A 2032 Asteroid Threat? & A Falcon 9 Upper Stage Stuck in Orbit | This Week in Spaceflight

🚀 This Week in Spaceflight: A Falcon 9 second stage is stuck in orbit, NASA is looking for a new partner for the VIPER lunar rover, and an asteroid may have a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032! Meanwhile, Firefly’s Blue Ghost is preparing for lunar orbit insertion, and Astrolab’s FLIP rover joins Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 mission to the Moon.
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🤵 Hosted by Elysia Segal (@ElysiaSegal)
🖋️ Written by Martijn Luinstra & Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (@AlexPhysics13)
🎥 Footage from: Max Evans, D Wise, DrWD40, SpaceX, N2YO.com, NASA, European Southern Observatory/O. Hainaut, Astrolab, Firefly Aerospace, Thales Alenia Space/Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, Axiom Space, ATLAS, ESA/Planetary Defence Office, INTERNATIONAL ASTEROID WARNING NETWORK, ESA, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech & NSF/AUI/GBO, Phoenix7777, CelesTrak.org, @Raul74Cz/Google Earth, ISRO, Tory Bruno, Roscosmos, NASA Goddard/ASU, Ministry Of Transport Of The Russian Federation, JAXA, Blue Origin, Maxar, Russian Ministry of Defence, Arrow Chasing Tribe.
✂️ Edited by Ryan Caton (@DPodDolphinPro).
💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed).
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[@metropolis10]

I'm so glad I found this news program. There is so much on NSF that I didn't know this existed, and frankly the weekly news recap is all I want. I wish it was also posted on a separate channel just for this! I'm a refugee from the spacex only "we moved a piece of rebar this week" channels, and I absolutely love hearing about all spacenews instead.

[@Major_Tom_1960]

A very well investigated and clearly explained news program! Thank you for your well-considered and sympathetic way of reporting, Elysia!

[@posidontrident]

Best example of the asteroid prediction

[@MichaelRelyea-qg7ct]

Absolutely love her narration, clear calm and great tone modulation.. My ears are not bleeding ty..

[@crashtestdummy87]

if it's gonna hit, i'm going up close to watch it. I'll take a camera with me for safety

[@user-oz1fd1hz9d]

Smart move. You should be fine then as well as getting some nice footage.

[@therealjamespickering]

How can I be worried about a killer astroid when Elysia only ever looks pleasantly surprised?

[@TranscendentBen]

When she stops smiling, I'll start worrying.

[@kenwatkins9385]

Wonderful update! Clear, concise, love the diagrams on the launch orbits and descriptions of the missions. Thanks for the great work

[@cccaaa9034]

8:00 An object with a straight line away from us is an object with a future straight line path towards us.

[@georgeb8328]

Thanks for the space news!!

[@lyricbread]

Thumbs up for Elysia’s earrings. 👍🏻

[@Derek-g7h]

Bro, those earrings are unreal. Lol. Elysia's earring game just cannot be beat. I don't know how much of the show's production/wardrobe budget is getting spent on them, but it's worth every penny.

[@markw6509]

I just want to know who's Elysia's earring dealer is

[@NASASpaceflight]

Earing dealer is probably the most accurate term 😅 - Das

[@DylanSpeiser]

They're always so perfectly topical

[@Nachosntacos716]

@@NASASpaceflightwe want answers 😭🫶🏽

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Right?! lol Given the short timeframe, I can only think of three possibilities: 1) She fashions them herself, from necklace/bracelet "charms" 2) She lives in the Space Coast and just knows of a jewelry vendor/maker who makes and sells lots of this stuff, so she can easily come up with one that suits the episode. 3) She 3D prints them and then maybe paints them or even metallic plates them (can do that with conductive paint and electro-plating)... but even *that* I think would require a whole week to make...

[@peteetienne5493]

Oh! Shiny! LOL. Love those earrings Darlin! ❤❤

[@The-Mattman]

That asteroid could ruin Christmas !

[@gustavinus]

13:10 Liberté; Êgalité; Fraternité > Last time the French used that moto a lot of heads were chopped of in public squares... And then Napoleon came around...

[@theoschreiner2468]

it still is our motto though

[@Valery0p5]

3:30 reminder that basically all the Gateway modules are being built by TalesAlenia in Turin, Italy... Without us you wouldn't even have the radio chips for Starlink (see STmicro)

[@gustavinus]

18:50 Was this one of the few vertical Japanese launches? I mean, for many decades they HAD to launch inclined into the target, because they were not allowed to use guided systems.

[@tomkirkman1332]

Im concerned about the rocks that come from behind the sun, the one that we can't see, the ones that will give us zero warning.

[@jwoak0913]

I’m already planning the impact party 😂🎉

[@alexplosion_ITA]

3:25 Fun fact:thales alenia is also going to build both the IHAB and HALO modules (at least that's what former director of the thermal systems depriment at thales said) 4:10 well, nevermind

[@JoyceLynn-q3m]

Interesting ✨

[@TranscendentBen]

There's so much info here it really could use an index. I've been listening while doing other stuff (I know, I should put 100% of my attention to This Channel, but there's so much going on thesedays, at least I'm not a Boeing space employee), and I missed mention the Falcon 9 second stage stuck in orbit. I got the second mention around 18:00 and "as we discussed earlier" which tells me I missed it for sure.

[@slevinshafel9395]

4:50 But in 2033 or 2034 is another meteorit like this but 1km diametter. I read a news back in 1997. Any news on that one?

[@zapfanzapfan]

Hope you get well soon Elysia! Kids are petri dishes 🙂

[@Parayogi]

wait, a million pounds that's about 450 tons, how thick are the walls on that tanks that's insane

[@not_yet_implemented]

Very clear explanations. 👌 Why don't we see this lady on the live broadcasts? Should be great

[@Shattered3582]

hopefully she will be present for the flight 8 broadcast

[@David-yo5ws]

Her job is a guide on the USS Intrepid museum, so I think Elysia may be unavailable for a live broadcast, which can be hours long and it's never certain what day rockets will launch.

[@sillyshitt]

How about taking a breath of air between the different news segments.

[@eddiegoodman9267]

Thanks for the update and views 🇺🇲🇺🇦 A Just Victory 2024

[@DanSpace300]

Lots of cameras, for lots of smooth views of falcon 9

[@DerekWiffen]

We have a number of second stages going to orbit and potentially having a good amount of fuel left. why not calculate a trajectory for one or more of them to collide at a calculated future intersection to push it in a good direction in the next couple of years so we have a better chance of intersecting it and knowing what the changed orbit will be. a few practice shots wouldn't be a bad thing.

[@elizabethhoeppner8881]

Hooray 🇺🇸

[@peterihre9373]

As I live in Sweden, 58'N, when can we have a more precise idea regarding where 11-4 will enter?

[@ale131296]

Unfortunately, even up until an hour before the reentry, the prediction will span about 2/3 of an orbit

[@bobw2942]

First of all let me say that your spaceflight updates are interesting and I'm glad you take the time to create them. That being said, I really wish you guys would TAKE A BREATH between sentences. Everything doesn't have to come in one giant long stream of words. Thank you Signed, Old Man Screaming At The Clouds

[@stevetheborg]

she talks too slow an i run her at double speed.

[@joaohneuhaus]

By the way, wouldn't be cool a video focused on news about asteroid defense technologies? I know several agencies had begun projects on that subject

[@atomsizeelephant]

I'd love to see these people also stating how much emissions have been released with all these launches...

[@6DunJuan9]

Approx 300 tons of CO2 per launch

[@Andrew_Hillis]

WILL BOEING CANCEL SLS OR ARE THEY BLUFFING ? ? ?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@JurnalPublisher]

If dinosaur astronomers-or even a dinosaur version of Scott Manley-had been around to launch rockets and divert asteroids back then, the 2024 YR4 might have been a non-issue by now.

[@Knossos22]

She said there is a chance : )

[@Andrew_Hillis]

V.I.P.E.R. (THE MOBILE INVERTED RUBBISH/TRASH SKIP/DUMPSTER) GETS TO GO TO THE MOON AFTERALL ! ! !👌👌👌

[@truey90s]

With the idea of fully reusable second stage that could carry 20t payload where starship wants to carry 150t can they make one big enough to take that 20t up but also take enough fuel up to do a big enough burn to slow the vehicle down to a more manageable re entry speed

[@TheButterZone]

LMAO YASS 19:40 clip

[@richardsmith7721]

KZbin now adding pop-ups to the screen for your products every time a video is viewed, if that’s something this channel can toggle off I’d appreciate it.

[@markhuebner7580]

1 in 43 that seems like a very strange probability? The astronomer's ability to accurately determine the location of the asteroid is 43 * bigger than a circle the diameter of the Earth?

[@Shattered3582]

2:18 flat earths are crying over these videos

[@Tinman_56]

🎯

[@Alpha-Cephei]

At 17:02: Starship flight 7 counts as a full success?

[@lev0824]

No, Elon said the "flight was 5/8 successful"

[@ale131296]

Starship is not in that list as it wasn't an orbital launch

[@jincha5183]

Maybe the asteroid will not hit Earth but what if it hit the Moon ??? The many scenarios of the Moon being hit and the effects of the aftermath could be just as concerning ???

[@spanke2999]

Check the size of that thing and the potential energy on impact. It's not such a big thing if it hits something that is uninhabited

[@DGgraphicsNY]

What about lunar impact?

[@Gunham20]

@NASASpaceFlight make chapters. Please

[@FirstLast-jl6fr]

Asteroid needs re-targeting....I vote for Mar a Lago for swamp cleaning

[@boballen9095]

Curious if anyone knows: Has ANYONE evaluated the opportunity to … 1. launch a mission to try to match the path of 2024 YR24 asteroid and at very least get much more close-up data, and … 2. explore "nudging" with a sustained push (not a single kabam) to change its course reducing the chance of a collision. ? Thoughts? Alternatives could AT LEAST be modeled on Kerbal Space Program Video game.

[@The_Second_greatest_ever]

So those rover tests aren’t happening in a clean room. So why the big hood forced air respirators? Surly it isn’t because of the sand. 🤔

[@Peacock486]

regolith simulants may as well be tiny shards of broken glass and you really don't want to breath this,

[@joaohneuhaus]

15:40 A lot of methane to waste on HOLDs...

[@budholtfort5994]

🎉🎉🎉

[@mrbaab5932]

Has Nasa successfully landed on the moon recently?

[@glennmitchell9107]

What are the chances of the asteroid hitting our moon?

[@rayghost7665]

Or the asteroid level could go up more of a chance to get hit

[@bryansullivant]

Best NSF weekly production

[@emmabentley7945]

Starship will not be ready for 2026. Not for normal payloads.

[@TheGothbean]

@ElysiaSegal My boyfriend is constantly watching space news and I spotted your lip stain today and I loved it so much I had to come find you to tell you! 😍

[@budholtfort5994]

🎉

[@aeronsongerson2416]

So the French are thinking about maybe in the future building a prototype of something reusable. It's been 13 years since Musk gave an interview on the BBC, which he was ridiculed for, saying Ariane 5 had no chance and they should move on with a reusable Ariane 6.

[@TheGhungFu]

Kessler syndrome probably baked in at this point. LEO and MEO gonna be like an orbital meat grinder for a hundred years....

[@MichaelDb-uq9dn]

why has Nasa gotten away from any company in a build off for making parts for space station , let any legal company have a shot of making any part that goes out for bidding , see what company’s can make new and innovated ways vs cost to help the program be great again , I know why because we give most opportunity’s to company’s that probably send money back thru white envelopes but i think any good company making great products would do anything needed to be able to earn money and build for our Country , we look at the same half dozen places and beside Elon , the rest have constantly failed and /or delayed over and over yet once again we let them bid , nice to be unsuccessful and constantly get to try again after losing our money

[@CaptainRon1913]

Problem not issue. Issues are magazines and newspapers

[@elizabethhoeppner8881]

Hooray

[@theman-gg7hp]

Hi eyes!!!!

[@richardpark3054]

Asteroid hitting Earth and wiping out all life in 2032!? I'm updating my will and leaving everything to...what...the vacuum of space? Nevermind!

[@JGS123WRPTP]

India’s make it work capabilities are immense.

[@SteveWindsurf]

When the US “collaborates” with another country’s agency, does NASA pay at all? If NASA pays, it’s not a collaboration, it’s an outsourced purchase.

[@gustavinus]

12:09 According to Israel? ? ? ???

[@neilbalch]

ISRO :)

[@Prasah1711x]

This is harassment for earth

[@crashtestdummy87]

it goes a step beyond if it penetrates our atmosphere

[@agathamwangi9083]

God please save us

[@scubastevedan]

What are we looking at? 😮🤢

[@ChuckThree]

Time for America to save the planet… again

[@gregorypauldrapeau]

Who else is excited for the Canadian Space Agency to get merged into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

[@flightsimdev]

Never going to happen, President Musk made sure that is over now.

[@gregorypauldrapeau]

@flightsimdev President Musk. Lol. Nothing against Musk, he is brilliant but that is not even legal.

[@alexsiemers7898]

@@gregorypauldrapeau well we have a Felon as POTUS so what is an isn’t legal is up in the air now