SpaceX Video Vault

[scaesare]

Didn't see an obvious existing thread for this recent SpaceX reel:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1824639011710779760

Thought it might also be cool to have a consolidated place to find SpaceX videos. The recent IFT-4 plasma supercut and the old F9 landing blooper reel come to mind.. I might try to dig up and add those also...

 

[JB47394]

This is a really old SpaceX video that you'll probably remember. It was apparently on the SpaceX web site way back when, but has since vanished. Thank goodness some people posted it on YouTube.

The recent IFT-4 plasma supercut and the old F9 landing blooper reel come to mind..

The second one is titled "How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster".

 

[scaesare]

And here's the blooper real... the name @JB47394 referred to always made me chuckle:

 

[scaesare]

And the IFT-4 Supercut:

 

[ecarfan]

This is a really old SpaceX video that you'll probably remember.

I missed that one, thanks for posting. Yes that must date back to maybe around 2007? Both stages and the capsule landing retropropulsivey, no chutes! I was disappointed when SpaceX reluctantly gave up on that concept for Dragon, due to NASA requirements as I understand it.

 

[JB47394]

Yes that must date back to maybe around 2007?

The video was uploaded in September of 2011, and I assume it was uploaded shortly after SpaceX put it up on their web site. The upload page credits an MP4 directly from the SpaceX web site. It's gone, of course, and it's also not on SpaceX's YouTube channel.

Speaking of their YouTube channel, there are a bunch of golden oldies in there. Lots of videos were uploaded in 2010 that go back to 2008.

 

[Grendal]

This one is always fun:

Followed by the big one:

 

[scaesare]

Recent, but this IFT-5 pre-flight static fire is pretty awesome as well:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1812922275035029887

(On edit: Hmm... the "media" tool here doesn't seem to handle direct links to embedded X.com media despite X allowing you to get the direct URL for a video, only links to the parent eXclamation...)

 

[JB47394]

Recent, but this IFT-5 pre-flight static fire is pretty awesome as well:

What gets me is that we'll look back on that footage in a few years and comment on how primitive it all was.

For example, the fifth anniversary of the Starhopper flight is next Tuesday.

Dibs on posting video of that flight on that day.

 

[scaesare]

What gets me is that we'll look back on that footage in a few years and comment on how primitive it all was.

For example, the fifth anniversary of the Starhopper flight is next Tuesday.

Dibs on posting video of that flight on that day.

Flying water towers always fun....

 

[JB47394]

This is the fifth anniversary of the Starhopper test flight. I believe the landing pad for this flight is about where the tank farm is today.