Spaise staishon eingula momentem veiter😊

I was a hoping for a future full of spaceplanes. Then I watched Everyday Astronaut's video on SSTOs and Eager Space video on space planes. Highly recommend both.

19:32 that is nice concept. grabity because rotation and slow rotation because is huge circle nice nice. only a problem micrometeorits on the glass.

9:15 but how you get that curve? 6:02 Is this real?

Hi, when are you releasing the next video? would love to see the next part! What were the settings on your original glider? also what code did you use?

Interesting.Now UK has a new gov, it could be something for EU and UK to fund as a common project.

is there any chance to rebuild this project?

Even if a spaceplane were much safer on the ascent compared to conventional rockets (which is doubtful), safety on deorbit will limit your overall safety. Assuming conventional failures are distributed 50-50, if your ascent is 1000 times safer but the descent is not improved, your overall safety is still only 2 times higher.

4:50 that helps to a limited degree, pure rocket engiens and scramjets tend to have better thrust to weight ratios than jet engines or airbreathing rockets and any vehicle gets lighter as it uses up fuel so the mass is dominated by whatever you use first either way so either method ends up with surprisingly similar engine masses

I'm afraid I'll have to call BS on that story.....I've no doubt the plane gets hot in flight and no doubt that Aluminium has a high alpha (coefficient of linear expansion) BUT the expansion occurs evenly throughout the aircraft unless the nose get absurdly hot so the expansion isn't restricted to one place..... Think about it if the gap went from say 5mm to 100mm in flight the whole plane would be 20 times longer in operation. AS always, happy to be proven wrong.....

7:50 One must also carry fuel up to use for landing, with margin. p.s. Fun Fact: the roadster launched into space was not Musk’s property: he had it launched to deny the rightful owner the car.

Spaceplanes are great in theory, using air breathing aircraft as stage one and then switching to oxidizer ‘fuel’ for stage two. The problem is stage one needs to get to around Mach 5 and we haven’t really gone above Mach 3 too often. The Sabre engine in Skylon is a game changer, but it’s been in R&D for 40 years now???

Neil Taylor from reaction engines was one of my lecturers and assessed my final year project. It shocks me how simple the Skylon concept is in terms of Aerodynamics but so difficult in terms of propulsion. And re-entry isn't even the hard bit - to get the TBCC thruster to work will be a feat in itself but seriously opens up opportunities in terms of what can and can't get into space. It remind me about how the jet engine was simple in concept but never saw use until the later parts of WW2. Much of the time, an avenue is seen but there is so much auxiliary work intended for a a design that does not make is feasible at the moment. Spaceplanes ARE the future, but we are limited by current design knowledge.

THAT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!

Nuclear energy would make a good space plane fly on match head of nuclear tnt would blow up as much as a grenade,so does sombody just make a smaller gas nozzle for nuclear feul.

Space Planes are not safer than rockets. Space Planes can't carry the same payload as a rocket. The heat shield maintenance on a space plane is more expensive and time consuming. Space capsules have far more redundant systems and provide an escape system. In order to achieve the engine performance required an SSTO engine would need to be more complex and efficient than the Raptor engine currently is. Space X already proved that booster can land easily then be re-used. A plane requires a runway to land so it can't be configured to carry a larger payload. A booster can even land on a barge. If a plane actually made more sense on paper then Space X would build that instead.

You mentioned the Space Shuttle as a successful space plane system. The Space Shuttle was a failed program that met none of its goals and killed 14 astronauts.

You are making a case for airlaunch which has a dismal history. The main problem is that you have to have duplicate systems. Air breathing and rockets. Also, you aren't taking into account all the massive ground support equipment that would have to be make mobile to support the rocket launch once you are at Mach 5. This idea has been tried over and over and has never been successful. Intuitively it seems like it would work but it has been proven in practice not to. I think the future is the SpaceX approach to get to LEO and then NASAs nuclear rocket to get from LEO to the Moon or Mars, and then pre-delivered landers at the destination (could also be StarShip). You need chemical to get off a planetary surface but nuclear has 10x the ISP of chemical and doesn't require an oxidizer so you can get to Mars in about a month vs 6 months with StarShip. So use StarShip to get from planet to orbit and orbit to planet but nuclear to get from planet to planet. (for simplicity I am lumping the Moon and asteroids into the planet category)

its not like the spaceshuttle needed to be stripped after each flight 😂

Hear me out: Hydrogene Balloon + Rocket = 80% weight and cost savings, just calculated in ChatGPT.

Do your maths Dude! Then you'll figure out space planes are a white rabbit. It's all CGI.

Spaceplanes will only work on earth, and also really hard/expensive to mantain

Imagine the kind of performance you could get out of using the raptor engine power head with a linear aerospike. Single stage spaceplane with 50-70 ton payload to orbit or anywhere in the world. Build it with room for about 500 people and you have a very attractive point to point or space station vacation platform that can land on a runway. I think with time space flight will differentiate to using a space planes for moving people around and super heavy lift rockets for putting payload in orbit and farther out.

Don't forget that the calculations requiring greater precision would have been done on mechanical calulators. I have a pretty ordinary one that can give an answer to 21 significant figures, for example; whereas a 10 inch slide rule is good for 4 at best. An interesting video and an interesting calculation (in terms of its application).

Skylon first flight in 2100 😂

Can you image what would happen if NASA made a video poking fun at its failures?

6 gyros

The British Skylon space plane just may be the first operational to make the transition from Earth to space and back easy and less expensive. Their design would carry up to 30 astronauts on each flight. However many potential financiers are leaning toward Space X types of reusable rockets for the near future. I am convinced space planes are the wave of the future, though I may not live long enough to see them operational. BTW: Wasn't the ship leaving Earth in the film The 5th Element a space plane?

Awesome explanation. Thank you!

Nice video. Thanks. I laughed so much about this "The only bush in the entire field".

Hi, do you still have the arduino code ?

Hey, Im trying to replicate this for a home project, but I cant quite get the reaction wheel code to work. Would you be able to link the code you used in a github or something like that? GREAT VIDEO BTW!!

Im sorry Skylon is just an impractible vehicle. It has too many unrealistic design issues to overcome. If one was to redesign the vehicle altogether, a STO plane could be constructed.. Good luck

Now I'm curious what you thinnk about aerospike engines

Is the code and design in GitHub?

Can you please share the Arduino code?

Do one on Hotol vs. the new rotating detonation engine!

If they moved the Hotol factory to California, would it be called the Hotol California?

reserving coolant to precool oxidant precludes fuel that doesn't require as much such as the new methalox chinese rocketry successful laumches

blue orgin hasnt done shit

Outstanding lifting. Dr Dent astrophysicist Rocketeledyne owner.

SpaceX Falcon 9 has had 1 failure in 287 launches so far.

The progress spaceplanes have been making lately is truly breathtaking :)

Can you please share your code for this project?

Excellent video!

As a fellow kerbal fan, I never knew how they truly worked in real life. This is exactly the type of informative video I was searching for, so thank you!

Outstanding and inspiring concept! Hopefully, some visionary billionaire will emerge to embrace it to render this dream a plausible reality...

clear demonstration! easy to understand.your demo is really delicate and reveal the theory of how to controll a satilite.Really useful!

É mais barato descartar boosters sólidos durante os três primeiros minutos de lançamento e depois recupera-los no mar!

It'll definitely be the future. An actual ship capable of take off, travel and landing by itself without the need of stages is the ultimate engineering achievement. If it have efficient Vtol capabilities then... even better. Bye bye the need for runways. One day rockets will be a distant memorie of the primitive times of space flights.