It is over! SpaceX Starship Updates, Falcon Heavy / Ariane 6 updates, Crew 3/2 delays

this video is supported by brilliant hey hey marcus house with you here this week astounding work at starbase continues with a huge push towards flight and rapid work continuing at the launch and the production sites blue origin loses the legal case against nasa on the human landing system but what does this mean delays on crew 3 for medical reasons and weather a few quick updates as well on ariane 6 to talk about which is the successor to ariane 5 is this next rocket in development going to compete with the insane innovation going on around the world then we have a flood of falcon heavy launches coming soon the next year is going to be incredibly exciting starting at the build site this week progress of the new wide bay has rapidly sped up with many pieces of the structure rising up into the air based on the aerial views by the incredible rgv aerial photography the wide bays dimensions measure roughly 50 meters wide 35 meters deep and 90 to 100 meters tall this provides more than twice as much floor space as the current high bay next to it with enough room for spacex to stack three or four ships or booster tank sections at once this will rapidly increase the production capacity of these vehicles progress on future ships has also continued with ship 22's thrust section being flipped to its correct orientation and that is now ready for stacking its middle liquid oxygen section was also spotted covered with the insulation blanket layer and this sits between the steel and the tiles which is an added layer of protection against the heat during re-entry and this i think is going to help also continue insulating that area somewhat if the vehicle loses a tile or two in the flight most notably the nose cone barrel for the same ship was spotted with the label here showing that this is 3.6 millimeter steel rather than the typical four millimeters this is going to help with overall dry mass and terrific views of all of this there by nick and mary with nasa space flight now we recently saw the b2.1 test tank lifted onto the booster test stand now we believe this stand is going to be used to simulate the thrust of the 20 outer raptor engines this is because we can see these hydraulic rams spaced around the bottom of the structure similar to what we've seen in the past when testing starship engine mount points over the last few months we've seen people using the nickname can crusher for this test stand and it isn't too difficult to see why the thrust from 20 raptors with each producing around 185 metric tons of thrust force adds up to around 3 700 metric tonnes of force it's going to be very interesting to see how these tests perform over at the launch complex work has steadily been progressing as teams continue to prepare the launch pad and booster 4 for its test campaign early in the week raptor 57 was delivered to the launch site to be installed onto the booster work also continues on the metal heat shield structure placed around the engines to protect the delicate plumbing and the electric components incorporated into the 29 closely packed engines furthermore the composite over-wrapped pressure vessels or copv tanks have recently received a thermal insulation blanket around them in preparation for these new aero covers to be installed on top those covers we recently spotted by rgv lined up next to each other on the ground next to booster 4. close by while the rented lr11350 crane was being dismantled spacex's own lr11000 crane continued having its parts delivered to the launch site and as these new parts arrived they were promptly put together we'll be seeing this crane ready for action before you know it at the orbital launch tower the cable chain that was installed last week has now been connected to the carriage to feed power and hydraulics to the catching arms additional hardware has been attached to the bottom of the chopstick arms as well these seem to be attached by a huge hinge which provides the ability to swing up and inward towards either the ship or the booster of course the trouble with catching the vehicle on two hard points is that there is still one uncontrolled degree of freedom where the ship or booster is able to swing parallel to the arms now that is obviously not ideal for a precision stacking it's believed that these additions are the start of a fixture to lock into those lower hard points to produce total control of the vehicle while stacking in fact if we look over at booster 5 where that is currently undergoing stacking in the high bay we may have already spotted the start of these new longer hard points by zooming in and counting six and a half rings straight down from the catching hardpoint you will see the lower hardpoint for the booster right here we also expect the same system to be used for the lifting of the ships as well speaking of the tower systems early in the week this part was delivered to the launch site and was posted on twitter by oh with the photo taken by golden boy the speculation here suggests that this could serve as a hose guide for the ship's quick disconnect system this would allow transfer of the propellant and the power from the tower to the ship also interesting was eric x on twitter posting an animation here of a possible spin separation method and this shows starship pitching up just before cutting off eric x stated that the movement and the velocity may be off however elon replied saying that this was pretty close it's interesting to note here that if this is very similar to reality will the upper stage ignition actually help to flip the booster around very cool to see as always we appreciate the amazing work done by the 3d artists out there please do subscribe to their content where you can as they have this amazing ability to allow all of us to visualize these ideas in a way that just works so well it sadly isn't always as easy for them to get the support that they need so thanks very much it's amazing of you to support what they do as well as supporting what we do right here by the way it is done it's over well hopefully it's over jeff bezos looks to have finally accepted the decision on who will be developing the initial lander system for nasa's return to the moon the u.s court of federal claims ruled against blue origin's claim that the decision process for the hls was flawed and jeff has accepted this decision seemingly gracefully tweeting out that this was not the decision they wanted but we respect the court's judgement and wish full success for nasa and spacex on the contract elon of course couldn't help himself but tweet out his reaction to the decision with a polite and welcoming gesture in the form of this meme so hopefully this means that there won't be any more escalations of the lawsuit in future for now at least nasa will likely return as soon as possible to continue the hls development process with spacex as we've seen in tim's interview with elon a lot of aspects to the landing system are not yet decided for example will they use the side thruster idea or not so saying all this it's not all blue for blue origin they rolled out the new glenn pathfinder into the open to give us a glimpse of it out in the wild nice shot there by kyle montgomery obviously this is not flight hardware but more tests of dimensions logistics and fit checks it might enable them to test processing of the stage before launch and after landing now this is the same pathfinder that we've seen evidence of for quite some time now so this isn't brand new but all the same it's nice to see something rolling out of the facility there okay so what is more exciting than watching a falcon heavy launch well how about four of them yep that is exactly what we can expect throughout the next year in fact there may even be a possibility of a fifth mission with ussf 67 also anticipated to be a heavy variant but not yet confirmed by the us military there will be a trio of launches all for u.s national security the payloads for all of those three missions are classified so we're not going to know a lot about those but then we also have the viasat broadband satellite that will require the huge power of the falcon heavy and then what should be the most exciting mission nasa's psychic mission which will then launch next year to arrive at its destination in 2026 here it's going to explore a metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between mars and jupiter so all these missions i think are going to be hugely exciting it's been much much longer than i'd like since we've seen a falcon heavy lift off the incredible booster separation and double booster landings these are just incredible to witness every time they are quite rare currently though the last was from nasa's kennedy space center in june of 2019 this was the stp-2 mission placing 24 small satellites into orbit as part of a demonstration mission two months prior to that mission we saw the arab sat 6a satellite successfully put into orbit and then of course we can't forget starman cruising around the neighborhood in elon musk's cherry red tesla back in february of 2018. there weren't meant to be two launches for falcon heavy this year but unfortunately a mix of range scheduling conflicts and payload delays pushed these missions into 2022 so yes some pretty cool milestones coming up there including falcon heavy's first national security mission which is going to head out direct into a geostationary orbit while the center core in this one is going to be expendable the recovery of side boosters is going to be quite the spectacle as we should see the first recovery attempt using two drone ships side by side this is unprecedented at this point can you imagine how this is going to look many of us are wondering whether these two drone ships will be spaced close enough to actually see them in a single camera shot or if they will be separated well away from each other now i'm very much hoping that there's going to be a drone or aircraft to capture this from above as this is going to be absolutely stunning to witness 2022 is just around the corner now and there is already plenty to look forward to here from spacex with at least six cargo and crew dragon missions and other commercial and styling satellite launchers lined up it's sure to be a massive launch schedule not to mention of course the continued starship development and testing pretty amazing stuff here all made on earth by humans now there is also something else quite interesting lurking around the corner in 2022 as well ariane group expects ariane 6 to fly next year as well and there is already about 20 flights booked on this new launch vehicle it's going to be of course the successor of ariane 5 the current workhorse of the european space agency ariane 6 though is expected to cost only half of aryan 5 while carrying about the same payload so this is going to be a massive improvement and will allow much more affordable launches in the future the payload capability should see it delivering around 20 metric tons to low earth orbit or around 10 metric tons to a geostationary transfer orbit that is for the stronger of the two variants this variant called ariane64 will have four solid rocket boosters or srbs these are the p120cs interestingly a single one of these will also be the new first stage of the vega c rocket which is a 2.3 metric tundra low earth orbit launch vehicle used by esa as well so yes it is nice to see the srb design can be used for multiple vehicles so looking at all this how does the launch cost compare to say a falcon 9 well even in the most powerful version the launch cost works out to be around 5500 euros per kilogram of payload which is currently roughly around 6400 dollars per kilogram this is actually over 50 percent above that of falcon 9 so it doesn't compare too well there with the ariane 5 the current upper stage is not capable of restarts so it's excellent to see that ariane 6 will be using the new restartable vinci engine this means that it will have the capability to perform even more complex in-orbit maneuvers it runs on hydrogen and oxygen and it uses the expander cycle like the famous rl10 by aerojet rocketdyne in comparison though it will have 60 more thrust and an incredible specific impulse of around 457 seconds not quite as high as the rl10 but very close it certainly needs to be a powerful and efficient engine since the upper stage is expected to be quite heavy with around 6 metric tons in dry mass compared to 31 tonnes of propellant mass this makes the ratio of propellant master dry mass around 5 to compare the centaur three upper stage the workhorse upper stage of united launch alliance has a ratio of about nine so centaur has it easily beat there while i think it's awesome to see the european rockets getting updated ariane 6 doesn't really feel like it's trying to keep up with its competition already flying let alone what we are going to be seeing created in boca chica it's still using partially solid propellants as well and it's not reusable in any way saying this ariane group expects a reusable successor of ariane 6 to be up and running somewhere around 20 30 so at least it's somewhere on the distant horizon what's also interesting is the main engine of the core stage this is still an open cycle engine not that there's anything wrong with open cycle of course if you are a new rocket development company like a lot of these small satellite launchers going for this simple reliable but slightly inefficient engine cycle is fine but if you've been in the rocket business for over 50 years now you would think that they'd at least be starting to tackle a staged combustion design now maybe i'm being just a little too hard on them what do you think is this updated design going to be out of date before it launches let me know in the comments the developments with the new supporting launch infrastructure are critical as well of course and esa's launch site in french guiana is well underway just recently we were provided with all new footage the quick disconnect system has been tested extensively and the deluge system test is incredible to watch this is going to spray huge volumes of water on the launch pad and beneath the launch table to protect both the launch vehicle and its payload the water will largely absorb and deflect the tremendous acoustic energy generated at liftoff this they estimate to be around decibels at launch with ariane6 noise like this as we learned from our explosive potential video can do serious damage so the w system reduces this a great deal during the launch around 700 metric tons of water are sprayed over the pad this for comparison is about half of what is planned for the space launch system sadly we still don't know anything more about what is planned in this regard for super heavy while ariane 6 with four srbs will have an impressive 1800 tons of thrust super heavy aims to quadruple that value after a few iterations so hopefully we are going to see some more information on the super heavy launch stand very soon now a quick update on the crew 3 launch that we talked about in last week's video obviously that launch has not happened yet it was originally scheduled to take off last weekend however it was then rescheduled to midweek due to the weather conditions along the flight path not looking great at the start of the week however the launch was pushed even further back so why that delay we'll talk about that more in just a moment but first a big thank you to brilliant for their support of this video brilliant is a learning platform dedicated to helping anyone from kids right through to adults you could be starting off as a beginner with their math and science fundamentals courses which are beautifully broken down with interactive hands-on examples perhaps you already know the basics in that case dive right into intermediate or advanced courses my career has all been about technology and a lot of 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stated that it was due to a minor medical issue involving one of the crew members it wasn't actually disclosed which of the four this might be but they did specifically point out that it was not a medical emergency or related to covert 19. the team are continuing to monitor crew health as they evaluate potential launch opportunities the weather seems to be the cause of the most current delays this weekend the last earliest possible launch date that i've seen was proposed to be monday the 8th of november however that still could push out further just check out the latest news on that as it arises now along with the delays on the crew 3 launch this is also causing issues for crew 2. as it stands right now nasa may even bring crew 2 back home before crew 3 launches meaning that we won't see the usual handover that we would typically see so yes good luck to crew 3 nasa astronauts raja tom and kayla along with matias from issa they are going to have a lengthy stay at the space station for a six month period estimated to return sometime in late april next year it's so wonderful seeing crew dragon on these rotations it's very easy to think of these as routine at this point but remember that crew dragon is still a very young vehicle so i'm incredibly excited to see these launches dragon is really helping to lower the cost of orbit already and interestingly of course just recently dimitri ragozan the director general of the russian space agency said in a press conference that that in our view spacex has already acquired enough experience for us to be able to put cosmonauts on crew dragon now that is a pretty spectacular thing to hear from russia as they have been quite critical of spacex in the past only the last year or two has the tide really turned here just a few months ago as well we saw ragosan stating that elon musk realizes many of the ideas and thoughts that we wanted to realise but did not get to because of the breakup of the soviet union our space program halted for quite some time he also added as well that we respect him as an organizer of the space industry and as an inventor who is not afraid to take risk so yes who knows perhaps we're going to see cosmonauts signing up for some trips to the iss in the near future on crew dragon so yes that is what's been happening this week but also there are a few interesting launches coming up soon as well we have jackson getting ready for the raise two flight which has been delayed twice now due to technical issues and weather that will be sending up nine demonstration satellites in a ride share deal we have rocket labs launch hopefully coming in just days as well which will again hopefully be attempting that booster recovery as tweeted the other day the black sky satellites are integrated and ready for launch finally it looks like the next starling launch is about to happen potentially this coming week we've recently seen that they are struggling to fulfill orders for the internet kits due to the frustrating microchip shortage and that is now even shown on starling's faq page i don't know if this is also causing issues getting the actual satellites ready for launch as well but regardless we will hopefully be seeing the next dedicated polar launch very soon then we're also awaiting the next hopefully non-sideways launch of astra as well there's a lot to look forward to and thank you for watching all the way through liking and subscribing to what i do that is most awesome of you to all the team of you out there helping as patrons or youtube members right here i am so grateful to each and every one of you thank you so much and also to all of the amazing people that have helped so much on the merch store as well a lot of you really love the life this candle shirt which is awesome you can pick that up with any of the other design variations below if you like what we're doing and you'd like to help support directly you can sign up as a youtube member or patron that will give you 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Channel: Marcus House

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Length: 20min 10sec (1210 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 06 2021

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