Analyzing Video Footage Of Collapse of Massive Arecibo Telescope Scott Manley 2020-12-04 | The collapse was on Tuesday morning, but yesterday the NSF made video of the catastrophic collapse available, and so many viewers asked I continue my long tradition of 'coping by analyzing failure' and document what I see in this footage. It's hard to watch because this magnificent structure has always been part of the world of astronomy for me.For those that feel moved into action a starting point may well be this petition ask the White House to consider rebuilding the facility.https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/rebuild-arecibo-observatoryJuan R Costa's images of the structure after collapse are available on the NotiCel site, they're the best images of this:https://www.noticel.com/galeria/20201201/imagenes-aereas-exclusivas-del-colapso-del-observatorio-de-arecibo/
Why Nuclear Rockets Are Going To Change Spaceflight Scott Manley 2024-06-02 | Nuclear Rocket Engines or more correctly Nuclear Thermal Rockets were seen as a key technological requirement for missions beyond the moon, and a lot of science and engineering effort was directed towards building a workable solution before the conclusion of the Space Race lead to the drawdown of funding for missions beyond Apollo.But the technology is back on the roadmap and is expected to be tested as soon as 2027 with the DRACO mission. So in this video I want to explain why nuclear rockets can beat chemical rockets and Ion engines for the right application, and talk about some of the unique engineering and mission planning problems that are associated with nuclear powered spaceflight.Lots of credit for collecting the research goes to Beyond Nervahttps://beyondnerva.com/And of course to Atomic Rocketshttps://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
A Meteorite Older Than Earth? Control Panels from Soviet Space Shuttle? - Steves Space Museum II Scott Manley 2024-05-28 | Continuing the tour of Steve Jurvetson's collection, starting out with a panel ejected from SpaceX's first flight of crew dragon with humans on board. This covered the parachute during launch and reentry, and it was discarded during descent so the parachutes could deploy. It also has an interesting story regarding the legality of recovering and salvaging rocket parts, which technically remain the property of the builder even if they as lost far outside territorial waters.And that's just the start, there are lots of panels from the US and Soviet space programs, High quality images and discussion of the importance of many of these can be found on Steve's excellent Flickr accounthttps://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Rocket Engines! Space Computers! Apollo 11 Space Clip! - Steve Jurvetsons Space Collection Part 1 Scott Manley 2024-05-26 | I got to Visit Steve Jurvetson's private museum of Spaceflight hardware, he's a Silicon Valley investor who's managed to assemble one of the best space museums with items from Goddard through Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Shuttle and even parts of SpaceX launch vehicles. He has managed to acquire things that flew to the moon on every Apollo mission.This was just 2 hours of us looking at things and Steve enthusiastically explaining the history of things while I tried to capture the tour on my phone (I had planned to bring better cameras, but messed that up)There's more to come!All these exhibits come with better photographs and minus the space geek banter at his Flickr album:https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/albums/72157623704246792Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Starship in Two Weeks - Starliner When? - Deep Space Updates - May 23 Scott Manley 2024-05-24 | Catching up with a lot of news. China launches a new Long March rocket, Blue Origin's New Shepard starts flying humans again. Boeing once again fail to do something with Starliner on time. SpaceX launch a lot of satellites and get ready for Starship flight number 4.And, Rocket Factory Augsburg test a rocket stage in Scotland at Saxa Vord spaceport!Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Why Formation Flying is an Art and Science - Experienced From A Yak-52 Scott Manley 2024-05-21 | I went flying in the back seat of a Yak-52 to find out all about flying in formation with a group of pilots calling themselves Dragon flight. This was specifically a practice session for a memorial flight for a recently deceased pilot featuring a missing man formation. This wasn't a military performance, just a bunch of experienced pilots with the required training doing flying close patterns in the sky, like they used to with their friend.There's a lot of specialized techniques and terminology involved, a lot of understanding and management of your position, orientation, velocity and of course energy.I flew with Hoagy, I brought the cameras, he flew the plane, narrated the process, and I filled in the gaps.Music:The Whole Other - 'Between The Drops'Unicorn Heads - 'Vital Whales'TrackTribe - 'Coastline'Quincas Moreira - 'Airborne'Jeremy Blake - 'Sunspots'TrackTribe - 'Monument'Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Why Chinas Shenzhou is Better Than Russias Soyuz Scott Manley 2024-05-17 | China's Shenzhou spacecraft is heavily inspired from Soyuz, and there are likely systems copied directly from Soyuz. However, with the benefits of 21st century development it's not wedded to many of the limitations imposed by the Soyuz heritage.Which oddly enough means that between the last flight of Shuttle and the first Crewed flight of Dragon it was the best operational human rated spacecraft.... I never thought about that until I wrote this description.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
GPS Jamming & Spoofing - How Does It Work, And Whos Doing It? Scott Manley 2024-05-13 | There's been lots of stories over the last few years about GPS Jamming and Spoofing, this was always something that was known to be possible, but in the last few years it's become a near constant feature of conflicts, hot and cold, around the world.Track GPS Interference using ADS-B datahttps://gpsjam.org/Sorry about the crappy AI Generated thumbnail, I'm just running out of spare time.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
SpaceX Reveals EVA Suit - China Launches Moon Mission - Deep Space Updates May 4th Scott Manley 2024-05-05 | Another batch of space news, with some big launches, big deals and big reveals.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Old Data & New Discoveries: How THOR & Computational Astronomy Discovered 27,500 Asteroids Scott Manley 2024-05-02 | Donate to the B612 Foundation to support this kind of work https://b612foundation.orgDiscovering an asteroid involves more than just taking a photo of a space rock, it's required to compute the orbit of the object and that requires multiple images over time and lots of math. Once you have an orbit your can figure out where it will be in the future and the past, and importantly, determine that it's not the same as and of the million other asteroids already known.In recent years new cloud computer resources and software have enabled scientists at the Asteroid Institiute to explore old data and find new discoveries, specifically 27,500 asteroids were found in images from the Dark Energy Survey which had primarily been looking at supernovae.Find out more about the Asteroid Institute Here:https://b612.aiFollow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
NASA Abandoned A Spacecraft in Orbit for 5 Years. When It Came Home It Surprised Them! Scott Manley 2024-04-29 | NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility started out as a meteorite exposure payload, but evolved to look at every aspect of material changes on orbit, in particular by the time it was launched it was realised that one of the biggest threats in low Earth orbit is atomic oxygen which would slowly erode many common materials. The spacecraft was covered with experiments and was supposed to spend 12 months in orbit, instead because of delays and the Challenger disaster it spent 69 months in orbit and was weeks away from falling back to earth.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
USA Put A Nuclear Reactor In Space And Abandoned It - How Did It Work? Scott Manley 2024-04-25 | In the early days of the US Space program there was a parallel nuclear power program to develop the nuclear power technologies needed for spaceflight. The Space Nuclear Auxiliary Power (SNAP) program worked on both isotope decay generators and fully operational fission reactors. And while several spacecraft have been launched to other planets using radio isotope generators, the US only launched one fully operational test reactor - SNAP 10A which operated according to predictions from ground tests. Until the host spacecraft failed 40 days into the mission.While the concept was proven, no mission could be matched to the capabilities and no other test reactors have been flown by the USA.(The Soviet Union on the other hand flew several)Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Delta Launches for Last Time, Falcon Boosts Lands for 20th Time - Deep Space Updates Scott Manley 2024-04-19 | It's been a few weeks as I've been busy with work, solar eclipses and researching things, but the space world continues to do its thing and I'm here to help you keep up with the most Important stories.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Eclipse 2024 Was Almost a Disaster - Saved By Last Minute Change of Plans Scott Manley 2024-04-14 | I had planned to go to Texas for the solar eclipse, these plans were almost a year old, but, 10 days before the date the weather was clearly not going to cooperate. On Wednesday we made the decision to cancel the plans, and go somewhere else, a place which was in the middle of a snowstorm, but the weather predictions assured me would be clear - Montreal.Many of the eclipse planning maps come from this site:http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/Solar_Eclipses.htmlFollow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
The Space Shuttle That Didnt Reach The Runway - Why Did Atlantis Land Short on STS-37? Scott Manley 2024-04-05 | In 1991 Space Shuttle Atlantis returning after STS-37 was forced to land on a lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base which had never been used by a shuttle before and wasn't included in mission plans.But across the US the weather made it the only option, and to compound things, in addition to the runway being unfamiliar, the winds threw a few curveballs at them resulting in an approach that landed over 3000 feet before it was supposed to.Wayne Hale published his excellent first person account of this mission:https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2024/03/10/putting-atlantis-at-risk/Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
How Did The Shuttle Get Home Before GPS? Scott Manley 2024-04-01 | Having worked on the avionics in my plane I got curious as to how the space shuttle would navigate itself thousands of miles through reentry to a pinpoint landing in the days before GPS was a thing.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Top Gun Pilot Lands Space Shuttle Scott Manley 2024-03-28 | Astronaut Scott Altman ('Scooter') commanded STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope, no doubt his experience flying fighter jets helped make this landing.Before he was an astronaut he was a naval aviator, flying F-14's and he specifically flew many aerial stunts for the movie Top Gun.This is a montage of multiple cameras, the shuttle view through the HUD and internal communications between the crew on the flight deck during this critical phase of flight. Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Two Spacecraft Failed on The 13th! What Are The Odds? Deep Space Updates Scott Manley 2024-03-26 | In the last couple of weeks there was more than just Starship launching, here's all the stories I can think of.Launches from USA, Russia, India, China, Japan and even New Zealand!Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Japans Biggest Rockets - Keeping The Thor Alive Scott Manley 2024-03-21 | Japan's space program is hugely capable, they've provided one of the most important parts of the ISS, were the first to return samples from an asteroid, recently they've landed on the moon and debuted the new H-3 rocket. But their biggest launch vehicle is a direct descendent of the American Thor/Delta rocket and while Delta is soon to be retired, Japan's H-3 has a long history ahead of it.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
New Plane - Surprise Problem Forces Abort Back To Base - Check Yo Checklists Scott Manley 2024-03-15 | On one hand, I had a minor emergency with my new plane, and I’m pretty happy with the way I handled it and did the whole flying safe thing for real. On the other hand, it wasn’t a hardware failure with the plane and was entirely down to an undocumented control configuration, with an unlabeled key switch. I should have caught this earlier if I was paying attention, on the Cirrus there’s a requirement to check the electrical power during the run up, but not on this plane, I think I’m adding it to my checklists.Beyond this, the plane has been great to fly, we’ve managed to fix the right screen, which had been written off by the avionics people we approached. The biggest remaining problem is the right wingtip nav light isn’t working, and as far as we can tell there’s a broken or disconnected wire from the time the wing was removed for transport. The final flight by the previous owner ended with the plane running out of fuel and landing in a field, and it’s likely that something wasn’t properly connected.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
SpaceX Orbit Largest Spacecraft In History also SpaceX Destroy Largest Spacecraft In History. Scott Manley 2024-03-14 | SpaceX's 3rd flight of Starship was spectacular, even though it's the first such flight without any explosions. It was also a step forward for the space company making it a success, but far from a complete success as both booster and Starship failed to control themselves all the way to landing, and at least one on Orbit test - the engine relight failed.The starship on orbit failed to maintain attitude during the initial reentry phase and this doomed the spacecraft to a fiery disintegration over the Indian Ocean.Congratulations to SpaceX on setting new records - let's get some soft landings next time.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
NASA Astronauts Graduate - Talon Goes Hypersonic - Starship IFT 3 - Deep Space Updates - March 11th Scott Manley 2024-03-11 | Deep Space Updates is my semi regular news round up covering space, and I guess in this case aerospace. There have been 5 launches in the last 10 days, all from SpaceX. A new crew has launched to the ISS and the previous crew is returning right now.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
The Surprising Success of NASAs First Moon Landings - The Surveyor Program 1966-1968 Scott Manley 2024-03-06 | The Surveyor program was originally the grand plan for lunar exploration in the 1960's until Kennedy decided to prioritize putting humans on the moon. Instead the Surveyor missions, developed and operated by JPL, became precursor missions to test technologies and measure the lunar surface to make sure humans could safely land on the moon.After recent lunar landing missions experienced various levels of success, I was really curious as to how the landing guidance operated on a 60 year old spacecraft without fully digital computers. Using 4 radar beams the spacecraft's analogue guidance system was able to descend under control and cancel its velocity for the soft landing.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
India Names Its First Astronauts, Varda Shows Amazing Reentry Video - Deep Space Updates March 1st Scott Manley 2024-03-02 | Due to scheduling difficulties this is more than a week late, and there's a lot of news to share. With limited bandwidth we only got a few images from the moon so far, and Japan managed to bring its lander back to life after a night on the lunar surface. India selects their astronauts for their first human space flight. Varda shares and amazing video of their capsule reentry and SpaceX continue to set new records.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Why NASAs First Landing On The Moon in 50 Years Matters - Its Commercial, Cryogenic & Confused Scott Manley 2024-02-25 | Intuitive Machines have successfully soft landed on the Moon, carrying a number of payloads for NASA, this represents a return to the moon for the USA. However far more significantly, it's the first purely commercial lander to land on the surface of the moon, and the first lunar lander to use purely cryogenic propellents for all its deep space maneuvering. Both of these factors are core to NASA's Artemis program, and so seeing success here is important to NASA's plans.However.It's far from a perfect success, because it appears to have fallen over during the landing, and this is limiting the communications with the Earth, it's not clear how much science will be possible with the lunar surface payloads, but at least 3 of the payloads already contributed directly to the success of the landing.The model I used in animations is by IronManElonMusk for Juno New Originshttps://www.simplerockets.com/c/y29Fg0/NOVA-CFollow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
This Toy Blew My Mind - 1960s Toy Using Technology I Didnt Know Existed Scott Manley 2024-02-21 | I've been out of town clearing out my mother in law's house, which means I haven't had time to make videos, but, in the attic I found this toy which used Shape Memory Polymer technology, and I thought that this kind of thing had only been invented in the 21st century. Ok it's not much of a toy, but it is fascinating to figure out how this worked, and how there's a link to spaceflight in this story.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Dropping Drugs From Space - Varda Gets Permission To Return - Deep Space Updates February 15th Scott Manley 2024-02-16 | A weekly round up of space news, including all the rocket launches.Varda Space finally get permission to drop the drugs they made in space back to earth.Intuitive Machines Odysseus launches to the moon.Collins tests a space suit in zero G.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
The 1940s Jet Engine That Became Star Wars Design History Scott Manley 2024-02-12 | I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and, I also like talking about propulsion, so it's about time I talk about this important link where a 1940's Derwent Jet engine had its parts repurposed into props for a Galaxy Far Far Away.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Cosmonaut Will Spend 3 Years In Space, Juno Visits Volcanic Moon - Deep Space Updates - February 8th Scott Manley 2024-02-08 | Another installment of space news, let's see if we can make this a weekly event this year, after all we expect enough launches to keep me busy. At least that's what I thought, only 3(!) launches this week and one of those was happening as I recorded. If you want to see more of those amazing images from Juno, check the Junocam page:https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processingFollow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
The Ridiculous Journey Of The First Email From Space Scott Manley 2024-02-06 | The first email sent from space is a common story dredged up by lazy publications on a slow news day, the story that in 1991 Astronauts on Atlantis send an email to Earth containing Terminator 2 references. The story usually stops there.But, you might have noticed I'm a bit of a nerd and I wanted to find out exactly how this occurred, I've built some strange hacks to solve problems, and know that computer networking can frequently devolve into digital matroshka dolls with data inside other data packaged in different ways.And the first E-Mail sent from space is exactly this kind of thing, with Digital data encoded into audio, encoded into a different kind of digital, wrapped into K Band radio etc and somehow eventually getting to the servers on Earth.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
The Strange History of Advertising In Space Scott Manley 2024-02-03 | Astrobotic's recent lunar mission had a few advertising partnets, Pocari Sweat and DHL were the most visible, and while many people expressed surprise at this, they were even more surprised to find out this kind of thing has been going on for over 30 years.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Europe Plans To Launch Million Mile Long Space Laser Antenna - Deep Space Updates - January 31st Scott Manley 2024-02-01 | Closing out January with a handful of launches, SpaceX carry Cygnus to the orbit, the cargo space craft which is supposed to provide dissimilar redundancy to the commercial resupply services contract. The European LISA gravitational wave antenna gets officially adopted by ESA after 30 years of development. Iran's Simorgh rocket make it to orbit after 7 years of failed attempts. And much more.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Tragic Final Flight Of NASAs Martian Helicopter - Stranded in Neretva Vallis Scott Manley 2024-01-29 | After an emergency landing, a test flight and a lost of communications we were sad to hear that Ingenuity's flying days are over and it will end its mission parked on sand dunes in an ancient riverbed.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Japan Finally Reveals What Happened To Their Lunar Lander! And It Really Did Surprise me! Scott Manley 2024-01-25 | Wow!JAXA's SLIM Spacecraft performed a near perfect lunar descent until the point it was hovering 50m above the lunar surface, at that point there was a huge engine failure and one of the nozzles breaks off. The lander adjusts guidance and successfully lands anyway, but with too much lateral velocity to reach the correct orientation.Thanks to Tony De La Rosa for translating the slides.Original slides, images and video are here:https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/slim/SLIM/gallery/index.htmlFollow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
USA & China Launch New Rockets, SpaceX launches All European Crew: Deep Space Updates - January 21st Scott Manley 2024-01-22 | A round up of all the news from the past couple of weeks, clearly I need to do this more often!Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Japan Lands On The Moon.... Upside Down? Astrobotics Moon Lander Lands On Earth? Scott Manley 2024-01-19 | Over the last 24 hours we've had 2 lunar missions finish powered flight, one more successfully than the other. Firstly, Congratulations to Japan which has managed to soft land a spacecraft on the surface of the moon, this makes them the 5th nation to accomplish this feat. However it appears that they did not land on the spacecraft's feet and instead rolled, probably ending up inverted with the solar panels in the wrong orientation. However, the 2 rovers have deployed and we hope to see something from them in the coming days.Secondly, Astrobotic's Peregrine lander returned to earth and burned up after suffering a propellent leak early in the mission, however the team managed to keep the spacecraft alive and operated a number of the payloads in deep space rather than on the surface of the moon for a few days before the spacecraft returned over the Pacific ocean.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
NASA Is Giving Money To Develop These Insane New Technologies Scott Manley 2024-01-11 | Last Week the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program published the latest set of awards, funding technology investigations which may one day lead to new technologies, new missions or solve problems which might be required in future plans.Most of these are just funding for the investigators to study the problem, do the math and make a presentation of the findings.https://www.nasa.gov/general/niac-2024-selections/Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Why Vulcan is the Most Important Rocket ULA Has Ever Built Scott Manley 2024-01-07 | In less than 24 hours we expect Vulcan to make its first launch. Vulcan is going to replace both the Atlas and Delta rockets, it's the first rocket designed in house by ULA which had inherited Atlas and Delta from its parents - Lockheed & Boeing. Vulcan needs to adapt to a modern launch market, where SpaceX has been able to dominate in large part due to its booster reusability enabling lower costs. Vulcan isn't ever going to be fully reusable, but its upper stage is more capable than the Falcon 9, and overall the vehicle is lighter because it doesn't need to carry excess propellent for booster recovery.It's sold over 50 launches to the US Government, Amazon and Sierra space, but, simultaneously, ULA itself is for sale, and an acquisition by Blue Origin may have large consequences for the long term viability of Vulcan.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Space Cats, 20 Launches, 69 Flights & 420 Jack Blacks - Deep Space Updates Scott Manley 2024-01-05 | All the launches for the last few weeks of 2023, a summary of the year and a look forward to 2024Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
I Just Bought This Plane! Scott Manley 2023-12-31 | An Aerospool WT9 Dynamic Light Sport Aircraft - I'm 1/4 owner of this small plane. Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Do Spacecraft Really Have To Endure The Hazards of Reentry Scott Manley 2023-12-31 | An extended answer to a question I keep seeing - can spacecraft avoid the furious heat of reentry by slowing down before reaching the atmosphere, or, but flying above it until slow enough to avoid it.The footage is from the Artemis 1 mission reentry.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
SpaceXs Loses Its Best Booster - 1058 - 19 Launches, 260 tons! Scott Manley 2023-12-28 | On Christmas day we heard that Booster 1058 wasn't going to make any more flights, after setting the records for 3 1/2 years the booster toppled in high seas.Images from John Kraus https://www.johnkrausphotos.com/https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotosSean Cannonhttps://twitter.com/planetdeimos/status/1739718313742061902/photo/4Julia Bergeronhttps://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1739679232240799985Max Evanshttps://twitter.com/_mgde_/status/1739736743190962530Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
The First Global Satellite Constellations - How Iridium & Globalstar Changed The World Scott Manley 2023-12-23 | 3 decades before Starlink multiple satellite constellations were in development, constellations which would enable connectivity to anywhere on the planet. Iridium and Globalstar were the ones which succeeded in launching, but, neither were able to make back their investment and entered bankrupt. However they both emerged on the other side and were able to maintain their business without the crippling debt.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
First Major Expansion For Kerbal Space Program 2 - FOR SCIENCE Scott Manley 2023-12-19 | KSP2 has had a troubled initial launch, being perhaps too early for early access despite the premium price tag, now we get the first major update and this goes a long way to adding a purpose to your rocket building, but, lacking purpose has rarely been the issue.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Baguette Rocket, ECLAIR Experiment & Surprise Launches - Tasty Deep Space Updates - December 12th Scott Manley 2023-12-13 | A batch of news updates covering the first couple of weeks of December, before you ask, there's no updates on Starship, but the launch continues with SpaceX getting over 90 launches this year. There's some new projects getting funded and some funded projects spitting fire and occasionally exploding. And a surprise secret missile test from CaliforniaFollow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
Why Is The Wing Broken On Some Planes - How a Dog Tooth Makes Wings Work Better. Scott Manley 2023-12-10 | Aircraft aerodynamics is an incredibly complex field with a huge amount of research attention given to it because it's important for safety and saving money. So, with all this work, why do we see planes that look like their wings aren't glued on properly, what's up with the leading edge 'dog tooth' or 'cuffed wing' and how exactly do they work.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
NASAs LLTV Almost Killed Neil Armstrong - Now You Can Try Flying It In X-Plane Scott Manley 2023-12-05 | The LLTV, or "flying bedstead' was an aircraft designed to simulate the experience of landing on the moon, riding a rocket down in 1/6th G. It was effectively a free flying simulator which used the fly by wire system to make the vehicle move as if it were in lunar gravity, while flying in Earth's gravity.It's the first example of fly by wire controls, it almost killed Neil Armstrong and, some mad-lad built a copy of it for X-Plane:https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/297701-lltv-aka-the-flying-bedstead-released/Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
The NASA Rocket Everyone Forgets Exists Scott Manley 2023-12-03 | The Scout rocket was developed be engineers at Langley and flew over 100 times from 1960 to 1994, and yet somehow people forget that it existed, eclipsed by Shuttle, Saturn, Titan, Atlas, Thor and Delta.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
The First Nuclear Missile Launched From Submarines - And How It Lead To Polaris Scott Manley 2023-11-30 | How the US Navy went from a copy of the German V-1 missile to the Polaris missile!In the 1940's the US quickly started copying the German V-1 missile and after the war developed a submarine able to launch it, but advancing technology delivered the more capable Regulus missile. Submarines were built with special hangars to support this new weapon, and development began on the supersonic Regulus II. But, in a few years Regulus was rendered obsolete as rockets got bigger and nuclear warheads got smaller - the Polaris would become the standard design for submarine launched missiles.The Regulus would be converted into a target drone for the remainder of its operational life.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:https://twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:https://discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
