Hey everybody, welcome back to the Elon Musk Podcast. This is a show where we discuss the critical crossroads, the shape, SpaceX, Tesla X, The Boring Company and Neurolink. I'm your host, Will Walden. There we go. OK, so I'm going to I'm going to show you something that happened earlier today, which I wasn't expecting at all. I was not expecting this whatsoever, but Flight 7 has been a little bit postponed. And this is according to two
sources that I have right now. One is one source is Elon Musk, and that happened during his live stream on X. And the other one is from the OIS, which basically tracks all the space flights, you know, Starling flights, the new Blue Origin flight, which is coming up, which if Blue Origin does this, it's going to be pretty sick because if they beat SpaceX to orbit and deploy before Starship, oh man, Elon is going to a a is going to lose it in a good way.
I think he like he's going to be cool with Bezos and Blue Origin making to orbit before them, but he's extremely competitive. Elon's so competitive, and if Bezos and Blue Origin get to orbit and deploy something before Elon, it doesn't matter what it is as long as they deploy something. Elon's going to flip his limb. I think he's going to flip out. I it's either going to be a good flip out or a bad flip out.
Elon's going to get real mad. I think at some of the engineers at SpaceX be disappointed, I should say, because they've been working so hard for so long on the Starship that there's a possibility that Elon Musk would get a little bit upset with all that's going on. So I don't know there, there's a, it's a part of me that wants to think that SpaceX is going to deploy. I mean, they're going to deploy something this round. But who does it first, Elon or Bezos? And a Bezos does this.
And we know Bezos is getting jacked, brother. He's getting, he's getting, I don't know what he's doing his, his whole body. He's he's becoming like alpha male, right. So Bezos is extremely hyper competitive, but also has a similar mindset to Elon about Space Flight. Make a big rocket, send things to orbit. Eventually they'll send stuff to space that can build a space station. They can build habitats in space.
And one of, you know, 100 years down the line, space will be a place that people go. It's just on a normal, on a normal everyday basis, people will be going up there on vacations, living in space, working in space, going to the moon, deploying habitats throughout the solar system in 100 years, 200 years, something like that's what they both want. Elon wants that and Bezos wants that.
So if Elon and Starship get to orbit before Bezos, and of course Elon has said that the Starlinks that they're going to deploy for, for Starship Flight 7 aren't they're, they're basically dummy Starlinks. They're test Starlinks. They don't want to ruin the technology. They don't want to send real Starlinks to orbit on a test flight. That would just be a waste of
money. They can also send those Starlinks later on the next Starship flight, or they can send them on a Falcon 9. So there's no reason for them to fly them on this Starship Flight 7 test. Mind you, Starship is still a test vehicle. Starship isn't completed. We know what you know, we know what it's going to be like when it's done, you know, Ilana said. You know, there's three different versions of Starship. Block One, Block 2, Block 3, Block 2 is coming up.
Block 3, super powerful, but block one, we've seen what happens to block one. Sometimes it doesn't work. Block 2, this is the first block 2 configuration of Starship, so we don't know if it's going to work. Everything from block one seems to be great, but block 2 is bigger, more powerful, can hold more cargo. So we don't know if it's going to work. I mean, the engineers at SpaceX have a pretty good idea if it's going to work, but we don't know exactly, you know, if it's going
to be completely successful. So why waste those Starlink satellites on something that may not work? Some of this is not proven. I hope it works. I really don't. I really do. I'm a huge SpaceX fan, Phil, if if you're not familiar, I spent about 10 to 12 months, almost a year down at Starbase. And I, I recognize your name, but there's a lot of Phillips on on YouTube. So I'm not sure which Phillip you are. I'm from space, from the space
news pod channel. There's another Phillip over there and I'm not sure it's the same one, but I spent about a year down at Starbase just watching SpaceX build this rocket, the first iteration booster, you know, booster 420 in a booster on ship 420. So I was down there for the very beginning and I've been following them very closely for the last X amount of years. They've been building this thing. I, it changed my life, literally changed my life to what it is now.
And I love doing this podcast, the Elon Musk podcast, but I also have space news pod, which is not a YouTube channel now and also a podcast. So I really want this to work. This next block, Block 2 version of Starship will be fundamentally bigger, better, faster, more powerful, can take more cargo. Apparently it has, you know, the ability to launch Starlinks. Yeah, I knew it, Phillip. I knew you. I Yeah, I recognize you. Yeah. Three to four years. Yeah. And I've.
I think I've seen you in live streams before. So there's other there's a couple other Phillips too, but not just Phillip. So yeah, thanks for also thanks for hanging out and watching for so long. I appreciate it. That's awesome. That's awesome. So over the last, you know, month, I guess I should like reel this back in a little bit Over the last month or two, I haven't been updating Space News pod as much. I've been working on this. I've been working on this podcast in this channel.
Not really this channel as much, but I'm working on the Elon Musk podcast, the actual podcast. I have 860 some odd episodes of that show. Been doing it forever, almost as long as the space news pod. So this is kind of like dip in and out of the space news pod now and I'm focusing on this. But space news pod still exists and that will be updated soon too. So and probably a live video in the next few days. Probably going to go live in the next few days. So there is a postponement
though. Let's get to that. I've been talking about that postponing thing for a little bit. Primary launch day, 11th January, backup launch day, the 13th, January 13th backup is the 15th and also the 16th. So 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th. All those days are for the launch of Starship. Possibly. Now there is a possibility that SpaceX is running into some bad weather here. So SpaceX down in the Gulf of Mexico, right on the tip of Texas.
Starbase, Texas 7 day forecast. It's going to be not that good. 30% chance of showers this afternoon tonight showers, showers Wednesday showers Wednesday night, 50% chance of showers Thursday Friday, 30% chance of showers Saturday mostly sunny, but what are those winds five to seven mph becoming east in the afternoon on Saturday partly cloudy on
Saturday night. And most of the time things are postponed because of horrible weather, you know, or like some, some sort of event that happened to the launch area or to the rocket. But mainly it's usually weather. Usually it's like we just have high winds. We can't do this. Or with a Falcon 9, we have
choppy seas. We can't land the rocket where we want to land it. So they'll postpone it a day or two, but the weather looks horrible for the next whatever 1234, you know, for the whole week basically. So Friday night, Saturday, much better, much better. So hopefully we can get a launch on Saturday, the 11th, 12th, 13th. But we had another thing from our discord on our space news on the Elon Musk podcast discord on the Twitter live stream that's AX live stream.
Elon Musk says that Starship's 7th flight is delayed to sometime next week. Don't know when that is. So I watched the I watched the live stream. I don't know when that is though. I don't You said sometime next week, right. So so it's about a week after which what was thought to be the flight of this Starship. So seven days possible weather. And then we have Elon saying maybe next week. So could could possibly be a week from today.
Could be what day is that on 11th on Saturday, 12th on Sunday, Monday the 13th through the 17th, something like that. So we have the 16th and like anything from the 11th to the 16th is available. So we have Monday, the 13th, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday is up to the 16th right now. So the possibility we could get flight next week and that means that SpaceX is probably going to get beat by Blue Origin. Now the other thing that we always look at here is the road
closures. Public notice Cameron County order temporary close State Highway 4 and Boca Chica Beach 0 Rd. closures and except for these ones, 4:00 AM to 5:00 AM. 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Eighth, intermittent, temporary and intermittent State Highway 4 Rd. delay. So Rd. full Rd. closures. It's usually for the whole day. You know, they'll be like, huh. 4:00 AM to 5:00 AM this one hour, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Three hours, 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM. Those aren't for the launch.
Those aren't for the launch at all. So 8th and the 9th. What are they doing on the 8th? The 9th, I'm not sure. 4:00 to 5:00 AM. So let's see what it says for the road closures we'll be conducting Texas State of Department approved transportation operations on Hwy. 4. So they're moving something on the 8th and the 9th from the factory to the launchpad between 7:00. Between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM. January 9th from 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM. The transport will take
approximately 1 hour. So what are they doing between that time between the 8th and the 9th? Definitely not launching a Starship. Let's go back here. That menu, that big mega menu at the top is horrible by the way, whoever designed that oof, sorry, sorry bro, I mean this, it's great. I'm a web developer, so I look at these things and I'm like, oof, that's just gets in the way. Like if I accidentally mouse up there, not good Anyway, So yeah. Hey, what's up, Simon? How you doing?
Yeah. So I'm not, I'm not sure what they're going to be doing. The launch site from from the Starbase facility, the build facility down to the launch facility. I'm not sure what they're doing. So we'll see what happens. I I think they're moving a hot staging ring. They did that with the last flight too. And apparently they somebody moved it last time or somebody, somebody saw it. I forgot where I saw that. I think it was on Reddit or something. Maybe it was on Discord.
I'm not sure. But we have a Discord at the top of chat too. If you're, if you're interested in this kind of content. And this is all Elon Musk's show. This isn't just SpaceX. So it'll be SpaceX. It'll be anything to do with Elon Musk, any of his stuff. So today more closures for the rollout, 8th and the 9th yeah, so S ship 33's rollout is probably what's going to be what's going to be happening
payload door. So there's been tests as well and I'm I don't this is the discord so I don't have this pulled up but I'm just going to read it off the discord for you so you know what's going on. Ship 33's payload Bay door was closed and a road closure was put in place for pad to factory. Please note this may be a typo as B14 cannot leave the pad unless it's under its own power. 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM Rd. closure identified to be a three hour roll out of a vehicle.
We all know which vehicle that is from the star factory to the launch site. So it looks like they're moving ship 33 from the factory to the pad. So if yeah, so they said this is in our discord. So B14 cannot leave the pad unless it's under its own power. So we know it's ship 33 moving to the pad. So it looks like they're getting ready for this flight. I'm going to put my my hoodie back on. It was like it was hot doors open. I let my dog out too, by the way.
There's a whole is my dog is like, I don't know, he's cool, he's fun, but try to get him out to go out for like the last hour before I went live And then literally the minute like the I was 3 minutes late because my dog didn't want to go out until literally the last minute. I was like, come on, man. And I had to because I can't have dog, you know, go to the bathroom in the house. So I was like, all right, bro,
it's time, it's time now. So it looks like it really does look like ship 33 is moving down to the pad on January 8th or sorry, January 9th, January 8th or January 9th between 4:00 AM and 5:00 AM on the eighth and 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM is another primary date. And then January 9th, 2025. Here you go. Here's the the times again.
12:00 AM to 3:00 AM will be some sort of roll out three hour roll out 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM will be the roll out of the Starship ship 33 to the pad to join the booster booster 14. It's going to be, it's going to be a, a, a, a sweet flight too. And I want to give you guys some updates about like what's going on with this flight. Tesla Oracle had an article.
I'm going to, I'm going to help or this is going to help me out tremendously by going this article because they have a bunch of the stuff already listed out. And I, you know, I'll set my sources. I'm not, I'm not above that, right? Like, yeah, it's funny. There's other reporters on on YouTube that report things as if they did it themselves, but they all get it from the same place. They all get it from the same place as I do. It's pretty funny.
And then they want to be known as as somebody who's a trusted news source, but they all get the same news from everybody else, the same thing. We have this recycle it, but it's fun. Forward flaps have been reduced in size and shifted towards the vehicle tip and away from the heat shield, significantly reducing their exposure to re entry heating while simplifying the underlying mechanisms. Redesigned propulsion system, including a 25% increase in propellant volume. 25% increase is huge.
That's a huge, huge amount. A new fuel feed line system for Raptor vacuum engines. Redesigned vacuum jacketing of feed lines improved. Improved propulsion avionics module controlling vehicle valves and reading sensors. All of the above upgrades and additional vehicle performance in the ability to fly longer missions. New heat tile Shields or heat shield tiles. Backup layer to protect from missing or damaged tiles.
Completely redesigned vehicle avionics, adding additional capability and redundancy for increasingly complex missions. Avionics upgrades Powerful flight computer A more powerful flight computer Upgrade that baby Integrated antennas that combine Starlink, GNSS and backup RF communications functions into one unit. Redesigned inertial navigation
and star tracking sensors. Integrated smart batteries and power units that distribute data and 2.7 MWS of power across the ship to 24 Volt, 24 high voltage actuators in an increase to more than 30 vehicle cameras. Please Tesla, give us cameras. We want to see it all. I'm clapping. I would be so happy to see just fast cuts of cool stuff. Not like pro wrestling cuts or anything from the 90s. I'm saying or like action movie cuts.
You know, I want to see cuts from like the launch tower as it's launching to a wide shot of it launching to a nose camera of it launching of its like as they can see the ground from the Cam from the nose, a drone camera. I want to see all these cuts and if they're going to have 30 cameras, I want to see all of them including like inside of the ship, inside of the booster. I want to see all of those cameras. Come on SpaceX, let's do this 30 cameras.
I don't know what their ability is to stream all of those cameras, but the GoPro CEO said that they worked with SpaceX to get all these cameras functioning on Starship. So they have the ability to actually like record all of this and or it's going to be a wicked highlight reel and or street live stream in so. So, but then there we go.
Starlink vehicle is capable of streaming more than 120 megabytes per second of real time high definition video and telemetry in every phase of flight, providing invaluable engineering data to rapidly iterate across all systems. There we go. Send it to the engineers and then give us what you can. I that's all I ask. It's going to be sweet. It's going to be sweet. It's going to be awesome. I can't wait for that.
We also have to make sure that everybody that is watching this has all the coolest footage, because how else do you get people excited if you don't show them this cool footage from 30 different cameras? First Starship payload deployment of Starlink simulators, well, in Starship, all right. While in space, Starship will deploy 10 Starlink simulator similar in size and weight. The next generation Starlink satellites as the first exercise
of a satellite deploy mission. The Starlink simulators will be on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship with splashdown targeted in the Indian Ocean. A relay of a single Raptor engine while in space is also planned. And that's a pretty big one. It was just like all these Starlinks and then this is a pretty big deal. A relay of a single Raptor engine while in space is also planned.
That single Raptor engine in space is a huge deal because not only could it propel SpaceX into orbit, they have to test all the engines before they go to orbit. But as their, you know, their trajectory, suborbital trajectory, they have to move up, they go into orbit. So this one Raptor, if they can relight this in suborbital conditions, kick it up into orbit. So cool in a in a future flight.
Of course not this flight. The South Starlink V2 satellites will deploy to low Earth orbit using Starship in the future experiments. Flight tests will include several experiments focused on ship return to launch site and catch a Starship's upper stage. A significant number of tiles will be removed to stress test vulnerable areas across the
vehicle the side of the vehicle. Non structural versions of ship catch fittings are installed to test the fittings thermal performance along with a smooth and tapered edge of the tile line to address hotspots observed during re entry on Starship's sixth flight test. So meaning that last flight test they had cameras and also sensors all over this thing. So 30 cameras. Now you'll be able to see everything that goes wrong with Starship. So everything that goes wrong, they can fix.
For Flight 8, the ship's re entry profile is being designed to intentionally stress the structural limits of the flaps will, at the point of maximum entry, dynamic pressure. That's amazing. They want to test it to failure almost. They want to make sure that it almost fails, but they also want that soft water landing. They don't want it to blow up on the way in. It might, but they don't want it to.
Finally, several radar sensors will be tested on the chopsticks with the goal of increasing the accuracy while measuring distances between the chopsticks in a returning vehicle during catch. Hardware upgrade to the launch and catch tower will increase reliability for booster catch, including protections to the sensors on the tower chopsticks that were damaged at launch and resulted in the booster offshore divert on Starship's previous flight test. I wonder what this is just going to.
Yeah, OK. I thought they'd have a picture or something. I've seen them, but I thought it would just be something to show you guys. So Flight 5 Raptor is being reused in Flight 7 and that is it. Yeah. Flight proven hardware for the first time, Raptor engine from the booster launched in return of Starship's fifth test flight launched will increase reliability for booster catching. So I'm excited about this. I'm, I'm really excited about this.
I hope it works out and I really hope that SpaceX does a chopsticks landing this time because I'm excited about that. Let me know and chat like what do you guys want to see? I mean, I want to see I want to see Starship come back. It's not going to happen this flight, but I would love to see it come back. I would love to see SpaceX flying a booster back, catch that.
And then in tower 2, they catch a ship, you know, in the future when they get that all fixed up, when they get that all built. Yeah. Let me know what you think. I'd like to know, you know, in the comments and if you're on Spotify or you know, any other platform that we're on right now, make sure you let me know in the comments because I want to know what you want to see from this flight. It's going to be a wild flight, man. It's going to be a really, really wild time.
I think. I also think there's going to be some, you know, there's going to be some improvements for Flight 8, of course, from whatever they find from Flight 7. But they're already working on Flight 8. And whatever they find in Flight 7, it's going to transfer into Flight 8. And if they find something that really needs attention, they're going to stop everything, fix that thing. And then for Flight 8, whenever that's going to be, we don't know.
We don't know what Flight 8's going to be, but Flight 7 might be next week. If you're just joining us, Flight 7 has been postponed according to Elon Musk during his live stream. I'll show you the the screenshot during his live stream today and I didn't get to see it live but Elon Musk says that Starship's flight 7 is delayed to sometime next week. So there's a video here of this. So let let me see if I can find the video for you and then we can watch it see if we can get the audio too.
It's going to be difficult because this thing is not working well for me. So we're going to we're going to see if we can get you some audio as well. It doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. Oh well, I couldn't get it to work anyway. Elon, he said Starship Flight 7 looks like it's pushed about 3 or 4 days according to Elon Musk. And this does mean that we're going to get Flight 7 sometime next week, sometime next week. So here's the screenshot of that. Just so you know, Flight 7
sometime next week. Really hope that they catch this booster because I think they might need it to need it to reuse it. The other boosters are a little bit behind. Oh, that's a yeah, that's a good point, Phillip. That's a good point. So if they so if they catch this one and they could reuse it, do you think they would fly on flight 8 or do you think they would they'd fly the same booster on flight 8 if everything works. It would take them a while for
them to bet this out, though. It would take them, I don't even know how long it would take them to refurbish this thing and do a full flight of this. That would be wild. It would be really wild. I, I don't know, I think I think it would take them a few flights to reuse this, but if they can refurbish it because they're right in the middle. So I, it, it, there's a few things that I that I want to touch on here because they're right in the middle of very
important testing, right? So the star links that they're testing for flight 7 relight of an engine. Of course, that's a huge deal. Maybe Flight 9 says Philip and they're they're still trying to figure out everything. You know, it's a brand new Block 2. Everything's Block 2 coming up in the future. So would they take this ship in the well, maybe not the ship, but because the ship probably going to blow up and be
destroyed. So but they'll take this booster and reuse every single piece of it. Do you think they'd swap out some engines? Because when they catch it, I don't know what the stresses are like for the booster. You know, do did they figure out how to catch this with such such precision that it doesn't harm the structural integrity of the booster? The first time they caught it, it looked like he was pretty soft landing. But we don't know any of the
statistics. We don't know any of the of the engineering from like something that's I have a water bottle here. Almost dropped it. So if you just listen to this, I apologize, but I'm going to do a little video demonstration here. The booster came in pretty hot, you know, and these chopsticks came pretty hot and just kind of like it looked like it was a soft landing, but it kind of
clunked down. So that pressure pulls down on the bottom of the booster and did that kind of stretch out the booster and like everything in it, I don't know. I don't know. Is it structurally intact from the from the catch? I'm not sure. But could this new booster, you know, could they could they figure out the precision of the landing that they could reuse this booster? Philip, that's a really great point, though. When will they start reusing it?
I hope it's designed to handle that kind of landing. I hope it's designed to I, I'm pretty sure the SpaceX engineers are really good at what they do. So I really hope they they took that into account. But also, like, you never know until you do it. Like, and that's what SpaceX does at Starbase, you know, they fly these Starships. And the fact that, like, it doesn't always go right and they have to fix things. They are really good at doing
iterative processes. So if it doesn't work right, that's OK. They'll just build it better. You know, this is what they do. But if it doesn't work right the first time, maybe they did make those structural changes reinforce the booster and maybe they will be able to reuse one of these boosters. Flight 7. Not 100% sure. Not 100% sure. I I hope so, but I'm trying to think of I don't think it was on that sheet at all. Was it? Let me see. I don't think they did any fuel
lines. And this is from Tesla Oracle upgrades Starship V2 start V taller compared Starship V2 Starship, Starship Starship propulsion vehicle performance all the above again, additional vehicle, improved new generation, thermal protection, backup layer vehicle, vehicle, vehicle. Yeah, this is all mostly not not really a lot of booster stuff, just avionics and things like that. I don't think they said anything
about the booster, only this. Several radar sensors will be tested on the tower chopsticks with the goal of increasing accuracy. So that could be part of this. What you were talking about hardware upgrades to the launch tower. Launch catch tower will increase reliability for booster catch, including protections to the sensors on the tower chopsticks that were damaged. Yeah, I, I mean, it's really up in the air. I think it'd be pretty cool if they could do it Flight 9.
Yeah, I, I really, I think that if they do it on 7 and they catch it and they refurbish it, Flight 9 would be a good time to do that, to reuse at least some of it. You know, maybe they have a, you know, they have a booster, but they don't have all the engines, so maybe they have to use some different engines. That's the only thing I can think of that they might not be able to reuse because if everything works, there's no reason why they shouldn't do it
again. They shouldn't reuse it because if they can start reusing rapidly reusing these boosters, that would be great. Fly it once or twice at least, and then just retire it, you know, fly it 3-4 times, then retire it. Be like, oh, OK, that one's getting sketchy, you know, get rid of that one. Send it out to the to the Rocket Garden. But yeah, the, it, it'll be, it'll be a little, I think it'll be a little while. I think 7 is going to be better than the last one, the last catch.
But I, I don't know, man. I'm this conversation is all up in the air and I want it to work. Though the only reason why I'm thinking they might use booster 14 is from everything I've seen, it takes them about two to three months to put all engines on a booster. Booster 15 does not have engines yet. They might just swap out the most important engine on booster 14 in the middle ones. Yeah, it's I mean, there's no
reason why they shouldn't. And two to three months, yeah, the reef like the rebuild, like putting all the engines on two to three months. That's a long time. And so think about that. 369124 flights in a year. That's it, that's it. If they do one at a time, that's not that many flights, four flights. And they have to get, you know, 50 flights under their belt before the moon. I don't know. It's it seems like a daunting task. And I know they're, you know, they postponed the moon
missions. But, and I'm not a naysayer. I love SpaceX and I want it to work, but they have to have so many flights under their belt because it has to be reliable to send a moon Starship, like a lunar Starship to the moon, the moon's orbit. I don't know. I think, I think it could be, you know, if they're if they do 4 per year, that's not enough. That's not enough because then they'll have what, 15 by the time they do the the flight around the moon or the flight of the moon the first time.
That's not Yeah, I don't know, except if they start refurbishing booster 12. I don't think so. They want to fly that thing, though. Yeah. I mean, if they if they if they fly this, I think it's going to I think if they don't do with this one, I think it's going to be soon though. Whatever they do, they have to start doing it soon. But can they risk failure? What's the risk to reward of that? Because every Starship cost
money and time. So building a Starship and also building a booster, so that time to build the ships and get them all perfectly fine working in the building the booster and putting all the engines on four months for per booster, you know, and during that time you test the Starship while the booster is being built and then you build more starships.
It's a, it's a tough, it's a tough situation for them because it seems like they could, you know, they could do it, you know, if they start refurbishing and reusing these boosters, sure. And especially if they start reusing starships for Starlink, Oh my God, that's going to be wow. Bye bye Amazon, bye bye. You know, who would, who would use project wiper, right? Nobody, 0 people, especially if you have Starlink, like there's
no reason. And also the Department of Defense is like they're, they're like salivating over Starlink. So there's no reason why they can't find a way to reuse these things as soon as possible. When will they do it? I'm not 100% sure. I hope it's. I hope it's in the next few flights. That'd be great. Yeah. They have more ships. Yeah, Phillips just said they have more ships than booster that. Yeah. But you know, if they even if they do reuse a booster and it fails, they lose a ship.
So they lose a ship in the process, unless of course, they are, you know, they separate. But if they're getting to Max Q, if they can't survive Max Q, then that ship is done. So is that risk worth it? I don't know, man. It seems it seems pretty risky to me. And I'm not like I'm always like, go, go, go do it fast, do it hard. Like just go SpaceX, go, you know, just go for it. I wanted to launch, but I'm also
an engineer myself. So I know that like the work that you do to build these systems, even I do software, but like the, the work that you do to build these systems takes so long and it's such an effort to get everybody to do the work and for the the thing that work that you don't want to mess it up. You don't want to launch a product that's going to be buggy for software and you don't want to launch a rocket that's going to destroy your other part of the rocket.
So building the booster, if they can figure out how to build boosters faster, that would be great, but I don't know it's it's going to be tough. That's a great question though. I, I think Phillip, that's a really great observation and a a really good talking point like when are they going to start reusing these things? Because we're used to Falcon nines, right? Like they reuse them all the time, but starships, we haven't seen one yet, but it's still,
you know, 7th flight. It's still a very experimental rocket, super experimental rocket. So we don't know, you know, I, I wish I knew. I really do. I, I wish I knew when they're going to do it. I think it'd be great to speculate, but I don't I can't. I wish I could wish I knew more. I wish I knew more about the, about the flights, like the upcoming flights. So anyway, I think that's it for today. Everybody, I, we've covered pretty much everything for Flight 7.
It's been postponed a little bit. So let's, let's go back to this. Let's just one more time. We'll reiterate there's going to be Rd. closures the 8th 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM, the 9th 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM and the 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM. This is that one. Approved transportation operations for Hwy. 4 from factory to launchpad between 4:00 and 8:00 PM. Oh wait, that's the wrong one. I was like December 30th. No go back up there. Didn't I click the right one?
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. OK there we go, it's this one. I scrolled down and I saw the wrong 1:12 AM to 3:00 PM from the factory to the launchpad. From 12:00 AM to 3:00 M, transport will take approximately 1 hour. The beach and Hwy. will remain open so expect some footage from people on the street down there. But SpaceX, Elon Musk has said more than likely it's going to happen next week. The flight's going to happen next week. Not this week, not in the 11th, but more than likely.
He said next week. Give it a few days. So 1314 Fifteen 16th are available next week for flights of Starship. So it looks like Bezos and Blue Origin, Blue Origin, Pathfinder launch primary launch day, the 10th of January, back up the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th. Yeah, But there's always a possibility, There's always a possibility that Blue Origin, there's something wrong with the pad or there's high winds or something. So we'll see if Bezos beats Musk to orbit, baby, that's going to
be a fight. Elon is not going to be happy. And especially if they land their booster, if if Bezos lands the booster and reuses it before Musk, oh, it's going to be a fight. Even though it's not the same rocket. We all know it's not the same rocket, but it's super heavy. So it's, you know, similar, similar rocket, but it would be, it would be nice if they did that. I want there to be competition.
I don't want SpaceX to take it all because if there's competition, that means that SpaceX is going to work harder and they're going to build better ships in the future. So will Bezos, so will Blue Origin. That's just what happens. If there's competition, someone's going to try and take somebody out. How do you, how do you stop them from you know what, you build a better whatever. And that's what Bezos would do. Like the Origin would do that and SpaceX would do that too.
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