It's Time! Starship & Starliner Inch Closer To Launch! | This Week In Spaceflight
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- This Week in Spaceflight we cover Starship's progress towards its next launch, the return of Starliner to the pad after another delay, and updates on two Japanese space probes, SLIM and Akatsuki. Stay tuned for all these exciting developments and more!
🔴 Highlights:
* Starship Launch: SpaceX prepares for Starship's fourth flight with a second Wet Dress Rehearsal and regulatory updates.
* Starliner Update: Boeing's Starliner is back on the pad, targeting a June 1st launch after addressing valve and helium leak issues.
* Japanese Space Probes: JAXA's SLIM and Akatsuki missions face new challenges on the Moon and around Venus.
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🤵 Hosted by Elysia Segal (@elysiasegal)
🖋️ Written by Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (@alexphysics13).
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✂️ Edited by Thomas Hayden.
💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed).
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I would NOT want to be one of the astronauts on the Starliner's first launch.
Use crash dummies instead!
Currently I wouldn’t want to set foot in any type of vehicle made by Boeing 😅😬
@@corvettesbme they are... They are just alive.
@@corvettesbmethey already did, this is the 2nd launch of starliner
@@Sponge1310 Anything built before they were taken over by MD would be fine.
Thank you for the concise presentation, Elysia. You have excellent communications skills.
Remember when the Initial hope and plan was they even make 10 flights before retiring them....
Gotta have balls of steel to get on that Starliner considering all the problems it’s had.
Or maybe boobs of steel?
I agree. If I was are astronaut, I would be having doubts going on it. You want to feel safe and confident but with all those issues, it's a dam no for me.
sorry, but that starliner bit sounds like they are going for expediency over safety....is that not the case?
its a tiny leak that would take over 3 months to repair and get back into service
I'm honestly looking forward to the starliner launch. I hope it goes well, they can certainly use the morale boost for the people who are working hard to make this whole thing work.
Awesome thanks
THE BEST PRESENTER
Nice to see you back. Shame about the background semi-musical noises. Check out musical anhedonia sometime.
NASA & Boeing should have fixed the Starliner's helium leak issue, hopefully it doesn't prove to be bigger problem later. I don't think it will launch anyway
RTL (rush to launch)
Rock on
Godspeed, Capricorn One! 🤣🤣🤣
yay
If I were NASA I would be furious that Boeing are so late and charging so many more millions to launch than space x.
I just love your earrings ❤❤
Why would anyone with money keep Starliner alive after aaaaaalllllll of these issues...?
What a piece of crap. (starliner)
Starliner an accident looking for a place to happen. Delivered late and BILLIONS of dollars in cost overruns.
It’s such a shame that a once great company like Boeing has fallen so far.
@@Knightfang1that’s what happen when you prioritise profits over all else.
@@testpilotian3188 absolutely correct, and it started with the merger with McDonnell Douglas in 97. They moved their corporate offices clear across the country from their manufacturing facilities, and quality has been in a slow steady decline ever since.
Look forward to these updates every week! You present it so well. Kudos to you all!
15:11 massive props for that pronounciation
It's very easy to rhyme in Chinese poetry.
dong fang hong tian gong
Elysia is back! Hells yeah!
2:39 - BOM (big orbital maneuvers) would be a great name for a main thruster system. They missed out on that one.
Good ole groundliner
yep, Starlemon
Another interesting NSF update and as always professionally delivered by E.S. 👍
Like a lot of people, I'm wonder why the hell they're doing a crewed launch of Starliner without ever having 1 mission where the thing wasn't a mess. Yes it did go up once and sorta made it's mission objectives but it still had so many problems that it's been years getting fixed...and now without another test launch they're gonna put people on it?
If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going
Thank you Elysia for another great This Week In Spaceflight. I realy enjoy these weekly updates, and all the hard work that all of the NSF staff put into them. Thank's again!!!!
Flying with a leak. Feels very Boeing.
As long as the door holds...😊
@@nigelmorris4769 they are getting pretty good with gases escaping pressurised vessels. I'm sure the door will stay in place this time and the air just leaks around it.
remember what happened to the shuttle when they had a seal (o-ring) fail...so are Boeing trying to re-create that?
@@neilfleming2787this is just helium, nothing combustable here
And the shuttle that had a engine leak and a short circuit in the bay saved the day..
So in listening to the explanation about the "small leak" and how fixing it by destacking could take months to do safely they come up with a work around. WTF!!!
1. This stinks of desperation on boeing's part who are desperate to get this pig off the ground.
2. If i as an infantry soldier said to my guys "right this is the (high risk) plan but we cant have a medic with us but its ok because we all have a field dressing each.
Im staggared that they are willing to risk 2 peoples lives because to fix it "properly" "safely" could take months and conflict with other iss traffic......so what. This thing is a disasterous relic thats over cost and so late it may just be pregnant (where have i heard that before 😢)
Joking aside this is reckless(regardless of how small the risk) any risk is just that A RISK
I genuinely hope all goes well
LMAO😂 North Korea doesn't launch rockets in secrecy😂
Another great update, Elysia. Thanks NSF.
Great explanation of the size of the failing seal. Jolly well done.
“Seal? Where we’re going we don’t need a seal.”
These updates are amazing. The quality is a major compliment to the hard work that goes into these.
While the Starliner flight has been deemed safe enough, I didn't think I'd want to be on it just yet, for myself.
Not to be a complainer, but the into music, while a great piece, plays at a level where I have to either move the volume to a fraction of what is needed during the actual content or mute it, which is a shame.
It seems much more closely balanced on recent live streams, but still needs some adjustment, in my opinion
I didn't think I'm the only one, but my family and friends are a statistically insignificant sample size.
We investigated and realized we are not able to ever launch the strandliner
Boeings answer to everything ~ "Software Mods" !!!
Just like 737Max !!!
To HELL with A+ Engineering, just over-ride it with "Code" & let it leak !!
THAT,
right there,
IS,
Boeings PROBLEM !!
What’s the worst that could happen??
Thanks to Elysia and Team. Greetings from Germany
I always look forward to a well-delivered summary of the news in space, and my wife looks forward to your fabulous earrings. Win-win, thanks!
Welcome back! We missed you!
I have a bad feeling about Starliner's launch. They need to scrub.
Amazing how TH-cam observers know as much or more about Starliner as the engineers do to question whether a launch should happen!? How do you do that??
By now you must speak fluent Chinese lol awesome update!
"Hope" is not a strategy for spaceflight... among other things.
Good to see Elysia back Thanks
Beoing went to shite the second blackrock got control
This star liner launch has me more nervous than any other launch I’ve ever seen. I pray for the safety of those astronauts.
Me too…
Hopefully Boeing didn't use 777 parts on Starliner.
@@chadhamlin3881I am sure they did.
/s
Thoughts and prayers... 🙄
@@chadhamlin3881 i mean the 777 is hardly the only boeing product thats been having trouble lately
This is the second time I’ve heard aforementioned mispronounced, the first was an AI bot. It is NOT Aforementioned, it IS aFORmentioned.
This week in non spaceflight. Someone sprayed it with the scrubbing bubbles..
16:32 it's about a launch on "next week may 21st" shouldn't it be 31st? Maybe I'm not hearing right😅
Deciding not to fly a vehicle just because they know there are major flaws and faults… doesn’t feel very Boeing.
Idk why but starliner looks like a testing Apollo capsule from the Gemini program
Those earrings are fantastic!! More exciting than the other space news. Thanks!!😃
Are you kidding me Starliner Inch Closer To Launch. They are not even moving forward lol
How could you miss the biggest news from India on 3d printed rocket launch?
Wow, China is blasting off ships in the ocean! That is amazing, and worrying.
A seal about "as thick as 10 papers stacked on to of each other" = 1mm 🙂
Man! The Boeing capsule looks like an old car full of wrinkles! 🤣🤣🤣
Blue is ready to crash onto the new landing platform if it launches.
I wonder if Boeing have checked the doors on Starliner )
LETS GO NEW UPDATE, Never disappoint NSF!
Cool!
The vehicle has faulty seals and they still press for a manned launch.
They learned absolutely nothing!
It's always great to see commenters on TH-cam who know more about Starliner systems than the engineers do!
Welllll….I’m not a fan of Boeing these days…..having worked with them in the old days…..but you’re wrong there: It’s not uncommon at all on complex vehicles- shuttle being the biggest example (was most complex) to lift off with an entire list of things not working. But you discuss/analyze/sometimes test related to each one, make a decision about what situation you’d be in if the NEXT WORSE failure actually happened in flight…and then make a cost/benefit/schedule decision as to whether to fly as-is or not. And keep in mind, doing maintenance/change outs, etc., are not ‘free’- and I’m not talking about cost-free; I’m talking they are not RISK-free. Like when I work on my car myself, I sometimes break other things in the process- whether I realize it immediately or not. Like deciding whether to do an operation or not. And all of the above even applies to small leaks. - Dave Huntsman
getting through the week, one TWIS at a time :)
I don't understand why NASA (and NASA SpaceFlight for that matter) continue to be a so rosy about Starliner? In the history of NASA Has there ever been a program, that is so bad that still is alive?? Dump Starliner, invest in Dreamchaser and if necessary pay SpaceX to build another Dragon Capsule.
It’s always good to have competition. Besides, I recall that SpaceX has another Dragon in the works.
Boeing sucks.
ULA is struggling to do something with Starliner that SpaceX has been doing for years now with Crew Dragon. Sad
ULA doesn’t build Starliner; Boeing does.
@@dphuntsman You're right. Its Boeing's Starliner going up on ULA's rocket. Garbage on top of garbage. Both Boeing and ULA have wasted BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars wirh no positive return. NASA should just cancel this trash endeavor and cut their losses. $5B invested (more like wasted) and all we've had is years of delays. Just this morning they tried again, and unsurprisingly it was scrubbed (AGAIN) at T-3:50.
Good to see you.
Of course, we all have very high confidence in Boeing software.
Right?
No
If NASA and the crew do, then so do I. Who am I to say otherwise?
Also for anyone reading this comment, the Boeing aerospace division and the aviation division are two very different entities.
@@dr4d1s So OFT-1 didn't have software issues? And no point in discussing Max software disasters.
Sincerely hoping all goes well but admit to being a bit nervous.
@@TheGhungFu never said it didn't. Yes I am a bit nervous as well but like I said, if everyone who made, operate or manage the mission and hardware are good with it, so am I. Who am I to say otherwise?
@@dr4d1s For being very different, they seem very similar.
Are the astronauts REALLY gonna get in the Boeing thing?
Find out tomorrow morning!
Starline, an Apollo 1960s style space capsule. Starship, a Star Trek Enterprise (almost) sized space ship. Keep trying NASA! LOL
I really hope that Akatsuki continues its mission. It is the only probe orbiting Venus and this planet is so interesting that something amazing can happen at any time, like a volcano eruption, and we won't even notice it without an orbiter observing what is happening beneath all these clouds.
Congratulations to team.🎉🎉🎉
Sunitha Williams 🎉🎉🎉
Great another Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly coming up.
Another great detailed & interesting show thanks ps when ever is see Elysia i think of the song Ariel by Dean Freeman
I'm hearing Boeing found a way to cut another corner.
i see you corrected al the "edging" thing with "inch" good job
Awesome updates thanks for sharing
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Great you are using UTC, 👌
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Boeing made a spaceship? I'm not sure I even want to get on their planes any more.
To infinity ….AND BEYOND!!!!
Hooray!
This should be an exciting episode!!!!
Are you a real person? Asking for a friend.
Lfg!!!
3:10 Is that Richard Hammond?!
I thought it was Tony Stark
(Love ya.. but that background music is a bit too distracting, maybe something more ambient without random pitched sounds.. there wasn’t anything wrong with the previous track either… beside that love ya still )
What’s all the small holes on the outside of the Starliner?
Ah, those are for stability in the case of an abort. Basically you need drag to be behind you if you want to be able to fly in a stable way (otherwise the capsule will want to flip around). While on Atlas V this isn't a problem since the rocket has all of that covered, if Starliner aborts and flys itself away it needs to artificially create more drag, and that's what those plates full of holes are doing. Exclusively there to grab onto some air and keep things stable
@@thomashayden804 ok! Interesting, thx
With a known bad helium seal on Star Leaker I'll be listening carefully for the astronauts voices to crack.
For how long are you going to back a company that obviously is putting many people at risk every single day? This is just crazy.
By the next episode of TWIS, Starship will probably have launched. Hard to believe, considering how quick the turnaround time is getting
It'd be faster if the FAA didn't drag their feet.
@@XShadowAngel The FAA is right on time for the launch on June 5th
@@SpaceflightExplained I'm aware, but for the prior launches SpaceX was ready to go for weeks or months while they waited around twiddling thumbs for FAA approvals. We'd be on launch 4 or 5 by now.
@@XShadowAngelthis is launch 4.
@@KatharineOsborne Context. As in we'd have already launched 4 or 5 by now, not be sitting around waiting on 4. After launch one, they didn't approval for launch 2 for over 6 months. SpaceX was ready to go for months and just waiting around.
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I think that one of the underlieing causes of all the delays is the absolute unwillingness to take any sort of risk, mostly for political and financial reasons. Boeing would lose too much funding if something were to happen and (other) clients would likely walk away. Couple this with an apparent stingyness in funding proactive and preventative testing and you get the current state of multiple public delays.
I don't know how you can claim "apparent stinginess in funding proactive and preventative testing" because in the first place Boeing received 4.2 BILLION $$ for Starliner design and construction which is more than a billion $ more than Space X received for Dragon.
Add to that the many years of delay to get to this point. A lot of testing was going through that whole time that found problems with the parachutes and other problems. The helium leak is the last in a long line of matters that needed fixing. The helium leak doesn't appear serious enough to warrant overhauling the vehicle. That's sounds like what they would probably call an acceptable risk.
Thumbs Down. Boeing has NO other clients, either pending or projected; nor have they ever tried to get any. - Dave Huntsman
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Challenger and Space Shuttle learning has already been forgotten.
These two test pilots will get a nice monument and a place in NASA history. May end the government program.
Thumbs Down.
1. Starliner launches
2. Starliner malfunctions
3. Starliner crew perishes
4. NASA over-reacts and shuts down all spaceflight, including their biggest competitor, SpaceX
Thumbs Down. NASA would not shut down SpaceX for an UN-related Starliner failure. - Dave Huntsman
@@dphuntsman Never underestimate pettiness.
Regrettably the narrator's voice precludes my interest in viewing this offering.
What’s wrong with her voice?