First Private Mission to ISS & Amazon's Record Breaking Launch Deal: Deep Space Updates, April 12th

All the updates while I was away on the East Coast, 5 rocket launches, one a historic private mission to the International space station. Artemis 1 tries to complete its wet dress rehearsal and keeps finding problems.
Amazon signs up for over 80 satellite launches to deploy its Kuiper network, using rockets from ULA, Arianspace and Blue Origin - none of which have flown yet.

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[zeitgeist]

Scott you influenced my decision to pursue Mechanical Engineering and now I can proudly say I am 6 months away from receiving my Undergrad. Keep it up you are an inspiration to many.

[gatorman]

SCOTT MANLEY!! Ever since the Kerbal tutorial videos you still inspire me to continue down the Aerospace Engineering path!

[donjones]

10:32 The Mythbusters set up more protection than Pythom when they blew up a water heater - and that made a lot higher hop, too.

[kangirigungi]

"It's trying to find and characterize things like beacons and radar. That's an important thing, if you're, say, planning to invade somewhere." Scott, you are gold.

[xliquidflames]

The Boca Chica flood question is a good one. Being a Florida native, I have been asking for years what Space X is going to do when that area is even _grazed_ by a hurricane, much less takes a direct hit. The storm surge is going to put everything under feet of water. The Cape has all kinds of protection from storm surge such as drainage systems with levies, elevation, sand berms, and it's not right on the water. Starbase doesn't have any of this and it's basically built on a sandbar with nothing to protect it. It could disappear real quick.

[Banditomojado]

The US Army Corps, USEPA, and USDA all have a hand in wetland regulation and protection. To make matter more confusing, it’s not uncommon to have all three involved at the same time. Plus each department/agency has their own definition of what a wetland is.

[JohnSmith-rftx]

Scott, one thing I think you should talk about is the break-up/ending of the "partnership" between SpaceX and Spaceflight inc. Not sure if you're going to devote a more substantial video to talking about that and what it means for the small sat market. But I felt that was a topic worth a mention.

[starrfluff]

For a rocket test, you should ask yourself "If this all exploded right now, would I be safe?" and if the answer is no, you should get further away.

[Yrouel]

The problem with those Pythom folks is that not only they were quite brazen regarding safety (for example also while lifting the rocket), but they also doubled down afterwards in their press release/update basically calling out other companies for their mishaps and even tragedies (like in the case of Virgin Galactic) basically saying "see we are not that bad look at what happened to those other folks" which is an awful attitude.

Also if they have an accident and/or kill someone they might ruin it for everyone else due to their recklessness. Like I don't care if an idiot injures or kills itself due to idiocy but unfortunately society at large disagrees and usually reacts with more red tape and other stupid annoyances to try to protect other idiots from themselves

[janetizzy]

In addition to a weekly "Elon Moment" would you add a "Scott Moment" about your progress on earning your pilot's license?

[opcn]

I think the big important point from Thunderf00t's video is that a spin launcher doesn't reduce G load, because you experience just as many peak G's from the launch as you do launching out of a cannon, except with spinlaunch you are subjected to those forces ramping up over an hour and a half which is much much worse.

Where spin launch maybe makes sense is launching payloads from the moon or other celestial body with no atmosphere. On the moon propellant is going to be difficult/expensive to come up with and something like spin launch wouldn't have to pump down a chamber (though probably would still want a chamber just to prevent damage ) and the craft wouldn't need heat shielding.

[fh]

Solar-powered spin launch makes sense on the moon where there is easy vacuum and lower velocity needed.

[pedromira]

Hello Scott! Just a bit of a correction: Ax-1 is the first dragon to dock at the Zenith port of Harmony *directly*. Before that, both Crew-1 and Crew-2 have relocated from Harmony Forward to Zenith.
(For the sake of completion, Crew-1 relocated to make way for Crew-2, and Crew-2 relocated to make way for CRS-23 and Starliner OFT-2 (which ended up not happening, you know the story...))

[Hiddenmonkebidness]

I appreciate the attempt to correct the misinformation about Pythom's test, but furfuryl alcohol is very toxic while WFNA is (as you said) caustic and decomposes into some nasty oxides. They also lift their rocket on two flimsy legs, with two guys frantically scrambling to keep it under control. The whole video is terrifying.
It's cool that these guys are having a blast, but their "you don't need to be smart to make rockets" motto is dangerous and it's absurd that these hooligans could be considered a viable aerospace company.

[paulhaynes]

Spin Launch - the only thing scarier than Starship's death flip.

[Bitfire]

2:02 "..., so you know that's an important thing, if you're say, planning to invade somewhere." OUCH! That was spot-on.
Either that satellite is a bit late or someone isn't done invading other countries...

[raptornein]

Should I be working now? Yes. Am I going to put off watching a Scott Manley video? Haha, fat chance!

[AlexSchendel]

Yeah... When one person from Pythom said that, to get to Mars, "You have to work hard, but you do not have to be very smart", I knew that they were either very arrogant or had no ideas of all of the problems they would have to solve... It's looking more and more like the latter. Would have hoped they would realize that they shouldn't stand some 30ft away from an active rocket engine even if they built it themselves...

[midtskogen]

The entry speed of the interstellar meteor was quite high, 45 km/s, which makes it highly unlikely that anything would reach the ground. The terminal altitude of just 19 km is quite remarkable, though, but it was a fairly big object (460 kg). The authors suggest a density between 0.9 and 1.7 g/cm³, but I don't think that agrees well with the terminal altitude. A terminal altitude that low and an entry speed that high suggest that it was a heavy, solid object.

[RedSkysAreOnFire]

one main reason why you shouldn't by a house on a flood plain next to a river/sea is the water level will go up.