'something happens in space news' - wait until Scott Manley makes a report about it so I can enjoy the best coverage, best editing, and most accurate information, thanks again Scott!
Worst possible RUclipsr thats always late and days behind other space news youtubers. His voice is not good. And over all he doesn't say the right things.
@@shawnfoogle920 I see at least two problems with that statement, One I challenge you to find another reputable source of this information that can be validated and two just because you don't like his voice doesn't mean he is any worse a credible informer with a reputation to match.
@@shawnfoogle920 The only other person that could rival Scott in terms of content is Everyday astronaut, and he doesn't really do reports. Also, if you're interested in space you should be able to wait a couple of hours to see a comprehensive coverage of whatever is happening. Speed is not everything
Very cool, wish I'd thought of going into the space business, when I was a high school lad, we managed to launch a small payload 4 miles high. Had we staged our liquid propellant rocket and our solid propellant rocket we could have done much better than 4 miles. Rocket "safety officer" meaning Dad, did not permit us to go any higher. Not after the NY State police showed up after we launched one of our high powered amateur rockets out over Lake Ontario. Dad lost his nerve to push the envelope. The police were not wise to what we done as they responded to a citizen complaint that saw a fireball heading out over the lake moving at high speed and they also heard the rocket breaking the sound barrier as the thrust tapered off close to burnout. We were using spun fiberglass and spun carbon fiber tubing and graphite ceramic nozzles in 1969 long before carbon fiber was as common as today. A neighbor was an engineer for Spaulding Fibre in Western NY and we had bits and pieces tubing to our specs and tech data on their experimental tubing. Low carbon steel had been our material, much safer with composites than steel and easier to work with, pouring 2 part epoxy resins and inserting carbon/ceramic nozzles. Our liquid fuel rocket had a stainless steel un-cooled combustion chamber and nozzle and the tanks were made of aluminium and pressurized with dry ice. The oxidizer was nitric acid and the fuel was an 80/20 mix of turpentine and furfuryl alcohol. Static tested a couple of times to find minimum furfuryl that gave reliable ignition, flown once, the parachute failed. The Isp of about 240 seconds only a little higher than our solid propellants about 220 seconds. Great fun, I did the math and design, my shop skilled buddy did the machining with the help of his shop teacher. Great fun ... learned a lot. Neighbor on one side of us worked for the fibre company and on the other side of my parents house another engineer for Bell Aerospace and assigned to the RM-81 Agena B in the 1960's. I had plenty of expert help, learned how to do stress / strain calculations along with Algebra 2 and Trig for the NY Reagents exam. If anything school math was neglected during a wild construction project. I still crammed and passed the reagents at the end of the school year. A month after school let out Armstrong landed on the Moon, I felt let down, I know how the Soviets must have felt we both lost the space race.
Cool post ! Thanks ! Dig this ruclips.net/video/zxJQgYPXjN4/видео.html Are you going to make a film of your effort for a You Tube post ! My dad tried to explain the Sputnik launch to me when I was three . I thought per all the space stuff on T.V. that we had already gone to Mars and the other planets and was disappointed that Sputnik was it as far as space travel went at that time . However as the decades went on can't say we earthlings haven't kept trying .
I loved the shot of the forklift pulling out a tan metal enclosure with the words “Rocket Support Cart” stenciled on the side... while in the background is a matching metal enclosure stenciled with the label “Dish Rack”. Couldn’t help but imagine it was full of dinner plates.
Scott: "stealth rocket..." Me: "A stealth rocket? How is that possible? You can't shroud the thermal or optical signature of rocket exhaust, it's too hot!" Scott: "...startup" Me: "...oh, only the _company_ is stealthy. Well, that makes more sense, but is also significantly less awesome."
@@WApnj: I think Scott was referring to the stealthy nature of the company, but even if he was referring to the fast setup time for the rocket, it's still less exciting than an actual stealth rocket. 😕
Dudhhr McDudhhr actually at university for my last “small thesis” my school’s friend and I , we tried to calculate the performance of salame rocket but the most difficulty we had has been to find at least a generic chemical composition of the food (we know there is C, H, N, O, ..but many missing and percentages for all), at the end we turned to Sorbitolo (a kind of sugar) first and later to another own mix.
We test fired the first rocket on the runway at Alameda NAS, which is where Mythbusters did a lot of filming including the wooden cannon, the traffic flipping plow, and a bunch of other tests that required driving in a safe area. I think my coworkers got sick of me mentioning Mythbusters every day.
@@SVanHutten well except for how the rocket actually operates since I doubt it uses clock work guidence or a peroxide generated steam powered turbine for the pumps.
@@fs2728 Arce sounds like arse [USA=ass] which is English slang for anus, soars sounds like sores so it translates to anal herpes. Randy Bender is a man's name in USA but it means "sexually excited homosexual" in English slang.
I love this! All the competition starting to heat up! All these new companies being able to service what the government abandoned due to cost! Lets get these guys off the ground and start deploying sat's! Great vid man.
More likely to have a high availability launch vehicle for small ELINT or camera sats for short duration missions in areas of conflict. The soviets did something similar with Rorsats during the cold war as it is the rocket is VERY small for a ballistic missile
Sixteen payloads already manifested? Good for them! there has been a great deal of talk lately about how the vast majority of launch startups (there are supposed to be over a hundred) are going to fold before they ever launch a rocket, and they will. Obviously Astra is not in that group. It looks like they will actually be giving Rocket Lab some competition. I will say what I have said before, when it comes to space launch, the more the merrier.
Scott, I’m a firefighter and I think that I have one of the best jobs on the planet (which I’m incredibly grateful for having made a career of it and being so very close to retirement with my health and body intact). However, after hearing that your buddy is a “professional rocket photographer”...I think I yield to him, pretty freakin cool job he has...👍🏻👍🏻.
I'd love to see one of these rockets launched directly from the transport vehicle, like a Scud or other sorts of mobile Soviet ICBMs. Make TELs great again. ;)
Since they're trying to win a prize from DARPA, and the launch vehicle itself needs to be proven first, that might just happen in the future. This could easily become a part of the "Space Force."
The military had a plan for 'wack-a-mole' style ICBM silos where the rockets would be moved from one silo to the next to make it harder to wipe out all of them. I think this is the same thing. They just discarded the silos.
Stefan Dembowski did you see it? A semi truck dragging a shipping container. It drives off with the top of the container leaving a mobile launch battery to send it's rocket up vertical and blast off.
6:04 Don't trust people who claim to be successful when they clearly did not fly. And it creates a very bad climate within the company. Not a place I would want to work.
It depends on what the goals were. Let's say: The goal was a flight height of X and the rocket blew up in flight height 1.5 times X then the goal was reached and this event can be declared as succss.
Four utubez, Scott quoted 200kg, albeit to low Earth orbit. That’s a very useful payload covering science, comms, weapons, or even surveillance. Can absolutely see why there’s a strategic need for such a system now with satellite killers as part of the mix. It’s also a system that has export potential to close allies of the US.
Considering NASA's early stages and the whole Army missile to moon rocket program had a LOT of spectacular failures. At the cost that these are going for, at 2 launched so far, even with the failures indicated, is not a bad record as they know what and how the problems happened, we have much better telemetry and launch data capability now that those 2 launches probably produced a dozen times more data than the first 10 of the Army Missile Program, largely due to processing capability of computers today vs the everything on paper and film of before. But this is actually rather impressive, for a mobile launch facility.
"The Americans must be executing their scientists at a faster rate than we are, we must increase scientist executions in order to build better rockets!"
I must watch too many sc-fi movies, the second you mentioned Alameda Naval Base, i immediately thought of Star Trek - The Voyage Home, with Mr Chekov being stranded there.
@@ShelburneCountry I love that scene; an African and a Russian in San Fransisco on a street corner in the '80s asking about nuclear ships. And the shot of the cop just standing there staring.
And wasn't transparent Aluminum recently invented? Scott needs to wander around Golden Gate Park and see if he runs into anything that isn't there...like a cloaked starship. :)
Very cool. One of the newer rockets that I can get behind. Being devised of simple and proven construction methods, this vehicle will be very very very inexpensive to mass produce and will be very robust and therefore, reliable.
My theory on the rapid relaunch and why the US government is so invested in this is as a protection against some form of attack on the US military communication hardware in space. For example, a high altitude nuclear detonation to cause an EMP or the ability to re-establish basic communication after a CME. It's a bit of a scary thought, to be honest, but it's good to know that a backup plan could be in the works already. Good thinking by the heads over at DARPA.
Neat! I was stationed at Naval Communications Station Kodiak in 1969-72 and have always wanted to go back there. Google-Earth showed me the launch facility down south of where the NCS Receiver Site used to be. It's cool that Kodiak is becoming a Space-port!
Max Mustermann yeah I think her Twitter has a photo of her with a burned finger (or something like that) which she got while being near an engine. If I’m not mistaken. :) She couldn’t tell which company, but later mentioned Astra and what she did. Basically “keeping the rocket pointed upwards “.
Jeff Borders None. If you’re intimating it’s like ICBMs, the US and Russia, as just two examples, keep at least some of their arsenal on mobile trucks already, moving them around all the time.
I worked on the Orbital GBI program. The first thing I thought when I looked at it was, "That nose cone looks very simular to the GBI nose cone". Yes it's not as round but the profile looks simular. It's also launching out of the Fort Greely, Alaska like the GBI. It's also got a cork covered nose cone like the GBI. I won't go into the reasons why this is done other than to say it can be done for a number of reasons. There are a enough things about this program that make me think this isn't just about cubesats.
Mr. Scott Manley please do a video in remembrance of Mike Hughes. He was absolutely a rocket enthusiast and his publicist recently posted on Social Media that he was never a Flat Earther and only did it to raise funds for his rocket enterprises. He was literally planning on building a rocket to take him to space. Yes, he was a bit Evel Knievel but the man was a hero of mine as he would take off in these rockets with so many G’s that they would knock him unconscious. One of the bravest men to walk this planet. He sadly passed away this past weekend while testing one of his steam powered rockets. It would mean a lot to me and many of his fans if you would honor him with a video remembering the man that dedicated his life to rocketry. I love your channel and thank you for your hard work. Godspeed.
@@dsdy1205 Rumors say they did hit space with the V2. Hitler had plans to orbit a large "Sodium" coated mirror, to burn targets on earth from space anywhere, any times. . . Sound familiar?
@@stormtrooper9404 Scuds are only big Rockets. Ballistic shells, only launched by a rocket engine instead of an explosive charge. Missiles have guidance. As it appears, the first two were indeed only Scuds, but without a warhead. Let's see if they can actually MAKE a missile!
Nice summary. I think the cubesats are actually Prometheus and ARCE 1 and ARCE 2, with SOARS not a cubesat but a non-separating payload attached to the second stage
Well isn't this a nice coincidence. I just watched your earlier videos yesterday that I had missed, and the Astra video was amongst the ones I watched.
Man this vid just shows how hard it is to build an orbital class rocket thats why i find RocketLab and spacex so inpressive we rly need to see BlueOrigin step up
Eric Lotze Actually I think you just made a very good guess. That’s certainly one reason the US would want the capability to rapidly launch a payload into orbit with little prior planning time.
@@liesdamnlies3372 this would not be an effective anti satellite weapon. It's too easy to see coming (satellite recon from other countries would see you setting it up the day before).
Although not a good anti satellite weapons platform itself, yes this would be good at delivering temporary replacement satellites for any that got shot down, so long as they can be replaced by a satellite under 200 kg (most spy satellites are pretty huge).
If i remember there is some sort of silo based system for basic coms post massive war. I don't know if this would replace/compliment that. Perhaps this is applying a method similar to train/mel based missiles where they are so mobile, you can't kill them thus coms are ensured.
In other words, it's like some sort of scud, or like Russia's super mobile ICBMs, except it can be transported with a regular ass truck and cargo container... Hmm I don't think Darpa plans on using this thing for nukes like that, but it seems like they're aiming at an ultra cheap and ultra quick method of launching an entire cube sat network from any location to replace a sat network degraded or destroyed in the first wave of an attack. Or to do quick one off short duration missions for relatively cheap.
North Korea's orbital launch program is a front for their attempts at building an ICBM. It doesn't have to go orbital, just needs to get on a trajectory that can reach the USA...
Wonder how hard it'd be to create a community satellite project where all hardware on board is community selected and off the shelf (or open sourced if something has to be custom) and all software used is open source Idk how plausible this would be, but it would be an interesting insight to have a community satellite that anyone can see the full workings of
200kg payload? That's within the realms of possibility for a single-person launch vehicle. You'd end up in a space suit with a rebreather and a propulsion unit with very limited delta vee, but it could work. Maybe $3M-4M per person (one launch each)? If you could get enough delta vee and life support to make it to the space station, that makes it extremely competitive and very very scary alternative to Crew Dragon's $90M per person. But... please don't ask about a return vehicle.
Since I was stationed at Pt. Mugu, Ca. It is part of the Pacific Missile Test Range from St. Nick Island to Kwajalein atoll in the South Pacific. Mugu tests all missles for the Navy.
Funny how we're still struggling to get lawn darts off the ground almost 80 years after the German V2. Maybe because we keep forgetting to attach the fins, lol?
@@737smartin I think it's a market share or a new segment, this industry is accumulating bigger supply chain than expected, so if they do have some unique patent or can offer cheaper service then it will be a mater of time before they fall to the greedy :3
Probably more expensive actually since you'd need to 1) make everything durable enough to reenter the atmosphere, 2) add the hardware needed to recover it such as parachutes, 3) set up a way of catching it midair, 4) use engines that can be reused many times (most engines can only survive a few firings for testing and the launch itself), and 5) hire more people to prep the recovered stage(s) for another launch in addition the the manufacturing team you already need for brand new vehicles. Recoverable isn't always the best depending on what the goal is. When trying to make a launcher that maximizes response time recoverable is definitely not the best option.
Nes Ra I agree. Sounds like „prompt global strike“ candidate. Clearly what the US and the world needs right now: more ways to rain down death and destruction. Chocolate cake and missile strikes 2.0
From my pov the operations people have learned over the years that technology is expensive and that sometimes scale can make a difference. Nukes were perhaps on the scale of legendary engineering and logistics, while small recon drones carried by individuals is the opposite. Technology changes the game when everyone can have it, so we arrive at low orbit capabilities. Flexible launch vehicles delivering anti-sat capability is the new radar. Russia has some sweet anti-sat systems and so does the US, but we all had access to metal long before any powder rifle. The game is the same, get your stuff where you want it to go more efficiently. The innovation is not the delivery, its the cost and launch flexibility. Remember, NNEMP-s suck. Floating garbage in space that accidentally takes out your rivals sat is just a happy coincidence.
Surely differential thrust leaves next to nothing for roll control. You're going to need some kind of single axis limited gimble on each nozzle, or a bunch of thrusters.
I was stationed in Anchorage for 3 years and had no idea there was a launch site at Kodiak, I should let my buddies know there’s one happening soon maybe they can catch a glimpse of it from where they’re at
I bet 500 bucks this is going to end up as an ICBM, if it wasn't developed as one from the start. The military potential of an ICBM that can be disguised as a shipping container, put on a truck and hidden in plain sight, is far too powerful for the military to overlook.
Why go to all that trouble when you already have fleets of nuclear submarines carrying nuclear ballistic missiles, patrolling all over the world, literally 24/7, and have been, for like 60 years.
@Joe Horn It can take 300 kg into low earth orbit, so maybe half a ton of payload as an ICBM, enough for a small missile with a couple warheads (or even just a single warhead, and maybe some chaff as decoys). Multiply that by about 1000, which is a number you can easily hide in shipping containers and trucks around the US (or even the world), and also easily build since it would only be maybe $500 million/1000 missiles, and you have a very cheap and powerful boost to the US nuclear capacity, with no need to maintain any silos, and no way to ever map every single one of the missiles even with satellite imaging and an extensive spy network. CIA, if you're reading this and you haven't done even a back of the envelope calculation for this, you should.
Well, I can definitely see a military application for this. Maybe even something like a ship-launched, on-demand satellite for LEO. I wonder if a similar vehicle could be launched from a modified Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.
Jack Linde - The Chinese have already said they are going to weaponize & militarize space, no matter whether anyone else does it or not. This project is designed to launch small sats quickly the same way Rocket Lab has been doing. Think of reconnaissance “at a moment’s notice” which was what the SR-71 used to do.
I'm not sure why people are liking my last comment, I wasn't calling him out, I genuinely wanted to see the source so I could compare it against the treaty they've signed that restricts military use of space (doesn't prohibit it though)
Max K - This is something Chinese leaders have been saying since the time of Jiang Zemin - nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-plans-dominate-space-52562 www.parabolicarc.com/2019/12/26/chinas-ambitious-plans-to-dominate-cislunar-space/ www.uscc.gov/annual-report/2019-annual-report www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2019-11/Chapter%204%20Section%203%20-%20China%E2%80%99s%20Ambitions%20in%20Space%20-%20Contesting%20the%20Final%20Frontier.pdf www.wired.co.uk/article/china-space-moon-base-mars-landing foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/22/america-is-losing-the-second-space-race-to-china/ thediplomat.com/2019/11/chinas-future-space-ambitions-whats-ahead/ m.ruclips.net/video/KsPLmb6gAdw/видео.html PR China has a LONG-TERM plan, & China has been following it to the letter... Here’s the treaty, so you can compare the activities described will break either the Spirit or the Letter of the treaty - www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/introouterspacetreaty.html scienceblog.com/486623/astrophysicist-warns-outer-space-treaty-loophole-can-corporations-celestial-bodies/ www.thespacereview.com/article/3454/1 history.nasa.gov/1967treaty.html It looks like China could dominate Near-Earth & Cis-Lunar Space without violating the treaty... If China dominates CL & NE Space, who’s going to enforce the treaty if China claims the space from LEO to the Asteroid Belt & refuses to allow access to anyone who refuses to acknowledge China’s sovereignty over outer space?!?
A secret rocket project... within a mile of a busy airport! Who would notice an inter ballistic missile being assembled just beyond the end of the runway!
Heya Scott , I have a friend Aaron, who's been blind since birth, he is quite into gaming but can only play certain games. Ksp came up into conversation and he said he'd like to play. I mentioned ksp2 is comin out and he asked.. "Not only that, but what about adding stuff like the Tolc library for screen reader support, at least on PC? If it's something like Unity or Unreal, then Unit does have an accessibility pluggin for screenr eaders although I don't know if that pluggin works on consoles or not. Unreal is also working on screen reader support." I'd love to be able to play ksp with him... Watching him navigate his pc is mesmerising! I also wonder if there is a company that can take your ship design code convert it and 3d print your creation.. that way he could feel each part, maybe turning up the textile/tactile skins for each part, so he could feel it better? Is there someone that does this? I hope to hear from you. Hux
@7:18 No, that means 250K for the nose cone and 250K + for the rest of the rocket. So 250K added to 250K+ ... 500K+ for one whole shebang. Or a launch cost of 3 Million for the whole shabang.
There is the Poker Flat range if you want to go even further north in Alaska. They mainly just launch sounding rockets, but it looks like this puppy could fly from there considering its infrastructure-in-a-box approach. And it's colder... much much colder than balmy Kodiak...
I wonder how it will fair against the tried and tested electron? It's rapid turnaround will make it attractive to the military but how many smallsats does the military launch?
'something happens in space news' - wait until Scott Manley makes a report about it so I can enjoy the best coverage, best editing, and most accurate information, thanks again Scott!
Worst possible RUclipsr thats always late and days behind other space news youtubers.
His voice is not good. And over all he doesn't say the right things.
@@shawnfoogle920 I see at least two problems with that statement,
One I challenge you to find another reputable source of this information that can be validated and two just because you don't like his voice doesn't mean he is any worse a credible informer with a reputation to match.
@@shawnfoogle920 ... and the _right things_ would be ...?
@@shawnfoogle920 show me another independent space news youtuber who covers topics that comprehensive.
@@shawnfoogle920 The only other person that could rival Scott in terms of content is Everyday astronaut, and he doesn't really do reports. Also, if you're interested in space you should be able to wait a couple of hours to see a comprehensive coverage of whatever is happening. Speed is not everything
@1:30 ‘the smart people’
Shows a comment from himself speculating 😂
I dunno. Dishrack #1 looks much more complicated than Rocket Support Cart #1 4:30 .
That was the joke.......
5:46 - Not a good hairstyle for a job that requires headphones....
OnceIWasYou he hates airpods more than setting his hair straight
you can erase everything after "hairstyle"
That is why 2 launches failed, they can think 1 step ahead :D
How did you read my mind!
Linear hairospike... :-)
2:15 THE rocket has A NAME: IT'S 1 OF 3...
OH god it's a BORG rocket...
Launching CUBE satellites...
They're trying to change history again!
😊😊😊
6:58 comic sans "ASTRA"..... okay. no
You know what, screw that Comic Sans hate. You don't get to complain about Comic Sans as long as frikkin' Papyrus is a thing.
Yes, I do
I will use Comic Sans wherever whenever possible
For V2 launches, I stick with Gothic Fraktur.
looks great with "𝖛𝖔𝖓 𝕭𝖗𝖆𝖚𝖓"
i was sceptical of the company, now I love them.
Thanks for bringing such high quality news about the industry and the effort you put in to the videos.
Hahaha, I was thinking the exact same thing when I heard that.
Very cool, wish I'd thought of going into the space business, when I was a high school lad, we managed to launch a small payload 4 miles high. Had we staged our liquid propellant rocket and our solid propellant rocket we could have done much better than 4 miles. Rocket "safety officer" meaning Dad, did not permit us to go any higher. Not after the NY State police showed up after we launched one of our high powered amateur rockets out over Lake Ontario. Dad lost his nerve to push the envelope. The police were not wise to what we done as they responded to a citizen complaint that saw a fireball heading out over the lake moving at high speed and they also heard the rocket breaking the sound barrier as the thrust tapered off close to burnout. We were using spun fiberglass and spun carbon fiber tubing and graphite ceramic nozzles in 1969 long before carbon fiber was as common as today. A neighbor was an engineer for Spaulding Fibre in Western NY and we had bits and pieces tubing to our specs and tech data on their experimental tubing. Low carbon steel had been our material, much safer with composites than steel and easier to work with, pouring 2 part epoxy resins and inserting carbon/ceramic nozzles. Our liquid fuel rocket had a stainless steel un-cooled combustion chamber and nozzle and the tanks were made of aluminium and pressurized with dry ice. The oxidizer was nitric acid and the fuel was an 80/20 mix of turpentine and furfuryl alcohol. Static tested a couple of times to find minimum furfuryl that gave reliable ignition, flown once, the parachute failed. The Isp of about 240 seconds only a little higher than our solid propellants about 220 seconds. Great fun, I did the math and design, my shop skilled buddy did the machining with the help of his shop teacher. Great fun ... learned a lot. Neighbor on one side of us worked for the fibre company and on the other side of my parents house another engineer for Bell Aerospace and assigned to the RM-81 Agena B in the 1960's. I had plenty of expert help, learned how to do stress / strain calculations along with Algebra 2 and Trig for the NY Reagents exam. If anything school math was neglected during a wild construction project. I still crammed and passed the reagents at the end of the school year. A month after school let out Armstrong landed on the Moon, I felt let down, I know how the Soviets must have felt we both lost the space race.
Your dad sounds like a really cool chap 👍
well just do it today :)
wow. all I can do is play KSP and I‘m not even good at that...
Cool post ! Thanks ! Dig this ruclips.net/video/zxJQgYPXjN4/видео.html Are you going to make a film of your effort for a You Tube post ! My dad tried to explain the Sputnik launch to me when I was three . I thought per all the space stuff on T.V. that we had already gone to Mars and the other planets and was disappointed that Sputnik was it as far as space travel went at that time . However as the decades went on can't say we earthlings haven't kept trying .
You, sir, are a steely-eyed missileman.
I loved the shot of the forklift pulling out a tan metal enclosure with the words “Rocket Support Cart” stenciled on the side... while in the background is a matching metal enclosure stenciled with the label “Dish Rack”. Couldn’t help but imagine it was full of dinner plates.
Scott: "stealth rocket..."
Me: "A stealth rocket? How is that possible? You can't shroud the thermal or optical signature of rocket exhaust, it's too hot!"
Scott: "...startup"
Me: "...oh, only the _company_ is stealthy. Well, that makes more sense, but is also significantly less awesome."
It plays this as it launches: ruclips.net/video/WdJg6Duzzf4/видео.html
Stealth in the sense that it needs little prep time and is not sitting out in the open on a pad for an extended period of time.
@@WApnj: I think Scott was referring to the stealthy nature of the company, but even if he was referring to the fast setup time for the rocket, it's still less exciting than an actual stealth rocket. 😕
@@deusexaethera it's packed in a shipping container... Can't get much stealthier than that.
@@WApnj: Allow me to introduce you to "radar".
Alameda... hmm I wonder if this is the succesor of Mythbusters Confederate rocket
The power of salami fuel
@@adamquery7048 Great name for a "stealth" rocket.
Was just wondering if Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were backers!
Dudhhr McDudhhr actually at university for my last “small thesis” my school’s friend and I , we tried to calculate the performance of salame rocket but the most difficulty we had has been to find at least a generic chemical composition of the food (we know there is C, H, N, O, ..but many missing and percentages for all), at the end we turned to Sorbitolo (a kind of sugar) first and later to another own mix.
We test fired the first rocket on the runway at Alameda NAS, which is where Mythbusters did a lot of filming including the wooden cannon, the traffic flipping plow, and a bunch of other tests that required driving in a safe area. I think my coworkers got sick of me mentioning Mythbusters every day.
This launch table looks like one designed for V2.
Why re-invent the wheel?
The whole concept is exactly the same of the V2.
@@SVanHutten well except for how the rocket actually operates since I doubt it uses clock work guidence or a peroxide generated steam powered turbine for the pumps.
@@maxk4324 It uses electric pumps
Well you need to eat when doing rocketry.
Split my sides at Arce Soars, haven't laughed as much since Randy Bender's presentation for NetWare.
Didnt get it. Could you explain for not english speakers?
@@fs2728 Arce sounds like arse [USA=ass] which is English slang for anus, soars sounds like sores so it translates to anal herpes. Randy Bender is a man's name in USA but it means "sexually excited homosexual" in English slang.
@@andyalder7910 I thought it was a pun for Archosaurs
Prometheus's Arce Soars. 🤣
@Marc Jackson
I think yours "primitive" is a lot different from mine. Novell Netware was fast, extremely stable and easy to maintain.
Should be called The Borg Rocket as it uses the Borg naming system One of Three! 🚀 of 🚀🚀🚀 (Seven of Nine)
4:44 Yep. Planning 3 launches, they could start with 7 of 9.
Y'all notice the logo has a Starfleet Delta highlighted within it?
we are the borg. your techno.... oh wait.... nah, you will be eliminated.
Just wait until they start launching cube sats.
Yessss! My thoughts exactly. Tertiary adjunct of Unimatrix zero one.
I love this! All the competition starting to heat up! All these new companies being able to service what the government abandoned due to cost! Lets get these guys off the ground and start deploying sat's! Great vid man.
6:59 IS THAT COMIC SANS MS
Design™
Yes. I believe it is.
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Comic Sans is the font that humanity should use to come into first contact
@@iainwmacintosh ohh yes then when they decode the language(english first i assume) they can write back in comic sans
so basically, the military is doing an experiment to see how long it takes to develop a balistic missile?
More likely to have a high availability launch vehicle for small ELINT or camera sats for short duration missions in areas of conflict. The soviets did something similar with Rorsats during the cold war as it is the rocket is VERY small for a ballistic missile
No, thats well known already. Iike they show, its for short term sats.
Nothing but waste.
LORDOceanus eh rocket lab already has an amazing rocket that is also cheap
So they could conceivably have a rocket called Seven of Nine? Yay :D
Yes, but will that rocket be similarly objectified? ;-p
@@guardrailbiter/videos lol. She's more than just eye-candy: ruclips.net/video/3gPVZm02qSA/видео.html
Give it red fairings !
I miss the Brit "lipstick" rocket ....
Which, for some strange reason, was called the *Black* Arrow.
@@odysseusrex5908
Go figure !
7:50
I see you are a space wizard of culture as well
Sixteen payloads already manifested? Good for them! there has been a great deal of talk lately about how the vast majority of launch startups (there are supposed to be over a hundred) are going to fold before they ever launch a rocket, and they will. Obviously Astra is not in that group. It looks like they will actually be giving Rocket Lab some competition. I will say what I have said before, when it comes to space launch, the more the merrier.
I wish I could join a competition where all of my opponents bow out so I can say that I was "selected as a finalist"
They were selected - by process of self-elimination 🙃
Vector, Virgin Orbit, and Astra were all selected as finalists prior to the former two dropping out so it's an accurate statement.
Short-track speed skating might be right for you, and it's cheaper than nascar.
I was once in a sailing race whit like 80 vessels and it started to get windy all but 5 left we won PUSSY'S
Congratulations on 1 million subs Scott. Been here since Eve or bust. So happy to see you reach this milestone.
"Astra's Secret Rocket" sounds like a sex to my cousin and I saw downtown Cincinnati back in the early 60's
Scott, I’m a firefighter and I think that I have one of the best jobs on the planet (which I’m incredibly grateful for having made a career of it and being so very close to retirement with my health and body intact). However, after hearing that your buddy is a “professional rocket photographer”...I think I yield to him, pretty freakin cool job he has...👍🏻👍🏻.
I'd love to see one of these rockets launched directly from the transport vehicle, like a Scud or other sorts of mobile Soviet ICBMs. Make TELs great again. ;)
RT-23 Molodets would be more relevant, since it sits in kind of a container :)
Make a rocket startup as an excuse to have your own private Scud clone lol
Since they're trying to win a prize from DARPA, and the launch vehicle itself needs to be proven first, that might just happen in the future.
This could easily become a part of the "Space Force."
The military had a plan for 'wack-a-mole' style ICBM silos where the rockets would be moved from one silo to the next to make it harder to wipe out all of them. I think this is the same thing. They just discarded the silos.
Ostsol ☆ Basically a CONEX on a TiltBed Tow Truck launching from "Somewhere in Hollywood"
thank you for posting mr. Manly
out of all the space posting channels on RUclips I did not know about this one thank you
...It’s one of the best, RR. 👍, Scott Manley.
"A lunch vehicle that doesn't require a dedicated pad"?
So a mobile missile launcher?😱😲
"Lunch vehicle"... just saw it...🤣😅
Stefan Dembowski did you see it? A semi truck dragging a shipping container. It drives off with the top of the container leaving a mobile launch battery to send it's rocket up vertical and blast off.
Um, Should we be nervous? 🤔🤣😂
Mobile missile launchers already exist, they just can't reach orbit
So they are reinventing a SCUD missile?
That would've been the highlight of my childhood if school lunches were delivered by rocket!
6:04 Don't trust people who claim to be successful when they clearly did not fly. And it creates a very bad climate within the company. Not a place I would want to work.
"successful launch" and then it blew up.
This corporate spin is really irritating. Be honest! Your rockets barely even got off the ground and then failed and crashed. Period.
It depends on what the goals were. Let's say: The goal was a flight height of X and the rocket blew up in flight height 1.5 times X then the goal was reached and this event can be declared as succss.
well Elon did say before the first Falcon Heavy launch, if its takes off without destroying the pad then that would be a success ...
Looking at you, Boeing.
Is it just me or does that look like a private sector warhead delivery device ?? ;)
Im beting rapid deployable spy satelites we
Stealth it said yep
That one will be 9 of 11.
- Prepare to atomize the competition !
- Nice pep talk, boss !
- That was an order, fool !
Four utubez, Scott quoted 200kg, albeit to low Earth orbit. That’s a very useful payload covering science, comms, weapons, or even surveillance. Can absolutely see why there’s a strategic need for such a system now with satellite killers as part of the mix. It’s also a system that has export potential to close allies of the US.
6:58, Haha, they do have a sense of humor ;) using comic sans as font ;)
As always, there's been a lot going on in the space industry lately so lets dive right in. 7:49 Ooops!
Considering NASA's early stages and the whole Army missile to moon rocket program had a LOT of spectacular failures. At the cost that these are going for, at 2 launched so far, even with the failures indicated, is not a bad record as they know what and how the problems happened, we have much better telemetry and launch data capability now that those 2 launches probably produced a dozen times more data than the first 10 of the Army Missile Program, largely due to processing capability of computers today vs the everything on paper and film of before.
But this is actually rather impressive, for a mobile launch facility.
Kim Jong-Un casts a murderous gaze at his rocket scientists.
"The Americans must be executing their scientists at a faster rate than we are, we must increase scientist executions in order to build better rockets!"
Yeah I was amazed. We went from just hints from Darpa to full videos showing all the details. It is some amazing work.
I must watch too many sc-fi movies, the second you mentioned Alameda Naval Base, i immediately thought of Star Trek - The Voyage Home, with Mr Chekov being stranded there.
Vere do you keep the nuklear vwessles
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I love that scene; an African and a Russian in San Fransisco on a street corner in the '80s asking about nuclear ships. And the shot of the cop just standing there staring.
I thought the same thing.
And wasn't transparent Aluminum recently invented? Scott needs to wander around Golden Gate Park and see if he runs into anything that isn't there...like a cloaked starship. :)
For me "Alameda" led to thoughts of Mythbusters' various adventures there.
Very cool. One of the newer rockets that I can get behind. Being devised of simple and proven construction methods, this vehicle will be very very very inexpensive to mass produce and will be very robust and therefore, reliable.
Yeah! Go Astra! This is great news for amateur radio satellites
Wow Super articulate English Scott! I reviewed this at 2.0 speed and didn't miss a word! Nice.
I liked this video. You're awesome.
Rocket launches are always fun to talk about.
NO, not Arce Soars, but PROMETHEUS arce soars. Ass sores on Prometheus.
3:42 I'm getting "Night Rider" flashbacks.
worried about this, things have the potential to go sideways fast
7:49 😎 I saw what you did there!
Ha, the secret was revealed: Scott Manley is watching What about it!
nice catch. Now we know where Scott gets his info from.
Looks like some tribute from a 1 million account to a 40k account :-)
@@annando Looks more like Scott doesn't know about youtube-dl and finds it acceptable to screen-record video replays.
My theory on the rapid relaunch and why the US government is so invested in this is as a protection against some form of attack on the US military communication hardware in space. For example, a high altitude nuclear detonation to cause an EMP or the ability to re-establish basic communication after a CME. It's a bit of a scary thought, to be honest, but it's good to know that a backup plan could be in the works already. Good thinking by the heads over at DARPA.
Military done this quick-launchpad-setup for years but of course not getting to LEO ;)
That is a key factor.
And probably not anywhere close to 2.5M per launch
57thorns well the target was on ground not in orbit 🤦♂️🤪🤪🤪
Neat! I was stationed at Naval Communications Station Kodiak in 1969-72 and have always wanted to go back there. Google-Earth showed me the launch facility down south of where the NCS Receiver Site used to be. It's cool that Kodiak is becoming a Space-port!
7:50 "What about it?", nice ;)
a privately-built ICBM... we fear nothing!
You know who worked on the guidance system? Jeri Ellsworth! :)
Really? Was that after working at Valve? I heard she is now working on her own VR thing again (for the second time :) )
Max Mustermann yeah I think her Twitter has a photo of her with a burned finger (or something like that) which she got while being near an engine. If I’m not mistaken. :) She couldn’t tell which company, but later mentioned Astra and what she did. Basically “keeping the rocket pointed upwards “.
Small world. Wondered what she was up to. I miss her videos!
Mythricia yeah me too! She does have a few new ones, but about her new product. Must eat a lot of time I guess.
Awesome!
I absolutely love that it’s name lines up with the Borg designation schema. I am 1/3, prepare to be assimilated.
Short notice launches from the inside of shipping containers. What kind of precedent would this set?
All cargo ships are now floating missile silos hooray
Jeff Borders None. If you’re intimating it’s like ICBMs, the US and Russia, as just two examples, keep at least some of their arsenal on mobile trucks already, moving them around all the time.
@@liesdamnlies3372 as well as on nuclear subs
Jeff Borders - How do you think Russian mobile ICBM launchers have worked for the last 50+ years?
@@bosstowndynamics5488 I mean theoretically that could easily be changed
I worked on the Orbital GBI program. The first thing I thought when I looked at it was, "That nose cone looks very simular to the GBI nose cone". Yes it's not as round but the profile looks simular. It's also launching out of the Fort Greely, Alaska like the GBI. It's also got a cork covered nose cone like the GBI. I won't go into the reasons why this is done other than to say it can be done for a number of reasons. There are a enough things about this program that make me think this isn't just about cubesats.
Will they get to 7 of 9 ?
That is definitely what they were going for with 1 of 3 !
Mr. Scott Manley please do a video in remembrance of Mike Hughes. He was absolutely a rocket enthusiast and his publicist recently posted on Social Media that he was never a Flat Earther and only did it to raise funds for his rocket enterprises. He was literally planning on building a rocket to take him to space. Yes, he was a bit Evel Knievel but the man was a hero of mine as he would take off in these rockets with so many G’s that they would knock him unconscious. One of the bravest men to walk this planet. He sadly passed away this past weekend while testing one of his steam powered rockets.
It would mean a lot to me and many of his fans if you would honor him with a video remembering the man that dedicated his life to rocketry.
I love your channel and thank you for your hard work. Godspeed.
V2, 80 years later...
V2 couldn't launch to orbit
Dean Su neither this! (We'll see)
Kind of US Scud missile in making...
@@dsdy1205 Rumors say they did hit space with the V2. Hitler had plans to orbit a large "Sodium" coated mirror, to burn targets on earth from space anywhere, any times. . . Sound familiar?
@@stormtrooper9404 Scuds are only big Rockets.
Ballistic shells, only launched by a rocket engine instead of an explosive charge.
Missiles have guidance.
As it appears, the first two were indeed only Scuds, but without a warhead. Let's see if they can actually MAKE a missile!
@@dsdy1205 The size and mobile launch system are extremely comparable.
They most likely call it "stealth" since the rockets can be moved in a simple truck. A falcon heavy for example is quiet hard to hide :P
haha- it's smaller than the Falcon 9 payload bay !
Why not put one of these inside a Falcon 9? Easy way to send a CubeSat beyond earth orbit!
@@InventorZahran I thought the same.
@@InventorZahran I mean but Falcon Heavy can, same thing. Second stage goes pretty far anyway.
This thing can't be compared to falcon 9, more so to Falcon 1.
@@jonasfassbender984 I was referring to the second stage of Falcon 9.
Nice summary. I think the cubesats are actually Prometheus and ARCE 1 and ARCE 2, with SOARS not a cubesat but a non-separating payload attached to the second stage
Who's disappointed that Scott never talks about Mike Hughes's rocket? 😁😅
Why would he? The man was fucking dumb.
Too easy to pile on, it would just come off as being mean, like picking on a special needs kid or something. I agree with ignoring the idiot.
Well isn't this a nice coincidence. I just watched your earlier videos yesterday that I had missed, and the Astra video was amongst the ones I watched.
I love bagging contaminated dirt on army bases. It's my favorite thing to do.
Man this vid just shows how hard it is to build an orbital class rocket thats why i find RocketLab and spacex so inpressive we rly need to see BlueOrigin step up
Is the goal emergency launches in the event of anti satellite misiles in war, or what is the main goal of the darpa challenge?
Eric Lotze Actually I think you just made a very good guess. That’s certainly one reason the US would want the capability to rapidly launch a payload into orbit with little prior planning time.
@@liesdamnlies3372 this would not be an effective anti satellite weapon. It's too easy to see coming (satellite recon from other countries would see you setting it up the day before).
Although not a good anti satellite weapons platform itself, yes this would be good at delivering temporary replacement satellites for any that got shot down, so long as they can be replaced by a satellite under 200 kg (most spy satellites are pretty huge).
If i remember there is some sort of silo based system for basic coms post massive war. I don't know if this would replace/compliment that. Perhaps this is applying a method similar to train/mel based missiles where they are so mobile, you can't kill them thus coms are ensured.
In other words, it's like some sort of scud, or like Russia's super mobile ICBMs, except it can be transported with a regular ass truck and cargo container... Hmm
I don't think Darpa plans on using this thing for nukes like that, but it seems like they're aiming at an ultra cheap and ultra quick method of launching an entire cube sat network from any location to replace a sat network degraded or destroyed in the first wave of an attack. Or to do quick one off short duration missions for relatively cheap.
North Korea: Struggles to develop and build orbital launch system.
Astra: Builds one that fits in a shipping container.
They know their market.
North Korea's orbital launch program is a front for their attempts at building an ICBM.
It doesn't have to go orbital, just needs to get on a trajectory that can reach the USA...
North Korea has launched satellites into orbit already
@@eyeborg3148 they haven't. They've had some launches that reached space, but nothing that reached a stable orbit.
@@eyeborg3148 Thus i wrote "Struggle" not "Fail".
Wonder how hard it'd be to create a community satellite project
where all hardware on board is community selected and off the shelf (or open sourced if something has to be custom) and all software used is open source
Idk how plausible this would be, but it would be an interesting insight to have a community satellite that anyone can see the full workings of
@7:28
Get out of this movie, Anna Kendrick. Jeez
Professional Rocket Photographer. I am sure it is as cool as it sounds.
Arse soars😂😂
200kg payload? That's within the realms of possibility for a single-person launch vehicle. You'd end up in a space suit with a rebreather and a propulsion unit with very limited delta vee, but it could work. Maybe $3M-4M per person (one launch each)? If you could get enough delta vee and life support to make it to the space station, that makes it extremely competitive and very very scary alternative to Crew Dragon's $90M per person. But... please don't ask about a return vehicle.
Hmm DARPA rocket probably means missile.
Daniel Son 200 KG payload/warhead is pretty darn small for an ICBM. Not unusable completely but there are better options.
Since I was stationed at Pt. Mugu, Ca. It is part of the Pacific Missile Test Range from St. Nick Island to Kwajalein atoll in the South Pacific. Mugu tests all missles for the Navy.
What about the flat earther and his steam powered rocket. What prize did he win.
Darwin Award
@@olliea6052 Exactly!
John Cheresna - Nice casket?
Funny how we're still struggling to get lawn darts off the ground almost 80 years after the German V2. Maybe because we keep forgetting to attach the fins, lol?
Sounds cool, but The question is, who’s gonna buy them first? Elon are u listening?
Scott said they already have 16 customers manifested. Not too shabby.
MrParliam3nt This is nothing to accelerate the Mars colony. Elon is not interested. 🤓
@@737smartin I think it's a market share or a new segment, this industry is accumulating bigger supply chain than expected, so if they do have some unique patent or can offer cheaper service then it will be a mater of time before they fall to the greedy :3
@@MrParliam3nt Your wording "fall to the greedy" reveals a pessimistic perspective.
6:58 "ASTRA" written in Comic Sans is the most worrysome thing in this great video.
DARPA has been around for 80 years and we just heard about it, my Dad worked for skunk works in LA in 69 on the stealth B1B. Makes perfect sense.
Because I've been reading super secret magazines like Scientific American since the 1970s I've known about DARPA for well over 40 years!
Wow... an orbital rocket that can fit into a shipping container... NASA probably could've fit this thing into the space shuttle payload bay.
Imagine how cheap these things would be if they were recoverable
Probably more expensive actually since you'd need to 1) make everything durable enough to reenter the atmosphere, 2) add the hardware needed to recover it such as parachutes, 3) set up a way of catching it midair, 4) use engines that can be reused many times (most engines can only survive a few firings for testing and the launch itself), and 5) hire more people to prep the recovered stage(s) for another launch in addition the the manufacturing team you already need for brand new vehicles. Recoverable isn't always the best depending on what the goal is. When trying to make a launcher that maximizes response time recoverable is definitely not the best option.
Bruh, how to outsource short term orbital weapon deployment systems. Pure genius and a lot cheaper too.
Nes Ra I agree. Sounds like „prompt global strike“ candidate. Clearly what the US and the world needs right now: more ways to rain down death and destruction. Chocolate cake and missile strikes 2.0
From my pov the operations people have learned over the years that technology is expensive and that sometimes scale can make a difference. Nukes were perhaps on the scale of legendary engineering and logistics, while small recon drones carried by individuals is the opposite.
Technology changes the game when everyone can have it, so we arrive at low orbit capabilities.
Flexible launch vehicles delivering anti-sat capability is the new radar. Russia has some sweet anti-sat systems and so does the US, but we all had access to metal long before any powder rifle.
The game is the same, get your stuff where you want it to go more efficiently. The innovation is not the delivery, its the cost and launch flexibility.
Remember, NNEMP-s suck. Floating garbage in space that accidentally takes out your rivals sat is just a happy coincidence.
3rd according to what i see
4th according to what youtube says
Heisenburg's Comment Order Uncertainty Principle in motion.
Surely differential thrust leaves next to nothing for roll control. You're going to need some kind of single axis limited gimble on each nozzle, or a bunch of thrusters.
Astra: keeps initial testing secret, denies any failures.
SpaceX: makes a montage of their boosters exploding, uploads to RUclips.
gotta love Elon musk
Ok then where's my hi-res footage of the Dragon failure?
I was stationed in Anchorage for 3 years and had no idea there was a launch site at Kodiak, I should let my buddies know there’s one happening soon maybe they can catch a glimpse of it from where they’re at
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Thank you Mr. Scott Manly for the always interesting and educational content. Good luck on your launch Astra! ✨🚀 👀 ✨
I bet 500 bucks this is going to end up as an ICBM, if it wasn't developed as one from the start. The military potential of an ICBM that can be disguised as a shipping container, put on a truck and hidden in plain sight, is far too powerful for the military to overlook.
Why go to all that trouble when you already have fleets of nuclear submarines carrying nuclear ballistic missiles, patrolling all over the world, literally 24/7, and have been, for like 60 years.
@@Mythricia1988
Because it's not a missile.
@Joe Horn It can take 300 kg into low earth orbit, so maybe half a ton of payload as an ICBM, enough for a small missile with a couple warheads (or even just a single warhead, and maybe some chaff as decoys). Multiply that by about 1000, which is a number you can easily hide in shipping containers and trucks around the US (or even the world), and also easily build since it would only be maybe $500 million/1000 missiles, and you have a very cheap and powerful boost to the US nuclear capacity, with no need to maintain any silos, and no way to ever map every single one of the missiles even with satellite imaging and an extensive spy network.
CIA, if you're reading this and you haven't done even a back of the envelope calculation for this, you should.
Well, I can definitely see a military application for this. Maybe even something like a ship-launched, on-demand satellite for LEO. I wonder if a similar vehicle could be launched from a modified Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.
Am I the only one concerned about a "Launch from anywhere, within a moment's notice" rocket challenge is DARPA trying to weaponize space?
Jack Linde - The Chinese have already said they are going to weaponize & militarize space, no matter whether anyone else does it or not. This project is designed to launch small sats quickly the same way Rocket Lab has been doing. Think of reconnaissance “at a moment’s notice” which was what the SR-71 used to do.
@@TraditionalAnglican when did China say that? Do you have a source I could read?
I'm not sure why people are liking my last comment, I wasn't calling him out, I genuinely wanted to see the source so I could compare it against the treaty they've signed that restricts military use of space (doesn't prohibit it though)
Max K - This is something Chinese leaders have been saying since the time of Jiang Zemin -
nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-plans-dominate-space-52562
www.parabolicarc.com/2019/12/26/chinas-ambitious-plans-to-dominate-cislunar-space/
www.uscc.gov/annual-report/2019-annual-report
www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2019-11/Chapter%204%20Section%203%20-%20China%E2%80%99s%20Ambitions%20in%20Space%20-%20Contesting%20the%20Final%20Frontier.pdf
www.wired.co.uk/article/china-space-moon-base-mars-landing
foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/22/america-is-losing-the-second-space-race-to-china/
thediplomat.com/2019/11/chinas-future-space-ambitions-whats-ahead/
m.ruclips.net/video/KsPLmb6gAdw/видео.html
PR China has a LONG-TERM plan, & China has been following it to the letter... Here’s the treaty, so you can compare the activities described will break either the Spirit or the Letter of the treaty -
www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/introouterspacetreaty.html
scienceblog.com/486623/astrophysicist-warns-outer-space-treaty-loophole-can-corporations-celestial-bodies/
www.thespacereview.com/article/3454/1
history.nasa.gov/1967treaty.html
It looks like China could dominate Near-Earth & Cis-Lunar Space without violating the treaty... If China dominates CL & NE Space, who’s going to enforce the treaty if China claims the space from LEO to the Asteroid Belt & refuses to allow access to anyone who refuses to acknowledge China’s sovereignty over outer space?!?
What a great strategic weapon, for the Meglamaniacs arsenal.
A secret rocket project... within a mile of a busy airport! Who would notice an inter ballistic missile being assembled just beyond the end of the runway!
Heya Scott
, I have a friend Aaron, who's been blind since birth, he is quite into gaming but can only play certain games. Ksp came up into conversation and he said he'd like to play. I mentioned ksp2 is comin out and he asked.. "Not only that, but what about adding stuff like the Tolc library for screen reader support, at least on PC? If it's something like Unity or Unreal, then Unit does have an accessibility pluggin for screenr eaders although I don't know if that pluggin works on consoles or not. Unreal is also working on screen reader support."
I'd love to be able to play ksp with him... Watching him navigate his pc is mesmerising!
I also wonder if there is a company that can take your ship design code convert it and 3d print your creation.. that way he could feel each part, maybe turning up the textile/tactile skins for each part, so he could feel it better?
Is there someone that does this?
I hope to hear from you.
Hux
One option would be to use Kerbal RPC to interface with the game and feed the relevant data to a screen reader.
@7:18 No, that means 250K for the nose cone and 250K + for the rest of the rocket. So 250K added to 250K+ ... 500K+ for one whole shebang. Or a launch cost of 3 Million for the whole shabang.
There is the Poker Flat range if you want to go even further north in Alaska. They mainly just launch sounding rockets, but it looks like this puppy could fly from there considering its infrastructure-in-a-box approach. And it's colder... much much colder than balmy Kodiak...
The launch stand reminds me of the mobile V2 launch platforms.
A few in the shop look like the lipstick rocket, the Black Arrow and with a Gamma 5 arrangement vs. a Gamma 8. And no hypergolics.
Looks good. Nice little rocket, hope they have a successful launch at last
I wonder how it will fair against the tried and tested electron? It's rapid turnaround will make it attractive to the military but how many smallsats does the military launch?
I've been to the Kodiak Island launch site. You can drive there from Kodiak (the town).
Fingers crossed for 'em, that would be quite an achievement for the price and effect!