It is over! SpaceX Starship Updates, Falcon Heavy / Ariane 6 updates, Crew 3/2 delays

This week astounding work at Starbase continues with the huge push towards the first orbital flight of Starship, and rapid work continuing at the launch and production sites. Blue Origin loses the legal case against NASA on the Human Landing System, but what does that mean? Delays on Crew 3 for medical reasons and weather. A few quick updates on Ariane 6 to talk about which is the successor to Ariane 5. Is this next rocket in development going to compete with the insane innovation going on around the world or not? Then we have a flood of Falcon Heavy launches coming soon. The next year is going to be incredibly exciting.

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[MarcusHouse]

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[brandonmusic]

As an actual lawyer, I can give you some insight into that order dismissing BO’s claims. A rule 12(b)(6) motion is what SpaceX and the parties filed against BO. That Type of motion is a statement that blue origin doesn’t even have a claim to make to the court that it could even remotely consider. If a court grants that type of motion, it would be saying to blue origin “you don’t have a case, legally, everything you’ve said is nonsense.” Courts don’t often do that. But In this case, that’s EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID to blue origin. So, BO case was legally about as strong as toddler trying to pull the moon into a toddler-centric orbit.
Great video Marcus!

[ianameline]

I think Marcus has the consistently best quality videos for space related news. Others (Every day astronaut, for example with his Elon interview) have had some incredible peaks, but Marcus just delivers consistently excellent content *every* week. It's become my "go to" source for space news. Great work Marcus!

[wisdomandy]

Let's take a moment to be glad that we're alive during the true beginning of the space frontier. I reckon being alive in another hundred years or two would be sweet but all of this is just exciting to realize it's ACTUALLY happening.

[CKOD]

Pretty cool for Crew Dragon to get acknowledged by the director of Roscosmos. Soyuz has proven to be a reliable safe launch vehicle, and even in the failure of MS-10, the safety systems worked to keep the crew safe. Hopefully Falcon 9 can reach such a safe track record of crewed launches as they gain experience.

[QuasistellarNymphomaniac]

Getting thrust out off an expander cycle engine is difficult due to the square cube law, +60% is incredible, a few seconds of ISP less is easily compensated this way. Massive props to the engineers!

[Yaimdan]

Honestly people... what a time to be alive. We are seeing so much space innovation right now. This is going to be a very exciting next 50 years.

[g.f.martianshipyards]

Sadly, Ariane 6 doesn't need to be competitive, only reliable in order to get subsidized for the sake of securing Europe's access to space. Arianespace is basically Europe's ULA.

[NovelIdeaIndeed]

Thanks for another terrific video, Marcus! My favorite segment was the landing of the two Falcon Heavy boosters. What a superb space ballet that would be, should they land close enough together to process them as a single image! As always, great job tying together developments from so many companies and countries. Exciting times!

[Sklli]

As a European I see Ariane 6 with one smiling and one crying eye. I'm happy that there is a new development and upgrades, but I'm also sad they have so little innovation due to politics.
My fear is, that they will have a hard time to compete with prices on the market and therefore funding will get more and more difficult. I read somewhere that they have trouble filling the launch slots they need to make the project a financial success. That doesn't mean earning money, but earning enough money to fund the development parts not funded by the governments.
It's a similar problem to SLS where due to politics the parts are build all over Europe and shipped around, every actor wants to be part, which makes planning, integration and innovation much harder.

[robfive]

Exciting times ahead ... Thank you MH +Team for all your hard work..

[bluemblem]

Ariane 6 May not be as new and shiny as others, but hey more rockets means more launches means more potential scientific discoveries.

[chesimons]

This comment may sound negative, but it's not meant to!
Arianne: Different engine cycles are not graded best to worst. They are application specific and must take the rest of the system elements into account. The choice of an open cycle engine would have been a balance of performance, weight, cost, development time and control system constraints as well as selection against probably thousands of other requirements. This would have been the same for solid boosters.
It's good to see that everyone is moving forward, as always Great videos mate!

[tfraz]

I learn more from Marcus each week than all my other news sources combined. Great work here!! Keep the mars updates coming!!

[mattc]

Missed a few episodes while traveling. Pure joy catching up, Mr. House.

[DJ_Icky_Sticky]

Marcus just keep delivering! I love his ability to put these amazing advances into terms that younger people can understand. I still can’t understand how he gets all of these models of all of these rocket launches

[waylontmccann]

Holy news all the way through the credits, that was great! Another smash episode, keep it up Marcus. 👍

[Asterra]

Bezos' "graceful acceptance" is specifically an acknowledgment that he was in fact on the verge of permanently burning bridges. But at least it does indicate that he'd rather keep those bridges intact than proceed to burn them for the decidedly short-term goal of forcing his lander into the first phase of Artemis.

[Rick-vmbl]

Its a bit ironic that viasat are relying on Falcon Heavy when it wasn't too long ago that they tried to block Starlink.

Awesome update as always Marcus!

[tinkeringinthailand]

Great post mate. It's always a pleasure to watch your content on Space Tech etc. Keep up the good work bud.