Tim Dodd: I'll just do a short video while they wait for SLS Vs. Starship Pt. 3 Me 2 weeks later: Yay!! Another documentary Love Your Work!

1:00:00 long video and it’s not a random lo fi playlist. That’s art and dedication right there

"This maneuver will make the Falcon 9's landing look like a walk in the park" May 2021 Update: They did it man

Replacing the CGI image of starship with the real sn8 in the thumbnail, veeeeery sneaky.

40:04 "Hovering is just 100% a waste of fuel" *Shows video of New Shepard* Well thats a creative way to bash Blue Origin.

The last time I was this early, Tim was wearing a pumpkin suit.

This was the total opposite of spending an hour in math class. At the end i was like why is this ending so soon LOL

I don’t know when I have ever heard a technical presentation so well put together (content) and so well delivered. The presentation was enthusiastic, perfectly paced with excellent voice control, and so clear and understandable. Fantastic job. Thank you

“You might call it a Starship Launch System…SLS” incredible

Instant like for the early SLS joke.

3 months later: Starship lands successfully

Enjoying rewatching this after SN15’s successful landing today :)

Alright, whoever came up with that SLS joke is amazing.

Hey Tim, I’m sure you’ve heard this from a lot of your viewers, but I just can’t express how great you are for making these beefy videos filled with information, and your delivery of these information is practically the reason why I continue to watch your content, because it really shows that you love what you do and that you love what you talk about, keep up the amazing content man.

You're a genius Tim. Thanks for dumbing this down into plain language. Your mission has been accomplished. Love your content.

Probably a good decision on SpaceX’s part to call the booster Superheavy rather than ‘falcon 30’

I now have enough information to build a starship in my garage. Thanks, Tim.

There's something in the fact that it's precisely 1 hour long that particularly satisfies me...

Got recommended. Grateful for it. Informative. Impressive. Not a dull watch at all for me.

Top notch video and well appreciated. As for speculations I have for future development, here you go: 1. SpaceX is already using solar electric propulsion for Starlink. As most of what you ship to the moon is fuel to push more fuel around and SpaceX has already proposed landing a massive Starship on the moon, which is going to take a lot more fuel than what can be loaded onto a single Starship in LEO, especially for reuse, I think they will use a solar electric space tug launched on on Starship to push tanker Starships out to the moon. The ISP on these solar electric drives already exceed 4,000s of ISP where Raptor vacuum gets up to 350s, so even with the extra mass of a space tug and the loss of using the Oberth Effect, it would be far more efficient and require far fewer launches than to LOX/LNG the whole way. Elon Musk has stated Starship should have very little fuel boil off on the way to Mars, so why would there be an issue spending say several weeks slowly pushing a tanker to the moon? I am thinking this could also be done for cargo only missions, except using a cargo Starship instead of a tanker Starship. The reason for pushing a tanker Starship to the moon would only be so a crewed mission could happen rapidly instead of at the slow pace of a solar powered ion drive in the Earth-Moon system. 2. Something cool about the cargo space tug idea when applied to Mars is while the space tugs will produce a lot less thrust around Mars, with cargo you mainly have to eventually get the job done. Also a space tug could separate from a cargo Starship before entering Mar's orbit and start its capture burn while the cargo Starship continues to the surface or swing by Mars and go back to Earth. Once the space tug gets into a highly elliptical capture orbit, it could circularize with its large delta-V potential and say get into a low Mars or low Earth orbit. The cargo Starships sent out to Mars could either be optimized with small fuel tanks designed to get an empty Starship into LEO and then once refueled and loaded with cargo, land the maximum amount of cargo on Mars in a one way mission or be a more generic cargo ship with some hardware for unloading on Mars and be able to fly back to an orbiting space tug to be brought back to Earth. Having a space tug with over 4,000s of ISP capability really expands the possibilities of what can be done for cargo missions, granted it just takes too long to speed up to be the primary mover on crewed missions. 3. I think the first generation of 'safe' crewed transport to Mars will involve building large scale nuclear thermal propulsed spaceships as that will get you up to ~1,000s of ISP, which really changes the dynamic of how a Mars mission could go while having enough thrust to do things quickly with either nuclear electric or solar electric drives to help speed along the 'coast' phase of the mission. Once we are gathering material from the moon, an important overlooked material is nuclear fuel. If you gather the nuclear fuel from the moon, you avoid a lot of fallout from trying to ship that nuclear fuel up from Earth with hopefully controlled explosions into space and the controversy attempting such a thing would cause. You really can't do a safe crewed mission to Mars without nuclear power shipped to the surface of Mars as one dust storm covering your solar panels and your crew dies, so it makes sense to extend this nuclear power into making the trip to Mars in the first place faster and safer as well as more comfortable. One reason why you need to go big with a crewed mission is surface area to protect from radiation is a square factor where volume covered by that shielding is a cubic factor. So as you go bigger, that shielding goes from being too heavy to eventually being a relatively trivial part of your space ship mass wise. There is a second thing where task optimized Starships are going to be a lot more effective at their job than jack of all trades Starships. So you do a jack of all trades Starship to Mars, maybe you stick 10 people on a one way mission to Mars and the Starship is loaded up with shielding and provisions and space to move around and equipment for once you get to Mars, etc. Also maybe some crews can handle the isolation and some crews go nuts and space each other on the way to Mars. However have a fleet of task optimized Starships riding on a mother ship to Mars allowing for tight coordination and your crewed lander Starship carries 100 or more people airliner fashion to the surface and then flies back up to refuel and carry another 100 or more people to the surface. A large ship means you can have thousands of people onboard and lots of space to move around, which is a lot easier to cope with than say 10 people trapped in a tin can for a long duration mission. Having a large ship also provides more room for trying out artificial gravity, though would think the artificial gravity experiments would be done in LEO first to determine what exactly would need to be done for this large ship going to Mars. Also such a large ship would always be in space and so would be optimized for a permanent space environment going between the Earth and Mars cruise liner style where Starship could then be left to focus on being a short haul airliner of sorts. If a good nuclear fission propulsion system could be achieved where maybe low to no fallout fuel is used around Earth while avoiding big flashes that could harm satellites in orbit (or even blind people looking up) and then you do whatever is cheapest a safe distance away from Earth, the efficiency gained in propulsion could allow very fast trips to anywhere in the solar system. So far with our fusion work we tend to go big to get the economies of scale to make it work and be more practical, so a large dedicated ship for this makes a lot of sense. Chemical rockets just cannot do such a job of going to and from Mars because the ISP is not there and so say a Mars mission is a one way mission with it being rather impractical to in-situ manufacture the large amount of fuel needed to send say a 9m wide Starship back. Nuclear thermal exponentially improves the equation to it at least being somewhat practical, though still somewhat expensive to go back and forth between Earth and Mars, but a lot cheaper, faster, safer, and more comfortable than doing chemical only. Ion drives makes it a lot cheaper to move cargo and fuel around and this is important because fuel tends to get a lot more expensive the further out from Earth you are, at least until you figure out a system of getting it from the solar system, which we are way far from doing in a practical manner right now, granted it should be doable one day with the right setup. Direct nuclear propulsion can really open up the solar system, though some thoughtfulness needs to go into the safest designs possible, especially when operating around Earth, which is really important because literally no humans live beyond LEO right now and at that the current count in LEO is 7. So if it is not safe to use that drive in LEO, another drive system will be needed to get to a safe distance away from Earth, but this leg of your journey is a huge part of your battle for basically every mission, so your drive system really needs to try to solve this problem if it can be done.

Still amuses/amazes me how Elon engages with you and others that actually show interest in the technical specifics of SpaceX rather than the general bland stuff mainstream media tends to focus on. Like he seems super happy to geek out on this stuff with you guys

The video is exactly 1 hour... That's so satisfying!

What a colossal effort putting this video together. Extremely well done.

I keep replaying this video every so often as starship progress continues and I am amazed at how much I learn each time. Well done Tim.

Not only is this a great video, it’s exactly one hour. *satisfied*

Hey Tim....Don't stop making long form content. The deep dives are great even if I have to wait a while

Thank you Scott! You covered all the questions the others haven't yet. Great episode!

The fact that he produces this, and an article version for free is honestly impressive as hell

Imagine Using Starship to deploy a single small cube-sat, only to flex on every competitor because its cheaper...

Well, since there seems to be a “fleet” of starships, seems we need Star Fleet Command running the show.

Just a amazing video brother. You nailed it, very well said and extremely in depth. Great job and keep up the good work. Nick from Toronto

"I'll be intervewing Elon Musk AGAIN very soon..." what an absolute flex. Great vid!!!

“Hovering is a waste of fuel” *shows clip of blue origin* Jeff bezos “Heyyyyy.......”

This is the best explanations of engine design ever. I have learned hugely from this and thank you for this!

Just joined your Patreon! Keep making these sweet deep dive videos, please!! :) I love the way you do the graphs!

3:30 😄 How about Starship Transport System or STS? wait...

The fleet of starships may be called 'StarFleet' (?)

"They both have boosters with landing legs and grid fins." Elon: no

35:00 whatever that debris is, it looks like a little man running away from the rocket. 😂

Welp there goes being productive this hour

Here we go! Got my popcorn, comfy chair and blanket!

You seem to be a reliable source, and I appreciate that.

not only the hard work making the video, the passion of talking of something you really like gives me a new vision about the evolution of the spaceX. thanks a lot, won a subscriber!!

When you started talking about stainless steel construction, I immediately flashed back to Doc Brown explaining the Delorean lol....

Me Before: omg this is so long Me Now: WhY iS tHiS sO sHorT

And you too Tim! For all you do and keep us grounded.

Well “definitive” is out of the window now, considering Elon has stated he wants to literally catch super heavy rather than just land it

Tim you have outdone yourself. I have been following Starship development quite closely and I learned a ton from your video anyway. Thank you so much for all the hard work. Everyone should take time to give your video a thumbs up. One small edit though. The hover slam landing will never, never be boring. Just like watching a jet liner land is never boring. It is always an awe-inspiring feat of engineering.

Wow Tim, I finally got a chance to sit down and watch this! Not that I need to get any more excited about Starship lol but I'm definitely next level stoked now !! I'm so honored to be a part of your team, and I love getting to share with the world what I get to see every day. I think you are about to have the craziest experience of your life too!!

Best spent hour of my life! Thank you Tim!

Thank you so much for this clear and informative comparison!

Dude, you are literally in the process of writing the rocket bible.

They'll never be boring. The landings are the one reason I still watch most every starlink launch.

"It's hard to deploy parachutes when you are in a million flaming pieces." -Tim Dodd, bringing space down to Earth for everyday people. Seriously though you are doing some great things, you explain it very well, thank you!

Fascinating video! Thanks for your excellent commentary!

500 likes and no dislikes! This is one of the things I love about the spaceflight community!

"Boring is good business" was something I learned many years ago, and I've never seen it contradicted.

Rewatching this 2 months later and still it's the most helpful starship video I've seen.

Thanks Tim. Your quality is superb. wai was good & possibly the best bi-daily update channel and he is getting even better. But your in depth deep-dives are a world treasure. You are explaining & recording the most detailed aspects of human space exploration, not just for us, but for evidencing what is daily becoming history to be taught to every future generation of humans. Your doing the future world a magnificent service. We are very proud of you and thats why you totally Deserve your seat on Dear Moon. Your Dear Moon commentary live will be riviting. Your Dear Moon video will be un-missable. Your Dear Moon Outtakes will likely be stretching our emotions to their limits. Well done.

Excellent video Tim! Thank you for this education 🤙🏽

Impressively enough, the SN8 belly flop was a lot smoother than in the simulation!

*waits for Elon to tweet some change that makes this video obsolete within hours of release* (I say this affectionately. This video is awesome)

This is the first time in a few years (when ever Nelly Tyson hosted da cosmos) that a true nerd has completely entertained me. Nice job pulling it off!

Oh my! How the discussion of space has shifted since my days in high school Airforce ROTC, 1969.

Love how his subtitle is still "For everyday people" even though he is the one with the deepest, longest and most into detail videos

I watched the whole thing immediately. At the end I felt like only 10min have passed. Thumbs up, that was really great stuff !!!

That has been the best thing about this. We can tune in!!

Great summary, Tim. I actually found most interesting the multiple currently planned and potential Starship types coming ... Crew, Tanker, Cargo, Lunar, Deep Space, Earth Transport, Atmospheric Sanitation, ISS Starship Shuttle, Four Seasons Sheraton Starship Taxi, etc etc.

A whole hour and never lost interest...now that's a new milestone! The craziest thing is going to be the belly flop maneuver. I don't see how they can even simulate getting it right, much less nailing it on the first try. I expect we'll see some crazy "Wile E. Coyote" style explosions and folks will call it the "ACME ROCKET" for a while, but just like Falcon 9 we'll all be watching with mouths hanging open in disbelief while it does exactly that over and over again. Watching the Falcon 9 still feels like a little miracle each time it lands. I hope they nail it right out of the gate, but that is optimistic to the extreme. I'm just happy Space X is bringing us along for the ride and doesn't hide their light under a bushel like Blue Origin does.

I really appreciate the dark theme graphics, thank you for sparing my eyes!

Really appreciated how technical this video was!

Really high quality stuff...nice job man

"I want the quality to be the best they possibly can be" Well, mission achieved. This was superb. Love your work.

Every new EA documentary is like an early Christmas. Keep up the great work!

Another marterpiece documentary. Well done. Good research, good animations, good quality. Thanks for sharing.

Space channel with Metrics. I would ask nothing more nothing less, Keep the great work. Very inspiring to learn new things from your channel on every video !

As usual Tim knocks it out of the park. These rocket deep dives need to win some kind of awards. This is top level stuff.

When the conclusion came, I was like: Awww man its already almost over. It was such a great video with so much information. The wait truly paid off in my opinion!

I don’t have time to keep up with all of this. You are my raptor that gets me up to speed. Thank you!

Thank you man, brilliant video. Keep it up.

Tim, this 1 hour video was impossible to turn off without watching in full. This is the video I needed to understand Starship, so thank you, thank you, thank you! This was so much information put in a way that was easily understood. This is the video I needed. Let's see this fly now.

TIM! When you're recording Starship landing, please dont forget to put a wide-angle camera up; dont just record closeups. I want to see the the belly flip on the perspective of a stationary person

Your da man the internet science world needs more like you, great job explaining.

...THANK YOU for a great and most informative hr..!

Everyone else: build rocket inside factory SpaceX: build factory around rocket

Thanks for motivating me every time Tim, I was just struggling with studying all day but this one hour has given me motivation for weeks. I can't wait to finish my studies and start working for whatever thing space related. Thank you Tim I love you, I love your videos and I love your eyes. Keep up the incredible work of inspiring the next generation

I was about to watch your Starbase tour and I'm so glad you redirected me here first.

Super show, thank you for all the effort teacher!😁

Dang, those animations and renders are insane! Excellent production as always.

Exactly what we needed in such political time, spaceflight to unite us all under one atmosphere by reminding us of the planet we share (but still fight over) and the possibilities we have when working together. Thank you Tim!

such a great work!! Thank you Tim!

This videos is so extremely well made that I feel like I need to make a comment just because you deserve to get one. Thank you so much

Liking this before I watch it because I know how much effort you put into these videos and that in itself deserves a like! Keep up the good work Tim, and thank you. 👍

Landings will never be boring. We will forever be looking for that perfect feed start to end. Along with the possibility that we get an explosion on landing.

Kinectic energy at the square of the velocity, moving through that much more atmosphere

Hola Tim, tu programa es genial, gracias por compartir tus conocimientos y tu pasión por la tecnología aeroespacial. Este es sin duda el mejor programa que he visto en youtube. Muchas gracias!!

11:54 this is one of the best diagrams/charts explaining chemical storage temperature, fantastic job Tim and crew! :D

Starship Launch System.... SLS.... I actually had to pause to video, laugh my socks off, comment and only then click play one again. Epic Tim is epic!

This great, superb, amazing work dude

I feel like I should owe you money for watching these dude! Such high quality documentaries. By far the best. Thanks man keep doing what youre doing!