FINALLY! SpaceX S24 upgrades completed, ready to launch. Dragon docked, Rocket Lab...

#greatspacex #elonmusk #spacex #nasa == Advertisers who want to place ads on our channel, please contact the email manager: smanager339@ === SpaceX Starship SN Be the first to sponsor us Thank you. ======= FINALLY! SpaceX S24 upgrades completed, ready to launch. Dragon docked, Rocket Lab... 1) 🎵 ABOUT ALL TRACK IN MY VIDEO 🎵 Artist: Infraction - No Copyright Music The Doctor 2) SOURCES OF IMAGES AND VIDEOS LabPadre: Starbase Surfer : Evan Karen: iamVisual: TijnM_3DAnimations : Tijn M: Coop: Shuttle Man Productions: Everyday Astronaut: iamVisual: ========= FINALLY! SpaceX S24 upgrades completed, ready to launch. Dragon docked, Rocket Lab... After nearly a year of testing and upgrading, the SpaceX Starship S24 is now finally ready to write its name in this decade’s annal of rocket history. On 16 March, the SpaceX team completed thermal protection tile installation on Ship 24’s crane attach points. This is considered the final preparatory step for S24 to go into orbit. And honestly, the Thermal Protection System is one of Starship’s biggest problems. Its heatshield tiles have been falling after every Starship testing. These tiles are mounted to the rocket in pieces, and they are an integral component of its mission profile. They are key to a spacecraft surviving reentry. During reentry, a spacecraft will gain a massive amount of heat, converting the velocity of the vehicle to heat through friction with the air. There are a few ways to deal with that heat. An ablative heat shield will heat up and burn away, carrying away the energy. The problem with ablative heat shields is that they burn up, and need to be replaced – that doesn’t work if you want to re-launch a spacecraft within an hour of landing, as SpaceX eventually does with Starship. In order to (eventually) allow quick reusability, Starship instead uses ceramic thermal protection tiles to insulate the spacecraft from the heat of reentry. The tiles, like those of the Space Shuttle, are extremely lightweight and fragile. FINALLY! SpaceX S24 upgrades completed, ready to launch. Dragon docked, Rocket Lab... ---- We use images and content in accordance with the YouTube Fair Use copyright guidelines: Any questions about copyright please send us via Gmail: colonbina25@ To be resolved, thank you.