Interplanetary Transportation

[Space Racer]

SpaceX Starship Serial Number 8 Test Flight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqk7xKX5Pek

[Space Racer]

Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist
Play this on the biggest screen you have.



SpaceX Starship at Voyager Station:Station Construction
Apr 3, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ6wwA9wXog

SpaceX Starship Airlock Concept
Oct 27, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LupcrFhmStg

Super Heavy's Super Precision, Starship Updates and the NASA/SpaceX Crew-1 Launch
Nov 14, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbYKZ0l5GP0

SpaceX Starship Lunar Return Animation
Nov 18, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eezVoXFcyJI

134 | Why Martyte helped to damage a SpaceX Starship Raptor engine!
Nov 20, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTpvoO6x8CA

Starship Refilling in Orbit - This changes everything
Nov 24, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q91ujUhQ7BA

[Space Racer]

Why SpaceX Wants To Make Landing Super Heavy MORE Difficult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEAyjtIIccY

141 | SpaceX Starship SN9 Launch – Heat Shield Trouble – NASA Perseverance Landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085bnHmDEbA

143 | SpaceX Starship SN9 & SN10 ready for tests – NASA SLS Green Run Early Abort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKpQB2PBcgE

SpaceX Starship Sea Launch Platforms Under Construction! - SN9 Strange Tests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5QCqy8yFgg

SpaceX Starship SN9 is ready to fly! - SLS Hotfire, Starlink, Electron & Virgin Orbit LauncherOne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seMciw42EP0

[GasLeak]

Besides attention, persuading people to believe in him and getting high, what does Musk want?
What is he trying to prove?

[Unlimited1]

and there is where your global warming comes from! lol billions of tons of liquid methane heat emissions into the atmosphere!

[Space Racer]

This is an excellent review of the developments and capabilities of the SpaceX Starship as it is now and as it will probably be in the months and years ahead.

Complete Guide To Starship: Falcon 9 VS Starship. What's new? What's different?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8p2JDTd13k

[ESokoloff]

Changing gears a bit here.......

Some great videos on the Perseverance (Mars rover) mission.
https://youtu.be/zvvzvXb2Awc

https://youtu.be/GhsZUZmJvaM

[Space Racer]

https://media.townhall.com/Townhall/...0219024502.jpg
https://townhall.com/political-carto...1/02/19/180557

[ESokoloff]

and there is where your global warming comes from! lol billions of tons of liquid methane heat emissions into the atmosphere!

Tim Dodd (Everyday Astronaut) tackles that issue here....
https://wpcstagingeverydayastronaut....ket-pollution/

Read transcripts or better yet, watch the video.

[Space Racer]

SpaceX SN10 Live

Pick your poison:
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...acex+sn10+live

[Space Racer]

SpaceX Starship SN10 soars, lands for first time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLNQ6Mq5kbg

SpaceX's Starship SN10 Successfully Lands After Amazing Flight. Dismantles Itself Spectacularly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF9mdMI1qxM

Starship SN10 [4k, Clean Audio & Slow Mo Supercut]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CpXxu9W0U8

SpaceX’s Future Starship Design Explained! Starship SN10 Is Done! Onwards To The Next One!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jbmXOOrp6E

[Space Racer]

Musk blames SpaceX’s latest Starship explosion on Raptor engine leak
April 5, 2021
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CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight ended with a midair explosion because a “small” leak started on one of the rocket’s three Raptor engines.

As promised, the new information offers some insight into the cause of Starship SN11’s premature demise and the challenges of iteratively developing systems as complex as a fully-reusable Saturn V-class launch vehicle. On March 30th, after about a week of delays, Starship SN11 lifted off on SpaceX’s fourth high-altitude launch and landing test while all but completely obscured by a thick bank of fog.

Read the rest:
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...eak-elon-musk/


SpaceX is building launch pad tanks out of Starship parts and that’s a big deal
April 6, 2021
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SpaceX has begun installing the first of numerous propellant storage tanks at its first orbital South Texas launch facilities – a mostly ordinary and expected step made extraordinary by the fact that those tanks will be built out of Starship parts.

Labeled “GSE” for Ground Support Equipment, the first signs of those self-built storage tanks began appearing at SpaceX’s Boca Chica Starship factory less than two months ago in mid-February. A matter of weeks later, the first of those SpaceX-brand cryogenic storage tanks is off to the launch site for installation (and insulation) while at least two more tanks are well on their way to completion.

While a few ground starge tanks may look like a distraction in the scope of a program tasked with building the world’s largest (and fully reusable) rocket, the existence of those tanks is far more significant than it might initially appear.
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Just dawned on me that this is a much bigger deal than it might seem. For SpaceX to design and build its own custom bulk commodity storage tanks instead of buying what is arguably a fairly routine and cheap off-the-shelf technology, Starship production has to be DIRT CHEAP. https://t.co/u7KNDXWcuf
— Eric Ralph (@13ericralph31) April 6, 2021

Read the rest:
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...storage-tanks/


SpaceX rolls next Starship to the launch pad nine days after midair explosion
April 8, 2021
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Update: Right on schedule, SpaceX has transported Starship serial number 15 (SN15) from its Boca Chica rocket factory to a launch and test site just down the road.

SN15’s pad arrival comes just nine days after Starship SN11 – the last in a batch of four first-generation prototypes – exploded in midair some 30 seconds before a planned landing. While minor, SN11’s midair failure was undoubtedly a step backward relative to Starship SN10, which (briefly) became the first full-size prototype to land in one piece less than a month prior. Both SN8, SN9, and SN10 made it further into their identical flight tests, leaving SN11 somewhat high and dry and putting extra pressure on Starship SN15.
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Starship SN15 has rolled out of the high bay. ���� @NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/Zye6DaPC0F
— Mary (@BocaChicaGal) April 8, 2021

Starship SN15 is coming around the bend at the launch site. ����@NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/dWRF5fuAlo
— Mary (@BocaChicaGal) April 8, 2021

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SpaceX technicians and engineers work to put the finishing touches on the weld joining Starship SN15’s two halves and remove scaffolding ahead of the rocket’s trip to
the launch pad. (NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal)

Read the rest and see the videos:
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...unch-schedule/

[Space Racer]

SpaceX wins a multi-billion dollar NASA moon lander contract!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_Gu4ZGXRs


Musk says upgraded SpaceX Starship to launch “later this week” after static fire test
April 26, 2021
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the next Starship launch could happen “later this week” after the company’s first ‘upgraded’ prototype aced a three-engine static fire test on the first try.

While substantially delayed from optimistic initial targets just a week or two after the rocket rolled from factory to launch pad, upgraded Starship prototype serial number 15 (SN15) – outfitted with “hundreds of improvements” – fired up its three Raptor engines for a few seconds around 5pm CDT on Monday, April 26th. Also upgraded, the rocket’s engines seemed to perform nominally and SpaceX ultimately closed out the evening’s testing a few hours early.

Around the same time as SN15’s first static fire attempt was wrapping up, SpaceX distributed safety notices to Boca Chica Village residents, indicating that a second static fire test may be planned on Tuesday. Musk didn’t mention plans for a second static fire, but he did imply that the first test was completed successfully enough to enable Starship SN15 to launch just a few days from now.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-upg...eek-elon-musk/

[Space Racer]

April 17:

NASA Selects Starship for Historic Artemis Mission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMfzynO1bqk


This one has some dry spots, but it gets better:
Elon Musk’s Build NASA’s Lunar Lander. Elon Musk Said “Everything to the moon!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CYzxBdC3rQ

NASA Awards SpaceX Starship $2.89 Billion To Land Humans On The Moon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyM8cs4zh0Y

NASA Will Spend $2,941,394,557 On SpaceX's Massive Lunar Starship Lander!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuSM_-Aw5HM


April 24:
SpaceX Starship SN15 gears up for launch, Crew 2 success & Ingenuity flies (twice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGe_eK12OVw


April 27:
SN15 completes the first static fire, SN16 nosecone has been stacked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RifLhK1DKc

[Space Racer]

May 1 to May 15, 2021

SpaceX Starship SN15 Flight soon, NROL-82, Crew 1 & 2 updates, Starlink, Michael Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMhd_OGNzSs

Starship SN15 Launch Imminent | NASA Suspends SpaceX Contract | Chinese Starship | Tianhe Launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNutnNqWWbE

SpaceX’s upgraded Starship set for test flight despite sore NASA contract losers
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...tics-protests/

SpaceX’s upgraded Starship tracking towards Wednesday launch
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...s-hours-apart/

SN15 has completed the upgrade. Everything is ready for launch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5S972mQr2M

SpaceX aim to launch SN 15 on Wednesday, SN 16 waiting to roll out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed5MwD7DTSw


Starship | SN15 | High-Altitude Flight Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9eoubnO-pE

Upgraded Starship prototype makes first soft landing after test flight
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/05/0...5-test-flight/

SpaceX nails first Starship landing weeks after NASA Moon lander contract
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-ace...-landing-sn15/

SUCCESS! Watch SpaceX Starship SN15 Launch and Nail Landing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRrnyDssZc

SpaceX Starship SN15 soars through clouds, nails landing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unKvMC3Y1kI

Full Replay: Starship SN15 sticks landing during flight test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPNvB5ComFw

SpaceX Starship SN15's Historic Flight & Landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N3zsdDfiyg

Starship SN15 Test Flight & Landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYSGlc6THJ8

SpaceX's Starship Prototype Takes To The Skies And Returns Safely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IDMM63InLY


Elon Musk says SpaceX might refly Starship after historic landing
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Update: CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX “might try to refly SN15 soon” after it became the first Starship to ace a high-altitude launch and survive the landing. In other words, SpaceX might be about to kick off what’s bound to be a long and fruitful future of Starship reusability.
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Might try to refly SN15 soon
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 7, 2021

Less than six months after high-altitude flight testing began, SpaceX has successfully landed a full-size Starship prototype in one piece, giving the company its first real opportunity to inspect a flown vehicle with flaps, a nose, and three Raptor engines.

That spectacular success will simultaneously give SpaceX a wealth of data from any onboard cameras and data recorders, as well as the physical condition of Starship itself – including three Raptor engines with several minutes of flight time. While SpaceX likely already managed to determine a great deal from over-the-air telemetry and wreckage taken from Starships SN8 through SN11, it now has a virtually unharmed, full-scale, full-fidelity prototype to truly compare and contrast with more theoretical engineering and flight performance models.

Perhaps most importantly, though, SN15’s success also raises the question: what’s next for SpaceX and its Starship program?

https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-...starship-sn15/


SpaceX teases more Starship flight tests “in the days ahead”
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A SpaceX engineer hosting the company’s recent record-breaking Starlink launch told viewers to “stay tuned for additional [Starship] test flights in the days ahead.”

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-mor...ts-days-ahead/


SpaceX’s first flight-proven Starship heads back to launch pad for round two
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Defying most expectations, SpaceX has moved the first full-size flight-proven Starship back to the launch pad less than a week after the prototype survived a high-altitude launch and landing.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-fir...se-next-steps/


SpaceX could land Starship on Mars in 2024, says Elon Musk
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Four years after Elon Musk revealed “aspirational” plans to launch Starships to Mars in 2022, the SpaceX CEO now believes that 2024 is a more accurate target.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...024-elon-musk/


SpaceX reveals concrete details about Starship’s first orbital test flight
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Via FCC regulatory filings, SpaceX has revealed the first concrete details about Starship and Super Heavy’s first orbital flight test.

Earlier this year, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed a shocking NASASpaceflight.com report that the company was working to launch Starship into orbit by July 2021 – the achievement of which would be nothing short of miraculous. Less than two months later, SpaceX has submitted a request for FCC permission to communicate with Starship and Super Heavy before and during an inaugural “orbital test flight” scheduled no earlier than (NET) June 20th.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...light-details/


SpaceX begins work on Starship orbital propellant transfer test for NASA
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More than six months after SpaceX won a NASA ‘Tipping Point’ award to demonstrate a large-scale cryogenic propellant transfer in orbit with Starship, the agency has begun disbursing funds, officially kicking off work on the mission.

Back in October 2020, NASA awarded 15 different companies more than $370 million for research and development projects related to managing cryogenic propellant in space, lunar surface operations, and autonomous landing technology. More than two-thirds of that funding went to four real in-space demonstrations of cryogenic propellant management and storage from Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance (ULA), SpaceX, and little-known startup Eta Space.
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SpaceX has been awarded a $50 million contract from NASA for an "on-orbit large scale cryogenic propellant management and transfer demonstration." Contract is estimated to be completed by the end of 2022.https://t.co/uh5S79aKun
— Michael Baylor (@nextspaceflight) May 13, 2021

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-sta...transfer-nasa/


Analysis of the historical flight of SN20 and BN3 from Texas To Hawaii.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cdlmZjmOvk

SpaceX Starship development shifts focus to orbital flight with Super Heavy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-9k513UIVw

[Space Racer]

SpaceX is spending more time and resurces on spaceport development.

May 22:
SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy site construction speeds up at Starbase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_fsMd9xCCQ


May 29:
SpaceX Starship and the focus for orbital flight and reentry, Starlink and Virgin Galactic Flights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMw3791QRPc

June 5:
SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Upgrade - How powerful will it be?, CRS-22 and Ingenuity Updates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF-6Bdvn0mM

For more SpaceX info, see Teslarati and SpaceflightNow:
https://www.teslarati.com/category/spacex/
https://spaceflightnow.com/?s=Spacex

[stumpdigger]

I think what we need is a magnetic propulsion system.

[Space Racer]

June 2 to 11

Elon Musk's New Plans to Build a Moon Base (SpaceX)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxDy5w_JOy0


SpaceX & NASA'S INSANE NEW Moon Base By 2024!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blYdnDpM3yk

SpaceX Starship Phase 3 begins! First test candidate at Launch Site!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL1aqlXJJSs

Starship Crews Busy Working Toward Massive Mission | SpaceX in the News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBBNENrSWhY

SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Test done! Relativity Space Terran R – A Starship Competitor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r6JsCBThPo

Starship SN20 Aft Dome Sleeved - Orbital Launch Tower Section Rollout | SpaceX Boca Chica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8jj58rDmg

Elon Musk removes SN16 to SN19, only focus on SN20 and BN3 into orbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBTV7RUSavY

[adam75]

There is always risk in the unknown, but we must push on, or we remain stagnant.

[Space Racer]

June 12 to 29

Pedal to the Metal

SpaceX Boca Chica operations are picking up speed.
Some of these videos are a little redundant, so there's no need to watch each video in its entirety.
But there's a lot going on, and no single video adequately covers all the events within its set time frame.
Hence the overlap.

SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy Development Continues, SXM8 Launch, Terran R Reveal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iFg4wvp5gw


SpaceX Starship Progress Speeding Up! NASA SLS Mega Rocket Update!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U_4cc0R84Q

Elon Musk: SN16 Might Go Hypersonic, Starship Program Threatened | SpaceX in the News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WkmxW3YaKA

WHY SpaceX Retired Brand New Starship SN20&BN3 Now in Focus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5oFwin2SWs

SpaceX Starship Orbital Launch Date Revealed? Hypersonic Starship Test Flight Possible!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK9EB48_2Go

The Pentagon Just COPIED SpaceX and Elon Musk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5z4AOS-BNA

Hypersonic Starship and Incredible Orbital Site Progress, GPS III SV05, Rocket Lab Mars Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftUOSRX83xg

New Starship Super Heavy Stacking and Catching System | SpaceX Pink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG7z5Hhd4kE

SpaceX's genius move on how to build sea and land-based Starship launch platforms!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1hhFLkN8zM

Super Heavy's Hot Gas Thrusters Spotted | SpaceX Boca Chica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNr9046h_0I

SpaceX’s Insane New Satellite Launcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpbrYtzCJdQ

Elon Musk Says Next Starship Super Heavy Will Fly To Orbit | Super Heavy Prototype Finished!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgMo31-rMfI

SpaceX Shifted Super Heavy BN2.1 Test Tank | BN4 Will Rise in highbay Soon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8nmknPc-Vk

Starship Orbital Flight Still Targeting July Despite Needing New Booster | SpaceX in the News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OksRYkjVLM

SpaceX Starship requires new booster, Shotwell still suggests July for Orbital Flight Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znH4EdibuqE

SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell on Starship Orbital Launch Date
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ9DQoPOm0k

Skip these two old-news videos if you are pressed for time:
SpaceX | Revolution of intercontinental travel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKSX5QAdq38
SpaceX HOW IT CHANGED OUR MINDSET (SN10 & SN15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYVa3j6RfDM

Pad A Prepared for Super Heavy Testing | SpaceX Boca Chica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKqPnbXBsE

SpaceX Starship Superheavy Tower 6 Stacks High, Newest Superheavy Prototype will be a Pathfinder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGzXp3JFEIg

SpaceX Starship design changed? Super Heavy booster precision landing thrusters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1hnXvzixR4

Starship Super Heavy Stacking This July !! | SpaceX Pink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hhnl0jShDo

SpaceX's Human Landing System - What mission options are possible?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ymh5KCgi0

Super Heavy Booster 3 Stacked | SpaceX Boca Chica
Jump to 11:10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFw_PoIQB9Q