Two Spacecraft Have Anomalies in One Week | This Week In Spaceflight

In this week's episode of This Week In Spaceflight, Earth gains a temporary new moon with asteroid 2024 PT5. SpaceX breaks records with a stunning 15-minute Raptor engine burn, while Rocket Lab shares exciting updates on the Neutron rocket and Archimedes engine. We also dive into ULA’s Vulcan issues, potential Starship launch dates, and groundbreaking space debris mitigation missions from NASA and ESA. Stay tuned as we cover these stories and more from the ever-exciting world of spaceflight!

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🎥 Footage from: Jack Beyer, Max Evans, D Wise, McGregor Live, NASA, NASA/JPL-Caltech, SpaceX, Catalina Sky Survey/University of Arizona, Astroscale, ESA, NASA/JPL/USGS, Rocket Lab, Starfish Space, NASA JPL, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA/Matthew Dominick, CCTV, Jonathan McDowell/Google Earth, ULA, Blue Origin.

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[KerbalsandWackMacs]

Vulcan launch this morning was beautiful despite the SRB “observation”

[Caroline_Tyler]

I love that Voyager 2 is as old as Star Wars :)

[sgtsnakeB]

4:20 Copper Erosion? I belive the correct term is "Engine Rich Fuel Cycle"

[davidvhoustonmobile]

At 4:50 Peter Beck missed a great chance to quote Susan Ivanova "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. "

[kevikiru]

Wow! You guys' camera work is impressive. You were able to capture the ULA anomaly very well. I doubt that even ULA have such a good view of the problem.
If they come calling for the footage, squeeze them hard for everything they've got.

I will take a standard 10% commission for the latter advice!

[macsenplays]

I'd say the BE-4 engines really proved themselves on that certification flight.

[FerociousPancake]

I wonder how much science you’d earn in KSP1 if you ran the exact real world voyager 1&2 missions

[Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

As I commented under this morning's live stream, ULA should refer to that launch as:

"VULCAN CERT-2: _OOPSIE"_ 😉

[hgnz]

Space is hard. We should feel grateful for all the missions that go well!

[dufkers]

22:39 great work capturing the nozzle section flying away from Vulcan. Great observation.

[paulmoffat]

The F-Heavy launch of the Europa Clipper, will have the upper stage send the package on an inter-planetary trajectory, so stage 2, is most likely to never return to the Earth. No safety impact for thousands of years, if never.

[MrKellymcilrath]

Thanks Elysia for another awesome TWIS! Thank you & NSF!

[mikezappulla]

No it’s not considered a temporary moon. That’s not even a scientific term. It’s a TCO or TNS but mini moon, temporary moon, whatever is not accurate.

[WilboBaggins-dmub]

What a fantastic shot of the broken off nozzle...didn't see that live

[tomschi]

*Wonderful news! Thank God, finally some really good news*

[garrettsmithfrance]

The NOTMAR may mean Starship will fly a flight 4 profile. They can get the next stack ready for license approval for the catch.

[Bqd]

Thanks Alicia, great update. Love the fact that we have Ryan helping out with the space news as well. Thanks Ryan. Like this update with both of you. Keep up the great work NSF team.

[southofhollywood]

Ouch! The second stage fell on my head! 😭

[josephnesser]

As a retired development engineer I can tell you, if you do what you've always done you will get what you've always had. Consider that ULA and Blue Origin

[learsiyenoham]

Thanks Elysia and NSF team! I appreciate all your efforts!🙂