Possible Launch Week Starbase Summary

[00:03] Starbase summary as we recap the events that happened the last couple days out at Starbase. Going to be a lot of booster 20 in this including a static John. I'll see y'all down in the comments cuz y'all like to tell me how

[00:17] big a cord of wood is apparently. I don't know everything. y'all help me down below in the comments. Good feedback last time on what y'all like to see in these videos, what you find valuable, what you want to

[00:30] uh get more of. So, kicking it off here, we are looking at booster 20 and it is making the turn over here going around between the megabase on its way to pad two. Now, one of the things that happens before flight is a static fire and we

[00:46] hadn't seen that happen yet. So, why is booster 20 rolling out to the pad in this time lapse? Well, coming up shortly, we're going to see the static fire on pad two. And I got to say, the static fires on pad two look

[00:59] absolutely insane. Down here, we're looking at the booster transport stand. You can sneak a peek inside the nice little portals. I think that's how also lets us see what's going on uh as the Raptors go by.

[01:15] uh as the Raptors go by. Colleen's getting a tilt up the side of the booster as it goes past here. All the gosh, those things are big. That's uh they let us sort of be across the road

[01:30] when it turns out of Remedios and and heads up that way. So, that's where that angle would be coming from. Of course, here's the Star factory on the left-hand side and Colleen we're going out there to get us a couple different shots of

[01:42] booster rolling out towards the pad. Now, spoilers, I've already told you going to do it as usual and see if I can't be quiet through one of the static fire so y'all can listen to the audio.

[01:54] But, remember, if you ever just want to hear uh sites and sounds of Starbase, some of them just have an ambient mix that we put in so it's not just totally gear icon and you can change audio tracks. I believe under Klingon, you

[02:09] will find the non-commentary track and here on the commentary track, well, I'll do the talking. So, like we said, lots of Raptors in there. Got a couple Raptors you can see the numbers of. If I'm not mistaken, the

[02:21] have I identified the numbers of most of I identified the numbers of most of those Raptors that are on Booster 20. If you haven't found the Starbase Tracking account and you want to see a

[02:36] diagram of all the different numbers that are on the booster for flight 13, that are on the booster for flight 13, that's a cool place to get caught up. Here's one of the robotic roadside camera, CP-11 and Sky cam over there

[02:49] catching stuff. Colleen caught up a little bit, drove a little bit after an edger to that sidewalk. It'd look She's like, "Make a little path." The shrubberies grow naturally, but uh

[03:02] dusting the side of the encroaching foliage on the sidewalk there. >> [snorts] >> So, here we are. Booster 20 arriving all the way out at pad two maneuvering its way into the pickup position between the

[03:17] chopsticks on pad two. I will see if it ends up in this video cuz there were cuz there were some actuator problems. Booster actually ends up getting stuck on the mount here in just a little bit, but I think we've got that repair in the

[03:31] video. Let's go ahead with the time-lapse here as Booster 20 gets lifted up onto the launch mount at pad two. Yay or nay, is it just a launch It still hasn't technically gone orbital, but it's designed to support

[03:45] every time? There's somebody in the comments that's like, "Well, actually, cuz it's just a launch mount. They're all orbital.

[03:59] I refer you to Kennedy Space Center. space Canaveral Cape Canaveral Space Force Station where there are SLC or SLC 37 SpaceX building some stuff there

[04:11] right now. If you keep up with our flyover, you'd know that, but uh it's space launch complex. We didn't drop the space when we started getting to space. So, it's still space launch complex 37. It's

[04:25] like, "Ah, it's a launch complex. It's supposed to be for space." Should this be a space launch mount? Is it just a launch mount? Maybe at the Space Force Station, it's good to identify that this is to send payloads into space. We're

[04:38] not launching it to other places, right? So, maybe launch mount is a little bit too generic. I don't know. You can you can argue the merits of each side down scroll through everything and I have a good time catching up with the comments.

[04:52] I respond to a lot of them. What's that? 91 87 84 15 658 150 look like a four there. So, it's like we're calling down an American football count. Or say there's 126

[05:07] and 17 or 170 something. You know, over on McGregor live, we recently saw it tick over 200. 200 stenciled on the side of the Raptors. I do know See some of these coily

[05:20] cables, some extra sensors and stuff like that. I think that those are likely going to get removed. Of course, we're expecting this to go back to a Look at Is it already rolled back? I don't see it on the pad. Did it actually already

[05:33] >> It did did actually. Anyways, it goes back to finish its Anyways, it goes back to finish its testing.

[06:04] I think that's the longest I've ever been quiet on one of these videos. I'll need to remind the editor it's Colleen's shot there where I was quiet the different angles before you can

[06:16] thing just kept going. It's like the Energizer rocket of bunnies. That doesn't make any sense. You know the rabbit that keeps going and going and going. It's like that. It just kept going.

[06:29] It's from the one of the roadside shots here. Oh, did it come Oh, did it stop just short of us? The mechanics of that are so crazy. This is amazing.

[06:43] it got sucked back in and it's not just of a wave coming at you directly the entire time. It's almost like it sort of billows out, but then I guess Mr. Bernoulli gets involved in the flow behind it sucks it back a little bit and

[06:57] then it's going sideways and it sucks. That's really crazy sort of plume interactions. I guess the the flow the outflow of the plume from the bottom of Oh, look at this. It looks like we dumped the exposure on this camera down.

[07:11] So we can get a little bit more I mean roughly more details in the flame on the flame. These 24/7 cameras that have lived for years out at Starbase are lived for years out at Starbase are definitely definitely difficult cameras

[07:23] uh to get the best quality shots from, but there you go. Was this thing like 20, 25 seconds? It's a ridiculously long static fire there on the mount especially with the

[07:35] guess I say the whole rocket the whole booster actually correctly. Um all the engines running. Look at those wings of exhaust billows out and it gets sucked back in and it gets pushed sideways and it roils

[07:50] back. Some of that exhaust is flowing back towards the mount, it looks like. of the the the plumes are flowing back towards the the direction of flow of the main exits. It's like it billows out some but then

[08:06] that suction effect, the higher velocity moving fluids and gases, you know, background sort of creating that lower area of pressure and sucking some of >> [laughter] >> THIS IS GOING TO BE THE

[08:21] TOWER the camera on the tower at South Beach cuz Hopper is in the way. put that in there. This camera's probably about 15 ft off the ground and

[08:34] has lived on the beach for a very long time. Couple different lever arms at But hot diggity dog, I said it correctly that time. Um that was shaking like crazy when the

[08:46] when the uh sound hit. Camera's about 1.2 1.3 mi away. All right. So, we got some detanking and we need to get the booster off the pad. SpaceX, of course, tweeting out that they had completed the

[09:01] successful static fire of booster 20 in preparation for flight 13. But still some closeout work that needs to happen. So, we need to get it off the pad. Here, I don't think we're quite there yet.

[09:16] This is just a shot of the top. Of course, the ship QD doesn't need to doesn't need to be in because uh there's no ship on top of it. no ship on top of it. Chopsticks are moving up a little bit.

[09:30] process. So, they're they're moving the chopsticks up. They were already sort of in the right place. There is a huge egg. You see that of the screen? There you see in the middle sort of the root of the

[09:43] tower. You see that huge white donut looking thing? See you know, you get a thing on the bottom. It's nothing like that. It has nothing to do with that. The little extended part is just painted white here.

[09:56] So here we ran through a bunch more of these chopstick tests. And the interesting thing is that somewhere somewhere during these events, they saw something they didn't like with one of

[10:13] the chopstick actuators. Here the chopsticks are coming back down again. Bringing them to the lowest level. And here we have the work on the right exactly when it was going to come up. I knew that we had it in the video cuz I I

[10:27] uh the sort of list before we got into it. But they did not like what they saw repair it up there, even if it's possible to repair it up there, they

[10:39] brought out all the uh folks and they disconnected it from both ends. You see that long piston that extends into the chopsticks and then the other end sort of connected at the root pivot there. And they brought the whole thing down.

[10:52] Now of course they're prepared for stuff like this and it looked like they had another one of them. Here's the replacement actuator. Got rolled out in a special little actuator stand, gantry, jig, whatever you want to

[11:06] Hooked up to the crane. Lifted up. I want to make like the Like they need the impact wrench out there. That wasn't really a a very good impact wrench impersonation, but they got the actuator reinstalled in

[11:23] due time, in short time. And they moved it around. like flexing it out to make sure the range of motion is all correct. range of motion is all correct. And once they were happy with it, they

[11:38] moved it down to the lifting position again. And they grabbed a hold of the booster. So, apparently, we didn't get the the removal of the booster in there, but we rolled booster 20 back to mega bay one.

[11:50] that this was supposed to happen during the day. Problems with the chopstick actuator are moved it into the night. But, of course, this is SpaceX. This the actuator. The launch is delayed a month.

[12:03] actuator. They're going to get that out there tonight and see what they can do about it and get it replaced and get the booster off the pad and roll it back. Now, there was on Saturday, yesterday, an

[12:15] official post from SpaceX saying that the launch is scheduled for no earlier than the 16th. No earlier than. Doing some work. I saw a bunch people out go go, official launch date. It's now scheduled firm date for the

[12:31] It might go the 16th. It might. But, if you're a veteran Texas tank watcher or rocket enthusiast, you know that no earlier than means just that. They may shoot for the 16th. It may be the 17th. It may be after that. But, it is

[12:44] possible this week coming up on Thursday the 16th. There is a launch. travel down there if you're looking to get down there to see the flight. But, summary. My name's John. Like I said, see you down in the comments. Appreciate

[12:58] y'all hanging out. Hey, five-year anniversary of Starbase live going live. 120 million views. So, appreciate y'all hanging out with us and we will see you next time. Thanks for watching.