SpaceX Aces Booster Landing, Virgin Orbit Bankrupt & ESA's Commercial Plan -This Week In Spaceflight

This Week In Spaceflight with Elysia Segal, your go-to show for the latest news in the world of space exploration and technology. This week, we're unpacking some major headlines including SpaceX's successful booster landing, Virgin Orbit's unfortunate bankruptcy, and the European Space Agency's plan for commercial cargo transportation. Plus, we cover the latest launches from around the globe, including China, Russia, and South Korea. Tune in for an in-depth analysis of these and more stories from the final frontier!

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L2 Boca Chica (more clips and photos) from BC's very early days to today.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:38 ESA's Commercial Cargo Transportation Initiative
01:40 Virgin Orbit Shuts down
03:26 This Week In Launches
05:48 SpaceX Launches crew and aces land landing for booster
09:19 Next Week In Spaceflight
11:47 Outro

[jamaalbanks]

Great content as usual Elysia! I only meant to take a quick dump after lunch and ended up watching the whole video!

[jamesdubben]

Definitely look forward to "This Week In Spaceflight" every week. Ketch up on everything and love the positive vibe.

[richardnew]

Seems most YTs release a video on either Friday or Saturday, which is a lot to keep up with at any one time. Releasing a video on some other day is a welcomed idea. And Elysia is a welcome, bright, and uplifting addition to the NSF crew!

[benjaminklein]

Thanks a lot for these great update videos, we are living in this fantastic age and youall are covering it, thanks a lot

[iamjadedhobo]

I like the Thursday update :) It fits well with my agenda always being full on Friday!

[GreenBlueWalkthrough]

While I'm sad Vigin orbit could not make it Am glad their vehicles and facilities found new owners so quickly!

[kneekoo]

Thursdays or Fridays, I love the weekly updates. :)

[ianwhitworth]

Thursdays are my Fridays... I work a 4 day week, so I'm cool with a Thursday update. Thank you as always for the great channel.

[nicolastheus]

Thanks NSF for yet another informative vid

[CATDRL]

The Thursday Publish date is perfect. You be the first in a line of others that report on Friday and Saturday.

[Donttrackmebruh]

Thank you for making having more time between yours and Marcus House's weekly update

[edgray]

I'm really enjoying these update videos, Thursday or Friday.

[jamesf]

Awesome recap there nsf! Thank, and keep up the great work. Wish we had some action here in Australia

[johnwiggill]

Alecia... you are my favorite reporter on this channel. More Time for Alecia!

[MoKhera]

Good format & good choice of day. Weekends are offline for me.

[Shivaho]

Wish Rocket Lab had Existed When I Graduated from Cal State Long Beach Back in 1986...
Would have Loved Working for Aerospace Company instead of the Phone Company GTE I Hated Working for...

[ethanduncan]

I know this is random. But a saw a Dawn Dish soap commercial and they used the NASA Spaceflight music in background. Just had to put this information somewhere. So here it is.

[diamondswiss]

Although I didn’t get to see it launch due to poor planning, I got to see the Axiom 2 Dragon on the pad 2 days before it launched while on one of the special NASA tours.

[recifebra]

The extra propellant is really what they need for the boost back burn; the might be asking the 2nd stage to do more work actually in order to get the booster to land back at the Cape. Pretty amazing flight profile now & I bet they stick w/it for crew as it's cheaper.

[davidf]

Rocket Lab presumably got a massive bargain there.