SpaceX Confirms Starship Launch Date! Flight 4 Ready! (Pushed to June 5th just after we published!)

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I'm not sure how recent this is but spacex has updated their website adding info for flight 4. A flip and propulsive landing of the ship do sound bloody incredible. it also says launch NET 5th June

I saw flight 4 the other day, I was like holy cow how’d I miss this , turns out it was just a highly edited livestream from a channel renamed to SpaceX (live).

If Flight 3 managed to reach re-entry, I wouldn't be surprised if they manage to get it to splashdown! Excitement definitely guaranteed!

Just a pronunciation tip: Early in the vid, talking about removing pearlite insulation, the trucks used aren't (vacall) vay-cal, they're vac-all. As in vacuum all, they're vacuum trucks, built for material removal, using suction. I hope that helps! :)

Blue Origin did not resume "crewed missions". They resumed passenger tourist flights. I'm fully supportive of space tourism but BO's (and Virgin Galactic's) pretense that they're launching "astronauts" as part of a "crew" on a "mission" to "space" is ridiculous. EDIT: As usual, some people in the comments are trotting out the argument that "astronaut just means person who has traveled in space" and therefore these tourists are astronauts. But that's simply wrong. Logically, factually, historically wrong. NASA has NEVER used the word astronaut that way. Astronauts may receive their astronaut WINGS after they've crossed the technical definition of space, but that's not what makes them astronauts. They are already astronauts long before they ever receive their wings because Astronaut is a PROFESSION, a Vocation, a Job, a Calling. A profession requiring enormous training and carrying huge responsibilities. This is how the term has always been used. Every time NASA introduces a new mission crew or new graduates from its training program, the people aren't introduced as "not-yet astronauts" or "soon-to-be astronauts". They are introduced as ASTRONAUTS, full stop. When Crew-1 was announced, NASA didn't say "here are our THREE astronauts plus our non-astronaut Victor Glover who hasn't been to space yet." No, of course not. NASA said "here are the FOUR ASTRONAUTS for Crew-1". This is how NASA has always used the term, from the very start of the space program, beginning with the original Mercury 7 astronauts. The fact that it refers to a profession is why we can also talk about FORMER astronauts and RETIRED astronauts. If the term simply referred to crossing a threshold (went above Karman Line, graduated from college, survived into adulthood) it wouldn't make any sense to be "former" something that is merely a historical FACT. You can't be a FORMER adult or FORMERLY a person who graduated college. Once you've become an adult or graduate, you will always be an adult or graduate. You also can't be a "retired" something if that something is a historical fact rather than an ongoing activity (job, profession).

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I'm no rocket surgeon, but I really dislike the look of the Starlink dispenser door mechanism. Generally SpaceX designs give me a lot of intuitive confidence. Their engineers will have all sorts of parameters and priorities I don't know, but based purely on what I've seen, I would have the door rotate about the central axis of Starship, sliding sideways along rails around the diameter of the payload bay. My thinking is it could be driven by small electric motors with plenty of gearing for torque, multiple redundancy of motors, and a more consistent sliding action which can even help alignment, rather than a jerky open-shut. I'm sure this will be wrong, for reasons I don't know, but I'd love a deep dive explanation from Elon or Spacex as to why they've gone with it hinging up and inwards.

Great breakdown on the workings of the fueling system, always love your videos Felix. Thank you for the hard work.

Thanks for the enlightening show this week. So you headed down there for the 4TH flight? You lucky man.

Thanks for all the great info, Felix and team! Just a note, as a physicist: temperature units are written ºC or ºF. The degree symbol and the letter indicating the scale (Celsius or Fahrenheit) go together, there's no space between them. So -218 ºC is correctly written, -218º C is not. You rock!

Heat-Shield Tiles are almost certainly a good solution. It’s just the Stud attachment that needs a bit of redesign to make them hold onto the tiles, and not let them shake loose.

Another great video, best space news on YT!

Love your channel, Felix🙂

Very useful information Felix, thank you. It’s an “oh, now I understand moment.” Which happens often when I watch your show.

W-D-R and Wet Dress Rehearsal have the same number of syllables. Not saving any time using the abbreviation.

Keep up the good work! You're always so diligent with your reports!

Don't think I can make the party, but hope to come for a later version. Thanks for all your videos Felix.

Love ur work Felix & gang. From down under. I think this flight is the 1..

Love waking up to a new WAI video!