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New Fire Suppression System Dramatically Increases Superheavy's Performance! While the 2nd Integrated Test Flight of Starship ultimately ended in the loss of both vehicles, it was undoubtably a massive improvement from SpaceX's first attempt. This episode is a deep dive analysis of critical upgrades to Starship Superheavy. Disclaimer: There...

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Zack Golden

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Elon Musk2 years ago

Good video

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Zack Golden2 years ago

Thank you! My favorite part about rapid iteration is being able to witness the way data acquisition & review leads to advancement of the program. We usually don't get to see that kind of thing. The Superheavy team did a ridiculously good job after IFT-1. Based on limited knowledge, I have a feeling the changes following IFT-2 won't require anywhere near as many hardware changes. Can't wait to see where things go from here!

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Niall-Ian Anderson2 years ago

Incredible Video as always Zack!

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SLS2 years ago

Amazing video Zack, Really glad you didnt give in to the notion that B9 had a downcomer failure explosion rather than FTS and Ryan's render really helped prove it.

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Kyle Cushway2 years ago

Zack, I've never fully sat down and watch these at length - but this was my first time doing so. Incredibly well done and it felt like I was watching a Discovery channel documentary. Thanks to you and your team for putting this all together for us to watch and for giving the credit to all of the photographers and videographers who unknowingly give your team all the data to make these.

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smallstars2 years ago

Hey Zack! Payload gave you a shoutout in their newsletter. That’s really awesome, congrats! 🚀

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MrsAdAstra2 years ago

Just watched it, content is very interesting. Very nicely put together. Thank you @CSI_Starbase @SpacejunkieH @TheRocketFuture

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Jeff Ward2 years ago

Great job! I'm sure it's been covered, but I still find the fixed grid fins irritating, if we're trying to maximize efficiency.

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Zack Golden2 years ago

They aren’t fixed, just non folding. I think they play a bigger role than people currently understand

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