Zack Golden

♦ Alias: #StageZeroZack ♦ Lead Investigator of #Starship Development ♦ Starbase Weekly Host w/ @RGVAerialPhotos ♦ Support us at

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

🚨: Why SpaceX Built An Insane Water Deluge System Powered By...Flamethrowers?

Produced by:@DeffGeff

Featuring a massive number of detailed renders and animations from @lewisknaggs42 & @RyanHansenSpace

Join us for the premier at 7PM Central

https://t.co/HVGAuHHSew

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

Glad we finally got an update! Looks like a super challenging situation for sure.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The SpaceX Recovery team is still working to recover Flight 13’s Starship from the Indian Ocean. They’ve been overcoming challenging conditions and increasingly rough seas as they attempt to guide the 52m long spacecraft to port

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@4MarcT If there are, it seems clear that even they weren’t aware of this nuance or else NG wouldn’t have exploded on the pad. Therefore it should be publicly documented. Instead of relying on lessons being passed down by word of mouth.

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

This is the type of info the industry should have been sharing with each other since day one for the sake of working towards a common goal and avoiding massive setbacks.

[Tom Mueller @lrocket]

The LOX valve being the most deeply cryogenic valve makes it more apt to hang on opening, resulting in a fuel lead. This will almost always result in a hard start, often a RUD. This problem was solved on Merlin by going to face shut-off, so the LOX lead was always insured as only one part moves to sequence both propellants

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@Space_EngGG Yeah NASA has hella documents publicly available describing various problems and solutions spanning multiple decades.

As spaceflight has become more privatized, that type of easily accessible documentation has effectively become a relic

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@Happycamperin12 lol I'm glad people enjoyed that skit though. Every time I see it I can't help but to watch it all the way through. I thought it was pure gold until I finished making it and realized how long it was.

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

I've spent more than 6 months editing this episode in 5-10 second increments treating each sentence as its own mini episode.

Now that I've finally reached the point where I can zoom out and look at the bigger picture....wow lol. This 3 hour investigation is pretty ridiculous and no where near as boring as I've been thinking it is.

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@NASASpaceflight @KSpaceAcademy How long til we see New Glenn use the analog stacking method?

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@aqueous_stars The alternative is placing random b-roll footage that has nothing to do with what I’m actually saying.

If you pay attention to that when you watch other videos (it can be any topic really) you will understand what I mean.

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@aqueous_stars How so? Lol

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@Happycamperin12 Oh ummm yeah there are no skits this time unfortunately. 3 hours of straight info dump

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@T_De_La_Rosa I decided to leave everything in, and split it into two separate episodes.

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@Arpit_at_Ah_me @DeffGeff Hopefully

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

Now that @DeffGeff is back from vacation, will try to upload a QC version of the first 80 minutes of Stage Zero 2.0 |Part 4 by Thursday...then the next half a few days after that.

I haven't recorded any of the 70+ on camera scenes yet so official release is probably not happening until next weekend

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@Arpit_at_Ah_me @DeffGeff Yeah I always upload QC version for members

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@MabongaTapiwa Yes but as I said, they normally don’t do that.

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

The Lioness is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen and they make very few obvious mistakes.

But this one had me rolling my eyes. While it is a realistic scenario, this drone swarm is several orders of magnitude larger than anything that has ever been used in Ukraine by either side.

They also significantly reduced the flight speed in order to give the team a chance to outrun the swarm. But in reality there is zero chance they could have survived this encounter without an electromagnetic defense system capable of downing them all at once.

That aside, they certainly created one scariest situations possible. Hopefully they tone it down from here on. https://t.co/hTzwebCaSN

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@RaptorRoostTX I guess that will make the paint on the aft section stand out more during transport. Very strange for them to do that though.

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@lefthandinsight It’s not that they can’t, they just haven’t yet. There is never a situation requiring that level of saturation.

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@AdamK847644 The one who had a shotgun gets a pass. But the rest of them, no way they are one shotting them with such ease.

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

@mckennaConfig These weren’t fiber optic thankfully. That would have implied they were being individually operated. I think this is the type of swarm where you send a bunch into an area and a handful of operators take control of them one at a time.