like this possible we also have nasa space flight and lab padre to thank for a ton of footage from the ground too they are loyally covering every milestone event ensuring that nothing is missed and on top of all that we have some highly detailed close-up shots of components and the site in general from die hard fans like starship gazer and mary aka bokeh chicago furthermore the details picked up out of these images have enabled various artists from all around the world to work on providing glimpses of the starship experience well ahead of time with some of the best NUMBER_TOKENd renders the internet has to offer this alone demonstrates starship's ability to inspire all of us even before becoming a reality so yes it's super important to note that without everyone collaborating and covering this story from every angle we just wouldn't have the capability to research it like we do either the effort by the space community really is phenomenal so if you can please support what they all do although i super appreciate you subscribing and sharing this content here almost up to four hundred thousand subscribers by the way support to those on the ground and in the air around boca chica is incredibly important so thank you for helping them out so before we take a look around the facilities needed to build starship let's get a quick lowdown of the starship super heavy stack itself with a width of NUMBER_TOKEN meters and a height of near NUMBER_TOKEN meters tall it is slightly slimmer but notably taller than the saturn NUMBER_TOKEN was this is not a small rocket in fact it's the most massive and most powerful rocket to date and unlike the saturn NUMBER_TOKEN it's going to be fully reusable now we say fully reusable because it's not like spacex's falcon NUMBER_TOKEN which discards the second stage of the rocket note this is going to be fully and rapidly reusable and this is where starbase itself is key the orbital launch tower and mount form stage zero to save on as much dry mass as possible spacex have opted for an inverse landing system meaning that instead of installing legs on the vehicle for landing arms have been installed on the launch tower intended for catching not only does this approach save on starships dry mass but these same arms are also crucial for the rapid reuse aspect this includes rapidly stacking and restacking starship and super heavy right there and then this system currently looks like a rather risky choice however if successful spacex will have ticked every box on the list even though the orbital launch platform is not yet complete this hasn't stopped spacex from performing every test possible in preparation for starship's orbital test flight we are talking about everything from pressure testing and static fires to fitting rehearsals and high bay mess apps spacex has allowed us the public to peer into these activities at boca chica texas and as spectators we are all gaining an unprecedented amount of insight into the course of this rocket's development imagine if we had been able to document the development of other rockets in this way maybe the space community would be even larger and the general public would be more informed of its importance the magic all started here in boca chica just a few years ago keep in mind that other than this small strip of houses at the village very few buildings existed in this area up until spacex initiated starship production around NUMBER_TOKEN. by august of NUMBER_TOKEN it was ready to accommodate the flight of star hopper this little test vehicle was the first
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