Hey, everybody, welcome back to the show. This is Stage 0. My name is Will Walden, I'm your host, and today we're going to be talking about Starship Flight 10 from Star Base, Texas. Now, you may be wondering what is going to be happening with Starship this time? What's going to be happening with a ship? What's going to be happening with a booster? I'm going to go over all of that today in this episode. Now, I want to urge you, though, to watch the Starship launch
this weekend. It's going to be phenomenal. Flight 10, which is going to be setting up Starship not only for Flight 11, Flight 12, but for Block 3. Right now they're using Block 2 for the Starship flights, and they're going to be upgrading to flight to Block 3, which is a more powerful rocket in the future. And everything that they do with Block 2 and with this flight, Flight 10 and all the data that they collect from this flight will be used in the Block 3 configuration.
Now, what will they be doing during this flight? There are a few things that they're going to be doing. They're going to be launching the booster and the ship, as per usual from Starbase. They're going to be collecting immense amounts of data from the booster. It's going to be doing the pretty normal booster stuff. It's going to launch the ship. Ship's going to detach.
Booster's going to be doing the flip move slowly precisely landing in the Gulf of Mex America got to see it both things because people get really mad at the comments if I say Gulf of Mexico and some people get really mad when I say Gulf of America. So you kind of say both of them. So those are, that's one of the things that's going to be doing a slow descent into the Gulf. And during that time they're going to be collecting data for the next flight and then the
next flight as well. So they're not going to be coming back to the launch area at all. Now, the ship, the ship is important. The last three ships blew up. Who would have thought, right? Three ships in a row blew up when they were flying at certain different distances and speeds and heights. Now, what is SpaceX have to say about all this stuff? Of course, 10th flight test, August 24th on Sunday, flight time starts at, I think 6:00 PM. Let's let's take a look real
quick. 6:30 PM Central time, SpaceX goes over this on their website. They say of course on their X account they're going to be streaming it and they're going to start like 30 minutes before the launch actually starts after completion. Completing the investigations in the loss of Starship on its 9th test flight, which is this one FAA required investigation to Starship. This is the FAA website. By the way, SpaceX Starship
flight 9 mishap is closed. The FAA is happy that SpaceX invested them, investigated themselves and found no wrongdoing. There's no reports of public injury or damage to public property. The FAA oversaw it accept the findings of SpaceX LED investigation. The final mishap report cites the probable root cause for the loss of the Starship vehicle as
a failure of a fuel component. So basically what SpaceX has to do here or what they had to do is they had to take the data that they got from Flight 9. What the heck happened? And of course, the FAA says a failed fuel component. SpaceX knows that. I said, hey, FAA, this is what happened and this is how we're going to fix it. We're going to show you exactly the steps we're going to take, and then we're actually going to fix it. We're going to show you that, too.
That's what SpaceX did. And then the FAA said, good job, SpaceX. Let's get you flying again. So right here, SpaceX identified the corrected actions to prevent the recurrence of the event. SpaceX also has said the same thing, basically. Now let's get into the flight a little bit, and this is from Spacex's website. Upcoming flight will continue to expand the operating envelope on
the Super Heavy booster. I love this wording with multiple landing burn tests planned and will also target similar objectives as previous missions. Basically going to be the same thing, including Starship's first payload deployment and multiple re entry experiments geared towards returning the upper stage to the launch site for catch. So they're not going to send the upper stage to the launch site for catch yet.
Now these are experiments. Re entry experiments geared towards returning the upper stage. Meaning the upper stage is going to do experiments, they're going to take that data and they're going to use it on future flights. That's how are they going to get the ship back to the launch site. Now, they haven't been able to land the ship in a while. Last three flights, kaboom. No way to land it when it's in a
million pieces. I mean, I guess technically the pieces landed, but the ship as a hold in the land. The booster for the flight is attempting several flight experiments to gather real world performance data on future flight profiles and off nominal scenarios. So we could see, and this is all speculation, we could see the booster do a routine landing burn, pretty standard stuff. They've shown that they can do that so many times. But why would they do that again?
They've caught the booster at the launch site. Why would they do that again off nominal scenarios? Could they just be testing this thing to fail? It's a possibility. It's a possibility of that they could. I got a water bottle, right? Pretend this is the booster. Booster comes in pretty normal, flows down pretty pretty simple. Now if the booster is off nominal and coming towards a tower, what do they do?
If it's off nominal coming towards the tower, they have to reorient it, fix it to fix it in flight. Because if they don't fix it in flight after a certain time frame, wipes out the tower, wipes out the launchpad. SpaceX is set back months, if not years, because the FAA will investigate it and they'll shut it down. So these off nominal scenarios, it's not just for fun, people. This is because SpaceX wants to check out every scenario before the bad stuff happens. SpaceX is wild, right?
We know they're wild. They do wild things. When the original kind of skunk works of Starship, when I was there, they were just kind of throwing things at the wall hoping things worked. You know, when they were down, when they were doing the, the, the original tests, right? And they had all the, the single engines and things and they were flying those down at Starbase and all they had was gravel and sand in a few like army tents. You know what, like that was wild. That was an experiment.
That was them thinking it might work. Now they know that it does work. And now they have to get to the next phase, which is we're going to be launching 10 boosters per day if we're going to send a ship to Mars, right? If we're going to send a ship to Mars, what they need to do is get fuel into orbit as fast as possible into the tankers. So they need to have these boosters coming back, loading back up ships as fast as possible.
So if anything's off nominal and they have to ditch the booster in the Gulf, they lose a booster, they lose time, they lose money, and they also lose the ability to refuel that ship in a time frame that they expected. So anything that's off nominal, the booster, woo Hoo, you know, going wow all over the place. They have to fix that mid flight. How do they do that? They test it in real world conditions.
That's what they're going to be doing with this and hopefully we'll be able to see that this weekend. We'll attempt these experiments while on a trajectory to an offshore landing point and not return to the launch site following stage separation of the booster will do a flip control direction before initiating its boost back burn.
This maneuver will demonstrate for the first time on Flight 9 or it was demonstrated on the first time Flight 9 and requires less propellant to be held in reserve. Primary test objectives for the booster will be focused on its landing burn and will use unique engine configurations. One of the three center engine used for the final phase of landing will be intentionally disabled. This could make it spin out of control, Could make it go wild.
But that's what they want. They have to gather real world data on the ability for a backup engine from the middle ring to complete a landing burn. Wild. It's crazy. Buser will then transition to only two center engines for the end of the landing burn, entering a full hover while still above the ocean surface, followed by a shutdown and drop into the Gulf of Ameriko. Americo Starship upper stage will again target multiple in space objectives. Starlink simulators.
I got to open that door. People on Reddit love to yell about this and scream about this into the void. How can SpaceX? Make a rocket. How can they make a giant rocket that's 400 and 500 feet tall but the kid just. Open up a. Door in space. I've said it. I'm going to own up to it. I'm that I'm one of those people. How do you, how do you make a giant rocket and then you can't open up a door?
I know it's harder than that. It's not a garage door where you push a button and it goes up. I know it's more difficult than that, but it's still funny. You know, you got to call them out on some of this stuff and I'm sure the engineers are like, oh man, right. So you're going to be doing several experiments. Significant number of tiles have been removed from Starship to stress test vulnerable areas across the vehicle during re entry. The stress test might just blow up another Starship.
Multi motelic tile options, including one with active cooling, will test alternative materials for protecting Starship during re entry. If they could reduce the amount of tiles, they will reduce the complexity of the ship and will reduce the complexity of the reentry of the ship, which in the future will be great because A they can build ships faster and B they can refurbish ships faster to fly again.
Because if you have think about it like this, if you can cut down 1000 tiles, say if the thing has 2000 tiles, you cut that in half, you have 1000 tiles. That's half the work and either way, building it or recovering it. So on the size of the vehicle, functional catch fittings are installed and we'll test the fittings thermal and structural performance because they have to
catch this thing eventually. Along with a section of the tail line receiving a smooth and tapered edge to address hotspots observed during re entry, a Starship 6th test flight. So as you can see, flights way back to six are determining what they're doing for Flight 10. So anything for Flight 10 could determine what they're going to be doing for Flight 16. Something like, I don't know, somewhere in the future. Everything builds on each other, right?
All the data that they get from Flight 1 builds up to Flight 10. It's all in a part of the same system. Starship for entry profile is designed to intentionally stress the structural limits of the upper stages, rear flaps while at the point of maximum entry, dynamic pressure. Now I'm going to say it, and I want you to probably say it too, but RIP in peace for the ship because they're going to be structurally testing the limits of the upper stages rear flaps.
I don't think that's going to make it it while at the point of maximum entry dynamic pressure. They've never done this before. This is the first Test of this. So let me know in the comments, what do you think? Oh, please, please. What do you think? Do you think it's going to make it? This is stressing me out, Elon. The intentional stress, the structural limits of the upper stages, rear flaps without the maximum point of of entry, dynamic pressure. Come on, SpaceX, we don't want
to lose another ship. What are you going to do? Can't do anything. It's going to blow up. The thing's going to things going to blow up. It's over. I'm done. I'm just I'm done. Goodbye. Flight tests continue to provide valuable learnings to inform the design of the next generation Starship. Super heavy vehicles production ramping up. OK, so it's going to blow up. Starship's going to blow up.
Boosters going to blow up. Maybe, who knows, maybe we'll lose both FAA they're OK everything's going for the FAA Flight 10 August 4th. This is a long time ago, July 11th, but this is a post by Luke LFG. Of course, this is for the for the flight operations of Starship Flight 10 launch vehicle communications for test Flight 10 mission launching from Starbase, Texas. And this is for the Super heavy booster.
And basically the FCC is saying it's OK for them to communicate between the booster, the ship and the ground. So that's all go there's a no Tim now for French Guyana, a risks of elements fallout during launch of ship flight 10 Starship flight 10 August 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th September 2nd September 3rd. So those are kind of a, an idea
of the flight dates. If something doesn't work on the 24th, which is this Sunday, the 25th is a possibility, 26th is a possibility, 27th is a possibility, etcetera, etcetera. Same for Cuba, Havana, Havana, August 25th, 26th, 27th, September 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th. So basically what we're expecting is Starship to fly this Sunday and if it doesn't, then you know, basically a backup days. That's what that is. It's backup days for the ship flight 10.
And of course, before we actually get to it and know exactly when it's going to fly, we always go to the road closures, Rd. closures. Since it's Sunday, today is what day is today, Tuesday, today's Wednesday. So we still, we still have a few days before the road closures will actually come into effect, maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day, but we're going to see if the Starship, if Starbase is
going to close down the roads. And you know, SpaceX has better reach on this stuff because they have the, the orders to close down these roads. So they'll close them down when they need to. But there's no, there's no word from the government yet about closing down the roads of Hwy. 4. Highway 4, if you're not familiar, is the road that goes all the way down Starbase. You can drive along Hwy. 4 and you can basically drive like kind of through Starbase. It's really, it's a really weird
thing. I lived there for about a year and did on the on the road reporting and I was you basically drive down Hwy. 4 the whole way all the way to the beach. And on the way to the beach, on the left side there is the production facility and on the right side now there's Massey's too, which is the one test facility before you actually get to like star base proper. But on the left side there's the big star base facility.
And then if you keep going down about a mile, going around kind of a curvy curve and at like right by the beach, there's a giant rocket launch facility that you can just pull up on. It's wild. And they close it down for these rocket launches because they don't want anybody to get hurt,
basically. And there's a 7 mile kind of radius around it, 7:00-ish mile radius around it where you're not supposed to be on your boat in your plane or in person or anything, any, anything near it. So they closed all of that off before, you know, before they do any of these flights. So if you're going to one, if you're going to flight 10, I urge you to stay outside of the seven mile range. You can go to South Padre Island. South Padre Island is pretty cool.
Was there a bunch during doing reporting and talking to people before the flights and things? And I was there before the 1st flight, so I didn't get a chance to see one of these flights. I'm actually working on it, so hopefully I'll get to see one of these flights. And if some of you are wondering where I've been, life is wild. That's all I got to say. Very happy. Life is wild and it's just good
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