SpaceX Preparing for Starship Catch Attempt, Starliner Lands Safe, & China's Spaceplane Returns

What a week! So much to cover! Things are heating up at Starbase as SpaceX continue catch testing ahead of Starship’s historic 5th Flight, and they moved the Flight SIX Starship to the Massey’s test site. China’s mysterious spaceplane returns to Earth after 267 days in orbit, Blue Origin draws closer to its maiden flight of New Glenn as its landing barge is spotted at Port Canaveral, NASA is shipping 3 components of 3 different SLS rockets to Kennedy, Vega made its final flight, China conducted 2 orbital launches, as did SpaceX – who launched both a Starlink and a StarShield mission. The troubled Boeing Starliner returned to Earth uncrewed, BepiColumbo made its closest ever flyby of Mercury, Artemis 3’s ESM module arrived at Kennedy, and much, much more! This is one of my biggest episodes ever I think!

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:51 Starship Updates
03:31 Starlink & Starshield Launches
04:14 Long March 4B & 6 Launches
04:47 The Final Vega Launch
05:24 Vega C
05:47 Boeing Starliner Return
07:55 Polaris Dawn
09:17 New Glenn & EscaPADE
10:20 Jacklyn Landing Platform
11:33 NASA's Transports 3 SLS components
12:20 European Service Module 3 Arrives at KSC
12:45 BepiColumbo's Closest Ever Flyby
13:47 China's Secret Spaceplane Returns
14:56 Lowne Aerospace Grounded

[mbjagalt]

Mechazilla as a name for a giant robot arm is metal af. SpaceX naming team cooks everytime.

[Tphen]

Don’t worry, if they miss the Mars transfer window they can always time warp to a point where the Earth, Sun and Mars make a 45° angle. Someone told me that once, I can’t remember who though

[ThatOpalGuy]

it's crazy to see the tower flex like that

[ThatOpalGuy]

good to hear the starliner landed a safe.
the SH catch should be wild.

[quentinG_]

3:26 There is a rumor that spacex wants to display the Starhopper in its new offices at starbase 👀

[danboy]

Would you ever do a launch stream Matt? I'd watch that

[Ultraramage]

If they scrap Hoppy it's gonna be like Harambe all over again, and I don't think the world needs another one of "those incidents"

[gupikot]

Not even a minute, I was watching the Nasa Spaceflight's Space this week, when this dropped. Keep up with the work matt!

[odedantebi]

8:38 small correction, it did launch from LC-39A, not
SLC-40

[Mogalize]

Wow, after watching the tower wobble like that from just the movement of the arms, I have some big doubts that it'll be able to withstand the weight of the catch.

[Theover]

I’ve had an absolutely insane morning, past 2 hours have been chaotic. I’m glad to sit down and watch this, this morning!

[Pippy]

The movement reminded me of a kracken from KSP!

[Orientm]

Criminally early like 3 seconds!? Fun fact: the developers of SpaceFlight Simulator are making a KSp2 style sequel set to release in 6 months, the best thing about this is that the devs ACTUALLY CARE about it!

[Idkbutimhere-wb]

I’m begging, sir bring black planet coaster when the second one comes out!!!

[theelephantintheroom]

Much better reporting than WAI atm. Whoever is running that channel's upload schedule and writing the episodes needs to chill out. They've been putting "Starship is ready for flight 5!" in their video titles for OVER A MONTH and most of the videos' content is rehashing old news

[SOLUSX]

Bought the new "any landing you can walk away from" Hoodia can't wait! It will be here at the end of the month 🎉

[Arelium]

It sucks to not see a KSP video after/between a space this week video(s).

[metriczeppelin]

Since BO sold their original ship for retrieval use and now have a barge like SpaceX, don't you think it's time to retire the animation of NG landing on their tanker?

[quentinG_]

1:49 do not remind me ksp2’s wobbly rockets 😅

[Account-idyo]

matt, please play RSS (Radioactive Simple Syndication)!