SpaceX Starship "Deep Space to Dirt" Landing Animation

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SpaceX Starship "Deep Space to Dirt" Landing Animation - Out Dated

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3 жыл бұрын

This is a SpaceX Starship animation of a possible future flight to deep space and what the landing could look like. The Starship model is a speculative future version based off what we have seen from SpaceX.
Thanks to Felix and the What About It!? Discord for help along the way!
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Background images from NASA.gov

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@johndunstan7003 3 жыл бұрын

Just needs Tim yelling *YES! YES!* after landing.

@felreymiguel5734 3 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about Everyday Astronaut? Which is also Tim

@johndunstan7003 3 жыл бұрын

@@James-zh6nf No fake enthusiasm here Goofy. We are privileged to be here watching history in the making. These events will change humanity forever. Got me wondering why you're here?

@Fornaxfornax1 3 жыл бұрын

@@James-zh6nf Tim Dodd? Fake enthusiasm? You sir are making a grave mistake!

@tholaalw8647 3 жыл бұрын

And it happened!!!

@Jak_Extreme 3 жыл бұрын

@@James-zh6nf You don't know what's loving space exploration until you meet Tim Dodd

@Dappdude 3 жыл бұрын

I love the animation, but keep in mind that there should be no burn before entering the atmosphere from deep space. Instead, Starship will enter the atmosphere belly forward to bleed off speed, and this is were it looks fiery. Only once that speed is bled off, it will start falling horizontally, and the fiery bit is definitely over by then. Other than that, amazing animation!

@NickHenning3D 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah there is a big debate on if an orbital insertion burn is needed or not? It would save alot of fuel if they can bleed off enough delta V with atmosphere only. But the burn looks cool so I put it in.

@ryanrising2237 3 жыл бұрын

@@NickHenning3D Insertion burn or no insertion burn, the thing will definitely be moving sideways at around orbital velocity when it does finally renter. That’s the bit where you start to see the reentry plasma build up, not when it’s going mostly straight down. I only mean this constructively, though, and really do enjoy seeing this sort of stuff.

@sddndsiduae4b-688 3 жыл бұрын

@@NickHenning3D they would not have fuel for such burn - so if it would work as Elon want - no burn, otherwise no interplanetary. p.s. all return vehicles enters counter clockwise if you see planet from north pole (i.e. just watch apollo re enter for example, i.e. planet on the left (and visually rotates to the left) and spacecraft is moving to the right) - it saving 800 m/s of braking speed (even if you don't use engines you still burns your heat shield for each m/s needed), you can cheat yourself by saying that first scene is upside down (i.e. south America upper than north one).

@timothygooding9544 3 жыл бұрын

@Kyle Towers while that is efficient it will be hard to plan out where you will actually land, small changes will have a butterfly effect which isn't good if you plan to land on a single landing pad on an entire planet

@mayank_upadhyay_19 3 жыл бұрын

@@timothygooding9544 that's what I thought when it came to just shredding all speed to atmosphere, but sure that will make huge risk of not reaching the pad or reaching with more than required velocity

@premiumbananaguy5319 3 жыл бұрын

There are many in the comments saying what could be improved and so on, there might be things that can be improved, but let's just appreciate how good this Animation looks! It's just incredible!

@DaT0nkee 3 жыл бұрын

The reentry is inaccurate. The whole point of the heat shield is to use the athmosphere as a brake, and therefore spare fuel. So reentering looks like a horizontal meteor-like slowdown not just a simple fall down into the athmosphere vertically. If it could be done to just "stop" in orbit and then fall, heat shields would be absolutelly pointless.

@ascherlafayette8572 3 жыл бұрын

I dont think the idea is to stop, I think the rocket slows down to reduce the heating to tolerable levels

@faustin289 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think the heat shield is enough to allow a 25km/sec vehicle to enter dense atmosphere just like that. Some of the speed needs to be shed off before reentry.

@DaT0nkee 3 жыл бұрын

@@faustin289 25 km/sec is the reentry speed fom very far, for example Mars. From LEO, or from the Moon it is much smaller. And yes, heat shield, steel body, right entry angle, proper maneuvers. One of the reasons why the body of the Starship is made of steel the high reentry heat tolerance. It can heat up to 800°C without any damage. (800°C for the body itself the tiles are much hotter of course ~2000°C)

@CarlosAM1 3 жыл бұрын

@@faustin289 the heat shield should be able to take it

@k1dicarus 3 жыл бұрын

Could it theoretical do atmosphere hoping to bleed speed in many short dives before committing to full atmosphere entry?

@tachyonicnewt2473 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the little details like the red and green lights on the flaps/elonerons.

@CompositesNG 3 жыл бұрын

I always feel like this was inspired by and is like, the “Adama Maneuver” and I’m just waiting for someone to turn the key for the FTL Drive. (Battlestar Galactica Reference) Thank you Elon and Space for trying something different and fingers crossed this works.

@invaziondzxn4716 3 жыл бұрын

This render deserves more than a subscription. Hands down the best!!!!!!!!!! 👍👏

@goz614 3 жыл бұрын

What is your favorite simpsons character

@terminationshock1356 3 жыл бұрын

It won't go down that vertical from the beginning

@samimaki2577 3 жыл бұрын

This will be amazing

@FB0102 3 жыл бұрын

Cool video. But when it heats up during entry it will be going almost completely horizontal, instead of down. Also it probably wont use the engines to slow down in space before entry; the point of the heat shield is to not have to use the engines to slow down.

@sddndsiduae4b-688 3 жыл бұрын

animation is very beautiful, but many facts is wrong, for example a) wrong direction initially in first scene, b) main engines would not be used before landing - no point c) wrong orientation - starship when going from interplanetary would be almost vertical (i.e. perpendicular to it's speed relative to surface) before speed slows to suborbital, and only then it will rotate - depends on how high it's need to be for proper braking (without baking). d) disproportionally long horizontal part of burn - it should be fully compensated after back-flip, i think most of rotation speed would be produced from wings (i.e. by folding back wings), only small part of burn would be used for rotation speedup.

@sddndsiduae4b-688 3 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLahmaub2dWtc6s.html there obviously wrong wings, and incorrect fuel distribution, which would fully ruin slow speed flight (less than hyper-sonic) but while it is faster than hyper-sonic orientation and reenter direction, it is mostly correct (obviously it is not interplanetary transfer, so de orbit burn was needed, and orientation less than vertical too).

@sddndsiduae4b-688 3 жыл бұрын

well Musk was tighter twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1325937554236043266

@hefwilliams5400 3 жыл бұрын

incredible animation.

@kleeblattchen38 3 жыл бұрын

Nice animation but the orbital mechanics are kidna wrong...

@deepspacecourier 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Great animation. Reentry heating looks sick!

@AntavasSpeaks 3 жыл бұрын

This is completely wrong. There is no entry burn, and starship's reentry isn't a meteor fall, it's a long path through the atmosphere at a 70° angle of attack as it bleeds off speed using airbraking before the final descent and landing burn. This is almost the exact opposite of how it functions.

@JonasGraf00 3 жыл бұрын

This is absolutely awesome!

@MakeMySanctuary Жыл бұрын

Never gets old nic

@PytoX 3 жыл бұрын

Wow very nice

@TheBestOfSweden 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome animation! Good job!!

@Malburn 3 жыл бұрын

I've played this over and over, what incredible work thank you! A joy to see the Great Great Great Grandfather of the Rocinante :)

@luciusholdogeta3076 3 жыл бұрын

So geht Raumflug. Einfach fantastisch. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

@MG-er6dm 3 жыл бұрын

Will wonders never cease! Simply brilliant.

@eduarfeliz833 3 жыл бұрын

I just love the silence after the landing, it fills me with calm and joy.

@framryk0 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing work Nick! Wow, what a ride! 🚀👍😄

@JMosUndefeated 3 жыл бұрын

That looks awesome

@stephensfarms7165 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome 👏

@caab0516 3 жыл бұрын

Goosebumps man

@daedalus5254 3 жыл бұрын

That is truly amazing!

@jdmaine51084 3 жыл бұрын

We can all agree that we're in for quite a show.

@RogerM88 3 жыл бұрын

Good job!

@wplaat 3 жыл бұрын

great animation

@MrHichammohsen1 3 жыл бұрын

That is one flaming hot BOI! Thank you nick.

@bill_ruppert 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. What a trip. Nice plasma!

@NickHenning3D 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. It will be insane with people on board.

@Nick-wn1xw 3 жыл бұрын

I think it will end up needing a wider footprint for the landing legs.

@schmeidermerilien1374 3 жыл бұрын

That's sick

@SpaceXvision 3 жыл бұрын

Love it, really cool stuff

@StingerNSW 3 жыл бұрын

Nick, you excel each and every time, that was truly amazing and worth an Oscar for “Best Animation. Thank you for the hours and hours of work to bring us what the future might hold 🚀😍👍

@Kevin_penguin 3 жыл бұрын

cool animation

@robsin2810 3 жыл бұрын

Good effort.👍👍

@TheAnimaniacarts 3 жыл бұрын

Great Animation, enjoy to see some Work of You again!

@michelmelinot 3 жыл бұрын

WOW Awesomeeeee

@TamPham-mj4zu 3 жыл бұрын

Its not going to go straight down. It will skim along the upper atmosphere and com down with at a very agressive angle and will only lay horizontal towards the end

@jonesvictor5801 3 жыл бұрын

Those landing burns so cool

@thesurvivalist. 2 жыл бұрын

You might be able to move all four of the flap bases on Starship. So that they would extend from a position far higher on the top of Staship, closer to the race track and so that only the tips and midsection of the flaps would extend into the plasma stream, and only those sections would need to have heat shielding! When in use they would extend from the top of the ship, to beyond the the widest point of the ship into the plasma stream, think of them as butterfly wings or four angel wings, instead of a airplane wings. They are not their for lift, rather for direction control and drag during the belly flop, and for reentry! No need for specialized heat tiles, all along the side of the ship, or near the bases structure none at all, cutting cost and number of tiles and time needed for installation and or replacement of the tiles.

@izzad777 3 жыл бұрын

Starship won't have entry burn. That's why they need the heat shield.

@zzubra 3 жыл бұрын

There won’t be an entry burn, but there will need to be a de-orbit burn, if Starship is in orbit (as opposed to returning from Mars or the Moon). It does look like the video is showing an entry burn.

@jemuelmongado5030 3 жыл бұрын

@@zzubra I think mission controllers would have at least made sure it enters a decaying orbit during the return maneuver tho

@zzubra 3 жыл бұрын

@@jemuelmongado5030 “decaying orbit”? I wonder if you’ve watched too much Star Trek; that’s not a strategy that’s likely to be used for a crewed mission, since aerobraking to an ever lower orbit can take months. If returning from Mars, they will likely have chosen a trajectory that simply intersects the Earth’s atmosphere at a suitable location and angle for entry, descent and landing (EDL). If they’ve been sufficiently accurate, there may not be any need for a burn near Earth.

@jemuelmongado5030 3 жыл бұрын

@@zzubra Might have got my terms mixed up lmao sorry. But what you said is pretty much what I was trying to say haha

@imconsequetau5275 3 жыл бұрын

Right. The approach has to be accurate and tangential to atmosphere. Starship can adjust altitude and in fact it has to aggressively maintain altitude while sweeping around the planet, loosing velocity. The Raptors are only used for the landing.

@DaneWarren 3 жыл бұрын

Hell yes

@Calypso993 3 жыл бұрын

Aerobraking instead of capture burn. Aerobraking is meant for vehicles who can use amotsphere for bleeding off speed and dont have much propellant for doing so. Great animation nonetheless.

@GameplayReviewUK 3 жыл бұрын

Love those shots, inspires me to make more dramatic scenes in my own videos :)

@mikoske 3 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@mikelmikes310 3 жыл бұрын

The day we do this Social media will go 🎆

@steffenschon8921 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, amazing work, top sound, great!

@Stealtharrowthe007 3 жыл бұрын

Great animation, although when hot gas thrusters start being used instead of cold gas starship won't need to light it's engines from a horizontal position.

@NickHenning3D 3 жыл бұрын

Tha ks you.. Agreed, but I like the look of the Elon maneuver, took some artistic liberties.

@Cscuile 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing and underrated!

@skyhiker9669 3 жыл бұрын

Nicely done.

@MauroE969 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome 3D animation! All we hope this will be happen soon!

@UrbanWindowFarmer 3 жыл бұрын

That was fun to watch!

@shibumi5210 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely no reentry burn- let's face it, trying to use rocket power to slow down from 25,000 MPH is a bit difficult- just a rough guess, to shed 20,000 MPH would take a 3 G deceleration for about five minutes... does it even HOLD that much fuel??

@imconsequetau5275 3 жыл бұрын

It holds that much fuel leaving LEO, but main tanks only have a token amount to maintain hull pressure when approaching Earth - or Mars.

@Muuip 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent! 👍

@gerbermrsa 3 жыл бұрын

wow.......wow......WOW.............gobsmacked.........

@alkishadjinicolaou5831 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@WooBino. 3 жыл бұрын

Call me old school but a better shuttle should be the way to go. This landing with people to many things can go wrong. IMHO

@randgrithr7387 3 жыл бұрын

Shuttle was horrendously dangerous. NASA shrugged off foam strikes until it led to the death of 7 people. Starship design gets rid of a million things that could go wrong, believe it or not. >Same heat tile tech but without foam strikes. >1 type of engine, fewer parts per engine than RS-25. >Stainless steel has higher melting point than shuttle's aluminum, in case of heat tile failure. >Manual fly-by-wire landing on the first ever Shuttle flight vs fully automated pre-calculated flip only carrying humans after 100's of flights.

@zzubra 3 жыл бұрын

Nice visualization in general. And... I would expect to see glowing plasma around the Starship as it enters the atmosphere, just like for other reentering spacecraft. That’s what the heat shield is meant to protect against.

@graullas8981 3 жыл бұрын

Just wow!

@JohnnyThund3r 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta say you nailed the Stainless Steal look, but now I realize Starship looks like it was built in the 1970s... I kinda wonder if now that we are in 2020 have we fallen into the plot of a 1970's B-movie...

@daytoncostlow2578 3 жыл бұрын

Good animation. I enjoyed this one.

@devontephillips3343 3 жыл бұрын

Sick azz video! Love it !

@roberthunter7962 3 жыл бұрын

Our new Mail service and Airline

@huwphotographer9389 3 жыл бұрын

excellent thanks :)

@dvanerdivkanade 3 жыл бұрын

Landing propulsively from space. I kind wish we would see dragon 2 perform motorized landing at least once.

@ThatOpalGuy 3 жыл бұрын

I'll be amazed if the engines can gimbal that much.

@imconsequetau5275 3 жыл бұрын

Only +- 15°

@BigBoreHK 3 жыл бұрын

There's no way it will fall straight down like that.

@gamenightfeldon2897 3 жыл бұрын

thats the whole idea! Its the first fully reusable rocket

@ecurb10 3 жыл бұрын

If you mean during re-entry, that's right. But it will of course as it approaches the ground.

@ecurb10 3 жыл бұрын

@@gamenightfeldon2897 Sam might mean during re-entry phase - that would still be a more horizontal flight path, as it decelerates from orbit.

@jettisonedguy257 3 жыл бұрын

Hell Yes! Great Work. I was wondering whether the clouds were going to have collision dynamics.

@flybeep1661 3 жыл бұрын

Some of the things in this animation are blatantly wrong. First off the angle of attack when entering the atmosphere is wrong, it should pretty much be almost upright as it's trying to dissipate forward momentum. So it would want to present as much surface in the direction it's moving which is sideways relative to the earth and not downward. Secondly, you're not going to see flames inside the dense atmosphere when it's already bled off substantial speed. Thirdly the burn sequence seem wrong to with the raptors firing when still in a horizontal "fall" mode".

@tobifoong8025 3 жыл бұрын

Nice animation.. very pretty .. but, its coming in at orbital speed so its going side ways not falling straight down. the landing is a bit too gentle ;-) check out the animation from spaceX.

@Sonderax 3 жыл бұрын

Im gonna be honest... i prefer the slower crazy elon with the long sideways burn before the flip. Looks more realistic imo.

@luismiguel174 3 жыл бұрын

xd good

@-ahmed121 3 жыл бұрын

Song ?

@Trylk1138 3 жыл бұрын

Why would it flip over the wrong way for the deorbit burn? Other than that, looks cool

@gnarly706 3 жыл бұрын

So much faster then a parachute.

@n721sw 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice animation, but I would loose the red/green navigation lights on the wings. They would never be there on a spaceship. There is no one up there to see them.

@NickHenning3D 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! They have them on the Dragon spacecraft and they just look cool!

@n721sw 3 жыл бұрын

@@NickHenning3D I did not know that, thank you

@sergiogumer181 3 жыл бұрын

waiting for the great moment

@BlueJazzBoyNZ 3 жыл бұрын

I suspect that a mini refuel would be done in orbit with a tanker first and then the re-entry and landing. As there is no reason to lug the mass of the landing consumables throughout the whole voyage.

@AntavasSpeaks 3 жыл бұрын

You would be wrong. Storing fuel for landing is exactly what the header tanks are for.

@randomcubing7106 3 жыл бұрын

All of us SpaceX Fans: Mars, here we go! Meanwhile Nicki Minaj: *Just figured out that Starships can fly*

@skrewylewy3259 3 жыл бұрын

great work but you said dirt not landing pad in dirt big diff

@dylanm.3692 3 жыл бұрын

The windows make it looks like some kind of 1950s concept vehicle.

@Almuneitor 3 жыл бұрын

....Que mas queremos que SEA ASI !!!!, pero hasta el momento los motores RAPTOR estan dando problemas....

@softb 3 жыл бұрын

you do know it won't execute a retrograde burn tho right

@bloodygekkon 3 жыл бұрын

Deep dark space

@vonrechner9618 3 жыл бұрын

All the critics, should make their own animation or 🤐

@Xtars 3 жыл бұрын

SR 2 simple rockets 2 wind sound efect coll

@naieuc 3 жыл бұрын

Orbital velocity is horizontal not vertical......

@montigobear 3 жыл бұрын

The Adama Maneuver realized!

@NickHenning3D 3 жыл бұрын

Still one of the greatest sci-fi scenes ever!

@arcosprey4811 3 жыл бұрын

This isn't even that outdated tbh

@trekkingreds4785 3 жыл бұрын

Sci-fi isn't sci-fi anymore 🙂

@FurkanDincerov 3 жыл бұрын

@milanarybethwindictive3969 3 жыл бұрын

holy moooly, i cant believe this aint scifi !

@FurkanDincerov 3 жыл бұрын

Hello

@techdailyafrica 3 жыл бұрын

I know they've figured it out, but How the heck will they get off the 16 storey ship on Mars.

@imconsequetau5275 3 жыл бұрын

Rappelling?

@martonnagyszokolyai8178 3 жыл бұрын

Can any person in this spaceship physically bear this landing?

@bcneverworksrblx2552 3 жыл бұрын

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