Astra's Secret Rocket Project Finally Reveals Itself
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2020
- About 18 Months ago I covered Astra, a small rocket startup based only a few miles from my home. They were still a 'Stealth' company, and would not publicly acknowledge what they were doing, even after a pair of suborbital tests which failed due to engine problems. However they're now speaking publicly, and making a lot of noise about their smallsat launcher and their first orbital launch attempt only a few days from now.
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• Astra - 'Stealth' Rock... - Наука та технологія
@1:30 ‘the smart people’
Shows a comment from himself speculating 😂
I dunno. Dishrack #1 looks much more complicated than Rocket Support Cart #1 4:30 .
That was the joke.......
'something happens in space news' - wait until Scott Manley makes a report about it so I can enjoy the best coverage, best editing, and most accurate information, thanks again Scott!
Worst possible UA-camr thats always late and days behind other space news youtubers.
His voice is not good. And over all he doesn't say the right things.
@@shawnfoogle920 I see at least two problems with that statement,
One I challenge you to find another reputable source of this information that can be validated and two just because you don't like his voice doesn't mean he is any worse a credible informer with a reputation to match.
@@shawnfoogle920 ... and the _right things_ would be ...?
@@shawnfoogle920 show me another independent space news youtuber who covers topics that comprehensive.
@@shawnfoogle920 The only other person that could rival Scott in terms of content is Everyday astronaut, and he doesn't really do reports. Also, if you're interested in space you should be able to wait a couple of hours to see a comprehensive coverage of whatever is happening. Speed is not everything
2:15 THE rocket has A NAME: IT'S 1 OF 3...
OH god it's a BORG rocket...
Launching CUBE satellites...
They're trying to change history again!
😊😊😊
5:46 - Not a good hairstyle for a job that requires headphones....
OnceIWasYou he hates airpods more than setting his hair straight
you can erase everything after "hairstyle"
That is why 2 launches failed, they can think 1 step ahead :D
How did you read my mind!
Linear hairospike... :-)
Thanks for bringing such high quality news about the industry and the effort you put in to the videos.
Hahaha, I was thinking the exact same thing when I heard that.
Very cool, wish I'd thought of going into the space business, when I was a high school lad, we managed to launch a small payload 4 miles high. Had we staged our liquid propellant rocket and our solid propellant rocket we could have done much better than 4 miles. Rocket "safety officer" meaning Dad, did not permit us to go any higher. Not after the NY State police showed up after we launched one of our high powered amateur rockets out over Lake Ontario. Dad lost his nerve to push the envelope. The police were not wise to what we done as they responded to a citizen complaint that saw a fireball heading out over the lake moving at high speed and they also heard the rocket breaking the sound barrier as the thrust tapered off close to burnout. We were using spun fiberglass and spun carbon fiber tubing and graphite ceramic nozzles in 1969 long before carbon fiber was as common as today. A neighbor was an engineer for Spaulding Fibre in Western NY and we had bits and pieces tubing to our specs and tech data on their experimental tubing. Low carbon steel had been our material, much safer with composites than steel and easier to work with, pouring 2 part epoxy resins and inserting carbon/ceramic nozzles. Our liquid fuel rocket had a stainless steel un-cooled combustion chamber and nozzle and the tanks were made of aluminium and pressurized with dry ice. The oxidizer was nitric acid and the fuel was an 80/20 mix of turpentine and furfuryl alcohol. Static tested a couple of times to find minimum furfuryl that gave reliable ignition, flown once, the parachute failed. The Isp of about 240 seconds only a little higher than our solid propellants about 220 seconds. Great fun, I did the math and design, my shop skilled buddy did the machining with the help of his shop teacher. Great fun ... learned a lot. Neighbor on one side of us worked for the fibre company and on the other side of my parents house another engineer for Bell Aerospace and assigned to the RM-81 Agena B in the 1960's. I had plenty of expert help, learned how to do stress / strain calculations along with Algebra 2 and Trig for the NY Reagents exam. If anything school math was neglected during a wild construction project. I still crammed and passed the reagents at the end of the school year. A month after school let out Armstrong landed on the Moon, I felt let down, I know how the Soviets must have felt we both lost the space race.
Your dad sounds like a really cool chap 👍
well just do it today :)
wow. all I can do is play KSP and I‘m not even good at that...
Cool post ! Thanks ! Dig this ua-cam.com/video/zxJQgYPXjN4/v-deo.html Are you going to make a film of your effort for a You Tube post ! My dad tried to explain the Sputnik launch to me when I was three . I thought per all the space stuff on T.V. that we had already gone to Mars and the other planets and was disappointed that Sputnik was it as far as space travel went at that time . However as the decades went on can't say we earthlings haven't kept trying .
You, sir, are a steely-eyed missileman.
6:58 comic sans "ASTRA"..... okay. no
You know what, screw that Comic Sans hate. You don't get to complain about Comic Sans as long as frikkin' Papyrus is a thing.
Yes, I do
I will use Comic Sans wherever whenever possible
For V2 launches, I stick with Gothic Fraktur.
looks great with "𝖛𝖔𝖓 𝕭𝖗𝖆𝖚𝖓"
i was sceptical of the company, now I love them.
Scott: "stealth rocket..."
Me: "A stealth rocket? How is that possible? You can't shroud the thermal or optical signature of rocket exhaust, it's too hot!"
Scott: "...startup"
Me: "...oh, only the _company_ is stealthy. Well, that makes more sense, but is also significantly less awesome."
It plays this as it launches: ua-cam.com/video/WdJg6Duzzf4/v-deo.html
Stealth in the sense that it needs little prep time and is not sitting out in the open on a pad for an extended period of time.
@@WApnj: I think Scott was referring to the stealthy nature of the company, but even if he was referring to the fast setup time for the rocket, it's still less exciting than an actual stealth rocket. 😕
@@deusexaethera it's packed in a shipping container... Can't get much stealthier than that.
@@WApnj: Allow me to introduce you to "radar".
Split my sides at Arce Soars, haven't laughed as much since Randy Bender's presentation for NetWare.
Didnt get it. Could you explain for not english speakers?
@@fs2728 Arce sounds like arse [USA=ass] which is English slang for anus, soars sounds like sores so it translates to anal herpes. Randy Bender is a man's name in USA but it means "sexually excited homosexual" in English slang.
@@andyalder7910 I thought it was a pun for Archosaurs
Prometheus's Arce Soars. 🤣
@Marc Jackson
I think yours "primitive" is a lot different from mine. Novell Netware was fast, extremely stable and easy to maintain.
Should be called The Borg Rocket as it uses the Borg naming system One of Three! 🚀 of 🚀🚀🚀 (Seven of Nine)
4:44 Yep. Planning 3 launches, they could start with 7 of 9.
Y'all notice the logo has a Starfleet Delta highlighted within it?
we are the borg. your techno.... oh wait.... nah, you will be eliminated.
Just wait until they start launching cube sats.
Yessss! My thoughts exactly. Tertiary adjunct of Unimatrix zero one.
I loved the shot of the forklift pulling out a tan metal enclosure with the words “Rocket Support Cart” stenciled on the side... while in the background is a matching metal enclosure stenciled with the label “Dish Rack”. Couldn’t help but imagine it was full of dinner plates.
Congratulations on 1 million subs Scott. Been here since Eve or bust. So happy to see you reach this milestone.
Alameda... hmm I wonder if this is the succesor of Mythbusters Confederate rocket
The power of salami fuel
@@adamquery7048 Great name for a "stealth" rocket.
Was just wondering if Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were backers!
Dudhhr McDudhhr actually at university for my last “small thesis” my school’s friend and I , we tried to calculate the performance of salame rocket but the most difficulty we had has been to find at least a generic chemical composition of the food (we know there is C, H, N, O, ..but many missing and percentages for all), at the end we turned to Sorbitolo (a kind of sugar) first and later to another own mix.
We test fired the first rocket on the runway at Alameda NAS, which is where Mythbusters did a lot of filming including the wooden cannon, the traffic flipping plow, and a bunch of other tests that required driving in a safe area. I think my coworkers got sick of me mentioning Mythbusters every day.
This launch table looks like one designed for V2.
Why re-invent the wheel?
The whole concept is exactly the same of the V2.
@@SVanHutten well except for how the rocket actually operates since I doubt it uses clock work guidence or a peroxide generated steam powered turbine for the pumps.
@@maxk4324 It uses electric pumps
Well you need to eat when doing rocketry.
Yeah I was amazed. We went from just hints from Darpa to full videos showing all the details. It is some amazing work.
Thank you Mr. Scott Manly for the always interesting and educational content. Good luck on your launch Astra! ✨🚀 👀 ✨
6:59 IS THAT COMIC SANS MS
Design™
Yes. I believe it is.
GraphicDesignIsMyPassion.jpeg
Comic Sans is the font that humanity should use to come into first contact
@@iainwmacintosh ohh yes then when they decode the language(english first i assume) they can write back in comic sans
I love this! All the competition starting to heat up! All these new companies being able to service what the government abandoned due to cost! Lets get these guys off the ground and start deploying sat's! Great vid man.
Well isn't this a nice coincidence. I just watched your earlier videos yesterday that I had missed, and the Astra video was amongst the ones I watched.
thank you for posting mr. Manly
out of all the space posting channels on UA-cam I did not know about this one thank you
...It’s one of the best, RR. 👍, Scott Manley.
7:50
I see you are a space wizard of culture as well
"A lunch vehicle that doesn't require a dedicated pad"?
So a mobile missile launcher?😱😲
"Lunch vehicle"... just saw it...🤣😅
Stefan Dembowski did you see it? A semi truck dragging a shipping container. It drives off with the top of the container leaving a mobile launch battery to send it's rocket up vertical and blast off.
Um, Should we be nervous? 🤔🤣😂
Mobile missile launchers already exist, they just can't reach orbit
So they are reinventing a SCUD missile?
That would've been the highlight of my childhood if school lunches were delivered by rocket!
Neat! I was stationed at Naval Communications Station Kodiak in 1969-72 and have always wanted to go back there. Google-Earth showed me the launch facility down south of where the NCS Receiver Site used to be. It's cool that Kodiak is becoming a Space-port!
Many thanks for your very informative video, Scott!
I liked this video. You're awesome.
Rocket launches are always fun to talk about.
I must watch too many sc-fi movies, the second you mentioned Alameda Naval Base, i immediately thought of Star Trek - The Voyage Home, with Mr Chekov being stranded there.
Vere do you keep the nuklear vwessles
@@ShelburneCountry
I love that scene; an African and a Russian in San Fransisco on a street corner in the '80s asking about nuclear ships. And the shot of the cop just standing there staring.
I thought the same thing.
And wasn't transparent Aluminum recently invented? Scott needs to wander around Golden Gate Park and see if he runs into anything that isn't there...like a cloaked starship. :)
For me "Alameda" led to thoughts of Mythbusters' various adventures there.
Scott, I’m a firefighter and I think that I have one of the best jobs on the planet (which I’m incredibly grateful for having made a career of it and being so very close to retirement with my health and body intact). However, after hearing that your buddy is a “professional rocket photographer”...I think I yield to him, pretty freakin cool job he has...👍🏻👍🏻.
Cool news! Another rocket company.
The footage of the shipping container and the truck remind me of the SS20 mobile ICBM launchers.
Greetings from Munich, Tom.
Give it red fairings !
I miss the Brit "lipstick" rocket ....
Which, for some strange reason, was called the *Black* Arrow.
@@odysseusrex5908
Go figure !
So they could conceivably have a rocket called Seven of Nine? Yay :D
Yes, but will that rocket be similarly objectified? ;-p
@@guardrailbiter/videos lol. She's more than just eye-candy: ua-cam.com/video/3gPVZm02qSA/v-deo.html
Scott, please, keep up the good work!
Outstanding video Sir!
7:50 "What about it?", nice ;)
7:49 😎 I saw what you did there!
Ha, the secret was revealed: Scott Manley is watching What about it!
nice catch. Now we know where Scott gets his info from.
Looks like some tribute from a 1 million account to a 40k account :-)
@@annando Looks more like Scott doesn't know about youtube-dl and finds it acceptable to screen-record video replays.
Wow Super articulate English Scott! I reviewed this at 2.0 speed and didn't miss a word! Nice.
Fingers crossed for 'em, that would be quite an achievement for the price and effect!
"Astra's Secret Rocket" sounds like a sex to my cousin and I saw downtown Cincinnati back in the early 60's
6:58, Haha, they do have a sense of humor ;) using comic sans as font ;)
Nice video About. One thing that really got my attention was the information about the three planned payloads on the first launch. The Arce-1 CubeSats from the University of South Florida seemed very interestingly similar to the technical hurdles that I'm sure SpaceX have/has researched for Starlink.
Just wondering if you could come up with more info on this interesting project.
Man this vid just shows how hard it is to build an orbital class rocket thats why i find RocketLab and spacex so inpressive we rly need to see BlueOrigin step up
I wish I could join a competition where all of my opponents bow out so I can say that I was "selected as a finalist"
They were selected - by process of self-elimination 🙃
Vector, Virgin Orbit, and Astra were all selected as finalists prior to the former two dropping out so it's an accurate statement.
Short-track speed skating might be right for you, and it's cheaper than nascar.
I was once in a sailing race whit like 80 vessels and it started to get windy all but 5 left we won PUSSY'S
so basically, the military is doing an experiment to see how long it takes to develop a balistic missile?
More likely to have a high availability launch vehicle for small ELINT or camera sats for short duration missions in areas of conflict. The soviets did something similar with Rorsats during the cold war as it is the rocket is VERY small for a ballistic missile
No, thats well known already. Iike they show, its for short term sats.
Nothing but waste.
LORDOceanus eh rocket lab already has an amazing rocket that is also cheap
Very cool. One of the newer rockets that I can get behind. Being devised of simple and proven construction methods, this vehicle will be very very very inexpensive to mass produce and will be very robust and therefore, reliable.
Congratz on 1 million subs.
Kim Jong-Un casts a murderous gaze at his rocket scientists.
"The Americans must be executing their scientists at a faster rate than we are, we must increase scientist executions in order to build better rockets!"
I'd love to see one of these rockets launched directly from the transport vehicle, like a Scud or other sorts of mobile Soviet ICBMs. Make TELs great again. ;)
RT-23 Molodets would be more relevant, since it sits in kind of a container :)
Make a rocket startup as an excuse to have your own private Scud clone lol
Since they're trying to win a prize from DARPA, and the launch vehicle itself needs to be proven first, that might just happen in the future.
This could easily become a part of the "Space Force."
The military had a plan for 'wack-a-mole' style ICBM silos where the rockets would be moved from one silo to the next to make it harder to wipe out all of them. I think this is the same thing. They just discarded the silos.
Ostsol ☆ Basically a CONEX on a TiltBed Tow Truck launching from "Somewhere in Hollywood"
Congrats on 1 million subs :)
Love the vids , love UA-cam for how many awesome people can have an audience.
Yeah! Go Astra! This is great news for amateur radio satellites
3:42 I'm getting "Night Rider" flashbacks.
Nice summary. I think the cubesats are actually Prometheus and ARCE 1 and ARCE 2, with SOARS not a cubesat but a non-separating payload attached to the second stage
Great video brother thank you 🙏
Is it just me or does that look like a private sector warhead delivery device ?? ;)
Im beting rapid deployable spy satelites we
Stealth it said yep
That one will be 9 of 11.
- Prepare to atomize the competition !
- Nice pep talk, boss !
- That was an order, fool !
Four utubez, Scott quoted 200kg, albeit to low Earth orbit. That’s a very useful payload covering science, comms, weapons, or even surveillance. Can absolutely see why there’s a strategic need for such a system now with satellite killers as part of the mix. It’s also a system that has export potential to close allies of the US.
As always, there's been a lot going on in the space industry lately so lets dive right in. 7:49 Ooops!
1M ! Congrats
Looks good. Nice little rocket, hope they have a successful launch at last
Military done this quick-launchpad-setup for years but of course not getting to LEO ;)
That is a key factor.
And probably not anywhere close to 2.5M per launch
57thorns well the target was on ground not in orbit 🤦♂️🤪🤪🤪
You know who worked on the guidance system? Jeri Ellsworth! :)
Really? Was that after working at Valve? I heard she is now working on her own VR thing again (for the second time :) )
Max Mustermann yeah I think her Twitter has a photo of her with a burned finger (or something like that) which she got while being near an engine. If I’m not mistaken. :) She couldn’t tell which company, but later mentioned Astra and what she did. Basically “keeping the rocket pointed upwards “.
Small world. Wondered what she was up to. I miss her videos!
Mythricia yeah me too! She does have a few new ones, but about her new product. Must eat a lot of time I guess.
Awesome!
very cool video you get my inner rocket nerd all happy with the clear reporting well done sir
Thank you Scott.
Who's disappointed that Scott never talks about Mike Hughes's rocket? 😁😅
Why would he? The man was fucking dumb.
Too easy to pile on, it would just come off as being mean, like picking on a special needs kid or something. I agree with ignoring the idiot.
DARPA has been around for 80 years and we just heard about it, my Dad worked for skunk works in LA in 69 on the stealth B1B. Makes perfect sense.
Because I've been reading super secret magazines like Scientific American since the 1970s I've known about DARPA for well over 40 years!
The last amateurs did rocketry it was called AMROC...I was able to watch that one go up in smoke in person at Vandyland.
Lots of good rocket deflagrations to come.
Much lulz to be had.
Professional Rocket Photographer. I am sure it is as cool as it sounds.
Short notice launches from the inside of shipping containers. What kind of precedent would this set?
All cargo ships are now floating missile silos hooray
Jeff Borders None. If you’re intimating it’s like ICBMs, the US and Russia, as just two examples, keep at least some of their arsenal on mobile trucks already, moving them around all the time.
@@liesdamnlies3372 as well as on nuclear subs
Jeff Borders - How do you think Russian mobile ICBM launchers have worked for the last 50+ years?
@@bosstowndynamics5488 I mean theoretically that could easily be changed
6:04 Don't trust people who claim to be successful when they clearly did not fly. And it creates a very bad climate within the company. Not a place I would want to work.
"successful launch" and then it blew up.
This corporate spin is really irritating. Be honest! Your rockets barely even got off the ground and then failed and crashed. Period.
It depends on what the goals were. Let's say: The goal was a flight height of X and the rocket blew up in flight height 1.5 times X then the goal was reached and this event can be declared as succss.
well Elon did say before the first Falcon Heavy launch, if its takes off without destroying the pad then that would be a success ...
Looking at you, Boeing.
Sixteen payloads already manifested? Good for them! there has been a great deal of talk lately about how the vast majority of launch startups (there are supposed to be over a hundred) are going to fold before they ever launch a rocket, and they will. Obviously Astra is not in that group. It looks like they will actually be giving Rocket Lab some competition. I will say what I have said before, when it comes to space launch, the more the merrier.
Since I was stationed at Pt. Mugu, Ca. It is part of the Pacific Missile Test Range from St. Nick Island to Kwajalein atoll in the South Pacific. Mugu tests all missles for the Navy.
I love bagging contaminated dirt on army bases. It's my favorite thing to do.
haha- it's smaller than the Falcon 9 payload bay !
Why not put one of these inside a Falcon 9? Easy way to send a CubeSat beyond earth orbit!
@@InventorZahran I thought the same.
@@InventorZahran I mean but Falcon Heavy can, same thing. Second stage goes pretty far anyway.
This thing can't be compared to falcon 9, more so to Falcon 1.
@@jonasfassbender984 I was referring to the second stage of Falcon 9.
great info in your videos Scott great stuff.Bill in Ireland.
There is the Poker Flat range if you want to go even further north in Alaska. They mainly just launch sounding rockets, but it looks like this puppy could fly from there considering its infrastructure-in-a-box approach. And it's colder... much much colder than balmy Kodiak...
V2, 80 years later...
V2 couldn't launch to orbit
Dean Su neither this! (We'll see)
Kind of US Scud missile in making...
@@dsdy1205 Rumors say they did hit space with the V2. Hitler had plans to orbit a large "Sodium" coated mirror, to burn targets on earth from space anywhere, any times. . . Sound familiar?
@@stormtrooper9404 Scuds are only big Rockets.
Ballistic shells, only launched by a rocket engine instead of an explosive charge.
Missiles have guidance.
As it appears, the first two were indeed only Scuds, but without a warhead. Let's see if they can actually MAKE a missile!
@@dsdy1205 The size and mobile launch system are extremely comparable.
North Korea: Struggles to develop and build orbital launch system.
Astra: Builds one that fits in a shipping container.
They know their market.
North Korea's orbital launch program is a front for their attempts at building an ICBM.
It doesn't have to go orbital, just needs to get on a trajectory that can reach the USA...
North Korea has launched satellites into orbit already
@@eyeborg3148 they haven't. They've had some launches that reached space, but nothing that reached a stable orbit.
@@eyeborg3148 Thus i wrote "Struggle" not "Fail".
What a great strategic weapon, for the Meglamaniacs arsenal.
7:50 nice plug for "What About It!?" haha
Arse soars😂😂
3rd according to what i see
4th according to what youtube says
Heisenburg's Comment Order Uncertainty Principle in motion.
Well, I can definitely see a military application for this. Maybe even something like a ship-launched, on-demand satellite for LEO. I wonder if a similar vehicle could be launched from a modified Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.
Mr. Scott Manley please do a video in remembrance of Mike Hughes. He was absolutely a rocket enthusiast and his publicist recently posted on Social Media that he was never a Flat Earther and only did it to raise funds for his rocket enterprises. He was literally planning on building a rocket to take him to space. Yes, he was a bit Evel Knievel but the man was a hero of mine as he would take off in these rockets with so many G’s that they would knock him unconscious. One of the bravest men to walk this planet. He sadly passed away this past weekend while testing one of his steam powered rockets.
It would mean a lot to me and many of his fans if you would honor him with a video remembering the man that dedicated his life to rocketry.
I love your channel and thank you for your hard work. Godspeed.
Hmm DARPA rocket probably means missile.
Daniel Son 200 KG payload/warhead is pretty darn small for an ICBM. Not unusable completely but there are better options.
Is the goal emergency launches in the event of anti satellite misiles in war, or what is the main goal of the darpa challenge?
Eric Lotze Actually I think you just made a very good guess. That’s certainly one reason the US would want the capability to rapidly launch a payload into orbit with little prior planning time.
@@liesdamnlies3372 this would not be an effective anti satellite weapon. It's too easy to see coming (satellite recon from other countries would see you setting it up the day before).
Although not a good anti satellite weapons platform itself, yes this would be good at delivering temporary replacement satellites for any that got shot down, so long as they can be replaced by a satellite under 200 kg (most spy satellites are pretty huge).
If i remember there is some sort of silo based system for basic coms post massive war. I don't know if this would replace/compliment that. Perhaps this is applying a method similar to train/mel based missiles where they are so mobile, you can't kill them thus coms are ensured.
Loving the rocket science grade claw hammer.
good weather and nominal flight
Will they get to 7 of 9 ?
That is definitely what they were going for with 1 of 3 !
I'd like to get to 7 of 9...
What about the flat earther and his steam powered rocket. What prize did he win.
Darwin Award
@@olliea6052 Exactly!
John Cheresna - Nice casket?
I absolutely love that it’s name lines up with the Borg designation schema. I am 1/3, prepare to be assimilated.
I was stationed in Anchorage for 3 years and had no idea there was a launch site at Kodiak, I should let my buddies know there’s one happening soon maybe they can catch a glimpse of it from where they’re at
@7:28
Get out of this movie, Anna Kendrick. Jeez
Imagine how cheap these things would be if they were recoverable
Probably more expensive actually since you'd need to 1) make everything durable enough to reenter the atmosphere, 2) add the hardware needed to recover it such as parachutes, 3) set up a way of catching it midair, 4) use engines that can be reused many times (most engines can only survive a few firings for testing and the launch itself), and 5) hire more people to prep the recovered stage(s) for another launch in addition the the manufacturing team you already need for brand new vehicles. Recoverable isn't always the best depending on what the goal is. When trying to make a launcher that maximizes response time recoverable is definitely not the best option.
6:58 "ASTRA" written in Comic Sans is the most worrysome thing in this great video.
Interesting.
Looking at the design it is likely intended for surging battlefield communication and recon assets as it would make a poor weapons system. The fuel, limited payload and launch table are all bad ideas for a weapon but don't really matter for a SLV. It also makes a great target for new missile defense systems with its low cost ability to test fixed defenses such as AGEIS Ashore instillation. Be interesting to see if a ME(L) is made for it or if they will keep the current set up.
Sounds cool, but The question is, who’s gonna buy them first? Elon are u listening?
Scott said they already have 16 customers manifested. Not too shabby.
MrParliam3nt This is nothing to accelerate the Mars colony. Elon is not interested. 🤓
@@737smartin I think it's a market share or a new segment, this industry is accumulating bigger supply chain than expected, so if they do have some unique patent or can offer cheaper service then it will be a mater of time before they fall to the greedy :3
@@MrParliam3nt Your wording "fall to the greedy" reveals a pessimistic perspective.
Astra: keeps initial testing secret, denies any failures.
SpaceX: makes a montage of their boosters exploding, uploads to UA-cam.
gotta love Elon musk
Ok then where's my hi-res footage of the Dragon failure?
Wonder how hard it'd be to create a community satellite project
where all hardware on board is community selected and off the shelf (or open sourced if something has to be custom) and all software used is open source
Idk how plausible this would be, but it would be an interesting insight to have a community satellite that anyone can see the full workings of
Hey Scott, thanks for the great video. Can you maybe make one explaining the degrees of orbit? I don't really know what that means.
I bet 500 bucks this is going to end up as an ICBM, if it wasn't developed as one from the start. The military potential of an ICBM that can be disguised as a shipping container, put on a truck and hidden in plain sight, is far too powerful for the military to overlook.
Why go to all that trouble when you already have fleets of nuclear submarines carrying nuclear ballistic missiles, patrolling all over the world, literally 24/7, and have been, for like 60 years.
@@Mythricia1988
Because it's not a missile.
@Joe Horn It can take 300 kg into low earth orbit, so maybe half a ton of payload as an ICBM, enough for a small missile with a couple warheads (or even just a single warhead, and maybe some chaff as decoys). Multiply that by about 1000, which is a number you can easily hide in shipping containers and trucks around the US (or even the world), and also easily build since it would only be maybe $500 million/1000 missiles, and you have a very cheap and powerful boost to the US nuclear capacity, with no need to maintain any silos, and no way to ever map every single one of the missiles even with satellite imaging and an extensive spy network.
CIA, if you're reading this and you haven't done even a back of the envelope calculation for this, you should.
Am I the only one concerned about a "Launch from anywhere, within a moment's notice" rocket challenge is DARPA trying to weaponize space?
Jack Linde - The Chinese have already said they are going to weaponize & militarize space, no matter whether anyone else does it or not. This project is designed to launch small sats quickly the same way Rocket Lab has been doing. Think of reconnaissance “at a moment’s notice” which was what the SR-71 used to do.
@@TraditionalAnglican when did China say that? Do you have a source I could read?
I'm not sure why people are liking my last comment, I wasn't calling him out, I genuinely wanted to see the source so I could compare it against the treaty they've signed that restricts military use of space (doesn't prohibit it though)
Max K - This is something Chinese leaders have been saying since the time of Jiang Zemin -
nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-plans-dominate-space-52562
www.parabolicarc.com/2019/12/26/chinas-ambitious-plans-to-dominate-cislunar-space/
www.uscc.gov/annual-report/2019-annual-report
www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2019-11/Chapter%204%20Section%203%20-%20China%E2%80%99s%20Ambitions%20in%20Space%20-%20Contesting%20the%20Final%20Frontier.pdf
www.wired.co.uk/article/china-space-moon-base-mars-landing
foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/22/america-is-losing-the-second-space-race-to-china/
thediplomat.com/2019/11/chinas-future-space-ambitions-whats-ahead/
m.ua-cam.com/video/KsPLmb6gAdw/v-deo.html
PR China has a LONG-TERM plan, & China has been following it to the letter... Here’s the treaty, so you can compare the activities described will break either the Spirit or the Letter of the treaty -
www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/introouterspacetreaty.html
scienceblog.com/486623/astrophysicist-warns-outer-space-treaty-loophole-can-corporations-celestial-bodies/
www.thespacereview.com/article/3454/1
history.nasa.gov/1967treaty.html
It looks like China could dominate Near-Earth & Cis-Lunar Space without violating the treaty... If China dominates CL & NE Space, who’s going to enforce the treaty if China claims the space from LEO to the Asteroid Belt & refuses to allow access to anyone who refuses to acknowledge China’s sovereignty over outer space?!?
Thanks for the report
Bruh, how to outsource short term orbital weapon deployment systems. Pure genius and a lot cheaper too.
Nes Ra I agree. Sounds like „prompt global strike“ candidate. Clearly what the US and the world needs right now: more ways to rain down death and destruction. Chocolate cake and missile strikes 2.0
From my pov the operations people have learned over the years that technology is expensive and that sometimes scale can make a difference. Nukes were perhaps on the scale of legendary engineering and logistics, while small recon drones carried by individuals is the opposite.
Technology changes the game when everyone can have it, so we arrive at low orbit capabilities.
Flexible launch vehicles delivering anti-sat capability is the new radar. Russia has some sweet anti-sat systems and so does the US, but we all had access to metal long before any powder rifle.
The game is the same, get your stuff where you want it to go more efficiently. The innovation is not the delivery, its the cost and launch flexibility.
Remember, NNEMP-s suck. Floating garbage in space that accidentally takes out your rivals sat is just a happy coincidence.