NASA Artemis II, III, IV Quarterly Update #3, 2024 Third Quarter in Review

This video covers completed milestones and current status of planning, development, assembly, and preparations for NASA's upcoming Artemis II, III, IV missions as the 3rd quarter of 2024 ends. A lot of the Artemis II hardware is ready for stacking at Kennedy Space Center, but NASA still needs to announce what it is going to do about Orion's heatshield.

Arrival of more flight hardware for the Artemis III lunar landing mission at KSC signals incremental progress in preparations, but little is known about the forward outlook. In the video, we go over why the new hardware deliveries aren't helping to clarify when the spacecraft, spacesuits, SLS, and Starship will all be ready for Artemis III.

We also recap the available status and outlook for the Artemis IV Gateway assembly and lunar landing mission projected at the end of the decade.

Imagery is courtesy of NASA, except where noted.

00:00 Intro
01:21 The missing future outlook for upcoming Artemis missions
02:50 Quick recap of the quarter (July, August, September)
06:13 Artemis II status
12:45 Artemis II forward outlook
14:06 Artemis III status
28:15 Artemis III forward outlook
31:28 Artemis IV status
40:50 Artemis IV forward outlook
41:37 Note that the SLS forward outlook beyond Artemis IV remains cloudy
42:22 Thanks for watching!

[KristenAnnWinslet]

Philip, your reports are world-class and super informative. I've never seen such incredible and detailed reporting on NASA Programs like this before.

Please continue keeping us all informed on the progress of the Artemis Program.

In the meantime I await news as to my Artemis 2 Crew Emblem Proposal; Commander Reid Wiseman sent me a thank you for the proposal earlier this year.

[stevengoyette]

The level of detail here was over-the-top! Amazing what you can do each week. Hard to imagine how you have time to walk the dog! 😆

[tsr]

Slightly concerning the lack of information from both NASA and SpaceX - it is almost like they know there are further delays coming but they don't want the public to But as always, Philip's reporting is in a professional league of it's own !

[SpaceXfan-bp]

Thank you for an another amazing video Philip.

[jess]

This is easily the best channel for this type of news.

[michaelhopf]

Very informative and on the point. Thank you.

[graysonbaker]

shoutout to phillip sloss bringing the people what we want🙏🙏

[scrubber]

Thanks for slogging thru a ton of info and presenting it in digestible form!

[Jellofreeze]

Thank you for these much needed updates. Artemis 1 launched in 2022 and if Aretmis 2 is go for 2026 that would mean 4 years between missions. That will be my metric going forward .

[basbekjenl]

These videos are wonderful. Thank you for the effort you put in them. It's great to hear someone who knows what questions to ask explain the state of things and organise the things that are known or unknown

[StardustYT]

You should have the millions of views the "Starbase" channels get. Your infos are way more important and investigated

[wilbertmitchellii]

You provide more information than Blue Origin. This is great!

[wingsley]

NASA needs more coordination. The fiasco with Gateway/Starship/station mass is a prime example. NASA needs an Artemis and Gateway station project coordinator to keep everything on-track and making sense. Maybe NASA should hire Philip Soss.

[anthonyhunt]

Philip, as ALWAYS… thank you!🤔🚀🌗 Dynetics, who builds the cargo adapter for Block 1B, said Alpaca 🦙, would fit in there🤔…..

[zapfanzapfan]

Even though SpaceX now caught their heavy booster and got a step closer to delivering on HLS with all its refueling needs I can't see that uncrewed landing test happening just two years from now, not to mention a crewed landing. Do you think they might use Artemis III for testing out the NRHO even in the absence of HLS? That would still be testing something new since Artemis II is a free return trajectory around the Moon and no Lunar orbit of any kind.

[FoxtrotYouniform]

I fear that the US Gov wont take Artemis, or any lunar return, seriously till the PRC embarrasses them into action. By then Artemis might just be dead, and we may have to start all this over again with all of the cost of development and operational capability poured into Artemis simply having been lost.

[joeker]

This might interest you, Lunar Outpost has a video on their lunar rover. It's on the YouTube Fast lane truck channel.

[DawgPro]

Lovely Thank You!
I'm in IT, I know all the inner parts of my computers and of the operating systems so when at 9:06 "something'" disconnected and reconnected... "What Tha?" ...it's in the recording people. Not your pc. LoL!

[nicholasmaude]

I don't know why the upcoming SLS Universal Stage Adapter's forward conical section isn't built in four pieces like the Saturn V's SLA which split into four panels (Courtesy of MDF charges) when the Apollo CSM separated also exposing the LM. Such an arrangement seems more logical to me for the SLS Block 2.

[MrCantStopTheRobot]

Thanks so much for this.
Such a mixed bag. Some really impressive stuff is progressing, while in other areas, things are moving like a Russian Armor program.