SN9 will lift off from Boca Chica, Texas under the power of its three Raptor engines. The Raptor engines will shut off one by one during ascent to decrease loads and acceleration on the vehicle. At apogee, the single Raptor engine still burning will initiate the vertical-to-horizontal flip before shutting off. SN9 will make use of its body flaps to keep it stable during descent. Prior to landing, SN9 will ignite two of its Raptor engines to reorientate itself back into a vertical position and perform a propulsive landing.
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It did not fall over
Sn9: massive super heavy rocket with 30 raptor engines
Fog: *i am inevitable!*
Is there a timeline for testing a rocket with a full configuration of 20+ boosters?
That new title though ๐
Humbolt? Lunar Orbit Rendezvous?
This title : See how SpaceX do nothing with Starship Sn9!
Me: Oh well let see if it launch
better than being gone with the wind
Eileen, Eileen, Eileen, Eileen
I’m begging of you please don’t land like Snate
Eileen, Eileen, Eileen, Eileen
Please do stick it, I just know you can
Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming Raptors in the rear
With stainless skin and flappety flaps
Your tiles are ceramic hexagons
Your voice is like a thunder storm
No one can compete with you
Eileen
The weather is Tasmanian Devil wicked
Everyday Astronaut : Hi, wanna watch SpaceX do nothing with SN9 ?
Me : Sureeee !
Dropping a like simply because I support you. Theyโll light that candle eventually!
Title: That’s not much, but it’s honest work.
I literally had dream about SN9 landing and woke up to see this ๐
Yo I just woke up from a dream where I (somehow) found myself outside at spacex on a clear sunny day, and in the distance there was a massive gleaming starship on the launchpad. I just sat down and took in the view
shouldnt we build a bars gatewaystation like on the moon on i duno phobos instead of just in space… and if thats not a good idea why?
blueballed again
I wish the description was also changed
“SpaceX will NOT be conducting a 12.5km hop…”
Why couldn’t they build down like a missile silo for super heavy and use that to “catch” it as it comes back after a launch? It would make it easier to stack with the opening at close to surface level, easier to catch because loads could be distributed to the surrounding ground , wouldn’t have to worry about high winds damaging it while stacked or it falling over. Sounds like a win across the board
Even though it gets near 1 million views,wtf
Upvoted for title frankness.
At least its in one piece and not like lego sets were you need to assemble it
If they scrubbed doing nothing with sn9, does that mean they launched it?
Very odd, 879k subs, 824k views within 9 hours. Only 121 comments? These numbers seem odd to me
Woah that was a roller coaster ride of both joy and suspense ๐๐คฃ
yup… a rocket
Well we all saw that coming. I didnโt even bother watching the live stream for 10 minutes today because I just knew it wasnโt going to happen. Like, when has it ever actually happened on the first day!
Sls will never fly
Went to bed at 4.30am…looks like I did the right thing. Now 1.12 pm Australia Day : )…
…subbed.
It is Australia day today all of us Aussies got up early to watch sn9 fly
Well frick spacex
Still 1000% more entertaining than anything on mainstream daytime tv..
:’v
I still clicked on the video despite the title saying they did nothing cuz it’s Tim
anybody knows if they’re gonna attempt again to launch tomorrow?
The ads were the most exciting! I watched until the end!!!
To be honest, letting us see Space X and their progress in Bocha Chica launch site is like watching Anthony Bourdain (RIP) visit other countries and describe how food taste… No different and just as exciting for us to watch..
Finally! Perfect landing.
Not sure what is in plan and plot
Rather do nothing instead of faking things.
how much fuel on the turbo pumps on the rocket engines use , does anyone know โ
Well until the sn9 launch you can do traffic signs with your flaps ๐๐๐
probably needs to go tomorrow.. they need the space. Main goal, just land and yank the raptors. Learned enough from the 8-9 cycle. On toe SN10-11. 12, 13, 14 gone. SN15 has all the new stuff. Gonna be fun.
Loving that title.
The title is amazing๐
Someoneโs been in Boca Chica too long!
They didnt even chill nothin? Dude!
such a waste of time waiting for this and then they cancel it
Not sure if youโre aware but Thunderf00t has used you in his latest video. He accused you of looking at everything through โrose tinted glassesโ.
Cmon, do something
How are you not at 1mil yet ?
Pity about the wind problem… did you say when the next attempt will be…?
That title lmfaooo
well I had work today so im okay with it not going up
COME ON! SPACEX GET THIS STUFF TOGETHER!! MAN!!
eda: “Watch SpaceX do nothing with Starship SN9!”
many thousands of people: “Pretty exciting if you ask me!”
I think it’s amazing how starship managed to stay 4 hours without making anything
Time stamps? When does the nothing start?
This passive agressive title is gold
I miss learning stuff here..
The launch went pretty good landed exactly where it started. Tomorrow it will launch for the second time. Couldn’t have asked for a better or more cool rocket and now its proven it can be reused after todays perfect launch and landing. Go spacex.
Thanks from France for your channel !
So did it successfully land if it never took off?
I knew it would be scrubbed after watching for 5 minutes on the other amateur channels. The highest windspeed I saw at Boca Chica was 35 km/h and they were showing a 26 km/h speed with 35 km/h gusts. The temperature and wind speed is important data to show as well.
Quick check that its in the same spot and in one piece.. yup scrubbed! LOl
“Watch SpaceX do nothing with Starship SN9!”
They really didn’t do anything though.
What’s interesting is not that you recorded Starship doing nothing…. but that you recorded four and a half hours of Starship doing nothing.
I don’t even wait for live broadcast
like you say and your title to this video says. But one day video of SN9 not destroying itself during landing :P, will came to me by itself, I hope 
so did they launch or no
Title wasn’t lying..:)
4 hours and 28 minutes …..
The start of streaming is 12:30 am.
Glad I didn’t watch.
I’m watching anyway after seeing the title.
Nice Clickbait !!!
Go home guys lol it’s would be an engineering and theor nightmare if they went
Strong south wind in my area (south fl)
I’m definitely gonna stay tuned until it happens
The title ๐๐๐๐๐ญ
Reminds me of sitting on Cocoa Beach getting sunburned for no reason ๐๐๐๐ญ
Ha ha, great title…
Imagine you spend all day toiling out in cold and windy Boca Chica, monitoring the weather, checking tank pressures, executing safety protocols, only to get told from upper management above that all your hard work had been for naught today. The launch would be scrubbed. Crushing. Defeat. An emotionless void. All because of some callused directors with no ambition or faith in your projects.
But you knew that you had worked hard, harder than any journalist or vlogger ever would. You retire for the day feeling satisfied, if in nothing else, yourself.
But then, you flip through your recommends late at night, and see a specific video. “[SCRUBBED] Watch SpaceX do nothing with Starship SN9!”
Watch SpaceX do nothing with Starship SN9.
*nothing.*
You feel your blood boil. Your fingers tighten around your phone, cracking the screen from the sides. You can hear a scream building up from deep inside as the words echo over and over again in your mind: nothing. *nothing.* *NOTHING.* After what seems like an eternity of agony you let it all out in a display of ferocity and rage the likes of which have never been seen in all of Boca Chica. And you, quaking with anger, swear in your wrath to make your work on Starship known, and destroy any who refuse to recognize it, starting with YouTube personalities.
This is what I imagine happens when a SpaceX employee takes Tim’s YouTube titles too seriously. Thanks for sticking it out there today Tim and trying to bring us this fantastic coverage!
Tim please don’t use a view of SN8 in air for your thumb view of your video of SN9 flight test. It is misleading. Otherwise keep up the good work.
Wait what? They scrubbed their plan to do nothing with SN9? So they actually did something even though they planned to scrub the event? ๐ค
I thought SN9 has successfully landed when i joined, then I saw the title…
Let’s go SN9. Thanks for the coverage Tim.
Well Space X needs to Fix the Weather issue on upcoming launches………..
Better luck next time. Thanks for your suggestion to go and watch starship SN8 – mini documentary. Worth the watch.
Well it ended up in a perfect vertical position, thats definetely something man
S turn breaking for the space shuttle was far from “ridiculous.” As far as I know, all shuttle missions included a breaking S turn.
It’s very simple. Now that you managed to get your dragster up to speed the finish line just whizzed by. Do you think you should fix the breaks now? Because, well, the engineer sort of forgot to include the breaks in the contract.
Dude thats the best not clikbate ive possibly seen in my entire life
At least there was no RUD
I will watch it all to honor your honesty in the title!
Whatโs happening
Wow 4.5hrs of upload/stream. We salute your dedication.
Nice title!
Well, but my joyful expectance was true! That already is worth it.
This title is everything ๐
To quote Winnie the Poo, ” It’s a blustery day!”
Thanks for your persistence.
Me: clicking exited on the new video
Also me 5 sec. later : reads the title
Nerdle Cam says it was scrubbed till the 26th -27th ( 8 am -5 pm ) CST
The title is hilarious xD