spacex can do that. female: ignition, lift-off of the falcon 9-- brad: spacex and falcon heavy and falcon exploration but space missions as well. it is literally hundreds of millions of dollars cheaper to launch it. nasa builds space telescopes, something i've worked on, and you don't launch on nasa rockets, you launch on spacex 'cause it is cheaper, and that means what used to be the cost of two missions is now four missions. and so once you can do four missions, the science and research accelerates so now then you can go do eight. but there's this multiplying factor that's happening. michael: elon musk's most ambitious rocket of all is this. it's called the starship, a cheap steel tube that can carry a huge payload. this month, it made a test flight to 150 meters before successfully coming back to earth. jonathan: starship is the next-generation rocket, and it looks just like, you know, a 1950s science fiction rocketship. if it works, it could be a further revolution in the cost of getting to orbit. rapid reuse, very huge payloads going into space, being able to carry very large numbers

poor weather conditions like that at cape canaveral scrubbed friday's launch and the falcon heavy sentission, three satellites on board and another type of spacex rocket exploded last week and that's been grounded but this liftoff set for 7:30 tonight eastern time. >> tomorrow, a fox news exclusive interview benjamin hall sits down with anthony blinken and will cover russia's war in ukraine, china's growing aggression and opportunistic headlines and airs during a special report tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern. be sure to check that out. >> we're looking forward to that. of course it's wonderful to have ben back in business. i saw that last night he joined the other fox news journalists at white house correspondent's dinner and executives and good time had by all for a very good cause supporting journalist scholarships and we want to thank you you for choosing fox news for your news. right, arthel? >> yes, thank you for joining eric and me every saturday and o sunday. we love you to be right -- and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ introducing astepro allergy. now available with

speaking of the second launch, here's a live look ahead of launch number 2, the falcon heavy rocket, now it's supposed to launch from the kennedy sprays center if weather permits but an abort call has gone out. a launch at this point looks unlikely. the launch was delayed from last night, also due to a severe thunderstorm in the area. don't forget, you can stream our newscast on roku, samsung tv, raj and jeff with what's next. >>> a wrongful death lawsuit filed against another bay area nursing facility. the family of the victim says a meal he ate at that nursing home caused his death. the concerns it's now raising for families of other patients at this facility. >>> a fraud scheme that cost apple more than $19 million. tonight we have new information about the former employee at the center of it all. >>> and what went wrong. tonight, we go inside the silicon valley bank collapse with the new report from the feds about what caused the bank's failure in the south bay. >>> good evening, the news at 5:30 starts right now. thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai.

speaking of the second launch, here's a live look ahead of launch number 2, the falcon heavy rocket, it's supposed to launch from the kennedy sprays center if weather permits but an abort call has gone out. a launch at this point looks unlikely. the launch was delayed from last night, also due to a severe thunderstorm in the area. don't forget, you can stream our newscast on roku, samsung

the starship itself, which is the payload in this case, as well as the test firings of the falcon super heavydeal, you can imaginejust the plumbing alone is kind of a nightmare but all that has to work for it to successfully launch so this is certainly not a sure thing by any means but i will be watching very excitedly. if this launch is a success, what would that mean more broadly for the future of space exploration? well, if this launch goes successfully then that means this programme will continue forward, of course, even if it doesn't launch successfully the programme will likely continue forward since elon musk has personally got his mars mission in mind and it will take this rocket to get there but it is really a huge deal because this is the first all reusable spacecraft system ever. that means the booster comes back, the starship itself will come back. at tomorrow's launch, neither one of these things are coming back but it is really the first follow—up system test of the entire rocket and payload, or the spacecraft i should say. but in the future, that means both will be recovered, f

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400 feet tall payload capacity of up to 150 metric tons, just to give this a little perspective falcon heavyt -- or falcon 9 is about 230 feet tall, and falcon heavy, its heavier counterpart, has a payload capacity of 64 tons. it's massive it's the tallest rocket, and it is standing, as you can see on your screen, it is attached to the tallest ever launch tower as well so, we are getting there, here we're less than 30 seconds until this thing lifts off potentially. >> great set-up, morgan, as we watch some history being made here as you can see, the countdown clock on your screen we'll listen in to boca chica. >> okay, you can see the clock has recycled flight director has called a hold we are recycling for the moment we'll see where they move the clock back to. they can hold at t-minus 40 seconds. they could go to an earlier point. give us a minute to listen into the nets, and we'll see if we can get you more information to share. >> all right, morgan, some of that clock recycling gives us a little more time to talk about it >> it does >> walk us through some of this process here as the eng

the falcon heavy craft and the starship itself did not separate and so at that point they pushed the button and it was self-destructive time. >> previous iterations of starship have failed in testing before. what's interesting about this is that spacex and elon musk say that failer -- failure really is an option. >> it's a different ecosystem that nasa has evolthere were a t blew up on the pad before alan shepard ever stepped into a space capsule. the idea of failure being an option is actually interesting. lots of tests, lots of failures, lots of lessons learned is the approach that elon musk has taken, so you had this juxtaposition of this rocket in a million pieces way above the shoreline in texas, and the spacex crew in california and texas cheering. it was kind of hard to square that, but the idea was they got pretty far, they got a lot of data and they didn't damage the ground equipment which could have slowed things down. geoff: why is starship such a big deal? what does it mean for the future of space exploration if it does succeed? >> it's really big. it's twice as powerful

near hawaii so this will be the first all up test of the starship cosmic system including the falcon super heavyistoric. so this is historic, it's a powerful rocket, it is a large, enormous rocket. what is it designed to do? why does it have to be so big and so powerful? spacex has designed the starship to be fully reusable, that is really an important point and also elon musk of course, he says he started spacex all those years ago because he himself wants to travel to mars and wants to establish human colonies on mars, therefore that is what starship is designed for. it is being designed so that a version of it in the future would be undertake about 100 people at a time to mars. so this is the first launch of this vehicle, nothing else like it has ever been attempted before so a very exciting thing to be happening hopefully tomorrow. thank you very much for watching, stay with us right here on bbc news. hello. it was a drier weekend for many. still quite a bit of cloud around, but in the sunshine we saw temperatures reached just about 19 degrees celsius in northern ireland. that's the warmest

the starship itself — which is the payload in this case — as well as the test firings of the falcon super—heavyf a nightmare. but all that has to work for it to successfully launch. so, you know, this is certainly not a sure thing by any means, but i'll be watching very excitedly. if this launch goes successfully, then that means this programme will continue forward, of course. even if it doesn't launch successfully, the programme will likely continue forward, since elon musk has personally got his mars mission in mind and it's going to take this rocket to get there. but it's really a huge deal, because this is the first all—reusable spacecraft system ever. that means the booster comes back, the starship itself will come back. tomorrow's launch, neither one of these things are coming back. but it's really the first full system test of the entire rocket and payload, or the spacecraft, i should say. but in the future, that means at a stage in the future, both will fully be recovered, which brings the economics of launching large things into space way down — and it really is more revolutionary tha

they have the falcon 9 or course that dominates global market share in terms of launch and the falcon heavye interesting missions like the ispace lunar lander mission and other commercial companies launching to the moon later this year. so when starship has a successful failure like this, in the test of the most powerful rocket ever created, they accomplished quite a bit, they cleared the pad, they did not blow up the pad, they launched, they reached max q, the greatest aerodynamic pressure put on the vehicle, and they got four minutes of data. this is a very complex system and now they have a treasure trove of data that they can go back and mine through to try again in a couple of months. shery: we have also seen more activity in the government side of things. is this a new space race especially with the geopolitical fragmentation that we are seeing around the world right now? >> geopolitics has been a key driver of the space economy throughout history and will continue to be going forward no doubt. the conflict in ukraine has showcased the growing capabilities of commercial space companie

we know that spacex's other rockets, the falcon 9, its workhorse, and the falcon heavy, have first-stageoosters and other aspects of the rockets that return to earth to be reused over and over again starship has been designed for the entire system, both this booster that is double -- nearly double -- twice the thrust of the sls rocket, nasa's rocket that flew last year, that is currently the most powerful in operation, but also, the starship part of the system itself, which is the part that will take cargo to low earth orbit, to the moon, eventually to mars and other parts of deep space as well as eventually humans so, it is very closely watched, because once they tap that reusability aspect, which has never been attempted before, you're talking about launch costs that are going to fall dramatically elon musk has put an ambitious price tag of $10 million on that the falcon 9 is $67 million, just to put that into perspective. >> changes the entire economics of space travel. pretty incredible, and we'll be looking for launch when they reschedule >> might be 4/20 >> that would make sense kn

so the falcon super heavy booster did work. it was not without some problems.e saw some engines had been shut down . and, of course we saw that starship failed to separate and then the vehicle exploded. so there definitely were some big successes here. perhaps the biggest one is that the booster worked and it didn't blow up on the launch pad because destroying the launchpad would have set them way back. let me ask you an honest question here because there were some of the astronauts who are going to be on top of this type of rocket at some point for the mission to the moon, and then ultimately the idea going to mars. they were watching this. if you were watching this, would that give you pause? no not at all, because this is normal in a rocket and spacecraft development program is if you're aggressive and you you know you you were moving quickly. you're going to have these kinds of accidents and you're going to learn from them, and that's going to help you develop your vehicle more quickly. if you're nasa, you've got to be super duper. careful because you've go

uh , spacex postponed another launch of the falcon super-heavy rocket why because did some lightningf gas pipeline in the state? mississippi burning now why did officials say the fire was caused by a lightning strike? something somehow heap began to fall. well, yes, indeed, a climatic weapon, as someone suggests on the tongue, the russians are again interfering, but in fact. e hmm , getting several lightning discharges during the launch is amazing, because well, at the same baikonur in plesetsk, such conditions and launches are always predicted in advance not planned due to weather restrictions . but in general, as it should be, a plague on both houses on the head of ukrainians , anomalous rains on the heads of americans. well , that's not all, in addition to the railway disasters, in addition to these lightning discharges, uh, the only unique one exploded in the usa. e, a plant for the production of e, rare vapors, which are used just in the production of 155 mm artillery shells. the same tomahawk missiles well, in general, what is called everything converges in one, therefore, well

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