While updating my #Starship #Mechazilla launch tower models, I tried to reverse-engineer many of the hydraulic systems so they could be modeled as accurately as possible. It's surprising how relatively simple the hydraulics are when you understand how they are controlled.

#Starship Flight 4 could be on track to happen in less than a month! When do you think #SuperHeavy Booster 11 and Ship 29 will return to the launch site for integrated testing?

Work started on this short film all the way back in December of 2022.

It feels surreal to have it... done.

Less than a week until the Premiere!

Before #Starship IFT-2, I began creating a procedural wave material for use in my #Starbase launch site environment. I posted the quoted video but didn't draw any attention to the waves moving in the background. I saw many ways to improve it so with some free time I reworked it

I've been busy adding detail in all the important places.

Just published a new Patreon post showing all the details I've added to my #Starship #Mechazilla launch tower models!
patreon.com/posts/wip-orbi…

I've spent the past several days doing a Zack Golden level deep dive on the hydraulics for #Starahip 's Mechazilla arms. I've mostly figured out all the hydraulics and it makes a lot more sense why we see some of the arm behavior that we do. Specifically for the stabilizers and

Over the past year there has been a large influx of #Starship launch animations from the 3D artist community. Given this influx and the fact that Starship has flown for real 3 times now, are Starship launch animations still worth doing? Or should effort be placed elsewhere?

Can't wait to see the full film!

Voting is Open!
I'm honored to be listed in some of the categories! There are so many good options it's hard to make a decision in some categories!

Thursday, March 14th, 2024 #S28 and #B10 took to the skies for #Starship Flight 3. Building on the success of Flight 2, B10 completed its boostback burn making it the first #SuperHeavy booster to make a touchdown in the Gulf of Mexico. S28 completed its insertion burn making it

Starship re-enter Earth's atmosphere, real & 3D views.
Elon Musk #SpaceX #Starship

Not sure if anyone else has brought this up, but Super Heavy B10 crossed 100km. So would that technically make it the largest object to reach space, beating out Starship?

The changes they made to staging worked! Looks like it was a combination of stuff like I assumed. Unclear if the asymmetric boostback shutdown had anything to do with the landing burn issues or not.