No they aren't. The super heavy can't hover for over 5 minutes while searching and scanning the surface below and finding a safe landing site. You're not even interested in spaceflight or space exploration or engineering. Try again once you've started using your frontal lobe next time.
@@CarbonMonoxxide That's because they don't need to. If they wanted to do all those things it would have been done already. But you're right you know all about me don't you and NASA has done so well they have to use private companies for space needs. And another thing, learn how to take a joke and stop being so uptight. lol
This company keeps building landers that are two refrigerators tall with narrow landing gear. They will fail from having such a high center of gravity.
So, air resistance isnt a problem? Air resistance changes everything, how the rocket functions how it responds to changes in density to vacuum, it all seems to be for the cameras and funding.
This is a testbed for the LIDAR. Nothing about the vehicle's performance itself outside of the LIDAR is important to the test. They tested the LIDAR for the Perseverance rover with a helicopter but they obviously weren't going to use a helicopter to land Perseverance on Mars did they?
I'm concerned that the lunar simulation isn't fractal. There should be tiny craters as well as large ones, so that from any height a camera alone cannot tell your altitude.
Spacex can't land a booster anywhere let alone on the lunar surface. They were testing a radar, not the hovering vehicle. Your brain is old technology from the look of it.
The system is OK, but the legs are not! Is so hard to design some legs at 50-60 degrees? This almost vertical legs can destroy the ship wile landing and bouncing. Is something what a 12 years old child can observe.
personally, i would much rather listen to the machine fly and even better a narrator tell me what i'm watching instead of some soundtrack that someone thought fitted the video.
Why would you need that? Supposedly a guy named Neil Armstrong landed manually on the Moon, almost 60 years ago, without computer support (hell, they barely invented the transistor back then) or obstacle detection systems! He obviously felt the obstacles with his armpit hairs. The only things you need to land on the Moon (you DID landed 6 times there, right?), obviously, are a tin bucket piloted by a 6 years old kid with some experience in playing console games. Nothing more.
Because safety first. Also, they have less budget today than in the past, so if there is one fail, you can be sure that politicians won’t give them any money.
Aside from the fact that, even for future manned flights, it would be absolutely breakneck to perform a landing purely manually, the video description (which you are welcome to read before commenting, by the way) mentions that this system is intended for NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services missions - which are unmanned. Communication delay between Earth and Moon is 1.28 seconds each way, hence the automated system. Apart from that, transistors were being used in the Apollo program - after all, they had been invented a good 5 to 10 years earlier.
The point is to document the research so that anyone can use it, yes spaceX probely have the data to do this but wat if some one elle also wants to do the thing, this will make it much easier fore everyone
True - but getting better (or improve programming) at steering using the engine's gimbal might help. Plus, it will be flying in far less gravity on the Moon.
Smart system! It appears to have examine your obstacle course and determine the best place to land is right where it came from. ;)
lol all the money that could have been saved just staying put.
At least they're not whistling and snapping their fingers. God I hate that music.
Yeah, who is that music for, anyways?
@@elc2k385 keeps neurodivergent people like me focused on the video
Ukulele and Glockenspiel also missing...
HUMANITY! These videos inspire me every time, our longing for the stars and the need to work together! I love you all!
happy new year!
Thank you again to the women and men of NASA.
Thrust vector control looks so smooth on lightweight vehicles
NASA after driving a car to a News conference- WE HAVE INVENTED THE CAR!
nasa is back at it again
Excellent, that has a purpose for it already. 👍
In the meantime SpaceX is doing it with a 397 ft. tall vehicle.
No they aren't. The super heavy can't hover for over 5 minutes while searching and scanning the surface below and finding a safe landing site. You're not even interested in spaceflight or space exploration or engineering. Try again once you've started using your frontal lobe next time.
@@CarbonMonoxxide That's because they don't need to. If they wanted to do all those things it would have been done already. But you're right you know all about me don't you and NASA has done so well they have to use private companies for space needs. And another thing, learn how to take a joke and stop being so uptight. lol
Legs need Leopard legs (metal artificial) for softly contact.
The launch pad looks exactly like my Testors model rocket's launch pad disc. With the scorch marks too!
Lidar is the best ground radar system. We use them on 737’s very reliable.
It's like a virtual Neil Armstrong. Bravo team 👏
Nice! A giant skateboard park on the moon!
The true end goal
Nice, nice
*So when’s full disclosure?*
Very nicely done! Great landing!
Nice to see the Masten people and skills still at work.
They've been doing the same test for 15+ years now.
Parece trivial, mas a engenharia por tras deste simples voo é fascinante.
Excellent! The landing legs need some dampening. A bounce like that will be multiplied on the moon. Just a guess.
Great observation! however I'm sure this is just a testbed for the LIDAR and not at all the actual lunar lander itself.
Really amazing shadow it casts!
i can't even get my blow torch flame dialed-in
Cool moonscape. Looks like it's at Mojave Airport.
Still waiting on the Lizard Hazard Detection System. Until then, this is all just speculation.
I see what you did there, and I approve.
Why did my brain smash lidar hazard into lizard 💚
Why don't they place a large circular and lightweight 'pad' on the moon first. It could have guidance markings on it.
You could carry the pad under the rocket so it’s ready wherever you go
The day we'll build a moon base, we may need a landing pad. For exploration and prospecting, being able to land anywhere is a great capability.
I believe someone has to put it there first, which in turn requires the moon to have any infrastructurally-significant points of interest
This company keeps building landers that are two refrigerators tall with narrow landing gear. They will fail from having such a high center of gravity.
One day I will have my company do the briefing and debriefing of this test. For free. Childhood dream to work for/with these people.
i always knew deep inside that the moon is flat and has a beginning and an end
Should deploy an anti flip over foot just to make sure it lands upright.
Strong winds, on the moon?
Gimble on that engine. Just so well coordinated.
Guess you guys do more than just airbrush photos.
Impressive, very good
So, air resistance isnt a problem? Air resistance changes everything, how the rocket functions how it responds to changes in density to vacuum, it all seems to be for the cameras and funding.
This is a testbed for the LIDAR. Nothing about the vehicle's performance itself outside of the LIDAR is important to the test. They tested the LIDAR for the Perseverance rover with a helicopter but they obviously weren't going to use a helicopter to land Perseverance on Mars did they?
Landing 'feet' need soft shock absorbers
Dust flying? Where is the dust?
so they programed it to come back
what ever happened to that morpheus project
I'm concerned that the lunar simulation isn't fractal. There should be tiny craters as well as large ones, so that from any height a camera alone cannot tell your altitude.
I'm sure they will develop the site and perform more and more tests, They haven't said anything about this being the final product.
This is Skynet’s version of the LLTV
Can we call it LIZARD for short (LIdar haZARd Detection)?
Nice schlieren effect selfie too - 0:24 👍
Test model's inner voice: "don't fall over. don't fall over. don't fall over..."
_"You saw how they pointed and laughed at the cousins..."_
Great tech. Keep it up.
Bellissimo!!!!!🌓
Be the pioneer to explore the new world. Human race needs someone to achieve technological breakthrough so as to survive unforeseen challenges.
Quero muito trabalhar realizando algo assim. já me formei em matematica mas ainda tenho que iniciar e teminar engenharia
super cool, congratulations!
Ah, an Alien incursion warning system, ⚠️⚠️⚠️🛸👽, 😅🤣😂
Old technology. SpaceX has been doing this for years. Way to go NASA.
You know space x got all their initial info FROM nasa right?
@ Of course but Musk is running with it.
Spacex can't land a booster anywhere let alone on the lunar surface. They were testing a radar, not the hovering vehicle. Your brain is old technology from the look of it.
That is really cool!
Does it fly by the thrust pushing against the air or it flies by ejecting particles in the opposite direction ?
Ejecting particles, newton's 3rd law
awesome
Please this technology advancement please sir please
lunar terrain, interesting...
Top heavy...needs wider leg's
It's the Armadilo Aerospace flight vehicle! 😅
That was my first thought as well; Pixel, back in action. Is it, for reals though?
The system is OK, but the legs are not! Is so hard to design some legs at 50-60 degrees? This almost vertical legs can destroy the ship wile landing and bouncing. Is something what a 12 years old child can observe.
These tests seem to be focused on minimizing bouncing via programming. I imagine better legs will be a separate chain of tests
This is not what we are bringing to the moon. A 12 year old would understand that this is just testing the radar and not the vehicle itself.
Cool!
How about before the next lunar mission, test these things at Crater of the Moon Park. That way you'll know before leaving Earth.
Ummm it was a test flight to test the LIDAR!
@666=144000
@OBED=GODFATHER
So they're flying without the REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT tag on the laser on next flight
You know, they had something similar in the late 60.
Oh yeah, it was a human.
Hey now, Skynet's got to have their own version!
Masten space vibes
bravoo
While it is an awesome flight, I hope the lunar lander has a far wider stance. That V-CG is very high for that narrow base of support
It looks like it did the job for what it was designed to do and that was to test the LIDAR!
We already landed on the moon?!?! Why is this exciting?!?
The Apollo landers were human steered
Because the most recent unmanned moon missions had remarkably unfortunate fates
Does not look like good design. It will easily top over uneven surface.
they should definitely hire you
Legs, just long enough to not let the engines die or let it drop too soon, when their engines are choked off by the ground.
You guys forgot obstacles like boulders, uneven ground, high cliffs, and deep craters too.
I'm sure they forgot
I aM vErY sOrRy.
Why? Why this stupid music?
I hate this era for that!
Nice video, bad sound. The music turns it into a Chinese infomercial.
NASA VIDEO EDITING SWEEP
personally, i would much rather listen to the machine fly and even better a narrator tell me what i'm watching instead of some soundtrack that someone thought fitted the video.
👍🇺🇲
Oh look! Nasa is on a new 30 year mission to create something that won't go anywhere for the cost of "infinity and beyond!"
Bro think he in moon
boring
Why would you need that? Supposedly a guy named Neil Armstrong landed manually on the Moon, almost 60 years ago, without computer support (hell, they barely invented the transistor back then) or obstacle detection systems! He obviously felt the obstacles with his armpit hairs. The only things you need to land on the Moon (you DID landed 6 times there, right?), obviously, are a tin bucket piloted by a 6 years old kid with some experience in playing console games. Nothing more.
Because safety first. Also, they have less budget today than in the past, so if there is one fail, you can be sure that politicians won’t give them any money.
Aside from the fact that, even for future manned flights, it would be absolutely breakneck to perform a landing purely manually, the video description (which you are welcome to read before commenting, by the way) mentions that this system is intended for NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services missions - which are unmanned. Communication delay between Earth and Moon is 1.28 seconds each way, hence the automated system.
Apart from that, transistors were being used in the Apollo program - after all, they had been invented a good 5 to 10 years earlier.
apollo did have computers, and the landing was automated until neil saw it was landing in a crater
Spacex could do tha
Oka
The point is to document the research so that anyone can use it, yes spaceX probely have the data to do this but wat if some one elle also wants to do the thing, this will make it much easier fore everyone
big ef'in deal. SpaceX sucks
@@lantrick
Thy don't suk
@@CasGRosspaceX is thy sukest
one word: center of gravity is too high....
It seems that the high center of gravity, on the contrary, helps it to stabilize. It's essentially an inverted pendulum.
You should probably learn to count before trying to tackle rocket engineering.
True - but getting better (or improve programming) at steering using the engine's gimbal might help. Plus, it will be flying in far less gravity on the Moon.
That's 6 words. Your grasp of basic numeracy is clearly at the level of your understanding of rockets.
Maybe you should get out there and show 'em how it's done.