SpaceX Starship wins $53M NASA Contract for Full Scale Orbital In Flight Refueling Test

SpaceX Starship wins $53M NASA Contract for Full Scale Orbital In Flight Refueling Test: NASA tipping point awards
Recently SpaceX took their relationship with NASA to the next level as they have been awarded a $53 million deal on fifth round of "Tipping Point" contract award. The main intention of these awards is to mainly focus on the development of commercial space technologies to progress with their future missions.

As part of these awards, SpaceX's Starship launch vehicle also won an award to demonstrate full scale test of orbital propellant transfer, a key in-flight refueling technology that is at the heart of the operations. Refueling in orbit is a vital step for SpaceX to enable its Starship spacecraft to make the journey to faraway places, including the Moon and Mars. The main objective is to launch multiple Starships, some destined to top up others while in orbit.

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[CaliKing]

I like that your Chanel doesn’t just cover Spaces X but the whole space community as a whole

[odysseus]

The other 2 companies got more money and wont produce anything

[TheJDruck]

SpaceX is rocketing ahead of everyone on innovation.

[MG-erdm]

NASA, when it comes to supporting Spacex, no brainers don't get any more simple. 😏

[coentrov]

Very good episode, you show a lot of developments in the space arena, more than your competitors, good job

[ErcXSpace]

Hey, could you maybe credit me for the image in the thumbnail?

[edwardhalpin]

Amen! Let's not whine about the amount ( besides, ain't it obvious by now that SpaceX can do more with a hundred million then Ula can do with a billion?

[flurgy]

Hopefully itll be more successful than space refuelling in the movie Armageddon .

[baltsosser]

Really looking forward to seeing the Lunar Gateway in place.

[FrankCastle-hefl]

Good they're so far ahead of blue origin that it is ridiculous

[plazmoidialsoup]

How many total launches to complete propellant transfer? Is it mission specific?

[tomkelly]

Interesting overview, thanks for briefly showing all the awards, I would love a 10 minute video on each of the listed technologies as well. It seems like pretty small amounts for the scale of the projects involved but certainly a great start!

[MegaAshabasha]

Didn't watch the video. Just think it's cool that SpaceX will probably pull this off easily and with a budget so much smaller than Hollywood would "require" to make a movie about the same thing. Kind of insane actually, and why I don't watch movies very often.

[hollymart]

53.2 million, that's the change in Elon's cup holder

[funkydozer]

So... when do they put the windshield in the nosecone like in all the pictures? And will it have windshield wipers?

[GameplayReviewUK]

Great video but one problem, you've used images created by ErcX but credited SpaceX by mistake, please fix this or mention and pin ErcXs comment so people at least can see. He works so hard and no one even knows it. I also subbed in good faith ;)

[Mike.Muc..]

Do I get this right? This is not about refueling from ship A to ship B, but about pumping fuel on a single ship from tank A to to tank B (00:04:24) ? The images of the video are highly misleading.

[acornexpresspro]

by far the coolest thing ive seen ever

[asterlofts]

2 things that I like about this channel: first, you add information in the description of this video and I can read it, because my English is very bad and I don't understand the video spoken in English (or almost nothing), and second, you play several topics about astronomy, not just SpaceX.

[_percent]

"As is our confidence, so is our capacity" to achieve our goals. I wish you success!