First, let me say thank you to Chris Kemp and Bryson Gentile for allowing NSF to come in and have a look around. Seeing the changes in production method and the cadence they are reaching is impressive. Looking forward to seeing these rockets back out on the pad and taking flight.
They need to upgrade the maintenance department invest some money in mechanics electricians cnc repair techs and master tools sets as well as extra parts and tooling
1 - Great to see a rocket company opens its doors to your cameras for a tour video. 2 - I like how they have invested in expensive top notch Japanese CNC machines to make quality parts, and it's great to see they do that much in house. 3 - I like how they think big, "A Rocket A Day", this is how an industry rise to another level, even if these ambitious goals don't end up with bearing fruit. 4 - I like how Bryson Gentile and Chris Kemp took the time to show the facility and explained the details of their processes and the mentality behind their manufacturing approach, eventhough I know this video has a promotional aspect, but they could easily ask for 5-10 minutes tour video and that would be enough for them, but it's an hour long video, (thanks to them and NSF). 5 - It's great to see there are people and startups that are into building large facilities like this one and manufacturing real physical products, when we live in a world where software and AI are far less risky and are far more profitable. Great Tour
An outstanding tour. All of the explanations were clear and as precise as..well...ITAR and such...could allow. Wonderful. PLEASE make more of these visits to Astra and to as many space launch providers you can. You folks have a great talent of making the employees comfortable, too. That's important for such presentations as these. Aloha from your subscribers out here in Hawai'i.
This is a super cool video. Always love when companies can show how they make things and demystify the process. Some of my favorite videos to watch as a mechanical engineer.
Thank you Jack and the NSF team for this behind the scenes look at Astra's manufacturing approach. They're clearly embracing the importance of the machine that builds the machine and acknowledging how this contributes to vehicle reliability. After a few Rocket 3 failures, this is obviously key to Astra's future success and this factory tour fills me with hope that they're going to come back better and stronger.
These videos really solidify the drive of the company, and what they are trying to achieve as a whole. I appreciate the time you take doing them, and not biasing to one or two rocket and spaceflight companies. This is so much better then when it was only NASA, and the behind-the-scenes was all scripted and sanitised, particularly during the Apollo and early shuttle development. This bodes well for future interest by students graduating and wondering what they are going to, or what they want to do as a career.
Thanks so much for producing this tour - what an amazing showcase of the current technology used in aerospace manufacturing. It really feels like we've arrived at a different mode of operation. The capabilities of a shop like this are just mind boggling.
Just finished reading “When The Heavens Went On Sale” so this is perfect timing. I’ve been wanting to research more about ASTR, mostly to see if it’s worth buying. Thanks NSF for providing a good research material.
Awesome. I'm blown away and tickled by the progress that happens when you bring efficient 'principles' into the manufacturing/design process. I'm retired after 50 years in industry being frustrated by the limits of 'legacy' thinking.
Thank you Astra team for letting us see behind the curtain on Rocket 4, as an investor it gets me very excited to see the future developments of this company and thank you NSF for yet another great video, keep up the great work everyone! thank you, cheers
Wow! What an excellent video! Thank you to Astra for allowing NSF to document your place in history! You have a bright future ahead. I also hope as Star Factory gets finished that NSF will be able to do a similar video for Starship.
Great video. Wow for Astra to give us that access is just fantastic. It is so important for space companies to connect with the fans and public. Having transparency without revealing the secret sauce is such a powerful means of evaluating a company; not only for shareholders, but demonstrating competency, quality assurance and the culture of the company. This is an essentially a showcase of the workplace to the likes of NASA and other customers. Congratulations Astra! I am rooting for you to be successful and hopefully pay back for all the investment and headaches. Chris and Bryson you can take the day off! To the NSF team - keep up the good work!
Thank you so much to the Astra team for allowing Jack and the crew inside! What an awesome video so informative!!! Also I didnt see Star Wars Lego or Street Fighter 2 at Starbase ;) Thanks again to all involved
What a magnificent tour. It stuck me that this tour is exactly what rocket building should be. What a vision! I hope with everything I've got that Astra are successful. They sure deserve it, what with all the effort and grind they are investing into their intentions for space.
The decision to move to Rocket 4 without sticking with Rocket 3 long enough to make some money seemed precipitate but now I see so much of the Rocket 4 production line was close to being ready at the time.
A fascinating episode! I assume that the reason that some images were blurred, and the lack of coverage of how the CNC machines were programmed, was due to ITAR.
Amazing. Loved it. Down side Jack with no face fur does not suit. Glad you grew it back for the voice over. Looking forward to the next vids, some testing etc.
Lots of neat things to see, but - I may be projecting? - feels like a super tension-filled place to work until one of their rockets makes it to orbit. Fella only sort've addressed the big question once, in the rocket show&tell at the end, with how the upper stage is pump-fed instead of pressure-fed this go around to kibosh a particular failure mode. They're also not running their own engines now, so 1) good that they move away from that "uneven" legacy but also 2) they don't have experience flying these engines. Didja sneak in any kind of "when" question that didn't make it into the video?
At first I thought a goal of 100 rockets a year was overly-ambitious but then realized that's about the rate SpaceX produces F9 upper stages at. I just hope their engine manufacturers can keep up. Side note: Judging from the raw roll of sheet aluminum the barrel sections could be longer. I guess the length is limited by what the 4-roller machine and friction stir welder can handle.
The key to economy is launch cadence. While reuse is one technique for achieving high cadence it is only one technique. Mass production is effective at reducing cost regardless of whether the products are reused. Falcon 9 is still relatively expensive to manufacture in part because over the past 12 years only about 50 have been built and a lot of the parts are expensive. Starship is being designed for mass production. At least a thousand are expected to be built over the next ten years.
Astra has always made aesthetically pleasing looking rockets, it's the execution that's failed them. It's interesting that they are working to fulfill Kemp's promise of a launch a day BEFORE having a working model to build from. Time will tell... I hope they succeed.
this also makes people be interested in space from a manufacturing standpoint not just going to space. kids (or adults) that might not be interested in going to space might think the processes to Build the rocket is what they want to do. it shows that common people CAN BE ROCKET Scientists!!!!!!
This was so cool to see! Its incredible to see how far they have come. I am so curious though what was on the inside of the ring segment that you had to spend so much time blurring out!
I had always assumed that when you see the lower stage of a rocket, inside the outer wall would be tubes, an inch of insulation, and tanks inside of that. Now learning that if you walk up and knock on the side of that stage, the other side of that sheet metal is holding the liquid fuel - that is just amazing. How can that possibly survive the vibration and the rigors of launch?
First, let me say thank you to Chris Kemp and Bryson Gentile for allowing NSF to come in and have a look around. Seeing the changes in production method and the cadence they are reaching is impressive. Looking forward to seeing these rockets back out on the pad and taking flight.
!Indeed Great Deep Dive🤿 And it was wonderful for the Whole Astra Team to give access that we would not normally have🚀🤠🖖🤓
I love how Astra makes the effort to reach out to the space fan community this way. Kudos to them
They need to upgrade the maintenance department invest some money in mechanics electricians cnc repair techs and master tools sets as well as extra parts and tooling
but they need to first focus on making working rockets. It doesn't matter how good your social media game is without that.
1 - Great to see a rocket company opens its doors to your cameras for a tour video.
2 - I like how they have invested in expensive top notch Japanese CNC machines to make quality parts, and it's great to see they do that much in house.
3 - I like how they think big, "A Rocket A Day", this is how an industry rise to another level, even if these ambitious goals don't end up with bearing fruit.
4 - I like how Bryson Gentile and Chris Kemp took the time to show the facility and explained the details of their processes and the mentality behind their manufacturing approach, eventhough I know this video has a promotional aspect, but they could easily ask for 5-10 minutes tour video and that would be enough for them, but it's an hour long video, (thanks to them and NSF).
5 - It's great to see there are people and startups that are into building large facilities like this one and manufacturing real physical products, when we live in a world where software and AI are far less risky and are far more profitable.
Great Tour
An outstanding tour. All of the explanations were clear and as precise as..well...ITAR and such...could allow. Wonderful. PLEASE make more of these visits to Astra and to as many space launch providers you can. You folks have a great talent of making the employees comfortable, too. That's important for such presentations as these. Aloha from your subscribers out here in Hawai'i.
This is a super cool video. Always love when companies can show how they make things and demystify the process.
Some of my favorite videos to watch as a mechanical engineer.
The context here about development vs production machining is great.
Thank you Jack and the NSF team for this behind the scenes look at Astra's manufacturing approach. They're clearly embracing the importance of the machine that builds the machine and acknowledging how this contributes to vehicle reliability. After a few Rocket 3 failures, this is obviously key to Astra's future success and this factory tour fills me with hope that they're going to come back better and stronger.
These videos really solidify the drive of the company, and what they are trying to achieve as a whole. I appreciate the time you take doing them, and not biasing to one or two rocket and spaceflight companies. This is so much better then when it was only NASA, and the behind-the-scenes was all scripted and sanitised, particularly during the Apollo and early shuttle development. This bodes well for future interest by students graduating and wondering what they are going to, or what they want to do as a career.
Thanks so much for producing this tour - what an amazing showcase of the current technology used in aerospace manufacturing. It really feels like we've arrived at a different mode of operation. The capabilities of a shop like this are just mind boggling.
Thanks for watching!
Just finished reading “When The Heavens Went On Sale” so this is perfect timing. I’ve been wanting to research more about ASTR, mostly to see if it’s worth buying. Thanks NSF for providing a good research material.
Awesome. I'm blown away and tickled by the progress that happens when you bring efficient 'principles' into the manufacturing/design process. I'm retired after 50 years in industry being frustrated by the limits of 'legacy' thinking.
I like Astra. I wish them good fortune. It must be tense times around there these days. Can't wait to see rocket 4 go!!!
Good to see Astra again. I really hope they will show us some more launches. Best of luck to Astras Team!
Fantastic presentation - both Astra and NSF. The way cost per launch vs. cost per kilogram determines the manufacturing process was interesting.
Thank you Astra team for letting us see behind the curtain on Rocket 4, as an investor it gets me very excited to see the future developments of this company and thank you NSF for yet another great video, keep up the great work everyone! thank you, cheers
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Wow! What an excellent video! Thank you to Astra for allowing NSF to document your place in history! You have a bright future ahead. I also hope as Star Factory gets finished that NSF will be able to do a similar video for Starship.
Great video. Wow for Astra to give us that access is just fantastic. It is so important for space companies to connect with the fans and public. Having transparency without revealing the secret sauce is such a powerful means of evaluating a company; not only for shareholders, but demonstrating competency, quality assurance and the culture of the company. This is an essentially a showcase of the workplace to the likes of NASA and other customers. Congratulations Astra! I am rooting for you to be successful and hopefully pay back for all the investment and headaches. Chris and Bryson you can take the day off!
To the NSF team - keep up the good work!
Holy smokes, a big boy video! Can't wait to finish it. 👍👍
This is a phenomenal tour. Thank you Astra for allowing this.
Thank you so much to the Astra team for allowing Jack and the crew inside! What an awesome video so informative!!! Also I didnt see Star Wars Lego or Street Fighter 2 at Starbase ;)
Thanks again to all involved
What a magnificent tour.
It stuck me that this tour is exactly what rocket building should be. What a vision!
I hope with everything I've got that Astra are successful. They sure deserve it, what with all the effort and grind they are investing into their intentions for space.
That was a really great tour, thanks Jack and the NSF team.
What a fantastic tour of the factory. Thank you NASAspaceflight. Couldn't help but think would blue origin give you a tour of their new factory?
Really great video. Thank you to Astra for the rocket engineering explanations. (And of course NSF for taking us all there)
The decision to move to Rocket 4 without sticking with Rocket 3 long enough to make some money seemed precipitate but now I see so much of the Rocket 4 production line was close to being ready at the time.
Nice to see Renishaw, a local company to me, supplying the DCC test & measurement kit in the QC dept.
It is sad how underrated this channel is. They put in so much work but UA-cam isn't on their side.😢
A fascinating episode! I assume that the reason that some images were blurred, and the lack of coverage of how the CNC machines were programmed, was due to ITAR.
Awesome factory tour. Thank you very much for the openess of Astra and the commitment of NSF!
Awesome video! Thank you to everyone!
Thanks for this look around the Astra factory. Very interesting. It’s great to see all the new rocket companies coming through at the moment
Nice to see where my money is going. I still have faith in Astra and feel like they are going to come out ahead. Proud to be a stockholder.
r u still proud tho?
Nope
I love factory tours. Very impressive set up they have there 😁🚀🚀
A cam shaft for the first stage FTS system! wow I never would've imagined that existed, wish I could learn more.
Now they just need to launch a Kerbal. Absolutely awesome factory tour.
Over one hour tour of their factory. Love what you're doing Astra!
I love the "It's a Thomas promise" sticker
These factory tours are just awesome. The more of them jump on the band wagon the better :)
Extraordinary openness! That CMM doing it's dance in the background in QC was amazing!
Thanks NSF and Astra!
Thank you. Great video for investors who want to know what's involved in making the rockets!
Amazing. Loved it.
Down side Jack with no face fur does not suit. Glad you grew it back for the voice over.
Looking forward to the next vids, some testing etc.
This is seriously cool and awesome. Thanks Astra and thanks NSF for this epic tour.
Jack's reaction to the wifi password disclosure was priceless!
Thank you guys!! Very interesting guid how to build the good rockets! Good luck Astra Space!!
Just finished astras portion of when the heavens went on sale, love the video!
Great video. Jack it is obvious that you were the kid in a candy store. Fun
Lots of neat things to see, but - I may be projecting? - feels like a super tension-filled place to work until one of their rockets makes it to orbit. Fella only sort've addressed the big question once, in the rocket show&tell at the end, with how the upper stage is pump-fed instead of pressure-fed this go around to kibosh a particular failure mode. They're also not running their own engines now, so 1) good that they move away from that "uneven" legacy but also 2) they don't have experience flying these engines. Didja sneak in any kind of "when" question that didn't make it into the video?
That was an incredible video. I watched in open mouthed awe at the whole thing. Please do more like this.
At first I thought a goal of 100 rockets a year was overly-ambitious but then realized that's about the rate SpaceX produces F9 upper stages at. I just hope their engine manufacturers can keep up.
Side note: Judging from the raw roll of sheet aluminum the barrel sections could be longer. I guess the length is limited by what the 4-roller machine and friction stir welder can handle.
Awesome tour, thanks for sharing it so openly!
Amazing tour!! Thank you!!
I didn't realize Rocket 4 was so much bigger than Rocket 3.3.
Great tour, kutos to Astra allowing it and NASASpaceFlight for doing it!
THAT was SO cool! Keep them coming!
What is Thomas Promise sticker?!?!?! I need to know. (Google only produces train stuff...lol)
I'm rooting big-time for Astra to get into the orbital club and start delivering payloads. Let's gooo! 🚀🔥
Still hard to take Jack without beard, but the amazing factory tour distracted me enough!
Great video! Thanks for including subtitles.
Very informative video, thankyou to Astra an NSF.
The key to economy is launch cadence. While reuse is one technique for achieving high cadence it is only one technique. Mass production is effective at reducing cost regardless of whether the products are reused. Falcon 9 is still relatively expensive to manufacture in part because over the past 12 years only about 50 have been built and a lot of the parts are expensive. Starship is being designed for mass production. At least a thousand are expected to be built over the next ten years.
Very pumped to see this complete tour footage. Go Astra Space!
Always awsome to see a astra tour video
We have to back these smaller rocketeers. They're reaching for space, they're at the forefront of human evolution. The planet is behind you Astra!
What an awesome factory and tour, so impressed with the manufacturing process and equipment!
This team is going to be a game changer. Can’t wait to see them build a second facility
hard to see astra is a game changer. they are just scam company
If this is what they can show, I REALLY want to see the rest.
Astra has always made aesthetically pleasing looking rockets, it's the execution that's failed them. It's interesting that they are working to fulfill Kemp's promise of a launch a day BEFORE having a working model to build from. Time will tell... I hope they succeed.
Like SpaceX, they are designing the rocket factory as they design the rocket.
Super interesting video, both as a rocket nerd and a youtube machinist spectator. Great stuff!
So which rocket factory is still missing a factory tour on UA-cam?
Also good bye to Michael, joining the NSF Alumni!
Blue origin?
@@AvrohomperlI think you're right. Maybe some other small sat providers too.
Will they even have enough money to last until next launch? If it’s even successful. Scary situation for astra they are burning lots of cash.
this also makes people be interested in space from a manufacturing standpoint not just going to space. kids (or adults) that might not be interested in going to space might think the processes to Build the rocket is what they want to do. it shows that common people CAN BE ROCKET Scientists!!!!!!
Super fun to watch! Thanks ASTRA.
This was really cool Thanks for doing it.
"Nervous opsec noises" You slay me!
This was so cool to see! Its incredible to see how far they have come. I am so curious though what was on the inside of the ring segment that you had to spend so much time blurring out!
Thank you for the tour. i believe in astra. Looking forward to a successful rocket 4 maiden voyage
What an interesting video 👌
Pure awesomeness!
Excellent content. Astra's team likes doing these tours and we love watching them.
I had always assumed that when you see the lower stage of a rocket, inside the outer wall would be tubes, an inch of insulation, and tanks inside of that. Now learning that if you walk up and knock on the side of that stage, the other side of that sheet metal is holding the liquid fuel - that is just amazing. How can that possibly survive the vibration and the rigors of launch?
This was amazing! Thank you!
So cool! Y'all have the best jobs ever.
10:41 "Oh Look! It's MILLING!" mem material right there
Im an investor for the long term and I'd like to thank you for this awesome tour.. Definitely will dollar cost another 5k shares.
Congratulations Astra you have achieved SpaceX 2016 👍👍
A rocket a day is absolutely crazy.
Even a rocket a week is ambitious.
Excellent vid, well done all.x
Had to blur the inside of the barrel sections hu? I wonder why?
Epic videos as always
Walks in with safety glasses... first guy they see in there isn't wearing any :D :D, also no helmets.... hahaha
This was amazing ❤❤
Which came first - Jack's interview with CEO Chris Kemp or Jack's comments of the interview?!
NEW CONCEPT OF FACTORY+ NEW FUTURE FOR ROCKET+GREAT DEVELOP
this is so cool, thankyou!
Well done!!!
On a side note its funny and interesting how the logistics of roads and shipping containers can define the design of rockets.
Cool af, thanks for touring the facility.
That was great Jack Beyer.
Give it your best ASTR.
You can see your beard growing throughout the video, lol
Nice episode!
- NOM