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online presence hey hey marcus house with you here well the dizzying speed of sn 9's
preparations for its test flight continued this week as did the amazing build progress
with the various sections of several starship versions spotted it has also been great to see
the various 3d rendered creations from some very talented people amid the exciting build
up of sn9's flight it's also almost time for the first cargo dragon version 2 to come home after
the fully autonomous capsule docked with the international space station on december the 7th
last year we had the first falcon 9 launch of 2021 with the turksat 5a mission and we also take
a look back at the mars spirit and opportunity rovers that landed on the red planet 17 years ago
an amazing mission to look back on as we await the arrival of perseverance in just a few weeks now
starship sn9 has already successfully proven a reduction in the processing and preparation
timeline when compared to sn8 for the upcoming and second 12.5 kilometer test flight this rapid
production and launch capability will be the major factor in the end goal of launching a vast amount
of these vehicles to build a base on mars elon tweeted a week ago saying that it is
the production that is the hard part the prototypes themselves are easy in comparison
to create a self-sustaining city on mars by building around 1 000 starships
is the mission now after being at the pad for only two weeks sn9 has already completed the majority
of major milestones readying the vehicle for its flight any day now those two tests involved proof
testing and a three engine static fire the former was successfully completed last week over two days
the vehicle was first filled with gaseous nitrogen called an ambient test ahead of being loaded with
liquid nitrogen called a cryogenic test now after a number of delays on wednesday the sixth
starship sn9 completed a static fire test the road was closed and the pad was cleared of
personnel and then propellant loading began at 3 35 pm engine chill then started 15 minutes later
denoted by those three triangular vents on the side of the vehicle there at 407 pm the trio of
raptors fired up for a duration of around one and a half to two seconds this seemed shorter
than normal so it's unknown if it was successful or not it's important to note here that this is
the first time that spacex has gone straight from a crow proof to a static fire skipping the usual
wet address rehearsal and pre-burner tests starship serial number nine will be targeting a
repeat of sn8 flight with the goal obviously of landing slightly more successfully than
sn8 did being able to keep this one in one piece would be just awesome the cause of that rough
touchdown of course was because of a landing burn issue caused by the pressure loss in the methane
header tank a mitigation was implemented to sn9 to hopefully fix that issue at least temporarily for
the moment elon replied to tim here saying that sn9 will press the liquid methane header tank now
with helium the long-term solution as he says is still under debate and spacex don't yet seem clear
on what will be the lightest and simplest method to deal with this issue regardless a fix here even
if just temporary will allow spacex to continue flight testing until a correct solution is found
a little bit of a sad sight for most of us starship fans here though firstly sn8 still intact
forward flap was removed and taken away on a truck we then expected to see what was left of sn8's
nose cone to be kept in one piece however this did not end up being the case earlier in the week an
excavator could be seen at breaking apart sn8 nose cone then the pieces were picked up and placed in
a truck to be taken away so yes this was a little bit disappointing the pad of course did need to be
cleared in anticipation of sn9's landing on its concrete surface in what could be just a matter
of days away now but yes we were hoping that sn8's nose cone would be kept as some sort of
monument to its historic flight heading over to the construction site we have a lot to talk about
bokeh chicago with nasa space flight as always here tirelessly capturing the many shots of the
build progress in action this week thank you mary now firstly we have starship serial number 10.
as far as we can now see it is very near ready to roll to the launch site following its nose cone
mating inside the high bay it is still lacking its aft flaps which should be installed soon
and interestingly we have seen those same two art flaps spotted by rgb aerial photography in
his latest flyover starship serial number 11 is now stacked and will receive its own nosecone
one's sn10 is moved out of the high bay in fact sn11's nose cone was moved out of one of the tents
and two forward flaps were also spotted in front of the low bay so it shouldn't be long now until
sn 11's nose cone is complete furthermore sn15's common dome stack was rolled out of the tent with
its windward side completely covered in thermal protection tile stuns could it be possible that
sn15's whole windward side would be covered with those heat shield tiles let me know what you think
in the comments below this sn15 common dome was then stacked on top of the four ring high middle
liquid oxygen stack that was just recently moved inside now from this we can assume that sn12 13
and 14 are either not going to be built or are on hold pending how well sn 9 and 10's flight go sn15
of course will have many major changes according to a tweet by elon a couple of months ago sn 16's
forward dome stack and middle liquid oxygen tank section as well as sn 17's forward dome sleeve was
also spotted on top of all that we can also see what seems here to be the beginnings of a new
test tank with a forward dome that was sleeved with only one ring and an aft dome sleeved with
a stack of two rings in fact a newly delivered pipe was also spotted with a label saying pad
kit sn 7.2 testing written on it this is a pretty good indication that this is indeed a test tank
similar to that of sn7 and 7.1 so we are thinking that this could be sn 7.2 as the next test tank
rgv aerial photography captured a picture here of what looks to be new panels for a different design
of nosecone when measuring these panels they come out to be around 9.5 meters long and so these new
nose cones must be in two halves with 31 panels in total if we compare this to the old nose cones
which had 81 panels this new design will greatly reduce construction time by using fewer parts
and thus fewer worlds which in turn increases the overall strength of this new nose cone design now
speaking of nose cones another section of mark one's nose cone from many moons ago was grinded
off and removed so yes loads of updates there here is the latest diagram from brendan breaking
all this down for you in one single snapshot and actually you will notice a number of improvements
over the last layout we now have an overlay here showing the ring segments and where each part sits
inside the templated layouts when the parts are not stacked here we see them here with a thick
bold white line cutting sections apart as we can see in this part here this is a big improvement
well done to brendan there continuing to add value to these diagrams if you are wanting to keep up to
date with everything going on we really do try to have a nice concise snapshot of that
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now interestingly earlier this week we saw a tweet from elon replying to the amazing 3d artist
dale rutherford and his comparison of the size of the starship and the space shuttle
while this comparison is stunning elon commented saying that it doesn't quite illustrate the true
size difference starship's payload volume and mass are greater than one thousand percent that
of the shuttle that is all pretty crazy stuff to put that into perspective
the space shuttle would comfortably take up to eight passengers life support equipment and
experiments into orbit for nearly two weeks on end just imagine what could be accomplished with
more than ten times the volume and mass in one launch if we take into account that the cost
of a starship launch could be as low as five million dollars versus the space shuttle which
could go for a hundred to three hundred times as much the potential is truly incredible now as the
exciting lead up for the flight of starship serial number nine progressed over the last week the 3d
artists out there were having a lot of fun with some new renders eric and casper here creating a
beautiful render both with casper's falcon 9 model and eric's human landing system starship that tiny
little star man figure there putting the real size of starship into true perspective we'll talk more
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in the description below so yes the 3d artists just blow my mind every week seriously it is a
great time i think to just talk a little about what goes into this work if you put yourself in
the shoes of someone that has the passion to do this you really do have to admire the persistence
and love those creators have for the industry just take eric here pumping out new renders basically
every week each one more impressive than the last eric has been a big fan of space since he was a
child but more recently just started to get into the spacex content itself a little over a year
ago he has always seen 3d graphics as some sort of magic and he just wanted to learn how it all
worked with the lockdowns globally that was the perfect opportunity to stay at home and learn he
just started out with that famous donut tutorial for blender on youtube in mid-july last year when
that was completed he looked for something to do next and wanted to give back to the space
community out there then bam he made his first model of a starlink antenna dish at this point
he started openly sharing and providing all of these images to us creators to use in our content
that is a wonderful partnership that we were all so super appreciative of so he continued on that
line while starlink was being initially rolled out then it was on to starship and wow has the passion
for 3d art grown since then as eric puts it when i ask the question about why he does this it was
an immediate and simple answer to inspire to get more people interested in space flight that there
is worth every single minute of rendering modeling and effort put into it and he makes the content
for everyone to enjoy encouraging us here to share and credit wherever we can and we super appreciate
everything that eric's doing there so far his favorite piece of work is the first ever animation
he put together of starship serial number eight's landing which prompted elon musk's very first
reply an awesome day indeed now currently there is work going on with a starship animation with
assistance from other creators which is coming very soon make sure you're following eric there
on twitter and youtube to catch up on that as soon as it drops that leads us of course to the equally
incredible casper stanley who created that falcon 9 part of the image here just like eric casper is
also using blender for modelling and rendering and has been playing around with 3d art for a fairly
long period of time now starting at around 13 or 14 years old i believe that makes it roughly eight
years which is quite an extraordinary effort that all started with modeling efforts to make a mod
for kerbal space program that game of course was where i started my youtube presence here myself
an awesome game if you haven't played it by the way now casper started off modelling realistic
rockets in 2019 and more recently of course the renders then moved on to spacex rockets especially
starship because it's one of the most exciting things happening in the industry right now
casper mostly enjoys the modeling part of the process first defining that main shape
and blocking out the exact measurements as he phrased it seeing the thing on your screen turn
into a real object is incredibly rewarding of course that is all followed by setting up scenes
and everything around the rocket itself to make it all look more real i must admit i get pretty
awestruck with these guys and i hope you do too it's just extraordinary seeing the lengths they
go to to create realistic renders of the starships and other rockets they just love what they do and
they're very thankful to everybody that makes it possible casper himself is pretty much doing
this now full time i believe with incredible projects like the rocket explorer which i've
been a supporter of for quite some time as well the links to casper's patreon youtube and twitter
are also in the description support these great talents where you can they are just amazing now
on january the 7th we had the very first falcon 9 launch of the year with spacex launching the turks
at 5a communications satellite using booster 1060 here which has already previously flown
three times it launched gps3 and two starlink missions in june september and october in 2020
so yes this kicks off a year that will likely be spacex's busiest yet and this mission progressed
beautifully after a slight hiccup with a ground station that caused a slight delay to the launch
the launch and stage separation went beautifully followed by the booster heading back to the drone
ship just read the instructions to land once again right on target there we go the fourth landing for
this booster at around 33 minutes the turksat 5a satellite separated from the second stage
placing it into a geostationary transfer orbit the satellite itself of course will put itself into an
operational 31 degree east geostationary orbit to provide services to the middle east africa
europe and turkey so yes congrats on the first of many successful launches in 2021 there for spacex
now it seems only a few weeks ago now that the cargo dragon docked at the international
space station time flies of course over the holiday period and it has already been over
a month since the flight took place with the brand new spacex cargo dragon version 2
launching on december 6th on the falcon 9 rocket from kennedy space center well guess what that
mission is done and that baby is heading back with that mission scheduled to conclude on january the
11th carrying back almost two and a half metric tons of return cargo and experiments now if you
want to tune in to watch the event live you can check that out on nasa television they will be
showing the departure which will begin at around 9 00 am eastern standard time this mission has been
very cool to watch as well with the most notable component to the mission i think being the bishop
airlock component that was extracted and mounted in late december here we see a time-lapse video of
the canadarm extracting the airlock and installing it on the tranquili module so yes the dragon there
will undock with victor glover monitoring that process on board the station itself and it's all
largely automatic with the vessel itself firing its thrusters gently to drift away from the space
faring port of the harmony module there also known as pressurized mating adapter number three
now right beside that of course is crew one's resilience dragon so yes after backing away
to a safe distance the dragon will kick off its deorbit burn and begin the re-entry steps shortly
after it should splash down in the atlantic at around 9pm on monday the 11th of january
just this week marked 17 years since the mars rover spirit touched down on the red planet with
its twin rover opportunity landing not long after on january 25th launching on june 10th
in 2003 from cape canaveral air force station spirit would make four trajectory corrections
before slamming into the martian atmosphere at over twelve thousand miles an hour the four
minute descent saw the speed cut by over ninety percent before the heat shield dropped away and
ultimately saw the airbags deployed to cushion the fall bouncing over 26 times spirit came to rest a
mere 10 kilometers from the middle of the landing zone now driving spirit off the lander itself was
a challenge due to an airbag not retracting itself correctly come january 15th spirit rolled onto the
rocky surface to begin an epic journey that was only meant to last 90 days ultimately continuing
on for another six years traveling over eight kilometers before it ended up with its wheels
stuck in soft soil nasa was unable to remove spirit from that situation and called in into
the mission on may 25 2011. if this wasn't crazy enough the opportunity rover would of course
last even longer finally losing its solar power in a dust storm during june 2018 meaning that the
rover survived on the surface of mars almost 60 times longer than the mission stipulated
now incredibly it is almost time for perseverance to build on the legacy of these earlier rovers
with an expected touchdown at gizero crater just a few weeks from now on february 18th
the super rigorous three-year testing regime including the land of vision systems ballistic
parachute and even the wheels see the most robust and science-packed rover ever to be sent
on the six and a half month journey to our dusty neighbor so yes the excitement sure is building
for this one and we owe the amazing advances in technology and knowledge from the earlier missions
such as we've seen with spirit and opportunity we hope to see the continued success of these
missions ultimately paving the way for humanity to expand its presence to another planet for the
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