Astra's Tiny Rocket Gets To Space. SpaceX Wreckage Explored. Angara, Delta IV & RocketLab Launch.
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- The main story is that Astra's tiny launch vehicle almost made it to orbit, getting to space but coming up 0.5km/sec short in terms of velocity. But the weekend also had lots of other rocket activity including many important launches by Angara, Delta IV, Electron, Falcon 9 and.... we got some great views of the aftermath of the Starship 'landing' showing the guts of the vehicle.
Astra Photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/astraph...
Steve Jurvetson's Starship Wreckage Photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/jurvets... - Наука та технологія
SM: "Fly safe".
SN9: "I"m not falling for that".
“Fall safe”
SN9: To Valhalla I go! Shiny and chrome! WITNESS MEEEEEEEE!
Well, it flew safe, nobody said anything about landing safe
EDIT: oh you're talking about SN9, not SN8, nevermind
It's not the fall that will RUD ya, it's the sudden stop at the end...
"Astra" not to be confused with "Ad Astra" creators of the VASIMR engine
Can we all appreciate SpaceX's willingness to include the public by sharing the successes and failures? They are truly the flagship of humanity. I don't know about the rest of you but I feel like I'm a part of it.
I LOVE how simple astra’s second stage looks in flight. Just the tanks stacked up under the fairing.
Pretty much what it is just with more complex plumbing than it looks
Like RL shedding batteries.. Beautiful.
Fr nasa needs to take notes
Rocketlab has the BEST stage separation in space travel. Not even debatable.
@@spridle I'm curious about that. What is Rocketlabs doing best in stage separation?
Love that Astra has named those tanks "Huey" "Dewey" and "Louie". Watched a lot of DuckTales as a kid...
Also the names of the robots in Silent Running
Probably because they're on a Scrooge budget?
@@andy6359 one of the best sci fi films..but never seems to get shown much
Disney already calling to lawyers..you know..you need to protect your trademarks
I remember seeing some graffiti once that said 'free Huey Newton'. Newton was a Black Panther in the 60s. Somebody changed to 'free Huey, Dewey and Louie'
To all of you reading comments, I wish you a merry Christmas, and May you have a healthy and prosperous new year
I love how the Astra rocket looks like something a few skilled guys put together in their back yard. It's just a nice contrast to the huge perfect looking ones from the big players.
Also worth keeping in mind that launching from AK is playing on hard mode.
@@Josh_728 I'm assuming they launched from the pad on Kodiak island?
@@pills- yep
make it work, then make it pretty
I wonder how the trade-off works? The stage itself is probably lighter than a more aerodynamic one - but the fairing needs to be bigger to contain the entire stage instead of just the payload...
Lean development god damn it
Scott Manley does dad jokes!
@@redwalsh87 dad joke. is that like a sorta barely funny joke associated with boomer dads who think they are funnier than they actually are, and get pity laughs?
i hear the term often, but the imagery i get from it seems pretty unfunny, is kinda sarcastic
@@Pssst.ByTheWay It mostly means corny jokes, most typically involving bad puns. (Except that, nowadays, the dads involved are mostly millennials, not boomers.)
@@vbscript2 right. So definitely not a compliment. Sort of a kin to cringe. Though if I was a dad is be offended. That a bad joke is a dad joke. Like a rsome sort of joke being a black joke etc.
Showing flying machines in pieces on the ground and saying “fly safe.” Reminds me of driving school.
Just a scratch
I give Astra the award for Second Most Scenic Launch Site.
I think Rocket Lab is a good contender
I think it is the most scenic
Rocket lab's launch site, that is
@@Arae_1
Agree
Japan's site has to be included in the Top Three List. And I should be biased. Kiwi David
Petition to Scott Manley saying "I'm Scott Manley, Flip safe" on his next cover of upcoming flight of SN9...
first lets hope that SN9 is repairable after it tipped over
Yes we need this
Absolutely
@@DonFervo Just a dent, it'll buff right out.
@@jounik Tis' but a scratch!
Seeing Astra sucessfully make it into space has a feel good factor about it somehow.
In a year as rotten as this, it's nice to see something positive happening just before Christmas.
Well done Astra!
I am not proud to admit I laughed harder than I have all day about the "lean development process"
wierdo
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@@danielstone9978
I must have been wired
@@danielstone9978 savage reply!
10 out of 10
Drops his wife off at the airport, says, "I'm Scott Manley, fly safe."
😂
Dang, so much news about space, we are lucky to be alive in this period!
Americans call it "classified mission", Russians call it "dummy payload", hmmmmm :)
Or else "Kosmos [very large number]"
Man, that was my exact thought.
Flying a Dummy payload to Geostationary orbit...nothing suspicious there.
That's because Murica likes to puff out it's chest to try and make themselves out as something important, rather than the three legged, blind, deaf and dying mule that needs to be taken out to the back of the barn that they are.
What is likely on there is a giant tin foil hat they are positioning over the country to stop the "commies" from stealing their delta waves.
Or maybe america's space program can do allot. Imma let you guys in on a little secret because I am an american. *whispers* "our percentage for nasa funding is 0.00.. of our total funding ooOoo" 👻
...I literally went OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH at that lean development pun damnit
01:23 "And it gets off the pad with a certain sense of urgency"
Taking lessons from The Chieftain's School of Humour I see. :)
[reads the tweets] Oh bugger, the rocket isn't on fire.
@@JustSomeCanuck Joke well crafted. :-)
@@JustSomeCanuck That would be a video. Him riding in an escape capsule during a test.
Next video - how to track tension the crawler-transporter.
@@njwithers "To do that, you just need to move the idler wheel...Okay, that's the biggest idler wheel I've ever seen. Can I get a little help over here?"
"Lean development process" - the Manley-est pun I've ever heard
Usually rocket demonstrations involve a pint of a very dark beer, so maybe well get that next time
7:10 is one of the most aesthetically pleasing rocket images I have seen.
The snow made it really cool.
Tickled Flaming Lotus Girl here. Absolutely love the term "Rapid Unscheduled Art". Going to suggest this theme at our next project proposal meeting. Cheers!
Ad Astra! Exciting to see a fresh player.
SN9, nicknamed "Aileen"
C'mon!
@@taidokazu Oh... I swear.
Another petition required!
At this moment, you mean everything.
This must happen
"pretty Potato" never thought I'd hear that come out of Scott's mouth when I subscribed.
ha-ha; I was looking for this comment...
I believe that is an old Scottish pickup line from the famine of 1895.
See? Subscribing works
@@temper44 The potato famine was in Ireland and it was 1846.
@@rattywoof5259
There were two famines, but the _Scottish_ Potato Famine is the one that has the eponymous vegetable in the title. Just the date is wrong.
They did it!
Also John is now probably the biggest wallpaper supplier in the space community
impostor
@@CoffeeFurret i am you but stronger
'Hello it's Scott Manley here' the best line of existence 😏
I disagee.... "Fly safe" is the cherry on the cake for me ;)
@@SixDasher 😁
Damn that Astra rocket is cute. Looks cheap and very mobile. I could even launch it from my backyard.
And I dont even have a backyard.
"Contact Estes, we have a potential new customer . . ." :P
@@gangfire5932 its motor size EE
"Lean Development Process"? xD
Starship development is at a tipping point hurr hurr.
Lean manufacturing.
This is how SpaceX topples its competition.
@@GtdAquataine SpaceX are no slouches when it comes to reusable rockets.
May be they should layback a bit more.
I love how Scott's "Fly safe" endings often sound incredibly threatening :D
You better fly safe.
Astra: flies a rocket perfectly but forgot to the light engine
Everyone else: *Impossible*
*I M P O S S I B L E*
"Lean development" hah!Got'em!)
seeing another Angara launch finally makes me so happy
Glad to see Astra finally get a launch off.
2:20 The concave earthers are going to love this.
Concave?! _wimps!!_
The Earth is flat out _hollow!!_ Nobody zooms out far enough to see that, it's a conspiracy.
Anybody who does is disappeared, and the pictures wiped from the internet, google cache, the Internet Archive, and everyone's hard-drive by an intel chip backdoor...
Hold on, somebody is knocking at my back door, just a sec...
It's all downhill from there.
@@-danR you have 5 minutes
Please tell me that isn't a thing. It's obviously a fish eye lens
0:04 Hoho! It’s Scott Manley here! (The Christmas version lol)
I am super fascinated by the speed of the development of starship! About a year ago we had nothing but an oddly shaped silo and now one prototype already flew quite successfully and the next one is already waiting in line!
7:05 what a beautiful engine flame.
At 0:55 as well.
Thanks, Scott.
I'm getting addictive to the "Hello it's Scott Manley here"
Spacex going through a lean period. 🤣
That Angara launch looked pretty cool. It was like a combination of something out of a James Bond movie and 1930's sci-fi.
Public companies going into space is so cool. Reminds me of a TV show in the 80's with Andy Griffith about a private company salvaging space junk and going to the moon to get the landing module landing gear and all the equipment left from Apollo.
So cool.
Whoops, I tipped over my rocket. Let me just... pick it up again, I guess.
Thanks for the update, Scott!
Duh, that's not wreckage, that's unscheduled Christmas danger toy delivery service in action.
Thank you for introducing the phrase "Danger toy delivery service" to my vocabulary
I believe the term is" unscheduled disassembly"
@@jasonudall8614 That, but it's rapid.
Thanks for alllllllllllllll the updates.
SN9 looks gorgeous. No need to blow up this one for Rapid Unscheduled Art. It's already a work of art.
Love your Channel, Scott! I'm Scottish btw. 🏴
When are you guys going to pioneer the first lox/haggis fueled hybrid rocket?
Haggis are wee buggers to catch lol
No one gonna talk about the liqhid storage tanks on the pad called "Hewy" and "Dewy"
Wonderful. It looks homemade. Like it was made in somebody’s back yard. Absolutely wonderful!
Love that reference to LEAN Manufacturing, Design and Development!
“Lean Development Process” hahaha I take it where ever you work they made you get Lean Six Sigma certified LOL!!!!!
SN9 was like nooo! I saw what happened to the other one, you can't make me go, I'll kill myself first! lol
Another excellent update! Thank you 🙏
That wreckage site actually looks amazingly arty! I would give so much to have a couple golden hour evenings to take pictures there.
Or even better, let Tyler Shields do his large format stuff there! It;d be amazaing!!!
10:40 Steel Rafflesia
Huernia zebrina.
Dephin Engines: runs on Egirl bath waters
I kind of wish I didn't know what you're talking about.
@@UpsetNerd embrace capitalism lol
@@UpsetNerd
same 😞
UpsetNerd
It seems you’re not the only one cursed with knowledge.
doesn't ring any belle.
Great recap, thank you!
Thanks, Scott!
That delta IV almost died of old age before it launched
That is one of the problems with disposable hardware, especially one that needs to deal with hydrogen embrittlement. It isn't built to last.
Meanwhile SLS moving along at a snails pace with antiquated technology.
Lol
Because they're not allowed to have any failures. And anyway the main function of SLS is to employ people in the states of the senators that voted for the budget. They only care if it flies because if it doesn't there won't be any more for their constituents to be paid to make.
There's nothing they can do, its government, NASAs funding changes with the wind.
@@owensmith7530 SLS had a couple things that legitimately delay it: A hurricane damaged the place it was initially being built, there was a defect in the first core tank so they had to scrap it, COVID happened, then 2-3 hurricanes delayed the green run.
Even with all of that, under Briedenstein, SLS has basically doubled the speed at which the program is moving forward.
One upgrade they did make was with the fuel tanks. In order to make the fuel tanks strong but relatively light weight the inside of the tank walls have a pattern to them. Originally they used a triangular pattern because it's easier for computers to calculate and it was the best they could do at the time. Now they use squares which are better but require more powerful computers to design with. I presume the actual power required to model the new rockets isn't all that powerful by todays standards but the original designs were made in the 60's and 70's (AFAIK). As others have pointed out SLS relies on government funding which changes all the time and they have to appease political types that don't understand and don't really care to understand how stuff works. If it's reliable it's good even if it takes a million times as long for progress to be made.
What a bold move to put SpaceX news in at the end 😉
Wow! Great update! So many things happening!!
"Phodos"...
Your accent is starting to slip Scott! Lol 🏴🇺🇸😁
He's been replaced by an alien-made clone!
Yeah
@Trifon RAYKOV dumb
@Trifon RAYKOV Simp
@Trifon RAYKOV No one cares if he got likes for being verified. You seriously need to get a life or care about something else.
@Trifon RAYKOV Also, from your channel i see you have commented "First!" "If scott mannley hearts this then..." sort of comments. You absolutely are not the person to tell this to someone else.
I thought this was a reply to "See what I did there?".
I have learned so much from you .THANK YOU!!!!
Some outstanding photography.
Congrats Astra! Rockets are hard and you are nailing it!
Damn the vid is only 1 view when I posted this
3:00 Earth confirmed concave.
Great job Scott putting all these pieces together... As ALWAYS 😎👍
Watching the second stage ignite and just haul ass away is the coolest thing ever! It's amazing!!!!!!!
The bottom right flap of SN9 looks pretty damaged, too. I expect them to replace that as well.
Wouldn't be surprised if they just take a sledge hammer to that one, it doesn't look near as bad. SpaceX once just cut off the bottom portion of the 2nd stage engine bell when it got cracked instead of replacing it.
The aero fillet in front of the forward flap is damaged as well. Since that couldn't have hit the wall, the distortion probably came through the hinge assembly as a quarter of a million pounds came to rest up against the highbay wall.
@@Markle2k I can't find a clear picture that shows the damage you say, where did you find it? I've looked through NasaSpaceFlight and Mary's pictures.
@@JoshuaJohnsonHou I’m sure they’d like to. Depends on what’s going on under the skin. I imagine these things are like an aluminum can. Reallly, really strong in one direction. I would think if the innards aren’t right, the whole thing would collapse.
@@JoshuaJohnsonHou It was in the stills from the video with the removal/replacement timelapse on NSF There's a really zoomed in picture of the forward fin. I suppose it could be a trick of light from a reflected image, but it looked like the fillet (not the nosecone itself) was tweaked.
The small scratches on SN9 are gonna buff out easy.
cant wait to see that thing do its belly flop.
Less belly more teabag of doom. I called it an unplanned rapid deceleration maneuver. SpaceX is going back to its roots
Preferably a belly flop when in the air and not while on the ground again.
Great episode Scott, many thanks
Thanks for another great video!
you missed the opportunity to say "I'm Scott Manley, land safe" :))
Space X ending the year with a bang.
Thanks!
Great video Scott, thank you
Aww, the rocket I invested heavily in crashed. Who cares! Time to load up the van with some nifty Christmas souvenirs.
Now that's making lemonade out of lemons. :D
Re the next flight without any hardware or software changes to fix the propellant imbalance. Surely it's just a simple twist of the screw on the carb.
Just fuel it less! If you end up with 500 lbs too much fuel, just put 500 lbs less at the start, the lower weight might help xD
Nobody covers this kind of stuff as.....Good as you....Thanks Scott...!!
if rockets were a sport, Scott would be an awesome commentator !
Sport or not, he's THE commentator
Not gonna lie I laughed at "Delphine Engines". Powered by an E-girl's bath water I suppose
When I heard it, I thought of Bureiku Bureido
There's a Bell(e) Delphine in this Engine joke somewhere.
@@ClannerJake I thought of Delphine Software International, who made _Flashback_ and _Another World._
I remember the footage of the last Angara launch being absolute potato quality. Good job on Roscos in that case.
Yeah, you're right! I missed that development! They must have hired some good PR people, eh!
Love Scott Manley's rocket news!
Thank you.sir
Congrats to Astra on coining "orbital space" as a real and totally not made up way to say you didn't reach orbit.
Gotta get those investors somehow
at least they were close!
"Space where things actually in orbit could in theory hit us" kind of isn't but technically intersects orbital space.
"Delphine engines" well looks like we've got some simps
quite a round about way of calling her hot, naming an engine after her xD
I can't help but wonder if that was also because of the double pun with the engine bell?
Launched from Kodiak! I was stationed there in 1970-71 at the Naval Communications Station and actually hiked over the area where the launch facility is located now. It used to be a cattle-ranch.
Classic Scott Manley video. Content like this got me hooked on rockets.
So he was picking up souvenirs? Otherwhise known as "pieces of eight".
I 'ate to say it, but this deserves more 👍's
Definitely more expensive than silver.
One can only assume the single "thumbs down" at the time of this missive is someone who did not like the "lean manufacturing" pun.
Always perplexed by the thumbs down (now 25)
I generally assume it's just angry people in general. But maybe also "mentioned rocket company I don't like/didn't fully genuflect to rocket company i do like".
Man, I almost did give this video a thumbs-down just for the lean pun. I couldn't bring myself to do it, though. :D
Always a pleasure to listen to you Scott.👍
Will the "Things KSP doesn't teach you" series be continued?
I think because most of his subscribers this days do not know what KSP is he just replaced it with straight rocket science videos.
@@randomnickify I wouldn't be surprised if the majority would know, it seems like a quite well known game, even among those who haven't played it.
"Things KSP doesn't teach you: Fuel Tank Pressurization"
"Dummy payload". Is that what they call a military mission?
Not in this case
liking astra more and more. also getting a pro photographer to document everything - classy.
As allways, the best in depth explanation in the market 😉 thanks
Scott: Hello it’s Scott Manley here
Me: Yes i know, i’ve heard you a million times
To think, Astra have launch thing much higher than Blue Origin despite the gulf of differences in funding.
Their rocket is also much, much smaller. Not trying to downplay Astra's achievement here, just putting things into some perspective.
@@Morphior people just don't like blue origin because Bezos owns it. I don't like him either.
@@mikebolton2388 It's not that. For all of their unlimited funding, Blue Origin hasn't actually send anything to above the Kármán line. Meanwhile Rocketlab and now Astra have done that with paying customer.
@@dyingearth all that is true. They are going for the nasa approach to Rockets; calculate twice, launch once. All of a sudden, they will have a rocket as big as starship and will try and fly on the first run. They are constructing that rocket right now.
@@mikebolton2388 New Glenn is competing with Falcon 9 Block 5 (which is currently on development freeze). No one is developing anything as ambitious as SpaceX's Starship launch system.
You're amazing, sir.
That will buff right out.
"Hello, Scott. Man Lee here." (A Chinese guy named Man Lee telling a guy named Scott hello)
I may be reading too far into this but your profile says your name is David...
Actually it's "Hullo! It's Scott Manley here."
So you'll have to tweak the context:
"Hullo!!... It's Scott!" [just notices Scott; the "hullo!" is a British marker for surprise ="I'll be darned, it's... _Scott!_" ]. The rest goes as is.
"Man Lee here" [Remember me? We went to high-school...]
That's my Herculean pendantic comment for the month. I need my second coffee of the morning.
@@-danR excellent, nonetheless!