in today's episode we will discuss some predictions of spacex's starbase works
in the coming days first of all spacex will soon lift ship 20 onto the orbital launch
mount to test the lifting capabilities of launch towers chopstick arms also known as catch arms
as spacex completed a successful stress test of the catch arms with six water balloons weighing
100 tons each the next test is with starship and that's pretty sure they have made huge progress
this month both with the meccazilla tower as well as starship prototypes at the starting of this
month we saw chopstick arms up and down movement several times and these tests were successful ones
actually we all are waiting to see them lifting ship and the booster and that's not yet happening
this week i got some information about the possible lift of ship 20 with the chopstick arms
four days ago in lab padres live cam i saw the ship's quick disconnect arm being tested
these arms will stabilize both starship and super heavy during stacking
also they shifted ship 20 near the orbital launch mount these all are a clear conclusion that spacex
will conduct ship 20s lift test with catch arms so will ship 20s lift with catch arms be successful
let's check the possibilities in spacex's stress test the water balloons weighed more than the
ship's dry mass that is we saw six water balloons hooked to the catch arms and as i said earlier
each has a mass of 100 tons from this data we got an overview at spacex held the stress test with
approximately 600 tons here you may think why i add approximately when the data was exactly clear
that's because six water balloons with 100 tons each would add up to 600 tons
but when i zoomed in the pictures and videos of the stress test i saw that water is not fully
filled in some balloons which clearly reduces the total mass also when i searched the internet
about the balloons that spacex used i came to know that these ones weigh 100 tons each and
they have clearly mentioned that it's up to the company whether to fill it up maximum or minimum
so basically the stress test was conducted with weights more than that of ship and booster
here i can guarantee that ship 20s lift test with catch arm will be super successful
because the ship's dry mass is about 150 tons which is far less than the mass used during the
stress test with water balloons even if they test booster that's not going to push the catch arm
to its maximum limits the only thing that may go wrong in lifting a ship with arms is the improper
alignment of the prototype with the arms if this happens that will definitely hurt the ship as
well as the chopsticks but i am pretty sure that everything will be okay since spacex has one of
the best engineering minds and they will take care of that one thing that drives me crazy is that
the mechazilla tower has complex mechanisms and is one of the engineering masterpieces
for me the operation of the launch tower is more important than the starship super heavy launch
the tower itself plays a major role during the starship launch both ship and
booster should maintain high precision during hovering in order to have a successful catch
just think of that scenario here precision is the major factor during the catching process
all other factors come after this because without accurate precision
both ship and booster won't fit between the chopsticks arms that's the reason
why the starship program gives more and more excitement when compared to falcon boosters
anyway we will wait and see what spacex gonna do with ship 20. nasa's first moon bound mission
for the artemis program is in final testing the team executed its second launch countdown
sequencing test monday january 24th with no major issues reported according to an agency blog post
the test demonstrated the ground launch software and ground launch sequencer which checks the
health and status of the rocket sitting on the pad nasa said in a post adding that another
function of the test was to get the space launch system sls rocket and orion spacecraft working
together properly with the sequencer the simulated launch countdown tested the responses from these
two systems nasa wrote in the blog ensuring the sequencer operates correctly on launch day the
ground launch sequencer hands off to the rocket and spacecraft and an automated launch sequencer
takes over control of the rocket from ground controllers around 30 seconds before launch
artemis one is aiming to send an unquit spacecraft around the moon using the never flown sls and the
once flown orion providing this mission future program work goes to plan nasa plans accrued moon
orbiting artemis 2 mission in 2024 then a landing with astronauts for the artemis 3 mission in 2025
followed by other crude missions later in the 2020s there's still more work to come
before artemis one enters a wet dress rehearsal in february which will load sls with propellant and
have the ground teams run through all pre-launch operations to ensure the system is ready to go
up next the team will work to complete the final program specific engineering tests for the
artemisia mission nasa said teams will continue doing final checks and closeouts of the moon
rocket in preparation for the wet dress rehearsal test next month all tests were performed inside
nasa's kennedy space center's vehicle assembly building in florida this is the same structure
in which apollo saturn v rockets were tested and constructed back in the 1960s and 1970s
the chinese company space transportation is developing a rocket with wings
for space tourism and point-to-point travel we are developing a winged rocket for a high-speed
point-to-point transportation which is lower in cost than rockets that carry satellites
and faster than traditional aircraft the company said in a recent interview with the ching times
the space plane would aim to provide rapid transport between two locations
on earth through suborbital travel and be fully reusable a video presentation
on space transportation's website demonstrates the ambitious plans
it shows animated passengers boarding a plane attached to a wing powered by rockets after
a vertical takeoff the plane detaches from the rocket-powered wing and continues its suborbital
journey to dubai in the middle east landing vertically on three legs deployed from the rear
the company whose full name is beijing lincoln chanching technology revealed that ground tests
are planned by 2023 with the first flight in 2024 and a crude flight in 2025. even more ambitiously
a test flight of a global or orbital crude space vehicle is planned by 2030 the company says
space transportation was founded in 2018 according to the company's website if all of this
seems a bit fast the plans have not appeared out of the blue space transportation announced last
august that it had raised 46.3 million dollars for its hypersonic space plane plans and the company
has recently been conducting a number of tests of its changing one and changing two vehicles
a tenth flight test was conducted on january 23rd followed by another test in collaboration
with a combustion laboratory belonging to chingua university and that wraps up today's episode we
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