SpaceX Starship Restrained by Red Tape, Rocket Lab Announcement, NASA Lucy Mission, Soyuz MS-19

SpaceX are currently stuck in limbo, tied up with the FAA's licensing. Ship 20 testing continues, and Mechazilla is expected to be added to the tower in a few days. Elsewhere, Soyuz MS-19 succeeds, and NASA prepares their Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids!

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:22 Starship Updates
05:47 Last Week's Events
07:55 This Week's Events

[bonelesssnek]

the starship situation feels like when youre speedrunning a game and reach a mission where you are forced to go slow.

[henrijayy]

"The Orange Money Pit" is the best name I've heard for the SLS lol

[pietrodicanio]

A starship launch for Christmas would be the perfect gift

[sixstringedthing]

Am I the only person who gets a big grin when I see that lovely copper-green-tinged engine-rich exhaust? 😁
SN8, thank you for sacrifice
(same for launchpad).

[joshward]

“Tangent Timer (tm)” 😂🤣😂🤣

I loved this Matt!! Keep up the great vids mate 👍✅👍

[lightningwingdragon]

That fuel animation. Whenever I see it, I think that Starship is being fueled by Pepsi and Coca-Cola.

[Oysterity]

FAA: How safe is starship?

Elon: Its built different

FAA: What

Elon: yes

FAA: APPROVED

[oasntet]

Maybe don't complain when you upgrade a rocket assembly site to a rocket launching site despite being in close proximity to the habitat of endangered space dolphins - er, I mean, sea turtles - and somebody insists on doing an environmental impact study.

What I don't understand is why everybody assumes the results of the study will be in SpaceX's favor. This isn't a procedural issue, this is quite possibly the way the Boca Chica site is forced to stop launching rockets.

[erikgerbst]

the situation right now in the space industry is really interesting and much more lively than a few years back

what a time to be alive

[Theover]

Matt out here making quality content to keep me in the loop through the Starship drought. Bless.

[jplo]

Really excited about the Atlas 5 launch, there hasnt been an interplanetary mission in a while

[HylanderSB]

A fresh cup of coffee and Matt Lowne's Space This Week are a good way to start the week.

[hydromanac]

I'm romanian and I can't believe there are actually people from other countries who are hyped for this launch. Even though romanians are usually pretty slow, I am proud that they want to do this😁

[brett]

Hahaha! "Oh, I'm out of time!" Great closer!

[PManGaming]

I just can't wait for the orbital launch of starship I hope it goes well when it does launch

[vulture]

Stop painting the FAA as the enemy. They're just doing their job. Even if their architecture isn't optimized for the future of rocket launch cadences, they are not the enemy of SpaceX. The environmental review is a necessary procedure.

[Adrian-uqmq]

The FAA are doing a good job, I'm getting tired of people blaming FAA they have been quite lenient with spacex. If you watched there may the fourth funny video you would see in the ofice background they have the odd poster and model.

[ADonutMan]

Never been so early to "space this week", thanks online school!

[drosendahl]

Much talk about FAA... But the truth is that SpaceX is not ready for a orbital test flight yet and probably will not be before FAA has come to a decision. Much work on the ground left to do and even if they work fast they probably have a couple of month left. I would say that the only risk "with FAA" is if SpaceX is not getting a license. (But that is most likely SpaceX fault and not FAA:s, FAA is there for a reason)

[JohnR]

At this point musk just needs to buy an island somewhere …