Join Elysia Segal for NSF as we delve deep into this week’s major spaceflight events! From Artemis 2’s mobile launcher rollout, Astra’s financial revelations, to SpaceX’s advancements in booster recovery. Discover Astra’s strategies, NASA’s ambitious plans for Artemis II, and witness the potential future of autonomous sea recoveries by SpaceX. All this and more, in this episode of ‘This Week in Spaceflight’. Don’t forget to LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE for weekly space insights!
🔗 Be sure to shop our NEW Retro Starbase collection here: https://shop.nasaspaceflight.com/collections/retro-starbase
⚡ Become a member of NASASpaceflight’s channel for exclusive discord access, fast turnaround clips, and other exclusive benefits. Your support helps us continue our 24/7 coverage. Click JOIN above to get started.⚡
🤵 Hosted by Elysia Segal (@elysiasegal)
🎥 Video from Max Evans, Space Coast Live, Astra/Hunter Deuel, Michael Baylor, Jack Beyer, SpaceX, Elon Musk, NASA, CCTV, CASC, ULA, Roscosmos, ISRO, Rocket Lab
Written by Trevor Sesnic (@124970MeV)
✂️ Edited by Ryan Caton (@dpoddolphinpro).
💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed).
🔍 If you are interested in using footage from this video, please review our content use policy: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content-use-policy/
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Astra Financials
03:21 NASA prepares for next Moon launch
05:46 This Week In Launches
07:22 SpaceX’s droneships can now be actually autonomous
09:36 Across Space
11:02 Next Week In Launches
13:23 Outro
#SpaceX #Astra #NASA #ArtemisII #Spaceflight #FinancialReports #ElysiaSegal #NSF #Rocket4 #USSpaceForce #MobileLauncher1 #SLS #Orion #LunarMission #ChangZheng3B #Kuaizhou1A #Starlink #Droneships #ULA #CentaurV #Oryol #Roscosmos #Starship #Luna25 #ProgressMS22 #Innovation #SpaceNews #Orbit #Satellites #Launches #Moon #Mars #Exploration #SpaceTech #SpaceInnovations #SpaceMissions #RocketLaunch #SpaceUpdates
source
Doug and Bob are the hardest working ships out there.
The ocean is big. All ocean-going vessels, including the SpaceX landing barges, continuously broadcast their location and identity to satellites, permitting all other vessels in the vicinity to track the location of all nearby vessels. The landing barges are actually under continuous active control via Starlink by human operators who are monitoring the nearby traffic. In part the existing regulations are based upon the assumption that any control functions over autonomous vessels would require line-of sight. The landing barges are also deliberately positioned in parts of the ocean that have little traffic, because they do not want to risk the Falcon boosters accidentally falling on some innocent bystander. SpaceX may even guide them to locations that are well clear of the nearest commercial vessel just to be as safe as possible. Note that one of the Chinese satellites launched this week are part of the international satellite network that supports this. The ocean is big.
I care not a whit about Astra's financials, I care about their tech.
Emergency zip lines not fun, but excitement guaranteed!
I’d really like to see Artemis 2 enter lunar orbit as opposed to once around on a free return trajectory.
3:28 see how contrails turn into clouds over Florida shore
Go SLS!
look at the complexity of the launch mount!!! These guys need to streamline to survive!
Pounds and Feet! Use pounds and feet! We're in America, the land of Pounds and Feet!!
Well… At least you used miles per hour, and miles…
I can see two scenarios where a droneship makes it's way either to or from it's landing site on it's own outside the 12 miles from port radius. The first would be in a situation like the landing of CRS-17 where a planned RTLS landing was shifted to land on a nearby drone due to a testing accident on LZ-1. A scenario where the droneship starts making it's way back to port alone might also involve issues with the other recovery ship of that mission.
Thanks for the Astra news update, good luck to them going forward, but I worry that their finances will catch up with them before Rocket 4 can launch.
Its extraordinary how excited we are with maybe astronauts looking at the moon late 2024 when over 50 years ago we were driving around doing doughnuts on the moon . I think we are going backward in intellect .
Hello Good Morning 👋 Thanks-you Vidéo de France en Bretagne dans les monts d'arrêe 😉👌✅️
Great content and presentation once again. One minor gripe – does the constant loud background music really help?
I don't like the host. Elysia needs to come down a couple of notches. This whole episode sounds like a commercial, not like a rocket-geek report.
downvote
“Ever” is a long time. I think we will see it eventually.
Great Job Elysia. I hope Astra will survive.
SLS + Artemis = waste of money, time & effort
NASA??
Countdown begins at T minus 731 days.
🤣
Personally, I don't see Astra surviving. As much as I hope it would.
i hope all of these ventures work, the ships up there, the more likely it will be i can stow away and get stranded on mars far far away from all the lunatics on earth.
1:44 . . . 47 : 1 => Loss : Profit ! . . . Only government 'fairy dust' can keep them out of bankruptcy now ?
Rocket earrings!😂😂
This is exciting, so much happening in spaceflight!
👀Yet Another Fine job from Lady Elysia👍!!! GO TEAM NSF🤓!!!
The international lawyers ( 👿 ) have to figure out who gets the blame if an autonomous ship has "an accident".
Good show, and the earrings are great!
There are no hurricanes in the Pacfic. Those types of storms are called Typhoons, not Hurricanes. Hurricanes only are named that in the Atlantic.