I love your videos but please switch the pixelated effect with another transition, it's making me dizzy edit: typo

I've been a SpaceX fanboy since around 2014. I remember watching the first starlink launch on livestream and thinking about what a daunting task this must be. (I think they were launching around 60 at a time back then) It's amazing how fast time and progress has moved. I feel like it was mere months ago that I was hearing Tim Dodd yell live: "WATER TOWERS CAN FLY!!!"

I think you forgot to mention the fact that plasma is opaque to radio waves. If it weren't for that, a reentering vehicle could easily communicate with the ground just as it does in orbit. So it's not so much the proximity of the satellites as, along with the other technology, the fact that they are above (and behind) the vehicle.

Amazing video, but please change the pixelated transition.

My neighbor had one of those huge backyard satellites in the 80s. I still remember the early Saturday mornings with the sun streaming in through the window, the birds chirping their happy Spring songs, and Bill next door screaming to his kid out the window "MORE TO THE RIGHT! NOW UP SOME! A LITTLE MORE. A LITTLE MORE. WAIT, THAT'S TOO MUCH, GO BACK..."

Mate, this pixelated image is not helping this video at all and only making it harder to process. Please don't do it again P.S. i love your videos btw and thanks for your work, it's only those pixels that i could not stand :D

I remember asking SpaceX years ago during a Falcon 9 launch if they were ever going to use Starlink receivers on their rockets for future video & telemetry. Never did get an answer at the time but it seems like we've all got one since test launch 3. :)

I've never seen gravity explained in terms of a skateboard park. Bravo!

It’s remarkable to see the technology on the phrase, array, and antenna for that ship to be tumbling and switching satellites that fast to give a good feed shows that human have come along way our technology is getting better then then ever

I started using star link in august, I work in north east Nigeria; and starlink is amazing.

Setting new records and breaking them is what SpaceX does everyday

Great job explaining the concept of GEO vs LEO. I know it's for visibility reason, but the scale doesn't do how close LEO is to the Earth justice. 500km vs 35,000km is a huge factor. Scale-wise, something in a LEO orbit would pass under the metal arm that holds a model globe of the Earth! Can you imagine? Very low coverage per unit but with 6000 satellites in orbit now, Starlink is a marvel. Again, well done.

Someone else has probably noted this already, but the point is that plasma obstructs radio waves. The plasma below the vehicle prevents signals going eathwards. Above and behind is not plasma- rich, so signals to satellites above are not obstructed (until the whole thing melts).

Great coverage

Excellent video and narration. Good work 👍

One of your best explanatory videos.

More good stuff. Thanks

oh wait ....the pixel themed video ....man that was a pain haha. thanks for the content!

Go SpaceX! 😍

Fantastic video! I learned basically Nothing I didn’t already know, and I’m still like WOW! Such a great video. I hadn’t thought about how impressive it was that Starlink stayed connected despite the rotation. -Nathan R

Good video. A rather abrupt ending.

Why didnt we get footage from the space shuttle with plasma, recorded at the time, and handed over on landing?

I cant wait for polaris dawn and seeing how starlink will affect that mission.

@13:48 Wow!!! Nice animation with the rotation axis of the earth 90deg tilted!! Jupiter got out of his orbit or a mega meteor/rock passed by? Very scientific. So Africa, South America, Hawaii and Australia will now have Aurora Tropicalis. When they got a Ice Shell it is Arora Borealis again. Luckely with that rotation axis there will not be an ozon hole anymore.

Dramatic continuous improvement.

A solid video. 0:26 - In a short period when the USA considered solar power satellites, which would have been enormous, a range of concepts for _very_ heavy, fully reusable "freighters" was very seriously considered. For example, one from Boeing (in the days when Boeing still could do great things) which consisted of two large stages, bigger than SH/SS, but which landed like a Shuttle orbiter, rather than propulsevely. When the idea of "power from space" was abandoned, so were these brutes - trere was no viable mission for them. Skeptics say, neither there is one for Starship. 0:37 - Now, this _is_ a big deal! It has been attempted multiple times before, from something simple as Iridium on, but everyone so far went bankrupt. Starlink uptake is much slower than anticipated, and Starshield contract is a lifeline thrown to SpaceX by Uncle Sam (that is, taxpayers) once again.

Starship getting as high as it did is an "impossible feat"? C'mon now

Make the impossible possible, that is what SpaceX is doing! Thank you for this informative video

The video quality is all over the place. Space X provides crystal clear 1080p footage, and you pixelate it, why?

Amazing

I missed if you mentioned the part that we can't communicate with ground on reentry. This was a problem, for the shuttle program, something about the atmosphere interference with communications.

What impossible did they do ????

Where can you watch the live streams?

I love your channel

Brilliant Commentary !

Great video! I have to correct you on one aspect though, the molecules in the upper atmosphere are predominantly gaseous in phase, not 'solid' 👌

Thank you for this informative video

Light takes about 233ms to travel to geosynchronous orbit and back. Add in some other latency for hardware and I can see how the lag would be totally terrible. I bet there’s other constraints that hurt total bandwidth too (thought it could just be an outcome of Little’s Law) Thanks for helping me understand part of why starlink is so much lower latency!

Before the ionization layer made it impossible but now internet skyfi changes everything

Nice video! Maybe one day we use spaceship to go to Titan, one of the biggest moon of Saturn. I did a video about it😊

That View throughout Re-entry was such a surprise to me

The mass of the earth is not dependent on having a giant ball of iron or anything else, gravity is caused by the mutual attraction of any thing at all that has mass it does not have to be iron. (Conventional explanation).

Ever hear of compensating thrusters? Starship should adapt a lesson from Apollo! 😢

In the grand scheme of things we are just at the stage like our ancestors who first leave an island and successfully built a big canoe (the age of sail is probably something like solar sail and the steam engine is probably sub-light engine and the first air plane is like hyperspace!)

The old space shuttle ok so you're telling me there's a new one.

I remember those big satellites 😅

Amazing content, thank you. Maybe loose the pixelated transitions.

Outstanding! Best channel on KZfaq!! Thank you for this easy to understand breakdown!

Your point about a 500km orbit being so close is true, but looking at your image of the earth, you can see that 500km would actually be about 1/10th the distance that you show, and would really drive that point home better, I think.

That was about 10 minutes too long. Plasma shields radio transmission. Before, the ground was talking to the ship directly and would be blocked by the plasma, now starlink net is able to talk to it from above when the plasma shieilds it from direct ground communication.

13:14 and with out heat shierds the ship is Doomed

The impossible being failing 22 times to reach orbit with an heavy rocket? I would agree to that, but nobody thought it was impossible.

I love the channel, but I didn’t enjoy the pixelisation effect during the edits

Sandy wheat said that's awesome

Just having a black box onboard to record reentry would make reentry video possible. Starlink made it real time but we absolutely have materials that could protect a SSD through uncontrolled reentry.

Thx.

pretty sure the Beirut port explosion is the largest non nuclear explosion in history... 2:50

Great topic and treatise but the pixelation is super annoying

Hey, Candarm. What great Canada space news do you have (crickets). Lol

I find it interesting to reflect (especially each time i see SpaceX or one its predecessors land vortically, i.e., tail first) on one of the Dwarfs who were absolute certain that those landings were all faked. But, for those of us who were raised in around the space race and were able to see this countries on virtually a daily basis, who knew those who were closely connected with the efforts , and great strides we made each to get this country into space, had details of the efforts and hard work at every level of science and the related industry and could follow the progress that was made almost daily with some degree of confidence and respect for the progress we as a country made and all done despite serious political and even social objections to who we were and what we did as a nation and as a people.

What happened with the resolution? This time it was really bad.

2:52 Port of Beruit???

Wow so the camera is invulnerable to the heat of re-entry and escape velosity. Must be made of vibranium..

The nasa was the first one to show re entry from space craft when the space shuttle was in service we coud see the plasma on the windows of the shuttle

First, I was a bit angry because it appeared to be a very good Starlink ad --- but I'd say the whole thing or a global low earth orbit satellite internet makes sense. With the popularity of Starlink --- more people talk about mega-constellations. Actually nearly every launcher wants them. Kind of orbital roads --- or roads in orbit --- too bad no one has thought of building and using them for energy transmission. Okay, there were and are plans for photovoltaic/solar plants in geostationary orbit but kind of "beaming" power around would probably make sense too --- if on one site there's too much and somewhere there's a real shortage.

We really desperately need collaboration from Artemis signatories..

Why waa i expecting SpaceUK 😅

btw i love your videos. Thank you for sharing awsome content related to space.

That’s so funny I’m a chef at one taste it ones love it forever

It is also impossible to burn a spacecraft designed not to burn on reentry in this era.

Honestly the title is misleading. Based on mathematics it's was possible for Starship to do the things that it has accomplished it was just never before seen/conceived for a massive object like starship to fly in the sky.

Remember, Canadarm when Elon first left South Africa he went to Canada. Remember that, Canadarm? Wa happa? Lol

Great job

Why is Starship made of stainless steel instead of Al or carbon fiber?

HughesNet lmao. Poor guy

This capability seems making them militarily significance such as controlling hypersonic glide vehicles during reentry plasma?!

Cool info!! All makes perfect sense to, now!!

Is there a way to re-enter the atmosphere without creating plasma. Is there anyway to slow down and fall back down to earth without reentry heating

An impossible feat MEANS THAT IT CAN'T BE DONE.

N1 blast certainly no where near Halifax (WW1 ammunition ship), nearing 3kt tnt (6 million pounds) - I don't think the N1 even had that much fuel! Double-check claims like this.

I have a bad feel Starship will end like the N1

Thank God , Our world is gifted with Elon’s genius ability to innovate our way into space race . 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💯🧘🏽‍♀️🙏🏼

Saying these things are impossible is a lie, it is only no one did it before due their own lack of resources and/or personal motivation.

Winning the space race is so American 🇺🇸

Get rid of the music, it's especially distracting/annoying if you are waiting for the "buried" lead. (Unfortunately people think adding music makes the presentation better - the problem with that is the opposite is true and further, the music indicates that the presentation is weak.

Great explanation! Very concise and understandable.

One correction it has nothing to do with the ball of iron all of the matter on earthe is responsible for its gravity the ball of molten iron is just responsible for the magneto sphere

it's impossible to do the impossible

There is no such thing as “Doing the impossible”!!! If you’ve done it…it’s not impossible!!!

Whats with the terrible pixelated effect. All while talking about how great the quality from space x's live streams are. Please get rid of this. I genuinely thought youtube kept messing with my wuality setting.

Slower orbital speeds at higher orbits has more to do with the distance for the object to fall than it has to do with diminished gravity. An orbit is essentially something falling back to Earth but having enough horizontal velocity to miss the Earth so the object stays in orbit. Higher orbits can have a slower horizontal velocity because it takes a lot longer for the object to fall the distance to the earth.

Yeah, "kind of"... you CANNOT avoid falling into a gravity well but if you're going fast enough, you can keep falling ahead of the planet. Isaac Newton understood this, why don't you?

That really was something completely new and absolutely breathtaking pictures during FST-03. It is reminiscent of NASA's fast data transmission via laser at the end of last year. Until now, data transfer rates from satellites exploring the solar system have been quite low. Due to the old technical possibilities and the limitations of the Deep Space Netword ground system, which is now completely overloaded anyway and from which the control commands also have to be sent. The new data transmission rate not only makes it possible to transmit far more data far more faster, but we no longer need the completely overloaded receiving system, as this can now be intercepted with many telescopes. This really is a quantum leap aka game changer and we will probably now be able to receive video transmissions from satellites exploring the moons of Jupiter or Saturn, for example. Very good video, as always from this great channel. Thank you very much for your very good work and good luck for the future! 😊

Lol

Not impossible if they just did it...

That was a great episode and very clear to understand. Thanks

I have every confidence in the fourth starship being able to make it back through the atmospher and make a 'virtual'landing into the ocean....... GO STARSHIP, the way I see it, Elon Musk is the ONLY person who is making measurable progress towards heading to MARS, or anywhere else for that matter. I DONT like the man, I DONT like his politics, but at least he is doing SOMETHING.

Not to be critical but I'm starting to feel like someone needs to be at this point. SpaceX isn't building "almost rockets". They have achieved a lot of firsts and no doubt it is impressive but let's be honest it failed miserably at doing what is most important launch a vehicle and return it to Earth. Even the payload doors failed. If building high quality space travel video relay was there objective then SpaceX has finished there mission and can go public today. But this of course isn't really even on the list of objectives. If anything startups don't want to show there failures in high quality to its potential investors. On a truly successful SpaceX launch this vehicle would have been much higher orbit. Remember this vehicle has no payload and was fully fueled. I suspect there public stated goals were not there plained goals by a long shot. NASA would have been terrified having a vehicle re-enter the atmosphere of this size in such an uncontrolled way. It could have easily been a disaster if parts of this ship rained down on a major city. They have been lucky and I do respect what they are trying to achieve. Watching there launches are both inspiring and hilarious at the same time. There is no show quite like it. Let's just hope the next high quality video shows a successful launch of a full payload vehicle to orbit altitude. Or starship may be just be another failed Elon promise. Of all Elon's businesses so far SpaceX has been the only true technological achievement so I truly hope they succeed. Even if I think moon and mars landings are point less.

They are not impossible feats, if they were impossible then they couldn't happen. Amazing feats maybe, but not impossible.

Bro tries to show us HD videos using VCD player :)