Is Apollo 11s Lunar Module Still In Orbit Around The Moon 52 Years Later? Scott Manley 2026-09-30 | Is Apollo 11s Lunar Module Still In Orbit Around The Moon 52 Years Later?
Electrifying! An Inside Tour Of Archer Aviations Midnight EVTOL: Engines, Batteries & Simulator Scott Manley 2024-10-17 | Archer Aviation is currently developing and testing the Midnight EVTOL, an electrically powered aircraft using 12 rotors which can operate out of helipads and rapidly carry passengers to destinations around a metropolitan area in a similar fashion to Helicopters but quieter, cleaner and easier to fly.I visited their facility in San Jose, California, where they designed and build their engines, batteries and avionics. I got a tour from Archer's CTO, Tom Muniz who gave me a great deep dive on the high performance engines and batteries.And of course, I just *had* to fly the simulator. 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 SpaceX Landed A Rocket... Without Landing Legs. Catching a Giant Rocket With Giant Chopsticks Scott Manley 2024-10-13 | This morning SpaceX performed the 5th flight of their Starship/SuperHeavy launch system and once again made a clear step forward as they demonstrated precision touchdown with both the booster and the Starship. The booster touchdown demonstrated a radical new recovery method with the rocket carefully maneuvering next to a tower to be caught by a pair of arms, eliminating complicated articulating legs and shock absorbers.The Starship stage flew to the Indian ocean and guided itself to a precision touchdown next to a buoy with a camera, delivering video of the landing and showing the accuracy of the guidance. Even more impressive when it became clear how much damage the control surfaces sustained during entry.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 Booster Catch - Multiple Angles #spaceX #starship #superheavy Scott Manley 2024-10-13 | SpaceX demonstrated the precision descent of a superheavy booster and caught the booster with the tower armsSyncing up a handful of camera angles from SpaceX to show you the whole 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
Is This The Craziest Space Weekend In History? Scott Manley 2024-10-13 | While collecting the news I realized this is going to be a very busy couple of days, in the next 48 hours we can expect:Starship/SuperHeavy IFT 5Crew 8 Undocking & ReturnBlue Origin NSF-27 (new booster & capsule)Europa Clipper Launch - Sacrificing all three boosters of a Falcon HeavyFollow 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
Can A Giant Potato Cannon Throw Things Into Space Cheaper Than Rockets? Longshot Think so! Scott Manley 2024-10-09 | LongShot space are a SF Bay Area company who have resurrected the hypersonic projectile launcher with an eye to scaling it up to the point it could launch payloads into space at a lower cost that traditional rockets. And while this lofty goal is a long way off, they do have a contract to build a launcher able to throw test payloads at mach 5 for the Department of Defense who want to test hypersonic payloads.This is by no means a new idea, in fact I made a video about gun based launchers over a decade ago youtu.be/Moo5nuLWtHsHowever a more scientific discussion is found in this paper:"A comparison of distributed injection hypervelocity accelerators" A. J. Higginsresearchgate.net/publication/268456817_A_comparison_of_distributed_injection_hypervelocity_acceleratorsFollow 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 around the bay, Live Scott Manley 2024-10-09 | 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 Did The Vulcan Rocket Survive This Booster Failure? Scott Manley 2024-10-04 | This morning, at the crack of dawn ULA launched the second flight of their Vulcan rocket, aiming to certify it to carry national security payloads so they can get to work. Unfortunately one of the solid rocket motors, Manufactured by Northrop-Grumman suffered a failure of the nozzle, however, far from ending the mission the booster continued while the guidance software did an amazing job of compensating for this 'observation'.The best footage of the nozzle failure showing the bottom of the nozzle spinning away comes from dwisephoto.comNSF discusses the footage in their streamyoutube.com/live/ZPztD5zwgYY?si=--CYPfV1fGYd0rJT&t=12347Follow 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
Will This Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Show Supersonic Airliners Can Work? Scott Manley 2024-10-01 | Boom Aerospace was founded 10 years ago with the ambitious goal of developing a supersonic passenger airliner. While Concorde was a commercial failure despite being a technological marvel, Boom believes that there's enough demand for supersonic passenger capability that there's a market worth addressing.Right now the aircraft they have flying is a much smaller test aircraft - the XB-1 - a 3 engine supersonic jet intended to demonstrate some important new technologies and help the company acquire the skills needed to build the larger Overture passenger airliner.boomsupersonic.comFollow 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
OceanGate Wreck Shows Why Sub Wasnt Strong Enough To Survive - NTSB Shares Important Details Scott Manley 2024-09-30 | The US Coast Guard has finished its hearings on the failure of OceanGate's Titan Submersible, after 2 weeks we've heard from a lot of people who are familiar with the technology, the company, or the people involved. And for me the most interesting thing is the details from the NTSB who delivered some new images of the debris, along with microscopic analysis of some recovered pieces.Everything I see points to the carbon fiber hull not being fabricated to the standards needed to ensure safe margins needed for sustained operation. Some decisions during fabrication may have made the material weaker than it could otherwise be, and there's now evidence in the history of the vehicle pointing to degradation over time.All the data and documents are here, and we're still waiting for a full report from the NTSB who will no doubt go into way more detail in an attempt to understand what happened in a split second 2 miles under the ocean.https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/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
Monster Booster Raised From Deep Sea By SpaceX - Deep Space Updates September 25th Scott Manley 2024-09-25 | Sorry for the delay, I've been on vacation, which means we have a lot to catch up with for this episode of deep space updates.We had a record number of humans in orbit, a new record for total spaceflight time, a new space station commander. Lots of launches by rockets in US, China, Russia and New Zealand. Some vertical landing rocket tests in china and a bunch of space startups.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
Wreckage Of Titan Submersible Reveal How It Imploded Scott Manley 2024-09-19 | The US Coast Guard has just begun its public inquiry into the Titan Submersible accident, and in the process has released a number of documents, including, critically footage from a remotely operated vehicle showing the wreckages on the ocean floor.I believe this wreckage confirms that the failure began at the interface between the carbon fiber pressure hull and the forward titanium interface ring. A great deal of composite debris has been pushed backwards into the rear hemisphere, while almost none is visible near the forward sphere.Many more documents are available here and more witnesses will testify over coming days, providing new insights into this eventhttps://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/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
Is Testing A New Space Suit in Space The Ultimate Thrill? Scott Manley 2024-09-16 | Last night the crew of Polaris Dawn returned home after 5 days in orbit and the first test of a new space suit outside a spacecraft high above the earth. Higher than any other suit test.The flight set new records, established new frontiers and was basically paid for by a private astronaut who wanted to have the suit developed and tested it himself so he could look down on Earth in a way few people can.polarisprogram.com/dawnFollow 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
Astronaut Don Pettits First Spaceflight was Crazy - And Hes Still Flying! Scott Manley 2024-09-13 | The story of Don Pettit's first flight into space was wild, he only got the slot after another astronaut had to drop out because of medical conditions. He flew up on a space shuttle for a 4 month stay, but just before he was set to return the Columbia disaster grounded the shuttle fleet.His ride home was a new upgraded Soyuz, one that had been intended to fly Lance Bass, a member of the 'boy band' *NSYNC - but that deal fell apart due to funding issues.The spacecraft had an error on the way home and Don was almost crushed by cargo he'd smuggled on board.Now he's back for a 4th time, at the ripe old age of 69.Nice!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
Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate? Scott Manley 2024-09-09 | Lumen Orbit raised 2.4 million dollars from investors based on the notion of putting data centers in space, computers that could be used to train AI, or maybe mine crypto. Their argument is that at low enough launch costs the ability to get 24/7 solar power makes power much cheaper to the point that it's worth the cost of the launch:lumenorbit.comFollow 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
Blue Origin Misses Its Mars Launch - SpaceX Gets Grounded (For 3 days) - Deep Space Updates Scott Manley 2024-09-06 | In the last couple of weeks we saw SpaceX lose its oldest booster, get grounded, return to flight and still not launch Polaris Dawn.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
Pilot Training Didnt Prepare Me To Handle This Situation Scott Manley 2024-09-03 | As many of you may know, I was on the scene of a terrible accident, seconds after the impact and couldn't do anything to save the pilot even though the emergency services get there quickly. And thinking about this has left me stuck and unable to move forward with other work, so I'm sorry I haven't been able to put out any other videos while I'm dealing with this.This is the crash in question.asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/419275Follow 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
Pyrocumulus Clouds and Californias Biggest Wildfire of 2024 (REUPLOAD) Scott Manley 2024-08-29 | Repost, don't bother watching if you're already seen this, it's not going to subscribers.Apparently while Jet lagged I deleted this video showing the clouds from the Park Fire in California, there's no changes or anything it's just a reupload of the original video. 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 Did SpaceXs Oldest Booster Crash Land? - Was it Engines? Radar? Big Waves? Scott Manley 2024-08-29 | SpaceX lost booster 1062 on Tuesday morning during a landing on A Shortfall of Gravitas, a landing leg visibly failed, and the booster fell over. So let's analyze the data we have and see if we can figure out why!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 Decision Is Made - Boeing Might Be Safe? But SpaceX Is SAFER! Scott Manley 2024-08-25 | After 11 weeks of uncertainty and questions, NASA has chosen to send the two Starliner astronauts back to Earth on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft rather than assume the poorly quantified risk os returning them on Starliner.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 Astronauts Will Fly Higher Than Any Human Has This Century Scott Manley 2024-08-24 | Polaris Dawn is days away from launch, it'll carry a crew of 4 astronauts on a mission that will take them high above the altitude of the space station, letting them see more of the Earth than astronauts have seen in decades. However the true highlight will be the first EVA by a private astronaut, a space walk by an adventurer who has not only paid to perform this, but has worked with the engineers to develop the technology.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 Private Spaceflights Take Off - RFAs Rocket Burns Up - Starliner Still Waiting Scott Manley 2024-08-20 | Deep Space Updates - 20th of August - finally back after a few weeks in Scotland, and I leave just in time to miss the fireworks.Covering the most important space news for the first half of August 2024, starting with a lot of rocket launches and ending with a bit of a disaster for Rocket Factory Augsburg who lost their test booster in a fiery anomaly at SaxaVord SpaceportFollow 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 The V-2 Rocket Launched Americas Space Race Scott Manley 2024-08-16 | It's well known that after World War II the rocket scientists involved with the V-2 were recruited to the the US under Project Paperclip, but the exact evolution of the Model 39 rocket engine used on the V-2 into the engines used by US rockets is less well known.The engine was far from perfect and US engineers tore them apart and designed improvements, ultimately the majority of US launch vehicles had engines with some heritage from the V-2.A lot of relevant information comes from the Engine History Websiteenginehistory.org/Rockets/RPE01/RPE01.shtmlAlso thanks to the amazing Hero Relics website for many great scans of historic imageryhttp://heroicrelics.org/info/redstone/redstone-engines.htmlList of all US Rocket engines including the early Model 39 copieshttps://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets/Specials/U.S._Rocket_engines/engines.htmFollow 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
Will Astronauts 8 Day Mission Turn into an 8 Month Mission? Starliner Answers Slowly Emerge. Scott Manley 2024-08-08 | Yesterday we had another update on Starliner's extended stay at the ISS, and depending on how things play out we could see the two crew members coming home before the end of the month.... or spending another 6 months in space. Engineers at Boeing and Aerojet may have some idea about the root cause of the thruster failures, but are far from fully understanding the situation and delivering the kind of certainty that NASA decision makers want to see.
Sputnik 3 - The First Soviet Satellite That Didn’t Suck Scott Manley 2024-08-05 | Sputnik 3 is often an afterthought in histories of the space race, but it not only eclipsed the mass of previous satellites, it was the first Soviet science satellite.
SpaceX Returns To Flight - Deep Space Updates - August 2nd - Scotland Edition! Scott Manley 2024-08-02 | I'm back in Scotland for a few weeks, but, I still have the hardware to make some videos while I'm away from home. After SpaceX grounded the Falcon 9 during the investigation into the starlink 9-3 launch failure I had expected we'd see a few other competitors get in a few launches. However only one rocket launched in the 2 weeks during the grounding!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 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
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
