I know it's probably a lot to ask, but official timestamps in these updates would be highly appreciated for easy navigation and remembering the name of the topic/program/rocket being talked about. Thanks for everything you do!
*_"I know it's probably a lot to ask"_* No, for a channel with 1.63 million subs and 160,000 views within 24 hours of a video going up, it's the very least, the absolute bare minimum, the lazy sod could do. {:o:O:}
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 The bare minimum would be to not make videos at all. He doesn't have to. Fortunately for us, he does, and we're very grateful.
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 Ugh, I think we all know Scott is quite busy with his professional career, and we should consider ourselves extremely lucky he makes time to make some well researched and highly educational video's for our entertainment. The fact THIS channel has become so big while this is still an side project for Mr. Manley just shows quality is appreciated.
That footage of the one Long March dropping its boosters was quite beautiful. The four trails following along and cutting through the exhaust from the main rocket, very pretty.
It's cool to see the Lucy probe returning good data. We just happened to witness its launch from the deck of a cruise ship returning -- VERY quickly -- to Port Canaveral that early-morning. VERY quickly because we had to be within the port -- and out of the range-safety zone -- before they could launch. We were clocking 24 knots overnight to get there, which is flank-speed for cruise ships. Beautiful launch as we entered the port.
An asteroid with a moon that is a contact binary! Space is not only stranger than we imagined, it is stranger than we can only imagine - which is why we must explore it.
Is there a special account to be followed? I got spaceX subscribed with notifications and I just get the 15 second clips afterwards. What a shame :( I used to watch every single launch because there was so much potential for awe and beauty and now? gone.
there's a few that do indeed carry the broadcast on yt - because that's how I watch them. (I'm more of a 'rocket go vrrrroooom' person. always fascinated by launches - ever since the first shuttle launches.) 'the launchpad' is good, as is 'lab padre space', 'nasa' still cover launches, 'spaceflight now', 'what about it' - among others who do replays. @@ChrisBigBad because there's a little bit more of a delay with some channels, you're watching a few seconds behind - but at least they're covering them. looking forward to starships next attempt. cancelled everything for next week and got my seat booked in front of the telly with a pile of snacks, and the app formerly known as twitter loaded and ready to see reaction/videos of what people are seeing.
My father-in-law, who worked at JSC his entire career from 1968, worked on the X-37 before it was pulled from NASA and put into USAF service. I remember the NASA folks being quite miffed about it, mumbling about how they did all the work and pioneering based on the Space Shuttle (I think the X-37 was originally a Shuttle crew rescue vehicle). Interesting to follow, that was 20 years ago and it it still up there doing spooky stuff until, as you mention, some amateur snooper finds it. Love yopur channel!
The Chinese landing was rough for sure, but given the dust was mostly from the thrust of the landing cushioning rockets and the fact that the taikonauts were securely strapped in, I doubt there were any injuries. NFL football players probably have it worse.
I disagree, you can calculate the kinetic energy for yourself. Lets agree on one thing: there will be zero transparency. China replaces humility with denial.
If Starship flies next week it will make my entire week!!! Lets goooooo! Sad news about Astra. Getting to space is hard but running a sustainable Rocket company is just as hard it seems!
Running a sustainable rocket company is *much* harder than getting to space. We've still only had two of the space startups - SpaceX and Rocket Lab - successfully make that transition into an operational launch company... and I wouldn't say the latter was sustainable yet, given the challenges of the small launch segment and their plans to step up a tier.
@@PEK-97 Because none of those "private companies" is at this point even close to finacially viable and exist primarily by taxpayer "help" due to governement bought missions, payouts and projects. We´ll see when any of them start making actual profits as private entities without governement missions being redirected their way. My guess would be thats still decades off. Which is okay, lots of industries need decades of industrial policy buildup - railroad, nuclear power, data networks ect. They just should not constantly claim to be real markt businesses. I mean - Musk once claimed to take no govmt. money three days before getting a 2bln development deal.
So glad my country is finally starting to get in the game with the Technology Safeguards Agreement. Still a shame we don't do enough of our own manufacturing and launches, but maybe this will help kickstart some.
We had them at Pleiku, RVN in 1971. Made a pretty good FAC platform but kind of delicate in comparison to the Warthog. Had a great "blow you through the canopy" ejection w/ Instant bottle rocket type parachute. There was one at Naked Fanny where the pilot ejected inverted right into the runway on takeoff (engine out - Vmc roll), no time for the chute, and he survived. The seat took the impact mostly (2 broken ankles and lots of time/$$ at the chiropractor). Unfortunately, the airplane died in surgery a very short time later. Definite RUD.
You forgot that Andøya Spaceport in Norway was inaugurated last week, making it the first launch site in Europe. I was there last summer. The road goes straight between the launch pas and the integration building. Great view from the mountains surrounding the pas, probaly best viewpoint to see a rocket launch in the world.
23:00 those cases are more accurately cans, stamped steel and are usually used to hold 2 (or more depending on caliber) mortar rounds, the straps look semi-professional made but normally they dont have them but will have a handle on either side at the top to move and carry
We saw the Oct 22nd Starlink deployment overhead near Guildford UK - actually my daughter saw it first and said what are those lights up there? It was very cool to see the full string so clearly for a good 30-45 seconds.
Good job, ISRO. I really look forward to the next Starship flight-test. Spectacular booms expected, and as long as they happen for completely different reasons than last time, it'll be successful no matter what. 😎
Kiribati is considered a separate island nationality and not part of Australia. Christmas Island belongs to that group along with Jarvis Island though "Administration" by a partner country due to use/lease agreements. Not owned by them though.
My only issue with the X-37B, doesn't it use hypergolic or toxic fuels? Hence the moon suits when it returns, incase some fuel remains in vehicle thrusters or toxic residue on craft itself.
Yes, it uses hydrazine & nitrogen tetroxide, both of which are toxic. One of the advantages of Dream Chaser is that its thrusters use safer propellants so the craft can be approached and unloaded immediately after landing. It uses nitrous oxide and propane.
3:10 “‘Not including Falcon Heavy Cores’” They’ve literally only reused ONE FH core. EVER. Arabsat 6A was the only FH flight in which the center core was both capable of attempting recovery and successfully did so. Every other mission expended the center core, except for those on the FH Test Flight and STP-2, both of which were going too fast and missed the droneship.
And we as a humanity 've just made the history... for all the wrong reasons. First real warfare action in space. As "Arrow-2" and couple of days later "Arrow-3" have intercepted Yemeni ballistic missiles above the Karman line.
Common occurrence when it comes to BMD tests. USA, Russia, China, India and Israel all do it regularly. Only difference this time is that it wasn't a drill or a test.
Scot, on the 27th of October the USA and Australian Governments signed a TSA (Technology Safeguards Agreement). To my understanding that is paving the way for US Companies to be able to launch rockets from Australia. Also, NASA launched 3 sounding rockets from Australia last year. I always have criticized the Australian Government for not pushing harder on the Space Industry but it seems that the Australian Space Industry is starting to grow. Now what we need is a Private Space Port like RocketLab has in New Zealand. With The crazy cadence that SpaceX is launching the Falcon 9, the USA rocket launching facilities will probably get saturated in a few years.
Hi Scott, I think you forgot to mention that the indian privet launch company skyroot aerospace has just revealed 1st look of their 1st launch vehicle Vikram-1. We have seen images and cut down version of that rocket. Please check it out if you haven't already. That rocket also looks amazing and they are planning to test launch in 2024 and commence operations in 2025.
No mention of ULA being up for sale? Their CEO mentioned the complex ownership arrangement impacting their ability to adapt to a changing industry. Guess it’s not easy making profits without cost-plus contracts.
There's not really any news on that subject since Scott last talked about it. A sale has been *rumoured* for about a year, but there's never been any official confirmation... just hints and speculation.
9:33 . . . Crazy how my first impression of the 1st high-res image (L'LORRI) was that this guy was a Contact Binary, then they released the GIF animation showing it wasn't, THEN they released another high-res image at a later time showing the small body was IN FACT a CONTACT BINARY ! 😅👋👍
I believe nasa launched a couple of sounding rockets from a site near Darwin in northern Australia. It would be close to the equator. There is also a US military base up there as well. Australia’s main site for rocketry was at Woomera in South Australia and there were some nuclear tests in that site back in the 50’s.
@@fensoxx several. Pine gap and Harold E. Holt are the biggest and best-known. Several smaller ones are camouflaged as cooperations in the paperwork,. but under exclusive US control. There are US bases almost everywhere, at least 1300 publicly known. Thats what empires do.
May a dumb question, why can’t space x or any other company launch from a barge? One for launch with all necessary equipment, the other for landing. Even if they had to build one to support the thrust and weight.
They still waste 99.3% of their combustion energy to thrust ratio (Thrust Specific Fuel Consumption) at best. You can do the energetic calculations and translate ISP values almost directly (based on fuel energy accuracy) to energetic efficiency for any propulsion method or engine.
@scottmanley ..Solely using combustion byproducts to push off of. Its a 99.3% waste using TSEC calculations for the 'efficient' SSME. There are 'newer' more advanced propulsions that use an accelerated understanding of transportation, Newton's second law, thermodynamics, and multi-physics interactions, as rocketry is becoming more obsolete by the decade, however popular. Using ISP you can translate and calculate the energetic efficiency of any propulsion mechanism, according to the energy content and mass flow rate of fuels, and the thrust attained from the chosen thrust medium. For example, a rocket engine which combusts at 99% efficiency, but exhausts nearly 99.7% of that energy as several thousand kelvin exhaust gasses and vapor travelling in a several kilometer per second turbulent jet through the underlying atmosphere without any gain in propulsive action. Exhaust ions or gasses aren't the only medium available in orbital operations either, given the will to achieve more with less thermodynamic waste, but our society's power structure is built on being just the opposite. Powerful, controlling, and wasteful. They often suppress higher efficiency technologies so their trillion dollar economic sectors aren't threatened. If you ask me who 'they' is, I'll be disappointed and assume you've missed the beneficial concept of thrust specific energy consumption entirely
In memory of Astronaut Frank Borman (1928-2023).
Can we name his achievements?
Apollo 8 commander
Put craters in the test range at nellis AFB nevada.
@@markrix Like ejecting out of test aircraft?
@@12pentaborane it consider that 👍
also Astronaut Ken Mattingly (1936 - 2023).
@@Sintesi.oh I hadn’t heard that he died… 2 in a few days….
imagine india sends crew to the iss before starliner
for 1/10th the price.
No Imagination Necessary... I already Believe They Will!
This is definitely going to happen no doubts about it.😊
Between this and their Navy India continues to impress.
ISS will be decommissioned by then
I know it's probably a lot to ask, but official timestamps in these updates would be highly appreciated for easy navigation and remembering the name of the topic/program/rocket being talked about. Thanks for everything you do!
*_"I know it's probably a lot to ask"_*
No, for a channel with 1.63 million subs and 160,000 views within 24 hours of a video going up, it's the very least, the absolute bare minimum, the lazy sod could do.
{:o:O:}
Yeah
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095its not that easy
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 The bare minimum would be to not make videos at all. He doesn't have to. Fortunately for us, he does, and we're very grateful.
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 Ugh, I think we all know Scott is quite busy with his professional career, and we should consider ourselves extremely lucky he makes time to make some well researched and highly educational video's for our entertainment. The fact THIS channel has become so big while this is still an side project for Mr. Manley just shows quality is appreciated.
That footage of the one Long March dropping its boosters was quite beautiful. The four trails following along and cutting through the exhaust from the main rocket, very pretty.
Thank Scott for the great updates on what's going up, down or simply going nowhere!
😂😂😂
That would be a good t-shirt.
You forgot about the opening of Andøya space port in Norway for launching commercial polar satellites.
Nice to see Dreamchaser finally is going to make it to space. We've been waiting for you, baby shuttle!
It's baby #2, Baby #1 is X37B
Would they then have to change the name of the program to "Dreamcatcher"?
Another craft that will reach the ISS before Starliner. And possibly be converted to carry astronauts and do that too before Starliner.
I got a feeling that eventually a Falcon Heavy will be taking it up.
that isnt dreamchaser... lol thats the x37b
It's cool to see the Lucy probe returning good data. We just happened to witness its launch from the deck of a cruise ship returning -- VERY quickly -- to Port Canaveral that early-morning. VERY quickly because we had to be within the port -- and out of the range-safety zone -- before they could launch. We were clocking 24 knots overnight to get there, which is flank-speed for cruise ships. Beautiful launch as we entered the port.
Ahh, yet another competely stuffed Scott vid. The overwiew, the context, the presuming of an initiated audience. Loved it!
As you know Scott, Magnetos for planes like the Lancair IV-P have turbo boost pressure to pressurize their magnetos. So no arcing occurs.
4:14 The stability of these boosters post separation is amazing!
Rocket launching has become routine with no failures!
An asteroid with a moon that is a contact binary! Space is not only stranger than we imagined, it is stranger than we can only imagine - which is why we must explore it.
that orange smoke rip
4:22 that's a cool shot, mesmerizing
I use to watch a lot of SpaceX launches. But ever since they moved the livestreams to Twitter. It’s harder for me to catch and watch them :(
Is there a special account to be followed? I got spaceX subscribed with notifications and I just get the 15 second clips afterwards. What a shame :( I used to watch every single launch because there was so much potential for awe and beauty and now? gone.
there's a few that do indeed carry the broadcast on yt - because that's how I watch them.
(I'm more of a 'rocket go vrrrroooom' person. always fascinated by launches - ever since the first shuttle launches.) 'the launchpad' is good, as is 'lab padre space', 'nasa' still cover launches, 'spaceflight now', 'what about it' - among others who do replays. @@ChrisBigBad
because there's a little bit more of a delay with some channels, you're watching a few seconds behind - but at least they're covering them. looking forward to starships next attempt. cancelled everything for next week and got my seat booked in front of the telly with a pile of snacks, and the app formerly known as twitter loaded and ready to see reaction/videos of what people are seeing.
Its called x
@@MozTSEveryone knows that Twitter is called X :).
@@MozTSthe url is still Twitter.
I burst out laughing when I saw the 4 guys with the backpacks crossing Abbey road. Love it. (23:07)
Great video and I love your "Universal Launch Abort" shirt 🤣
I see what you did there.🤣🤣
My father-in-law, who worked at JSC his entire career from 1968, worked on the X-37 before it was pulled from NASA and put into USAF service. I remember the NASA folks being quite miffed about it, mumbling about how they did all the work and pioneering based on the Space Shuttle (I think the X-37 was originally a Shuttle crew rescue vehicle). Interesting to follow, that was 20 years ago and it it still up there doing spooky stuff until, as you mention, some amateur snooper finds it. Love yopur channel!
The Chinese landing was rough for sure, but given the dust was mostly from the thrust of the landing cushioning rockets and the fact that the taikonauts were securely strapped in, I doubt there were any injuries. NFL football players probably have it worse.
I disagree, you can calculate the kinetic energy for yourself. Lets agree on one thing: there will be zero transparency. China replaces humility with denial.
If they had died it would have been listed as a unmanned flight. What's two more missing people in China?
@@MichaelOfRohan The astronauts were alive and well enough to give speeches, guess you fucked up the calculations
@@jonseilim4321 You trust a communist dictatorship, guess you fucked up in life choices.
@@jonseilim4321😂😂
Watching manned capsules parachiting down to a hard landing is so 1960's tech!! Amazing this still goes on.Roll on Starship is all I can say.
0:20 wow that footage is amazing
Absolutely wild that a Falcon 9 having a scrub is now noteworthy.
SpaceX launches more rockets than Blue Origin makes announcements.
Blue balls meme is fitting
ROFLMAO!
Burn, full 8 minutes, must be Tuesday for SpaceX lol
7:10 the footage was taken from a drone which was controlled by an India navy ship
If Starship flies next week it will make my entire week!!! Lets goooooo! Sad news about Astra. Getting to space is hard but running a sustainable Rocket company is just as hard it seems!
cancelled all plans for next week, seat booked in front of the telly, the app formerly known as twitter primed and ready to see reaction/videos.
Running a sustainable rocket company is *much* harder than getting to space. We've still only had two of the space startups - SpaceX and Rocket Lab - successfully make that transition into an operational launch company... and I wouldn't say the latter was sustainable yet, given the challenges of the small launch segment and their plans to step up a tier.
I'm glad Scott put "private companies" in air quotes. Way more accurate a description. Also, all of the Blue Origin vaporware is real pretty at least.
Why?
The next Blue Origin launch is expected to be sponsored by Viagra.
@@PEK-97 Because none of those "private companies" is at this point even close to finacially viable and exist primarily by taxpayer "help" due to governement bought missions, payouts and projects.
We´ll see when any of them start making actual profits as private entities without governement missions being redirected their way. My guess would be thats still decades off.
Which is okay, lots of industries need decades of industrial policy buildup - railroad, nuclear power, data networks ect. They just should not constantly claim to be real markt businesses.
I mean - Musk once claimed to take no govmt. money three days before getting a 2bln development deal.
So glad my country is finally starting to get in the game with the Technology Safeguards Agreement. Still a shame we don't do enough of our own manufacturing and launches, but maybe this will help kickstart some.
Which country?
@@ankitnmnaik229That'd be Australia. Got a long history of helping out with a bit of remote and flat land.
Great idea! Love to see improvements and different variations on previous projects!
Glad you remembered both the lights and mic this time, huge success!
Space has never been so interesting. I applaud you for your international coverage 👏 and more importantly. Go India!! 🇮🇳
Another great video 👍
LoL, they use Expendable SRB rockets😂 get with the times.
@@snake88ificationWhy waste good expensive rockets on testing abort systems
@@snake88ificationgaganayaan launched on a hypergolic liquid motor
@@snake88ificationwhat does your rocket use ? 😂
@@snake88ification And? SRBs are still fit for purpose.
Didn't realize that Boca Chica was so close to Abbey Road.
Bronco ov10!! Probably my favorite military prop plane after ww2
We had them at Pleiku, RVN in 1971. Made a pretty good FAC platform but kind of delicate in comparison to the Warthog. Had a great "blow you through the canopy" ejection w/ Instant bottle rocket type parachute. There was one at Naked Fanny where the pilot ejected inverted right into the runway on takeoff (engine out - Vmc roll), no time for the chute, and he survived. The seat took the impact mostly (2 broken ankles and lots of time/$$ at the chiropractor). Unfortunately, the airplane died in surgery a very short time later. Definite RUD.
You forgot that Andøya Spaceport in Norway was inaugurated last week, making it the first launch site in Europe.
I was there last summer. The road goes straight between the launch pas and the integration building. Great view from the mountains surrounding the pas, probaly best viewpoint to see a rocket launch in the world.
Yes.
Would love to see an episode of "Things Kerbal Space Program doesn't teach you" about Interstages and payload adapters.
Welcome bac and thanks Scott for keeping track of all these launches and news I to hope for a launch of the Space X Heavy.
15:10 that's gonna tip over so fast when the propellant is low.
23:00 those cases are more accurately cans, stamped steel and are usually used to hold 2 (or more depending on caliber) mortar rounds, the straps look semi-professional made but normally they dont have them but will have a handle on either side at the top to move and carry
Love your no-click bait videos!
Contact Binary Moon is a cool name for psychodelic rock album
We saw the Oct 22nd Starlink deployment overhead near Guildford UK - actually my daughter saw it first and said what are those lights up there? It was very cool to see the full string so clearly for a good 30-45 seconds.
Good job, ISRO.
I really look forward to the next Starship flight-test.
Spectacular booms expected, and as long as they happen for completely different reasons than last time, it'll be successful no matter what. 😎
12:37 So, same issue as Starship OTF-1. But with actual safety mechanisms.
3:13 what a time we live in that ScrubX scrubbing for a one-day delay makes a launch notable!
Tenacity looks like it could finally complete the space plane shot in the opening credits of Star Trek Enterprise
22:51 Who you gonna call?
ULA will need to watch out for reindeer, if they don't miss the launch date again.
17:00 maybe also testing aero-braking
Oops! There are two #17 in your graphic for falcon9 booster? Love your videos, very educational! Thanks!!
I can't wait for "Holy shit balls" II
Australia - Christmas Island [Australian Territory] is very close to the equator and a perfect remote location for launches.
Kiribati is considered a separate island nationality and not part of Australia. Christmas Island belongs to that group along with Jarvis Island though "Administration" by a partner country due to use/lease agreements. Not owned by them though.
THE best intro and outro music on RUclips!!
My only issue with the X-37B, doesn't it use hypergolic or toxic fuels? Hence the moon suits when it returns, incase some fuel remains in vehicle thrusters or toxic residue on craft itself.
Yes, it uses hydrazine & nitrogen tetroxide, both of which are toxic. One of the advantages of Dream Chaser is that its thrusters use safer propellants so the craft can be approached and unloaded immediately after landing. It uses nitrous oxide and propane.
It would be interesting to know which direction India plans to launch there manned missions.
3:10 “‘Not including Falcon Heavy Cores’”
They’ve literally only reused ONE FH core. EVER. Arabsat 6A was the only FH flight in which the center core was both capable of attempting recovery and successfully did so. Every other mission expended the center core, except for those on the FH Test Flight and STP-2, both of which were going too fast and missed the droneship.
Better question why aren't they putting it in starship? Wings unfolded!
Thank you Scott for making these videos, I really enjoy them.
10:00 I'd love to see someone go into the gap of the contact binary and lift the two rocks like Atlas
And we as a humanity 've just made the history... for all the wrong reasons.
First real warfare action in space.
As "Arrow-2" and couple of days later "Arrow-3" have intercepted Yemeni ballistic missiles above the Karman line.
Ouch! News reports sounded like ordinary SAM intercepts of cruise missiles .
Common occurrence when it comes to BMD tests. USA, Russia, China, India and Israel all do it regularly. Only difference this time is that it wasn't a drill or a test.
Scot, on the 27th of October the USA and Australian Governments signed a TSA (Technology Safeguards Agreement). To my understanding that is paving the way for US Companies to be able to launch rockets from Australia. Also, NASA launched 3 sounding rockets from Australia last year. I always have criticized the Australian Government for not pushing harder on the Space Industry but it seems that the Australian Space Industry is starting to grow. Now what we need is a Private Space Port like RocketLab has in New Zealand. With The crazy cadence that SpaceX is launching the Falcon 9, the USA rocket launching facilities will probably get saturated in a few years.
It’s ok. NZ is largely happy to be the southern hemisphere launch point for our OECD friends. :P
SpaceX will not exist in 5 years at the rate they are hemorrhaging money, thank god.
17:55 The Flying Shoe ...... MK 2 ?
the OG was the
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105
Thanks for all the news and updates, Scott! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
3:40 Can you imagine ULA etc scrubbing a launch, fixing the issue and launching the next day?! 😂 Not to mention the cost difference..
Hi Scott, I think you forgot to mention that the indian privet launch company skyroot aerospace has just revealed 1st look of their 1st launch vehicle Vikram-1. We have seen images and cut down version of that rocket.
Please check it out if you haven't already. That rocket also looks amazing and they are planning to test launch in 2024 and commence operations in 2025.
That is not big enough to make international news. Yet. Let us wait for Vikram-1's orbital launch first.
Me: "oh wow, blue origin actually built something, cool..."
Scott: "...but this is just a mock-up..."
Scott, thank you for a terrific report on the latest in space and sub-orbital flight.
Falcon heavy, because the tungsten rods in the back of the x37 are heavy.
Exciting spaceplane news! As I'm a child of Space Shuttle era, winged spacecraft hold special place in my heart.
Me too.
Gotta get the X-57 up high enough to start the Alcubierre drive safely. (Yeah, don't we wish!)
Haha, spat my tea out after seeing the abbey road picture..! 😂
22:45 - IFT2 - hoping it happens next week
Volcan on the 24th of december, yet another launch on my birthday (the first was JWST).
19:40 isn't it the other way around? isn't vacuum a perfect insulator? arcing needs some gas to happened
Thank you for your updates--most notably on non-American space missions (including Chinese and Russian launches). Well done.
Scott, please re-frame Dark Bramble behind you! It is slipping in the frame!
No mention of ULA being up for sale? Their CEO mentioned the complex ownership arrangement impacting their ability to adapt to a changing industry. Guess it’s not easy making profits without cost-plus contracts.
There's not really any news on that subject since Scott last talked about it. A sale has been *rumoured* for about a year, but there's never been any official confirmation... just hints and speculation.
I bet when Lucy found those 2 mini moons they actually were more interested in those than the parent lol
Thanks for the update Scott! You look tired mate. No idea what you've been doing, but hope you can have some chill time and get a bit of rest.
22:49 - That's not a demo team, those MFrs are Ghostbusters! Starship is getting busted before launch.
9:33 . . . Crazy how my first impression of the 1st high-res image (L'LORRI) was that this guy was a Contact Binary, then they released the GIF animation showing it wasn't, THEN they released another high-res image at a later time showing the small body was IN FACT a CONTACT BINARY ! 😅👋👍
Sounds like your going to be busy with a lot more models to put together!!
I believe nasa launched a couple of sounding rockets from a site near Darwin in northern Australia. It would be close to the equator. There is also a US military base up there as well. Australia’s main site for rocketry was at Woomera in South Australia and there were some nuclear tests in that site back in the 50’s.
There is a US military base in Australia? Damn.
@@fensoxx several.
Pine gap and Harold E. Holt are the biggest and best-known.
Several smaller ones are camouflaged as cooperations in the paperwork,. but under exclusive US control.
There are US bases almost everywhere, at least 1300 publicly known. Thats what empires do.
The x37 will make a couple of high altitude decel passes, I'm guessing
May a dumb question, why can’t space x or any other company launch from a barge? One for launch with all necessary equipment, the other for landing. Even if they had to build one to support the thrust and weight.
10:40 Yay for an Aussie landing!
I work on a minesite within the Woomera prohibited zone, hopefully I can see a landing 😁👌
Huge update and fantastic summaries, thank you
@1:47
Well, any landing you can walk away from...
No mention that the Chinese capsule's parachute had a rip. Does that mean the rip was not the reason for the tumble?
Most commentators don't think the rip was large enough to be the main cause of the sideways velocity and the tumble. They blame the wind.
You can bet the Chinese astronauts probably felt that landing the next day.
Why do the Long march upper stages have grid fins?
Interesting stuff Mr Manley. Curious though, no mention or commentary on ULA looking to sell in entirety?
The facón 9 scrub was due to a bad reading on a stage separation pusher. It was too bad since the new moon and a launch would have been beautiful!
I'd love to know the engine history on that Spacex booster with 18 flights. One wonders how long they each may last. . .
Have you heard of that parable about the ship that has every board replaced over time and ends with a question, is it the same ship?
They still waste 99.3% of their combustion energy to thrust ratio (Thrust Specific Fuel Consumption) at best.
You can do the energetic calculations and translate ISP values almost directly (based on fuel energy accuracy) to energetic efficiency for any propulsion method or engine.
Define ‘waste’
@scottmanley ..Solely using combustion byproducts to push off of. Its a 99.3% waste using TSEC calculations for the 'efficient' SSME. There are 'newer' more advanced propulsions that use an accelerated understanding of transportation, Newton's second law, thermodynamics, and multi-physics interactions, as rocketry is becoming more obsolete by the decade, however popular.
Using ISP you can translate and calculate the energetic efficiency of any propulsion mechanism, according to the energy content and mass flow rate of fuels, and the thrust attained from the chosen thrust medium. For example, a rocket engine which combusts at 99% efficiency, but exhausts nearly 99.7% of that energy as several thousand kelvin exhaust gasses and vapor travelling in a several kilometer per second turbulent jet through the underlying atmosphere without any gain in propulsive action.
Exhaust ions or gasses aren't the only medium available in orbital operations either, given the will to achieve more with less thermodynamic waste, but our society's power structure is built on being just the opposite. Powerful, controlling, and wasteful. They often suppress higher efficiency technologies so their trillion dollar economic sectors aren't threatened.
If you ask me who 'they' is, I'll be disappointed and assume you've missed the beneficial concept of thrust specific energy consumption entirely
R.I.P. FRANK BORE-MAN (1928-2023) ! ! !
6:32 that's got to be the most extremely odd-looking rocket ever. Holy cow that final stage is wide!
??? That is just a test vehicle for suborbital tests. That "final stage" is not a final stage, it is a crew module.
I wonder what the distance is between the two small contact binaries orbiting around Dinkinesh. Looks like ca 50 meters or so! Imagine that!!
Jeez. That landing was one hell of a laundry machine simulator.
Sounds like you didn't come out in the last wash.
So SO sO excited for the next launch
I hope you're shopping for your next Lego build night. I love those live feeds.
We must protect our precious space medicines from Emutopia!