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Really impressed by this video. Elysia is great and I love the focus on non launch vehicle stuff as well. It's not just about rockets, what we actually do up there is really important to learn about as well.
I know! 😶 I guess there are not enough people with understanding of what the Space Industry is about to do. This might just kick start a whole plethora of new industries. In New Zealand, Rocket Lab is just screaming out for young tech's, to help build all their parts and supplies. We have had political educators in the past begging our government to put money into computer and electronic education courses and I am talking 25 years ago. Well, better late than never 🤬
The last attempt didn’t turn out to well. Sadly people didn’t become aware of the nuclear meltdowns that had occurred around their neighborhoods due to that program until the facility closed in 2006. Look up rocketdyne nuclear program “At least four of the ten nuclear reactors suffered accidents”
Rapid rocket launching and precision payload deployment is sort of the modern equivalent to nuclear detonation tests as a show of power to other nations but with added benefits.
Hopefully they have better safety practices at the new nuclear propulsion facility than what they had at the rocketdyne facility in Simi valley. It was a secret program that had 10 reactors in aluminum sheds. At least four of the ten nuclear reactors suffered accidents dosing southern Ventura county and northern Los Angeles counties with radiation. The ground there is still contaminated. We had a fire in the area about 8 years ago and people that knew were screaming about radioactive contamination from the smoke. Of course the media downplayed the issue but many downwind residents left the area until the fire was put out
sounds like you're talking about the "Santa Susana Field Laboratory" "But there is no definitive proof that the contamination left from decades of nuclear testing is the source of cancers and other health issues. ... Hal Morgenstern, an epidemiology professor at the University of Michigan, conducted several studies between 1988 and 2002 to see if there was a link between chemical or radioactive contamination at the field lab and deaths caused by leukemia, lymphoma and other cancers. Results showed people living within a 2-mile radius were at least 60 percent more likely to be diagnosed with certain cancers than those living 5 miles away, but that doesn't mean the site's contamination is the cause, Morgenstern previously told the Simi Valley Acorn. Despite the data he collected, Morgenstern said, there wasn't enough evidence to identify an explicit link between cancer and field lab contamination. And the results were inconclusive as to whether activities at SSFL specifically affected or will affect cancer incidences, he said."
Off topic.. i think it is still practical to build spaceship in space.. especially when nuclear involved.. falcons can be the parts delivery solutions to space.. can rename to spacedeX
"...ESA part of Ariane Group..." That's backwards. European Space Agency is the quasi-governmental customer while Ariane Group is the mainly French somewhat European contractor.
I wish DARPA and NASA had awarded SpaceX with the design of the nuclear rocket. I know Lockheed employees have more security clearance but SpaceX would have built in a few years. Hopefully Lockheed Martin can have it built by 2027. I'm just happy Boeing didn't get the contract
If they could use Falcon 9 or hopefully Starship which would've gotten some OFTs under its belt by then to be hopefully certified for payload flights, they can get this to orbit quite easily no matter how big it's gonna get. I mean even FH now placed heaviest commercial payload ever, Jupiter 3 which weighed 9000kg, imagine what it can do.
Nuclear Power, or Nuclear Propulsion? Transit 4A launched in 1961 Nimbus III launched in 1969 We had nuclear batteries (ALSEP) for Apollo missions. Pioneer 10 and 11 in the 1970s Viking 1 and 2 launched in the 1970s Voyager 1 and 2 Galileo launched in 1988 Ulysses launched in 1990 Mars Pathfinder The Cassini Orbiter and Hyugen probe have nuclear power New Horizons was launched in 2006 Curiosity rover has nuclear power We've had nuclear power in space for over 50 yrs, albeit nuclear generated electricity, or nuclear heaters keeping equipment warm enough to work, but we have nuclear power in space. However, we've never had nuclear propulsion in space. People tend to only think of nuclear in space as propulsion and completely forget that nuclear power is a thing we are very familiar with.
@@stephenbullington Top research! Some people just can't quite grasp the difference. Sort of like having a kerosene engine powering a generator and kerosene injectors feeding a jet turbine engine. Slightly different compositions of the fuel but completely different outcomes.
Spacex will be doing a ship every hour for 16 hours a day with an 8 hour curfew for sleeping. Can you imagine what it will be like for residents? I bet Spacex buys up all the land around the launch site...and the towns. And can you imagine the ruckus if ships occasionally blow up? You wouldn't want to live anywhere near the base
I don't believe that Boca Chica is the planned launch site. That's what the development at Florida will eventually become. This is a test site, to iron out all the 'kinks' in the Starship System. But it could launch completed systems across the Gulf of Mexico to their launch site? (Or ship them) But imagine single Boosters drifting across the ocean (they won't have to fill them right up and could just install the 13 center Raptors) and around the bottom of the peninsular and up the East Coast to Cape Canaveral. Then caught by the chopsticks. Now that would be, like, 😲
@@lerk. Really? Well I guess if they drop it in one of those deep canyons, they could get a lava flow going. That should create a nice warm micro-climate to start the colony off. Off course, you might have a high cancer rate, but imagine the potential with all the mutations? Might be able to make Martian compatible, next gen humans! Oh the potential is off the scale. Becquerel scale, that is 😱
We need to speed up space tech development. I mean for gods sake,we put a man on the moon in the 1969. And now? What the hell are we doing? There is a whole infinite universe waiting for us to change our consciousness and help us grow as beings.
IMO, NASA's main failure is when they stopped the Constellation program (thank you Pres. Obama, NASA's gravedigger). That was an easy way to Moon return, 15 years ago. Now Chinese are ahead.
Exactly! I'm in my 60's in NZ and we had our education minister back in the late 1990's almost begging our Government to invest more money in computer and electronic education programs. Rocket Lab is just screaming out for young/old techies, to make all of their parts and systems. They had the industrial revolution. We could be on the verge of a Space revolution. But you need the basic education programs in place. I am excited to be retiring, because I can spend all my time watching it all develop. Mmmm, 🤔wonder if Elon will have a retirement village on Mars by the time I hit 80 😁
It’s so funny that blue Orgin get money for all these programs but yet they haven’t been to space or orbit or have a fully working engine.. how are they getting all of those contracts?
Same way many of the other companies in that list are getting money and haven't put anything into orbit. Space companies can do stuff and not just build rockets and put them into orbit. SpaceX's main business now is actually *satellite* communications business rather than launching stuff into orbit. Same thing for dozens of other companies out there. Kinda tired the whole rethoric that since Blue hasn't launched anything into orbit they suddenly can't do anything else.
They didn't even have it in the first place, to be able to bring it back. Where did you get your information? If they are going to use it, they need to take it far away from Earth and make sure it ends up in an orbit around the Sun. Dirty, risky and we have enough polluting our sea/air/water/dirt without adding hot shooting stars to the tragedies.
Space is working on developing the starship to reach space using methane so saying we are "not able to launch CH4 propulsion rockets" is not accurate. And China just launched a methane fueled rocket so it is being done.
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Love how well produced this is. Keep it up. Can't wait to see how it spreads into live coverage over time.
Thanks Elysia and the NSF team.
Another great round up! Thanks Elysia and team :)
Who else is watching while waiting for the water deluge test?
Me
Is the water deluge test today?
@@danielmurogonzalez1911 yup, happening very soon!
@@AlexReneRodriguez done
Came here right after
Really impressed by this video. Elysia is great and I love the focus on non launch vehicle stuff as well. It's not just about rockets, what we actually do up there is really important to learn about as well.
Wanted to add my voice to say how much I enjoy "This Week in Spaceflight'! Great idea and I look forward to it each week.
thank you you do the best job with the news!
Always look forward to Friday to get my updates from Elysia. The best on the team IMO.
Superb production again. Go team NSF!👍Elysia just crushes these updates👸🏻❤
Nice Updates. Thanks NSF!
Smile shining like a sun, Elysia!
Will be interesting to finally see an NTR flying.
Love these updates, great content and presentation.
Love these videos. Thanks to the entire team! Keep up the great work.
Elysia, you rock! Peace
Get these guys to a million subs
I know! 😶 I guess there are not enough people with understanding of what the Space Industry is about to do. This might just kick start a whole plethora of new industries. In New Zealand, Rocket Lab is just screaming out for young tech's, to help build all their parts and supplies. We have had political educators in the past begging our government to put money into computer and electronic education courses and I am talking 25 years ago. Well, better late than never 🤬
11:59 If Falcon 9 and Starship had a baby.
good informative video update
Wow that’s wild also what’s up and thanks for the new updates!
The retweet Tory made about Centaur V was from us. You're welcome 😉
Weeks I've been aware of nasa wanting to start getting back to nuclear rockets and I'm very excited
The last attempt didn’t turn out to well. Sadly people didn’t become aware of the nuclear meltdowns that had occurred around their neighborhoods due to that program until the facility closed in 2006. Look up rocketdyne nuclear program
“At least four of the ten nuclear reactors suffered accidents”
@@brokenwrench404they need to get SpaceX involved with the program. I don't trust anyone else lol
Rapid rocket launching and precision payload deployment is sort of the modern equivalent to nuclear detonation tests as a show of power to other nations but with added benefits.
Kids, get the swim trunks on!
Hopefully they have better safety practices at the new nuclear propulsion facility than what they had at the rocketdyne facility in Simi valley.
It was a secret program that had 10 reactors in aluminum sheds. At least four of the ten nuclear reactors suffered accidents dosing southern Ventura county and northern Los Angeles counties with radiation.
The ground there is still contaminated. We had a fire in the area about 8 years ago and people that knew were screaming about radioactive contamination from the smoke. Of course the media downplayed the issue but many downwind residents left the area until the fire was put out
sounds like you're talking about the "Santa Susana Field Laboratory"
"But there is no definitive proof that the contamination left from decades of nuclear testing is the source of cancers and other health issues. ... Hal Morgenstern, an epidemiology professor at the University of Michigan, conducted several studies between 1988 and 2002 to see if there was a link between chemical or radioactive contamination at the field lab and deaths caused by leukemia, lymphoma and other cancers. Results showed people living within a 2-mile radius were at least 60 percent more likely to be diagnosed with certain cancers than those living 5 miles away, but that doesn't mean the site's contamination is the cause, Morgenstern previously told the Simi Valley Acorn. Despite the data he collected, Morgenstern said, there wasn't enough evidence to identify an explicit link between cancer and field lab contamination. And the results were inconclusive as to whether activities at SSFL specifically affected or will affect cancer incidences, he said."
great again
Off topic.. i think it is still practical to build spaceship in space.. especially when nuclear involved.. falcons can be the parts delivery solutions to space.. can rename to spacedeX
With that lunar power line, the grid on the moon will officially be more reliable than the grid in my home state 😅
Even though the acronym isn't original, I'm looking forward to seeing that thing yeeted from a falcon heavy!!!
Attention NSF merch store ! 👀 Elysian Needs to be wearing Starship earrings 😃! Great Job Elysian and NSF team as Always 🤓
"...ESA part of Ariane Group..." That's backwards. European Space Agency is the quasi-governmental customer while Ariane Group is the mainly French somewhat European contractor.
She didn't say that 🤔
@@ale131296 You're right, she said "and" Ariane group - I heard "an" Ariane Group.
Can we group all launches into china, spacex and else. And get them discussed in groups instead of in orders
Now could that DRACO engine's reactor also be used as an in-orbit or lunar/planetary surface power source?
I wish DARPA and NASA had awarded SpaceX with the design of the nuclear rocket. I know Lockheed employees have more security clearance but SpaceX would have built in a few years. Hopefully Lockheed Martin can have it built by 2027. I'm just happy Boeing didn't get the contract
If they could use Falcon 9 or hopefully Starship which would've gotten some OFTs under its belt by then to be hopefully certified for payload flights, they can get this to orbit quite easily no matter how big it's gonna get.
I mean even FH now placed heaviest commercial payload ever, Jupiter 3 which weighed 9000kg, imagine what it can do.
Probably not safe to use SusX anymore. They've been a sieve.
Guys I’ll be flying soon! Who is ready for IFT-2!
Woo!
Yay!!
You sound just like Bridget Carey 🙂
Yo
We need nuclear power in space, and we need it 50 years ago!
Neither NASA or anyone else had the technology to do it 50 years ago.
Nuclear Power, or Nuclear Propulsion? Transit 4A launched in 1961
Nimbus III launched in 1969
We had nuclear batteries (ALSEP) for Apollo missions.
Pioneer 10 and 11 in the 1970s
Viking 1 and 2 launched in the 1970s
Voyager 1 and 2
Galileo launched in 1988
Ulysses launched in 1990
Mars Pathfinder
The Cassini Orbiter and Hyugen probe have nuclear power
New Horizons was launched in 2006
Curiosity rover has nuclear power
We've had nuclear power in space for over 50 yrs, albeit nuclear generated electricity, or nuclear heaters keeping equipment warm enough to work, but we have nuclear power in space. However, we've never had nuclear propulsion in space. People tend to only think of nuclear in space as propulsion and completely forget that nuclear power is a thing we are very familiar with.
@@stephenbullington Top research! Some people just can't quite grasp the difference.
Sort of like having a kerosene engine powering a generator and kerosene injectors feeding a jet turbine engine. Slightly different compositions of the fuel but completely different outcomes.
Spacex will be doing a ship every hour for 16 hours a day with an 8 hour curfew for sleeping. Can you imagine what it will be like for residents? I bet Spacex buys up all the land around the launch site...and the towns. And can you imagine the ruckus if ships occasionally blow up? You wouldn't want to live anywhere near the base
I wonder what relation this comment has to do with the video 😅😅
They would need to move out to the ocean with pipelines for propellants, etc. Imo
Probably international waters if even possible ..
I don't believe that Boca Chica is the planned launch site. That's what the development at Florida will eventually become. This is a test site, to iron out all the 'kinks' in the Starship System. But it could launch completed systems across the Gulf of Mexico to their launch site? (Or ship them)
But imagine single Boosters drifting across the ocean (they won't have to fill them right up and could just install the 13 center Raptors) and around the bottom of the peninsular and up the East Coast to Cape Canaveral. Then caught by the chopsticks. Now that would be, like, 😲
Elysia ! spell check 🥴
Why does Blue Origin need or get any money, they have yet to put a single thing into space.
Nuclear propulsion... no thanks
I think Blue Origin should have been awarded the contract for the Nuclear engine...
Hahaha imagine Kessler Syndrome, but NUCLEAR!
Yeah, maybe they should send them on an orbit to the sun instead. (What were they thinking!)
@@lerk. Really? Well I guess if they drop it in one of those deep canyons, they could get a lava flow going. That should create a nice warm micro-climate to start the colony off. Off course, you might have a high cancer rate, but imagine the potential with all the mutations? Might be able to make Martian compatible, next gen humans! Oh the potential is off the scale. Becquerel scale, that is 😱
Don't get too good at this you will put Marcus House and Felix Schlang and Ellie in Space out of business
So true. The pie 🥧can only be shared around up to a point. If the slice the other's get, get's too small, they gonna starve. 🩻
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BO building another building. Progress!
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We need to speed up space tech development.
I mean for gods sake,we put a man on the moon in the 1969.
And now? What the hell are we doing?
There is a whole infinite universe waiting for us to change our consciousness and help us grow as beings.
IMO, NASA's main failure is when they stopped the Constellation program (thank you Pres. Obama, NASA's gravedigger). That was an easy way to Moon return, 15 years ago. Now Chinese are ahead.
There is a whole lot going on now with many more companies and countries involved in developing rockets to explore space than before.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Thank you for your reply man.I appreciate it.
Exactly! I'm in my 60's in NZ and we had our education minister back in the late 1990's almost begging our Government to invest more money in computer and electronic education programs. Rocket Lab is just screaming out for young/old techies, to make all of their parts and systems. They had the industrial revolution. We could be on the verge of a Space revolution. But you need the basic education programs in place.
I am excited to be retiring, because I can spend all my time watching it all develop. Mmmm, 🤔wonder if Elon will have a retirement village on Mars by the time I hit 80 😁
@@David-yo5ws Thank you for your reply man.
It’s so funny that blue Orgin get money for all these programs but yet they haven’t been to space or orbit or have a fully working engine.. how are they getting all of those contracts?
Same way many of the other companies in that list are getting money and haven't put anything into orbit. Space companies can do stuff and not just build rockets and put them into orbit. SpaceX's main business now is actually *satellite* communications business rather than launching stuff into orbit. Same thing for dozens of other companies out there. Kinda tired the whole rethoric that since Blue hasn't launched anything into orbit they suddenly can't do anything else.
Bribes?
I’m second person here
@@mendelmarozov888 what do you mean?
NUCLEAR PROPULSION.............! ?? What about how bad that is for the environment? I thought we were going in the solar ELECTRIC direction? No?
Solar propulsion would be much slower than nuclear propulsion at least for the foreseeable future.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Sounds like solar electric power needs more development to really get the desired us out of it....
Nuclear ≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠ bad. Nuclear thermal engines like DRACO have no radioactive exhaust.
Maybe you should watch the video to understand more about it
@@ale131296 I would rather have someone that knows what they are talking about like you to explain it to me!
Blue Origin 😂😂😂😂😂why?
First???
NO
dont do it
no
do not bring back nuclear propulsion
ever
ditch deny drop discard darpas draco
They didn't even have it in the first place, to be able to bring it back. Where did you get your information?
If they are going to use it, they need to take it far away from Earth and make sure it ends up in an orbit around the Sun.
Dirty, risky and we have enough polluting our sea/air/water/dirt without adding hot shooting stars to the tragedies.
They are not able to launch methane propulsion rocket ... so ... nuclear propulsion ... 🤣🤣🤣
IMO, NASA is too busy seeking UFO's now
Space is working on developing the starship to reach space using methane so saying we are "not able to launch CH4 propulsion rockets" is not accurate. And China just launched a methane fueled rocket so it is being done.