If I were an astronaut,I would be very afraid of those odds of success.

It's crucial to consider sustainability in all technological advancements.

How to get a Starship to lay down on it's side on the moon? Just move a 15 ton rover out of the upper hatch and over it goes.

so this is still a concept and were are tey going to test and fly this rocket because a lot of people will not want anything nuclear near their homes . such rockets need to be built on the moon away from human habitation

Starship looks like a squid..

Too much sensationalism for my taste.

I would surmise that NASA understands there is a high probability that SpaceX will not be in business in a few years. The entire company is bound to the success of Starship. SpaceX has missed every benchmark and are currently running out of money based on their own forecasts.

Why not just put fins with integral landing legs on it?

Why not use the steer grid fins to catch SS? Have them float horizontal except when needed in flight. Would make a more reliable catch. Easily engineered not to suffer damage and save weight without the other lift points?.

The Soros, Clinton, Obama Oligarchy would rather kill astronauts than use the time tested spacecraft being built by their political enemy. This is all because Musk is critical of the government and supports free-speech. Boeing is more focused on DEI hiring than QC.

This is littered with missinfo.

Actually, I don’t have a problem with not putting all our eggs in one basket. NASA just needs to keep a close eye on Boeing. No one wants to see a door blow off in space…

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1 in 295? They are slim odds for me, certainly to bet my life on, for if it was just a bet involving money, fine.

Sadly a once great company, has become largely incompetent, in space and commercial aircraft. They are still very relevant in military aircraft. Boeing need to get their collective shit together.

NASA IS years behind SpaceX and they have all The money in The world,but still they cant do s... One random Guy with money did Make you joke in couple years.

Not true that Dream Chaser will be the only Spacecraft landing on a runway since the demise of the Shuttle - there is also the Boeing X-37.

For one, NASA want to see where the money went that Boeing was given.

Musk keeps promising, but never delivers... SPACEX is FAKEX...

Can you review NASA's "probability" crew loss analysis before and after the Challenger disaster?

Well I for one am 100% sure that anything that Musk has his hands on is completely safe.

Why not? Not their money.

I spent about ten years working for Boeing Aerospace on a DOD engineering contract. At first, I felt like everyone around me was definitely hired based on proficiency and qualifications but, at some point, it was clear that gender and ethnicity began to take precedent. That contract began a downward spiral into babysitting incompetent quota hires who couldn't use a computer until the Army had seen enough. Boeing has succumbed finally and completely to "wokeness".

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What is the theoretical limit on the energy imported in this way? that is a serious question because I do not see one beyond our ability to launch satellites. We could easily duplicate the energy we get from the sun, for instance. These things must be aimed with a high degree of precision to hit the receiver areas. Their controllers can designate a new receiver area at any time to provide for expanding the grid. They are already talking about restricting the power of the microwave transmitters which implies transmitter surplus, possibly redundancy, is being designed into the system, probably as a reliability matter. These things can be converted to weapons by enabling higher power and/or targeting many transmitters to use a falsely designated receiver at ant spot on the globe. How would your city do with the entire energy sent to your continent diverted to city hall, for example? In the best of circumstances, because we will have placed the entire planet into a microwave oven, global warming will be real, no matter your opinion of the current situation.

Boeing can’t make safe airplanes. What makes ANYONE think that they can make a safe spacecraft. Also… I hope that I don’t turn up dead after pointing this out. Like all the other whistleblowers

Shag Wellington approved!

Hopefully, the door doesn't pop open

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More unusual than a mature adult calling the apparatus "Mechazilla's Chopstick"?

Instead of catch arms that have lots of mass, think about catch cables and spaceship hooks. Analogous to aircraft carrier hooks and cables to land aircraft on carrier decks.

For a person that likes things simple, this catch the falling rocket idea may end up being a overcomplicated disaster...4 unfolding legs seems a lot simper too me, right about now.

Until we need x5 videos so this thing is too slow for Musk ambitions..

It is exhausting to watch how many changes happen in just a week. SpaceX is amazing. I’m such a fan of the people who work there. It seems to be more of a calling than a job. It’s amazing just how good they are.

I wonder would it benefit if the chopstick movement is timed so that the resulting oscillation of each is in phase with the other?

"Unusual" for once, rather than "genius" or "shocking"....

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Since they are planning in the future to catch a landing booster or starship in flight. It's a much more difficult maneuver than a simple static pickup and stack or unstack. So they are testing out the maximum limits and capabilities of the current chopsticks.

I still believe it would be best to have a second tower just for catching the booster and ship until it is fully developed . So right now you have damage at take off and could take a tower offline and if catching it may cause damage also and then the tower will be down longer before next flight can happen. Makes sense to me.

They ran out of duct tape half way through. I bet it doesn't get to orbit before a wheel falls off. It shouldn't even have wheels.

If its Boeing, I ain't going

You might be able to stop the oscillation and the vibration of the chopsticks with a separate dampening cylinder or multiple cylinders. I wouldn't worry to much about the speed of closer of the chopsticks. You have to close at the speed needed to catch the unit. I like the idea of the horizontal tank farm. Great Episode.

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Get prepared for the worst possible outcome.

What this video fails to state is that as some things are being added to the ship for reliability and safety, they have also lightened the ship by making advances in other areas like reducing the overall weight of each engine The SpaceX Raptor 3.0 was test fired and reached 18% more thrust than a Raptor 2 (269 vs 230 Tonnes of Thrust). The Raptor 2 had 25% more thrust than the Raptor 1 and it was 20% lighter. Raptor 3.0 is even better with a Version 4.0 already on the drawing boards. I don't see a problem here....

The challenge is getting the "generated" power to Earth's surface without frying everything in its path. Still have issues with maintenance, too, since all kinds of nasty things in space destroy whatever they touch.

Although the eventual cost may be cheaper than conventional generation methods, that cost savings will "not" be shared with the consumer. The savings will be considered to offset the cost of maintaining the green power collecting systems in space and the central receivers on the ground. So our electricity bills will continue to climb, but it will now be green energy were paying for. So there will still be a consumer incentive to reduce his local dependent on the grid.