Scott, you've inadvertently created a new name for failed and crashed satellites, now they're flatellites! Good job! Hope to see it included in the next Webster's update!
Careful, "Flatsat" is a well-established term for a test bed of your satellite. You lay out all the components on a table for easy access and can then test your units and on-board software with it.
I think Spacex does not get enough credit for the production of Falcon 9 second stages. There were 134 Falcon 9 launches last year. That means they built 134 second stages that were disposable. More than one a week. That is incredible production. I would love to see a tour of their Falcon 9 second stage production facility.
Russia is stuck in the 1980s and has a corruption cancer festering in it's society, think tanks with rubber instead of explosive reactive armor... They have a murderous dictator that has the Stalin effect of scare the crap out of everyone so they always tell the government what it wants to hear, but when it comes to game time it cannot perform. What a shithole country.
we almost got a second space port in t south island as well! they stopped it not long ago....whoops. was looking forward to bonfire on beach watching a rocket launch
Happy birthday @Scott Manley. I really enjoy your videos. As I am proud Croatian and a member of the CroCube team I would like to point out that you got the wrong name of the first Croatian satellite. The correct name is CroCube. No hard feelings 😊.
Unfortunately the launch is paywalled. No one will be able to see it live. What a garbage start for Blue Origin. This is not how you get people interested in space, by blocking it.
I agree; though I also recognise that Blue Origin has no obligation to the general public to share anything they do, and they also have no obligation to attempt to try to engage people in aerospace. We are lucky that SpaceX and Rocket Lab do what they do, in this regard.
I bet there will be cameras taking pics and vids.... beyond their regulatory reach... zoom does wonders on cameras!! But yeah... they're a-holes for blocking it up close.
@@cerealport2726 Actually they have that obligation. Tax payers have funded that pad they are launching on. They have funded the land they are using for their operations. AND they are on government property. Transparency is a right granted. If Blue Origin want sot do stuff in secret, then they will receive no credit for anything. We don't have to subsidize private companies. So Blue Origin may "think" they have no obligation, but in reality when the buck comes due, the tax payer can ask them to leave.
It’s great to have New Glen, Neutron, and Starship all well into the launch testing phase. The capacity and competition are good for the industry as a whole.
3 reusable orbital rockets coming soon is crazy to think about! Growing up in Florida, i was always a fan of the space shuttle launches and sonic booms when they came home, but space is going to start getting really fast 🏃♂️
I’ve seen the space tracking cameras at Perth Observatory, they can spot objects as small as 1cm across. They’re in a little hut with a retractable roof for when it’s a clear night.
@@simongeard4824 They did turn Atlantis around in 50 days once (landing to launch). But I don't think turnaround time is what they are referring to. The only thing reused is Falcon 9 boosters, for which we'd actually be looking at Space Shuttle SRB turnaround times for a better analogy. How many flights per booster per year? I'm not sure, I don't think there is a real answer because each booster was a ship of Theseus made of lots of previously flown boosters by the end.
OneWeb temporary outage because of a leap year? it was suddenly day 366 of 365 and froze up. you know what had that EXACT SAME bug? the microsoft Zune, way back in 2008.
always good to see us continue our space exploration :) for science :) Happy late birthday btw @Scott Manley. Hope you have a fantastic year ahead :) great video by the way.
I'm not completely comfortable with Musk being a non-elected director of any US decision maker. He's been a good partner with his commercial endeavors, but... I hope and pray that he understands the American Way. Just my opinion and I'm an OG.
@@walter2990 Elected officials can take advice from anyone they like. It's always been that way. As for his understanding of the American way, He is living the American dream. Getting incredibly wealthy and using that money to benefit the planet. Starlink, SpaceX, Neuralink, and Tesla, are all his babies and while making him wealthy, also benefit us all. All of the Elon hatred is rooted in jealousy or politics.
Speaking as someone who worked on the Millennium Bug the roll over from 2024 to 2025 was one of the things everybody who knew what they were doing tested
One of my duties at a large transit agency was ensuring DST, Y2K, and leap years were handled without a glitch anywhere, especially with the continuous data transfers between the fleet and the various bus and train dispatch centers, passenger information centers, and station displays. It is _shocking_ to me that OneWeb didn't have this nailed down.
For SpaceX you can break down the 134 Falcon flights to see where the demand is. Starlink: 89 or 66.42% were Starlink and 94 or 70.15% if you include Starsheild, RTLS: 17 or 12.69%, Drone: 13 or 9.70%, Dragon (Crew and Cargo): 6 or 4.48%, Expended or FH: 4 or 2.99%. Goes to show how massive Starlink is to SpaceX's (and spaceflight writ large) is. I would not be shocked if the number of launches goes down once Starship starts flying Starlinks as it "only" needs to fly ~45 times with 54 Starlinks each lasting 5 years per year to fill their current 12,000 satellite sized constellation. They do plan on expanding it to 34400 at some point putting it at 128 each year.
That depends on two factors: the allowed launch cadence for Starship and the cost per Starlink. Initially, the allowed number of Starship launches per year will limit its use for Starlink deployment as the number also has to cover SpaceX commitment to the Artemis programme and his Mars ambition. The initial cost per launch is also likely to be higher than that for Falcon 9. So, Falcon 9 will likely remain SpaceX workhorse for its Starlink program for at least the next few years.
@@janschmid281 New Glenn has a much larger payload volume than Falcon Heavy (basically the same as Starship, but with more conventional fairings that split down the middle). Falcon Heavy has never flown a mission to LEO because of this limit, and the heaviest payload to fly on Falcon Heavy anytime soon is probably going to be the Gateway CMV at around 18t. Meanwhile New Glenn is planning on actually flying their 45t payload capacity to LEO, for example to launch and refuel their HLS lander or for Amazon's Kuiper Constellation. So I don't think it's fair to expect to only launch as often as Falcon Heavy.
I’m excited for Stoke Space this coming year. Their Nova architecture just seems by far the best thought out for actual economical full reuse. Seeing how it holds up for its first real reentry should be exciting; hopefully this year. 🤞🏻
I'm pretty sure I watched DMSP F14 launch! That would have been in April 1997, about 5 months after I started working at Vandenberg. Those Titan IIs weren't that dramatic to watch but it was wild knowing they'd spent decades as ICBMs before being used for space launch. Someone on base shot a spoof Cal Worthington commercial for pre-owned Titan IIs, complete with jingle. I'm pretty sure I've got that on my own channel somewhere.
1:25 "cubesats ..more like flat satellites" is hell of a dark shallow space joke :D Maybe one could argue that hitting the ground they go from cube sats to more like square meteorites.
I'm honestly hyped for New Gleen. I know it's late, only partially reusable but still it has some impressive size and capacity... it won't probably be a significant "threat" to SpaceX but still after so long time we are finally going to see it fly
@@riparianlife97701 we know they have some landing software that works, it's not clear that New Glenn can use the same software (it's a very different rocket with much higher speeds)
@@Torta--is--PLUR it is, better will be, only partially reusable but it has a much bigger payload bay than F9/FH so it may find its niche in the market. some customers such as NRO are more than willing to have alternative to SpaceX and cost is not always their first interest
re: starship flaps (front vs rear), the distance from the plasma to the craft is based on the radius of the craft, the nose being narrower would have the plasma getting closer to it than the rear flaps, I wonder if that is enough to matter?
Partly but I think it's more got to do with hinge's protruding far beyond that radius. On the nose, the hinge ends are not flush with "the radius" because the radius changes - the hinge ends get exposed. The idea to have hingeless forward flaps would help a lot (fewer moving parts. All control via aft flaps)
@@u1zha the hinges on the rear flaps stick out about as much as the block 1 front ones did. the front flaps need to fold completely out of the way when the ship is returning empty, so I don't see how they could eliminate the hinges.
I was playing your playlist in Space Science, like from 6 years ago, in the background while I made a model of the Atlas V 411 Osiris Rex Launch vehicle in 1/96 scale and WOW you know a lot about space and space travel. It inspires me to keep learning. This is going to be a historical year for space travel!! Can't wait!!
I'm amazed that nobody made Eutelsat parallel to Y2k. For all of the doubters of Y2k, this is what would have happened across many systems in many industries.
Sure..... My old computer didn't fail... Or any old computers in stuff I owned. And none of them connected to update. So I call BS. Oh.... Wait..... Maybe they were vaxed..... Ya.. that would solve any issues...
Widely advertize this failure. Seriously. I am apauled and disheartened by many otherwise smart people who wrongly concluded that Y2K was a false crisis, simply because no failure debris was available in North America, for visible inspection. The current failure shows that Y2K was a real crisis--fortunately, near-comprehensively addressed and fixed.
If Starship V2 has a smaller payload bay than V1, what's the actual volume now? I thought one of the big selling points for Starship was it's 1,000m3 payload bay...
Block 2 ships should have around 600-700M^3 of payload volume. I calculated this myself a while ago so this may not be accurate but it seems reasonable. Block 3’s should return the volume to around 1,000-1,100M^3.
Maybe. It’d be good for the market for SpaceX to have a solid competitor! Competitive markets better results. We need as many (US or ally based) space businesses as possible!
How does a satellite spontaneously break up into 50 pieces? I mean, I can understand if a part comes loose due to interactions with atomic oxygen and then you have 2 pieces, but breaking up into 50 pieces all at once makes it sound like something more interesting happened.
The monopropellant motors, possibly. The passivation is achieved by emptying the hydrazine tank, and if this step isn't completed properly, the motor will subsequently undergo a low energy rapid unscheduled disassembly...
You should have put a warning in front of your post that one reading the comment should NOT have any liquids in their mouth while reading it. Just as a hint. I'm grabbing a towel now... 😁😜
Axiom Space Space Station. (Taking a hint from Battersea Power Station Station) They can of course avoid some S by calling it Axiom Space Habitat Orbiting Low Earth
It's fun to imagine that 1500 tons falcon9 launched this year in the terms of landers, space stations, rovers, etc. That's the future we might be looking at with starship. Fingers crossed.
Reasonable people want both to succeed. I also want SLS to succeed if launched, even though I would prefer it cancelled entirely. Wanting an explosion is crazy.
It's not all that hard to understand: the people wishing failure upon New Glenn are members of the Cult of Musk, and they can't handle the idea of someone showing their Dear Leader up.
Happy new year Scott! I always enjoy your deep space updates. Cover other space flight things that are not SpaceX without making it feel like it's all a sideshow.
We need New Glenn to work. I don’t want to see the government break it up because of monopoly status like AT&T was way back. We need a vibrant commercial arena. 🖖🏼
Scott, Ellie said something in a recent video about there will be a lot more cameras on IFT-7. I don't remember the number at the moment, maybe someone else might... ...and a happy (belated) birthday, dude! (and Christmas/Yule, New Year)
That's right, and SpaceX is on the same path: Falcon Heavy Drinking is expected to launch in 2027, fueled with Bourbon Whisky. Canada is lobbying for support of Canadian whisky as they have lots in stock after they settled the Hans Island dispute with Denmark.
When tallying the number of launches by country, I was thinking, "Now show us the tonnage to orbit"... and Scott did! SpaceX is totally crushing it, and with Starship coming on this disparity is only going to widen. Starship's cost to orbit will be so low that the *Russians* will be paying SpaceX to launch their stuff. 😀
Belated Happy Birthday, Scott. Looking forward to more exciting space news! In an unrelated topic, has anyone ever thought of an escape system for payloads? Losing millions of dollars in a failed launch has gotta hurt
"Will New Glenn Be First BIG Launch of 2025?" that should be "Will New Glenn Be 'THE' First BIG Launch of 2025?". I've noticed more and more articles { not just here } that seem to be shortening their titles like this, It just make you seem a bit illiterate. lol
Two thousand R-7 based rockets launched! Mass-produced, cheap & cheerful big dumb boosters and why not? No need to reinvent the wheel. Three-axis control was a nice upgrade in 2003 (?). Before then it had only two-axis control and the roll program was done on the ground before launch by rotating the whole stack. 🚀
I was walking down the street where I live shortly after Christmas when I saw a line of lights rising up from the horizon. There were dozens of them. It was astonishing.
I cant wait until Sierra Space inflatable moduls get streamlined for building space stations in LEO. There will be dozens of space stations in a few years ! HOORAH ! Huge space stations ! Double HOORAH !! 😁💫
Proud of Europe. Not that many launches, but we still managed to hit Kenya.
Hehe that pride hits differently
At least I learned that Kenya has a space agency.
Scott, you've inadvertently created a new name for failed and crashed satellites, now they're flatellites! Good job! Hope to see it included in the next Webster's update!
Careful, "Flatsat" is a well-established term for a test bed of your satellite. You lay out all the components on a table for easy access and can then test your units and on-board software with it.
I think Spacex does not get enough credit for the production of Falcon 9 second stages. There were 134 Falcon 9 launches last year. That means they built 134 second stages that were disposable. More than one a week. That is incredible production. I would love to see a tour of their Falcon 9 second stage production facility.
Anyone who claims "SpaceX does not get enough credit" for anything is out of their mind.
@Siethon1 by "not enough credit", I am talking specifically about second stages. The production rate of the disposable stage is amazing.
It will be difficult, I guess, for New Glenn to reach similar efficiency for Amazon's Kuiper launces.
That's more than TWO a week though, right? I mean, it's very nearly three a week!
The Chinese and everyone else in the space business "would love to see a tour of their Falcon 9 second stage production facility".
New Zealand having a similar number of orbital launches as Russia is bonkers. Try telling someone that 10 years ago.
As someone from New Zealand, I likely would have laughed at you saying there was no way we would have a space agency.
Russia is stuck in the 1980s and has a corruption cancer festering in it's society, think tanks with rubber instead of explosive reactive armor... They have a murderous dictator that has the Stalin effect of scare the crap out of everyone so they always tell the government what it wants to hear, but when it comes to game time it cannot perform. What a shithole country.
Even better, try telling someone that 40 years ago 😂
Similar launch number but payload to orbit is way smaller. New Zealand only has small rockets. But ya still surprising fr
we almost got a second space port in t south island as well! they stopped it not long ago....whoops. was looking forward to bonfire on beach watching a rocket launch
Happy belated birthday Scott!
Clear skies
Last gift of the birthday, Deep Space Updates! Thank you Scott!
Happy birthday @Scott Manley. I really enjoy your videos. As I am proud Croatian and a member of the CroCube team I would like to point out that you got the wrong name of the first Croatian satellite. The correct name is CroCube. No hard feelings 😊.
Unfortunately the launch is paywalled. No one will be able to see it live. What a garbage start for Blue Origin. This is not how you get people interested in space, by blocking it.
I agree; though I also recognise that Blue Origin has no obligation to the general public to share anything they do, and they also have no obligation to attempt to try to engage people in aerospace.
We are lucky that SpaceX and Rocket Lab do what they do, in this regard.
I bet there will be cameras taking pics and vids.... beyond their regulatory reach... zoom does wonders on cameras!! But yeah... they're a-holes for blocking it up close.
@@cerealport2726 Actually they have that obligation. Tax payers have funded that pad they are launching on. They have funded the land they are using for their operations. AND they are on government property. Transparency is a right granted. If Blue Origin want sot do stuff in secret, then they will receive no credit for anything. We don't have to subsidize private companies. So Blue Origin may "think" they have no obligation, but in reality when the buck comes due, the tax payer can ask them to leave.
Apparently Bezos doesn't have enough money. Is Tim going to take his camera van?
Oh damn, I never thought of this. That's a shame. I was really interested in this launch. Well there is always Vulcan :D. Best HD footage by miles!
Happy birthday, O Manly Scotsman!
It’s great to have New Glen, Neutron, and Starship all well into the launch testing phase. The capacity and competition are good for the industry as a whole.
Like you said We sure hope they put a camera on one of the Test satellites so we can see them and Starship in action!
"New Glen, Neutron, and Starship"
one of these things is not like the other
3 reusable orbital rockets coming soon is crazy to think about! Growing up in Florida, i was always a fan of the space shuttle launches and sonic booms when they came home, but space is going to start getting really fast 🏃♂️
@bobloblaw1636 You're right. Nutron is carbon fiber.
@@bobloblaw1636 Is Neutron only launching from New Zealand? I thought they were also going to launch from the US as well.
Happy Birthday Scott , 31st Dec is a tough date to rise above the new years eve noise.
I’ve seen the space tracking cameras at Perth Observatory, they can spot objects as small as 1cm across. They’re in a little hut with a retractable roof for when it’s a clear night.
Growing up yearly shuttle launches used to make the news. That many launches in a year is pretty wild to think about!
So many launches that it’s not news but a standard. The news is when things go wrong these and we get pretty fireballs to talk about
134 Falcon 9 and Heavy launches in one year... that's just one fewer launch than the Shuttle over it's entire operational life.
The Space Shuttle averaged 4.5 launches a year.
@@HALLish-jl5mo Yes... which is to say, about one launch per Shuttle per year. Not exactly rapid-reuse...
@@simongeard4824 They did turn Atlantis around in 50 days once (landing to launch).
But I don't think turnaround time is what they are referring to. The only thing reused is Falcon 9 boosters, for which we'd actually be looking at Space Shuttle SRB turnaround times for a better analogy. How many flights per booster per year? I'm not sure, I don't think there is a real answer because each booster was a ship of Theseus made of lots of previously flown boosters by the end.
Happy Birthday Scott ! So glad you get a massive fireworks display on your birthday each year! Cheers ! Clear skies and calm winds !
You the man, Scott! Happy New Year.
OneWeb temporary outage because of a leap year? it was suddenly day 366 of 365 and froze up. you know what had that EXACT SAME bug? the microsoft Zune, way back in 2008.
always good to see us continue our space exploration :) for science :) Happy late birthday btw @Scott Manley. Hope you have a fantastic year ahead :) great video by the way.
To line Elon and Bezos pockets
Nice new music at the end!
Happy birthday and a happy new year Scott! Fly Safe.
I hope it works out fine. The US needs more working launch vehicles. Can't put all our eggs in the Falcon 9 basket, and Vulcan isn't cranking out yet.
Nationalize SpaceX, since Musky is getting in the government game anyway.
I have worked on government aerospace programs, and commercial aerospace programs. That would be an absolute disaster.
@MonkeyJedi99 Let's take a company that out performs the world by a factor of ten and turn it into the DMV. Great idea 👍
I'm not completely comfortable with Musk being a non-elected director of any US decision maker. He's been a good partner with his commercial endeavors, but...
I hope and pray that he understands the American Way. Just my opinion and I'm an OG.
@@walter2990 Elected officials can take advice from anyone they like. It's always been that way. As for his understanding of the American way, He is living the American dream. Getting incredibly wealthy and using that money to benefit the planet. Starlink, SpaceX, Neuralink, and Tesla, are all his babies and while making him wealthy, also benefit us all. All of the Elon hatred is rooted in jealousy or politics.
Speaking as someone who worked on the Millennium Bug the roll over from 2024 to 2025 was one of the things everybody who knew what they were doing tested
the almost biological way that the Axiom station will branch off into a new station from the ISS is beautiful 😢
Like a little baby lol
One of my duties at a large transit agency was ensuring DST, Y2K, and leap years were handled without a glitch anywhere, especially with the continuous data transfers between the fleet and the various bus and train dispatch centers, passenger information centers, and station displays. It is _shocking_ to me that OneWeb didn't have this nailed down.
For SpaceX you can break down the 134 Falcon flights to see where the demand is.
Starlink: 89 or 66.42% were Starlink and 94 or 70.15% if you include Starsheild,
RTLS: 17 or 12.69%,
Drone: 13 or 9.70%,
Dragon (Crew and Cargo): 6 or 4.48%,
Expended or FH: 4 or 2.99%.
Goes to show how massive Starlink is to SpaceX's (and spaceflight writ large) is. I would not be shocked if the number of launches goes down once Starship starts flying Starlinks as it "only" needs to fly ~45 times with 54 Starlinks each lasting 5 years per year to fill their current 12,000 satellite sized constellation. They do plan on expanding it to 34400 at some point putting it at 128 each year.
That depends on two factors: the allowed launch cadence for Starship and the cost per Starlink.
Initially, the allowed number of Starship launches per year will limit its use for Starlink deployment as the number also has to cover SpaceX commitment to the Artemis programme and his Mars ambition.
The initial cost per launch is also likely to be higher than that for Falcon 9. So, Falcon 9 will likely remain SpaceX workhorse for its Starlink program for at least the next few years.
Scott, Happy New Year! And Happy Birthday, too, apparently.
Hope you had a great birthday Scott💚🇬🇧🌱
I thought flight 7 was using a block 2 booster, as defined by the larger fuel tanks? Rather than defined by the rocket engines.
I want to see New Glenn and Starship launches simultaneously...
Same, but i'm sure some "um actually" will use some sort of logic to poop all over our dreams
Mount theme horizontally and do a tug of war!
@@jjchouinard2327 um actually they share fuel resources and can't launch within the same few hours
I want to see New Glen launch flawlessly and Starship blow up on the launch pad.
@222cubing8 well luckily only ONE can launch at canaveral. itll be fine.
Happy Birthday, Scott! 🎉🎉🎉
Can’t wait for both! The more launches the better, and America needs more heavy lift.
Not realy, we see how much fh is used
@@janschmid281 New Glenn has a much larger payload volume than Falcon Heavy (basically the same as Starship, but with more conventional fairings that split down the middle). Falcon Heavy has never flown a mission to LEO because of this limit, and the heaviest payload to fly on Falcon Heavy anytime soon is probably going to be the Gateway CMV at around 18t. Meanwhile New Glenn is planning on actually flying their 45t payload capacity to LEO, for example to launch and refuel their HLS lander or for Amazon's Kuiper Constellation.
So I don't think it's fair to expect to only launch as often as Falcon Heavy.
Happy Birthday, Scott!
1:22 "the cube satellites are, unfortunately, more like flat satellites after hitting the ground" lol
I laughed, another brilliant joke by the well known comedian - Scott Manley
As a New Zealander, I appreciate you Scott for giving us those 13 launches XD
Happy Birthday, Scott. December 31st is a difficult date to rise above the New Year's Eve hubbub.
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I’m excited for Stoke Space this coming year. Their Nova architecture just seems by far the best thought out for actual economical full reuse. Seeing how it holds up for its first real reentry should be exciting; hopefully this year. 🤞🏻
I agree! 👍
Stoke Space have a cool holistic approach...... :)
It seem to me to be the best suited for transporting people up to whatever replaces the ISS.
A late but heartily Happy B-Day for you, Scott, and a Happy New Year🎉🙏🇩🇪🍻
I'm pretty sure I watched DMSP F14 launch! That would have been in April 1997, about 5 months after I started working at Vandenberg. Those Titan IIs weren't that dramatic to watch but it was wild knowing they'd spent decades as ICBMs before being used for space launch. Someone on base shot a spoof Cal Worthington commercial for pre-owned Titan IIs, complete with jingle. I'm pretty sure I've got that on my own channel somewhere.
1:25 "cubesats ..more like flat satellites" is hell of a dark shallow space joke :D Maybe one could argue that hitting the ground they go from cube sats to more like square meteorites.
I'm honestly hyped for New Gleen.
I know it's late, only partially reusable but still it has some impressive size and capacity... it won't probably be a significant "threat" to SpaceX but still after so long time we are finally going to see it fly
I am, too. Credit where credit is due, if they are successful. We already know their engines and landing software work.
@@riparianlife97701 we know they have some landing software that works, it's not clear that New Glenn can use the same software (it's a very different rocket with much higher speeds)
Old Glenn is already outdated
@@Torta--is--PLUR it is, better will be, only partially reusable but it has a much bigger payload bay than F9/FH so it may find its niche in the market.
some customers such as NRO are more than willing to have alternative to SpaceX and cost is not always their first interest
@@Guren74 this. It only has to exist and they will probably get govt contracts. Just animations of the idea of it got a lot of funding 😂
Yeeeee!!! BIG HELLO from Croatia!!!!
re: starship flaps (front vs rear), the distance from the plasma to the craft is based on the radius of the craft, the nose being narrower would have the plasma getting closer to it than the rear flaps, I wonder if that is enough to matter?
Partly but I think it's more got to do with hinge's protruding far beyond that radius. On the nose, the hinge ends are not flush with "the radius" because the radius changes - the hinge ends get exposed.
The idea to have hingeless forward flaps would help a lot (fewer moving parts. All control via aft flaps)
@@u1zha the hinges on the rear flaps stick out about as much as the block 1 front ones did.
the front flaps need to fold completely out of the way when the ship is returning empty, so I don't see how they could eliminate the hinges.
The Parker solar probe was the fastest spacecraft, due to its close approach to the sun, it was traveling at just under 1% of the speed of light
Happy late Birthday Greetings!!!
I was playing your playlist in Space Science, like from 6 years ago, in the background while I made a model of the Atlas V 411 Osiris Rex Launch vehicle in 1/96 scale and WOW you know a lot about space and space travel. It inspires me to keep learning. This is going to be a historical year for space travel!! Can't wait!!
the entirety of europe only launching 3 rockets in 2023 is just... pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.
And Iran had 4 launches.
@@mikeg9b But the IDF shot them down! 🤣
I’m starting to think the EU was a bad idea, we basically excel at nothing and almost stagnate.
regulations and socialismn braught us down. A
@@SunRaIV regulations and bureaucracy yes. Too many people for anything to get done.
Thanks Scott! Happy 2025 and looking forward to following your videos! 🙂❤
I'm amazed that nobody made Eutelsat parallel to Y2k. For all of the doubters of Y2k, this is what would have happened across many systems in many industries.
Yeah, isn't that programming 101 these days - Y2K bug issues and "check yo timesynch"; Whats next, the inches to Km conversion error?😅
Sure..... My old computer didn't fail... Or any old computers in stuff I owned. And none of them connected to update. So I call BS.
Oh.... Wait..... Maybe they were vaxed..... Ya.. that would solve any issues...
Widely advertize this failure. Seriously.
I am apauled and disheartened by many otherwise smart people who wrongly concluded that Y2K was a false crisis, simply because no failure debris was available in North America, for visible inspection.
The current failure shows that Y2K was a real crisis--fortunately, near-comprehensively addressed and fixed.
@@stephenslezic .... More likely this was cheap Indian programers that failed. And not anything to do with Y2K.
Great 2024 round up, and Happy Birthday Scott!🎉
If Starship V2 has a smaller payload bay than V1, what's the actual volume now? I thought one of the big selling points for Starship was it's 1,000m3 payload bay...
It's not the last version of Starship.
Block 2 ships should have around 600-700M^3 of payload volume. I calculated this myself a while ago so this may not be accurate but it seems reasonable. Block 3’s should return the volume to around 1,000-1,100M^3.
@archierush868 possibly more considering it is almost as tall as the booster
The problem is your thinking did not include the fact that the system is still in active development.
Happy belated birthday Scott.
I think it would be beneficial to save the solar panel truss of the ISS before they deorbit, minus the old panels
Might be difficult to do all that work in orbit. I wish they’d just boost the station into storage
My payload: Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) experiment is on Blue Ghost 1, we are landing in Mare Crisium in early March.
If blue origin pulls off this first time launch and landing,
I'll eat 20lbs of king crab.
Meat AND shell????
Don’t forget me! I’ll help!
@@NullHandooooh that’s hardcore
If you need help, reach out.
Is that supposed to be a challenge or a treat?
11:55 More like the Axiom module can experience the old space station smell
1:32 I was fully prepared for LOONG LOOOONG MAAAAAAAAAAAN
Happy New Year Scott!! Here's to a great 25 - love ya work x
Space is really looking up! Ahem....I'll see myself out now.....
No rush... first let me use the vacuum for a quick tidy-up
You really irradiated me with this comment.
@@2nostromo Please empty the Space-Dust outside.
@@ganymede6535 Good. Now you'll never need a flash-light, because you'll glow in the Dark!
Happy birthday Mr. Manley 🥳
Maybe. It’d be good for the market for SpaceX to have a solid competitor! Competitive markets better results. We need as many (US or ally based) space businesses as possible!
Not when that competitor has a long history of the use of political lobbying and lawfare to get their way.
The us has no allies as long as the new president keeps screwing them around America is on its own.
@@StuSaville Long history? You seem to like to pretend that political lobbying is new in the space industry. Pretending is feeble.
Happy New Year! 😄🎉🚀
What is an internet of things satellite?
"Running out of fingers" is a great shirt to wear when you're DJing!
Aw, they went from satellite³ to satellite² ⬛ 😆😭
Thank you, and happy new year!
How does a satellite spontaneously break up into 50 pieces? I mean, I can understand if a part comes loose due to interactions with atomic oxygen and then you have 2 pieces, but breaking up into 50 pieces all at once makes it sound like something more interesting happened.
Might be that the Fuel or Oxidizer tank ruptured. That would be energetic enough to create that amount of debris. Or a collision with unknown debris.
Could be one of the propulsion tanks, or the batteries on the spacecraft... those are the usual suspects for passivation.
The monopropellant motors, possibly. The passivation is achieved by emptying the hydrazine tank, and if this step isn't completed properly, the motor will subsequently undergo a low energy rapid unscheduled disassembly...
Ruptured tank
Propulsion system gets old and has a boom boom in its diaper big time
Happy New Year and (belatedly) birthday!
Happy Jan 6, everybody!
@scottmanley SpaceX Dec 29th from Florida went up from CCSFB SLC-40, not KSC - I know because I watched it from Port Canaveral ;)
and late happy birthday!
so if the International Space Station is ISS, then i guess that means the Axiom Space Station will be ASS?
I have a suspicion it'll just be 'Axiom Station'
You should have put a warning in front of your post that one reading the comment should NOT have any liquids in their mouth while reading it. Just as a hint. I'm grabbing a towel now... 😁😜
They could use it to help Buzz Aldrin get his ass to Mars
Axiom Space Space Station. (Taking a hint from Battersea Power Station Station)
They can of course avoid some S by calling it Axiom Space Habitat Orbiting Low Earth
Hi from the team of Croatia’s first satellite- CroCube 😉
Oh Scott my glorious glorious king, I jump with glee whenever you upload
is that from Shakespeare??!! If so, it should end thusly: "...whensoever thou doth upload-ith"!! LOL ;D
It's fun to imagine that 1500 tons falcon9 launched this year in the terms of landers, space stations, rovers, etc. That's the future we might be looking at with starship. Fingers crossed.
I don't get why people wish death upon New Glenn, but then dogpile people who do the same to Starship?
Reasonable people want both to succeed.
I also want SLS to succeed if launched, even though I would prefer it cancelled entirely.
Wanting an explosion is crazy.
It's not all that hard to understand: the people wishing failure upon New Glenn are members of the Cult of Musk, and they can't handle the idea of someone showing their Dear Leader up.
I have seen more poeple wishing Starship to fail the New Glenn
@ParanoidAlaskan huh?
A late Happy Birthday, to yuuu, Scott Manley!!
I love it when you say "Muun"! Fly safe, fly well, and stay thirsty, my Friend!
8:38 to get past the boring space traffic
why? Who cares? Is this supposed to be helpful? It seems like a totally random thing to skip, just wtf lol
What's boring to some is of great interest to others. Please bear that in mind before commenting.
Happy new year Scott! I always enjoy your deep space updates. Cover other space flight things that are not SpaceX without making it feel like it's all a sideshow.
Stargate is what they found
Happy Birthday, Mister Scott! Fly safe!
right, just "fly smart" and live to see another birthday!! LOL ;D
We need New Glenn to work. I don’t want to see the government break it up because of monopoly status like AT&T was way back. We need a vibrant commercial arena. 🖖🏼
Scott, Ellie said something in a recent video about there will be a lot more cameras on IFT-7. I don't remember the number at the moment, maybe someone else might...
...and a happy (belated) birthday, dude! (and Christmas/Yule, New Year)
30 or so, and he did mention it briefly when talking about the starlink dummies.
Scotland is about to launch it's first mega rocket that's powered purely with whisky. It's called New Glenfiddich.
That's right, and SpaceX is on the same path: Falcon Heavy Drinking is expected to launch in 2027, fueled with Bourbon Whisky. Canada is lobbying for support of Canadian whisky as they have lots in stock after they settled the Hans Island dispute with Denmark.
😂
It's going to the sun, at night so it doesn't burn up.
Aye.
I'll drink to that!
When tallying the number of launches by country, I was thinking, "Now show us the tonnage to orbit"... and Scott did! SpaceX is totally crushing it, and with Starship coming on this disparity is only going to widen. Starship's cost to orbit will be so low that the *Russians* will be paying SpaceX to launch their stuff. 😀
With ten launches left to go, Rocket Lab had better have owl their best puns ready...
@@defesan No Wherries!
Happy 2025 Scott - thanks for the news mate 👍🏼
New Shepard looks like a Johnson and New Glenn looks like a ladies sanitary product applicator.
Belated Happy Birthday, Scott. Looking forward to more exciting space news! In an unrelated topic, has anyone ever thought of an escape system for payloads? Losing millions of dollars in a failed launch has gotta hurt
"Will New Glenn Be First BIG Launch of 2025?" that should be "Will New Glenn Be 'THE' First BIG Launch of 2025?". I've noticed more and more articles { not just here } that seem to be shortening their titles like this, It just make you seem a bit illiterate. lol
Headlines often leave out “the”, so it doesn’t seem strange to me.
"makes" 😂
@@ericfielding2540 it's not about being strange, it's about being correct.
@@Wiegs exactly ! See what I did there lol
Wasn't that amazon prime thing a spoof? Seems like they'll stream on YT
Congrats Scott. Your birthday is around a week after mine, so I know a thing or two about festivities interfering with a birthday.
Happy belated birthday, Scott! That's my birthday also!
Two thousand R-7 based rockets launched! Mass-produced, cheap & cheerful big dumb boosters and why not? No need to reinvent the wheel. Three-axis control was a nice upgrade in 2003 (?). Before then it had only two-axis control and the roll program was done on the ground before launch by rotating the whole stack. 🚀
I was walking down the street where I live shortly after Christmas when I saw a line of lights rising up from the horizon. There were dozens of them. It was astonishing.
Happy Belated Birthday! Best wishes fir 2025.
22:35 Scott succeeding at staying family friendly 🤣
hullo.. happy 2025 Scott !
I cant wait until Sierra Space inflatable moduls get streamlined for building space stations in LEO. There will be dozens of space stations in a few years ! HOORAH ! Huge space stations ! Double HOORAH !! 😁💫
Love todays t-shirt! I actually saw one of the launch 10 t-shirts today. Much love from New Zealand
85% of the mass to orbit by SpaceX is crazy.
Happy birthday Scott!
Happy birthday Scott