Massive SpaceX Starship Upgrade: Could This Really Work!?
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This has been a whirlwind of ground breaking updates as SpaceX prepares for test flight 5. Not only that, they have done huge testing this week. This is a Massive SpaceX Starship Upgrade. Could This Really Work!? I tell you, it is exciting to watch this play out. Along with that we have Record-breaking rocket launches and spectacles like this! Indeed, the space industry is absolutely buzzing with excitement. There is so much to cover today so sit back and relax. This one is dense! We have Falcon Heavy - GOES-U, Starlink Group 10-2 , Group 9-2 & Group 10-3 and NROL-186 (expected Starshiled), Starliner Return now in July, and update on Vulcan’s Second Flight, and finally Chang`e 6 and SVOM.
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I love watching the development of this rocket but is there really some people who thinks this thing will really be able to land of the moon?
@marcusHouse will you be at the next flight test?
@@LanceEspadron
No, unfortunately I don't have time for that... I need to clean up my toilet because it's extremely dirty and there's 2 years of dishes that also need to be washed.
I think that the chopsticks finding a booster mounted in the launch pad is somewhat simplistic especially when repeated. I wonder if a simulated drop test, while lowered from a crane, would be more challenging for a catch simulation? To date, they have not tested any kind of a catch. They have only performed slap tests. The point I'm trying to make, is that by lowering a booster in the same manner a hovering booster might approach from, the chopsticks would be tasked to find and catch the booster. They haven't done any tests to show they can catch an approaching booster. If I was the FAA, I would insist on more data other than a slap test and the one hovering water landing they have had.
16:30 Who else would we trust to deorbit the ISS? I would just turn over maintenance of the station to Boeing. No explicit mention of deorbiting it needed.
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Lmao
pin this comment for after deorbit attempt
sure and then 50 years after deadline to deorbit its still there, we could see this as a double win. unless tax payer money is involved
the issue is that the ISS doesn't have enough thrust in it's own engines to ensure it lands where it wants, and it's large enough for big chunks to survive re-entry. So if it de-orbitted on it's own it would make a crater at a random point on te surface, which is NOT what we want.
You mean to tell me that China is not overly concerned with the safety and well-being of their citizens? Imagine my shock... 😐😒
China doesn't give AF about human rights. Even when they are Chinese citizens, unfortunately.
Boy do I have some bad news about America for you
@ev17dan lmfao NASA or space x don't use fuels that damage the air quality and increase your chances of death by disease such as cancer by ten fold.
The Chinese space industry have been doing it for DECADES
Edit: yes methane creates carbon dioxide but guess what you produce both. Nasa uses hydrogen which in turn once burned with lox gives nothing but well water vapor.
@@ev17dan The United States is infinitely more concerned about the safety of it's citizens than China is. I'm not saying that that's saying much, but that's really just nonsense america bashing from you.
@banksuvladimir yea ask how flint Michigan is going, or hell your food chain why are Americans so fat after the 70s not to mention an absolute disaster of a Healthcare system, but yea your right cares deeply
Thanks Marcus and Team...! " If you Build it they will come. "
Marcus, how come it's so oddly satisfying to hear you say "and I will see you in the next video". Lol
Those fuel tanks are beautiful. Put some Raptor V2s underneath them, and launch them!
Glad that you were very clear about the issues with Starliner. Im a bit tired of reading the “OMG SpaceX will have to send a rescue mission for the astronauts” style posts.
Boeing reminds the world every day just how remarkable and unique SpaceX is.
Simply Brilliant Marcus - thank you
What a week. Amazing look thank you MH
I don't get whether or not around, and then they close completely around the starship hitting each other rather than bouncing and wobbling. You could close them faster if so. What he also needs is a bunch of smaller round clamps down the shaft that close in as well to distribute the pressure, and put rolling wheels on them so the ship can roll right through as it goes down in an activate brakes on the wheels.
Marcus, please do a video explaining all the ways the booster catch could go wrong.
What a week! Bonkers.
Should have tried the catch with the Hopper
I would think about a fireproof paint under the tiles
@4:00 the expendable ring looks at a loss for words.
I still can't believe we're seeing this happening at an almost lightning paste
I'm wondering if we'll get audio for the catch. We get it for chopstick lifts where there are some monstrously huge sounds as the chopsticks move under load. If a catch works as I suspect it will with the chopsticks contacting the sides of the descending booster just below the lifting/catch pins there might be some very interesting and equally monstrous sounds to hear. Although presumably SpaceX will aspire to perfect precision with the chopsticks ending up at exactly the width required to connect with the pins but not actually touching the booster sides in the real world I very much doubt that such a level of precision will be possible and since setting the chopsticks too wide would end up not catching the booster at all I suspect SpaceX will aim for the chopsticks gently pressing against the booster sides for the final second or so of the descent which means the chopsticks rubber will be acting sort of like brake pads. Admittedly it might well be drowned out by the Raptors but brake pads sometimes squeal so imagine what the squeal from a booster catch might sound like - like something out of one's worst nightmare perhaps.
If there's only two pins if the pins are not perpendicular to the arms how do they catch it. Are they that good at spinning the booster.
Rotation control is something they have down pretty well at this point.
why centre core not land like they used to?
Why not,hell nobody thought landing rockets vertically would work,they do it so successfully now and so often nobody pays attention any more
It would have been nice to know more about the Dream Chaser delay. Do we know how long it will be?
They haven't said yet.
The physics involved behind the fast-moving mechazilla arms, is why we do not have giant robot Jagers running around!!
But Pacific Rim was completely realistic!
Hopefully you don’t use the word insane.
I would never do that.
Haha, Tim's gotta start mixing it up and throw an "incredibly insane" in there.
That's funny....
That would be crazy! Demented!
@@MarcusHouse Thanks Marcus, I particularly enjoy all your informative content, thank you so much for keeping us fully updated. You know I was only being light hearted, ‘the other channel’ is still insanely awesome. 😂😂
Didn’t Elon also say that the deluge system would be different? Some sort of flame trench incorporated.
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With reference to the last flight for StarShip. Because Space X have known for a while that they are going to catch the booster. They must know where it is at any point of time. Then why didn't they film the booster coming down into the Ocean? They knew where it would land didn't they??
Excellent stuff bro, go Elon💪
Let's hope, that Starliner is back on earth, when SpaceX initiates the deorbit of the ISS.
I don't care if Starliner ever returns so long as the astronauts have a safe return.
So BO can make 4 BE4 engine a month while SpaceX make’s about 30 raptor engines and I’m guessing somewhere between 10 to 20 Merlin engine a month? Don’t worry you will get there someday BO.
On the last part, it's not bizarre at all. They just consider it acceptable to do.
NASA was trolling flat Earthers with that shot.
At this point, who are we to think it can't happen/work?
We now have rockets landing (sometimes in tandem) themselves on their asses ROUTINELY like it's no big deal.
I don't count it out until it fails so much it can't be fixed.
Sensational headlines aside, Starliner’s problems do beg the question as to whether this flight was/is sufficient to certify it as “operational”.
Would you risk your life in a return flight or tell Boeing and nasa to do one
For all the time and money they have been given you'd at least expect Starliner to be around as good as Dragon but the fact is it's not even a close second.
its fine. bring them back.
@@ThatOpalGuy its fine. bring them back.
If it was fine they would have been back already.
@@Scanner9631 The service module has little to nothing to do with the safety of re-entry. It will be trashed before heating begins.
I'm living for this catch
Please please please be successful.
This will be one of the most amazing sights in human history
Anyone in Wichita, KS who plans on being at Boca Chica for IFT 5? I saw Neil Armstrong step on the moon. I was 12 years old. I want to witness the IFT 5, especially the catch attempt. IF someone from Wichita IS going, I'll happily spring for half the gas and driving!! Respond here if you are interested. I'm a responsible retired chef looking for Mars!
@@bandarnesit was known that they will not catch with gridfins for a long time. Idea about gridfins was floating at the beginning of this chopsticks idea. Probably gridfins are considered just as backup catch points
lets hope this won't be IFT-1 all over again.
@@AutoBotPlays naaah. It will go over tower/starbase only if it will bleed off velocity and will have control over engines. In that case, almost empty booster even with crash, it will not make much more mess than standard test to destruction like plenty others during development
@@bandarnes most of what musk says is untrue or, at best, misleading.
Wow! The engineering teams at Spacex are truly exceptional!!!!! How in the world are they getting all this designed and built in so little time? The pace is next level!!!!
Mass production of product that was designed from scratch about mass production. That is additional level of complexity for starship system. Using as little machined parts as possible. Using cheap materials that are easy to process instead "space grade materials" that are light and strong, but very expensive and complicated to work with. This is why they achieved price per full stack, powered by most advanced engine (full flow staged combustion engine is peak of rocket technology rn. There is research on rotation explosive engines that are even more advanced, but rn it's only in lab. (I don't count electric/nuclear engines.)
I think if not that push for mass production Starship would be operational for at least 3-4 years. But cost would be much, much higher
No government BS /red tape with Space X
Thanks for making a point about why Starliner is being kept in space. The ability of SpaceX to make continual improvements in Falcon 9 is/was fundamentally aided by being able to examine the booster components after landing. Boeing will not have that chance, and wants to get as much data out of that trunk as possible. Nice presentation.
Weak Boeing cope.
@@leonardbakersMaybe. Seems more likely that everyone is NOT lying, and it actually IS the service module that’s being problematic, and the capsule will be fine.
@@737smartin
The issues are the thrusters that will cause the de-orbit which are inn that module. If they fail the capsule may not de-orbit for years or may be on an un-survivable trajectory (or impact an inhabited locale).
@@Scanner9631 Excuse me. At present, only one thruster out of something like 30 is out. The four other units came up after hot fire, which points to some sort of freeze up and an overly conservative computer monitoring every little fart and belch of the system. So I just know that you are a rocket scientist or something, right? Or is it that you watch a lot of TV and You Tube videos? Anyway, NASA learned long ago that you have to be open about things. They have been doing that since Apollo. They relearned it during the Shuttle period. When you lie, it comes back to bite you. I think it is entirely likely that the helium leaks are much like that ISS pressure leak was a year ago - detectable only by instruments. Why else would they be comfortable keeping the spacecraft at ISS for a month? They have been continuing to hot fire the thrusters while docked to the station to get data. BTW that is something that Crew Dragon CANNOT DO. Once they solve this intermittent thruster problem, the Starliner will be the only crewed vehicle that can also reboost the ISS.
Raptor engines look so streamlined compared to Blue Origins BE-4 engines.
You’re so right! Anything with Blue Origin moves as slow as a snail. SpaceX is like a rabbit lol
@@wesleylahman3710 A rabbit that never stops
BE-4 is also larger than Raptor, just FYI
Remember what the first version of Raptors looked like? Early engines look like plumber's nightmares, because of all the monitoring equipment. You are comparing apples to oranges, by commenting on how much slimmer Raptors V2 are to the BE-4 V1.
they are designed to mass manufacturing. It's the key the both Tesla and Space X success.
This will be the next big moment. We got a booster landing, then a double booster landing with Falcon Heavy, then a successful belly flop with a Starship. Up next is catching the largest booster ever out of the air. Gonna be wild.
Thanks for the update Marcus! Regarding the Chinese rocket, I sure hope international space organizations think twice about using their rockets for payload (France, ahem...).
Never trust China…
Dropping rockets with toxic chemicals on populated areas is quite dystopian.
And the people would probably be thrown in jail for complaining about it.
@@sfkeating surprised the video made it out alive 🙃
China is no different than other dictatorships. People don't matter, only results matter.
Great video Marcus. Have a happy vacation. You deserve one.
Can you imagine that happening in the US or Europe!!
They have perfected the falcon booster landings. It took some time of course but they will achieve this goal also. I can’t wait to see it!!
4 Falcon 9's & a falcon heavy in one week is insane, image showing that to someone 20 years ago
What makes this extra fun is that no matter HOW the early catch attempts go we know the program moves forward.
Its not as if NASA will shut the program down for a 3 year investigation if the chopsticks get sheared off.
You know that if the first catch ends up with the tower completely yeeted into the ocean Elon will high five the crew and the rebuild will start immediately.
and just think of the views, and clicks!! the publicity will be huge, no matter the result of this catch attempt :)
Success is not guaranteed, excitement is.
RUD'ing the tower would defiantly be exciting to watch.
nasa doesnt control this program.
Bear in mind that the tower and launch platform will probably need rebuilding or replacement very shortly anyway. Version II is a different but similar animal to Version I, and Version I is rougher on the launch facility than anyone had originally planned for. So I think SpaceX is going to go ahead and bite the bullet and get the work started once the 2nd tower and platform are ready.
I’m glad I’ve lived long enough to see this. I was born before we went to the moon. My great grandmother was born before there were planes.
Pathetic comment
Watching the re entry footage just highlights how well the team did in building the Space Shuttle back in the 70s.
Well yes and no....the space shuttle was called "the flying brick" by the pilots for a reason. It has very little relative control on re-entry compared to Starship, it's smaller in size, and therefore the amount of displaced atmosphere-turned-plasma trying to eat through the body is both smaller and of lower velocity. Even then it couldn't survive the level of damage shown on Starship's last flight, which caused the shuttle Columbia to disintegrate during re-entry. Bizarrely, safety-conscious NASA never developed a procedure for tile damage during flight and they just basically YOLOed its re-entry with a crew aboard....they never even sent anyone out to inspect the damage.
That Chinese booster could have landed on a school, but we'll never hear anything about it!
Brilliant; fast; action packed; beautiful images and videos. Supremely professional!
In regards to the designs you make for each of the launches i would love to see a Velcro or sew on patch to put on rucksacks and things.
Just stunned at how much detailed knowledge, and sharp observation you bring to this exciting , super-fast moving area of tech advancement. Thanks.
Thanks Marcus. You're my one must-watch video every Saturday
same!
Elon said during his interview with Tim Dodd that launch tower 2 will be taller than launch tower 1, that the chopsticks will be shorter , meaning they will have less inertia, meaning that they will be able to move quicker than the launch tower 1 chopsticks. And finally ...Elon said that launch tower 2 will have a COMPLETELY REDESIGNED OLM, with a .. wait for it...DUN DUN DUNNNN, A PROPER FLAME TRENCH... About time too , considering some of us have been saying since the start that a proper flame trench was going to be required, especially since Space X want to be able to launch starships daily and eventually even quicker than that. The bidet system was a short term fix that was never gonna cut it long term. I'm guessing it could be a scaled up version of the flame diverter trench at Massey's test
Site. Will be interesting to see.
Did you see elons kids there? Dude it felt like I was watching a Walmart dad when I saw all of them
I doubt the 2nd OLM will have anything like a traditional flame trench as it just wouldn't work. It is more likely to be a flame deflector with the same shower head setup built into it. Containing the energy from 35 raptors into a trench will just not be possible, better to let is dissipate in the open like the 1st OLM but with a deflector designed to improve dissipation and reduce reflections back up to the rocket.
@@schrodingerscat1863 elon has confirmed it will be a flame trench. and why wourldnt it make sense? more area the engines plumes can get out from
The flame trench is something we know little about right now. Trying to find some clues on that before talking too much about it. Looks like we may have a few signs in the latest RGV flight.
@@LeafBoyeNothing Walmart about Elon... Don't like the reference.
Uncontrolled sunlight through the window appears to be an unaddressed problem on the Starliner. See 20:01 when a gear bag is stuffed behind the window to block the sun. The launch also had the crew with direct sun hitting the astronauts face. Boeing should stop by Walmart and pick up a couple of sun shields in the automotive department.
They should put the iss into a higher parking orbit until we have the capability to bring it back, imagine having that in a museum
It is noteworthy that modern Aircraft carriers routinely catch multi-ton flying vehicles, most of which are moving horizontally at 100+ knots at the catch point, (even accounting for the forward speed of the ship). Aircraft Carrier arresting gear is well-known, and has proven to be reliable, and rapidly reuseable. Just what SpaceX wants for Starship!
How about placing 2 deployable “hooks” (very similar to US Navy aircraft tailhooks) on either side of Starship, just below the Grid Fins. Then equip each of the 2 catching arms with a sort of trapeze cable (wire rope) arrangement suspended a few meters ABOVE (and slightly inboard of) each arm structure. The cables would be routed around large sheaves and then into a piston/damper mechanism to absorb the deceleration loads (similar to aircraft carriers). This set-up would allow for minor dispersions and random ‘unknowns’ of the catching operation, including having variable descent rates, variable propellant masses remaining on board, variable surface winds, and minor horizontal/vertical positioning errors at engine shutdown. These are things that will always be inherent in the catch operation.
So imagine adapting the aircraft carrier arresting gear concept for Vertical ops rather than horizontal deck landings. Two sets of wire ropes, one for each catch arm, and Two deployable “hooks” on the sides of starship. It just might work.
Can you imagine what would happen if SpaceX dropped a booster like that into a town?
Yes .10,000 fanboys saying it was a successful test.
@@TheMoneypresident Let me guess ur a thunderf00t fan. I would imagine that nearly all spacex fanboys would condemn that.
@@MrShaapey no just against idiots.
Yey Hey Hey!
And right on time.
I would like to see the astronauts return on starliner myself. And the starliner program iron out all there kinks.
I am just a little over cautious about astronauts riding on a vessel that has to be tested DURING a human rated flight.
Of course this has to do with the space shuttles blowing up when I was a kid in school. Good luck best wishes.
I can't wait for the next flight, this will be so awesome and a step further in the right direction to mars 🚀🚀🚀🚀
Really liked the explanation of the Star Liner. It makes sense to study the "trunk" while it still exists.
Super great info Markus! Love your dedication! Please keep up the awesome job! For the Babel app, as an international photographer and videographer I am always needing to quickly learn the language of the area I'm working in. In the past I've used other apps and quickly moved back to Babel. It's awesome!
Great show! Wondrous flights of fancy and fantasy! Thank you! Well done! 🏆
Hi Marcus house thanks for a another wonderful video of the space industry plenty of new stuff going on there David 🚀👍👌❤️🇬🇧🍀
Falcon launches viewed from SoCal have been amazing. The twilight timing makes a good bright rocket across the sky experience.
I watch a bunch of weekly space news update channels, just to help drum in what amazing things happen week to week, but this channel is my go to for all the facts and information. Thanks Marcus and team.
Ahhh, another Saturday
All three of Starliner's flights were NOT test flights they were in fact demonstration flights. It was supposed to demonstrate it was fit to enter service. All three were massive failures. The latest endangered the lives of Starliner's crew and everyone aboard ISS. Chances are high at this point Starliner never flies again even if it returns it's crew safely....The fact they seem to be planning to bring it during the US Independence Day holiday when the country will be maximumly distracted could mean they intend to bring it back unmanned. Should that happen or should there be another failure aboard Starliner on the return Starliner will 100% for sure never fly again.....Honestly at this point I think it's done regardless. Starliner was a good candidate to deorbit ISS, NASA's announcement they are tapping SpaceX for that task is reasonable evidence NASA does not believe Starliner or any variant of the craft will be available in 2030.
Marcus, this is all just in only 1 week???? Wow! So impressive! What other company in the world is possibly better at getting things done?
Yea. It really is crazy.
I enjoy your SpaceX updates, but I REALLY miss your KSP videos. More please.
I've been wondering if they could they add COPV's to the chopsticks to get them moving faster.
Unbelievable just how much is going on with Space X. .
Another surberb roundup of space goodness. .
Thank you MH + Team for for your excellent continuing coverage
Hey there Rob! Great to see you mate!
Good morning Marcus and team.
Thanks for all the updates.
That was a ton of information! Very fast! Hope a glass of water was near by!!! Thanks for the week long summary!!!
The hydraulics are mounted too close to the hinge section. Move the rams out further and there won't be any slop in the swing. Weight aside, they need to be operated in variable pressure mode for a much smoother function.
Hey Hey Marcus! Thanks so much for the great and consistent content! Best to you and your team!!!
I wonder if most or all of the pieces of the International Space Station could fit inside SpaceX Starships returning to Earth? Imagine the ISS preserved as a museum. I realize it's highly unlikely.
It’s possible though, just never done before
Every single module would fit. All of them at once? No chance.
They probably could all fit, depends on how big the cargo bay on the Starship will be in the final version but the ISS was built by a couple of Proton rockets, Space Shuttles, Soyuz and Falcon 9s. Preserving at least a few bits would be nice for sure, getting it all back would be super costly requiring multiple dozens of launches I reckon.
It'd be far far cheaper to just build a replica on Earth.
@@Destarn If 1 Starship launch is lets say 2 million dollars in near future - up to like 40 million dollars to get ISS back to earth. Tho i dont thing starship can properly re-enter and land with this much mass and shitted center of mass. Its made to launch payload, not really return it
Yes, the Chicons don't give a danm about human life. They're monsters.
It is difficult to hear you screaming like that for more than a few minutes, but I gave you your candy given the amount of calories you put
Into that
They should put inflatabie bag that will inflate when the arm closes to catch. It will have to be protected from heat or made of material that wont burn
wow some amazing edits on this. How did you drive both cars. Did you and your wife race?
Given the pace of SpaceX operations - I don't see how any other company can compete...at least not for the next decade.
The arms need a second set of arms underneath the current set with a set of bottom tabs to catch the bottom of the craft
Double catch potential
Once the craft is secure the bottom set can drop out of the way while the main arms can place the craft where it needs to go
I just thought, Space X should place at least 2x Layers of the heat-shield tiles on the ship, that way he can also cover the joints using the top layer slightly off-set. Like brick laying but on the XY-Axis.!
Seems a little crazy to catch a booster with those little nubs, however if anyone can do it SpaceX can.
It's not really "catching it", more like "grabbing it while it hovers". The idea is that it doesn't have much or any speed when they catch it.
They do look tiny for such a big object, the engineering is staggering
The Chinese just use their population to cushion the fall seems to be the cheaper option
Swing your arm then stop it your hand will go past then return to where you wanted to stop just programming
Simple solution for Starliner, don’t use helium, use Argon.
Saturday mornings have become my favorite day recently, as I am always looking forward for the next Marcus House video.. Good Job man!!!
Shuttle encountered mission-changing issues all the time and even killed 2 entire crews, so this mob-minded condemnation of Starliner is ridiculous. And don't think for a moment that I'm a fan of Starliner; I think it should have been cancelled after the embarrassing OFT demo in 2019.
Some of the same people that condemn Starliner for having thruster issues cheered for Starship when it tumbled into the atmosphere with frozen thrusters. Sure, Starliner should have solved these issues by now, but remember that they've only operated these thrusters in space 3 times thanks to their insanely poor launch cadence. Also, these thrusters have caused issues for years, so their design may be a weak point in the architecture.
NASA tends to favor leaving test crews on the ISS for longer periods if there's no resource reason to bring them home. The Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission lasted 64 days and even included 4 ISS spacewalks, giving SpaceX and NASA plenty of time to gather data about the Crew Dragon. In fact, there was an option to extend the mission up to 130 days. The main reason that the current Boeing Crew Flight Test was scheduled for such a short stay was that the program is so far behind schedule that the ISS crew and vehicle rotations are now full, making it difficult to fit in the CFT for more than a few weeks.
Starliner is now simply fodder for social media trashing as trashing things is pretty much what far too many sad humans waste their precious lifetimes on these days :(. Cancelling people and programs seems to be one of the most popular hobbies in existence now that the Internet makes it so easy to be a negative influence rather than a positive one.
Couldn't agree more.
Seeing the orange cloud-plume reminded me of the acid lake formed at the processing site for "rare earth materials". Kinda how China rolls these days.
Anyone in Wichita, KS who plans on being at Boca Chica for IFT 5? I saw Neil Armstrong step on the moon. I was 12 years old. I want to witness the IFT 5, especially the catch attempt. IF someone from Wichita IS going, I'll happily spring for half the gas and driving!! Respond here if you are interested. I'm a responsible retired chef looking for Mars!
I wish man! Life's gonna get in the way for me. Nice to see a fellow Wichitan
@@My_Fair_Lady LOL! No, my body IS aging; I WILL NEVER 'GET OLD'....😎
@@stayxsiejohnson3572 I'm really not sure. The ground was always covered in 5 feet of snow as I walked to school...uphill...both ways. 😏👍
I love your updates Marcus, you always lift my spirits 🙏
Thank you Marcus, that was excellent. I especially enjoyed your little jab at the Internet, there at the end when describing the reality of Starliner.
Indeed. Like with any new engineering, you want to really ensure you understand anything that is not performing 100% so you can improve it. You can't improve it if you haven't spent the time understanding it. Having extra time on the station is just more opportunity to test that aft section.
Hope you have a safe trip! Thanks for the content as always!
1. Of courage I still love you
2. Just read the instructions
Are these the drone ships?
Yes, three of them: "Of Course I Still Love You", "Just Read The Instructions" and "A Sortfall of Gravitas"
They're all named after artificially intelligent spaceships in Iain M. Banks' "Culture Series" of science fiction novels.
Another great episode, Marcus!
Why not give these launching tower arms a sort of curved extensions at the ends so that on closing the arms together these extensions bump into each other (sort of closing the circle, although a circle it would not be) and damp the oscillations?
Seems like a good idea
SPACE!!!!
13:41 -- I often wondered how small the earth appears from a geostationary orbit! Amazing!
Keep in mind that the lens on the camera has a lot to do with that. Wider angle lenses make the earth look smaller, and telephoto lenses make the earth look bigger.
Will this work as is right now? Short answer is no.
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