Why SpaceX Built A Stainless Steel Starship
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[3] www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-spacex-agree-on-plans-for-crew-launch-day-operations
[4] www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124016989000021
[5] spaceflight101.com/msl/msl-aeroshell-and-heat-shield/
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Utter fantasy, you will know this one day, SpaceX is a scam, a squillion dollar one who, like NASA; have done precisely FA in space. We have nothing up 'there' and never will, its not possible. Go ahead and rage, its cold hard truth and every human on earth will know it in the end. Check it out or be duped fools - your freedom of choice. Have a great day all.
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Virgin Galactic
Because of all the imaginary giant magnets in fake space
Hey where is the 1.03 problem
Elon is the epitome of "Because I can"
I wish I could like this video more then once.
"you know it's real because it looks so fake" there you go, nuff said. Keep on repeating what you've been told.
Rocket fuel can’t melt steel
THIS IS WHAT I CALL SCIENCE!!
I Hope this will be an success for humanity👍
Space needs flat packs
5:05 , you say that CNC ing isogrid from thicker material produces a lot of waste (95%). This is most likely not true. It is recycled. It is easy to remove lubricants and remelt it, or as a part of another batch, and create another cast.
It is just the problem of time and big machine required. These machines are rather costly, and it probably day or two to machine out one section even when toolpaths are optimized and very high feed rates are used with first past done using coarse milling and big tools.
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Get to the point fuck head! Or go find your Lucky Charms.
Oh? I am surprised that you are still will Patreon, I thought it's business model was "unsustainable" according to their CEO.
What is an “irt form?”
the thing looks like a z movie set prop or even a 50's movies rocket model.
Well, it's just a hopper-type engine and landing automatics test platform - they can allow themselves to make it look like this without losing any functionality.
Nice video, but, I have in the past 2 months have become a flat earth believer. I do NOT believe in outer space. It was ridiculous when I was a child, but I accepted it (stupidly I did), but now I trust common sense over NASA,
So it wont rust at the bottom of the ocean...
They made it just to look like a Naboo Cruiser.
😄
Magnetics not fuel.
Why do you pronounce Mars with an E. You say Mers. Lol thought you were supposed to be smart.
That’s thrown my papier-mâché idea straight out the window
Bloody acrylic paint has just cost me an arm and a leg aswell :(
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Whoever gives this video the thousanth dislike is an idiot, because why dislike the video?
Lotta video for not giving the answer... It's Radiation... Only the stage that will carry souls needs to be SS as radiation will bounce off of it rather then passing through or being absorbed and still have a chance at reentry. Twice! First and or second stages can be made out of whatever can hold, launch and push the fully loaded "Star Hopper" to Mars or wherever.
We are so backward as a species. My money is not on Musk because Musk is *Full* *Of* *Shyte!*
We must work on defeating aging. Mars will be here for a long time. But Musk's body will decay unless he invests into defeating aging
The picture in the thumbnail looks like The Planet Express from Futurama
It’s a submarine you morons
stainless steel is only one property of this steel. Nanotechnologies allows us to create today alloys that we couldn't made before .
These guys say aluminum in a way that makes it sound like it was invented in the future, in the MCU, and then traveled through another dimension and backwards in time using the infinity stones to get to earth. And that's where aluminum foil comes from.. I mean, "AL-you-mini-yum"
Still amazes me what people can do these days but we cant save the planet...sad.
fake !!!!!!!!
Cause Elon knows
A mission to mars is exciting and all but I can't help thinking that putting all that talent, effort, and money into fusion power generation research would be a better pay off for the resources used. So ya maybe one day we can go colonise another planet in the very far future but we need solutions to survive till then far more urgently.
You can not just call stainless steel steel
When are we gonna build mobile suites.
This is a Test Mule, a Sub-Orbital Motor testing rocket. Think Little Joe.
Or Grasshopper, their previous machine of the same kind.
Blessed to see every launch since 1990 in person living in Cape Canaveral
CANNABIS
U mean they faked a video of a cgi rocket launching.
This is where steel really.... *Shines*
instead of humanity focusing on politics, we should focus on such stuff as space travel!
It's odd that i never heard of them trying the aluminum and carbon fiber laminate which is carbon fiber between two layers of aluminum. It doesn't require the same autoclave curing as basic CF does and it's shape-able. It's not the easiest to weld but the results are impressive and it has a double hull like protection if something goes wrong.
'Shit Show' really. You were professional the whole way through and then throw in 'Shit Show' Kind of cheap. Next time skip it.
The StarSHIP is the full-sized human-rated vehicle that will go to Mars. The StarHOPPER is an unmanned test rocket that will only go to five miles of altitude and is solely used to test operations and the engines for the 'real' ship. You keep mixing the terms up and saying that the StarHopper will go to Mars.
7:04 - I see what you did there...
That's precious
"aluminium" is not how you say it, you stupid Limey bastard.
Daily problems being recently introduced?
Please don't lie for advertising… I've heard of those from the start with the advertising, maybe ~ Nov 18.
Gen. Aladeen is not impressed... Why is the rocket round? it should be pointed!!!
Just sounds like a large bird cage for me tbh
ez
elon is like a smart idiot smart in that hes done things that make some sense and solves problems and then he goes and pushes hyperloop and other silly ideas like cold gas powered cars
Answer: It looks cool and are no fingerprints in space.
They've made the retrospace rocketship a reality! It's a dream come true!
Good man.... Haha
Anybody get an answer to the question?
Nice work (subscribed) One correction, it's a SPACEship not a STARship. (Unless of course this thing can reach another Sun) :)
Why can't they honey cone that stainless steel
Its not Musk's design, its the design of the people who actually work at space x
The moronic way of doing things we have and do today, wasting 95% of a material, the reason is expensive, you could put into modular molds and assemble together, to maximize material and fabrication time/process and make the rockets reusable. Also Rockets are not only great polluters, but highly inefficient from the load to space POV, a better way is with a SABRE engine aircraft, similar for other planets. Also we could use the H-bomb mechanism in small and controlled way to make nuclear power to work positively for us, immense power, small material. Also discarded rocket/spacecraft stages should be responsibility of the entity that launches it to recover them on an orbital dumpster or direct them to a specific location for reuse/recycling
what accent is this?
Elon Musk should drop the Tesla cars and instead make remote control MarsBots with his SpaceX company, people here can buy or rent, and where YOU CONTROL the FOCUS and where it goes..
ChaChing $$$ !!! ( and when not being used, go into auto hive mode to build human habitat or make rocket fuel for future trips back or beyond ! )
+caav56 Hahaha! Yeah... communication in space has a serious problem - space = time. Good call lol
+caav56 , add AR/VR & AI and make the 1,200 seconds, or 20 minutes seem seamless....
Even without AR/VR & AI the wait would be worth the "FOCUS" ! ( and no more Hocus Pocus )
Some have wait all their Lives ( or more if you include those long dead )
Well, if you don't mind roughly 1,200,000 ms lag...
Good to hear an intelligent irish accent on youtube.
+john jeddysson Thanksh fur kor-ectin me gael! lol
Hey Rev... You mean "schlur".
We don't all slur, but his lack o' cussin is suspicious...
Aitch
So... signing up to brilliant is a mistake? Noted.
If you are brilliant... you get a grant to pay for your research and education - or anybody else.
Copper has higher Thermal Conductivity than Aluminum.
7:04 bdmmm tsss
Probably a lot of American listeners are laughing at how this guy pronounces: Aluminium. Hehe!
Are we really that bad? LOL... I live here and don't get the myopia
Why does it have to return from Mars?
That seems to increase the difficulty by extreme degrees.
Yeah... at this point costing should focus on single-use vehicles. Materials are not there ... yet... for cost.
Service is misspelled @ 7:10
Why do we want to go to Mars anyway?
To pay homage and bring sacrifices to the gods.
That isogrid structure has a problem I see. It's diagonally positioned. Further resistance to buckling would be achieved if it lined up straight. Test this one yourself, make two tubes of cloth(same size) but one with the weave diagonal and the other straight, then fill each with a long balloon keeping the pressure of each the same. Now try to buckle each. The one with diagonal weave will be substantially weaker.
Curiously I found this in an article describing why penile erections can be so stiff. (The tissue fibers run straight both around the circumference (one layer) and lengthwise another layer)
Send the Farting Cows to Mars.
Very good video
I have been opening a package of peanuts for this entire video, and I have still not gotten them…
Please someone give me scissors
Elon Musk is the best!
I love SpaceX
My question is not, "Why they built it that way," but why it looks like it was rolling down the hill? Musk has the experience and the technology to build a nice-looking and aerodynamic vessel: instead, we see something coming from 1930's comic books... worse I would say
It's just a hopper-type test platform for engines and landing automatics. Actual Starship will be more like BFR from 2018, except from stainless steel and with transpiration-type heat shield.
You keep pronouncing aluminium correctly, but type out "aluminum alloy" (3:50)?
Can it really be called a star ship if it doesn't travel to another star?
He shouldn't call it a starship. It is not visiting other stars.
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#maxserice ;D
Why on earth are they doing the trip on one ship? Why don't they use a reusable ship assembled in space to fly to mars and use seperable an entry-and-return-vehicle on mars?
Uh, 300 or 400 series?
Once again REALITY...WHITE PEOPLE invent and build..Blacks destroy and are cluless LOW IQ morons!
Does anyone else get the same sense that this is going to end up being just a big April Fool's joke?
None of this matters no rocket has gone to "space" they all end up in the sea and a clean up team is scrambled to recover , its all fake wake up remember the van Allen belt just for starters
why they don t use a parachute with the solar wind to slow down the vessel orbiting around mars?
Oddly enough in the movie "Gattaca" the rockets look like they were made from stainless steel..
Ron Schlorff I know, but that was the last recent movie where a rocket looked like that..
Also un the new star trek films, the enterprise looks made from metal, and not a polymer..
every sci fi movie of the 50-60's had shiny rockets. Back to the future I guess.
Arent the developments in Texas the prototype hoppers and the rocket is in California and going to be transported to Texas later?
Aluminum is what your saying right
Or alu minium or something
Whatever your saying
If it is aluminum
Like I think you said
When you said steel isn’t 2x stronger then aluminum
I laughed
I can pour a aluminum bar inch thick and bend it
I can pour a half inch thick steel bar
And can pull a muscle trying too bend it
How the fuck does one make a aluminum
Basically the paper of metal
Stronger then steel
The concrete of metal
From a laymen. Would bright stainless steal resist radiation?
But...what about the Van Allen belt?
What the heck is alimeniam? Lol!
Ha, ha, ha. Spaceship what for, to crash it into the ocean?
Ahluminiouminum...
Why not a 7075 or 7078 alloy with the added alloying element Scandium? Seems to be readily available. Why not Titanium alloy? Not as available, but availability can be developed. All insights appreciated.