SpaceX's Starship Unleashed the Fury, and New Insights Into Flight Test 3!

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Thanks for the congrats, Marcus! You've always done things the right way from Day 1 and are a super great guy and friend to deal with throughout. Most importantly, it's good reporting in these exciting times, so the amount of new people you'll have attracted to spaceflight via consistently solid content and overviews is good for us all!

THAN K YOU for all of the updates!!!!! I look forward to your videos every week!!

Marcus you make my Saturday's a little bit better, thank ya ❤

It is incredible seeing Starbase grow since the beginning

I loved the comparison of flight profiles between F9 and Starship. They have a lot to learn about SS and how she behaves in the reentry regime.

Mars sample return.. Starship can bring back the rovers too! And put a cybertruck there for later use....

Scrap SLS and put the astronauts on a Dragon to dock with Starship in earth orbit then starship to the moon? I'm sure this has been raised before.

Thanks Marcus! Awesome update as always! I might be hungry and needing coffee on this early Saturday morning but I can already hear the kids running and screaming downstairs. Just a few more minutes hiding in bed... Dad needs his space news

Huge fan of how the space news creators get along so well. That’s the way it should be! Great vid

I can’t wait to hear the sonic boom from the starship booster eating the atmosphere. Need a camera in the landing zone. 😮😊

I suspect raptors have thermal equilibrium issues when in a vacuum for a while after the initial burn. The booster relit because only a few seconds had passed since the initial burn. But it was minutes before the final booster burn relight was attempted. During this time, methalox may have evaporated near pump turbines and created a gas bubble that acted like insulation. Which then allowed heat build up from a hot part of the Raptor. After a few minutes the engines are no longer cold enough to safely relight. This is just a suspicion and i wonder if a Raptor was ever tested on a stand then allowed to sit 20 minutes then relit without precooling. How do we know the failed relite in space was due solely to methalox disruption into the pump and not a thermal shock issue?

The work pace of this people is off the charts in the aerospace field...

Thanks for the great recap Marcus. Regarding the booster, I wonder why more is not mentioned about the timing of when things seemed to go wrong. If you look at about the T+6:45 mark of the flight, the booster passes through a cloud layer (incredible sight, btw) and immediately becomes unstable. Prior to launch, there was concern about upper level winds. I can't help but think there was some wind shear at that cloud layer which the grid fins and attitude control thrusters were unable to cope with. Especially at the speed the booster was traveling.

Brilliant ! Thank you for your observations !

I think you need to prioritize a whole segment on the first Polaris Dawn mission. They are launching in a couple months. New EVA suit designed by Space X has it's debut in May. This is as groundbreaking as Starship. First space walk by private company (not NASA/Russia/China. Furthest distance from Earth by humans since Apollo. Suit may be used on Moon/Mars. I just wish Space X would do about 20 of these missions instead of a couple, so we can learn to live/work in space while Starship developed.

Thanks Marcus! Great work and again, enjoyed spending Saturday morning with you!

Excellent video, as usual. If the booster fails to light before landing, it will hit the deck at one hell of a speed. That will be one hell of a sight.

Thanks for the update Marcus!

Thanks for a great show. They are all interesting.