How NASA Tests Heat Shields Using a Plasma Wind Tunnel Scott Manley 2024-06-22 | At NASA Ames Research Center in California there is a specialized wind tunnel facility known as the ArcJet complex. This is for testing heat shields on spacecraft, high temperature, highly ionized plasma is created by heating the air with an electric arc, and then the high pressure plasma flows out a rocket nozzle at hypersonic speeds into a test chamber where samples of thermal protection material are tested.Find out more at NASA Ames official Arcjet site.nasa.gov/ames/arcjet-complexFollow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
Watching a Wildfire Big Enough To Make Its Own Weather - Park Fire, 2024, California Scott Manley 2024-07-28 | On Friday night I spent another few hours flying around and exploring northern California, but as soon as I took off it was clear that one thing was dominating the landscape, the massive plume from the Park fire which had grown to 300,000 acres in 48 hours. Carefully keeping clear of the TFRs I flew past it to appreciate the size of this massive event, the largest this year, and one of the largest in California's history.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
The Microscopic Trick That Makes Heat Shielding Tiles Work Scott Manley 2024-07-26 | The Space Shuttle and Starship are designed to be reusable, which means using a passive thermal protection system, and while these spacecraft are decades apart in technological development the basic principles of how you make a passive, reusable thermal protection system have not changed and there's broadly similar material, structural and technological features seen on both spacecraft.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
Where Will Astronauts Go After The ISS Is Destroyed? Scott Manley 2024-07-21 | The International Space Station is currently scheduled to come to an end in 2030, but, before then we're hoping that there will be other space stations for humans to visit, from small single module stations like Vast's Haven-1 to the massively ambitious modular Orbital reef. These will move space stations from being government projects to the private sector, ideally in the same way that rocket launches became a commercial operation. The US has 4 leading candidates with Europe, Canada and Japan already making deals, so, humanity's presence in low Earth orbit should continue uninterupted going forwards.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
The Dumbest NASA Decision In Years? Why NASA is Being Forced To Ground Rover and Sent Ballast. Scott Manley 2024-07-19 | Announced on Wednesday is the cancellation of the VIPER mission to the moon, this is shocking because the Rover is finished construction and just needs a test session.Moreover, NASA is contractually required to pay Astrobotic to fly a NASA payload to the moon, so they have to pay for this anyway.Instead of a rover NASA will send ballast to the moon.And the worst part is this is triggered by a cost increase to NASA due to the lander being delayed.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-ends-viper-project-continues-moon-explorationFollow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
Ariane, Falcon 9, Hyperbola Rockets All Suffer Failures In Space - Deep Space Updates 17th July Scott Manley 2024-07-17 | In another batch of news updates we get 3 rocket failures in sequence, 3 difference launch systems - Ariane 6, Hyperbola & Falcon 9 - all suffer second stage failures with Ariane coming out best with it at least delivering some of the payloads. Falcon 9 is the biggest surprise, and has the potential to make a big impact on launch schedules since so many payloads depend on it. But it may be allowed to return to flight given its long string of successful launches.Elsewhere, 15 year old Radar data is used to show that a big hole in the moon may lead to lava tubes. Kazakhstan signs up for China's lunar base and all the small rocket companies show off new rocket engines being tested.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
Propellent Leak Ends SpaceXs Launch Record Scott Manley 2024-07-12 | Last night a Falcon 9 Launching Starlink Group 9-3 out of Vandenberg managed to get to the initial orbit, but failed before reaching the target orbit.This is the first SpaceX launch failure in over 300 launches, a record that nobody else in the launch business can claim.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
Europe Debuts New Ariane 6 Rocket Successfully... Mostly. What Went Wrong? Scott Manley 2024-07-11 | Arianespace had expected Ariane 6 to begin flying in 2020, allowing a few years for launches to transition to the new rocket. Not only was this late for all sorts of project management reasons, but Europe lost access to the Soyuz launcher and had problems with Vega-C.So even though the second stage had some problems Europe is no doubt happy to have made this launch happen.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
Lightning In a Bottle? The Science Of Electro-Thermal Rocket Engines Scott Manley 2024-07-07 | Between the traditional chemical rocket engines, and the high efficiency offered by electric ion thrusters there's a lesser known middle ground of Electro-Thermal thrusters where gasses are heated beyond their normal operating temperatures to increase their specific impulse. These have been used in spacecraft since the 1960's and among their advantages is the ability to operate using almost any propellent, even human waste gasses like Carbon dioxide and Methane.There are 3 main classes - ResistoJets with a heating element, ArcJets which generate an electric arc and use it to heat the propellent, and Inductive Heating using electromagnetic waves to heat a plasma without electrodes.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
Chinas SpaceX Copy Destroyed in Bizarre Test Failure - Booster Static Fire Becomes Flight Test Scott Manley 2024-06-30 | In China Space Pioneer was performing a static fire test of the Booster for their Tianlong 3 rocket, a design which is a close copy of SpaceX's Falcon 9.Due to an engineering failure the rocket broke free of the test stand, flew under power for about 30 seconds before crashing back to Earth in a spectacular fireball.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
NASA Needs SpaceX To Destroy ISS, Space Suit Maker Gives Up - Deep Space Updates June 28th Scott Manley 2024-06-28 | Deep space updates for June 28th:China Returns From Far Side of MoonFirefly reveal new launch sites.SpaceX slaps its booster.Dreamchaser will have to wait until 2025.ISS destruction duty to SpaceXCollins Aerospace gets out of the space suit business.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
Flying To Catch SpaceX Rocket Launch Scott Manley 2024-06-25 | I live 250miles north of Vandenberg space force base, I can sometimes see launches under the right lighting conditions, but now I fly planes I have the option of getting a bit closer in a relatively short time compared to the hours and hours it would take to drive the distance. In addition the extra altitude would let me be above intervening clouds, and see further over the curvature of the Earth, potentialy to see the the entry burn which happens hundreds of miles downrange from the launch site.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
How Failed Gyros Are Making Hubbles Life Harder Scott Manley 2024-06-14 | After decades of operation on orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope is now missing critical hardware which was required in its original design. Three Gyroscopes are supposed to be needed, so the telescope launched with 6, but they keep failing and now there are only two.However, engineers have come up with new control algorithms to allow operation with fewer gyroscopes, and this is what I want to explain.NASA's explanation of the processscience.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/observatory/design/hubble-one-gyro-modeThe scientific paper on these new control laws:HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE REDUCED-GYRO CONTROL LAWDESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20080023344/downloads/20080023344.pdfFollow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
StarShip, StarLiner, Change 6 & Oh Dear Moon - Deep Space Updates June 8th Scott Manley 2024-06-09 | Some people are calling the first week of June the most historic week in spaceflight.... ever? Well probably not but while Starship was flying, Starliner was docking and Chang'e 6 was returning samples from the surface of the Moon. The Dear Moon mission was called off with almost no warning, and Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders was tragically killed in a small plane crash.And thats still not all the big storiesFollow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
SpaceX Superheavy Booster Splashes Down - Multiple Camera Angles!!! #spacex #spacexstarship Scott Manley 2024-06-08 | Compiled from the livestream and from the landing video posted on twitter.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
SpaceXs Starship Literally Melted! But It Kept Flying To A Miraculous Landing! Scott Manley 2024-06-06 | SpaceX's IFT4 Was expected to push the flight envelope out further, joining the dots between the orbital speeds and the flip and burn landings which had been demonstrated a few years ago. There were a few changes to this flight profile, and in particular, intentionally discarding the hot staging ring appears to have freed up enough margin to make a soft landing of the booster possible.But the real story of this flight was watching as the heat of atmospheric entry burned through at least one of the control flaps, but the spacecraft kept flying, remained in control and proceeded to a soft touchdown in the Indian ocean. The hardware was on show, but the software was performing the real miracles today.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
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 Nervabeyondnerva.comAnd of course to Atomic Rocketsprojectrho.com/public_html/rocketFollow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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 accountflickr.com/photos/jurvetsonFollow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/albums/72157623704246792Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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 datagpsjam.orgSorry about the crappy AI Generated thumbnail, I'm just running out of spare time.Follow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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 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:b612.aiFollow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:waynehale.wordpress.com/2024/03/10/putting-atlantis-at-riskFollow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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 Originssimplerockets.com/c/y29Fg0/NOVA-CFollow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.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:isas.jaxa.jp/home/slim/SLIM/gallery/index.htmlFollow me on Twitter for more updates:twitter.com/DJSnMI have a discord server where I regularly turn up:discord.gg/zStmKbMIf you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreonpatreon.com/scottmanley
