What is SpaceX doing with Mechazilla? - Space News Update

New Space News video! Starship v2 is drawing closer to its maiden flight, & so are Neutron and New Glenn!
China launched 2 brand new launch vehicles over the week, one of which launched from a brand new launch site!
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[visyxl]

Blue origon first realised they hadn't done auto struts, and on the second time they forgot to add rigid attachments.

[Bnryzombie]

When you have multiple radio sources interference goes up. I would assume these mimic the starships antenna and they are temporary.

[sreastronaut]

The good news about a night time landing with no external lights is that if there is any burn through on the new flaps we’ll be able to see very easily.

[MrStormrider]

You forgot to mention that Rocket Lab's recent launch for Kineis was their second within 24 hours, following a successful HASTE launch from LC-2 the previous evening. Two launches, two hemispheres, within 24 hours? That's a world first.

[ParoXyzmm]

CASA allowing an aircraft to fly blacked out at the same time a rocket comes in for landing. But flying an FPV drone in a park is a no go unless I give them like $200 and submit a risk assessment involving having to do a survey of the area *months* in advance, FOR A SINGLE FLIGHT.

smh.

[EightHades]

Nah but imagine if the long march rocket blew up, destroying all of the surface infrastructure

[pzkfw_warthunder]

great pronunciation on the russian and chinese words, youre doing great with these videos

[Wrangler-fpei]

Thanks for your complete coverage of space news, its detailed and it keeps me going. Thank you.

[da_man]

1 view in only 15 seconds? Bro fe-

Jk, but I too am very excited for the first test of starship block 2! And still somewhat soon considering the fact thag Christmas is just around corner!

Space this week is one of my weekly highlights, and it brightens every Tuesday (I live in New Zealand).

[evillazydragon]

Have you done a single stage to Duna, if not I'd love a video as I want a ship that can go anywhere and back without staging, preferably one that is easy to build and doesn't use much move tool, love the videos

[shotzkillz]

3:19 Is the booster tilted like that because all the propellant is at the bottom of the ship? Or something else, I expected it to tip over

[microwave-radiation]

I’ve always loved the thought of new zealand and Australia having rocket companies im not personally from one of those countries but its good to see that there are countries that aren’t global superpowers that can go to space

[caseytube]

The best part about flight 7 for me, it’s that it’s on my FREAKING BIRTHDAY 🎉

[patrickrobinson]

Great report Matt 😊
Patrick from Bethesda, Maryland, USA

[bramborovyastronaut]

Is it possible that they have like seperate GPS system for the tower? If they can land within 5mm telerance. They may have something like that? That could be the reason for those natennas. Maybe to calibrate the system?

[nommy]

Where better to dry spilt coffee off antennas than somewhere high and windy?

[captaingames]

has rocket lab given up on reusing electron?

[operator]

I dunno if Boeing has stuck a landing quite that well in a time.

[rickjames]

How many Falcon 9 copies has China been able to launch? Also how many different companies tried to remake the Falcon 9 and heavy? anyone know? I was also wondering if SpaceX was
ever sharing open source material about the space program?

[NomadUniverse]

What is going on at Blue Origin?! Why is it taking so long? Tech becomes obsolete before they even get it in the air.