SpaceX Starship prototype landing system

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SpaceX Starship prototype landing system

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4 жыл бұрын

A few animations showing how SpaceX's Starship prototype landing legs may work. These are based off of what we have seen on the SN-4 vehicle, what little information we have revived from the people who know, and similar hardware in the past.

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@danielwhyatt3278 4 жыл бұрын

Really detailed and a great continuation on your last work.

@mvmmotovlogmusic2815 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing that for us Nick. 👍🏻🎼👍🏻

@sebastian.su935 4 жыл бұрын

This animation is so cool

@alecgriffiths790 4 жыл бұрын

Very impressive!

@NickHenning3D 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@nikollatesla6635 4 жыл бұрын

At 0:41 I thought starship was a gnat on my screen

@captainjackpugh6050 3 жыл бұрын

And most of these animations made me gnut on my screen

@pavel403 3 жыл бұрын

@@captainjackpugh6050 bro u good?

@captainjackpugh6050 3 жыл бұрын

@@pavel403 Yeah. So good. I just gnutted

@ReneVaeli 4 жыл бұрын

Id like to see what the falcon-similar folding legs would look like

@NickHenning3D 4 жыл бұрын

Me too! The moon starship appears to have that type of leg.

@framryk0 4 жыл бұрын

Let’s hope we don’t have to wait too long for the hop to see if this is close to the truth! Might not see it though with a Raptor blasting away 🚀🔥

@NickHenning3D 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. The Raptos tend to hide all the fun stuff.

@saheel4429 3 жыл бұрын

Full support

@andremartel828 4 жыл бұрын

Great animation. Thanks

@stephrinker5154 3 жыл бұрын

love the way it,s landing gear folds out with a spring in it///////

@stephrinker5154 3 жыл бұрын

metal click. click, hydraulic legs so cool///////beautiful engine bay///////

@thestudentofficial5483 3 жыл бұрын

Remember that this is a 15 storey high vehicle

@TheSanien 4 жыл бұрын

Why are there different raptor engine sizes in the animation? I thought there only was 1 size raptor?

@stephanweinberger 4 жыл бұрын

The engine is the same, it's the nozzle that is different. The larger nozzles are optimized for operation in vacuum. The purpose of a nozzle is to expand the exhaust gas to the surrounding pressure, hence with lower outside pressure the nozzle needs to be larger (theoretically a vacuum-optimized nozzle would have to extend infinitely - which is kinda impractical...).

@NickHenning3D 4 жыл бұрын

What he said

@meezalamazala279 4 жыл бұрын

Stephan Weinberger well that’s assuming the nozzle has no mass. The longer the nozzle those more mass, meaning the efficiency would eventually start to drop off dramatically.

@stephanweinberger 4 жыл бұрын

@@meezalamazala279 I'd call that "impractical" :-)

@MarynJohnForever 3 жыл бұрын

Sweet.

@ThePrettyCoolMum 4 жыл бұрын

Yo you are right I see the deployment of the landing legs in SN5 hop

@fullflowaerospace 3 жыл бұрын

The landing legs that they are using for the prototypes are dummy lending legs. They will not be using them for actual missions, they will be using better landing legs.

@JimmyCerra 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty close to reality. Elon said that the next leg design will be 60% longer. The following iteration will be wider too.

@elitevet4266 4 жыл бұрын

nice animations, love your audio work. nitpick: it should not be that shiny landing on Mars, methinks

@NickHenning3D 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah it will be alot dirtier when it lands on Mars for real.

@Victor-rx4fv 4 жыл бұрын

Is it only me or do these legs look dangerous? I feel like starship could fall at any time

@NickHenning3D 4 жыл бұрын

These are just prototypes and I had to guess how they work. I bet the real ones will be much bigger.

@Victor-rx4fv 4 жыл бұрын

NickHenning3D if they feel that these are enough for now we can only trust them. It will be challenging though as the raptor is placed off-center

@kennyfordham6208 3 жыл бұрын

Dude, you must be psychic. That's exactly what happened to SN-10

@Victor-rx4fv 3 жыл бұрын

Kenny Fordham kinda 😂 i really hope they get some better legs soon or i’ll not feel secure going to the moon (🤞😏)

@hornets8568 3 жыл бұрын

if they are planning to use legs for landing, they need to find the area with flat land.

@norbertgarlewicz8029 4 жыл бұрын

Wow

@mariasirona1622 3 жыл бұрын

1 year later, it's pretty much correct except they're smaller.

@tisstuart 4 жыл бұрын

I suppose there are radar images and other ways to make sure to land on solid ground. Yet this design should be suitable for multi-planetary surfaces. The fact is some soils are mushy with Earths gravity and fluffy aerated soils that have no atmosphere(to speak of) may be like swiss cheese. Those legs need wider feet. Once one leg starts displacing soil, it will dig in. The pads have to be larger than shown. Ultimately it is not to difficult to avoid a R.U.D.E. (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly Event) and have a successful future.

@andrejs9112 4 жыл бұрын

This is very wrong.. those legs are useless because the contact surface is too small... Ship will sink in or tip over.. I'm not saying that this video is bad, it's great animation tho

@mikelmikes310 4 жыл бұрын

I wish starship had falcon 9 landing legs

@coonjamalay 3 жыл бұрын

hard to retract

@gijbuis 3 жыл бұрын

At 0.41 you show 'landing legs used on an uneven terrein with 4 degree slope' - but your animation shows Starship landing on safe flat ground.... Given the height of Starship I was wondering how SpaceX moonlander could cope with uneven terrein. No answers here...