SpaceX Starship Update, Starlink, Crew Dragon, Solar Orbiter and NASA news. What a week!

So much to cover today including SpaceX Starship Updates, Starlink information, Crew Dragon, the Solar Orbiter mission and NASA news. What a week!

Starship development is just going crazy right now, so much to cover there. The solar orbiter took flight the other day so we’re going to look a little more into the future of that incredible mission. New Starlink news dropped this week as well along with Crew Dragon progress and SpaceX announcements. Then to top all that off I finally got a little news of my own to share.

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[evervigilant]

No maybes about it. We are witnessing a pivotal moment in human history.

[rippedtopshelf]

I follow several spaceflight YouTube channels. You consistently provide the most useful material, presented in a manner comprehensible to we non-technical types who I'm certain are the bulk of your audience.

Keep up the great work, Marcus.

[mikoske]

Great stuff, Marcus! Starship's developement speed is almost unfathomable!

[tdswsob]

Imagine the news carnival if Beoing's Starliner issues had happened on a Dragon Capsule, just saying.

[anthonyperkins]

I’m eagerly awaiting the IPO for Starlink!

[sergusy]

Finally we will be able to see solar polar ice caps!

[myfavoritemartian]

Thank you, Marcus! I'm with you and like that big old monster: The SLS. < If you have time, a funny story:> The first launch of a Saturn V booster, Apollo 4, was on Nov, 9, 1967 and was unmanned. Launch day came and the media reps were all there in their traditional spot in the same small building that was used for all Mercury and Gemini missions. (3 miles from the pad) As the big rocket lifted off the pad, their building started shaking, the large picture window started flexing and the tripod mounted cameras began walking around the floor. They all grabbed cameras, walls and ceiling to try and hold it together. The next launch, they were in a new building three times as far away and still was a touch too close. The live announcer, Walt Cronkite, was having trouble being heard, so he just yelled into the mike: "Look at that rocket go!" Fun

[iinRez]

I love everything when there's Space X news, it's like an anti depressant.

[GroovyVideo]

if starlink works well it will be in top 5 most valuable company on earth

[ignorancebeater]

12:15 You're missing the point a bit here. It's not about being "against" it on itself or whatever small "step forward" for science or humankind, it's about *the efficiency* of it. I see this with a lot of space-related youtube vloggers where they all (well, most) tend to say Boeing is ok, SLS is ok, because even though * - read a list of drawbacks and shenanigans - *, they're still doing their best, even if it costs more and they don't play fair, etc. "We're all humans" stated the Everyday Astronaut in this regard - as if that was a rational and relevant argument in this debate. It's not about whether they're humans, it's about whether they're doing a good job with the time and money they have been offered.

Yes, spending 10-20 billion in development and then wasting another 1 billion per launch, will mayhaps "take a step" for further space-exploration. BUT one doesn't seem to realize that, with the same amount of money, but NOT spend on these projects, but - for instance - given to SpaceX to develop a capsule like Orion, or a big rocket like SLS (like starship), one would have gone 10 times further and taken us many, many steps more ahead.

Look, ALL budgets are limited, also - and certainly - that of NASA. So, let's look at it objectively and in a pragmatic way: if you can save 20 billion by NOT spending it on wasteful and obsolete and overdue spacesystems, then that means one can spend it on other, more valuable things, like actual spaceprobes and scientific research and area's where the commercial space-industry isn't interested in yet. NASA could take the forefront in deep-space exploration, etc. So it doesn't make sense to say it's still a good deal because it will get us a step closer to a goal, when NOT doing it, and spending it differently, would have set far, far more steps, and brought us far further to that goal.

A waste of money does not become a good thing because it ultimately amounted to *something*, since actually not wasting it on things others do better and cheaper, would have brought you much farther. Really think this through, please. A waste of money is still a waste; one can not argue that it's a good thing, even if one assumes it will be a possible "step in the good direction" in the future. If those very same 20 billion were given to SpaceX, for instance, we would already have an actual step, but then on Mars, instead of what we have now.

The flack Boeing and NASA are getting, is *deserved* . One should not sweep it under the rug with a blank statement that, since they're doing something you (and I) approve of (aka; space-exploration) that it's unwarranted they get that flack. The fact is, in many ways, Boeing is also *hampering* (or at least doing it's best to hamper it, if it doesn't benefit them) space-exploration, by the way they act and perform. The same for NASA, to a certain degree. You're not progressing, but holding things back by squandering away billions while you could have reached the same goal with half that money, which would leave you half of it for more and better things to do. With 10 billion, NASA could have launched two space Hubble telescopes, and yet still have the same moon-travelling capacity with the other 10 billion, if they had spend it wisely; me thinks quite a bit more and better of a "step", thus.

It's the relationship in regard to the efficiency that matters, thus. Not just if they did "something good", however small. Think about it. If, say, some humanitarian organisation would take 15 years and 20 billion to execute their humanitarian relief effort, and then told you they aided and stopped 5 people from falling under the poverty-line... would you argue they did a good job, knowing that the same could be achieved in 1 year with 20000 bucks? Or even that it was ok, because they made "a step in the good direction"? I wager few would actually argue this, yet we *do* see that exact same claim over and over with most of the space-related vloggers on youtube in regard to Boeing and Nasa. It makes no sense.

[richardandlinda]

Congrats Marcus. Really enjoy your videos, hope you do well going forward.

[GameplayReviewUK]

Oh my has it been a whole week already :D

[jcoghill]

I don't care who does the flight I just want more of them. I mean lots more. I want to see a major shift in world employment toward going to space. Either personally going there or in a supporting role. Everybody knows the importance of being a multi-planet species but nobody knows the significance of being one and how much it will change us to be one because it's not a part of our experience... yet. That's the difference between objective and subjective experience. Humanity will become a different creature psychologically once we are multi-planetary. Probably to one that is a lot easier to live with.

[andysccs]

I’ve already invested in Tesla, and I’m eagerly awaiting Star Links IPO.

[agrr]

Once Starship starts flying, especially when it first goes up properly on top of the super heavy, its going to making, the same as the Apollo 11 launch, we're so so close to taking our civilization another major step out into the stars

[ejaydc]

1:00 hold up! Is that too many bubbles again in space?! Uh oh..space in a pool again!😅🤣😂 its ok..that was "SpiceX"

[garyteano]

Love these updates. A ton of stuff scheduled for 2020 so it’s looking to be great!

[vincent]

They should really preserve Starhopper as much as they can. It will be a prime museum piece in the future.

[heyedddie]

What makes the speed of Starship development even more impressive
is the fact that most of SpaceX ressources are still on Crew Dragon.
Can't imagine what the speed will be once that shifts.

[BeechSportBill]

Excellent coverage here.... I’ll be back!