What Scientists Really Think Of SpaceX Starship will blow your mind!

What Scientists Really Think Of SpaceX Starship will blow your mind!
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Astronomers breathed a collective sigh of relief as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sprung to life. Getting the $10-billion telescope up and running following its launch on Christmas Day 2021 had been a nerve-racking affair. JWST would not fit into any modern rocket without being folded, and it had to rely on hundreds of moving parts to unfurl to full size once in space. Ultimately those efforts were successful, and the telescope has started returning some of its first calibration images to thrilled audiences back on Earth.
Yet the experience left many astronomers wondering if there was a simpler way to build and launch telescopes of this size. “We were worried about the unfolding,” says John Blevins of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. But with a larger rocket, “you don’t have to unfold in space. You can do it on the ground.”

As chance would have it, two such rockets are currently sitting on launchpads. Each should ultimately exceed the power of the mighty Saturn V, which sent the Apollo astronauts to the moon.

The first, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), is ready and waiting at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its inaugural uncrewed voyage around the moon as part of the Artemis I mission—the opening shot in NASA’s plan to return humans to the lunar surface in the 2020s. The rocket, tentatively scheduled for a launch in late this month, is meant to be as reliable as possible and is therefore based, in large part, on legacy hardware from NASA’s Space Shuttle program.

But reliance on tried-and-true technology could be its Achilles’ heel: some estimates currently peg the SLS’s cost at an eye-watering $4.1 billion per launch. Presuming it is not scuttled by congressional appropriators feeling buyer’s remorse, its massive size could eventually be a boon for scientists seeking to send larger, more ambitious spacecraft and telescopes throughout the solar system—and even beyond. However, it can't!
What Scientists Really Think Of SpaceX Starship will blow your mind!

[gregsteele]

Come on now, you KNOW that they'll still make fold-able satellites. Why put a mere 30 ft wide telescope in Starship when you can fold up a 90ft wide one instead? :)

[ianbruce]

Worth mention is the contribution of the ESA's Ariane 5 team. The JWST's launch went so well it effectively doubled the telescope's mission lifespan.

[ReveredDead]

I cannot tell you how much I want Musk to succeed. If he succeeds with Spaceship and Heavy booster. The money will flow in like Niagara falls. He will be able to build his 1000 starship fleet in a couple decades.

[JackMenendez]

I liked the coverage of studies done by third parties on how Space tech can be used for science.

[karadan]

This is a great channel. very informative with no clickbait or bias. Subscribed.

[MrSpikebender]

1969 I was four years old. I don't remember watching the moon landing. I do remember my Dad having his chair close to the TV in the "no zone" were I couldn't stand. LOL The Shuttle was awesome. Space X is awesome. All cool things. I'm now 57. Landing on the mars or contact, I'd like to see one or the other before I kick the bucket.

[spiriscibridgingspiritscie]

In the 1950s there were significant designs and even testing of nuclear powered rocket engines that converted liquid propellant directly into plasma using 1-2 Gigawatt reactors. These are the IDEAL engines for efficient deep-space transport since they’re vastly more fuel efficient (no oxidizer) and can increase and decrease thrust levels with a high range of specific impulse.
Starship is actually big enough to lift these systems to orbit and to setup rocket test facilities on the Moon, since the above ground testing of exposed reactors is no longer acceptable. Very exciting.

[stevenmitchell]

Even Werner von Braun originally envisioned large reusable rockets but materials and technology to build them didn't exist in the late 50s, 60s and 70s.

[UnknownUzer]

While I fully support NASA continuing its mission to further human knowledge, I firmly believe that the future of spaceflight belongs to the private sector.
The final frontier will belong to the people.

[slingshot]

I really like this Channel. Very informative and well done presentation. Keep up the good work!

[Chilltothend]

NASA's SLS is not just the price tag of an estimated 4.1Billion per launch, the entire rocket has to be rebuilt, since they are one-time-use, and to rebuilt another SLS and launch it, is not adjusted for inflation. The cost grows in price every time NASA builds a single use rocket.

[dansorkin]

The promise of Starship is immense. The reality remains to be seen. I'm cautiously optimistic.

[ericpiper]

I am looking forward to the habitats that will now be possible due to the sheer payload volume Starship has ( not to mention the proposed Starship 2.0 which is even bigger!)

[RS-lsmm]

Starship has to be huge. Elon said reusability reduces the max payload weight by 40%. Kind of wasteful of propellant but still way cheaper in the long run.

[NuclearWinter]

I remember when Elons childhood heroes called him a joke and openly tried to stop him. Now he’s flying circles around nasa

[davidboyle]

Would be interesting to see what SpaceX would/will come up with regarding a deep space Starship. With no fins and disposable fairings as opposed to a nose cone, Starship could send massive payloads to the far reaches of the solar system after refueling. Time for the visionaries to open their minds to the possibilities.

[hfehtsq]

You could ALSO load Starship with Klaus Schwab and send him straight into the sun. Now THATS an idea we can ALL get behind.
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[otpyrcralphpierre]

I can't WAIT to see this behemoth fly!

[Cataclysmu]

Why are some people in the comment section comparing a space agency focused on science and space exploration to a company who builds and operates launchers for a profit?

[georgevavoulis]

NASA should have built the SEA DRAGON super heavy lift rockets 🚀proposed in 1962 . It was so huge it would use Saturn V as side boosters and it was REUSABLE