Elon Musk just confirmed Starship flight Test 2 official date SpaceX is determined to launch
its next attempt soon following an epic test of the Starship rocket late last month in the
turmoil that ensued at its facilities in Boca Chica Texas SpaceX has been working
on the Starship rocket for a while now in terms of thrust and payload capacity it is the largest
rocket in the world the company began testing the Rocket's first stage in 2020 however after
a while it decided to concentrate on creating the first stage super heavy booster so it ceased the
entertaining test campaigns the Rocket's first orbital flight which took place last month was
the culmination of these efforts however it revealed a grave oversight on spacex's side
in calculating the impact that the 16.7 million pound thrust rocket could have on the launch pad
in keeping with its tradition of moving quickly SpaceX has just submitted a new application to
the Federal Communications Commission which includes information about the company's next
test run and in today's episode we will find out the confirmed date and other preparation
SpaceX have been doing after the Epic First Flight attempt hello everyone and welcome
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don't miss out on any of our amazing videos after the first test flight in April Elon Musk promised
that a second Starship will be launched within a few months the SpaceX CEO is now making good on
that promise Monday SpaceX submitted a request for a license to the Federal Communications Commission
asking for permission to begin operations as early as June 15th and continuing at any time
up to December 15th the mission stated goal is an experimental orbital demo and Recovery test of the
Starship test vehicle implying that the world may witness the spacecraft departing our planet
the first launcher's intended outcome however changed when the 395-foot stack did not succeed
to separate four minutes after liftoff detracting from its initial intentions musket simply intended
to get Starship off the launch pad with the April launch so it was considered a success however the
enormous explosion inflicted damage it needs to be fixed before spacex's next Grand attempt at glory
at 9 33 a.m eastern time the gigantic 395-foot stack which included the super heavy rocket and
Starship launched for its first orbital launch however it caught fire four minutes later the
super heavy gigantic craft failed to detach when Elon musk's team engaged the flight termination
device throwing it into an uncontrollable death spin although the result wasn't ideal Elon Musk
NASA and the SpaceX team are nonetheless happy with it because the main objective was to get
Starship off the launch pad during the company's live video in April SpaceX principal integration
engineer John insprocker said now this was a development test starship's first test flight
the objective is to get the data as well as as we stated to clear the pad and get ready to go
on again as a result you can never predict what will happen but as we said there will be plenty of
excitement and Starship gave us a pretty stunning way to wrap up what so far was an incredible test
uncertainty surrounds the timeline leading up to now for SpaceX although the firm had previously
stated that its Engineers would examine every piece of information gathered from the first
launch in order to enhance the second musk added that a number of Starship Rockets are awaiting
their opportunity to shine the launchpad's damage which made it appear like a battle Zone after the
Starship took off is the only remaining obstacle for SpaceX to overcome space flight now stated
in a tweet that the orbital Mount was heavily damaged and that Starship left a large crater in
the concrete under the launch Mounds the statement also contained many images of the debris drone pad
some of the damage was also captured on camera by Max Evans a photographer for nasaspaceflight.com
Evans wrote in a conversation on Twitter that it was difficult to imagine the site
being usable again in under a 12-month timeline would be happy to be proven wrong Jonathan Goff
a space entrepreneur and engineer was marginally more upbeat about how long the repairs might take
we will likely have to wait at least seven to nine months before we have another sssh meaning
Starship and super heavy flight of any kind due to the damage launch pad and the necessity to modify
the launch infrastructure Goff stated on social media that he believed it would take one year to
complete a successful orbital flight regardless of the craft exploding in Flames the SpaceX crew
reportedly broke open champagne bottles and screamed go Starship following the blast the
executive team of the company led by musk has emphasized the experimental nature of the launch
on numerous occasions and declared any outcome in which Starship was able to leave a launch pad a
success it was not always intended for the mission to finish with the destruction of the Starship
rocket which was play into orbit the Earth for nearly an hour before colliding with the Pacific
but even if there are delays the cost will be quite High the entire Endeavor according to Moscow
cost between 3 billion and 10 billion dollars musk warned last month that there was a 50 possibility
that a spaceship could explode during the test flight so he was prepared for a disastrous launch
about 20 minutes after the craft caught fire the billionaire praised the SpaceX team on Twitter
congratulations at SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship musk wrote in a tweet
many lessons were learned for the upcoming test launch after thereafter SpaceX said on Twitter
that its team would examine the data and work toward a subsequent launch of the rocket as if
the flight test wasn't spectacular enough Starship underwent a quick unforeseen disassembly prior to
Stage separation according to a tweet from SpaceX according to SpaceX success with a test like this
comes from what we learn in today's test will help us improve the dependability of Starship as SpaceX
seeks to make life multi-planetary the recent test flight of Starship the information obtained from
it and the consequent design modifications that would be included into the following test launch
were all praised by NASA managers responsible for the human Race's next trip to deep space
X is expected to launch a significant number of Starships prior to citing the contract for
the human Landing system or hls which will involve numerous tanker vehicles in a crude
Lander launch site repairs at Starbase are still ongoing in preparation for the continuation of
the test Campaign which is aimed for an orbital success this year the hls option a contract which
requires for a system demonstration of all of its components was given to SpaceX in 2021 the
Lander must be docked to the Orion spacecraft the crew must be transferred from Orion to the Lander
in lunar orbit an extra vehicular activity must be carried out after the laner touches
down on the lunar surface and the crew and other materials must be brought back from the surface
uncrewed and crew demonstration missions were both part of option A the hls option b contract
which covers the Artemis 4 lunar mission was won by SpaceX in late 2022 as a result of this initial
agreement in order to develop a sustainable human Landing system for the Artemis 5 moon mission NASA
is expected to reveal a second hls Lander option on Friday the unmanned lunar demo Mission will be
launched in 2024 ahead of the Artemis 3 mission in 2025 according to the current NASA timeline
to enable the lunar Starship to be refueled on orbit before its route to the Moon each Mission
will need to relaunch 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. this week Amit castria Deputy assistant administrator for the moon tomorrow's
program and the exploration systems development Mission directorate at NASA headquarters provided
an update to the NASA advisory Council human exploration and operations the star base is
bustling with Hardware of all kinds as you are all aware they conducted its flight test they
reached an apogee of roughly 39 kilometers before the emissions termination according to kashatria
we gathered a ton of data from that flight and the team is eager to put the next ship and
booster together and incorporate any changes to the design that upcoming Mission will be carried
out by booster 9 and an unconfirmed spacecraft the former of which it was already known to have
many enhancements over the previous 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 booster 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 the
main focus of ongoing testing preparation efforts is the launch site one thing to take note of is
the flight termination system's recertification which was necessary when booster 7 refused to shut
down when the FTS was engaged after it started to lose control late in the first stages flight
this week a test that was probably connected to this attempt took place as spacex's Massey's test
facility when the B6 test tank was successfully split apart kashatria stated we have a cup
couple of team members in the hls program that are engaged with the FAA and SpaceX before stating
they are primarily monitoring and reporting that spacex's crew is knowledgeable about what they are
doing they are really that good I mean they are aware of the general process for incorporating
their Data before the end of the year SpaceX may be able to launch numerous flights from Star base
provided that the improvements to the launch site permit a pad turnaround without a need for
a protracted period of repairs in order to enter the hls demo this would allow for a refilling test
to take place they are analyzing a leak and boil off to see how it will influence the mission's
propellant aggregation phase so I don't want to go too far down the road in terms of you know talking
about that until they settle on their engineering side continued kashatria adding that development
is well underway on the crew version of Starship presumably a reference to the life support system
SpaceX is an essential collaborator I had the opportunity to see what was going on at Hawthorne
for a whole 12-hour shift with the team when I say in terms of raptor production I'm referring to
what they have developed for the starship's eclss or environmental control and life support system I
will say that NASA are totally partnered with them in terms of how they are interpreting the data I
have a lot of faith that SpaceX is receptive to our suggestions and vice versa casatria added a
new Milestone was reached for the Raptor program recently when raptor V3 tested on the tripod test
stand as spacex's McGregor test stand and produced 269 tons of thrust at 350 bar chamber pressure as
with booster 9 additional improvements such as electric TVC will be operational aboard Starship
in addition to the Raptor V2 engines that are already in use but before announcing the V3
designation for this most recent Milestone test musk had already mentioned that there was yet
another upgrade coming frequently referred to as Raptor 2.5 multiple agencies and vendors fitting
into the Artemis timeline is the biggest issue facing the hls program hls Starship won't be the
pace item as musk has promised the Apollo program or the lunar lander wasn't ready and launchers
were made without it was highlighted by NASA officials as an example since we are dependent
on that schedule you know we are considering all of our Alternatives and have 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 how we have planned it however continuing to fly is equally
crucial from an insurance perspective as a result we're asking everyone to collect as much Hardware
as they can for us then depending on where we are in the rest of the production we will select those
missions based on the gear that is available much like they did during Apollo when they downloaded
and flew missions when the Lander wasn't ready that's sort of our overarching strategy and we
think it's really important to communicate to all of our vendors including SpaceX from
a production standpoint and now everything we know about NASA's Return To The Moon Artemis 3.
for space exploration this decade is a crucial one NASA not only achieved incredible success
with the launch of Artemis Swan which tested the capabilities of the Orion Space Capsule but the
Artemis 2 mission is also getting ready and with the Artemis 3 mission Humanity will visit the moon
once again in a short amount of time even though it's still a few years away NASA has released a
lot of information regarding their objectives for human habitation of the lunar surface and
here's everything we currently know about NASA's eagerly awaited Artemis 3 mission using Starship
NASA's SLS rocket will be used for Artemis 1 and even Artemis 2 launches in 2024 but for Artemis 3
the space agency plans to switch to spacex's much anticipated Starship two-stage rocket
which recently underwent its first launch test and ended in a blazing ball of Fire
one of the most noteworthy aspects of the first Artemis mission to return humans to the moon's
surface is that we won't just be landing in the same places that other astronauts have gone before
astronauts will instead be sent to the lunar South Pole by Artemis 3. one of the moon's least studied
regions is its Southern pole the Artemis mission's potential Landing zones which one
day might house a real moon base where astronauts live and work have already been disclosed by NASA
spacesuits of the future it's no secret that NASA astronauts have been using traditional
spacesuits on the International Space Station for a number of years the Next Generation spacesuit
however was developed in collaboration with Axiom Space by NASA to improve movement on the moon
NASA astronauts will wear these brand new spacesuits on upcoming Artemis missions
they have already been unveiled while NASA has not yet disclosed the members of the Artemis 3
crew the space agency has provided a mission map that gives us an indication of what to
anticipate once the mission is launched later this decade a representation available online
outlines this Mission map Artemis 3 has had a lot of expectations to live up to as one of the most
anticipated missions of the decade and it will undoubtedly live up to all of those expectations
once those four astronauts find themselves settling down on the moon's surface to start the
new era of space exploration in person enter goal to inclusivity is the fact that NASA has pledged
at the Artemis 3 mission will be the first to send a woman and a person of color to the moon's
surface it's a tremendous accomplishment that ideally will continue to lower industry hurdles
for upcoming missions when Artemis 3 touches down on the moon there will also be a brand
new moon rover to look forward to a new lunar rover that is innovative is now being developed
by Lockheed Martin and lunar Outpost however other businesses are also working on alternatives
lunch window NASA has not yet disclosed a precise launch window for the third Artemis Mission but
it is currently aiming for a 2025 launch window it will wait until after the performance of the
second Artemis Mission which is scheduled to launch somewhere in 2024 before deciding on a
precise date though Artemis one may have been a success NASA is still waiting to see how the
first crude Artemis Mission performs there's still work to be done on Starship to have it
ready for taking over and it needs to be made sure that Axiom spacesuits are prepared for the moon
prior to launching the Artemis 3 mission NASA may need to change its human Landing strategy
if Starship is unable to fulfill its role as the space agency's human Landing system for any reason
in order to complete system inspections and solar panel changes on Orion the crew will first launch
into Earth orbit Orion will then undertake a trans lunar injection maneuver setting its
route to the Moon with the assistance of a strong push from sls's interim cryogenic propulsion stage
the crew will approach the moon for several days while doing engine burn corrections to intercept
the moon's gravitational field Orion will execute a series of two engine Burns a two position the
spacecraft in a lunar near rectilinear Halo orbits or nrho at the appropriate time and location
access to locations all over the moon and nearly continual connection with Earth are
both provided by nrho this orbit will maximize fuel efficiency because it is gravitationally
balanced between Earth and the Moon in nrho NASA and its Partners will construct the Gateway lunar
space station which will be used as a hub for Artemis missions on upcoming missions
in order to accomplish specific scientific goals the astronauts will gather data explore geology
retrieve samples and shoot photos and videos while on their Moonwalks from images captured
on Apollo missions in the moon's equatorial Zone the view from the lunar South Pole region
will appear drastically differently the team will use head lamps and navigational aids to
explore the areas the sun hovers just above the Horizon spreading long Deep Shadows over
everything our comprehension of the mysterious South Pole region the moon and our solar system
will improve as a result of the data and materials gathered by the Artemis 3 crew
the crew will communicate with Mission Control Personnel on the ground as they describe what
they see hear and feel they will be sharing a special new human experience with the globe
through Mission coverage and the capacity to deliver high quality pictures and videos to the
ground with Cutting Edge communication equipment from this point we can say that the role of
spacex's Starship is very crucial do you think the next flight test of Starship will reach low earth
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