Elon Musk Just Explained What's Going On With Starship Flight 4 Launch Attempt!

so fantastic no doubt Starship will be the best rocket in the world from now on spacex's Rocket has once again soared into the sky and this time they officially landed their giant rocket successfully that's what we call history the history of Aerospace now without any further Ado join us as we dive deep into this wonderful flight everything today at Starbase is incredible right it's the day SpaceX continues The Unfinished story with a new chapter called fully Landing before the flight SpaceX decided to push back the launch by about 50 minutes to 7:50 a.m. CT but of course that couldn't dampen our excitement Right From Dawn 2 hours before launch time the venting process was in full swing at the tank farm olm and launch Tower around 7:00 a.m. CDT about 45 to 50 minutes before launch the fuel loading process began as scheduled more than 10 million pound of fuel were loaded onto the ship and booster just like every previous flight or test ready to fully power this gigantic monstrosity and at 7:50 a.m. it all started just moments before liftoff the water dagee system activated it spraying powerfully to protect the Launchpad from the immense force of the Starship join me in the countdown three 2 one liftoff wow the engines are once again generating thrust that is shaking up the Aerospace industry the brilliant Fire Light and Rising smoke create a stunning backdrop as the Starship ascends from the Launchpad and there it is the spectacular mock Diamond effect a phenomenon not seen with all Rockets but wait something seems to have occurred one engine was not running what happened even so the Starship kept going despite having an engine out it continued its Journey passing through Max Q at t plus 1 minute and 2 seconds and at t plus 1 minute 46 seconds the booster main engine cut off process began with the engines in the outer and middle Rings shutting down leaving only the three inner gimbal engines active just a few seconds later at t+ 2 minutes 51 seconds the engine in s29 fired up and we witnessed the impressive separation thanks to hot staging at this point s29 and v11 officially separated to proceed to the next stages for b11 a few seconds later the 10 middle ring engines reactivated to begin the landing process at t+ 3 minutes 47 seconds those 10 middle engines and then the three inner engines turned off to prepare for the new Step we've been eagerly anticipating hot staging jettison and it happened at 10 plus 4 minutes and 10 seconds the camera angle captured the moment when the hot staging ring smoothly detached from b11 for the first time contributing to a successful Landing process B1 then spent 3 minutes in peaceful descent before heading towards the critical objective it had yet to complete landing at t plus 7 Minutes 9 seconds the 13in internal engines reactivated in conjunction with the git fins for the landing process at this point b11 was only 1 km above the C Surface with its speed rapidly decreasing we could see the engine light emitting strongly as it approached the ocean surface and at around t plus 7 Minutes 22 seconds white smoke Rose signaling that the booster had made contact with the sea surface ending its Journey to the Applause of the control team at Starbase immediately after the live stream redirected to space where s29 was on its own Journey similar to the previous flight s29 exceeded a speed of 26,000 kmph the vacuum and sea level engines then shut down one after another unfortunately SpaceX did not conduct any additional missions during this flight unlike flight 3 the signal was lost for a while but was restored by T plus 36 minutes 36 seconds at this point everything was still going well since we started to see the pink Lights of the plasma effect emitted from the heat shield indicating that the re-entry process had begun with each passing minute the re-entry process became more intense with Sparks and pieces of the heat shield falling away at around t + 57 minutes 23 seconds there was a moment when the forward flap appeared to have started burning subsequently it seemed that the layer of char from the fire flew up and covered the ship's camera making it impossible to see The Landing process clearly however based on the remaining blurry angles we could still see that s29 successfully splashed down with the flap gently swinging in the water although the re-entry was quite harsh it seems that everything Ended as expected and that is the moment that will Mark a new phase of the Aerospace industry SpaceX has done it successfully Landing a fully reusable rocket with this historic moment let's immediately check out the reactions from some key figures during and after the flight many notable tweets appeared SpaceX posted on X Starship Raptor engines have ignited during hot staging separation super heavy is executing the flip maneuver and boost back burn after that Elon Musk also continuously updated successful soft Landing of the Starship super heavy rocket booster despite the loss of many tiles and a damaged flap Starship made it all the way to a soft Landing in the ocean congratulations SpaceX team on an epic achievement Kate Ty SpaceX quality systems engineering senior manager said during live commentary it was so loud here I haven't heard the crowd get that loud probably since liftoff of flight one after the s29 landing SpaceX posted another tweet splash down confirmed congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting fourth flight test of Starship other individuals also gave notable reactions re-entry heat is wicked I've survived it three times learning a lot about the difference between simulation and reality today SpaceX congratulations on both both soft Splash Downs pushing the envelope right to the edge excellent and of course the character that many people are interested in NASA administrator Bill Nelson reacted congratulations SpaceX on starship's successful test flight this morning we are another step closer to returning Humanity to the Moon through Artemis then looking onward to Mars indeed that is what SpaceX will aim for in the future there will be many more flights and missions as they land Rockets with the mechazilla arm build the refueling system and develop Starship hls then they will proceed to the moon and Mars the final door is officially open everyone join me in calling its name again Starship flight 4 next we'll turn to the European Space Agency which has just announced plans for a new rocket the Aran 6 specifically Issa and its Partners have announced a July 9th launch date for the first Aran 6 rocket Issa revealed the launch date at the IL a Berlin Air Show on June 5th after announcing last month that the launch would take place sometime in the first two weeks of July however Issa did not disclose a specific launch time or window for that day Martin Sion chief executive of Aran group the prime contractor for the rocket said the announcement of the scheduled date for Aran 6's first flight puts us on the home stretch of the launch campaign and we are fully engaged in completing the very last steps those final steps include a fueling test and practice countdown known as a wet dress rehearsal or wdr for short Issa had previously stated that the wdr would occur on June 18th and this schedule remained unchanged in the announcement of the launch date the inaugural Aran 6 launch is primarily a demonstration flight it'll carry eight Cube sets from various companies and organizations along with five payloads that will remain attached to the Rocket's upper stage additionally it will deploy two re-entry capsules one developed by Aran group and the other by the exploration company a European startup that recently won an Isa award to establish a commercial cargo spacecraft the centerpiece of this launch is undoubtedly the rocket itself Aran 6 which has faced significant delays holds critical importance for Europe's efforts to resolve a launcher crisis which has temporarily hindered its independent access to space this crisis stemmed from delays in the Aran 6 program the retirement of the Aran 5 the loss of the Solus rocket following Russia's 2020 22 invasion of Ukraine and a Vega sea launch failure in late 2022 Joseph ashbacher director general of Isa highlighted the significance of Aryan 6 stating Aryan 6 marks a new era of autonomous versatile European space travel this powerful rocket represents the culmination of many years of dedication and Ingenuity from thousands across Europe as it launches it will reestablish Europe's independent access to space last month ashbacher mentioned that a qualification review identified several unspecified issues with the launch system that needed addressing before proceeding with the launch he emphasized that none of these issues were considered showstoppers expressing confidence and meeting the then two week window in July for the launch if the inaugural launch proved successful Stefan Israel chief executive of Aryan space stated that a second launch would follow before the end of the year followed by a steady rise to around 10 launches a year once we reach cruising speed in contrast SpaceX conducted 14 launches of its falcon9 rocket in May of 2024 alone yep you just got to remind him who boss in any case folks that's about it for today's episode thank you so much for tuning in and as always this has been Kevin from great SpaceX until next time keep looking up