Starship Rolls Out, NASA Solves Mars Helicopter Crash, and Virgin Galactic Eyes Italy | TWIS

[@hashmagandy2012]

Hope Virgin Galactic get to establish an Italian base. Although just a sub-orbital service, any enhancement to space capabilities in Europe is welcome.

[@korycoster3586]

I'm thinking with Jared Issacman taking over as the head of nasa, artimiss is going to end up looking very different.

[@BenjySparky]

Elysia and NSF, y'all rock! Thanks for the update, Elysia! Peace 🤘 ❤

[@TheNheg66]

Correction @ 8:55 : Spacemanic is a Czech company from Brno, not a Slovak one.

[@iandennis1]

Thank you for the update!

[@MrSTACKNMONEY]

Nice intro . Watching from Starbase TX

[@GrayWolfe-34]

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. Now wake up. LOL 😂

[@Harleysdad-hu1jt]

December 24, flight 7 launch 🎉

[@juliojimenezlopez6480]

In my opinion NASA has not clearly justified this additional 6 month delay on Artemis 2 flight. It seems due to Orion environmental system but there was no identification of the exact issue, nevertheless it is now a Lockheed Martin responsibility if much more funds are expended.

[@chrishorne4016]

Just one hour earlier would be nice for folks in Europe

[@jebediahkerman3946]

Why, when SpaceX is producing Starships at ludicrous speed, does SLS seem so ridiculously primitive at this point? How long in 2024 should it really take to manufacture a fully-expendable launch vehicle? The time between Starship flight 1 stack and flight 2 stack about 5 months. The time between SLS flight 1 stack and flight 2 stack about... coming up on 4 years? SLS is an abusive waste of our hard-earned tax dollars and needs to be canceled.

[@cube2fox]

Jared Isaacman, the next NASA administrator, probably has a similar opinion.

[@MrGoesBoom]

Yeah, the only reason SLS is still alive is the people in charge up on Capital Hill like the amount of jobs and money it brings to their states, and themselves. I mean, part of the point of SLS is that it would use mature proven tech from the Space Shuttle to cut down on cost and development time. And yet it was several years and dozens of billions of dollars over cost by the time of it's first launch. I don't want a monopoly, because monopoly's are overall bad, but SpaceX has proven to be the future while the old launch providers are still running things like they have for the last 50 years....slow, overbudget, and behind schedule with little to no innovation.

[@JeroenvdWal]

Its not that simple. SLS is developed for human transport, starship is a big space lorrie. Starship still has Heatshield problems on LOW EARTH orbit re-entry. Imagine that thing comming in hot from the moon. There needs to be more things to be factored in to say SLS can stop becauce its not reusable

[@davidmclean357]

@@JeroenvdWal I suspect a solution using Dragon to get to orbit on falcon and starship for going to and from the moon and keeping that ship in orbit for reuse would be more likely than using starship for everything. Dragon is well proven for getting to and from orbit and would allow for a relatively fast development if Starship is used only for Lunar operations in this scenario.

[@theOrionsarms]

The time from when a specific starship begin to get manufactured and it is launched is longer than 5 months(more like a year) , also SLS can be stacked only when NASA decide launching time, but in principle you are right SLS stacking is a slow and difficult process relative to starship.

[@Feszy_]

I live in and love New Mexico, but Italy would be way more interesting from space. On the ground... I mean it's Italy. Still more interesting. But New Mexico does have a few cool things!

[@ronsdigginthemidwest5502]

Elysia is so awesome with all the facts

[@matthiasbrehmer8120]

You said that Stoke was the third FFSC engine tested (Raptor being the second), I wanted to look up the first and found that Wikipedia actually lists 2 other FFSC engines as succesfully tested: RD-270 and Integrated Powerhead Demonstrator. Which one are you not counting and why?

[@ale131296]

The powerhead one, it was not a complete engine

[@TheNheg66]

It's kinda in the name itself - powerhead demonstrator. It was just a prototype of a FFSC powerhead used to demonstrate FFSC feasability, not an actual rocket engine.

[@robertgraham1511]

That is fantastic.

[@aidanhorwitz3914]

can you please put the TWIS at the beginning of the name for the video? i keep missing them

[@jameswalker758]

After 19th Dec, or when starship is ready to fly, subject to FAA.

[@deepthikiran8555]

What are those panels falling off all chinese rockets?

[@SubzeroSpartan7]

Pretty sure they are insulation panels because N2O4 needs to be kept cold.

[@adammurdoch1708]

They are lightweight insulation panels for thermal control they let them fall off on disposable rockets as keeping them firmly affixed is added weight and they are only needed on the pad. reusable rockets don't use them as it would add too refurbishment time and complexity.

[@alanblasczyk1779]

Christmas 2024 is my guess.

[@Parayogi]

with spin prime and static test fires in the rearview mirror, there is no reason it couldn't launch this side of New Year's

[@ba2724]

Yet the whole NSF team keep acting like it’s impossible to launch this year. Not sure why they’re being so close-minded about it.

[@ale131296]

@@ba2724 We... do not keep "acting" like that. There's zero indication that the date has been brought forward from January 11th. If you do, please do share with us

[@helgekumpfert4011]

⁠@@ale131296- exactly! In case they re-schedule it to an earlier date it would be high time for the known evidence - warnings for the sea areas, NOTAMS, road closures

[@ba2724]

@@ale131296 The point is that we can’t just rule it out because it hasn’t been announced yet. We can say ‘unlikely’ but to say impossible is not accurate.

[@MrGoesBoom]

@@ba2724 Sure we can, SpaceX themselves have mentioned that they won't be launching any earlier than Jan 11th, straight from the horses mouth as it were

[@fwd79]

Great work as always, please do accept this and let me know if Elysia's ear jewellery is a heat shield or parachutes? 😀

[@cbnc6861]

6 weeks to launch starship #7.

[@janchristensen5692]

😮Jan

[@curtisquick1582]

IFT 7 could launch late December.

[@WendyMPeriodSpace]

Confirmations

[@hashmagandy2012]

Your’re five minutes late Elysia! Though’t you’d ‘stood me up’. 😂

[@resh..]

Do you know what I've come to love about this channel? ( Other than the content of course! ) It's that you're a real person !! 🙋‍♀ And I'm not guessing from the offset whether the voice I'm listening to is frickin AI !! 🤖

[@Cali217]

moe_hav_eee , no canadian egh 😂

[@scottrogers8100]

So it's NASA WhyFiles?! 😂

[@alexandervocelka9125]

The Artemis accords only apply to the empire which spans about 50 colonies and 30 dependencies. The majority of the world will keep space free of monopolistic regulation. Regulating space is the last thing the human race needs and it is ridiculous on that. 🎉

[@johnwythe1409]

Delay to later, no. My bet between Dec 25 and Jan 1st.

[@romec3435]

👾🤗👾👍👾🖖👾

[@bartzy25]

Want a laugh watch it in .45 speed 😆😆

[@icrewheloso8588]

When it comes to quality control and spacex, you guys have no idea what is going on. You're close but not correct.

[@ale131296]

Care to explain what we got wrong? Any feedback would be quite helpful

[@icrewheloso8588]

@ale131296 they lack quality control in most things new. My son inlaw is a quality engineer for Falcon. It is very funny listening to him about certain things. Starship is very far from what I would consider good quality control being from aviation myself. It is a very different environment compared to Avaition. I wish I could talk more about things but it is not aloud. It is very frustrating not to be able to. But he trust that I won't so I don't. Musk is a guy who expects things to be right. So you either do it right or leave.

[@charlieboffin2432]

No one in their right mind gives a stuff about this nonsense right now. There are so many problems on earth that need fixing why waste so much money ?

[@KerbalsandWackMacs]

There are vast amounts of research, technology, and resources that come out of space travel that you don’t pay attention to. We are all in our right minds, maybe check in on yourself.