Correction: These fairings were *not* reused, this was their first flight (although, since they were recovered, it may not be their last). SpaceX has said that they plan to reuse fairings on a Starlink launch, but *this* Starlink launch in particular did not do so.
Sometimes theyre ahead of time, all be it briefly. Cause normally more things go wrong than right. And theyre right to not hang around taking their time. Aim high, work hard, and miracles can be achieved!
The Indian launch talking about launching so as to avoid other objects is likely related to the grief they recieved over their antisat test and it's resulting debris
I remember when it was all "lets mess around in KSP". This is actually just the best space news channel on YT at this point. I wouldn't know any of this stuff if it wasnt for your channel Mr. Manley.
@@iseslc So looking at his stuff it looks like almost all explanations of astronomical phenomena instead of news. It doesn't seem to be so much about launches and projects and specifications and future plans. Its a little like Isaac Arthur's channel only less hypothetical? I guess thats a question, not a statement.
I love you scott manley!!! You are such an inspirational and educational figure in my life. You've enriched my life in ways that are hard to quantify....
I live in middle Germany and I saw them flying above me!! It was today at ~3:30 am 😍😍😍 It looked insane a straight line of dots getting brighter towards the middle and then fading out. So many of them!!
Scott, my coworker and I worked on the rendering and animation for PPE (I work at MAXAR in Palo Alto). It is really exciting to be part of this program.
Thank you for your videos Scott! We aren't versed in the technological babel of these giant corporations and these state space agencies. You do an amazing job bridging the gap between space fans and experts in the field.
Yeah, nobody ever came to the same idea, in no other industry including producing of milk bottles. :/ This idea is so smart that humans positively couldn't have think of it, that must be a work of a deity, no less than Musk himself.
Actually, the satellites distribute along their orbits through use of their krypton thrusters, the spin was just to get them far enough apart so they could use the thrusters without damaging any neighbors.
@@DavidOfWhitehills Stratzenblitz75 did a video of the same general idea a few years ago. His method's better for instantly shredding any spacecraft or planet unfortunate to be to nearby than it is as a communications network, but who's keeping track anyway?
So, there is a lot of complaining about Elon in general lately... It's worth noting that there would be no way all these companies and countries would be going into space right now without him... And what this spells for the near future for humanity is a direct result of him putting everything on the line to fund SpaceX. Thank you Scott, great update, you got my junk all gitty.
Will Starlink and its competitors spell the end of ground based astronomy? Seems there won't be a chance of getting a long exposure without one of these photo-bombing it.
In winter maybe it will be less of a problem because they are too low so the sun doesn't reach them. But every other season this can cause problems. And with 12.000 of these kind of satellites to be launched, median average will not cut it anymore I guess, because there are just too much to correct.
I wouldn't be surprised if they dimmed out as they reach their target orbits and orientate themselves. Right now they have an ion thruster to power. And even if they stay bright, it shouldn't be too hard to predict their impact. Number of satellites doesn't change the math of predicting where they'll be visible from, and we managed quite well with the old Iridium constellation (not saying that they won't be a problem because Iridium wasn't, just that we can use the same (or, at least, similar) math to predict how many, how bright, and where in the sky they'll be).
@@PyroDesu They are being lit up by the sun. So "dimmed out as they reach their target orbits" will not happen. Iridium satellites weren't that big of a problem, because there are only about 90 satellites orbiting the earth. That is a lot less than 12.000...
Question: Have there ever been plans to use large fuel tanks as habitation modules? It occurs to me that a lot of weight could be saved by re-purposing the pressure vessels.
Good question, since the first stages have larger tanks, and the sentiment towards reusing rockets (also second stages) is rising, I don't think people look into that as much.
Yes the original Skylab wet workshop would use upoer stage tanks that would be emptied after being flown into space instead they just sent up the complete Skylab on a bigger rocket.
Scott, a question for you if I may. During the Starlink launch coverage I noticed that as the second stage fired up, the heat shielding material wrapped round the engine upper sections as well as a small piece visible for the payload camera that was nestled somewhere in the middle of the stack seemed to be pulsing, initially at maybe 1Hz or so then slowly reducing in frequency. It's not something I've noticed before. Was it pogoing?? Figured you might know or be able to find out.
Why were the starlink satellites so clearly visible last night over the Netherlands? I had friends text me, asking what it was, so it was visible with naked eye, but these are tiny satellites. Also, it was during the middle of the night, so there was probably no reflection of sun light
I'm also curious about that. When people asked if the 12k StarLink satellites will be a problem for astronomers I usually read as a response that they will only be visible shortly after dusk/dawn, if at all. But last night they were very visible almost 4 hours after sunset.
On the summer solstice, at local solar midnight, at sea level at any location that is 50 degrees North, the Sun is only 16 degrees below the Northern horizon. Towards sunset and sunrise the Sun is an even smaller angle below the horizon. Increase your altitude and the sun comes back into view. These satellites are 451 km above Earth's surface. Move further north and the sun is even closer to (but still below) the northern horizon, with sun rising above the horizon when you reach 66 degrees North. Move away from the date of the solstice and the sun is further below the horizon and you need to go even further north to see the sun above the horizon at midnight.
There was an interesting periodic vibration/jolting during the 2nd stage burn that I haven't noticed before on previous launches, visible in the movement of flexible material around the base of the rocket and on the payload.. any idea what that was?
The animation of the planned constellation of Starlink satellites reminds me of the one that shows all the space junk in orbit, and I'm curious how adding that many satellites will effect everything from things currently in orbit, to anything needing to pass through that region of space?
They have their planned orbits filed with the relevant people, so they're definitely not impacting anything currently up (they would be told 'no, you can't have that orbit' otherwise). And since the orbits are known, it shouldn't be too hard to plan launches to avoid them (and bear in mind, graphics like that compress things a *lot.* There's a ton of space between them in reality). Also, apparently they even have planned for end-of-life deorbiting (probably using the same thruster they're using to get into their orbits), so no space debris problem.
Scott Manley , Your videos about spaceplanes in KSP are what got me to be able to design and build spaceplanes that actually fly "right" , without you I'd maybe have taken a few forevers longer trying to figure out how to do spaceplanes that fly in Kerbal Space Program
Great video, as usual! Question: You briefly show great looking brochure-like pictures on the satellites themselves (Antenna, Star Trackers, Singular Solar Array, Autonomous Collision Avoidance, etc). Where are those from? Can't find them, Google as I may... :-(
scott on your vid on returning Old Snoopy back. I have the fix to your docking issues Remember STS-51-a? they went the dead satellites sold motor to attach the rms fixer. so I wonder if we can't use old snoops ascent engine to dock?
Can you make a video explaining why only noble gases (and especially xenon) are used in ion thrusters rather than other gaseous or low vaporization energy elements with less mass/higher density?
Set the most optimistic time you can achieve and aim to get it. Sometimes youll be ahead of schedual, other times youll be behind. Thats life, but least you know youre doing your best. Elon Time isnt hard to understand. I dont understand why he gets so much flack for it.
That is actually pretty dope. For a very long time I've wondered when we were gonna start planning actual named missions, and I guess that John Cena was right and the Time Is Now.
well, with the Starhopper/Boca Chica schedule Elon proposed at the end of last year, SpaceX has been pretty much on the ball... Elon Time seems to have synched with general time :-)
@@unpaintedleadsyndrome Chuck Norris looks under his bed to see if Elon Musk is there and heaves a sigh of relief when he doesn't find him. Then he looks out the window and sees his bedroom is on top of a Falcon Heavy heading into space.
That impact zone in Laos stretches across the border into Cambodia as well, with the three impacts highlighted in the video actually being on the Cambodian side of the border. That this area is expected to receive debris is surprising, as it is a major tourist destination in Laos, marketed for foreigners as "Four Thousand Islands", comprising a whole bunch of rapids and successive waterfalls. (EDIT: Corrected Thailand to Cambodia.)
Anyone know any info other than it's a "remote sensing" satellite? No media outlet in Hong Kong even bothered to report its failure, frankly it's a real failure, its still news from the same country!
@@Verpal Other than some basic satellite capability like communication the Yaogan series are dedicated to improve weather forecasting and help agricultural developments
Could be as iss orbits lower than most starlink satellites. However ISS moves much faster than what starlink would usually serve on earth so it would probably be very unstable
Probably not as regular client, cause the flat anthena is pointed towards the earth. However, future StarLink will have laser network between the satellites, and, in theory, other orbital craft can be plugged to it.
interesting question.. Starling ground terminals are phase shift arrays so they can easily track the satellite.. since the ISS moves in a pretty similar inclination (~51° and 53°), and in the same direction as Starlink, with a bit lower orbit and shorter period i think it should be even easier from there to track the starlink sats than for ground stations..(less relative movement) but not sure if the orbits are aligned enough for that.. (it would only work if they are right above each other)
I’d be interested to know to know how far the satellites are supposed to be separated and how long is that going to take? Also, when are the laser operated satellites going to be added?
Given the politics of the situation, I think it highly unlikely that Artemis will ever put a man on the Moon, much less by 2024. It will just keep getting drawn out, keeping the jobs filled but never actually accomplishing anything, like SLS/Orion. There is a good chance of a return to the Moon in the mid 2020s, but that will be a direct ascent with a BFR, with or without NASA participation. And it will cost no more than a tenth of NASA's architecture.
It could be even worse. If it does get off the ground it could lock these expenditures that don't go anywhere in for a long time. Gateway doesn't help with solar system exploration at all. It's less useful than refuelling your spacecraft in LEO. The Moon is too close to serve as a forcing function for the improvement of deep space transportation. Its resource base is less varied and thus less useful than that of Mars and in order to get good benefit out of it in support of solar system exploration, we'd have to fully industrialize it first, which is at least 100 years out. This looks to shape up to be another ISS that serves as a jobs program and drains resources into organizational overhead and into not doing anything for decades. SLS is the same thing - building an unnecessary, massively expensive rocket for no other reason than to save the Shuttle manufacturing jobs. To think that we've been on the Moon in the 1960s… and how much manned spaceflight could have been done with more intelligent spending. Just makes me depressed.
Hey Scott I’m very interested in the mechanics of in orbit refueling. My interest was sparked when thinking about the gateway project. Could you explain how to transfer pressurized propellant in zero G. Thank you, fly safe
Yesterday I was out with my friends. At about 1am we decided to go to get some fresh air and we saw the satellite. Nobody was aware of the launch so when we saw them it was fucking crazy. If you have a chance to see it, take it. Its the most fascinating thing i have seen in my life and it made me realize just how insane satellites are.
Update: see comments for tracking info! Does anyone know the NORAD ID numbers for the Starlink satellites? I'm trying to track them for viewing tonight!
I don't think they've been assigned yet. I think they don't assign catalog numbers to objects in swarms until they've spread out enough to determine their individual orbital parameters. I can't find any orbital data for the swarm itself either.
In Arianespace news the contract for the serial production of the first 14 Ariane 6 units (test units and maiden flight are pre-serial production) was signed in early May and ESA have also just greenlit an R&D project for a carbon fibre upper stage fairing that would increase capacity to GEO by two tonnes if built, the funds are coming from the cancellation of a contract for the setting up of a second production line for P120 boosters in Germany, production will instead be concentrated at the original factory in Italy. The contract order for Ariane 6 also included orders for 8 mostly C variant Vega rockets, this comes on top of them already having full manifests for 7 commercially launched rockets.
I actually saw those satellites with my friends in the night of Friday to saturday and THANK YOU for giving me an answer on what it was! Some of my friends thought they were ufos and we tried taking photos and videos with our phones but it was too dark!
Correction: These fairings were *not* reused, this was their first flight (although, since they were recovered, it may not be their last). SpaceX has said that they plan to reuse fairings on a Starlink launch, but *this* Starlink launch in particular did not do so.
Sorry thar hurt your feelings.
Next flight should have the reused ones
@@paultunison6641 fake news
Classy nit pick, ignore the haters. Truth matters more than petty pride.
Saw the Starlink satellites last night in St. Paul MN. It was so cool seeing them lined up like that.
Did you see them with your naked eye?
How did you know when to look? I would really like to see them . . .
Photos maybe.
@@GameWorldRS I did see them naked eye. I was hanging out with some buddies and they spotted it.
@@mathboy_ It was just kind of dumb luck. I was with some buddies and we saw them overhead, around 12:15 AM
at 7:55 the solar pannels clip into the moon, thats not going to work maxar, unless you have Bill Kerman
Me: Oh my gosh 😂 hahahahah *forced me to exhale through my nose 😂
o man, on this day and age, I love seeing this news. thank you mister Scott Manley.
Elon time is NET (Not Earlier Than).
Plus he uses martian years for reference, which is 1.88x an earth year.
@@ParameterGrenze so THATS why he wants to go to mars, he want to hang out with them martians and their sick 1.88x earth year martian years
Sometimes theyre ahead of time, all be it briefly. Cause normally more things go wrong than right. And theyre right to not hang around taking their time. Aim high, work hard, and miracles can be achieved!
Elon is already on Mars, so there is an obvious time delay.
Still better than "SoonTM"
Elon: I'm going to deploy the satellites all at once
"That's not possible"
"No.... it's necessary"
(Spinning initiates)
*EPIC MUSIC INTENSIFIES*
Best. Movie. Ever
@@UNSCPILOT Cue Starman!
THIS WAS ONLY ABOUT A YEAR AGO?! Jesus! I’ve been watching SpaceX since 2014. I can’t (and now can) believe how far his company has come!
The Indian launch talking about launching so as to avoid other objects is likely related to the grief they recieved over their antisat test and it's resulting debris
Indeed. Mr Manley was being sarcastic when he said "...I wonder why ?".
Thanks. I didn't grasp what he was talking about but you've cleared it up.
The ISRO actually did not shoot down any satellite, it was the defense ministry
I remember when it was all "lets mess around in KSP". This is actually just the best space news channel on YT at this point. I wouldn't know any of this stuff if it wasnt for your channel Mr. Manley.
Anton Petrov also does awesome space news. I am subscribed to both.
Anton is great.
@@iseslc So looking at his stuff it looks like almost all explanations of astronomical phenomena instead of news. It doesn't seem to be so much about launches and projects and specifications and future plans. Its a little like Isaac Arthur's channel only less hypothetical? I guess thats a question, not a statement.
Sounds like the title for a video 378 years from now. Awesome!
"Space stuff continues." Scott Manley
That was the big news. I was concerned it might not.
I saw the Starlink array pass overhead last night. I was confused for a second until I remembered that spacex was a thing.
They're just weather balloons, forget about it.
@@asdasdasdasd8970 hypersonic weather balloons actually
Everyday Astronaut once again asking the right questions. I love his interactions with Elon
I love you scott manley!!! You are such an inspirational and educational figure in my life. You've enriched my life in ways that are hard to quantify....
Absolutely Incredible! I love the shot from the Netherlands, cheers!
Shot is cool, but I heard those satellites do not communicate to each other? So what's the purpose of this launch then?
@@vladimirdyuzhev they do communicate with each other using lasers :)
Proud to see my country being acknowledged positively for their efforts! GO INDIA!
11:24 Picture of debris found around boarder of Cambodia. I'm big fan of yours from Cambodia. Keep up your amazing work. Fly safe!!!
I live in middle Germany and I saw them flying above me!! It was today at ~3:30 am 😍😍😍
It looked insane a straight line of dots getting brighter towards the middle and then fading out. So many of them!!
Why were they bright tho?
@@ankush-kl2nf
Because the sun shines at them, or what do you mean?
i love these deep space updates, hope you never stop this scott!
Scott, my coworker and I worked on the rendering and animation for PPE (I work at MAXAR in Palo Alto). It is really exciting to be part of this program.
Cool, I often forget that MAXAR and other major satellite builders are in my back yard.
@@scottmanley if you ever want to meet up and chat about satellites and spacecraft technology, just let me know.
Another note from Virgin Orbit, they had another successful captive carry test on Friday.
>The Virgin Orbit
>The Chad Hyperbole
Thanks Scott!
Thank you for your videos Scott! We aren't versed in the technological babel of these giant corporations and these state space agencies. You do an amazing job bridging the gap between space fans and experts in the field.
All parts flying off this spacecraft are of the finest quality and manufacture...
Things are finally getting exciting, after a LOOOONG wait!
They could probably just use differential thrust on the vac engines if they are that far apart.
It is so important to our children's future that this space trend continues to grow. There is adventure and opportunity to be had in space!
You should do a video on how spinning up spreads the satellites along the orbit. Very smart idea by SpaceX!
Yeah, nobody ever came to the same idea, in no other industry including producing of milk bottles. :/ This idea is so smart that humans positively couldn't have think of it, that must be a work of a deity, no less than Musk himself.
@@vladimirdyuzhev Do you know something we don't? I would love to be enlightened.
I wonder if Kerbal could illustrate it?
Actually, the satellites distribute along their orbits through use of their krypton thrusters, the spin was just to get them far enough apart so they could use the thrusters without damaging any neighbors.
@@DavidOfWhitehills Stratzenblitz75 did a video of the same general idea a few years ago. His method's better for instantly shredding any spacecraft or planet unfortunate to be to nearby than it is as a communications network, but who's keeping track anyway?
Great update on all things space. So much happening its hard to stay on top of it all. You do a great job keeping us current.
Just FYI, there are 2 Starship/hopper vehicles being built in FL.
So, there is a lot of complaining about Elon in general lately... It's worth noting that there would be no way all these companies and countries would be going into space right now without him... And what this spells for the near future for humanity is a direct result of him putting everything on the line to fund SpaceX. Thank you Scott, great update, you got my junk all gitty.
Great update. Thanks Scott.
I really wish they would record on board footage so we could all have every entry & landing
Thanks for keeping us up to date !! Great show.
I just want to say: thanks Scott for doing that. It’s awesome.
Will Starlink and its competitors spell the end of ground based astronomy? Seems there won't be a chance of getting a long exposure without one of these photo-bombing it.
stack, median average - photobombers removed.
In winter maybe it will be less of a problem because they are too low so the sun doesn't reach them. But every other season this can cause problems. And with 12.000 of these kind of satellites to be launched, median average will not cut it anymore I guess, because there are just too much to correct.
It's an issue for radio astronomy as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if they dimmed out as they reach their target orbits and orientate themselves. Right now they have an ion thruster to power.
And even if they stay bright, it shouldn't be too hard to predict their impact. Number of satellites doesn't change the math of predicting where they'll be visible from, and we managed quite well with the old Iridium constellation (not saying that they won't be a problem because Iridium wasn't, just that we can use the same (or, at least, similar) math to predict how many, how bright, and where in the sky they'll be).
@@PyroDesu They are being lit up by the sun. So "dimmed out as they reach their target orbits" will not happen. Iridium satellites weren't that big of a problem, because there are only about 90 satellites orbiting the earth. That is a lot less than 12.000...
Another informative video Mr. Manley, thanks.
Question: Have there ever been plans to use large fuel tanks as habitation modules? It occurs to me that a lot of weight could be saved by re-purposing the pressure vessels.
Good question, since the first stages have larger tanks, and the sentiment towards reusing rockets (also second stages) is rising, I don't think people look into that as much.
Yes the original Skylab wet workshop would use upoer stage tanks that would be emptied after being flown into space instead they just sent up the complete Skylab on a bigger rocket.
@@Voikdude First stages never reach oribital velocity. Some aircraft are powered at higher altitudes.
Thanks for the content!
Great video!! Manley, Everyday Astronaut and Cloud Licker all in the same day!! Wow!!
2:03 why am I thinking the Replicators from Stargate Atlantis? Right? Oh crap, dial up the Alpha site
Scott, a question for you if I may. During the Starlink launch coverage I noticed that as the second stage fired up, the heat shielding material wrapped round the engine upper sections as well as a small piece visible for the payload camera that was nestled somewhere in the middle of the stack seemed to be pulsing, initially at maybe 1Hz or so then slowly reducing in frequency. It's not something I've noticed before. Was it pogoing?? Figured you might know or be able to find out.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate the work that you put into these videos!
I enjoy your Deap Space Updates Scott, thanks!
Dear Mr. Manley, could you by any chance make a video about that rotary deploy of these satelites ... i dont get how it works. Thanks allot
Why were the starlink satellites so clearly visible last night over the Netherlands? I had friends text me, asking what it was, so it was visible with naked eye, but these are tiny satellites. Also, it was during the middle of the night, so there was probably no reflection of sun light
it was the sun. just because you can't see the sun from the ground doesn't mean you can't see it from several hundred kilometers above the surface.
I'm also curious about that. When people asked if the 12k StarLink satellites will be a problem for astronomers I usually read as a response that they will only be visible shortly after dusk/dawn, if at all. But last night they were very visible almost 4 hours after sunset.
schlaus they will be too rarely there or rarely visible because they will move fast and low. Not much different than a plane flying by.
On the summer solstice, at local solar midnight, at sea level at any location that is 50 degrees North, the Sun is only 16 degrees below the Northern horizon. Towards sunset and sunrise the Sun is an even smaller angle below the horizon. Increase your altitude and the sun comes back into view. These satellites are 451 km above Earth's surface.
Move further north and the sun is even closer to (but still below) the northern horizon, with sun rising above the horizon when you reach 66 degrees North. Move away from the date of the solstice and the sun is further below the horizon and you need to go even further north to see the sun above the horizon at midnight.
There was an interesting periodic vibration/jolting during the 2nd stage burn that I haven't noticed before on previous launches, visible in the movement of flexible material around the base of the rocket and on the payload.. any idea what that was?
Best news all week!
Future is space. This is so awesome that I am out of words. Thank you for making this video Scott :)
Do a video covering the improvements of the Soyuz 2 rocket compared to the old one
I appreciate all of the great information. Thanks for all of your hard work on these videos.
9:55 "Predecisional - For NASA Internal Use Only" oops...
big oopsie
That plan showed at 8:30 is marked "for NASA internal use only" at the bottom in red letters. Somebody screwed up and leaked....
The animation of the planned constellation of Starlink satellites reminds me of the one that shows all the space junk in orbit, and I'm curious how adding that many satellites will effect everything from things currently in orbit, to anything needing to pass through that region of space?
They have their planned orbits filed with the relevant people, so they're definitely not impacting anything currently up (they would be told 'no, you can't have that orbit' otherwise). And since the orbits are known, it shouldn't be too hard to plan launches to avoid them (and bear in mind, graphics like that compress things a *lot.* There's a ton of space between them in reality).
Also, apparently they even have planned for end-of-life deorbiting (probably using the same thruster they're using to get into their orbits), so no space debris problem.
Where did you find those beautiful starlink pics and specs, I thought it would be on the spacex site but can't find it there. Please share link.
Scott Manley , Your videos about spaceplanes in KSP are what got me to be able to design and build spaceplanes that actually fly "right" , without you I'd maybe have taken a few forevers longer trying to figure out how to do spaceplanes that fly in Kerbal Space Program
Great video, as usual! Question: You briefly show great looking brochure-like pictures on the satellites themselves (Antenna, Star Trackers, Singular Solar Array, Autonomous Collision Avoidance, etc).
Where are those from? Can't find them, Google as I may... :-(
Thank you Scott!
Scott … Re Starlink “You can look out at the right time and see them” any suggestions on how to determine “the right time”?
Especially enjoy your space updates.
Good video like always!
Does anyone know what that piece is that looks to be rotating within the satellite stack at around 0:20 ? Like a little fan or pump?
scott on your vid on returning Old Snoopy back. I have the fix to your docking issues Remember STS-51-a? they went the dead satellites sold motor to attach the rms fixer. so I wonder if we can't use old snoops ascent engine to dock?
Can you make a video explaining why only noble gases (and especially xenon) are used in ion thrusters rather than other gaseous or low vaporization energy elements with less mass/higher density?
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Set the most optimistic time you can achieve and aim to get it. Sometimes youll be ahead of schedual, other times youll be behind. Thats life, but least you know youre doing your best.
Elon Time isnt hard to understand. I dont understand why he gets so much flack for it.
I don't understand either. I used to work on big software projects and every single one came in late (and everyone always knew they would).
Great summary thanks Scott
Scott, just an FYI they are no longer called Em-1 EM2 and Em-3, Jim has confirmed they are now Artemis 1 Artemis 2 and Artemis 3
The Primal Earth so cool.
That is actually pretty dope. For a very long time I've wondered when we were gonna start planning actual named missions, and I guess that John Cena was right and the Time Is Now.
Whats FYI?
CardZ for your information
@@CardZed FYI, FYI means For Your Information.
I note that the plan doesn’t cover any international module contributions to the gateway, which was part of the plan previously. Any word on that?
I can see a robot arm in the later gateway designs, so Canada is involved. ESA is also building the service module for SLS
Hey Scott, have you looked at the satellites through your 10inch dob?
Not these satellites, it’s too cloudy.
well, with the Starhopper/Boca Chica schedule Elon proposed at the end of last year, SpaceX has been pretty much on the ball...
Elon Time seems to have synched with general time :-)
you mean time bowed its knee before Elon and synched with him
@@Cydonius1 hahaha... looks like Elon is taking over from Chuck Norris :-)
@@unpaintedleadsyndrome Chuck Norris looks under his bed to see if Elon Musk is there and heaves a sigh of relief when he doesn't find him. Then he looks out the window and sees his bedroom is on top of a Falcon Heavy heading into space.
@@Cydonius1 Made me genuinely kek 😂
@@Cydonius1 A Falcon Heavy doesn't head into space... space comes to the Falcon Heavy
That impact zone in Laos stretches across the border into Cambodia as well, with the three impacts highlighted in the video actually being on the Cambodian side of the border. That this area is expected to receive debris is surprising, as it is a major tourist destination in Laos, marketed for foreigners as "Four Thousand Islands", comprising a whole bunch of rapids and successive waterfalls. (EDIT: Corrected Thailand to Cambodia.)
Unfortunately Yaogan 33 satellite's launch is a failure, they've already announced it. Something is wrong with the 3rd stage.
Anyone know any info other than it's a "remote sensing" satellite? No media outlet in Hong Kong even bothered to report its failure, frankly it's a real failure, its still news from the same country!
@@Verpal Other than some basic satellite capability like communication the Yaogan series are dedicated to improve weather forecasting and help agricultural developments
Wow dang that was a lot of good space news Scott :D
Love your vid‘s Scott! Where can I find the list of upcoming launches? I have an app for my iOS but it doesn’t have all of the launch schedules.
I wonder if you can use starlink services from the ISS too.
Could be as iss orbits lower than most starlink satellites. However ISS moves much faster than what starlink would usually serve on earth so it would probably be very unstable
Probably not as regular client, cause the flat anthena is pointed towards the earth. However, future StarLink will have laser network between the satellites, and, in theory, other orbital craft can be plugged to it.
What, ISS has any issues with communications? Last time I seen they have a full-HD streaming down to earth, so nah, no need.
@@NyoshaM Laser link assumes a stable relational position. ISS moves.
interesting question.. Starling ground terminals are phase shift arrays so they can easily track the satellite.. since the ISS moves in a pretty similar inclination (~51° and 53°), and in the same direction as Starlink, with a bit lower orbit and shorter period i think it should be even easier from there to track the starlink sats than for ground stations..(less relative movement) but not sure if the orbits are aligned enough for that.. (it would only work if they are right above each other)
Am watching this in 2021, very funny!!!
4:15 maybe they intend to rotate the spacecraft by adjusting the throttle of the engines
I’d be interested to know to know how far the satellites are supposed to be separated and how long is that going to take? Also, when are the laser operated satellites going to be added?
They all have engines, so they can get to whatever orbit they need to once they've been separated in order to deploy the solar panel Safely.
Another fantastic video!
Thanks Scott.
Given the politics of the situation, I think it highly unlikely that Artemis will ever put a man on the Moon, much less by 2024. It will just keep getting drawn out, keeping the jobs filled but never actually accomplishing anything, like SLS/Orion. There is a good chance of a return to the Moon in the mid 2020s, but that will be a direct ascent with a BFR, with or without NASA participation. And it will cost no more than a tenth of NASA's architecture.
It could be even worse. If it does get off the ground it could lock these expenditures that don't go anywhere in for a long time. Gateway doesn't help with solar system exploration at all. It's less useful than refuelling your spacecraft in LEO.
The Moon is too close to serve as a forcing function for the improvement of deep space transportation. Its resource base is less varied and thus less useful than that of Mars and in order to get good benefit out of it in support of solar system exploration, we'd have to fully industrialize it first, which is at least 100 years out.
This looks to shape up to be another ISS that serves as a jobs program and drains resources into organizational overhead and into not doing anything for decades. SLS is the same thing - building an unnecessary, massively expensive rocket for no other reason than to save the Shuttle manufacturing jobs. To think that we've been on the Moon in the 1960s… and how much manned spaceflight could have been done with more intelligent spending. Just makes me depressed.
Can you make a video about combustion instabilities? And why the RD-180 therefore had two combustion chambers?
Love that he's screwing around with starship instead of updating the Dragon explosion
You think that the people welding stainless steel should be investingating high pressure plumbing.
Where did you get the starship models??
Yeah, but so thicc
Thanks Scott,
great update thanx... peace out
Hey Scott I’m very interested in the mechanics of in orbit refueling. My interest was sparked when thinking about the gateway project. Could you explain how to transfer pressurized propellant in zero G. Thank you, fly safe
During the Starlink launch, I notice there is a "pulse" in the softer materials. What is that from?
Thanks for sharing this👍😀
Love the video keep it up mate1
Glad to see Dr. Langbroek using vimeo. Just need that critical mass...
Vimeo's business model is not based on mass, but on paid demand. And it is successful.
Yesterday I was out with my friends. At about 1am we decided to go to get some fresh air and we saw the satellite. Nobody was aware of the launch so when we saw them it was fucking crazy. If you have a chance to see it, take it. Its the most fascinating thing i have seen in my life and it made me realize just how insane satellites are.
Those satellites passing over look gorgeous!
This was a good video, you should make a regular space news show.
Great video!
Update: see comments for tracking info!
Does anyone know the NORAD ID numbers for the Starlink satellites? I'm trying to track them for viewing tonight!
I don't think they've been assigned yet. I think they don't assign catalog numbers to objects in swarms until they've spread out enough to determine their individual orbital parameters. I can't find any orbital data for the swarm itself either.
There's the tracking info!
@@MisterRazz Where's the tracking info? Did you find it posted somewhere?
loved the video, and really loved the Joe Bonamassa advid too!
In Arianespace news the contract for the serial production of the first 14 Ariane 6 units (test units and maiden flight are pre-serial production) was signed in early May and ESA have also just greenlit an R&D project for a carbon fibre upper stage fairing that would increase capacity to GEO by two tonnes if built, the funds are coming from the cancellation of a contract for the setting up of a second production line for P120 boosters in Germany, production will instead be concentrated at the original factory in Italy. The contract order for Ariane 6 also included orders for 8 mostly C variant Vega rockets, this comes on top of them already having full manifests for 7 commercially launched rockets.
I actually saw those satellites with my friends in the night of Friday to saturday and THANK YOU for giving me an answer on what it was! Some of my friends thought they were ufos and we tried taking photos and videos with our phones but it was too dark!
exciting future we have right in front of us