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JDevPeabody
March 31, 2021 at 8:10 pm
The glare of your camera lights on your eyes is kind of scary. Otherwise, love the content. Liked video!
Scott Campbell
March 31, 2021 at 8:32 pm
NASA already 2 years behind on their Orion capsule. Private sector moves faster with less money available. This is Silicon Valley speed. Or the first moon landing speed in just 10 years. Musk is a businessman and scientist. He knows how to make and use money effectively. Musk is the Einstein/Von Braun/Apple of our Era. Even NASA has stated That Tesla/Space X know software/hardware way better than most. Battery tech, engine tech, solar tech, autonomous tech, reuseable tech, etc. this man is not about greed but to help humanity!
sixthday creation
March 31, 2021 at 8:34 pm
pre mature eeeeeeeploding
WTFU TV
March 31, 2021 at 8:37 pm
Why do we even have Starships and regular Rockets when the Navy has already admitted to its patent on anti-gravity with the Triangular UFOs!
Robin Seibel
March 31, 2021 at 11:06 pm
False. No one has such technology, and no one has admitted having such technology.
Vaibhav Verma
March 31, 2021 at 8:41 pm
I truly believe it’s because of its legs
Eben Waterman
March 31, 2021 at 8:44 pm
There’s something wrong with your mouth.
Dodge Stadium
March 31, 2021 at 8:52 pm
Billions of dollars wasted
flying a human to a dead rock
SMH
K
March 31, 2021 at 9:08 pm
This host is very nice
Blender Study
March 31, 2021 at 9:15 pm
Thank you for the update..!! Good to know..!!
Gerry K
March 31, 2021 at 9:21 pm
Should just recover from the belly flop little earlier at higher alt. And slowly progress till it’s successful at lower alt recovery and landing.
Dániel Papp
March 31, 2021 at 9:38 pm
Finaly, someone gets it…;)
George
March 31, 2021 at 9:42 pm
very informative video!
J J
March 31, 2021 at 9:42 pm
Spice X? 😛
LTK
March 31, 2021 at 9:50 pm
If NASA had one explosion, funding would be cancelled. So they spend 10x as much & keep milestones conservative. Musk has aggressive milestones because there is no politics in its funding.
TlTO LLaN0S
March 31, 2021 at 9:51 pm
My bet someone 💰is paying him to, like the zeppelin (scare us from going to space )
MOLE
March 31, 2021 at 10:18 pm
Her accent is like sand paper on my ear drums and her face 😂
dschonsie
March 31, 2021 at 10:30 pm
just a wild guess…….incompetence??
Amol Tandon
March 31, 2021 at 11:05 pm
Actually, getting it off the ground hasn’t been a problem. Getting it back there in one piece is the real problem.
Claire Reilly
March 31, 2021 at 11:23 pm
The thing that amazes me the MOST about the Starship is that SpaceX just isn’t slowing down. The same day the SN11 had its epic explosion, Elon Musk said SpaceX was already gearing up to roll the SN15 to the launchpad. To quote a line from one of my favourite movies, you can’t stop progress!
David Johnson
April 1, 2021 at 3:40 pm
Here we go again with the media making excuses for Musk’s utter failure!
Steve Chance
April 1, 2021 at 4:38 pm
@David Johnson David, do you understand what SpaceX is trying to do. They land rockets (the Falcon 9) successfully, every other week now. What they’re trying to do with Starship is land using the absolute least amount of fuel. Every one hundred pounds of “extra” fuel is one hundred pounds less payload capacity that they can take to space. But it’s worse than that because Starship is 100% reusable. So if you shave off 100 pounds of fuel, that means you can carry 100 additional pounds of payload to orbit on each and EVERY launch of that particular starship. And they might refly a Starship 50 or 60 times before retiring it. This “belly flop” maneuver has never been done before. David, do you work for United Launch Alliance?
Allah Kamina
April 1, 2021 at 6:02 pm
@David Johnson It is not elon’s failure dude. He is not a scientist. He is just a businessman. People give him unnecessary tags.
Claire Reilly
April 1, 2021 at 6:21 pm
@Carson Baker Thanks Carson, I had a lot of fun with this one! I won’t lie, anything involving rockets and space is always pretty fun 🚀
Tony Elsom
April 1, 2021 at 7:48 pm
@Catastraseed ..sigh.
Wild Atlantic Man
April 2, 2021 at 3:40 pm
@David Johnson titanium is not really used in the main body of aircraft but internal components: structural, landing gear etc. Right now Starship is prototyping, testing new materials including steel alloys. Do your homework. Good luck.
James Bates
April 2, 2021 at 5:30 pm
@David Johnson yeah, he’s lost.
Apoorva Patil
April 2, 2021 at 7:15 pm
Yeah, why? I’m waiting for you to answer the title of your video.
J Smith
April 2, 2021 at 11:34 pm
@Allah Kamina Elon is the lead engineer at Space X
Lockbert
April 3, 2021 at 1:14 am
I am no rocket scientist, but it would have been nice to do this first with a much smaller – but identical in form – prototype.
Ariel Ramirez
April 3, 2021 at 3:02 am
@Steve Chance Don’t worry man … David probably doesn’t work for anyone … He’s probably another flat earth believer with questionable IQ
Tony Elsom
April 3, 2021 at 10:18 am
@David Johnson I would suggest that you spruce up on your vocabulary and do some research before calling people idiots, because right now YOU’RE the idiot in the story ol’ chap..
Tawanda Mahachi
April 3, 2021 at 12:38 pm
Claire, you are pretty i have to say😊
Maximus and Seneca Global llc
April 3, 2021 at 9:31 pm
@Allah Kamina ex spice
Maximus and Seneca Global llc
April 3, 2021 at 9:32 pm
@David Johnson i thought he would use propellers to land them from 1000 ft
Gamal Ibrahim
April 4, 2021 at 4:03 am
@Steve Chance But where is the innovation when SN11 was already on the launch pad when SN10 exploded. Nothing, no room for analysis, learning, and correction. Just waste of resources.
Online Shopping Jakarta
April 4, 2021 at 7:23 pm
That is because it is estimated in 2057 asteroid will hit earth and cause 3 and a half years of drought.
guppy277
April 4, 2021 at 11:13 pm
@Matthew102000 this is true for normal aeroplanes too. If my fliying lessons were anything to go by.
I am no airline pilot today. But know just enough to say this much…!😊
guppy277
April 4, 2021 at 11:16 pm
@David Johnson Musk is not burning tax payer’s money. It takes guts to say ‘his failures’.
Imagine it doesn’t fall now but on the sortie when you were returning from Mars …!
Now that should feel soft.
David Johnson
April 5, 2021 at 12:22 am
@guppy277 1) How much did Musk get paid for his Lunar Starship development?
2) How much did he get paid for developing orbital refueling?
3) 2) How much did he get paid for Dragon development cargo delivery to the ISS?
4) How much did he get paid for development of Crew Dragon and flights to the ISS?
5) How much did he get paid for Starlink?
6) Who built his factory for him in New York… Absolutely free at tax payor expense? Where he didn’t create the jobs he promised!
7) Who pays the subsidies on his electric cars and solar power?
Should I continue?
In response to:
“Musk is not burning tax payer’s money.”
D R
April 5, 2021 at 6:20 am
They are doing failure and crash tests on purpose, it’s obvious at this point.
David Johnson
April 5, 2021 at 6:31 am
@D R It’s obvious that they are “F”- ing up. 🙂 Which was so predictable.
Neojhun
April 5, 2021 at 8:08 am
@Allah Kamina X by it’s self is pronounced eX in some accents. Regardless of the Space part.
("RNA0ROGER")
April 5, 2021 at 11:13 am
@Catastraseed Here is the thing we don’t actually know if it will
billy toffingham
April 1, 2021 at 12:13 am
Why does it keep exploding ?……..why does the roof fly of the Tesla when it’s driving down the road……because Elong Musk has control of the business
Antonio Sanchez
April 1, 2021 at 12:38 am
Great video, really summarizes a ton of stuff that they’re doing in south texas, she could’ve reworded some things but overall great considering how short it was, couldn’t do better myself. I cant wait for orbital flights!
Savage87
April 1, 2021 at 12:53 am
It keeps blowing up because literally EVERYTHING about it is a prototype. Even the engines that power it are still being tested and aren’t fully complete.
Doug G
April 1, 2021 at 12:54 am
Leaving a garden planet for a desert planet.. hmm. Lite speed if we could achieve it is super slow… what are we doing while the jungles turn to farmland? Look I think it’s kinda cool but man what a waste of cash.
Savage87
April 1, 2021 at 1:02 am
Something people also need to realize is that they expect these failures and these failures are successes in the long run. Fail it til you nail it.
Cameron Potts
April 1, 2021 at 1:22 am
Starship MADE my ACME Lmao haha love savage godlike haha lmao haha ;D
Mark J
April 1, 2021 at 8:59 pm
They have no problems launching Starship up, nooooo problem. Just landing it is tricky, which no other launch provider can do.
Elguja Kamadadze
April 1, 2021 at 9:10 pm
This video is joke
Jeff Amato
April 1, 2021 at 9:17 pm
is she australian or on the spectrum?
J T
April 1, 2021 at 9:25 pm
A decent re-cap, making it better than most I’ve seen, so well done. Important to know that things “going wrong” are simply part of the expectations for iterative design. Also important to know that all of the pieces are new. The rocket itself, size, method, engines, etc … they’re testing A LOT of stuff all at once. Gotta lov’em.
Chase
April 1, 2021 at 9:27 pm
SpaceX literally just finished the first phase of its full-size rocket prototypes (SN8-11). In reality, what they were wanting to test with this iteration, it didn’t explode at all. They were testing flying it to apogee and then its flip maneuver to get over the landing pad. The Raptors and the plumbing on these weren’t designed to land. The fact that they almost landed two of four was amazing!
Rare Form
April 1, 2021 at 9:51 pm
She carries huge payloads ..
Adam Gray
April 1, 2021 at 10:01 pm
All success s built on a foundation of failures. Our society punishes failures. Essentially, we punish learning. Musk understands this and is not embarrassed to make a mistake or be wrong. This is the characteristic that has led him to being the only person in history to start multiple billion dollar corporations.
Ed Nelson
April 1, 2021 at 10:02 pm
people need to know THIS IS A TEST PROGRAMME!!!!! EXPLOSIONS AND CRASH LANDINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!! REMEMBER THIS
Jeremy link
April 1, 2021 at 10:11 pm
Em..im no much the wiser to why it keeps crashing after all this old news.
pay moy
April 1, 2021 at 10:41 pm
long story short, its a rocket, it has a controlled explosion to lift itself…figure that…
Adam Warren
April 1, 2021 at 10:41 pm
What’s the drum & bass tune in this video about 2 mins in?
Ron Twa
April 1, 2021 at 10:45 pm
Could be a saboteur on the team.
Websitedr
April 1, 2021 at 10:50 pm
You know what I would rather they waste 100 prototype test rockets so the real one that they get out of all the tests actually takes people to Mars? Worth the trade off to make sure they get it right when it matters.
Daa3.1416 Saa
April 1, 2021 at 11:49 pm
they do pretty well. SpaceX starship is the future.
Cano Pinto
April 1, 2021 at 11:59 pm
Flash gordon is laughing
Philippe974
April 2, 2021 at 12:07 am
Fails becomes success. This propaganda looks like that of the soviet union. It is perhaps needed to maintain shares holders fait.
Robert W Townsend
April 2, 2021 at 12:08 am
It’s the new Big Bang Theory. What goes up doesn’t go down. It goes Ka BOOM. Que no?
Sean Gelarden
April 2, 2021 at 12:17 am
Would that he where interested in the planet that we evolved on
The Best
April 2, 2021 at 12:20 am
YOU ARE MISSING HE POINT. 4 FLIGHTS AND 1 LANDING FOR A ROCKET THAT HAS NEVER HAS BEEN MADE!!!
Ajax
April 2, 2021 at 12:54 am
Yep, this is all different compared to other rockets. The fact that it actually landed means that that the concept is possible. It just needs better landing legs to land softer and to fix the internal fuel system to stop having issues in relighting which im sure they can fix. If a fighter jet can make all sorts of maneuvers without it affecting the propulsion im sure they can do it with the starship since it has so much space inside.
Joan Osorio
April 2, 2021 at 12:52 am
Cause it’d rather not exist than to put up with Elon as his boss
Joan Osorio
April 2, 2021 at 12:53 am
That thing fell harder on the ground than Tesla stocks after the pandemic
Floof
April 2, 2021 at 12:55 am
Next from CNET: “How rocket science promotes racism, white supremacy and how a rocket’s shape promotes misogyny and oppresses women”
Seraphim L
April 2, 2021 at 1:01 am
What’s the different between space x n a missile, nothing they both explode.
annoythedonkey
April 2, 2021 at 1:26 am
Is she taking a dig at F&F fans? Lol I like it
Eli Harman
April 2, 2021 at 2:56 pm
Well, you see, when one molecule really loves another molecule, they come together, violently…
Rockets are designed to hold a lot of molecules that really love each other, and bring them together, in a controlled fashion. And that can lead to beautiful things. But relatively speaking, theres only a few right ways to do that, and nearly infinite wrong ways to do it…
Parrot Raiser
April 2, 2021 at 2:59 pm
It seems odd that SpaceX aren’t testing the booster stages in parallel, unless they consider their Falcon experience completely transferrable? It might be, but scaling isn’t always simple linear change.
ihsan shindi
April 2, 2021 at 3:10 pm
I believe the spaceX in final will be succeed
ViAndress
April 2, 2021 at 3:30 pm
It’s time to stop with gas, kerosine or whatever.
Nancy King
April 2, 2021 at 3:40 pm
I am not expert on these matters, but I’m just going to say I think it is to heavy, it just looks like it is having real difficulty staying straight up, and the engines have to work to hard to keep it going in the right direction.
Yota Toomy
April 2, 2021 at 5:16 pm
Yeah, sort of like a Harrier jump jet trying to land. That flip thing throws that massive weight pretty fast. They need some more side thrust than those gimbled raptors can do from below.
Tired old mechanic
April 2, 2021 at 3:47 pm
They have “data” spread all over Boca Chica.
Yota Toomy
April 2, 2021 at 5:12 pm
Yeah, put that back together in a warehouse, puzzle of a thousand pieces.
Karl Ghossein
April 2, 2021 at 3:52 pm
GOD dude stop that smile , i started to do it my self while watching… jesus.
njengakim
April 2, 2021 at 4:09 pm
Thank you for this well researched video.
Gowtham Kudupudi
April 2, 2021 at 5:21 pm
Its really a set back. Spacex better nail the next one. Hope Elon is not being careless.
Titus Philip
April 2, 2021 at 5:39 pm
Elon relentless pursuit of perfection
pete bateman
April 2, 2021 at 6:49 pm
Because they’re experimental. Do try to pay attention.
Skylineru
April 2, 2021 at 6:52 pm
better question – why does mainstream media keep shaming SpaceX for their rocket explosions? clearly authors dont do their research
Mates Zizkovsky
April 2, 2021 at 7:50 pm
Jeff Bezos meanwhile trying to understand at least the basics about rockets…field he knows nothing about…
Andromeda One
April 2, 2021 at 7:52 pm
Why can’t he just make a flying saucer.
Kiragleons
April 2, 2021 at 8:32 pm
MARS here we come
Iam Dredlamb
April 2, 2021 at 9:19 pm
sn13 will be the lucky one… however rocket science is a Russian engineering thing, wouldn’t be easier to fly a jumbo size plane up to the Stratosphere and launh it out space with a less complex rocket engine on its tail? Figure it out, landing will be just to slowdown reentry with the help of the same rocket engine until it hit the atmosphere and from there it will be just like landing a jumbo size airplane. Rocket science only good for planets without atmosphere, and not good for humans only for alien creatures.
Chuck Learn
April 2, 2021 at 9:24 pm
I don’t think the current design will ever fly humans.
Mad Calm
April 2, 2021 at 9:36 pm
Because engines & fuel system damage themselves while taking off & and it ca’t be prevented by solid shielding & absorbing – the ship must be able to take off & land on any wild area.
Noname 1st
April 2, 2021 at 10:10 pm
I thought prototypes exploding lots was perfectly normal
Slick Salmon
April 2, 2021 at 10:53 pm
Iterative engineering is one thing. Reckless explosions are another. This company is out of control.
Bunty Walia
April 2, 2021 at 11:03 pm
Are bhai landing ke samay engine ko der me lighter maaroge to aisa hi hoga. It should burn the 3 engines at least 1000 meters before the touchdown. Weight does matter. 😭
David Soom
April 2, 2021 at 11:51 pm
There will not be a colony o
Jason Rackawack
April 3, 2021 at 12:53 am
Because just crashing it would be boring.
Brian Schneide
April 3, 2021 at 12:55 am
lets hope the best for SN15!
Tanan Baboo
April 3, 2021 at 5:27 pm
Getting it off the ground has. Even smooth sailing. Getting it back on the ground has been the issue.
D G
April 3, 2021 at 5:30 pm
That he has a lineup of these ready to blow up tells us he’s not stopping until they achieve 100% land rate lol.
Presumptuous Pseudonym
April 3, 2021 at 10:25 pm
Given the first flight got 99% of the way… I dont think they’ve got to long to go before they stick it (especially with the improvements SN15 and beyond are supposed to have)
Kelly Starks
April 3, 2021 at 5:33 pm
I thought better of CNET. This analysis is ridiculous.
Most of the explosions were due to basic quality control issues, like split welds on the tanks. No new tech or materials, just incompetent welders or stress analysts doing the tanks.
Similar structural failures in flight.
Breaking fuel lines.
Engines not getting stable fuel flow.
No one else I know of doing vertical landing over the last 60 years has had this much trouble at it.
Fred Planatia
April 3, 2021 at 5:47 pm
Something that didn’t really get the emphasis it deserves in your report is what is different about starship compared to falcon 9. Its not just that its way bigger or made of different materials, or uses a newly developed rocket engine burning a different fuel. Whereas Falcon 9 only recovers the booster, the goal for Starship is to recover the second stage as well. This is entirely new territory for a rocket. It will be coming in at orbital velocities, and it will be much more difficult to recover. The point of the wacky looking maneuver where it goes horizontal is to allow it to slow down from orbital velocities as much as possible using a large surface which will be covered with heat shielding tiles. By flipping to vertical just prior to landing, the minimum of fuel will be required for the landing burn. Unfortunately your report didn’t really contain much information. It just said the rocket is big, landing rockets is hard, real world testing is valuable, and SpaceX is moving fast.
will2see
April 3, 2021 at 6:12 pm
Why is your mouth so crooked?
Peter Affinass
April 3, 2021 at 6:31 pm
They are prototypes that’s why 😜
Jim Swindell
April 3, 2021 at 6:39 pm
More fun to watch than Nascar
mangga gian
April 3, 2021 at 6:47 pm
Gravity
CannonKnight
April 3, 2021 at 6:53 pm
Wow. Fascinating. I’m amazed they just didn’t throw in the towel. The power of an unlimited budget.
Presumptuous Pseudonym
April 3, 2021 at 10:24 pm
4 prototypes in 5 months, most of which did what they where made for… why would they throw in the towel?.. these rockets arent billion dollar boondoggles like most of Nasas rockets, its why they are doing it… cheap, reuseable space flight bringing the cost and prices down by factors of 1000’s.
ray taylor
April 3, 2021 at 7:13 pm
nasa did this 20 some years ago. without it going boom. musk is a joke
Locate Close with and Destroy
April 3, 2021 at 7:17 pm
Getting off the ground isn’t the problem.
TheAnonymous One
April 3, 2021 at 8:17 pm
Why ask why LOL?
michail p
April 3, 2021 at 8:45 pm
We are at a similar stage to when scientists of the previous century were trying to fly an aeroplane for the first time with various results.
Martin Hackett
April 3, 2021 at 9:09 pm
This has to be one of the best videos I have found who actually did research and explained that they are just test flights. Each Starship that launches is a success just for the data itself. Brilliant journalism, you will go far with this content and earned another subscriber!
Maximus and Seneca Global llc
April 3, 2021 at 9:28 pm
Use propeller to land at 500 ft above ground
Starship Central
April 3, 2021 at 9:39 pm
Finally a well explained video on Starship!
Austin Power
April 3, 2021 at 10:02 pm
They call its test ship propper because they have to explode???????
73F100
April 3, 2021 at 10:14 pm
Eventually the problems demonstrated in this video will be worked out and the technology will be there for a Mars mission. The biggest challenge will be how to keep the human body from consuming itself to the point of disability over the time it will take to get there and back.
BobEckert56
April 3, 2021 at 10:35 pm
Elon Musk is unfortunately a sociopsychopath who will have blood on his hands as he kills off astronauts rather than use his immense wealth to help humanity.
CLARK ORTIZ
April 3, 2021 at 11:15 pm
Because you can’t fly a steely dan.
David Woodgate
April 3, 2021 at 11:56 pm
It was designed to be the spaceship that gives the best bang for your buck.
richard johnson
April 4, 2021 at 12:19 am
it looks like when they flip the starship vapors get up in the rocket enclosure and when they light the engines=boom
Mohammad Reza Amiri
April 4, 2021 at 12:21 am
You didn’t answer your question
James DeRuvo
April 4, 2021 at 12:38 am
SN10 landed and then exploded 8 minutes later. You kinda forgot that.
Asken Reeseve
April 4, 2021 at 1:15 pm
Space is not a vacuum and you cannot travel there. Do not be naive!!!!
69
April 5, 2021 at 12:16 am
You can travel to space and we have been to space. You’re the one being naive believing in conspiracy theories.
Asken Reeseve
April 5, 2021 at 12:57 am
@69 You have to believe…
69
April 5, 2021 at 1:01 am
@Asken Reeseve you have to believe in what made up stuff by conspiracy theorist.
Robin Hicks
April 4, 2021 at 2:42 pm
I look at it this way, the more it fails now, the more reliable it will be in the future.
William Koffke
April 4, 2021 at 3:38 pm
They need Béla Károlyi, because they can’t stick the landing!
Mark Plott
April 4, 2021 at 3:38 pm
CNET – Rockets DONT use jet fuel , they Sometimes use SOILID Rocket boosters and LIQUID OXYGEN and or LIQUID HYDEOGEN.
in the case of SpaceX, they are using a Highly Refined Liquid Methane called RP-1.
and both Land based and Space Engines use RP-1.
Trygve Skaran
April 4, 2021 at 3:56 pm
Most of the media just covers the explosions and frames the test program as a total failure, but you covered the whole thing and showed how much of a success the program has been. Thank you!
Henry Varga
April 4, 2021 at 4:27 pm
The Mercury program had 75 accidents befire it was safe for flight…
Lars Rosing
April 4, 2021 at 4:29 pm
I don’t understand why they don’t also use the lower fins during antirotation before landing instead of just the engines!?!
Jan Cloosterman
April 4, 2021 at 5:26 pm
Well done, CNET crew. Well researched journalism. It’s sadly a rare thing these days.
John
April 4, 2021 at 5:36 pm
I think it’s so funny we supposedly landed on the moon in the late 60s and with all this technology growth to 2021 we are still failing and can’t get off the ground yeah keep hoping for space people good luck
69
April 5, 2021 at 12:14 am
We did land on the moon in the ’60s. Starship is able to go up they’re just trying propulsive landing which is the hardest part. We don’t need to Hope we’ve already been to space.
John
April 5, 2021 at 12:17 am
@69 yeah I’m still waiting for one of the billionaires to go up to show me lol
69
April 5, 2021 at 12:24 am
@John you can go to Boca chica Texas and watch these things take off. You can go to wherever they launch the falcon 9s. SpaceX does plan to do commercial trips so you one day we’ll see space if you have the money.
Shweta Meena
April 4, 2021 at 5:49 pm
Biggest fan of Elon musk🥰
keala hau
April 4, 2021 at 6:09 pm
Cuz they are designed for that….everything is a game…people don t get it…
69
April 5, 2021 at 12:13 am
What do you mean?
George Perez-stillwagon
April 4, 2021 at 6:13 pm
She fortes that there are Trial and error to achieve a goal. She needs to do more research. SpaceX is showing their progress step by step public compared to US Goverments billion $$$$$$$ projects.
Demonwater Demonwater
April 4, 2021 at 6:43 pm
Get that faker out of here holding back space travel 🤣🤣🤣🤟🏼
69
April 5, 2021 at 12:13 am
Who?
Danny Archer
April 4, 2021 at 6:57 pm
That’s a South African expat who emigrated to Australia at some point. Change my mind.
Online Shopping Jakarta
April 4, 2021 at 7:22 pm
Because they try new rocket and not using a proven working rocket
69
April 5, 2021 at 12:13 am
Starship will be a new rocket so that makes sense.
Jack Barnhill
April 4, 2021 at 7:51 pm
It’s rocket science, it’s hard to do.
DMan 9971
April 4, 2021 at 8:35 pm
Been watching this saga all along the way, so I already knew all this stuff, but it’s still a good watch.
guppy277
April 4, 2021 at 11:44 pm
Exactly. Most viewers of this vid already know all this stuff. Yet it was such a pleasure to watch her recap. Loved that RUD thing. Rapid Unplanned Disintegration…! 🤭🤭 What can elegant way of saying it broke to pieces..! 🤭🤭
Chris Johnson
April 4, 2021 at 8:48 pm
1. The gyroscope controlling the nose is not strong enough and does not create the level of control necessary.
2. The rocket is not being rotated into landing position soon enough.
3. The engines are not being fired soon enough to provide the thrust necessary to slow the rocket sufficiently.
4. The splash back and heat from the engines is compromising the fuel delivery and storage systems.
69
April 5, 2021 at 12:46 am
@Chris Johnson cool I think SpaceX will be able to fix it pretty easily though. SN15 should be a huge improvement has a lot of different technology in it.
Chris Johnson
April 5, 2021 at 12:58 am
@69 The rocket crashed on several occasions because it was coming in much too fast.
It was was coming in too fast due to a lack of sufficient thrust.
The thrust was insufficient because the the landing burn was too short in duration.
Coming down tail first directs the splash and heat back towards the rocket. The rocket exploded before touchdown most likely to a fuel leak. I say this because the rocket did not do a full atmospheric reentry and the explosion happened just before landind after the rocket was exposed to the landing burn and not a high altitude.
On several landings the rockets inclination was not at zero meaning that the gyroscope was unable to make the necessary corrections.
Chris Johnson
April 5, 2021 at 1:01 am
@69 I hope so, the prospect of people exploring Mars is very exciting as some observations can only be made in person and will yield much more detailed information.
Chris Johnson
April 5, 2021 at 1:28 am
It may take two gyroscopes to provide opposing forces to steady the rockets inclination.
69
April 5, 2021 at 1:29 am
@Chris Johnson starship is only done the 10 km flight three times so how could it exploded seven times?
Sergey Mavrody
April 4, 2021 at 9:44 pm
Perhaps there’s a reason Russians and NASA don’t do propulsion landing on Earth. It’s too complex and unreliable. Also it requires a bigger rocket and more fuel. Landing on parachute or as an airplane is much simpler.
69
April 5, 2021 at 12:11 am
Parachutes are not simpler. Yeah airplane works so well look at the space shuttle.
Sergey Mavrody
April 5, 2021 at 1:03 am
@69 so far propulsion landing delivered nearly 100% failure rate. Space shuttle – only 1%.
Also space shuttle was returning a crew from space in airplane mode. I am not suggesting that. I suggested to returned unmanned stage 1 rocket in airplane mode.
Also, parachute landing has been used reliably for 50 years. If its ain’t broken don’t fix it.
dsaharafive
April 4, 2021 at 10:47 pm
Millennium Falcon..it ain’t.
Eclipse
April 4, 2021 at 11:24 pm
I was here to make sure that they weren’t dissing space x
guppy277
April 4, 2021 at 11:38 pm
Brilliant recap of SpaceX SN series flights.
What’s even happening at Blue Origin. Looks like they already landed in Mars. No one hears anything.
Hoping they know how to come back home. If ever they wanted..!
69
April 5, 2021 at 12:11 am
What?
Hans de Groot
April 5, 2021 at 12:29 am
What a stupid click bait topic
zerxis blances
April 5, 2021 at 12:31 am
I dunno maybe its a prototype
Kenneth Roberts
April 5, 2021 at 5:42 am
Also… jet fuel?!?! Not the same as rocket fuel
A Brooks
April 5, 2021 at 6:33 am
Doesn’t it make you just want to jump on the next flight to Mars?
A Brooks
April 5, 2021 at 6:39 am
Simulation is cheaper but the results are based on the variables and the complexity that comes as the number of variables increase. Risk increases as dependency on simulation increases
Kale LeMaster
April 5, 2021 at 7:10 am
Remember, if engineers, rocket scientists, inventors, and etc decided to give up after four tries, 10 tries, 30 attempts, or even 100s of tries, then we wouldn’t have nothing and humankind as we know it would cease to exist! Thank you for actually doing your research in understanding Starship for what it is and instead of just saying “another Starship prototype fails and explodes for the fourth time” while including just a video from LabPadre or NSF while questioning if it will ever work, all while copying pretty much what others doing the same thing have wrote. Starship will get it done for sure, keep your eyes on Boca Chica errr, I mean Starbase! You’re watching history be made and it’s an exciting time! Remember, nobody has even tried anything close and succeeded like Elon and SpaceX has in the past decade. This is new technology and just be prepared for a bit more RUDs by the time Starship and Super Heavy starts succeeding like Falcon 9 has! But it will happen, I promise you that!
Yannick Vorwerk -1stRacer-
April 5, 2021 at 9:19 am
because its a PROTOTYPE
Gary Edwards
April 5, 2021 at 9:30 am
Remember the first airplanes trying to fly until the Wright Brothers figured it out. It’s just the way science works, through experimentation and testing. These are not failures, but the human spirit at work.
Chico Sincho
April 5, 2021 at 10:17 am
Airodynamics are slightly off plum
Daithi O'Sioradain
April 5, 2021 at 11:38 am
A continuous improvement phrase I use is “Fail Early, Fail Often” . Fear of failure cripples innovation so it’s fantastic to see a company willing to “fail” in public and then drive on.
BVIMO
April 5, 2021 at 1:48 pm
Because it’s a whole new technology and ment to be reusable
dadab0y
April 5, 2021 at 2:23 pm
Advanced rapid rocket prototyping.
Howard Swing
April 5, 2021 at 2:23 pm
CLICK BAIT THIS WOMEN HAS DO IDEA WHAT’S SEE IS READING FORM THE SCRIPT
RJeezy
April 5, 2021 at 2:44 pm
You learn wayyy more from failures than your successes!
muppetnumpty65
April 5, 2021 at 3:09 pm
What the public and vast majority of journalists can’t understand is that SpaceX is iterating prototypes at such a phenomenal speed that flaws will be inherent in many of the vehicles produced. However with every flight comes more data, with more data comes more understanding and better designs. The iteration speed is required not just for the design and testing by understanding the build process to understand how it can be built quickly and reliably. These ARE NOT disasters for SpaceX they are part and parcel of developing a space programme at extraordinary speed.
Zoltán Szeles
April 5, 2021 at 3:37 pm
In this comment section 80% of people are idiots who think they are smart. And 100% think they are in the other 20%. 😉
Brant UGA
April 5, 2021 at 3:49 pm
Because it’s called testing for a reason
Brant UGA
April 5, 2021 at 3:57 pm
I can’t wait for Starship to do missions all the time
John Cherish
April 5, 2021 at 4:33 pm
All the explosions simply prove they are finding the problems and this needs to happen to achieve their goals. They are doing the research very transparently not like the government normally does in secret and behind close doors
GuitarsAre LikeStupid
April 5, 2021 at 5:27 pm
NASA uses *taxpayer* money and so they had to be conservative and relatively secretive but Musk is using his own money and is doing the testing out in the open. He also is probably the first to have an almost assembly-line style approach to building these vehicles.
The Baldie C
April 5, 2021 at 6:25 pm
I think it`s now time for adults to step in and stop the children blowing up big rockets.
Ninian Bacchus
April 5, 2021 at 8:51 pm
Definitely will be ready for a trip to mars. People with same interests.
FLY&I
April 5, 2021 at 10:19 pm
I don’t think there is any other company out there who is building and testing their products all in public view. I mean we employ entire work forces to ensure they look flawlessly in front of people .. but not SpaceX … check out old footage of rockets that give you a 1s glimpse on their journeys because they don’t show you all the (hundred) failed attempts.. that SpaceX already had one successful landing after 3 tests is crazy amazing.
Cymon Condecido
April 5, 2021 at 11:22 pm
Simple answer:To learn.
Yano
April 6, 2021 at 1:24 am
the rocket not looks propotional specialy at the booster
Yano
April 6, 2021 at 1:27 am
thi girll face ajlnd mouth is weird funny