Destination: Moon! ALL ABOARD! | This Week In Spaceflight
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- Join Elysia Segal for an action-packed roundup of this week's spaceflight activities. From China's lunar relay satellite launch and Northrop Grumman's intriguing Lunar Railroad study to SpaceX's enigmatic Starlink mission and the long-awaited debut of their crew tower at Cape Canaveral. We're focusing our lens into the highlights of the week, including launches from SpaceX, China's space program, and Rocket Lab's latest classified mission. Stay tuned for insights on NASA's budget proposal for 2025 and what it means for future space exploration. Subscribe and hit the bell to stay updated on all things space!
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00:00 Intro
00:33 Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 6-44
01:13 Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 7-16
02:54 Chang Zheng 8 launch of Queqiao-2
04:22 Chang Zheng 2D launch of Yunhai-2 Group 2
04:54 Electron launch of Live and Let Fly
05:22 Falcon 9 launch of CRS-30
07:00 NASA's budget proposal for next year
11:04 Northrop's lunar railroad
12:23 First Ariane 6 fligt vehicle assembly has begun
13:00 First crew Starliner begins fueling
13:35 March 22nd: Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 6-42
13:50 March 23rd: Soyuz 2.1a launch of Soyuz MS-25
14:12 March 25th: Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 6-46
14:26 March 28th: Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 7-18
14:37 March 28th: Final flight of Delta IV Heavy
14:52 Outro - Наука та технологія
ALL ABOARD THE MOON TRAIN LET’S GOOOOOOOO
CHOO CHOO!
Bro how does that work 💀
How does the very fast train not fly away from the moon?
@@WSpace7
One could possibly design a type of locking mechanism to keep the train firmly attached to the tracks.
However, even if you didn't you could go below a certain threshold of speed that would prevent the train from "flying away from the moon" as yo you say.
Anyway, I am not the one working on this concept so I am merely providing my best guess.
@@SebastianWellsTL rollarcoaster type of tracks is one way that it can be done.
And don't forget the diesel engine ;-)))
Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Great coverage and presentation, Elysia 😊🚀🛰
Thank you Elysia and team NSF for the latest This Week in Spaceflight video. Always want to be informed of all space related projects.
Thank you very much for the always well presented space news. With hot rocket earrings from the fantastic Elysia! And team! NSF is doing a great job.
Great to see your humor shine through-loved it! 😂
Thanks to Elysia and NSF for the update!
Elysia. Thank you for packing so much facts into your reports. Also..Loving the earrings ;-)
Great TWIS Elysia, Thank you so much!
“Advanced Simulation” with clouds got me
Not too mention they managed to add all the nice plants that can be found on the dark side of the moon 😂
Great video...👍
Always enjoy watching updates and videos with you Elysia, well done!
Love the weekly updates.
Thanks Elysia and NSF team.
Thanks Elysia and NSF team
Another great week! Thanks again guys!
Surface transportation on the Moon will be a "sticky" problem, due to the abrasive dust getting into everything, including wheel bearings. Vehicles on tracks may not kick up rooster tails of dust, but are not without problems. Vehicles on the Moon have 1/6th the weight compared to on the Earth, but all of the momentum. That means that moving vehicles will tip over easily, as recent landers have shown. Also, I don't know where the track material will come from, unless made from scrapped Starships, which should be plentiful as they will have transported up lots of supplies and equipment. I think that walkers and hoppers should be looked into.
Starships are designed for recycling. They use a single alloy for all of the structural and most of the plumbing parts. So every one way Starship is a source for more than a hundred tonnes of stainless steel.
I don't think the steel will be used for rails, I think it will be used to make equipment for smelting and forming aluminum. The moon is made of aluminum ore.
I think they will figure out how to manage lunar dust over a series of experiments.
Rollercoaster wheel design.
IMHO it makes more sense for the Moon to have railguns and hoverloops.
@@sp66-know-try-thinkGadgetbahn, won't work. Just use existing maglev technology that is currently in use in Japan and China
Resist th temptation to comment on what YOU DONT KNOW
The Northrop Grumman gravy train
I think a Moonorail would make much more sense
I see what ya did there lol
They forgot the CRATERS!
Given the quality of lunar dust, a railway on the Moon has few prospects. For Luna, railguns and hoverloops make more sense.
"A Moonorail would make much more sense!
The regolith is not too dense."
"I hear those things are awfully loud"
"It glides as softly as a cloud"
"Is there a chance the track could bend?"
"Not at one sixth g, my Hindu friend"
"But Main Street's still all cracked and broken"
"Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken"
Moonorail!
Moonorail!!
Moonorail!!!
The lunar railroad study is probably more oriented towards how to go about manufacturing the needed components for the railroad (rails, ties, clips, points, etc.) locally on the moon. In Situ Resource Utilisation should be at the core of any permanent offworld colony. That such a railroad would link together multiple bases with a single spaceport would be a bonus.
Given the quality of lunar dust, a railway on the Moon has few prospects. For Luna, railguns and hoverloops make more sense.
Thanks Elysia
She's back!
Engine-uity! Nice! :)
Honestly, the idea of a moon train sounds way better than traversing through rough terrain everytime
Yea plus using a roller coaster like rail would impove the traction and thus speed
Loved the lunar "Advanced Simulation"! lmao
When you mentioned the unusual launch altitude and number of satellites that changed I immediately thought, STARSHIELD. Though admittedly I couldn't recall the name. But I knew SpaceX was working on military satellites related to starlink.
In my opinion it was a bunch of Starshield Prototype Satelites!
I think This Week in Spaceflight will work awesome on X
One of the big problems with ground transportation on the Moon is the dust. It gets into everything, including the bearings of the wheels. I do wonder how they will obtain enough traction, as rail traction depends upon the weight (not mass) of the locomotive. They may need to use rack and pinion, as is used on terrestrial railroads that need to climb by more than about a 1 in 12 slope.
5:02 Live and Let Classified Fly !
Lunar rail definitely has application for mass transport, not sure you can send tens of thousands per day with starship without it being a huge waste.
Thanks.
i love how the advanced Lunar Simulation is basically justa grayed out shot of a desert train
pssst! How can you spoil that high tech simulation? ;-)))
1:40 “Advanced Simulation”
That’s hilarious
engineNuity was awesome
Whoo Hoo K-36 482!!!! That was my ride!!
Telescopes replacing telescopes is a bit complex.
There's a few things at play:
field-of-view, wavelength and resolution
We have never replaced a telescope with the same FoV and wavelength but better resolution. Instead we're generally adjusting the FoV or wavelength range at the same time.
Some telescopes are like scalpels - looking at a very small section of the sky at once.
Some telescopes are surveyors - huge area of the sky.
You need both - the surveyors find interesting stuff, the scalpels allow you to dive into the detail.
There's overlap between JWST and Hubble, between Hubble and NGRT, JWST and Spitzer.
Chandra has no overlap with anything really - just some smaller missions that have scalpel'd tiny bits - e.g NuSTAR.
There's the European XMM-Newton but that's also 25 years old.
Regular old earth hot weather sometimes ruins railroad track by causing the steel rails to expand so much that they buckle. How exactly they would be engineered to withstand the extreme lunar day-night temperature swings without buckling I am not sure...
How can we even think about studying a concept for a LUNAR RAILROAD when we can’t even give nasa the money to use the Chandra observatory
DARPA is DEFENSE research, so it is not monetarily limited.
Starship is an effective transport from Earth to LEO, but it is not suitable for LEO-Moon flights; it is ineffective for orbital flights. Other, specialized ships with different engines and a different concept are needed to provide low-cost mass transport of cargo to the Moon. Enthusiasm in space will never replace sober calculation. NASA's budget restrictions will lead to this sooner or later.
The subtitles spelt her name as "Alisia Seagull"
Funny enough i saw Darpa and such post this before this came out im very excited if we can have transportation on the moon
A train around the moon would solve its day-night cycle, could be used for electrical transmission, and keep solar panels in constant sunlight. Think of the Mercurian city on rails from the novel 2312
Circular train loops could also provide artificial gravity
Would think the escape slide should go down behind a wall at least, if not something more like a bunker.
I have always assumed that was the actual purpose of The Boring Company ; tunneling on the Moon and Mars
Trying to develop better tunneling tech, yes.
My first thought when I heard Moon Railway was the LeTourneau Overland train. While I doubt they actually mean a land train, it might work.
You probably could even power it by a small modular reactor (nuclear fision) sense diesel electric isn't an option. They're supposedly to be small enough to be transportable by a truck if I recall.
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
If the train is named Regolithpiercer I'll be happy.
actually using a rail gun system would provide a way to get back to orbit. 8 miles of track, @5G acceleration (dragon is currently 3G's ), would achieve escape velocity in about 24 seconds. the actual energy required by the rail system would depend on the craft and its mass
bruuuh you are suggesting something sooo hard, 24 seconds of 5G means an EXTREMELY LONG rail gun, and 5G is EXTREME, very very unhealthy, getting to lunar orbit is REALLY NOT that hard, I really don't see that... I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool as F, but just not realistic at all
To move cargo on the surface of the Moon, it is not necessary to accelerate transport to orbital speeds. For launching cargo into space from the Moon, orbital speeds definitely make sense.
Roadsters on th moon would be fairly hip
Railroads make a lot of sense for undeveloped land. When the US Transcontinental Railroad was built, the land adjacent to it became very valuable due to its accessibility.
Lunar rails could be an application for Rearden metal
China's not messing around with these moon missions
NASA's budget never goes over 30 billion, and has always hovered at 24/25 billion for decades now. Artemis is designed to stay within the regular NASA budget, it gets no additional funding (with the exception of the BO lander). The only way Artemis is not "fully funded", is if NASA decides to allocate their budget away from it. As far as a Moon train is concerned... I'd think building roads would be cheaper (all vehicles will be Electric after all). Certainly less complex, and using way, way less materials.
Given the quality of lunar dust, a railway on the Moon has few prospects. For Luna, railguns and hoverloops make more sense.
@@sp66-know-try-thinkagree, but I wonder how electromagnetic fields will react with the lunar regolith.
@@hawkdsl For this, it is necessary to carry out a wide range of research on the Moon, to finance it fully and purposefully, and not to spend madly on meaningless “returns of man” for the sake of PR.
@@sp66-know-try-thinkTrue.
Wdym “shady starlink mission?” 😭
Edit: it might be a space force satellite that they didn’t want other countries to see? Idk
FYI the timestamp at 12:45 is mispelled
do you think they will launch starship to the moon as a test the payload doors and leave a load of starlinks there?
'Deliver us the moon' monorail station vibes..
That's fine we don't need NASA, they can do what ever they want we don't look up to them anyway, if NASA won't or can't do guess who can and will
SPACE X
Im still baffled that flat earthers think this is all fake. Also on another note, i feel as if China is trying their hardest to take the moon before the US does.
Japan should have alot of ideas for the "Moon Train" as they surpased the US in that regard
Star Shield Satellite😂
If the orbit is big, can you just scale down the Earth to fit on screen please?
The Earth does scale down, it just happens to scale down to like four pixels when the orbit is anywhere the size of the Moon's orbit... 😅
2030 for Artemis 5?! This is not good news. At this rate, companies like SpaceX might just land humans multiple times on the moon before 2030. Look at how far they have gotton in the last 6 years. In 6 years from now, who knows what might happen. But a Mars landing will not happen in the 2030s IF we rely only on NASA since Artemis 4 in 2030 is definitely going to delay things.
Artemis 5 not 4
@@user-um2qy7zu1v I corrected it. But still, it is concerning that these missions are under budget and getting delayed
@@Imagine_Beyond yes you are right
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How many stops will the moon train have
"...returned back to....." is a redundancy.
'returned to' or 'came back to' would be correct.
Otherwise, good episode.
🙂
Magnetic levitation train I guess
IMHO it makes more sense for the Moon to have railguns and hoverloops.
Their railroad assumes no CRATERS?
2 missing satellites........spy sats!!!
How about allocating more $ on space and space exploration and less funding senseless wars !
Mars sample return is a silly mission. NASA would be better off sending analysis equipment on a Starship going to Mars.
चांद पर बीज बोने के बाद पेड कि जडो का तथा (शाखा ) डहली का आकर साईझ कैसी होगी 🤔
It would be nice if you also included India's spaceplane test flight
I’ll just buy a space ship from space x 😂
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Moon train? Sounds like Moon jobs! When are they hiring? Haha
Perhaps nasa should turn over Chandra to a private group to control.
I hope Amtrak isn’t on the moon
Moon moon 😂
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We cant even stick the landing of a box on the moon,a railroad? hahahaha how much is that study costing us?b.s
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TLDR This is a dumb comment and please stop posting it.
Time to start the betting pool. How long after the launch of the Boeing Starliner, will the hatch blow out? I'll go for 7 minutes.
Budget, how is that possible? You make a lot of progres and all we know the next economic will be space and only alocate the same amount? doring 50 years you increse it and dont go back to moon. Now you keep it flat when try go back to moon and build base? nonsens decision. Yeah is still a lot more spend than other country but the point is to increse it when thigs is update not when is maintance.
Railroad great the Chinese will be there soon cheap labor.
Primero deberían construir una base antes de soñar que tienen varias bases y que las van a conectar con un tren 😂
En estos tiempos se vive más en los sueños y en las fantasías que en la realidad. 🫣
They should let the Japanese or Europeans design the moon train.
I wish they'd just cancel SLS. It has been such a massive money pit just for the sake of funding defense/politician pocket companies
Once Starship is crew rated, SLS will be cancelled. Until then, it is better than nothing.
@@rareguitargallery2203 There is a saying about Congress, 'The only unstoppable weapon is the one produced in all 435 districts.' SLS is produced by many companies that give jobs to constituents and campaign donations to politicians. SLS will continue even after Starship is human rated, even if for only a few launches.
There is no way that Artemis is still flying in 2030.
Why does she keep saying it "returned back"? It's like saying it "came back back". Very annoying.
china found somethin on the darkside of the moon....
12:18 I'll blame that on the writer! ;-)
I'm not sure how happy I'd be to go to space in something made by Boeing these days 😬🫨💀