Elon Musk says he's made a thousand changes from the last Starship test launch that didn't quite go as expected in April to the next starship that is supposed to fly hopefully as soon as this August, and two of those little changes are kind of a very big deal.

Hey everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott, and this is right angling, which we once again go on a total nerd fest about space stuff, because that's what we do. Here's the money

quote from one of those Twitter spaces, I guess, that Musk did over the weekend. He said there

are really a tremendous number of changes between the last starship flight and this one, talking about the test flight in August, well over a thousand, he said.

So I think the probability of this next flight working, getting to orbit, is much higher than the last one.

Maybe it's like 60%.

It depends on how well we do at stage separation.

Now, I'm going to get to the stage separation in just a moment because that part's really cool.

But before we get to that, I have to talk about the giant showerhead.

I'm not kidding.

If you saw the original test launch, you know that some of those engines probably got knocked

out by flying debris because those 33 engines generated so much thrust.

15 million pounds worth.

Yeah, it blew the pad apart.

All of this steel reinforced concrete just smashed.

Debris flew for thousands of feet.

Scott, I'm going to go to you on this one, I think.

So they're rebuilding a newer, tougher, stronger launch pad that isn't just made out of even more reinforced concrete,

but it's also got steel plates and it has showerhead type vents that water is going to spray up out of to keep

things cool. Now it turns out they already do something like this on a smaller scale for the

Falcon 9, but it's not to keep the launch pad cool. It's to reduce the acoustics. Yeah,

so it's not so damaging to hearing and wildlife and all that stuff. In this case, it's going to be spraying huge amounts of water up to help prevent blast damage.

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