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When you're dealing with something
as complex as building a rocket

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or as building a launch pad,
being extremely mindful

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of the critical path is important.

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And what the critical path is,
is the longest set of sequential events

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that are gated by each other
that must be completed

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in order for a task to happen.

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Test operations on LVN-0.
We are getting ready

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for pre-op brief for Flight 12 here.

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We're gonna start off
with some comm protocol.

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T-minus one minute.

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When we see an unexpected response,
how confident are we

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in being able to explain that,

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such that we're not unknowingly
walking into an actual bigger problem

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that this was just a small symptom of?

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Holding at T-minus 40 seconds.

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Yes, sir. I got you.

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This looks like a blip, uh,
on blind pressure when we unpinned.

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Pressures and preloads are healthy.

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Copy that.

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And what is the time
we would unpin at?

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Okay. Copy. Agree.
We should attempt again.

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On LVN-0, ship QDZ actuator blind,

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outside QD vent pressure range.

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On anomaly zero, Tower Curry,
I think I'm gonna recommend

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actually standby.
It's drifting back into range.

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Is it going to fire again,
Tower Mech?

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Uh, possibly. It seems like it's part
of the dynamics when we see--

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Copy.

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There's a pinner that keeps the Q-line
from, uh, full Q-on when it springs back.

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There's a pin that locks into place.

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The hydraulic actuator is not pulling up,
it seems to be.

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And Elon is actually really, really good
at quickly absorbing information,

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understanding the stakes,
understanding the consequences,

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understanding if today's our day or not.

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Yeah, it's hard to tell.

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This is all fogged up from cryo,
but it's essentially right there.

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Tower, Styro,
you're on anomaly zero.

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- Yes, sir. I got you.

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I don't have an explanation for why
it did not unpin the second time.

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I personally have never felt any pressure
from Elon of, like,

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"It doesn't matter. Hell or high water,
we're flying this rocket."

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Like, absolutely not.
That's not his style.

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And like I said, critical path to Mars
is not blowing up rockets.

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Guys, I recommend we release hold

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and give it one more chance to unlatch
with where we're at.

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- Ship EXYs are not gonna close out
in damped,

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but I believe that's okay.

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Okay. We have just enough time
on the vehicle to attempt one more time,

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so I recommend we clear the hold,
let it try to unlatch it

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at the 100 bar we're at.

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We're still stuck in damped,
dampening though.

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Understood. We'd be reattempting
with the same hydraulic pressure.

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Cool. This will be our last attempt,
and then we're done on the rockets.

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When we're only a week out from flight,

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my main focus is getting into flight.

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The thing that separates us
from a lot of other companies

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is that we test fast and we test often,
and that includes launches.

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We want to make sure the vehicle's
all ready to go.

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We want to make sure the ground's
all ready to go.

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But we also don't want to be caught
in analysis paralysis.

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Our main objective today
is a 10-engine static fire.

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Abort.

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On LVN-1, looks like we kicked out
due to two combustors

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on the Apex bank being faulted.

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- There was a pad-side abort called.

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These things were holding, like,
five, six thousand tons of propellant

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plus the rocket weight.

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And it's like, "Okay. Well,
why didn't you guys simulate that?"

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It's like, "Well, 'cause we didn't have
anything that weighed that much."

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Like, this is the first time we put
anything on it that weighed that much.

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So there's just so much
that you have to think about

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and then be very paranoid on.

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We kicked out early.

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All teams, triage alerts.

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Prepare for offload.

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We actually had another pad abort
on the diverter.

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Basically, right during engine firing,
it was so much noise and vibration

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that it actually shook the sensors
that are located out in this area

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enough that they were aborted us
out of the test.

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We went back, obviously, afterwards
and looked at all the data

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and tried to come up with smarter ways
to basically still protect

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the integrity of the diverter
throughout the operation

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while changing our parameters
so that we were making sure

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that we would not abort again.

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A flame diverter is, like,
a super simple concept

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that is, like, not at all complicated
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and is just absolutely murderous
in the details.

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These are extremely sophisticated
thermal load sensing devices.

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If they turn into melted metal slag,
then you know that you got too much heat.

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If you melt this,
you're hotter than aluminum melts.

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If you melt this,
you're hotter than zinc melts.

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If you melt this,
you're hotter than copper melts.

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If you melt this,
you're hotter than Sharpie melts.

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So we're sub-Sharpie.

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We have all of this mass flow,
all of this energy

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that is just absolutely trying
to obliterate our pad.

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We want to give it a thing to obliterate

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to keep from obliterating
the things that we care about.

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And the thing we give it is water.

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The amount of energy that water
can absorb is, like, miraculous.

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And so if you can get high enough
pressure water in the right places

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and just allow it to flash-boil
that water,

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then it solves a lot of the problems
for you.

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Like, the idea is that the steel
never gets that hot.

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The structures never get that hot,

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'cause the water absorbs all that energy,
turns to steam, and everything's okay.

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So for this flame deflector on Pad 2,
we're sitting somewhere

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in the neighborhood of about
650,000 gallons per minute.

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That's approximately in the range
of about, like,

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one entire Olympic swimming pool
being drained in the course of a minute.

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You're trying to look into this thing
and you see how, like, glowing hot it is.

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It's just a-- yeah, a pretty impossible
environment to keep something happy in.

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But then you zoom in
and the flame deflector's still there,

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so that's the reason
we build those things.

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Putting the rocket into human terms
is something really tough.

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65,000 pounds per second of propellant
that is coming out of the engines.

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And again, just like
18 million pounds of thrust,

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like, what does that number mean?

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I think of, like, 11 Ford F-150 trucks
per second

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just zipping out of the bottom
of the rocket.

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It's like imagine if you had
the world's biggest machine gun,

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except for instead of shooting bullets
it was shooting pickup trucks,

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and it's just firing 11 pickup trucks
per second out of the bottom of the rocket.

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It's like, do you think your stuff
could survive that?

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For the last, you know, week or two,
it's mostly just been running

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on stress and caffeine,

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because we had so many things
that we were trying to incorporate,

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and there's just a lot riding
on this test.

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The previous test that we did
did not achieve enough duration

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such that we had the engineering data
that we needed to be confident

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moving into flight.

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If not able to get this test off
successfully today,

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then, you know, we're pushing launch
day for day,

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which is an extremely big drag
on the entire program

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and all the engineering teams involved.

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So there's always pressure
going into an op,

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but this one day is particularly high.

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Wow. Yeah.

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This was a big day. Uh, the fourth
attempt that we've had for a static fire,

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and we finally went full duration
on all engines, so feels really good.

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I'm super relieved.

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Again, it was, like, pretty dynamic.

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And having done this four times now,
it's like, "Man,

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what else can go wrong here?"

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Because we just haven't seen
the vibration and the temperatures

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that we're about to be subjected to.

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We've never connected the QD
to a vehicle,

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and we've never flowed propellant
into a Starship on Pad 2.

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So although this was a really big
milestone,

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the next step is to prove
that those systems work

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in the way that we designed them to.

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We designed this pad to be able
to support a launch

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every 60 minutes indefinitely.

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The thing about Pad 1 is it was designed
to be very quick to build,

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it was designed to be very cheap,

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and it was designed to give good access
to the aft end of the booster.

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The reason all of those things
were a design goal

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is because we sucked at building
Starship pads

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and we sucked at building Starships.

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It's like we didn't know
what we were doing,

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because it was impossible to know
what you were doing,

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because no one had ever done
something like this before.

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The brief on that one was,
"Hey, get something up very quick

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and very scrappy and very inexpensively,
but that's okay.

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It actually needs to just be good enough
for us to learn.

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And then if we can learn from it,
we'll go build the actual good thing."

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I mean, the integration mechanism
is the pad.

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The catch mechanism is the pad.

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All of this stuff is, like,
integral to how the pad operates.

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And so the reason we call it stage zero
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it is the first stage
of the launch process.

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And if it is not working,
we cannot go launch.

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And so that certainly, like,
raises the stakes and raises the priority

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and, like, drama whenever things
go wrong on the pad.

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Post-static fire, as we were transiting
the chopstick arms

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back to a lower position,

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we heard a loud noise out at the pad.

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- It's vibrating the entire tower.

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Something got jammed up in the chain
and maybe caused it to snap.

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We don't really know if it's broken
completely or if it's just cockeyed

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or buckled in some way.

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God, it sounds terrible.

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So we are in a mad dash
to get that roller diagnosed and replaced

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as soon as possible.

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The chop carriage has many rollers

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positioned at different parts
around the tower.

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And when I say roller, it's literally...

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Like, imagine the world's
largest bicycle chain.

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It's built almost exactly like
a bike chain, except for it's 380 pounds

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and the chop carriage weighs a lot.

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And so it basically broke
one of those links.

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The chain got bound up.

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And the day after static fire,
we called our buddies at the Cape.

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We had some spare units over there
for building the Cape towers.

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We were able to hot shot
to overnight the chain to us.

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Got the old chain torn apart,
got the new one put together, flew it up,

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and the morning after that,
we were ready to rock.

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With these ones,
make sure we're going up.

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It was on the order of, like,
30 hours, 36 hours

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from we found the problem
to had it fully back in service

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on, like, an item that was not really
designed to be very serviceable.

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To be able to come up with
a scrappy plan, you know,

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temp support it with cranes,

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get in there and boogie is like,
that's like just classic SpaceX nonsense.

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Whoa.

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Tower courier, you go.

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We are still go for tomorrow,
but it's like a very, very tight schedule.

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We're basically in a race
with the ship right now.

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Switching in three, two, one.

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All right. All right,
chopsticks are moving.

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Come on, baby.

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That's crazy.

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What a day.

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The purpose of this mission is to collect
some really high-profile imagery

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of the Starship, specifically
its heat shield after reentry.

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This is the most in-depth operation
that we've ever conducted.

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We'll be having the most buoys
with the most equipment,

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and way more drones than we have ever
had to have offshore.

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This buoy right here
has been used since Flight 5.

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We deployed these buoys kind of like
as a Hail Mary attempt.

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They were very scrappily, but, you know,
as well as they could be put together.

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It was almost miraculous,
even in the middle of the night,

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to see all of these buoys pointed directly
at Starship as it was landing.

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And gradually,
from Flight 5, 6, 7 and onwards,

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these have always been deployed.

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While it does get punctures,
we can patch them as needed

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and kind of give them the Band-Aids
that they need in order to keep kicking.

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We just departed the port here
at Exmouth.

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I think we've got about a two,
two-and-a-half-day transit,

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500 nautical miles,

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up to a 21-day voyage
out to the Indian Ocean.

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We will be getting a full,
almost 3D model of the vehicle

233
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at different points of reentry and landing

234
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that will allow us to not only assess
the performance of the vehicle

235
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for Flight 12,
but build a new and better Starship.

236
00:16:28,102 --> 00:16:31,299
It's weird the things you find yourself
getting good at

237
00:16:31,383 --> 00:16:33,639
in your quests to go to Mars
or the moon or fly a bunch of satellites.

238
00:16:34,083 --> 00:16:37,903
And something we are really good at
as a company is just moving big things.

239
00:16:38,444 --> 00:16:40,724
There you go. Looking good just like that.

240
00:16:42,644 --> 00:16:46,002
Yeah, you hug this left side,
you'll be good on your right side

241
00:16:46,086 --> 00:16:47,342
off of the building.

242
00:16:47,426 --> 00:16:49,663
- So we have a whole team of people,
the CLT, the critical lift team.

243
00:16:49,747 --> 00:16:51,324
- Good to roll forward.

244
00:16:51,448 --> 00:16:54,805
And their job is just to move,
to maintain, to operate equipment

245
00:16:54,910 --> 00:16:57,967
and infrastructure to move heavy things
all around.

246
00:16:58,051 --> 00:17:01,012
B19 is now entering Highway 4.

247
00:17:02,633 --> 00:17:07,355
All of the great people of Starbase
watching B19 roll out to the pad.

248
00:17:08,535 --> 00:17:11,576
We wanted to make sure we made it
down here for the first version three.

249
00:17:12,077 --> 00:17:15,574
I was here for Flight 9 and 11.
I got to see the catch.

250
00:17:16,078 --> 00:17:18,079
You don't get to say that every day.

251
00:17:18,639 --> 00:17:22,217
Honestly, just seeing, um, V3 take flight,
it's been a long wait.

252
00:17:22,301 --> 00:17:23,681
And also, the flame trench
is gonna look pretty awesome.

253
00:17:26,323 --> 00:17:29,364
Looking good on your left side.
Keep on rolling.

254
00:17:30,124 --> 00:17:31,765
Rolling, rolling, rolling.

255
00:17:31,849 --> 00:17:35,602
- Just out here to watch the B19 rollout
with my family, visiting Starbase.

256
00:17:35,866 --> 00:17:38,523
It's just cool to see everyone working
at SpaceX together

257
00:17:38,691 --> 00:17:40,544
to push forward humanity's future.

258
00:17:40,628 --> 00:17:41,804
Got a beautiful line like that.

259
00:17:41,888 --> 00:17:44,309
We'll keep walking in just like that
for a little bit.

260
00:17:48,430 --> 00:17:49,910
All clear to the front.

261
00:17:51,511 --> 00:17:54,688
And so they move our rockets.
They are, like, I mean, absolute pros

262
00:17:54,772 --> 00:17:57,209
at just give them a random
ginormous shape and say,

263
00:17:57,293 --> 00:17:59,434
"This needs to get from here to there,"
and they'll go do it.

264
00:18:10,317 --> 00:18:11,638
Gonna keep it nice and slow.

265
00:18:24,341 --> 00:18:27,278
So right now, we're in Starfactory
and we're doing the final preparations

266
00:18:27,362 --> 00:18:30,179
to load the imaging satellites
into our satellite speed loader.

267
00:18:30,963 --> 00:18:34,439
This is the last step that's gonna happen
before we send the satellites over

268
00:18:34,523 --> 00:18:37,484
to Mega Bay 2, where they're going to be
loaded into ship and prepared for flight.

269
00:18:41,845 --> 00:18:45,722
So these two satellites will be just two
of 22 total deployed objects.

270
00:18:46,046 --> 00:18:48,702
The other 20 are what we call
satellite simulators.

271
00:18:48,786 --> 00:18:51,323
They don't have computers on board
or anything like that.

272
00:18:51,407 --> 00:18:54,964
They're really just hunks of steel
that mimic the shape and weight

273
00:18:55,048 --> 00:18:56,048
of satellites approximately.

274
00:18:56,132 --> 00:18:57,668
It helps us test the PEZ deploy system.

275
00:18:57,808 --> 00:19:01,645
We're also going to be inspecting the
more sensitive components of the satellite,

276
00:19:02,049 --> 00:19:05,746
the laser optics that send data
to other satellites,

277
00:19:05,830 --> 00:19:07,430
the thruster on board
for on-orbit maneuvering.

278
00:19:07,514 --> 00:19:10,327
All of those systems are more sensitive
to things like FOD or dust,

279
00:19:10,691 --> 00:19:12,807
so we want to give them
one last inspection before they go in

280
00:19:12,891 --> 00:19:14,712
to make sure they're ready to go to space.

281
00:19:16,252 --> 00:19:18,129
Hey, Bennett, just confirm for us
that you are ready for us

282
00:19:18,213 --> 00:19:19,853
to lift the next satellite.

283
00:19:20,833 --> 00:19:23,009
We've finished the profile.
Everything looks good.

284
00:19:23,453 --> 00:19:26,074
I'm gonna disable now,
so they'll be good to remove rigging.

285
00:19:26,694 --> 00:19:27,854
- Copy. Standing by.

286
00:19:32,075 --> 00:19:35,851
All 22 of those objects are gonna mass up
to about 37 and a half metric tons.

287
00:19:36,136 --> 00:19:38,556
That is heavier than any payload
Falcon has ever launched.

288
00:19:39,116 --> 00:19:42,752
I believe this is the heaviest payload
SpaceX will have launched ever,

289
00:19:42,836 --> 00:19:46,193
so we want to learn as much as possible
about the PEZ system

290
00:19:46,277 --> 00:19:47,597
and how the satellites interact with it.

291
00:19:47,681 --> 00:19:50,074
We're on that suborbital trajectory,
but it shows the capability

292
00:19:50,158 --> 00:19:51,798
that Starship has for future
orbital missions coming up.

293
00:20:14,462 --> 00:20:17,019
Uh, it's amazing. Like, I mean,
even just standing next to it,

294
00:20:17,483 --> 00:20:19,203
you're already in awe,

295
00:20:19,363 --> 00:20:22,984
because it's something that is such
a magnificent sight to see.

296
00:20:36,207 --> 00:20:38,363
Many people have worked very hard
for very many years on this.

297
00:20:38,688 --> 00:20:42,024
It's the third evolution of the fully
and rapidly reusable launch vehicle

298
00:20:42,108 --> 00:20:44,129
that SpaceX aims to develop.

299
00:20:52,770 --> 00:20:55,771
I started when the tents were here.
It's just tents and dirt.

300
00:20:56,211 --> 00:20:59,592
We've come a long way since I started
here as an intern a couple years ago.

301
00:21:00,372 --> 00:21:01,829
I mean, it's the biggest thing
ever launched,

302
00:21:01,973 --> 00:21:04,434
so there's nothing that can match it.

303
00:21:05,275 --> 00:21:06,595
I expect it to be loud and fast.

304
00:21:07,436 --> 00:21:09,509
It's definitely gonna rock
the city of Starbase.

305
00:21:36,089 --> 00:21:41,448
Yeah, I was thinking, like, why
the tower team has these big crises

306
00:21:41,612 --> 00:21:45,329
always, like, right before
we have, like, a big operation.

307
00:21:45,413 --> 00:21:48,650
And I think it has to just do
with the scale of everything.

308
00:21:48,734 --> 00:21:52,911
Like, we have these big, complicated
mechanisms that, like, need to work right

309
00:21:52,995 --> 00:21:53,995
every time we use them.

310
00:21:54,596 --> 00:21:58,533
And just replacing a roller turned into
this several-day ordeal

311
00:21:58,617 --> 00:22:01,274
with flying shit in from the Cape,
three cranes to get it in and out,

312
00:22:02,078 --> 00:22:05,595
where, like, if this was a broken bearing
on some little dinky electrical motor,

313
00:22:06,416 --> 00:22:08,592
it would've been much easier

314
00:22:09,401 --> 00:22:11,982
to make that swap in an hour
instead of 24.

315
00:22:12,482 --> 00:22:16,139
- I feel like it also set us up
for success in terms of, like,

316
00:22:16,223 --> 00:22:19,804
the getting mentally ready
to act on immediate.

317
00:22:20,324 --> 00:22:21,865
So super exciting time tomorrow.

318
00:22:22,585 --> 00:22:24,402
Hopefully we see the fruits of our labor

319
00:22:24,486 --> 00:22:27,186
sort of culminate
in a great, successful flight.

320
00:22:33,736 --> 00:22:34,570
Hoo-ee.

321
00:22:34,654 --> 00:22:36,246
Anything on the crane
on your side, Robbie?

322
00:22:36,330 --> 00:22:37,446
- No, it looks good.

323
00:22:37,530 --> 00:22:40,091
All right, let's get into safing
so we can extend the platforms, please.

324
00:22:41,556 --> 00:22:44,500
After this, we'll transition
to preload for unlatch,

325
00:22:44,584 --> 00:22:47,800
take the HPU to integrated ops,
take flight,

326
00:22:47,884 --> 00:22:50,400
and then we'll do a quick
go/no-go poll.

327
00:22:50,484 --> 00:22:52,000
I'll give you a countdown
and we're releasing.

328
00:23:07,956 --> 00:23:09,636
Holding at T-minus 40 seconds.

329
00:23:10,536 --> 00:23:13,737
This looks like a blip, uh,
on blind pressure when we unpinned.

330
00:23:14,282 --> 00:23:15,662
Pressures and preloads are healthy.

331
00:23:16,682 --> 00:23:18,939
Yeah, it's hard to tell.

332
00:23:19,023 --> 00:23:21,304
This is all fogged up from cryo,
but it's essentially right there.

333
00:23:22,824 --> 00:23:25,261
Guys, I recommend we release hold

334
00:23:25,345 --> 00:23:27,041
and give it one more chance to unlatch
with where we're at.

335
00:23:27,125 --> 00:23:29,222
- Ship EXYs are not gonna close out
in damped,

336
00:23:29,306 --> 00:23:30,726
but I believe that's okay.

337
00:23:31,447 --> 00:23:34,043
Okay, we have just enough time
on the vehicle to attempt one more time,

338
00:23:34,127 --> 00:23:36,744
so I recommend we clear the hold,
let it try to unlatch it

339
00:23:36,828 --> 00:23:38,169
at the 100 bar we're at.

340
00:23:38,529 --> 00:23:40,909
We're still stuck in damped,
dampening though.

341
00:23:42,990 --> 00:23:45,391
Understood. We'd be reattempting
with the same hydraulic pressure.

342
00:23:47,631 --> 00:23:50,172
Cool. This will be our last attempt,
and then we're done on the rockets.

343
00:23:53,693 --> 00:23:57,474
Unexpected drop in Z-cylinder
blind pressure when we unpinned.

344
00:23:58,534 --> 00:24:00,431
That was different
from the first few tries?

345
00:24:00,515 --> 00:24:02,295
- That's correct. Different problem.
- Copy.

346
00:24:03,036 --> 00:24:06,473
Yeah, this might be due to QDR dynamics
when we unpin,

347
00:24:07,457 --> 00:24:10,798
so I, yeah, don't... No, I don't think
trying again is gonna solve the problem,

348
00:24:10,882 --> 00:24:11,798
to be honest.

349
00:24:16,056 --> 00:24:17,856
We're done for flight for the day.

350
00:24:17,940 --> 00:24:19,072
Flight.

351
00:24:19,156 --> 00:24:19,901
Thank you.

352
00:24:46,290 --> 00:24:49,050
Mechanical systems really come alive
in that last 40 seconds.

353
00:24:49,351 --> 00:24:50,491
As a part of that sequence,

354
00:24:51,551 --> 00:24:55,049
one of the things that we do
is we unpin that arm

355
00:24:55,133 --> 00:24:58,493
so that the QD can swing away and not
blow itself up as the rocket flies away.

356
00:25:02,355 --> 00:25:04,976
And that part of the arm
is pushing hard against the tower

357
00:25:05,896 --> 00:25:09,073
while we unlatch to make sure that,
even if there's excess pressure

358
00:25:09,157 --> 00:25:12,097
or anything like that, that the QD stays
really tight up against the ship.

359
00:25:12,837 --> 00:25:16,434
And the first time that we had unpinned
that arm in flight-like conditions

360
00:25:16,518 --> 00:25:18,158
was that attempt.

361
00:25:19,198 --> 00:25:23,478
So as we retracted that pin, the arm
wanted to shove closer into the tower.

362
00:25:23,898 --> 00:25:26,739
It caused the end effector to kind of
jiggle back and forth very slightly.

363
00:25:27,379 --> 00:25:31,356
That jiggle set off some really tight,
sensitive bounds that we had

364
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:32,840
on the hydraulic system out there,

365
00:25:33,580 --> 00:25:36,440
and you need it to work or else
the rocket doesn't fly, so...

366
00:25:52,622 --> 00:25:54,083
Always be paranoid.

367
00:25:54,363 --> 00:25:57,539
Going into this flight attempt,
we were worried about

368
00:25:57,963 --> 00:25:59,819
a completely different thing,

369
00:25:59,903 --> 00:26:03,260
which was the hold
for the actual vents on the fill drain.

370
00:26:03,344 --> 00:26:07,545
And then those passed, and then we got bit
by something completely different.

371
00:26:07,845 --> 00:26:11,026
So you gotta be paranoid about everything.

372
00:26:31,111 --> 00:26:34,868
Last night, overnight, we did a sweep
of our 30-nautical-mile

373
00:26:34,952 --> 00:26:37,593
hazardous no-go zone
to make sure there's no vessels.

374
00:26:38,073 --> 00:26:40,454
Range is currently clear.
Everything's looking good.

375
00:26:41,114 --> 00:26:43,595
It's a little rough out.
It's 1 o'clock in the morning.

376
00:26:44,215 --> 00:26:47,672
Doing final preps on all the buoys,
getting all cameras online.

377
00:26:48,096 --> 00:26:50,777
This is when it all happens,
at 1 o'clock in the morning.

378
00:26:51,917 --> 00:26:54,674
This is the most important mission
we've done out here.

379
00:26:54,758 --> 00:26:57,294
We're putting in the most buoys
and the most drones,

380
00:26:57,378 --> 00:27:01,600
so if we don't have this data,
the people back home have no idea

381
00:27:01,684 --> 00:27:02,600
how the heat shield really performed.

382
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,000
Sren, do you wanna give it a final kiss
goodbye for good luck?

383
00:27:10,786 --> 00:27:12,286
That was a wet kiss.

384
00:27:13,006 --> 00:27:14,006
Perfect.

385
00:27:14,966 --> 00:27:16,200
Beautiful.
- Beautiful.

386
00:27:18,726 --> 00:27:19,726
All right.

387
00:27:21,246 --> 00:27:22,826
Bye-bye, buoy.

388
00:27:41,890 --> 00:27:44,691
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Starship
Flight 12 attempt two weather briefing.

389
00:27:45,171 --> 00:27:46,832
Uh, the Starship range is currently green.

390
00:27:47,672 --> 00:27:49,032
Tower, Kenny.
Are you up on countdown one?

391
00:27:49,613 --> 00:27:53,014
Can you give a brief on what we did
last night for the QD arm situation?

392
00:27:53,974 --> 00:27:56,871
So the cause of yesterday's abort

393
00:27:56,955 --> 00:28:01,572
was that the ship QD arm had dynamics
when we tried to unpin it

394
00:28:01,656 --> 00:28:05,493
due to the preload that the ship QD mech
was pushing into the vehicle with.

395
00:28:05,577 --> 00:28:08,174
The mitigations that we have
in place today are that we've welded

396
00:28:08,258 --> 00:28:11,115
a hard stop bumper
to the ship QD arm

397
00:28:11,199 --> 00:28:14,299
to limit the amount of displacement
that can occur when the unpinner unpins.

398
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,377
Attention all flight crew members
on countdown one.

399
00:28:19,461 --> 00:28:22,558
It's the final go/no-go poll
for today's operations.

400
00:28:22,642 --> 00:28:23,958
- RC?
- Go.

401
00:28:24,042 --> 00:28:25,419
- Ground stations?
- Go.

402
00:28:25,503 --> 00:28:27,099
- Flight software one?
- Go.

403
00:28:27,183 --> 00:28:28,400
- Raptor one?
- Go.

404
00:28:28,484 --> 00:28:29,600
- Raptor two?
- Go.

405
00:28:29,684 --> 00:28:31,501
- Stage one?
- Go.

406
00:28:31,585 --> 00:28:33,705
Flight directors go as well.

407
00:28:33,789 --> 00:28:34,705
T-minus one minute.

408
00:28:40,507 --> 00:28:42,207
Holding at T-minus 40 seconds.

409
00:28:45,348 --> 00:28:48,345
SpaceXers really are at their best
in ASAP mode.

410
00:28:48,809 --> 00:28:53,447
We do a good job of not being afraid of
putting ourselves in a really tight spot.

411
00:28:53,886 --> 00:28:55,602
- Fill-drain insert, go.
- Copy.

412
00:28:56,306 --> 00:28:58,082
- SC1, reset the operator hold.
- Reset.

413
00:28:58,786 --> 00:28:59,902
Ops is rolling.

414
00:28:59,986 --> 00:29:01,469
People hate pain,

415
00:29:01,673 --> 00:29:06,554
and that ability to absorb pain for change
here at Starbase is, like, unparalleled.

416
00:29:07,194 --> 00:29:10,775
And if you just are willing
to take a little bit of it,

417
00:29:10,859 --> 00:29:11,775
you can do the most amazing things.

418
00:29:11,856 --> 00:29:13,316
Flight directors go for launch.

419
00:29:15,246 --> 00:29:17,722
T-minus 10,

420
00:29:17,806 --> 00:29:19,582
9,

421
00:29:19,666 --> 00:29:21,662
8,

422
00:29:21,746 --> 00:29:23,322
7,

423
00:29:23,406 --> 00:29:25,186
6
- Lock in. Here we go.

424
00:29:27,746 --> 00:29:30,422
5, 4,

425
00:29:30,506 --> 00:29:31,362
3,

426
00:29:31,446 --> 00:29:32,502
2,

427
00:29:32,586 --> 00:29:33,586
1.

428
00:29:38,586 --> 00:29:39,586
Ignition.

429
00:29:57,866 --> 00:29:59,366
We have liftoff.

430
00:30:09,906 --> 00:30:11,386
Pitching downrange.

431
00:30:26,546 --> 00:30:27,546
Max Q.

432
00:30:29,486 --> 00:30:30,926
Stage separation.

433
00:30:37,350 --> 00:30:40,146
Acknowledging many, many
booster alerts.

434
00:30:40,230 --> 00:30:42,290
Flight, engines on boostback startup.

435
00:30:43,690 --> 00:30:46,494
Flight software acknowledging
mission abort.

436
00:30:46,578 --> 00:30:48,170
Further boostback shutdown expected.

437
00:30:48,650 --> 00:30:50,610
Yes, sir. Can confirm
exec team is aware

438
00:30:50,710 --> 00:30:54,690
that booster did not make it
to the final landing location.

439
00:30:56,510 --> 00:30:59,250
Ship avionics, power,
and telemetry nominal.

440
00:31:00,230 --> 00:31:04,500
We have healthy chamber pressures
on five out of six ship Raptor engines.

441
00:31:12,030 --> 00:31:14,050
Vertical line shots.

442
00:31:25,310 --> 00:31:28,026
That was the coolest thing
I've ever seen.

443
00:31:28,110 --> 00:31:29,453
Wow. Look at that.

444
00:31:29,537 --> 00:31:32,030
- Yeah, video of a satellite
looking at our ship.

445
00:31:32,750 --> 00:31:34,250
This one was good.

446
00:31:49,890 --> 00:31:53,370
Starship is turning for final
approach to landing site.

447
00:32:44,950 --> 00:32:46,950
Starship has landed.

448
00:33:29,110 --> 00:33:31,786
This is the hardest thing humans
have ever done, honestly.

449
00:33:31,870 --> 00:33:34,632
- It feels like it. - Yeah.
This might be our crowning achievement.

450
00:33:34,716 --> 00:33:36,113
After this, the robots will have
to take over.

451
00:33:36,197 --> 00:33:36,997
- Exactly.

452
00:33:39,819 --> 00:33:42,800
Anytime we have these kind of big
evolutionary leaps in the program,

453
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,437
whether it was the very first Flight 1,
whether it was the first catch on Flight 5,

454
00:33:45,661 --> 00:33:49,039
obviously new major block change
with the pad and the ship and the booster

455
00:33:49,123 --> 00:33:50,623
all at the same time for V3,

456
00:33:50,723 --> 00:33:53,665
there's somewhat of an expectation of,
like, what might we have missed?

457
00:33:53,865 --> 00:33:56,606
But at some point, you just gotta say,
"Hey, the most learnings are to go fly."