New Glenn Has Its Engines + Raptor Firing Madness | This Week In Spaceflight

Crew-8 returns after eight months in space, Russia shows progress on its new Oryol crew capsule, New Glenn is fitted with seven BE-4 engines, and SpaceX's Raptor engine hits new testing milestones. Plus, another satellite breakup adds to space debris concerns. Stay tuned for all the latest developments in spaceflight in this week’s episode!

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🎥 Footage from: BocaChicaGal, Gary Blair, Max Evans, D Wise, Starbase Live, Space Coast Live, McGregor Live.

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[FerociousPancake]

Oh man methalox engines just look so awesome when they fire. Beautiful colors. Excellent earring choice as always.

[verigumetin]

"both satellites were built on the same platform, a satellite buss from Boeing."

OOF! There's no way, right?

[MrKellymcilrath]

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

[AbuPaul]

Here is a quick reference for Russian words used in space :)
Vostok = East
Zvezda = Star
Soyuz = Union
Molniya = Lightning
Progress = Progress
Mir = Peace (also: World)
Saliot = Salute
Zarya = Dawn
Oryol = Eagle

[chengcao]

is SpaceX preparing for the spamming Z/X buttons strategy for lunar landing like a real KSP player

[mikeayers]

Boeing hardware may have had a problem. No way!!!!

[gjurasek]

totally love the launch graphics with the site and line showing the inclination!

[pikaachoo]

The Raptor beside the Raptor 3 in 09:29 in the horizontal test stand seems to have a deformed nozzle/bell. Is it possible that thats an engine from Booster 12 undergoing post-flight testing?

[gabrielgolding]

It’s about time Russia updated their crew capsule. Glad to see they’re finally doing that.

[zapfanzapfan]

So, Boeing has quality issues on the satellites too...

[marymoe]

McGregor multiple Raptor relit was awesome!!

[Jbborcherding]

21:20 "that's just words..." lol loved that. So true when you can't comprehend something.

[_photonx]

6:18 That's an interesting ring formation in the exhaust plume during that engine shutdown.

[antman]

If it's Boeing
I AIN'T GOING

[Shattered]

thanks for covering other space companies and not just spacex. spacex is extremely interesting to watch, but sometimes that means we dont get to see what other space programs are doing.

[fredpryde]

thank you NSF you do such a great job keeping us informed it is amazing how many satellites are in space soon be running out of room

[NOM-X]

Hmmm.. I wonder where they those ideas from.
Great episode. Always love'em.

[jrsands]

Please organize your vids into chapters.

[stephenhumble]

interesting trick on New Glen having only 3 engines that gimbal. This saves some weight on actuators and pipework.
I wonder if spacex would ever do this on falcon 9 maybe have 2 or 3 engines either side that are fixed. Just a rough guess is that the gimbal actuators, pipework and shielding add 100kg per engine so you looking at a weight saving of about 500kg - not a lot but there are also savings on parts and assembly and maybe even better reliability from doing that.
Probably would require having the 2 or 3 fixed engines on either side angled so the others have enough gimbal clearance.
So there are probably still ways to improve falcon 9 even more - the last change i think of was the stage 2 short nozzle saving the cost and mass of a full size nozzle.
Another possible trick would be non folding grid fins like starship - maybe get a little more air resistance but saves some complexity and weight on actuators and these fins could be used as aerodynamic control surfaces on ascent.

[richardandrews]

NSF is FAST becoming my new "go to" YT channel for all space news.
The usual ones are just copying/pasting same info and just wording it differently whereas NSF are quickly offering new info & not just from the "big Jeff 😔

Thank you