Watch Virgin Orbit launch a rocket from a 747!!!
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2021
- Virgin Orbit will be conducting its second operational launch of their LauncherOne rocket on the Tubular Bells, Part One mission. Its previous launch attempt was in early 2021. The payload consists of a few small satellites from the United States and Netherlands governments as well as nanosatellites from SatRevolution, a Poland based satellite building company. LauncherOne will launch from underneath a modified Boeing 747-400 aircraft named “Cosmic Girl”.
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2:26:49 is the start of the drop maneuver
Hero that we needed
Thank you, you are beautiful and I love you.
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TXU.
Legend
Was lucky enough to work on Cosmic Girl while she was in service. She used to fly to RSA in the summer, and I did the line transit checks on her. So nice to see they found a new life for her.
That's a 747 with a big tomahawk!
stream started- 3:15
engine start- 1:33:20
take off- 1:33:54
drop- 2:28:03
e meco- 2:31:18
faring separation- 2:31:43
seco- 2:36:35
plane touchfown- 3:11:45
Thanks
1:38:10 the comment of the operateur
Thank you
Was that plane touchdown or first stage recovery?
@@jaym7494 this is plane landing plane is not first stage first stage is not landing
Tim, the 747 is the best aircraft ever. She is truly the Queen of the Skies and has NOT been dethroned by the A380
Not sure how I feel about a “space” company displaying MPH and ft….🤦🏼♂️
They launch with a 747 so for consistency they should use feet and knots.
It's actually a fair point. Feet are much more common in commercial aviation when talking about altitude.
@@flinx It coould be but the screen with the 3D 747 show meters and m/s ^^
But realy it they could have show both on the datascreen, metrics and middle age units ;-)
Whatever works..
Yea, they should only build in base fingers and toes.
Awesome first stage recovery, landed smoothly .. 3:11:43
That’s isn’t butter. That’s a bounce lmao.
Swiss001landing
Glad I could catch the highlights here while on my 15 minute break!
the "shimmy" on ascent sounds horrifying
they should install some arm flailing tube man
However it seems to be intentional. They wiggle back and forth a few times, always to the same degree and at the same speed, then stop.
To those questioning the point of this style of launch;-
Point 1 - Virgin can now launch from any airport rated for 747's. There are a heckuvalot of 747 rated airports worldwide...
Point 2 - The Boeing 747 can take off in weather conditions that would see most if not all vertical launch systems grounded. Then, once airborne, if there's bad weather at the planned launch location, it's comparatively easy to move the launch location. No more weather holds? That can be extremely important to launch customers.
Point 3 - Once Virgin get the infrastructure in place (spare launch vehicles, support vehicles & ground crew), they will be able to launch FAST. Given a couple of years to work on things, I wouldn't be surprised if they could launch a standardized smallsat within a week of the request being made.
Point 4 - Rate of launches. The turnaround time for a 747 is a couple of hours. If Virgin can get several launch vehicles ready to mount & launch in a day, the plane can do it. Potentially, they could launch 4 to 6 times a day with just Cosmic Girl. But, Virgin has/had many 747's in their fleet. If the demand is there, who's to say they won't convert a couple more? It's entirely possible they could have several planes launching several times a day each, based out of regular airports worldwide.
Admittedly, they are a few years away from being capable of all of the above, but given the time to develop the systems (building more launch vehicles, training ground & launch crews, etc), this style of launch system has many potential advantages to customers when compared to more traditional vertical launch systems. This is a first step. Potentially, there could be many more to come. It just depends on Virgin proving the reliability of the system, and being able to find customers to build on this...
You missed one - Virgin can launch to low-inclination / equatorial orbits directly, which you could previously only do out of French Guyana.
The 1st time I walked onto a 747 - before the interiors, seats or any partitions were loaded was amazing. (doing QA). You could look all the way from end to end. You then realized exactly how MASSIVE it was. Standing under the tail section was like standing under a 10-story Building.
You would step into the aircraft, off the air stairs & you could feel the entire Aircraft/Air
frame moving from your step on. It was amazing. Nothing like it. It is VERY big !
Yep...most people ask...its so big how does it get up in the air?
LOTS OF THRUST AND AIRSPEED!!!!
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3:11:36 - First stage recovery
Incredible coverage. Thank you Virgin Orbit and Everyday Astronaut. Thank you Tim for not reinventing wheels.
One thing great about using a 747 is adjusting where you are going to send the rocket to orbit. Such a giant increase in optional entries to leo.
Congratulations on 1,000,000 subscribers Tim 🎉🍾
Pointy end forward, flamey end aft
Yes!
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Not fight ban dang
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I would bet the amount of time the 747 is up there, it's produces much less carbon and other then first stage of a launch vehicle. Especially because a plane for the most part glides back to airport
Could be good competition for Rocket Lab. The 'shimmy' on assent seems a little dodge but otherwise good job
Hopefully something that they can work out
I like that virgin has support for sign language.
Why? A lot more people can read subtitles than can read sign language. I sign myself and I know of zero people that can sign but can't read.
@@NACAM42 There are no subtitle because it’s a livestream
@@sharkcraft8568 You know that it's entirely possible to have live subtitles? They've been doing it for decades on TV.
@@sharkcraft8568 I wasn't talking about the auto generated ones
congrats virgin orbit. Steve from Zimbabwe.
Kanjani Steve. Fellow 🇿🇼 .
@@princejbc2003 mushi stereki.
I love air launch, it isn’t perfect but I still think it’s an exceptional concept
Northrop Grumman have had something very similar (Pegasus) for nearly 30 years and hardly anyone's used it in all that time. I don't see the difference. VO can't come close to vertical launch on cost per kg, and the company's in debt up the wazoo; it's all been done on borrowed money it's never going to pay back. Neither Launcher One nor the Cornwall spaceport (a redundant military airfield) yet has the necessary licensing, yet they're confidently talking about two launches from the UK this year. The business case simply doesn't stack up. I can only assume they're going to be doing mostly military work, i.e. money's no object, which explains why the UK pilots for Cosmic Girl are all RAF (Official Secrets Act).
My two cents.
Tim, the 5th pod was a request from Qantas for their operations as it was possible back in the old days that a 747 could have an engine failure and be grounded in the middle of the Pacific. Qantas last did a 5th pod trip to Johannesburg about 10 years ago. The extra drag meant the normally non-stop flight from Sydney had to stop in Perth for gas as the 5th engine is not producing power. I'm sure if you googled 747 5th pod it would give you some great photos.
It would be interesting to compare the weight of a spare engine v LauncherOne fully fuelled.
I think you missed one of the big benefits of the platform. It can launch from anywhere a 747 can take off from. There are new spaceports being built now all over the world, including Houston and Cornwall, England. This will go a long way to create unprecedented access to space.
Cosmic Girl comes home...just an ordinary plane (kinda) landing at an ordinary airport. No sonic booms, no vertical landing tech required, no major costs for small satellite customers. Congrats Richard, my favourite hippy. Still breaking new ground after a lifetime in flight.
Very intresting stream, rockets, planes & lots of information I did not expect. Thanks Tim good video as usual. Bye All
In the 1960's the Pop Sci type magazines were promoting personal helicopters of the future with little ramjets on the rotor tips to simplify the propulsion systems. You'd wheel one out of your garage and off you'd go. Still future, 70 years later.
Wow! A 747 made a more or less ordinary takeoff. Wonder of wonders.
Such and awsome video Tim, You ROCK!!!
Thanks for translating mph to km/h. I don’t know what we would’ve all done without that.
Sir Richard Branson is an amazing man who brought space back to the earth I watched the the first Apollo moon walk Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon surface I audio recorded the whole landing and the famous saying one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind that stayed with me for ever I must have about 10 years old when I 'watched that I'm now 63 years old but something about space grabbed me and never let got I would love to see a real launch but look very doubtful that I ever will , keep up your brilliant work Sir Richard Branson
Queen of the Skies turned launch platform? Yes please!
The military will pick this up to deploy rapid satellites. This application would be very useful during war.
And perhaps to launch ICBMs, heaven forbid
The military has been strapping rockets to planes for decades.
This seems like people forgot about the X15 rocket launched many times during the 60s from under a B-52 bomber. The X15 weighed roughly 50 times this Virgin rocket. Maybe Virgin Orbit should have sought out and purchased that B-52 launcher, this would have allow much larger payloads.
I love your in-depth projects
The only livestream with an ASL translator.
I like it.
I loved watching all the ground crew work. I would love to see interviews with some of the design engineers showing the software they use and some examples of their calculations etc.
I also loved watching this with your running commentary...you do a great job.
Thank you for making this video!!!
They ought to just use Mach number for speed. I know in space there is no sound but it is a universally understood speed standard.
While there are many other people who cover space news we like you. Your personality, your enthusiasm and your quirkiness.
I always think of the movie " The Right Stuff " when the X1 dropped offf of a. WW2. Bomber B29 and broke the sound barrier.... And later the X15...and to today the Spaceship1 and Galactic 1 starship into low earth orbit!! The history is long and distinqushed!!!! Great video!!!
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747s are so beautiful
It would've been amazing if other launch providers showed you this much data 26:50
Overcoming Initial Inertia in a cost effective fashion - clever.
Why don’t they display in MKS units? It’s a European-owned company, no?
It is being dropped from airplane and standard units for airplanes globally are knots for speed and feet for altitude, but that doesn't explain why they are using MPH for speed.
England is a US colony after brexit
Thanks again!
So... what was that button on the data stream showing "Outside of corridor"...?
They are indicator lights for the autonomous flight safety system (AFSS), otherwise known as the flight termination system. The system is armed during the first part of the flight and if the rocket flies outside the preprogrammed corridor it will self destruct. Later in the flight the system is disarmed as the rocket is far enough into space that it doesn't matter if it goes off course (it will burn up in the atmosphere). So the indicator is showing it's outside the preprogrammed corridor, however it hasn't self-destructed, implying the system is disarmed and the rocket has achieved a safe distance from earth. To clarify they could just show "Out of corridor, Safe".
Does anyone know if there is more fuel in the starboard wing...or more flap on the port side...to compensate for the weight of rocket to keep bells level? Or more mixing/comp controls? Or something else...?
Fuel is trimmed to starboard wing tanks to compensate.
How do they pull these launches off for only $12M (w/ a greater max payload compared to the Pegasus at $40M)?
The jet with the parachute is a fighter jet from appearance. The parachute is used like brakes to land on shorter runways.
i know a 747 is big and can carry a lot of weight, but the wings are close to the ground, which limits the size of the rocket. so why not use a carrier where the wings are attached to the top of the fuselage, like an An-124?
1:58:27 yeah, there would be no way to mount a dragon under that wing. there's just not enough space. besides, something that heavy would require a much bigger rocket which would be way too heavy, even for a 747.
2:06:15 i was about to ask about the red line but then you started talking about it :-)
2:07:48 it's not only the weight, you also have to take the extra drag into account. but considering the length of the flight, fuel for the 747 should not be a problem. that 747 just barely got out of the starting blocks, if you know what i mean.
2:10:28 it's not just a long enough runway, it's also the ground service equipment. for example, if you don't have fuel trucks capable of refueling a 747, you're stuck there. if you don't have stairs that go high enough, how do you get in and out?
Awesome.. like a Sidewinder missile 👍
the late deploy made me think of the event the rocket ignites while still attached to the 747... Tim, how about modeling that in Kirbal?
What in the rocket company with good microphones is this lmfaoo.
SpaceX kills me a little inside every time :(
2:34:00 200,000 meters, altitude ... 200,000 km would be 1/3 light-second
Hey everyday astronaut! Did you guys ever get VR footage of starship launch? If so where can we find it. Think it would be amazing to watch starship launch on the oculus. Thanks for everything you do!
i only saw the separation and to the end
Its just slightly too small in diameter for a mercury capsule. We need a modernized space plane like the x15
Apollo 13...
There will be more than one starship. They'll have contingency plans for a disabled ship.
"why dont rocket companies do that?" I love that we can say we have rocket companies now!!
checking in from MA
This was awesome, Tim always enjoy your educational color commentary and analytic data explanations. As a side note, all your content is share with my daughters. One of them took a science exam and scored -6 point of a perfect score of 5000.
Appreciate you very much, please never stop doing that which you enjoy. We enjoy the content.
They mitigate the dangers of having personnel on site of a pressurized rocket by having it be tiny.
whats the soft- wear there using ? Thats was cool !!!!!!!!
Tubular Bells is one of my favorite albums - shame Mike Oldfield is known mostly for a 'horror soundtrack' than the beauty his music is
G force meter on screen would be great to represent better acceleration. I was just surprise how fast that thing go. :)
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Really? In MPH?
Are you gonna stream the Falcon 9?
OLF was a highlight of my week. Too many talk shows are disappearing. Thank goodness TMRO came back so I have something else to listen to. Most of the new of the week shows are too short and then it takes me to Tim's Russian engine video for the 27th time. Bit tired of that when I can change the station driving.
You know OLF is back monthly, right?! 😬
@@EverydayAstronaut No! I unsubscribed when you shut it down! Woohoo!
Saw something fly off the rocket. It was at 2 hour 30 min mark
That's ice flying off.
I love how ur tight lipped about dear moon bc u have to be at this point. You obviously knew but it was what u had to do 😊
I MISSED IT
Good job to my colleagues - ASL interpreters 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Video begins at 3:00
They used to drop launch X-15s to fly to 'space' from a B52 60 years ago , why the delay?
early 2021 wasn't a launch attempt - they were successful. this was the first commercial attempt, the previous launch was demo #2.
A question: Do they control both rocket stages through some sort of vector thrust on the motors, that is gimbaling the motors themselves.? Don't see much room for the necessary hardware!
Mankind expands hooray.
Impressive production from Virgin. Good views and telemetry (while they lasted), customer interviews were kind of interesting for filler.
Got pretty boring near the end.
I agree on your point as far as customer interviews, I'd like to see what they have to say about other companies as well, just their honest thoughts about the whole thing. Good feedback could help a bit as far as innovation.
Aren't the going to clear the pad?? Tim you crack me up. The ramp at most airports is never clear. I'm guessing they tow her away to get it away from the kerolox tanks just in case it has an engine fire on startup. Also jet blast would be a problem, although relatively speaking she would be light for a 747 it would likely need some power to move off. Towing away to a clear area makes this easier to achieve.
1:38:10 the comment of the operateur LOLLLLLLL
epic.
Over what location and path (on the ground) did this launch take place?
The US Air Force demonstrated an air-launched Minuteman III back in the 1980s, which was a great concept even though the technology was perfect. This shows that 747s could be used to air-launch ICBMs that are more compact and feature advanced technology that would put them on par with the Navy's nuclear missile subs. Such a new system would drive the Russians and Chinese crazy.
2:35:22, "That was awesome!" you were making a comment regarding the ground tracking, but I couldn't figure out what you were saying. Can you explain? Thanks.
So where do I find the total fuel spent numbers?
Three years now I've been following you.
Thanks.
Be even better armed with a 30MT thermonuke.
better yet, watch SpaceX BFR launch a 747 to LEO.
You broadcasting Branson launch himself on the 11th?
Virgin orbit, chad Spacex
Guess who ever made the data screens was a star trek fan :D
Roll Gain is too high in the lower thicker atmosphere, once it gets higher up the roll authority is reduced brining it back into limits.
How about gain scheduling!
anyone know where i can find the stream?
Thanks for your team's info.... I will go from 'zero to astronaut' quicker from the info on your channel....
it would be cool if they took passengers up to watch the launch.
They had lots of practice with Virgin Galactic doing the same thing but on a smaller scale.
Am I watching the new fast and furious movie? 😂
Strap it to an SR-71 Blackbird and gain all the altitude needed and positioning first, then launch and bank, ur welcome!
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Wasting money could have helped a lot of people
i read "watch a virgin" lmao ok
Did they play Tubular Bells? At least they have the rights to it...
I was expecting theyre gonna ask for likes n thumbs
better yet, watch SpaceX BFR launch a 747 from their rocket...
lol in your dreams
Why not album name the launch after Never Mind the Bollocks, Richard.. punk rock got us there after all..