New Ablative Material Spotted on Ship 30 | SpaceX Boca Chica

Wow thanks Mary 🌺 for braving the weather to get the great pics of the horizontal tank. Thanks for the updates NSF team.

Okay the horizontal tank rolling by next to that tank truck gave a perfect size reference. Holy cow that's unexpectedly big

2:45 good to see the crew at Starbase are staying hydrated.

Love these videos. They show that, while people who understand rocket science are vital to getting mankind into space, so are people who understand concrete, steel, and how to put it all together. We're all in this together.

1:10 All hail to Mary for tank watching for us in a torrential downpour. I do hope she has a mega umbrella, and if not @Chris B should donate her one on my tab! And a thermos of Irish coffee.

Beautiful nature shots again.

Thanks for the awesome video footage Mary, Sean, & SBL! Mary awesome videos of S 30's TPS install! As always Thank you NSF for another great SpaceX Boca Chica Update your awesome!!!

Wow, nice a Sarens CC8800-1 with powerboom. Just going to be a mega heavy lift!!! Love it.

I really hope that new inner shield works. Especially on the nosecone. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the footage!

Hard workers doing their best for Space X. Thanks for the video. So interesting.👍

many thanks mary sean and the team

With all the heavy machinery, tanks,heavy trucks rolling everywhere, concrete mixers, lots of people in different teams working on all kinds of things, I am astonished that we haven't seen any tragedy or accidents happen on camera. Its a wonder in itself. Even in much smaller construction sites there are always some mishaps. Props to the skill of the crews out there and the entire site managers. Great work❤

Thank you for sharing 🎉

The contrast between nasa and space x couldn't be more extreme. Nasa is like, everyone wears lab coats even for fitting heat tiles. Space x use "red necks". But, it gets the job done.

Woot woot!:_Starship2::_Starship2::_Starship2:

Nice

Driverless high-speed rail and drone transportation systems need to be established here to facilitate logistics transportation.

That tower base will take A LOT of welding... how thick are these plates?

I am no engineer but, Add water under high pressure to the hinge area, the water will instantly converted to steam by the plasma upon reentry. The steam will create great amount of pressure to fill the hinge area. Steam will blow apart a steam train with out a problem so there is a great deal of pressure to fill the void to the excess required. The compressed steam will shield the hinge area acting as a barrier to the plasma. the compressed steam will then move down the flap acting as an ablative material. water released at a rate calculated for heating from the plasma. Have the ship ward side of the hinge as tight as possible and the plasma side slightly more open so majority of the steam is released toward the plasma side of the flap. the high pressure barrier would leak away down the flap also ablating heat away from the wing as well as the hinge area. the steam would be compressed on the wing as it traveled over the surface ablating heat away. you may not need tiles in the hinge area anymore. the steam under high pressure from the plasma heating but would move away ablating heat away. Like i say, i am no engineer but, The needed water to produce the needed steam might be small enough to not be a weight issue. Steam creates a great deal of pressure to fill the hinge area, and the steam will ablate the heat away possibly keeping the plasma far enough away from the metal at the hinge now being cooled to a level that the stainless steel might survive unharmed. you may not even need tiles in the hinge anymore only release water to generate the steam in the area of the hinge to conserve the amount needed for re-entry. :) . the plasma itself will create pressure against the wall of steam in the hinge area. keeping it somewhat contained in that area with excess traveling down the flap. The thicker the atmosphere the more pressure and more heat and also more steam pressure for cooling . always excess released.

Please do 4K videos