ABSOLUTE Success! Full Analysis of Starship IFT-5 with Scott Manley and Marcus House
SpaceX caught Super Heavy with Mechazilla. Starship survived re-entry and did a precise landing in the ocean. How did they do that? What does it mean for SpaceX? What to expect from IFT-6 now?
📺 Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley
📺 Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusHouse
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Comments (5)
Have to say, IFT-5 was quite an achievement. Well done SpaceX. It's wonderful that we are getting to see a lot of their development and test successes and failures in the public domain, live. Where else do you see R&D like this? What next for IFT-6? Well, as Scott Manley says, they still need to demonstrate reliability of mechazilla SH catches and probably need to make further improvements to the heat shield of Starship - after all, they need to demonstrate Starship integrity for reuse after re-entry. Personally, I'd like to see a payload of several Tesla Optimus robots attempting to perform tasks in micro gravity while up there. Unfortunately, we know that these robots are underdeveloped at the moment but it would be nice to see their development curve improve too.
Alan Gross, no one is asking SpaceX that obvious question.
Great show. Thank you.
Great discussion! Not addressed was my question: Both before and after the Super Heavy (SH) was caught by Mechazilla, there was fire coming out the *sides* of SH above the engines, and not from the engines themselves. Is normal or a problem that needs to be solved? I'd think the fire would at a minimum cause damage that would need to be repaired before reuse. Thanks!
I believe that was the venting of excess fuel that later caught fire. Wether this was intentional or accidental is not clear.