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flights for starship there is just so much going on around construction and preparation for the
first orbital launch including these monsters there is a lot of fun topics to cover here alone
another terrific starlink launch with a few updates to share there
united at launch alliance with the latest mission for the united states space force some impressive
updates from the jurong lander after china's successful landing last weekend and also we
have more information on the launch failure of the electron as well another action-packed week
there is just so much construction work to keep up with right now after the successful flight of
sn15 a few weeks ago even though there has been no further flight activity this is actually the
time when the updates are even more fast paced than usual spacex doesn't need to close down
and evacuate every few days like we've seen more recently right now spacex are completely dedicated
to preparing for the first orbital flight with the full super heavy and starship stack we talked
about those new fcc filings last week this is coming and it is coming soon based on those
documents if you missed that you may want to check it out from the previous video we cover this stuff
every saturday and there will be no shortage of information to cover here over the next few
months so following its successful launch and landing starship sn15 has been placed back onto
the launch mount for a potential re-flight that decision is likely still pending a full inspection
of the vehicle including its engines which may need repairs or replacements initial inspections
that have been conducted thus far are understood to be looking quite positive there are numerous
options that still remain open to spacex from conducting ground tests to static fires and if
those are successful a potential flight would be looking quite positive that would also be a nice
feather in the cap for spacex if they do choose to refly twice in such a short period of time
i suspect this would only be tasked if and when it causes near no delays in the preparation
for the orbital flight test now to more visually represent the changes going on both brendan lewis
and boca charts have collaborated here taking two different approaches to represent the past
one or two years of testing at the starbase facility i just love these easy to read yet
extremely informative diagrams bokeh charts here is putting together visualizations of all of the
test events in the starship development campaign this one has 112 events across 13 test articles
that were seen at the launch site in 2020 from test tank 1 in january to the sn8 flight and
sn9 rollout in december brendan on the other hand has used the plethora of data from boca charts and
converted that into iconography to display all of the major tests this shows what each vehicle
underwent in 2020 and 2021 in an informative and easy to read manner that anyone can understand
this is going to be extremely useful to refer back to in the future they're just an outstanding
visualization of what spacex means by rapid iteration we can see right here that each test
article is undergoing increasingly more complex events to meet those technical milestones and
evolve the starship into a more mature design this shows how far spacex has come in just one year and
it puts some context to elon's tweet that a high production rate cures many ills at the orbital
launch site two new crawler cranes are in the process of being assembled to stack the numerous
sections of the launch integration tower first is the colossal 350 which has a maximum load capacity
of 1350 metric tons and a maximum hoist height of 220 meters with the constant naming designations
from the community this beast appears to have the common nickname now frankencrane due to it being
a collection of various crane appendages parts for another huge crane the lr11000 also began arriving
in a fleet of trucks last weekend this crane in comparison is a little smaller having a maximum
load of 1000 metric tons still a massive beast though both of these cranes are going to stack the
numerous refabbed integration tower sections that are being assembled at the old gas well site those
sections are now nearing the end of completion once done the three sections are going to be
rolled to the orbital launch site to be stacked on top of the first that is already completed
that's going to mean that these three jigs will then be freed up an assembly of the next
tower sections should begin with the focus of the first orbital flight of starship now accelerating
the support structure and work on the orbital tank farm are well underway several commodity
tanks have already been installed along with two large ground support equipment
or gse stainless steel tanks a third gsa tank is also ready to roll down highway 4 while the next
is currently being stacked this fourth gse tank also had its aft section moved into the mid bay
early in the week which has then since been mated with the rest these cryogenic tank shells are
also under construction at the same location and they're going to be placed over those gse tanks
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such as obl on twitter couldn't point out that we now have new foundation work going on here
on either side of the tank farm it's a little too early to know what these are going to be
used for but all the same we can start that research now that we know that they're here
the larger circle here on the tank farm is a base made up of steel plates the reason why
this is different to the rest of the gse tanks is because this will be the water tank because that
doesn't need to be a cryogenic tank it doesn't need insulation so it just needs the 12 metre
wide outer shell spacex will be able to hold a much greater volume of water in that one tank
because of this now we also see sections of the first orbital class booster bn3 or booster number
three has already begun stacking inside the high bay with its common dome being stacked on top of
the ford liquid oxygen stack this booster is now already standing at eight rings high while
the starship number 20 and bn3 combination will be first in line for an orbital flight it's expected
that the next boosters and ships will pair up accordingly sn21 with bn4 sn22 with bn5 and sn23
with bn6 on top of that it's understood now that a major design upgrade is set to come with the sn24
and bn7 pair now i just think the image of the week here is this one though just take a look at
this monster expertly spotted by the amazing bokeh cheeker gal with nasa spaceflight this here looks
to be the base of the methane downcamera which will split all that fuel into each of the raptor
engines this we assume is going to interface nice and clean with the thrust plate and wow
can you imagine the plumbing nightmare that it is going to be to mount all of the raptor engines at
this point we believe spacex are likely working on a 28 or 29 engine setup my guess is that there
could potentially be a 29th engine in the center with the eight raptors around the inner ring as we
can see here then there would be 20 engines that run around the outside we are going to be watching
this very closely along with all of that the facility was also officially christened as star
base this week with the installation of a light up sign along the fence adjacent to the gaswell
site how beautiful is it to see the base taking shape and quite literally adopting this brand now
now this past week we had some spectacular uninterrupted visions from the starlink rideshare
mission with the falcon 9 first stage returning on the drone ship of course i still love you we'll
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so yes i was pretty excited about the visions here captured for that first
stage re-entry lifting off just before 7pm on saturday may 15th from pad 39a at kennedy space
center we saw yet another flawless launch making this the 15th starlink mission for 2021 and it's
only may at this point so loads of flights going on the payload for this mission was 52 starlink
satellites instead of the normal 60 as well as a capella synthetic aperture radar satellite
and a unique shoebox sized tire vac satellite with a tiny telescope the booster return for me i think
was probably the best video feed i've seen with a drone ship landing so far with the footage sped up
here it really gives the perspective of the motion the booster takes as it reaches the highest point
before beginning a violent yet amazingly controlled descent back to the drone ship this is
just incredible to watch each and every time and it never gets old especially for me unfortunately
we didn't get to see the two ride share satellite deployments but we did catch the graceful release
of the styling satellites yet again bringing it another starlight mission to a close
a few updates as well on the next commercial crew mission it has now been confirmed by nasa that the
final astronaut on the crew 3 mission is nasa's astronaut kayla barron she will be the second
mission specialist in the crew and she's joined by commander raja shari and thomas mashburn of nasa
as well then we have the first emission specialist mattias maurer from the european space agency we
also got to see the patch release for crew 3 which was revealed by issa and it looks amazing
it showcases the crew dragon with the number three and the dragon there in flames this is going to be
yet another terrific mission to watch with crew 3 set to launch no earlier than october the 23rd
now on tuesday this week united launch alliance's atlas v launched the fifth sbirs satellite for the
united states space force and we were treated with this very up-close and personal view
of liftoff courtesy of ula president torrey bruno the mighty atlas 5 lifted off at 1 37
p.m eastern daylight time after an anomaly in centaur's liquid oxygen system forced a scrub
of the first launch attempt on monday the atlas here roared to life with the thrust there
provided by its two aj 60 srbs just terrific shots of the launch here by greg scott that
exhaust plume is just magic every time make sure you're following greg there on twitter if you want
to keep up to date with this launch photography you can also check out his higher quality versions
of the shots from scotphotomedia.com as well the srbs burned out and were jettisoned two
minutes and nine seconds after liftoff and over 30 seconds after they burnt out this is done to
ensure that the srbs separate cleanly from the vehicle after completely burning out that first
stage continued burning the rd-180 engines for another two minutes until booster engine cutoff
and stage separation followed by the startup of the rl10 engine which burned for ten and a half
minutes following engine cutoff two cubesats were deployed from centaurs after bulkhead
we had a three and a half minute burn of the rl10 stage and the satellite here was deployed
into its geostationary transfer orbit on its way to the operational geostationary orbit location
this is the fifth sbirs geostationary satellite to be launched with the four previous satellites also
launched on atlas fives this was the first atlas v flight of 2021 but certainly will not be the last
next will be the highly anticipated orbital flight test 2 of boeing's starliner set to fly no earlier
than july 30th of this year as well as the first crude flight test in december if that test flight
is successful what do you think are we likely to see all these flights happen this year it should
be nice to see starliner reach the international space station after this lengthy delay
now you've likely already heard the news on rocket labs last launch not going to plan but there are
a few more recent updates for those that didn't catch the launch the liftoff on the 15th of may
from new zealand was rocket labs 20th electron mission named running out of tows with the fueling
completed on schedule things were looking good for launch before a sudden hold was announced
due to high level winds quite quickly though rocket lab recycled and restarted the countdown
after that slight delay this launch was looking beautiful we saw the vessel pass max q smoothly
and onwards right up to the stage separation sadly at that point things quickly took a turn
for the worse shortly after second stage ignition you can see the telemetry going amiss before the
readouts were removed from the webcast we then saw the video feed quite quickly set to showing
the launch controllers and it was clear at this point that something was wrong with this mission
rocket lab soon announced on twitter that they did indeed have a problem which resulted in a loss of
the mission and were very apologetic there to the launch customers who were in this case black sky
and space flight as mentioned in the official statement rocket lab is prepared for a rapid
return to flight as soon as all investigations are complete and any required corrective actions are
put in place i guess a silver lining to come out of this mission was that there was success of the
recovery of the first stage the data retrieved did show that this stage performed well and did
not contribute to the flight issue instead this stage deployed its parachute and made
a successful splashdown in the ocean that is all part of rocket labs continued push for reusability
and of course they eventually want to be catching these boosters out of the air with the aid of a
helicopter as shown in their mid-air recovery demo so yes we hope to hear a little bit more about the
cause for that issue with the second stage what we currently know from rocket labs statement is that
the data suggests that an engine computer detected an issue shortly after stage 2 engine ignition
causing it to command a safe shutdown as designed the full review is expected to be completed in
the coming weeks and rocket lab again is expecting that quick return to flight now the chinese chiron
lander that touched down successfully last weekend has been quite the story throughout the week after
days of diagnostics all seemed to be well as far as we've heard and the rover itself which was
the payload sitting on top of the lander is about ready to descend and begin its job of exploration
last week we talked about the controversy around the unrelated long march 5b booster that made its
uncontrolled re-entry that stirred up quite a lot of negative attention where last week people were
asking why appropriate planning for the booster was not taken with this mission the chinese space
agency has demonstrated incredible planning and attention to detail credit where credit
is due here this is an amazing achievement for the chinese space agency mars is hard very hard
and this is the first time china has landed on another planet reaching mars has been a nightmare
for many countries it is much more difficult than landing something on earth where we have a thick
atmosphere or the moon where gravity is low and there is no atmosphere at all the main challenge
comes from the super thin atmosphere on mars you can't just use parachutes as it doesn't slow you
down enough and you can't just use propulsive tech otherwise the amount of fuel needed would be much
more than practical so you need to combine the aero braking technology with a propulsive landing
the way this landing took place seems very similar to historic missions the entire vehicle has been
surveying potential landing sites since it arrived at mars back in february this year
then it all came down to this the vehicle plummeted into the atmosphere wiping off a lot
of its own velocity to slow down enough for its shoots to open after that phase of the descent the
heat shields jettison away followed soon after by the lander breaking free to prepare for touchdown
various sensors on board detected the best landing spot nearby and that was it a safe touchdown was
reported the rover itself does resemble past vessels similar to nasa's spirit and opportunity
so there has certainly been a lot of inspiration there the vehicle is reported to weigh in at
around 240 kilograms and has similar solar powered systems that fold out as well on board it has
cameras and other instruments to investigate the geology of local rocks and the big question will
be whether the research once processed will be shared around the world regardless of your
feelings on the mission one thing i think that everybody can agree on is that added competition
in the space industry engages governments of the world to dedicate further funding and government
policy around staying ahead i think we would all be surprised to see how quickly we could land a
crew on mars if the motivation was high enough this ultimately is what we want to see so there
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