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Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Stage Zero News. I'm your host, Will Weldon. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about SpaceX's Starship Flight 9, which will be happening Tuesday afternoon at 6.30 p.m. Central Time from the tip of Texas, Starbase, Texas. Now, this is an unprecedented flight. The last two flights of the ship

ended in disaster. Both of them blew up. Flight 7 and Flight 8 blew up mid-flight. Now Flight 9, apparently they fixed the issues that were happening with those last two flights. And we have some information from an engineer at SpaceX that I'd like to share with you about how they got to this point of flying for the ninth flight of Starship. Now,

One thing that I have to remind you of is that the only place to officially watch the Starship flight is on the SpaceX X account. So it's x.com slash SpaceX. That's the only official channel I've gotten.

I don't know, probably dozens, 50 or 60 DMs on X and on YouTube as comments about where can I watch the launch? There you go. X.com slash SpaceX. So these are some photos that SpaceX posted on their X account about the ship and the booster going to the launch site.

Because they're ready to fly this thing. They're on final preparations right now. The FTS will be set up soon. That's the flight termination system. Basically, it can blow the thing up. If it's mid-flight and something happens, they'll blow it up on purpose. But also...

Uh, the final crews are down there making sure that everything fits properly, making sure the ground crew is doing their job, uh, making sure that everything on the ground is functioning because it doesn't just take like five or 10 people, maybe not even a hundred people. It takes thousands of people in order to fly one of these rockets. Cause it's not only the systems engineers, the software engineers, uh,

the people that are building the rockets themselves, but it's also the people at the office, the people that manage the people. It's the people on the ground that are moving tankers and moving metal back and forth. It's a hard job. Everybody in the warehouses, everybody in the production facilities, there's thousands of people that come in and out of Starbase. So it takes a lot of work to launch one rocket. So if we get these done in a few months and we get to watch another launch in a few months,

That is ridiculous, but it takes thousands of people in order for that to happen. So big shout out to everybody who's working at SpaceX to get that done. Now we reported that SpaceX was having some internal issues and that Elon Musk wasn't at SpaceX as much as he needed to be because he was off in Washington doing his Doge thing. And he tweeted that he'll be back at Starbase.

before the next launch. So tomorrow morning, Tuesday morning, Elon will be at Starbase. I think it's one o'clock in the afternoon. He'll be at Starbase. And we'll talk about that in a little bit too, but he's going to lay out sort of the roadmap for SpaceX to get to Mars because that's the next big mission. Like all these flight tests, these are great, but the next real thing is SpaceX flying starships to Mars.

Okay, so that's a huge deal because eventually Elon Musk wants to populate Mars, send the light of consciousness to another planet just in case something happens to this one. We all know the rhetoric after he's been spewing it out for the last 10 years. We know the speech. We know what he's talking about. This is the next big thing. So this Flight 9 is very, very important.

Okay. And that's the huge thing. There's another thing that's in between that though, which is Starlink on Starship. And there are dummy Starlinks on the next Starship flight. So does that mean they'll be deployed? Maybe. There are Starlink dummy satellites inside of this Starship, inside the mechanism that would, the PES dispenser, if you will, that would dispense them into space. But

I think what they're going to do with this flight is they're going to test and make sure that Starship can stay aligned and it doesn't blow up mid-flight. And if everything seems to be going okay, maybe, I doubt it though. I don't think they're going to. Let me know in the comments down below what you think. Do you think they'll actually eject these Starlinks out of Starship? Because it doesn't seem like that's a smart thing to do at this point. They just have to make sure that Starship survives this flight.

That's what I'm thinking. Can Starship survive this flight? SpaceX engineers have been working around the clock to make sure that Starship is good to go and is better than Starship Flight 7 and Flight 8.

So we're going to move on to the next, which is Shana Diaz, who's an engineer at SpaceX. And we're going to talk about this tweet. She said after a long few months in a heroic effort by the ship test team yesterday, doing a final verification test at Massey's that's where they test all the ships and the boosters ship 35 and booster 14 are in final checkouts. We'll be heading to the pad this weekend. So they're already at the pad. This is posted a few days ago. Uh,

Shayna said, I've been pretty quiet here because there has been a lot of work needed to get ready for a flight test on Tuesday.

Tomorrow, the 27th at 6.30 p.m. Central Time. Big launch for Starship. And as always, lots of things in test. First flight proven booster. So this booster is flying again with a stress test and water landing. We reported on that weeks ago, months ago, like a month ago, that there was going to be a water landing and not a chopstick catch.

So they also have corrective actions from the last flight of the Raptor front. And then we still have that re-entry gauntlet set for the ship once it gets to that portion of the flight. This one's going to be stressful for the whole time, but lots of opportunities to learn. So there's two ways of thinking here. You do a test flight the old-fashioned way, old space way, if you will.

A test flight is something that will prove the flight for the next rocket. And every rocket is perfect and built to perfection. And then the next flight, that one goes well, you do the actual mission, right? So for Starship, it's a little bit different. It's iterative processing.

So, um, you go back to first principles, you build whatever you can with as least amount of parts as possible, basically make an MVP, a minimum viable product. Hopefully it launches and it works. And this one did. So flight one worked great. Then every flight after that, you learn something. You don't expect it to do the complete flight. You want it to, you want it to do the best that they can do, but it's

You might get some sort of explosion along the way. That's what's great about SpaceX is that as Elon says, excitement is guaranteed. Every time there's a flight, something might go wild. The ship might blow up. The booster might go weird. Something might fly somewhere that's not supposed to and something might happen. So excitement is guaranteed for this flight, but it's the iterative process where if flight seven and flight eight didn't work,

What was it that didn't work? What's the data that they gathered? And this last sentence from Shana is exactly what SpaceX is all about. They said, this one's going to be stressful the whole time, but lots of opportunities to learn. They have the data from seven and eight. So hopefully they learned from those two flights and also the flights before that too. But hopefully they learned before those, before flight nine, what happened at seven and eight.

fixed it up and then flight nine they're going to be okay and they'll be able to do the full mission now will they release those starlings into orbit probably not they're dummy starlings so there'd be really no reason to launch them into orbit i still want to know what your what your uh thoughts are in the comments down below so we can have a conversation about this

Now, this is a primary backup. This is from the FAA. Starship Flight 9, Boca Chica, Texas. It's actually called Starbase, Texas now. Primary date 5-27-23-30 through 0-1-3-4. So basically, like,

the morning until whenever they're done on the 27th. And then the backup date is the 28th. So I just want to show you the FAA approval. Here's the NOTAM. And this is around Piarco, ACC, Trinidad, and Tobago.

And this is like, don't listen, no fly zone. Basically don't go in here. Don't get here with your boats. I'm going to with your ships. Don't go in here with anything that's in the air. Don't go anywhere near this stuff, but this is from the FAA. So we know the flight path is going to be around here. All right, let's move on to the next one. So it's a very important thing is that when I look at the data, speaking of data, SpaceX data, I look at it in the backend of YouTube and

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So I've been doing this channel for about five years now, and I plan on doing it for 10 more. So if you could take a second, one second of your day, hit the subscribe button, like this video. If you have a few more seconds, write a comment down below and I would greatly appreciate it. And I will guarantee you I'll be here for the next 10 years to talk about Starship and everything Elon Musk. Now let's get back to the content.

There's some weather happening, right? Echo 5556, weather update for IFT9. So far, the models have not agreed on the cloud conditions. Some show cloudy conditions, NAM below. Some show clear conditions, GFS below. The models all seem to range around 12 to 15 mile an hour winds with 15 to 20 mile an hour gusts, which is not bad for a launch. So Starship will be able to launch in these conditions.

And it looks like it's clear. It's just a little bit cloudy. And Starship will be able to launch in these conditions. That's usually what happens for Starship because everything has been tested so well from the crew, the ground crew, the ship crew, the booster crew, everybody on site, everything's been tested. So the only thing they really have to worry about

is weather and you can't predict the weather 100% and you can't control the weather. So at this point, it looks like the weather forecast is okay and go for Starship Flight 9. Whew, this is going to be

It's going to be an amazing flight. I hope it works out well. And since they're not going to be catching the booster, of course, it's going to be a less dramatic, hopefully, landing of the booster. But you never know with SpaceX and Starship. It could be even more than last time. Who knows? It could be more dramatic than last time. Now we have another...

Email that was sent to me by SpaceX. Join Elon on the morning of Starship's night flight for a discussion with SpaceX employees on SpaceX's plans for establishing a permanent human settlement in cities on Mars. It's at 12 p.m. Central Time on Tuesday, May 27th. So tune into that. And this is

This is interesting. Elon will discuss the development work ahead for SpaceX Starship and how SpaceX will use the world's most powerful and capable rocket to build a human presence on the red planet over the next decade. Next opportunity to launch from Earth to Mars opens in late 2026. So a year from now, a year and a few months from now, we're going to possibly have a Starship launching to Mars. Now, what will they launch to Mars?

And they could have possible multiple ships. We're just going to speculate here. Let's speculate they're going to launch five ships to Mars. They have to refuel all those ships in orbit of Earth. So they have to have a bunch of tankers ready to fill up the ships on the way to Mars. They have to have all of the systems in place

to communicate between the starship and earth while it's on its way to Mars, because we know SpaceX and they're not just going to send it out there blind with no information. They're going to give us everything that we need so we can track the starship on its way to Mars. Cause it's going to be a journey that anywhere between six and nine months to get to Mars for this thing. Raptor three, there was a, there was a study that just came out the other day that said they could cut the time down to three months and

I didn't get a chance to look at the whole study, but if they can get this down to three months, that would be ridiculous. They could fly people to Mars in three months. That'd be incredible. And it's because of the Raptor three engines, apparently didn't get all the way into it, but I read, uh, I basically read the brief on it. So there's a possibility that they could, let's just say five ships. Like I said before, one of the ships could be a demo test that goes around Mars and orbits it.

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One of the ships could be a lander. See if we can actually land on Mars. Two of the ships could be landers. Three of the ships could be landers. See which one does the best. Fourth ship could be a ship that goes to Mars, comes back to Earth. There's a whole round trip.

And a fifth ship could do something similar to that, where they could go all the way to Mars, could do a few orbits and then fling themselves back to earth and see how long it takes. See if the ship can survive that. I mean, they can, they better send as many ships as they can because they need as much data in order to do the next flights because 2026, they need to send as many ships as possible. And I'm guessing Elon will say that they're going to send some cargo to the surface of Mars.

They have to. They have to. Why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't they set the first steps for the human civilization on Mars? Send something that either people can build when we get there, or, I mean, this is another thing too, this is far-fetched, but it's possible the Optimus robots could possibly be the first astronauts that go to Mars. It's not going to be people.

The first things that go to another planet are already robots. We have rovers on other planets. We have rovers on Mars. So why not have a bipedal robot that looks like a person to gather data about how people will interact with the Mars atmosphere and how they will walk on the surface of Mars, what it's like. Like there's going to be incredible amounts of data.

They'll be beamed from the Optimus robots to the ship back to Earth. It's going to be incredible. So I believe there's going to be Optimus robots in every one of those ships, but you never know. I mean, it could just be a hollow ship. The first one could just be a hollow ship, but there's no reason why they shouldn't send a robot. That's all I'm thinking. And if they can, they might as well, just so they can get as much data as possible. They're basically crash test dummies at that point.

So let me know what you think about that too. What do you think they're going to send the first time we have to get this out there? So share this with all your friends. If you've watched this for this long or listen to this for this long, share this with all your friends, because I want to get as much data as we can get. I want to get as much data as we can get to see what people think before Elon does his talk. So leave a comment down below what you think is going to happen when they launch these to Mars. And now.

This is the launch road to making life multi-planetary. So this is where you'll view it, SpaceX's X account. So that's it for today. I hope you learned something today and I hope you subscribe to the channel, like it, leave a comment down below, share it with your friends, very important. Also, I want to say thank you to everybody who has subscribed and has been part of this channel for a long time for the community.

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