The Pace is Picking Up At Starbase | This Week In Spaceflight

Elysia Segal brings you the latest spaceflight news: starting with Oleg Kononenko shattering a long-standing human spaceflight record. Meanwhile, SpaceX gears up for an ambitious test of Starship, rolling out for stacked testing in anticipation of its third monumental flight. And not to be overshadowed, SpaceX's PACE mission takes to the skies, embarking on a mission to deepen our understanding of Earth's oceans, clouds, and ecosystems.
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🤵 Hosted by Elysia Segal (@elysiasegal)
🖋️ Written by Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (@alexphysics13) and Aaron McCrea.
🎥 Footage from: Jack Beyer, Julia Bergeron, Max Evans, Starbase Live, NASA, TsPK, CCTV, GeeSpace, Chinese Military Bugle, ADASPACE, DSEL, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Tory Bruno, JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, ASU, LandSpace, JAXA, Roscosmos.
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00:00 Intro
00:26 Oleg Kononenko breaks record of most total time in space
02:38 Chang Zheng 2C launch of Geely Group 2
03:25 Jielong-3 Flight #3
04:26 Falcon 9 launches NASA's PACE
08:33 Axiom-3 returns to Earth
10:44 Starship to become full stack soon!
12:35 Blue Origin's BE-4 fires up at Huntsville for the first time
13:39 ULA teases progress for Vulcan's second flight
14:37 Juno performs another close fly-by of Io
15:39 Perseverance captures Ingenuity after accident
16:38 Landspace's flight test plans
17:25 February 14th: Falcon 9 launch of IM-1
18:00 February 14th: Falcon 9 launch of USSF-124
18:43 February 15th: H3 Flight 2
18:58 February 15th: Soyuz 2.1a launch of Progress MS-26
19:19 Outro
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[@Naultarous]

First sweet earrings!
Second thank you editor for making the 3/4 segments have quieter background music instead of award show wrap it up music. Makes it far less distracting and easier to under stand Elysia.

[@fab_70]

You're so smiling that is a pleasure see your videos!

[@danapeck5382]

Great episode. Really appreciate the range of topics, especially the international coverage and interviews in addition to SpaceX. All the best

[@fwd79]

Great update but I just cannot ignore the unique ear jewelry Elysia Segal wears every week, it is just brilliant. lol 😂

[@robertobruselas3952]

Nice presentation on the latest spaceflights

[@Ron4885]

Agree. Great update. There's lots of things coming up, even next week. I'll be watching. 🤩

[@christophermaguire9206]

Thanks for the updates channel looks great

[@BenjySparky]

NSF and Elysia, y'all rock! Peace

[@freerideziege6047]

The tilted stance of Ingenuity is a huge indiz that that the rotors touched when landing apruptly and tilting hard when Rotors still turning.
I had a few coax copters and that happened often when I steared to quickly or the copter tilted quickly.

[@Fedaygin]

Buenos excellente ⚙🌌👩‍🚀 I wish good February to whole NasaSpaceFlight crew, SpaceX & Nasa staff ^^ 🖖

[@paulhathaway6292]

Well done. Great presentation.

[@danielvbyrne]

Superb work Elysia. Pro reporting. Keep it up.

[@cube2fox]

NSF made the background music more quiet 👍

[@Kyzyl_Tuva]

Love the Friday updates.

[@chrishorne4016]

Your two paces are four strides, almost a giant leap ! 😊

[@IceCreams62]

Very useful infos and cute earrings Elysia 🙂

[@mattzstuff]

Great earrings Elysia! Lovely space news too.

[@cube2fox]

😆

[@solidtank7957]

PACE was the best falcon launch I have seen yet.

[@SergioVieroSavio]

¡Gracias!

[@joecampbell5356]

Yes, China seems to borrow at lot of tech...
Elysia, thank you for the update.

[@cesararellanes6188]

Too much. Not just space related

[@Ionut-bg6vw]

Everything escalated quickly :)

[@albertorafaelcisnerosperfe4899]

Excellent❤

[@MosheMaserati]

LOVE those earrings!

[@leyito]

I just love the intro, every time

[@ewanp]

Cool earrings!

[@PeterJCalkins]

7:06 this guy's voice reminds me of Bob Ross XD

[@gordonstewart5774]

Thought Geely might become a Chinese Tesla, but sounds like they are trying Geofenced self-driving.

[@Aunegl]

Love the earrings

[@shanent5793]

Take an old anti-ballistic missile, strap a camera to it, and get some close-up pictures of the Starship in flight. Bonus points for not giving anyone in mission control a heat attack!

[@14wilshere]

Love the earings @elysiasegal 😁

[@ricksadler797]

Awesome

[@carbytater2242]

I saw like 4 or 5 engines that weren't making flame.

[@wizardofhoz7216]

❤️your earrings girl, love to 👀

[@anthonylosego]

I was wondering why they cut the hot staging portion. I saw it on all the channels when it happened. Yet now it's gone. lol Oh well. Gotta keep your IP protected I guess.

[@LovemyDrones]

As always, an excellent report Alysia! Probably spelled your name wrong, LOL 🤣

[@bobmat53]

Right to the point not a lot of crap speaking really let me know what's going on or going down keep up the great job🎉

[@schrodingerscat1863]

Isn't the BE4 paired with the one shown the one that exploded on test a couple of months back taking out one of the BO test stands. Blue seriously needs to further develop that engine to simplify manufacture and reduce cost, I believe they may actually be losing money on the engines they supply to ULA because the price was agreed before all the manufacturing complexities were encountered.

[@ryann6919]

actual rocket surgery @1:55

[@chrismofer]

1:52 why did he have to hack at it like that lmao he was mad as hell

[@ddesemblyftw]

Has the date for the next launch been announced?

[@ale131296]

Not yet, we're still waiting for testing to be complete and for paperwork to also go through as well

[@alexlabs4858]

I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw something the last week of February or the first week of March. FAA stated a few days ago SpaceX still needs to submit a few last things for approval so I assume that will be the biggest thing we’re waiting on.

[@ddesemblyftw]

Thanx, I'm planning on going!

[@jamescobban857]

The shot of the control room from Landspace reminded me of my own visit to China. Every chair has an antimacassar on it. "What is an antimacassar?" you ask, "a piece of cloth put over the back of a chair to protect it from grease and dirt or as an ornament." Why? In the 19th century men used an oil marketed as Macassar to make their hair shine, but it would penetrate upholstery, so a crocheted cloth was placed over the high back of easy chairs. The American product Brylcreem was specifically designed to achieve the same aesthetic effect without the annoying side effect because "A little dab'll do ya."

[@Sovxx]

Nice earrings 👍

[@plurplursen7172]

just a matter of time until we can fly over the dunes of Mars. Thx Ingenuity. Had 70 flights more than designed, then broke it's wing, and left alive, but wounded on the top of a dune, forever to enjoy the sunrise alone...... Get better cameras on the next generation! thx

[@undertow2142]

What kind of knife did the astronaut use?

[@xochipili1]

Did they fiquer out who drilled the hole?

[@ericpaul4575]

It was Putin.

[@Pintuuuxo]

There's something about Elysia that I like. Maybe it's the earrings. Maybe that's because she's beautiful.

[@judyriel3463]

Mars helicopter clearly was a bird strike

[@David-yo5ws]

🤣

[@hilaryminias9603]

Follow my grandfather.. Earl Van Ornam Armstrong and his fathers. My great grandfather’s

[@jamescobban857]

Remember that the only reason why Kononenko has broken the record is because his Soyuz had a leak, forcing his entire team to spend an extra 6 months on the ISS, almost certainly because of a manufacturing flaw, since an almost identical Progress cargo spacecraft sprang the same leak!

[@ale131296]

Uhhh no, Kononenko wasn't part of the crew of the Soyuz that sprung a leak

[@KnightRanger38]

Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, and Francisco Rubio were the three astronauts who returned in September of last year after spending just over a year at the ISS after the radiator of their Soyuz capsule sprung a leak .

[@anthonylosego]

7:43 I appreciate being too old for this. But I think what he really meant was, I'm too human for this. AI will be required to process that much data. I envy young people. They are training up on the new ask it and get it tools we never had. (Old people. lol)

[@anthonylosego]

Also, I appreciate using machine learning (ML) instead of artificial intelligence (AI) which is not a great moniker. ML is better. It's NOT artificial, it's totally just machine based learning or intelligence. (MI would work).

[@thegovernmentshill]

6:43 aerosols in our atmosphere!?! I thought chem trails were fake?? Now they're acting like aerosols are a natural phenomenon

[@DW_Kiwi]

FAA call the shots

[@Charles00-xj3kz]

Whats with the flute back ground music? It seems inappropriate for space news! Elysia is a great presenter and does not need a music track in the back ground. I really enjoy these weekly updates.

[@scottymoondogjakubin4766]

I thought elon was busting for a 2/14 ❤ flight but that was just my wishfull thinking ! 😛

[@bournemouthbill]

Always a useful update, generally well presented and edited. Must admit the cheesy background music does nothing for me.

[@lukicop]

0:33 wait thats russian Kenneth Branagh

[@thegovernmentshill]

If that footage looks real to you, you just keep on believing that

[@thegovernmentshill]

5:30 so why the hell would they "go around Florida" if it wouldn't matter? Oh because they don't want people watching the skies seeing nothing is there

[@faisalsvideoworld]

little ingy we hardly knew ye

[@TheAETHER22]

Another expensive firework

[@ReinReads]

That’s how Falcon started too. It now accounts for 80% of global launch services, did 98 launches last year, and just had 10 launches in one month. All while being the only system to reuse boosters. Which it started doing 9 years ago with its closest reuse competitor still a couple years out.
Rapid iteration is unsettling to those who don’t understand it.

[@3sides2everystory]

1st comment!

[@dgymnast6473]

Please get rid of the background music!

[@JoseMartinez-mm4om]

If only there was so much shit around youtubes fyp i would enjoy ot but i cant displace anything

[@thegovernmentshill]

This is all NONSENSE!

[@prasitphahusachatham1557]

ล้มเหลว สำเร็จ Spacex อย่าหยุดพัฒนาก้าวเดินหน้าต่อไป ทดสอบจรวดครั้งที่ 3 ทีมวิศวะกรตรวจสอบให้ละเอียดขั้นตอนแยกยานออกจากกันจรวดผลักดันBoosterออกรุนแรงทำให้Boosterหมุนกลับทิดทางรวดเร็วเชื้อเพลิงในลำตัวBoosterกระชอกกระเผื่อมรุนแรงจนเครื่องยนต์ทำงานผิดปกติหรือไม่เราไม่อยากเห็นจรวดระเบิดอีก IFT-3 อย่าผิดพลาดอีกต้องสำเร็จนะ Elon

[@bobmat53]

I really like her interview her her her her her talk in the background her her be over talk but now she's in the front and what a great job she doing keep up the great job for all women being a great spokesman correction spokeswoman dial my fault

[@prasitphahusachatham1557]

ล้มเหลว สำเร็จ Spacex อย่าหยุดพัฒนาก้าวเดินหน้าต่อไป ทดสอบจรวดครั้งที่ 3 ทีมวิศวะกรตรวจสอบให้ละเอียดขั้นตอนแยกยานออกจากกันจรวดผลักดันBoosterออกรุนแรงทำให้Boosterหมุนกลับทิดทางรวดเร็วเชื้อเพลิงในลำตัวBoosterกระชอกกระเผื่อมรุนแรงจนเครื่องยนต์ทำงานผิดปกติหรือไม่เราไม่อยากเห็นจรวดระเบิดอีก IFT-3 อย่าผิดพลาดอีกต้องสำเร็จนะ Elon