool.
Was there a bunch during doing reporting and talking to people
before the flights and things? And I was there before the 1st
flight, so I didn't get a chance to see one of these flights.
I'm actually working on it, so hopefully I'll get to see one of
these flights. And if some of you are wondering
where I've been, life is wild. That's all I got to say.
Very happy. Life is wild and it's just good
stuff. And for some of the people out
there that have been following this channel for a long time,
you've noticed some changes going on, right?
Started talking about helping people with their Youtubes or
their podcasts. So those are the things that I
do. I do those for a living.
I've been helping people with their channels for a long time.
They've been helping people with their podcasts for a long time,
been helping people with their digital presence for a very long
time. So that's why you've seen some
of these things because this is my channel and it's always been
sort of when I started, it was like I did SpaceX stuff, I did
Space Flight, I did video games, I did vlogs, I did all sorts of
things. And then I just recently I've
been moving back into doing like more personal, like my kind of
stuff. Even though I love SpaceX and I
love Starship, I'm doing a little bit more.
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