It's always a good day if a Jack update is in the notifications. Thanks Jack and the NSF team.

An exciting year for Starship, and this is just the beginning, which is insane.

It’s going to be an exciting year for sure.

Jack has gotten really, REALLY good at presenting these updates! Rock on, Jack! Question: When a booster or Starship is scrapped, what happens to all that material? I assume it is recycled, but what's the process?

Cant possible squeeze any more data into a 15 minute video (OR can you?). StarBase Update With Jack is my week starter. I grab my coffee, sit down at my desk, and get caught up on all the SpaceX Stuff in Boca Chica. I could not imagine a week without Starbase updates.

Excellent update Jack! Thank you!

thank you The Field

Love those timelapses od starship on orbit. Really hits home the "tumbling" part

I’ve said it before. I will say it again. You have the best open/theme music on the net. Love your channel too. Keep it up. Been watching launches since Mercury. Was born in 56. Rarely miss one. Usually watch your coverage on the big screen and have the X feed on my iPad. Love it that you let the sound play. The last launch with the sound getting louder and softer had to be due to clouds I believe. Water vapor absorbing the sound. Think water deluge.

Jack update = best update

No one does an update like Jack (love the hat). OUTSTANDING (in the sun) UPDATE!!

Middle of May IFT-4 could give us an IFT-5 for the 4th of July. Best fireworks show ever!

Good and informative content... Thanks Jack and Team NSF!

@14:07 'retro futuristic'. Now that's a mind bending idiom :)

When NSF publishes an update it's always worthwhile!

Jack is the reason I give this site the 'thumbs up'

@5.46 Why did you call me Shirley? ;) Thanks as always Jack and crew!

I love the ending 😂

Jack is the best! My favorite NSF reporter.

I look forward to Monday's update at Starbase with Jack! Incredibly animated and informative while making us smile. Like it when your back in Boca Chica!!! Thanks again Jack.

Do you get the feeling that the Starship should just practice, with attached legs, landing multiple times with "test" chopsticks (a test structure positioned away from the actual tower for now) to see if the ship can be controlled enough to maneuver for the chopsticks. I mean sooner rather than later. Forget the booster for a moment, or even going to space. If you can't hit the mark for the chopsticks, you can't use the tower for landing sooner. It's cheaper to practice now, as opposed to firing off both the booster and the starship. then after the Starship proves it can work with the test chopsticks, practice on the booster. You have to build the test chopstick structure, I get that, but you can improve the accuracy and reliability of the landings now. And you can improve the chopsticks quicker too. Even with, maybe shooting off another booster-starship for progress in orbital missions/testing at the same time.

Thanks for the update, Jack

Man when these videos at shot at location they just feel 1million% more awesome and put together. 👌🏻

Good bye B4 . thanks to Jack , Mary and NSF team for all these updates. everything is so encouraging .

Great video Jack & NSF, thank you!!!

Best update of the year, Jack! By this time the 6 raptors of Starship 29 have already been tested. Next, the booster. 🚀

An exciting year ahead of us! Thanks for the update!

Jack is the 🐐

Thanks for the video Jack and NSF team.

The Booster QD could be re-designed to use ridged pipes with swivel joints instead of continuous flexible tubing. They would be far more robust against damage, and insulation layers would be easily replaced and a lot less expensive.

THANKS for the update Jack!

Great update Jack!

Great information Jack. NSF Team is top shelf. Keep up the great work and yes, I will remember to be excellent to each other.

Thank you for the update. Very interesting as ever.

Great coverage NSF! I think that full recovery is possible. It just depends on what metrics will be used to define that as being successful. SpaceX is doing big stuff. Love it!

As always, a Phenomenal Video, thanks for all the Updates and Coverages of Launches NSF!

Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative video. Great job. Keep it up.

thank you jack

Whether they succeed in accomplishing all their goals or not, excitement is guaranteed for 2024 and I can’t wait!!

I can only imagine what is going on behind the scenes. The development rate is mind boggling.

nearly 1million sub congrats

i give Jack a double bacon award for this update

Flight 4 and million subscribers great times 🎉

Awesome work SpaceX team!

Y'all are pretty close to 1M subs. Keep up the good work!

The loss of attitude control on Ship as well as the glitchy payload bay door, will need to be addressed via modifications to S29. If some of the debris flying off S28 just prior to reentry was indeed TPS tiles (possibly blown off by RCS thrusters in the nose cone), that issue will have to be corrected as well. Similarly, I expect B11 will need modifications to correct B10's partial loss of attitude control during descent through the lower atmosphere, and its failure to relight the center 13 engines on time and fully, for the landing burn. I expect these modifications to the hardware (and any corresponding changes to software) to take considerably longer than 6 weeks. Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if even now, SpaceX engineers might still be working to complete analysis of flight data, model it all out to confirm their interpretations, and design and evaluate potential approaches to fix the issues. By the way, its unclear if the propellant transfer test was fully successful either; if not, there could be additional related modifications and an attempt to repeat it with S29. Which is all to say, i think the pad may well be ready within 6 weeks, but the next Ship and Booster almost certainly won't be. I think it's very likely we're seeing Gwynne's riff on Elon Time here - by assuming perfect happy-path timelines, which for this high-technical-risk R&D program is extremely unrealistic. So, I'm still guesstimating the next flight for the first half of July, though of course I won't be complaining if SpaceX manages to pull a rabbit out of the hat, this time around. Still, not going to hold my breath.

Nice work jack.

Best space X commentary! Watching in Jamaica

Thanks 😊

fantastic static fire on s29 future is coming thank you for keeping us up to date

A raptor engine as yard art would be awesome.. Certainly a talking point for visitors.. 😄

Great video, NSF...👍

@nsf team, do you know what would be cool? If you guys were able to arrange a sit down interview with Gwynn Shotwell. It would be an excellent interview.

awesome!

agree jack does a great job

I think it's extremely smart of SpaceX to build a second launch pad at Boca Chica as opposed to Brownsville because when they begin attempting to catch a returning ships/boosters, there's a very high potential for some kind of accident that could disable the launch tower/pad. Plus if they get to the point where they want to first capture BOTH booster and ship during test flights, I'm pretty sure you're going to need TWO landing zones ;?)

That theme music always makes me want to bust a move 😂

Merci!

Raptor coffee table? Yes, please!

Agree 9:39

15 may have been the first to survive a landing, but SN 10 was the first to fly twice.

Give me a grid fin form S4. You are right. If anyone can do this time line it’s team SpaceX. It’s going to to amazing to watch them cut the way for us to get to space and behind. Thank you NSF

It seems absolutely mental the turnaround on something this huge 🤯

Most excellent

Godspeed 💨

Good one, Jack.

Woohoo! Go starship, go SpaceX

I'd love to hear more about what Spacex needs to do to catch Starship and Superheavy...modifications to the ships, launch tower, chopsticks etc...sounds cool. Is it possible the second launch tower might be (at least initially) used as a catch tower? It looks like it's being built away from the tank farm...which is where I would want to make my first attempts at catching a great big giant burning hot explosive thingy.

At 0:18 one of the two large cryo hoses is broken. I'm thinking vibration is way intense. Looks to be a gating item to fast launch turnaround.

I am looking forward to all the IFT's that will take place this year!

Hot staging at 0:50 is insane!

Beminedful‼️STAY SHARP‼️ THE WORLD IS WATCHING. WE ARE THE ‼️WORLD ‼️ GO SPACE X

But Jack, that sounds like a perfectly accomplishable list of goals by the end of the year

History in the making

Very cool to see you back in action mate. This one is very concerning for sure.

As for goals, I think you're right, difficult problems are what we've seen SpaceX accomplish time and again. They set them up to guide their efforts, and the entire team works towards them. But all those by the end of the year? No. I think they may achieve the first two, actual orbit, and deployment of StarLink satellites, and probably even catch of a booster. Though, that will be VERY tricky, to not mangle the OLM on the first try! Catching the Starship itself is, I agree, the most complex problem, and the one that is furthest away at this point. The ships that will fly for the rest of the year are almost all in some stage of build, if not complete. Redesigns will take time. And retrofit is probably not possible. As for the OLM, and the new one at LC-39A, I say again, they need a flame trench. The only way to redirect that much exhaust and heat is with a flame trench. The bidet we currently have is good, but not good enough. They are getting WAY TOO MUCH flame reflection, and it is leading to damage on the OLM. The only solution is to lift it higher, and build the flame trench to divert the flames AWAY from the OLM and the rocket as well. That would be my guess as to why they're disassembling the OLM legs at LC-39A. Time will tell...

Awesome

awesome

🤙🤙 @thejackbeyer stay awesome! 💯

Let's go ....BOOM again!

Can't wait for the Frosty Popsicle!

Recovery 2024. -yes!

Even tho the booster was flipping around it did corrected itself. If you look at the bottom telemetry the booster achieved a vertical profile. It was waiting for the Raptors to fire up for the landing.

It is more likely that the booster will be caught by the end of the year than the starship. The IT-4 booster needs to restart all the center engines at 10 km to slow the vehicle down enough to let the 3 center engines do their job before catching it. Great report Jack!

Amazes me that even with a protective cover the booster still manages til rip off the hoses at their connection point. Hopefully the next OLM has alot (and i mean alot) of upgrade

There was venting issues visible in the video and it's my guess that this is an ongoing consequence of the launch pad not having a proper flame diverter and trench. When you watch the launch you can see the rocket is being bathed in shockwaves and that can NOT be good. In fact, it's the kind of thing that can rupture prop lines which would give us the venting. Another problem as far as I can see is that they appear to be lacking sufficient delta V and this is true even without the 150t payload, with the additional 150t I don't see Starship making LEO at all! In order to improve the delta V they will either need to significantly increase the size of Starship/SuperHeavy or they need to significantly increase the Isp of the engines and I don't see that happening anytime soon.

I think they will install the 9 engines and a kind of stabilizer to maintain the ship for a smooth landing on the water. And I think that before building the second tower, they should make attempts to catch up with the booster and the ship. But it’s that my opinion thank you NSF. GREAT JOB TEAM 👍🏻😄

Chilling out watching this update and having a drink from my new 17oz NSF flight test 3 mug. Unfortunately I discovered its 15oz not 17oz. I tested multiple time. This size mistake needs to be corrected on the website. So clearly I'm a little disappointing, but can't imagine anyone at NSF would make this mistake intentionally. However very happy with the patch. The colors are amazing. I do wish the image & text colors on the mug popped like they do on my Flight test 3 patch. On my mug the image of Starship and the text bordering that image is much darker in comparison to the image on the mug seen on the website. As for Starship I can't be the only one that thinks the Ships should have landing legs. Maybe SpaceX should design in the option of the both. Then they would have a back up landing option incase if issues with either system. Especially once it's carrying humans. Seriously! It be very tragic if the sadly scrapped SN15 turned out to be the last Starship to land (on earth) successfully using legs? Also Elon I think Jack/NSF deserves atleast one of the old raptor engines from booster 4. 😅

As a former Air Force fighter guy, FOD stands for " Foreign Object Damage". This is a friendly FYI. I love what you do!

so close to 1m subs i wish you guys luck.!

RE Starship pad demo at SLC 39-A, my guess is that NASA is going to require some form of directional flame diverter. The water deluge system under the Starbase OLM is very impressive, but you still have highly energetic shock waves going in every direction away from the OLM. I get that SpaceX is likely constrained with what they can do at the Boca Chica site, but at historic pad 39-A I bet NASA is putting the kabosh on those shock waves going in every direction.

Can background play be enabled on member videos?

I would love a raptor engie My toyota would be so happy

9:36 - by the end of 2024? Not enough flights available, unless thay are much quicker and effective at solving recovery problems for the booster & Starship than they were on Falcon 9. Excellent video - thank you.

Will the ground below catching point need any preparation for the engine plumes?

Nice :)

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Winston Churchill. In addition to at least SIX launches of Starship that SpaceX is planning on this year, there are, last time I looked, 35 seats on missions to orbit, almost twice as many as in 2023. Furthermore SpaceX will finally have some competition. Even Elon would like that. Winning a race in which you are the only competitor is less than thrilling. ULA has already launched a Vulcan-Centaur. BO is planning to launch in August, and will probably get at least two launches in by the end of the year. And Ariane 6 is scheduled for its first launch in late June or July. And there are at least three more ISRO GSLV launches in 2024. All four of these boosters are optimized for insertion into GTO or transfer orbits to the Moon or Mars. That means they are intrinsically more efficient for those jobs than Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy. However until they can reach a launch frequency comparable to SpaceX, which launched 10 times in January 2024, 9 times in February, has already launched 10 time in March with three more scheduled, and plans on *averaging* 12 launches a month over the year, how efficient an individual booster is is secondary. There is a basic minimum annual cost to operating a medium to heavy booster that is independent of how many times you fly it. Furthermore all of the competitors are still under development, and none of them have achieved reuse yet, while SpaceX is just cranking Falcon 9s off the assembly line at a rate of four a year, and then flying them 20 times each. I also wonder: is there still a major value in placing massive single satellites that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and more hundreds of millions to deploy to Geo-Synchronous orbit, when. I don't know about you, but I haven't watched broadcast television in over five years, and low to medium altitude satellites can provide higher bandwidth and lower end to end delay for streaming. And can a GOES satellite, like the one Falcon Heavy is set to launch in May, really monitor weather as well from 36,000km away as a constellation of satellites at 500km? At 500km a camera with a 25mm/1" wide lens has the same image resolution as a telescope with a 1.8 metre/6 foot objective at geosynch altitude! Wouldn't it be easier to lease space for your instruments on a Starlink or OneWeb or Project Kuiper satellite and have them plug their observations directly into the Internet rather than transmit them 36,000 km to a big dedicated ground dish? And geosynch satellites can only see to about latitude 55. Too bad if you live in Alaska, or Scotland, or Scandinavia! The full-size V2 Starlink satellites have at least four times the power budget. This is critical for delivering a usable 5G service to remote locations. I suspect the 6 week schedule mentioned by Shotwell is primarily directed at the teams working toward ITF4. All of their activities will be laid out in a critical path aimed at achieving that deliverable. However I will admit as I went over the video that my first estimate, based upon a half century of managing high-tech engineering projects, was 8 weeks. Of course I don't know exactly what went wrong and they have vastly more information.

IFT 4 would be a nice birthday present for me, so let´s hope for a quick turnaround .

Hey Jack, I love your hat forward flaps. Where can I get some? 😄

Regular tower recovery of Booster and Spaceship by April 2027, Tower will need a lot of armoring both exterior and all the plumbing systems. Improvements in both flight control software along with booster and ship hardware will be needed.