SpaceX星舰第15次试飞成功返回海面，取消助推器回收

7654321. And we're now counting up with liftoff of the rocket just now clearing the tower. Ed, give us the play by play. At the launch of 33 Raptor engine. So far, everything's nominal. The next 90s Raptor chamber by a little bit. Uh oh. Uh, I think that's the moment where they're under the moment of a maximum aerodynamic pressure. You see that? Max queue for the eagle eyed? Of those of you looking on TV, it's where the air resistance is greatest.

Um, and then we'll get stage separation of those two parts of the starship system at around the two minute and 30 mark. Um, the real demonstration is about six minutes and 30s in part one, when the whole point of why we're observing this, they try and catch the booster, the first stage at the same tower, just lift it up with, uh, from it, with what they call the chopsticks. And then in 23 hours time, Joe, uh, after opening the, uh, um, and bringing it a very interesting trajectory and corridor over the Texas desert back to that same launchpad, the spacecraft two will try and be caught by by space.

And what would be an absolute farce, no doubt. Yeah. Just incredible, uh, to think about the technical, logical advancement here. Of course. This is flight 15. Have they made any adjustments since flight 14 to better facilitate the attempt to catch, uh, both of these, uh, parts, or to make this all go smoother? Yeah, this is flight 15, but it's the 42nd iteration of the system. This is, uh, s 42, by the way. It's got the words Don't Panic Stenciled on the side desk and lifted from.

I think given today, uh, that's about, uh, distribution and pain as we go through this process. If you guys are watching on Bloomberg Television, you'll see those, um, tiles right there on the left hand side of the screen. There are 18,000 of those ceramic heat proof tiles. And that really is each, um, mission. It's not just about going to be about, um, landing it safely, but the integrity of what is the heat shield.

Those tiles make up the heat shield. That's a really big part of the engineering that goes into not just the rapid reusability. And we're about to have the stage separation. So I might pause for that. There we go. Can we hear the comms coming from. There we go. Successful stage separation hot stage. And we've got six ship raptors lit. We had a 32 engine boost back. We had one on the nominal But that is not going to be a concern for all of our landing maneuvers.

So looking good there. That boost back burn is going to continue, uh, for just a couple of more seconds and we've got that shut down. So the booster has done its boost back shut down. It is now on its way back to us here at Star Base. Reminder there's the booster and the tower going to continue to do these automated checks. Make sure everything looks good. We do have the manual. Operator status is set to go for a booster return.

So we are currently expecting a super heavy booster in just about three minutes from now to hopefully come back here. We do have six Raptor engines lit on Starship. They're hopefully going to go for about another 4.5 minutes until they shut down power and turn on the space. All right. So we did have a couple of moments here, uh, before the main moment. I'm watching SpaceX shares in after hours trading. Uh, how important is success of this mission to the future, near-term future of this stock?

Everything that SpaceX wants to do is predicated on Starship working and Starship being rapidly and fully reusable. So, you know, in the first instance, um, what SpaceX outlined in its IPO was, uh, a constellation of data centers in the form of satellites around the, uh. And Starship is, frankly, the only system that is capable of delivering that payload to orbit. Um, and again, this is, you know, Joe, I, I, uh, a lot of the audience may not be familiar with SpaceX, and they might say, what are you talking about, man?

When I say, you know, the founding principle of this company was to make humankind a multi planetary species. And they really believe that. So whatever their commercial ambitions are for data centers in space and I. Elon Musk and his colleagues also do believe that Starship is the vehicle that gets humans to Mars. Um, so so its ability to work is important from that standpoint. They're also on the hook with NASA, right?

You know, the taxpayers should pay attention and look at what, um, SpaceX is obligated to provide for NASA in the United States in getting humans back to the moon. Um, because they sort of this people also play a role. Well, just about a minute away from this potential capture. Kaylee. Yeah. Of course. Uh, we're expected to see, uh, the heavy, uh, landing burn start in just about, I believe. 50s, uh, just after six minutes into this, uh, flight.

And then they will catch it between the two chopsticks, as Ed has described for us. All of this, of course, Ed was launched from. And this landing will happen at Starbase, uh, in Boca Chica, Texas. With the aftermath of the midterms and Elon Musk not getting the candidates, uh, to victory he wanted in Texas, is there any conversation about Space X's future operations at this physical location, or should we expect that all of this is going to be coming from here in Cape Canaveral for the time being?

Yeah. You know, space. See, by what it would say, is it massively job creating enterprise, right. Not just in Texas but in Florida. They've just, uh, completed, uh, adjacent to their existing facilities, a new launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, um, where we're really. Well, there's the break. Yeah, I'll pause here and so we can see what happens. How about that? Once again, we are doing the. Yeah. Let's listen to the divert amazing 13 engines down to the five.

Now it'll drop down to three here shortly. Great. And we just got the sonic boom. Wow. Landing bird shut down. Wow. And successful splashdown of the super heavy booster back into the water off the coast. Everything looking great on the ship. Oh, wow. We could feel the rumble of that splash down there. So we'd add Ludlow. That was not a catch between the chopsticks and the water. And there was a sonic boom. Is that nowhere close?

We're close to the end of the program, so answer Joe's original question. Why are we looking at the stock in after hours down 2%? Yeah, I don't know the technical reason, but they scrubbed the attempt to catch the booster because some technical reason. But there were obviously contingencies in place for a safe splashdown in the Gulf. And Bloomberg's Lauren Gross, she's on site, by the way, at Starbase, just sent me a message saying, wow, it just exploded in front of us.

So obviously there's a bit of disappointment here reflected in that late Friday after hours trade. Um, but now I guess we need to find out if they will try and attempt to catch the Starship spacecraft, which they've not yet ever done. You know, not attempt to back from a deorbit that was due to take place about 22 hours from now.