Starbase Catches Up After Flight 13 | SpaceX Starbase

[00:02] things with some Starbase summaries in this episode seeing the cutie arm coming off of pad one. That's the ship cutie. This weird nose cone's been making the rounds. It's making the cones. I don't know the right way to say that, but it's

[00:16] We'll talk a little bit more about that in the video. And we've actually got some behind the scenes shots of uh Dan rewiring a camera. And some other stuff after flight 13 after out there at Starbase. But, it's a Starbase summary.

[00:31] My name is John. Talk to you down in the comments. Let's start it off with this crane getting hooked up to that ship quick disconnect arm. Now, the front part of it was already removed, and we've been seeing them do a lot of work

[00:43] on this. But again, this is over at pad one. All right? So, we'll see Watch the Watch the arm itself. You see the strings the the And then we see it sort of take the

[00:56] happening. Did you see it shift a little bit there? Like look Rewind it if you cuts. You see some sparks, and you see the whole thing shift just a little bit. So, that whole cutie arm coming off. There's a wider shot over from the

[01:09] highway site taking it down. But again, pad two's on your left there. You can see that OLM, the second OLM, and then pad two was on the right in that shot. So, Oh, did I just say No, pad two was on the left. Pad one was on the right is

[01:22] switched shots before I was done talking. It happens a lot. So, putting this down on the ground clearly going to be doing some rework. They've got a lot of lessons on that pad two ship quick disconnect arm. Uh are

[01:35] going to roll it back to work on it? I guess we'll see, but coming all the way off the tower so that they can perform going to say that it's more upgrades than just maintenance. They're going to

[01:48] remember, with the whole rapidly reiteratable rapidly what? Whatever. The rapid iteration that they do, they don't just make one design and then make 50 of them for parts like this for the towers and

[02:03] need to standardize these things, right? You're not going to want 40 different designs. I don't know how that would work, but I guess the chopsticks have >> [snorts] >> So, the math works. But, I imagine

[02:17] things in line, so you don't have a bunch of different designs out there in the wild as much as they could. I mean, the tower from pad one is not being completely brought down, right? Knock on wood.

[02:30] little bit lined out so there's some consistency, sharing parts, sharing sort of stuff. Other things happening over at pad one,

[02:42] you can see that big crane and that gantry there as well. The service gantry the service structure. Got some crane pieces on the ground as well, but they have been working on getting that service structure framework. Again, it

[02:56] says service structure, it's really uh the side of the launch mount. looking thing and it's got the circle in the middle. It has a sign on it says insert rocket here, right? And this is the part that is to the side of that,

[03:12] And this carries all the piping, consumables, framework, blah blah blah. Uh that does not include the actual launch mount. So, we'll expect Oh, look at that.

[03:29] the reflection the sun would be rising. Yeah, you go there you go. The sun is to the left. And the sun rising behind that camera was right there on the office time of year that's uh set up just right.

[03:42] >> But, anyways, I I'm here looking at the sun angles. There you can see a boom lift being lowered down into the trench over at pad two. They've been working on these upgrades or upgrades, I guess uh reconditioning. I don't

[03:56] actually know what the right term to use is, but after flight 13, we've been seeing them doing a lot of work around pad two. You can see top of the OLM booster quick disconnects are still a

[04:10] little scuffed. I guess that actually looks like a surveying instrument. Do you see that little tripod? I know it's not a deployable camera. Uh it's not one look like a surveying instrument. We're deep

[04:23] goes up, then it's I don't know what they were actually saying there. I wonder if they're checking that the amount is still true, is it still level, did things get knocked out of whack? I wonder exactly what they're looking at

[04:36] catch there. >> [snorts] tower. It's got this sort of just after golden hour time here. Caesar was out there catching stuff. Got some lights, but

[04:49] she's still got the sky a little bit lit up. Some lifts working underneath the pad there in that previous shot. This is sort of a morning sort of thing. We've got some grass waving in there.

[05:02] There's that ASU. Still not online yet, but largely constructed. Most of the in place. What have we here? That looks like a Either they're going to install mailboxes for people getting mail out at

[05:18] the ASU, or that is like a a valve structure, like a little roof that goes over some sort of control boards, or something like that. It's curious that that wouldn't be inside. So, okay, it's going up to the roof.

[05:30] Those almost look like bottle straps, but that wouldn't make any sense. Huh. I wonder what do y'all think that thing ASU. So, as promised, here are some

[05:43] shots. There is Dan working on Dune. I love how we still have the litter carry arms on that cuz it's way easier to carry with those arms on it. But out there maintaining the cameras, we

[05:58] had to rewire some of the stuff. We're always trying to keep things going, configuration. Wow, this high definition shot of Dan in the daily. Looking very dapper, Dan. Tightening down the M6 bolts there with

[06:13] >> [laughter] >> That's going to be going out to north. We've got to Oh, nice. We got the dog with us as well. Yes, it says bark. Does that It's a NASA bark at the moon.

[06:29] >> [laughter] >> Okay, over to North Beach site. That top for flight, we actually flipped that camera over. looks like it's flipped over right now because it's it's I mean, it's got bird

[06:43] poop on it, right? But we don't leave it that way long periods. The camera's not designed to be weatherproof in a dome up orientation. So right before flight, we flip it dome up. That allows us to get the tracking

[06:55] shots and look up above the horizon, right? Then after flight, we go out see the braces on the tower there, right? It's got a huge base plate. Those braces have these huge ground stakes drilled into the ground there. But we

[07:08] longer term sort of stuff. That's beach three up on top of the tower. Got a got a hair in there. And a little bit of, you know, wood out in the ocean. In this area right near beach three, it's actually a an old resort, the Del

[07:24] Mar resort. And there is the remains, the pilings of a dance hall there. And can see the pilings or not see the pilings. Don't hit them with your vehicle. They will not give your tire a bad a good day. It'll be a bad day for

[07:36] your tire. So here on this, right? This is this flanged nose cone. You see the weird sort of seam down the side of it. It's rolled into mega bay two, which ship work happens. See there's not heat tiles or anything

[07:52] or not a lot of them. There's a couple of them there, right? But what are they test jig? Are they working on ideas for a nose cone? It's really interesting. We're going to see where that thing rolls out

[08:06] and of course on Starbase live 24/7 we will keep up with where that thing ends up. Progress on the giga bay It's been going up. Got got a little pause because of the flight that was in

[08:18] there, but the cranes not actively creating grow up out there next to the star factory. This You see all the stations? Do you see the booster stations in there? Do

[08:32] you see how many boosters they can work on in between each one of those things are sort of a work platforms with a booster work stations. So that is going to be nuts. That those massive doors we have on it and I hope that at some point

[08:45] we're able to look in there and it's night time and it's all lit up and you just see rows of boosters being worked on. It's just like booster freaking Well, I don't think it's going to hold 42 boosters, but

[09:01] got some pipes. Those are drain pipes. They got a flange on What is that a flange on one ends?

[09:15] drainage off the roof or something. You're not piping any mass quantities of a thing. I'm curious. I bet you it's something like super mundane like water drains.

[09:28] Got got a quick quick correction on the camera angle there, but the driver of the SPMT riding by in style on the little artillery piece on this. The offset driver makes me think of like a military

[09:43] Here, looking over at Massey's, that's the 39.1 test tank. It is moving from left to right because it's coming back. It was leaving Massey's after some test >> [snorts] >> Rolling up Highway 4 here. Those power

[09:59] lines there are coming sort of towards the production side. Got a patchwork of different uh ways to lay out I guess the little layout to attach the tiles, I guess would be my guess to see how they stick

[10:14] during different uh parts of the vehicle test like when it's cryo inside it gets cold, how do things expand, contract, how do they work whenever you go through that testing. That hose hanging off the side. I wonder

[10:26] surprised it's not secured. You've seen what happens to unsecured hoses around But that one looks like it's hanging in there. Nighttime roll causing a little bit of a traffic jam. Look at the most of the

[10:40] vehicles in there are propellant trucks. They're big cryo tankers. You can see They're all going to pass and go over to the launch site. I guess topping off the launch site after that flight 13. Got a little bit of a silhouette show

[10:54] shadow show there for a minute, but there is the Starbase summary. Hey, getting back into it like I said after flight 13, massive thanks to all the Catching all that footage. If you haven't seen the other footage where we

[11:07] just had like the super cut of slow motion and telescope and behind the was the uh the shots you the angles you didn't see was the name of the video. that'll do this one for Starbase summary. Again, see you down in the

[11:19] an idea about how something's going to work? Let me know cuz I read them all and I will see you nerds later. Thanks for watching.