Is SpaceX's Starship Finally Ready!? Darkness comes for Chandrayaan-3!

Why is pushing the boundaries of rocket technology and innovations in space so exciting for so many of us? Each week including this one, with even more breath-taking views and stories to dive into than the last. Is SpaceX's Starship Finally Ready? It does indeed seem that it is finally time for Ship 25 to roll out for stacking. Branding and all! It is certainly exciting right now. Likewise, the ISRO moon lander and rover has been amazing. The darkness comes for Chandrayaan-3 though so we hope it can somehow make it through the lunar night. SpaceX Crew-7 boards the ISS and SpaceX Crew-6 is set to return. / 6 return The symphony of roaring engines, and research spacecraft helping us to understand the universe better than ever before. How can you not be excited is possibly the better question?

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[yyyy-uvpo]

Congrats to Chandrayaan-3's team!
They not only landed, but everything seems to be working, a big achievement considering the budget.

[hamjudo]

My guess is that Chandrayaan-3 and its rover have a pretty good chance of surviving the lunar night with enough functionality to report back to ISRO. That information will help ISRO design the next lander and rover so they will be able to do science for multiple lunar "days".

[Boldtruths]

India has launched another mission today at 11: 50 am.
India's first solar mission at cost of 45 million dollars.

[TThoMusic]

Spectacular images from the moon, the Chandrayaan-3 rover is collecting information which will be used in the future to plan our settlement on the moon. Incredible progress!

[daedelushex]

Love to see a fellow Australian interested in space. There's so little going on in our country, but so much around the world!

[bazoo]

~ 4:30 - A testament to SpaceX impeccable planning: cannibalizing one half-finished launch site to cobble together the other...

[Kevin_Street]

Thanks for another great video! Chandrayaan-3's observation that the Lunar soil has low thermal conductivity could strengthen the argument that there's ice mixed into the dust of the regolith. Comets hit the Moon from time to time, spraying water across the surface, then the water freezes into ice in spots that have permanent shadow, and that ice is gradually covered by dust from other impacts. (In a wonderfully named process called "meteoric gardening.") With such low thermal conductivity it may take less dust to insulate the ice, meaning there's ice in more craters.

[zaguar]

You are one of only two SpaceX content makers whom I will click on when the headline features the words "Starship" and "Finally".

[KingCovfefe]

There is no way I could hope to track everything going on without this type of weekly summary. Thanks Marcus for what you do!

[cthew]

Super proud of India’s space team. Nice job!

[donsmith]

A home run, this one. The episodes just seem to be getting better and better. Thank you, thank you!

[mrenrollment]

Marcus: I am 70, I watched the moon landing and watched the first person to step on the moon - while listening to Walter. I have been waiting my entire life for this country to pull it's head out of the dark place and get on with the program, .... so finally. Yes it is exciting and about time.

[dgdave]

Fantastic to see the NASA land ISRO collaboration.

[pyrofan]

No dull moments these days. Thanks for the roundup, Marcus and team

[fexed]

I was thinking about the first instances of those hexagonal heatshield tiles, few years back, and how easily they would fall. Now looke at them! Replacing damaged tiles overnight and withstanding staticfires! Let's hope those will withstand launch, and reentry as well, very soon!

[Epicgamer-ikjn]

I cant believe we are at the point where a booster that has launched 3 times is now considered young!

[jayeshshah]

Congratulations ISRO team for your wonderful achievement. I am happy that the West had to learn from India's research and create their own spacecraft. Without India, this is not possible!!

[waxore]

The only way for us to know for sure whether or not that is in fact dry steam is if somebody steps forward and tells us that the water volume remains at a constant release throughout the ignition.

[ogniolisek]

On the water deluge (again...) -- a fermi-type back-of-envelope argument can be made, that in what we have seen so far the flow of the fluid is supported by pressure much lower than the pressure the exhaust gases would produce if impacting a flat surface; the booster is about 50-60 meters of fluid of roughly the same density as water (methane less; oxygen more); thus just to hold it from falling a static pressure of 5-6 bar would be needed; yet -- the deluge's "inverse shower" roughly reaches only the bottom of the booster (20m; ~2bar); sure -- the flow is by far not laminar, but 5-6 bar would reach much higher. Not sure thus, if/how spaceX tries to balance this water pressure against the exhaust, or if the gases actualy penetrate the pores, and convert water to steam below the steel plates. Very intriguing design indeed.

[tomrobingray]

Thank you, I thought exactly the same: that the deluge seemed to be cut off at ignition. Thank you for a very reasoned argument to allay my fears.