Europa Clipper in Danger // NASA Cancels VIPER // Dune Style Space Suit

Europa Clipper might be delayed. NASA is cancelling its VIPER lunar rover mission. Mapping the dark matter in a dwarf galaxy. And a real-life stillsuit.

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00:00 Intro
00:14 Europa Clipper in serious danger
03:11 NASA cancelled VIPER
04:56 Dune-style suit for space
06:58 Falcon 9 failure
08:17 SpaceX's ISS de-orbit vehicle
09:24 Flight 5 SuperHeavy static fire
10:05 New Glenn Legs
10:48 Vote results
11:25 Why is the Great Red Spot shrinking
12:34 Mapping dark matter
14:16 JWST updates
17:32 Weird state of the launch market

Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov

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[czerskip]

When Scott Manley says it's dumb, it settles the matter. Poor VIPER 😵

[Knaeben]

I work in the facility where the VIPER is being developed and am very sad it's being cancelled.

[doncarlodivargas]

Going to the toilet have always been an opportunity to relax a little, get away from a boring job, check the news etc, perhaps send a few messages, but with such a stillsuit this will soon be history, we must do our business at the desk, still working, only now with a tank in the suit filled with warm liquid splashing around when you go to lunch

[johnmcnulty]

Great update information, Frasier, but those little otters were the real stars!

[busybillyb]

If the fish and otters don't get in on the vote, I'm going to be disappointed!

[scragglyohoulihan]

I worked on a component for Europa Clipper. It is super sad its going to be delayed. Very excited to see this mission work

[musicvid]

Fraiser and team, your presentation of space news always lifts me up and makes my life richer beyond the obvious interest in space and science. Thank you!

[Bluelagoonstudios]

Small transistors out of spec, big consequences. So delays for Europa Clipper, unfortunately.

[MCsCreations]

Thanks for all the news, Fraser! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[lennartkienle]

Thank you very much for those good objective journalism. Its very appreciated.

[stevenscharmer]

For the SpaceX 2nd stage problem, it was the vacuum engine that had a RUD, not the 2nd stage itself. So the stage stayed intact, it didn't create dozens of smaller pieces that all need to be tracked. Also, the 30 thrusters on the ISS de-orbiter are quite small in width, and will easily fit.

[fep_ptcp]

This new moon endeavor by Nasa is weird. It started as a sequoia, but by the end of the decade we'll have perhaps a bonsai

[adirmugrabi]

using flybys is not a method to shorten the duration. but to save fuel

[jklappenbach]

Angry has a great point that it would be far better to auction off the resources aboard ISS and keep in orbit. This would help develop salvage capabilities in LEO, as well as make all the resources and equipment that still has a lifespan available to other projects in space.

The only cost to tax payers is keeping ISS in a stable orbit.

[QUEUK-ji]

God damn it, I knew it be delayed, but I guess its better been broken here than Jupiter

[Martin_Hermann]

It boggles my mind how much money NASA wastes all the time.

[johnnysheen]

The interesting thing about Dark Matter.
Is the bigger a galaxy gets, the less dark matter it has. It's thought that because it has "zero" interactions with normal matter. That when Galaxy's collide, the Dark matter just keeps going. Like a head on collision, with the drivers not wearing seatbelts. (The Car is normal matter, the drivers are Dark Matter)

[Madash]

Always love your videos! But more cute wildlife interspersed within would be much appreciated :)

[dantyler]

Hard to follow how a body with multiple geysers spews out water.
For, who knows how long!!!
No way for the body to add water...
Unless the bulk of the spewed water makes it back to europa, tobe speded out AGAIN some length of time later?
Even with recycling, a fraction of the water is not recovered, which points to the same argument: How is europa's water level maintaining a level that similar outgassing or geyser activity remains constant?
Perhaps the volume of considered water much LARGER than most imagine?

[babyoda]

As a species we need more than one way out god place evry company in the space industry 😊❤