From what I've been able to piece together about the Whistleverse, the active channels that Simon hosts as of Fall 2024 include: Brain Blaze(Business Blaze), Megaprojects, Sideprojects, Decoding The Unknown, Casual Criminalist, Into The Shadows, Warfronts(Warographics), and the newer Celestium (Astrographics) and Places. He still hosts the old Today I Found Out most of the time (with Daven Hiskey), so pretty much 10 channels full or most-time hosting. The newer Science Unbound(Science Of Science Fiction) seems to have been sidelined. Other Whistler-adjacent channels promoted on his sites and/or hosted by Daven that may or may not be currently active include Origins, Higher Learning, Highlight History, Ancient Marvels, Fact Quickie, Flick Facts and Explrd. Simon used to host Top Tenz, Biographics and Geographics before management/ownership changes or some such. I know I probably missed some and that there are other historic and obscure channels in the Old Lore as well as new ones likely to be emerging as I type, but as far as I know that's pretty much the current state of things. The question of whether each channel features Original Simon, OS exploiting a temporal anomaly, a doppelganger, one of his clones, AI, or something/someone else entirely is a subject for another time and place. Enjoy!
I actually thought that channel had become this one. How many rebrands is that now? Business Blaze to Brain Blaze, Science of Science Fiction to Science Unbound, and now Astrographics to Celestrium. OG Business Blaze will always be my favorite
I feel with the distance of this ISS #2 it’s definitely the time to start making a module for gravity that has enough room for some workout equipment for up to 2 crew members. This module can then extend out to a point and spin creating centrifugal force as close to earth as possible.
@ yea what I was thinking wasn’t like the Bicycle wheel we’ve seen in the future like movies. I was picturing a module at the end of a connecting tube. Then extends to the best length then using small space X Draco thrusters it gets to the needed speed to feel earth like gravity. Then either they crew can either exercise in there. Or it can be where the crew sleeps meaning the crew spends 6-8 hours sleeping in earth like gravity or working out in there for only 3 hours.
Good on them for putting the formerly in there. If it weren't for the fact I had the video in my queue from this morning, I may have missed it in my subs.
I dont get why they changed their brand from (topic)-graphics, to kinda generic sounding channel titles. I liked that all the graphics channels had the same name. Made it seem more cohesive
TL/DR: I agree, but I have theories. Hmmm. Does Simon own Biographics and Geographics? His more in depth geographic channel, Places, would seem to be in direct competition with himself if he does fully own them. Or the other entity demanded he stop using -ographics names Then again, youtube is a strange business/ecosystem, and Simon is the expert, so maybe self-competetion is some 5-D chess move I do not understand. 😅 So if he has a need to differentiate his channels, the new names make sense. But I do miss the -ographics names too.
@@brianmurphie7501 He does not own Geo- or Bio- any more. He may be stripping the -graphics names from all his channels. I don't remember if there are any left now; there's too fookin' many of 'em to keep track of!
@@myrlyn1250Simon never owned those channels. Shell Harris did and after Shell's passing they went to his daughter. That's when Simon had "creative"differences and left. However, some of the writers and editors do some of Simon's channels and others too.
A new name! Simon is ex-graphics-ing his TH-cam conglomeration, that's cool, I'd just say use something consistent in the channel avatars. You know, to link them all together, the entire Whistlerverse.
Love the new name! and the Lunar Gateway sounds amazing, why have I not heard much if anything about this project before!? Hoping the new name brings more new viewers and subs! I disagree with the critics of the Lunar Gateway; having a station orbiting the Moon will be a great support for Human-crewed missions heading anywhere, especially Mars, since the hoped for plan is to gather materials from the Moon to create water and fuel for missions to Mars. There's still so many things to be learned from studying plants, people, animals in space, and from materials gathered from the Moon itself. Why keep doing sample and return missions if materials can be studied at a station before sending samples to Earth, if this is even needed in the future; the station can have the equipment we us here on board eventually, yes?
having a space station near the moon makes sense. Not sure if the little planned activity on the Moon requires it already. But many critizied Apollo for a lack of long term perspective. Including Von Braun who proposed... a space station as jump of point.
The picture at 00:15 is of Mission Commander Gene Cernan and Command Module Pilot Ron Evans. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot (and geologist) Dr, Jack Schmitt are at 00:35.
I’m finally getting excited about this! I never thought I’d live long enough to see an outpost on another celestial body. While I understand the criticism, I would rather have people testing equipment and habitation with help a few hours away instead of a few months. I guess my only question is what about the degradation of the materials? I know the technology can be updated as technology advances, but I thought part of the problem with Mir and ISS was the materials they were made out of started to degrade. Because it’s modular could they just make new modules to replace them and launch them up? On a side note, I can’t wait for Lego to make a Lunar Gateway set. Maybe then they will make a Falcon Heavy and Falcons 9 set. 😂
It's been brought up that the Gateway could have modules to nearly immediately test and analyze the composition of lunar samples that could be sent to it within hours of the collection of said samples.
Lunar gateway would be be excellent for tella-operating farside lunar rovers. Also the near-rectilinear halo orbit would be an ideal place to park multiple Starships awaiting a transfer opportunity to Mars so that all the launches do not need to be squeezed into a single month once every 26 months or so.
We do not need a lunar orbiting station to go to the Moon. We do not need such a station to go to Mars. We do not need it to go to near-Earth asteroids. We do not need it to go anywhere. This has been a reading of the beloved children's book 'We do not need it to do anything.'
It’s a cool program, the big problem is the SLS. Behind schedule and waaaaaay over budget. At this point they might have to swap to using Starship. The nice thing about the lunar gateway, is that it could also be swapped to function as a replacement for the ISS.
I love the new name! After this we’ll put a giant laser on the moon, creating what I like to call a “Death Star”. The laser was designed by noted physicist Dr. Alan Parsons. Therefore, we will call it “The Allen Parsons Project”.
16:19 I bet one thing that those who have been involved in its development are well aware of, is that having a permanent structure with people aboard makes it so much harder for politicians to simply pull funding…at the very least it prevents rash decisions towards that end because obviously you can’t just leave people up there…not without some insane change in the political field of the nations involved. If you always launch from Earth…it’s very simple to just say ‘nope…no money for that project’ and you can’t play the ‘but we have people living there. I bet that plays into why scientists and others who are creating it want to have a permanent structure out there
Use a synchronous Earth orbit instead. Easier to maintain, easier to communicate with, and would have far superior momentum when doing a Hohmann Transfer to other planets.
Put the Gateway into low Earth orbit. It is worse than "not needed" for moon landings. It will cost fuel to dock to the Gateway before continuing on to the moon. For trips to Mars, it will greatly increase needed fuel to stop at the Gateway before boosting to Mars. It takes fuel to match orbits with Gateway. Then it takes fuel again to get out of the Gateway's orbit and head somewhere else. The only way Gateway makes a useful stop on the way to somewhere else, is if fuel can be produced on the moon, then lifted out of the moon's gravity-well, so the Gateway could become a gas station around the moon. The Orion capsule can achieve the same halo orbit around the moon on its own. In fact, the Orion capsule would be required to achieve the same halo orbit, every time it matches orbits with Gateway so it can dock with Gateway. Once solid landing pads are built on the moon, so Starship can land without flinging rocks everywhere at high velocity, then the easy way to get to the moon is for direct launch from Earth, to a direct landing on the moon, and back again, with refueling in low Earth orbit. This eliminates cargo and people transfers in space. If Starship can get 100 tons to the moon, it would be a pain to always transfer that 100 tons from an Earthly Starship, to a Lunar-only Starship, while docked together in space. Direct flights are much easier and cheaper.
It’s incredibly challenging as an engineering feat. The size of the rings would need to realistically have a radius of around 300 meters (984 feet) which means a circumference of around 1.1 miles or 1.88 km. That is larger than anything humanity has ever put in space by far. And it would be a huge challenge even here on earth. Don’t forget that it is not real gravity. You’d still have the coriolis effect, meaning your dropped water will twist a little at the end, which is why models that have ships spinning at even 2-3 rpm are not practical to house people under for a long time, which is the only reason to build such a thing in the first place. So you’re gonna have to go down to close to 1 rpm, which is why the estimate of size here is more conservative than some others-but even a size of ring spinning at 3 rpm is still considered a megastructure and would have a radius greater than 200. Now, there are options to make the engineering less costly and less resource intensive, like basically building a large tether or fulcrum style station that has a long connection tether the diameter of the ring and a weight at the end but no physical ship or space of a ring, just station on one end or both, or something with mass and/or propulsion on the other. Designs have been floated for years now but there is simply no demand at this stage of space exploration. We don’t send enough people up and it’s still super expensive per kg you send into space. It’s gone way down in price but not enough that people want to upend the entire existing space infrastructure. Yes you wouldn’t have to exercise all the time but we don’t know how artificial spin gravity would affect people and the folks who do go into space are trained for zero gravity. There are also space saving benefits to zero gravity. You can place equipment anywhere-on ceilings or high or low spots because it’s all accessible. Moreover, a lot of the reason for going to space is precisely to study science in zero gravity-we test and develop new technologies and types of medications and agriculture in zero gravity. Until we reach a point of having lots of people of varying purposes in space, don’t expect to see artificial gravity. The most likely contender would be a mixed use facility that is part hotel/space tourism.
I wonder why the "...graphics" part has been removed. Is it something to do with the Bio/Geo lady and her channels? Does Simon just want a clean break? Algorithmic considerations? Either way, Warfronts seems to be thriving (a very good thing), and hopefully this channel can gain more traction as I do enjoy it and know that it is something Simon really enjoys!
Potentional for industrial 3D printers to potentially allow construction of modules/ satellites or other materials in space, making them cheaper by eliminating the need to launch from Earth.
SLS is likely to be canceled, given how insanely over budget it is. Orion still has heat shield issues, and with Starship depot refueling certain to happen next year (and Senator Don't-Say-Depot Shelby gone) it may render Gateway pretty redundant and unnecessary for the still planned moon base. Propellant transfer is game changing, and is better in LEO then LuO.
Looking through the comments I couldn't find mention about one of the big problems being so far away from earth. The hazards of radiation exposure for the astronauts. Not just the regular radiation but solar flares. Will the astronauts have a bunker of some kind to shelter in?
Aww. Astrographics was clever and memorable. Celestium just sounds generic and uninspired... sort of like I still can't get Warographics' new name to stick in my brain... I'm going to leave the folder where I archive episodes I watch under the old name.
The orbit is terrible, it's closer for like 1/30th of the time and if there is a problem on the lunar surface it could be 3 days until someone can come down or someone can come up if the station has recently passed.
Now, are they still planning to have a vehicle in continuous orbit between the earth and moon to act as a shuttle to better facilitate transfers to and from the moon? Cause we're great and going up and down, but it costs way more to go up and keep going, but not as much to rendezvous with something already there that's already going back there.
Idk why people are against this, gateway allows for NASA to base, maintain, and refuel a fleet of lunar landers in orbit. It’s a lot better than basing them on the surface and shuttling fuel down
See Eager Space channel's lunar Gateway video, and low earth orbit Space Station video for a very good economic, energy, and business analysis of these space stations.
A cycler isn't necessary, but it is such a grate energy saver and shipping witch isn't as important early on, but once lunar industry takes off the cheap shipping will make it's worth known
The Lunar Gateway is a handicapping factor to exploring the Moon, not an asset. It's going to be put into a logical orbit, and after the first landing or two, we can move on to the Mares, and away from the silly obsession with the poles that will not justify the expense of getting there.
Don't mean to rain on your parade, after you put in the effort to make this video... but... In case you haven't been keeping up on current events, we are very likely about to see some significant changes to the whole Artemis program, with two of the most likely outcomes being either SLS getting canned, Lunar Gateway getting canned, or both.
Anyone here know why the channel name change? Does it work better for the algorithm or something else? Im just curious thanks in advance to any replies 🙂
This concept gives me hope We need to go through the awkward transition From single "moon or Mars missions" toward a more systems-infrastructure approach That is where the real future of space is
Woohoo! My rendering of PPE made it on your thumbnail! I no longer work with Maxar Space Systems but cool to see my work for them keep showing up
Last time i was this early, it was called Astrographics...allegedly
Allegedly
Nice…
Allegedly 😉
Hahahahaha good one!
In my opinion
I hope the new channel name helps with the algorithm, this is a fun channel I'd love to see it thrive 😊
It probably will but it also sounds like one of those junk AI science channels
Celestium makes me feel like you're one video away from selling me a healing crystal 🔮
Or an Eternium sequel, lol
Don’t give him any ideas yo.. we all know Simon would sell it if $$$ was in it.
@@ahniiso5642 Do we?
I’d be shocked if anybody that watches Simon would be even willing to buy a healing crystal other than as a joke lol
I knew there was something shifty about it
We need a full list of Simon's channels somewhere... I keep finding ones I've missed.
From what I've been able to piece together about the Whistleverse, the active channels that Simon hosts as of Fall 2024 include: Brain Blaze(Business Blaze), Megaprojects, Sideprojects, Decoding The Unknown, Casual Criminalist, Into The Shadows, Warfronts(Warographics), and the newer Celestium (Astrographics) and Places. He still hosts the old Today I Found Out most of the time (with Daven Hiskey), so pretty much 10 channels full or most-time hosting. The newer Science Unbound(Science Of Science Fiction) seems to have been sidelined.
Other Whistler-adjacent channels promoted on his sites and/or hosted by Daven that may or may not be currently active include Origins, Higher Learning, Highlight History, Ancient Marvels, Fact Quickie, Flick Facts and Explrd. Simon used to host Top Tenz, Biographics and Geographics before management/ownership changes or some such. I know I probably missed some and that there are other historic and obscure channels in the Old Lore as well as new ones likely to be emerging as I type, but as far as I know that's pretty much the current state of things. The question of whether each channel features Original Simon, OS exploiting a temporal anomaly, a doppelganger, one of his clones, AI, or something/someone else entirely is a subject for another time and place. Enjoy!
Seriously guess he had a sci-fi science one once... would have watched the shit outta that.
The whistleverse is ever expanding. A mere list wouldn’t be enough
Bring back Science Unbound!
Or as I remember it The Science of Science Fiction
Yessss
Yeah, I liked that one. However, if it didn't make Simon money......
yes Love The Science-Fiction genre love when there comparison to what has already happened or will happen.
I actually thought that channel had become this one. How many rebrands is that now? Business Blaze to Brain Blaze, Science of Science Fiction to Science Unbound, and now Astrographics to Celestrium. OG Business Blaze will always be my favorite
@@Varizen87 I hadn't discovered Simon then.
I don't even know how that's even possible
Italians in charge of hospitality was a good pick.
We have been Whistled again!
I remember the Apollo missions really well! Very much looking forward to the future Artemis missions and the Lunar Gateway!
Simon please. I don't like change and I'm scared.
Pretty sure the "-ographics" channels Simon helped make what they were got angy
I feel with the distance of this ISS #2 it’s definitely the time to start making a module for gravity that has enough room for some workout equipment for up to 2 crew members. This module can then extend out to a point and spin creating centrifugal force as close to earth as possible.
Something like this is more likely first before large scale centrifuges en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifuge_Accommodations_Module
@ yea what I was thinking wasn’t like the Bicycle wheel we’ve seen in the future like movies. I was picturing a module at the end of a connecting tube. Then extends to the best length then using small space X Draco thrusters it gets to the needed speed to feel earth like gravity. Then either they crew can either exercise in there. Or it can be where the crew sleeps meaning the crew spends 6-8 hours sleeping in earth like gravity or working out in there for only 3 hours.
the sound all over the place .
Nooooooooooooo.... It was suppose to be Outer Places, not Celestium......
Maybe he's saving that for a new channel? 25 for 2025 has a nice symmetry
Wow. You are intelligent. Thanks Man
Space Blaze?
Yes
Brain Space?🤔
@@drwhorst That is what the Whistleverse consumes.
Far Out Places
Space Blaze is just a strain of weed.
I was like, wait did a sub to a new Simon channel without knowing
Good on them for putting the formerly in there. If it weren't for the fact I had the video in my queue from this morning, I may have missed it in my subs.
@SEAZNDragon yea I might have blocked it. Except I saw Simon.
From: Texas
Keep it up Simon.
I dont get why they changed their brand from (topic)-graphics, to kinda generic sounding channel titles. I liked that all the graphics channels had the same name. Made it seem more cohesive
TL/DR: I agree, but I have theories.
Hmmm. Does Simon own Biographics and Geographics? His more in depth geographic channel, Places, would seem to be in direct competition with himself if he does fully own them. Or the other entity demanded he stop using -ographics names
Then again, youtube is a strange business/ecosystem, and Simon is the expert, so maybe self-competetion is some 5-D chess move I do not understand. 😅
So if he has a need to differentiate his channels, the new names make sense. But I do miss the -ographics names too.
@@brianmurphie7501 He does not own Geo- or Bio- any more. He may be stripping the -graphics names from all his channels. I don't remember if there are any left now; there's too fookin' many of 'em to keep track of!
Geographics and biographics are still around
@@BURDYMAN777 Yes, still around, but no longer run by or associated with Simon.
@@myrlyn1250Simon never owned those channels. Shell Harris did and after Shell's passing they went to his daughter. That's when Simon had "creative"differences and left. However, some of the writers and editors do some of Simon's channels and others too.
A new name! Simon is ex-graphics-ing his TH-cam conglomeration, that's cool, I'd just say use something consistent in the channel avatars. You know, to link them all together, the entire Whistlerverse.
Posted 2 minute ago! Thanks for the hard work Simon and team
Love the new name! and the Lunar Gateway sounds amazing, why have I not heard much if anything about this project before!?
Hoping the new name brings more new viewers and subs!
I disagree with the critics of the Lunar Gateway; having a station orbiting the Moon will be a great support for Human-crewed missions heading anywhere, especially Mars, since the hoped for plan is to gather materials from the Moon to create water and fuel for missions to Mars. There's still so many things to be learned from studying plants, people, animals in space, and from materials gathered from the Moon itself. Why keep doing sample and return missions if materials can be studied at a station before sending samples to Earth, if this is even needed in the future; the station can have the equipment we us here on board eventually, yes?
I seem to remember this concept being call the moon tax once
having a space station near the moon makes sense. Not sure if the little planned activity on the Moon requires it already.
But many critizied Apollo for a lack of long term perspective. Including Von Braun who proposed... a space station as jump of point.
Ask your doctor if Celestium is right for you...
If your video lasts longer then four hours, consult an editor.
Hi Simon, great work, always entertained..
The picture at 00:15 is of Mission Commander Gene Cernan and Command Module Pilot Ron Evans. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot (and geologist) Dr, Jack Schmitt are at 00:35.
I’m finally getting excited about this! I never thought I’d live long enough to see an outpost on another celestial body.
While I understand the criticism, I would rather have people testing equipment and habitation with help a few hours away instead of a few months.
I guess my only question is what about the degradation of the materials? I know the technology can be updated as technology advances, but I thought part of the problem with Mir and ISS was the materials they were made out of started to degrade. Because it’s modular could they just make new modules to replace them and launch them up?
On a side note, I can’t wait for Lego to make a Lunar Gateway set. Maybe then they will make a Falcon Heavy and Falcons 9 set. 😂
Need to make a dragon shaped space ship too.
Final Fantasy VIII memories.
It's been brought up that the Gateway could have modules to nearly immediately test and analyze the composition of lunar samples that could be sent to it within hours of the collection of said samples.
I've always loved this channel, no matter what the name happens to be... 😊❤❤
Very interesting video!!❤❤
The music makes me think I'm listening to Into The Shadows.
Lunar gateway would be be excellent for tella-operating farside lunar rovers. Also the near-rectilinear halo orbit would be an ideal place to park multiple Starships awaiting a transfer opportunity to Mars so that all the launches do not need to be squeezed into a single month once every 26 months or so.
Name change Again 🎉
The tension on the mic cable bothers me.
We do not need a lunar orbiting station to go to the Moon.
We do not need such a station to go to Mars.
We do not need it to go to near-Earth asteroids.
We do not need it to go anywhere.
This has been a reading of the beloved children's book 'We do not need it to do anything.'
Sam I am.
@@robertpearson8798 No, this was a parody of Weird Al Yankovic's parody of U2's Numb.
It’s a cool program, the big problem is the SLS. Behind schedule and waaaaaay over budget. At this point they might have to swap to using Starship.
The nice thing about the lunar gateway, is that it could also be swapped to function as a replacement for the ISS.
The last time a channel was renamed (Warographics), it started appearing on Apple Podcasts. Fingers crossed this is going that way too!
Can't wait to see the Mars version of this
I love the new name!
After this we’ll put a giant laser on the moon, creating what I like to call a “Death Star”. The laser was designed by noted physicist Dr. Alan Parsons. Therefore, we will call it “The Allen Parsons Project”.
We should also place two lunar bases there. Let's name them Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa.
@@Narmacil427
Kid me had to ask my older buddy (a professional musician) if Frank Zappa really named his daughter Moon Unit.
SIX YEARS, ....that is INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why change the channels names from the -graphics suffix? Was there some kind of legal trouble with the infographics channel or something?
Interestingly Fraser Cain just had an interview about the gravitational anomalies of the moon and what it means for orbits around it.
16:19 I bet one thing that those who have been involved in its development are well aware of, is that having a permanent structure with people aboard makes it so much harder for politicians to simply pull funding…at the very least it prevents rash decisions towards that end because obviously you can’t just leave people up there…not without some insane change in the political field of the nations involved. If you always launch from Earth…it’s very simple to just say ‘nope…no money for that project’ and you can’t play the ‘but we have people living there. I bet that plays into why scientists and others who are creating it want to have a permanent structure out there
Chuck a inflatable module on there for some extra storage 👌🏻
Use a synchronous Earth orbit instead. Easier to maintain, easier to communicate with, and would have far superior momentum when doing a Hohmann Transfer to other planets.
Put the Gateway into low Earth orbit. It is worse than "not needed" for moon landings. It will cost fuel to dock to the Gateway before continuing on to the moon. For trips to Mars, it will greatly increase needed fuel to stop at the Gateway before boosting to Mars. It takes fuel to match orbits with Gateway. Then it takes fuel again to get out of the Gateway's orbit and head somewhere else.
The only way Gateway makes a useful stop on the way to somewhere else, is if fuel can be produced on the moon, then lifted out of the moon's gravity-well, so the Gateway could become a gas station around the moon.
The Orion capsule can achieve the same halo orbit around the moon on its own. In fact, the Orion capsule would be required to achieve the same halo orbit, every time it matches orbits with Gateway so it can dock with Gateway.
Once solid landing pads are built on the moon, so Starship can land without flinging rocks everywhere at high velocity, then the easy way to get to the moon is for direct launch from Earth, to a direct landing on the moon, and back again, with refueling in low Earth orbit. This eliminates cargo and people transfers in space. If Starship can get 100 tons to the moon, it would be a pain to always transfer that 100 tons from an Earthly Starship, to a Lunar-only Starship, while docked together in space. Direct flights are much easier and cheaper.
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I’ll be honest, I liked the old names better.
Business Blaze was already popular and he had to change that too. I still haven't gotten over that!
I've seen every video 9n a channel I've never heard of in my life!! I was confused until i saw my beard friends sweet bald head,
Why not have rotating habitation rings for artificial gravity??? Surely it's not that complicated of an engineering challenge???
Not that complicated? What planet are you on lol
It’s incredibly challenging as an engineering feat. The size of the rings would need to realistically have a radius of around 300 meters (984 feet) which means a circumference of around 1.1 miles or 1.88 km. That is larger than anything humanity has ever put in space by far. And it would be a huge challenge even here on earth. Don’t forget that it is not real gravity. You’d still have the coriolis effect, meaning your dropped water will twist a little at the end, which is why models that have ships spinning at even 2-3 rpm are not practical to house people under for a long time, which is the only reason to build such a thing in the first place. So you’re gonna have to go down to close to 1 rpm, which is why the estimate of size here is more conservative than some others-but even a size of ring spinning at 3 rpm is still considered a megastructure and would have a radius greater than 200.
Now, there are options to make the engineering less costly and less resource intensive, like basically building a large tether or fulcrum style station that has a long connection tether the diameter of the ring and a weight at the end but no physical ship or space of a ring, just station on one end or both, or something with mass and/or propulsion on the other.
Designs have been floated for years now but there is simply no demand at this stage of space exploration. We don’t send enough people up and it’s still super expensive per kg you send into space. It’s gone way down in price but not enough that people want to upend the entire existing space infrastructure. Yes you wouldn’t have to exercise all the time but we don’t know how artificial spin gravity would affect people and the folks who do go into space are trained for zero gravity.
There are also space saving benefits to zero gravity. You can place equipment anywhere-on ceilings or high or low spots because it’s all accessible.
Moreover, a lot of the reason for going to space is precisely to study science in zero gravity-we test and develop new technologies and types of medications and agriculture in zero gravity.
Until we reach a point of having lots of people of varying purposes in space, don’t expect to see artificial gravity. The most likely contender would be a mixed use facility that is part hotel/space tourism.
How many channels does this guy have on TH-cam?
I wonder why the "...graphics" part has been removed. Is it something to do with the Bio/Geo lady and her channels? Does Simon just want a clean break? Algorithmic considerations? Either way, Warfronts seems to be thriving (a very good thing), and hopefully this channel can gain more traction as I do enjoy it and know that it is something Simon really enjoys!
Potentional for industrial 3D printers to potentially allow construction of modules/ satellites or other materials in space, making them cheaper by eliminating the need to launch from Earth.
Boy, I'd sure hate to have to wait up to a week to be evacuated from the lunar surface if something goes wrong down there.
So when the HLS docks and doubles of triples the mass of the Gateway its orbit is all whacked. Then when it undocks it screws it all again.
Why all the name changes, i got so confused the other day
Isn't the Lunar Gateway already scrapped due to cost reductions? I had in mind reading something like this a while ago...
SLS is likely to be canceled, given how insanely over budget it is. Orion still has heat shield issues, and with Starship depot refueling certain to happen next year (and Senator Don't-Say-Depot Shelby gone) it may render Gateway pretty redundant and unnecessary for the still planned moon base. Propellant transfer is game changing, and is better in LEO then LuO.
Another name change! Well this is a lot better than y fronts i mean war fronts
Looking through the comments I couldn't find mention about one of the big problems being so far away from earth. The hazards of radiation exposure for the astronauts. Not just the regular radiation but solar flares. Will the astronauts have a bunker of some kind to shelter in?
Aww. Astrographics was clever and memorable. Celestium just sounds generic and uninspired... sort of like I still can't get Warographics' new name to stick in my brain... I'm going to leave the folder where I archive episodes I watch under the old name.
What is up with the weird video filter and ambient noises.
The orbit is terrible, it's closer for like 1/30th of the time and if there is a problem on the lunar surface it could be 3 days until someone can come down or someone can come up if the station has recently passed.
The audio seems a bit muffled
Aldrin is off the deepend.
Now, are they still planning to have a vehicle in continuous orbit between the earth and moon to act as a shuttle to better facilitate transfers to and from the moon?
Cause we're great and going up and down, but it costs way more to go up and keep going, but not as much to rendezvous with something already there that's already going back there.
Idk why people are against this, gateway allows for NASA to base, maintain, and refuel a fleet of lunar landers in orbit.
It’s a lot better than basing them on the surface and shuttling fuel down
This dude is collecting youtube channels like infinity stones
Please can you do Europa Clipper next please? Thanks Simon & Team 🙌🫶
So is essentially a rest stop/gas station in space.
Well
Isn't it better to just like.. orbit starship around the Moon?
Why did the name change?
Just in time for SLS to probably be cancelled (if the Tech Radar article is accurate) in favor of Starship.
See Eager Space channel's lunar Gateway video, and low earth orbit Space Station video for a very good economic, energy, and business analysis of these space stations.
Oops on the closing credits?
The new US President might change the moon mission profile. I think SpaceX might make Artemis redundant and a change in the basic mission profile.
awesome new name Simon
simon on the rebrand so many chanels and still rebrand aka needs more views still great contant
Simon mimon
This video cured my Crohn's and now I'm scared.
The real question is thou…. What’s the contingency plan for when a xenomorph gets on board
So basically a fancy luner cycler? Can't wait till we get a mars cycler.
A cycler isn't necessary, but it is such a grate energy saver and shipping witch isn't as important early on, but once lunar industry takes off the cheap shipping will make it's worth known
News flash buddy the Artemis program is in pretty deep trouble itself
This sounds like something a Celestial Being might come down with. A sickness that's heavenly.
If it's anything like every workshop I've ever been in they wont use this PPE either.
The Lunar Gateway is a handicapping factor to exploring the Moon, not an asset. It's going to be put into a logical orbit, and after the first landing or two, we can move on to the Mares, and away from the silly obsession with the poles that will not justify the expense of getting there.
Wow, last time I came through this early I ended up with 18 years of child support
God I wish space travel wasn't so damn hard.
Don't mean to rain on your parade, after you put in the effort to make this video... but... In case you haven't been keeping up on current events, we are very likely about to see some significant changes to the whole Artemis program, with two of the most likely outcomes being either SLS getting canned, Lunar Gateway getting canned, or both.
Ok rebranding all channels now ?? ❤❤
if 40k and scifi has taught me anything gateways are dangerous
One starship makes gateway entirely obsolete
Thats another channel that's had a name change now. Something is definitely foing on behind the scenes. The content has also changed with it.
Spaceboy
We should build a space station that orbits Mars.
Anyone here know why the channel name change? Does it work better for the algorithm or something else? Im just curious thanks in advance to any replies 🙂
Artimes aspires.
The end.
Name change because the old graphics channels were owned by someone else?
This concept gives me hope
We need to go through the awkward transition
From single "moon or Mars missions" toward a more systems-infrastructure approach
That is where the real future of space is
Um.. Astrographics was a MUCH better name.. who tf is in charge of the names?
He built his citadel on the bones of our people.