with the maiden launch of Starship still fresh in the mine the follow-up flight is set to be just
a few months away this time with the upgraded booster 9 and the surprising partnership with
ship 25. while the latter doesn't Spore upgrades already employed on sister ships at the production
site the next test will be focused mostly on first stage flight with the booster and so when is the
confirmed date let's find out in today's episode hello everyone welcome back to Elon Musk Evolution
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SpaceX is producing more Starship Vehicles than ever before with a new ship and launcher soon to
be finished repairs following the first Starship flight and preparations for the second launch are
proceeding at Starbase after some testing at the masses test site ship 25 is now at the sub-orbital
launch site in preparation for a six-engine static fire test ship 25 is the current star of the show
the effectiveness of the flight termination system or fds was one of the key problems found
during starship's initial flight in the event of a malfunction the mechanism is designed to
disassemble the vehicle tanks while it is in flight this technology however did not perform
as intended during that initial flight only puncturing the tanks with holes rather than
completely dismantling them prior to starship's upcoming launch SpaceX plans to recertify this
system on a booster test tank of the Massey test facility it appears the corporation has
tested it Elon Musk noted that the upgrades to the launch pad should be finished in a month followed
by another month of testing before the next test flight and that ship 25 is currently at the launch
site and awaiting a six-engine static fire test despite multiple rollbacks for more changes the
launch of booster 7 and ship 24 came after more than a month of padflow even with a few months
of pad modifications needed after booster 7 dug a hole and ignited a rock tornado during its launch
the next campaign will be finished in a rather short amount of time with the rapidly and entirely
reusable tag bearing the objective of launching every day from the same pad in future years
the decrease of the pad flow will be a theme for Starship by putting a water cooled steel plate and
delu system under the orbital launch Mount SpaceX is attempting to prevent the flying concrete of
the first launch in the interim according to musk work has been proceeding at the launch location in
recent weeks to prepare for its installation before the steel plates are brought there in
about a month a month of path testing would follow after the repairs to the patter finished musk said
in a Twitter update that highlighted spacex's highlights video of the test flight that time
frame was given tests with the modifications at the pad the integration of booster 9 on the olm a
number of possible static fire tests and the full stack integration of the ship 25 are all part of
this testing a six-engine static fire test will be performed by ship 25 at the sub-orbital launch
site after it has already passed cryoproofing at the masses test facility following musk's earlier
statement during his previous Twitter space that a decision was still pending the latter
is now confirmed to be flying with booster 9. with regard to the ship we haven't made a
final decision musk stated a few weeks ago that the following trip will be focused on re-entry
with the ship after the main goals of booster 9's first stage flight had been accomplished for this
reason he was referring to booster 9 although he was hesitant to announce the ship number
in view of that I believe we should add a ship that offers us that capability the precise ship
number though is something we haven't decided yet the emphasis on ship performance during re-entry
seems to suggest using ship 28 or ship 29 both of which had the most recent thermal protection
system installations and similar to booster 9 and later electric thrust vector control systems
the decision to use ship 25 is most likely a sign that the test flight's initial stage would be
used to further evident objectives a significant improvement over the first test flight would be a
successful first stage Ascent without significant pad damage during staging with the ship as the
testing phase moves closer to the ultimate aim of operational flights SpaceX May then switch to
the newer ships for the ensuing flight booster sections up to B15 and ship portions up to s34
have been observed at the manufacturing facility proving that SpaceX has enough of vehicles ready
to go recently booster 10 was relocated to the Rocket Garden perhaps only to clear out room
in the giant Bay in order to accommodate this production Cadence SpaceX is rearranging the
production site demolishing outdated structures and getting ready to expand High Bay capacity the
recently delivered LR 11000 crane is expected to assist in building a new Bay next to the megaport
after arriving from Roberts Road the latter is spacex's production facility at the Kennedy
Space Center which has yet to start assembling but is intended to have its own gigantic Bay
prior to delivering vehicles to KSC SpaceX will probably concentrate on production at Starbase
as musk previously announced will be the initial flow path the Windbreak which was used to work
on nose cones and payload sections was destroyed on Sunday to make room for new facilities to be
developed in the region the layout alterations at the star-based production site will continue
until next year the star Factory will eventually be extended in size thanks to the demolition of
the lengthy production tents when the high Bay capacity is eventually raised the mid-bay is
also planned to be eliminated the data acquired from the most recent test flight of Starship
as well as the subsequent design modifications that will be included into the next test launch
were all praised by NASA managers in charge of guiding Humanity's next trip into deep space
prior to signing the contract for the human Landing system which will involve numerous tanker
vehicles and a crude Lander SpaceX is anticipated to launch a significant number of Starships launch
site repairs at Starbase are still ongoing the hls option a contract which requires for the
system's numerous components to be demonstrated was given to SpaceX in 2021 docking the Lander
with the Orion spacecraft moving the crew from Orion to the Lander in lunar orbit carrying out
an extra vehicular activity after touching down on the lunar surface and returning the crew and other
materials from the surface are all included in this demonstration missions in option A were both
crude and uncrewed hls option b which covers the Artemis 4 trip to the moon was won by SpaceX in
late 2022 as a result of this contract to develop a sustainable human Landing system for the Artemis
5 moon mission NASA is expected to reveal a second hls Lander option the Artemis 3 mission will not
launch until 2025. according to the current NASA timetable which calls for the unmanned lunar demo
mission to launch in 2024 to enable the lunar Starship to be refueled on orbit before its
route to the Moon each Mission will need to launch both the lunar Starship and numerous
Starship tankers uncertainty persists on the precise number of launches required for refueling
prior to the hls missions Starship has been working on an ambitious test series that has
now begun thanks to the launch of booster 7 and ship 24. earlier this week the NASA
advisory Council human exploration and operations received an update from Amit kashatriya Deputy
assistant administrator for the Moon to Mars program in the exploration systems development
Mission directorate at NASA headquarters a lot of equipment is moving around the star base everyone
is aware that they conducted a flight test before the missions finish they reached an apogee of
around 39 kilometers according to kishatria we got a ton of data out of that mission and
those guys are looking forward to getting them together and incorporating design changes into
the next chip and booster musk stated in a recent Twitter space that there have been hundreds of
enhancements between booster 7 and booster 9. some of which have been significant between boosters 7
and 9 we switched the TVC from hydraulic to Electric on the base the entire heat shield
structure has undergone a comprehensive makeover at starbase's manufacturing facility booster 9
and other boosters and ships are all waiting for their time inside the gigantic Bay work is still
being done to get ready for the upcoming test with the launch site as the main focus one thing
to take note of is the need for the flight termination system to be recertified because
booster 7 refused to shut down when the FTS was engaged when it started to lose control late in
the first stage of flight this week a test that was probably connected to this attempt took place
at spacex's Massey's test facility when the B6 test tank was successfully split apart stated we
have a couple of team members in the hls program that are engaged with the FAA and SpaceX before
adding that they primarily observe and report that spacex's crew is knowledgeable about what they are
doing they're really really good I guess they are therefore somewhat aware of how to incorporate
their Data before the year is up SpaceX might be able to launch a number more flights from
Starbase if the launch site changes permit a pad turnaround without the need for extensive repairs
this would allow a replenishing test to take place before starting the hls demo the impact of a leak
and boil off on the mission's kind of propellant aggregation phase is being studied so I don't want
to go too far in terms of you know talking about it till they settle on their engineering side
continued kishatria noting that work is actively taking place on the crew version of Starship in
reference to the life support system SpaceX is a key collaborator I got to spend 12 hours with the
crew at Hawthorne and learn about what's happening there in terms of raptor production as well as
their environmental control and life support systems and other starship-related developments
I'll just say that we are completely partnered with them in terms of how they're interpreting
the data I have every faith that SpaceX is receptive to our suggestions and the opposite
on the Raptor side a new Milestone was recently reached when raptor V3 attained 350 bar chamber
pressure on the tripod test stand at spacex's McGregor test stand producing 269 tons of thrust
Starship is currently powered by Raptor V2 engines with more modifications like electric TVC coming
online starting with booster 9. before announcing the V3 classification for this most recent
Milestone test musk had previously mentioned that there would be another upgrade frequently referred
to as Raptor 2.5 the hls program's biggest obstacle is getting many agencies and vendors to
adhere to the Artemis timeline hls Starship won't be the pace item according to earlier statements
made by musk NASA Representatives highlighted the Apollo program as an example where launches were
made without the lunar lander since it wasn't ready we are considering all options because
of the Reliance on that schedule and we've asked all of our contractors to increase their output
as much as possible because of course we really really want to fly this mission in accordance
with the way we have planned it but continuing to fly is also crucial from an insurance perspective
as a result we're requesting that everyone gather as much Hardware as they can for us
and then depending on where we are with the rest of the production we will select those missions
based on the hardware that is available just as they did during Apollo when they downloaded and
flew missions when the Lander wasn't ready that's kind of our broad goal which we believe is crucial
to convey to all of our vendors including SpaceX from a production perspective it's
uncertain when Starship will start to fly again because a few things need to be done first for
instance with spacex's assistance the U.S Federal Aviation Administration is still looking into the
launch accident additionally a collection of environmental organizations is suing the FAA on
the grounds that the agency failed to adequately examine the potential harm that Starship launches
could do to the local ecosystem sin says NASA pointed out SpaceX must carry out a number
of Starship launches before the vehicle starts carrying Artemis Personnel a rather quick return
to flight would be necessary for Artemis 3 to have any hope of achieving the 2025 date having said
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