The Mysterious Return Of NASA's Centaur Rocket

At the end of 2020, astronomers discovered an old rocket booster from the 1960’s making its surprise return to Earth. In this video I will be looking at the mysterious return of NASA's centaur rocket and how scientists use spectroscopy to identify objects like this one.
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Narrated by: Beau Stucki
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[@sethg6157]

When he said "scientist took over nasa's infrared telescope" I imagined a bunch of scientist with rifles storming the facility lol

[@mael-strom9707]

They be geeks with paintball guns. 🤣😂😋

[@dougball328]

This could imply that NASA had non-scientists running it prior to the 'takeover' ! And for the record, there was no NASA "Worm" in 1966.

[@brookeking8559]

@@dougball328 yep, no worm for nearly another decade, but it was still a nice animation.

[@johnecho2861]

LOL ME TOO , Bow ties , pocket protectors and AK47s .

[@trippsimon8916]

Lol

[@jasonfaulkner8644]

When the Centaur booster cruised by earth 54 years later it must have been surprised there were no bases on the moon, no massive space stations, and that humans still lacked the technology to come save him and bring him home.

[@StumpfForFreedom]

He's disappointed in us. :(

[@voteindependentforindepend7181]

Just think, the computers that sent astronauts to the moon were the size of houses and literally millions of times less powerful than the smart phone in your pocket. But nasa claims we no longer possess the technology to goto the moon...

[@voteindependentforindepend7181]

@Mango Man ah yes, project artemis. With the orion module that an astronaut famously stated in a nasa documentary, finally solved the problem of get people safely through the van allen radiation belt. But wait, didn't we already do that six times starting back in the sixties? Hmm, strange...

[@toothpasteman3400]

@@voteindependentforindepend7181 it's not the technology anymore it's the cost 20-30 billion dollars to actually get stuff up there? 288 billion

[@user-vp1sc7tt4m]

@@voteindependentforindepend7181 It's not about the processing capacity, it's about the investment in the process.

[@MarkArandjus]

Alien 1: There's no way we can get this probe to fly by Earth without them noticing. Alien 2: I got an idea. Alien 1: Yeah, what? Alien 2: You just get me some 301 stainless steel, I'll take care of it.

[@Helena-me6mp]

Thats not possible! No its necessary.

[@JP-cy1lw]

Many a true word spoken in jest!

[@timh36]

One day aliens are going to show up and give us big citation for littering the solar system 🤔

[@Gmer-ez9wx]

@@timh36 so uh what will be the fine our money is different all i can think is power

[@rohankumarpanigrahi7475]

@@Gmer-ez9wx maybe they like movies we can give them a huge collection of movies.

[@tomshaw6373]

I was born in February of 1966, so I've been "doing laps around the sun" seven months longer than this thing. Damn, this video made me feel like an old tube of steel.

[@suhandatanker]

you are a rocket that is still a operational masterpiece after 50+ years just like the b-52 bomber

[@oldman-zr2ru]

Yep, I was born in August of 66 and my rocket works just fine.

[@24kGoldenRocket]

@@oldman-zr2ru Give that about seven more years or so then write...

[@brookeking8559]

That’s what she said. Just kidding. I’m more than three years older.

[@notaulgoodman9732]

Man, you’re like 3, 4x older than I am. I guess I understand how older people typically have more wisdom than most since I was about to ask for some haha.

[@rahuln5676]

"When 2020 eventually returns to earth again...." *war flashback noises*

[@torniojawsFAWM]

2020, Part 2: Infinity Virus

[@citylights8678]

KILL BILL MUSIC INTENSIFIES

[@xanderstuff7]

I read the comment as he said it lol. sorta creepy...

[@Im-mv6bf]

Instead we get coughing flashback noises

[@katiekawaii]

😂

[@chrisklugh]

Humans: Built thing. Sent it to space. Forgot about it. Found something. Wondered and debated if this is still that thing. Also Humans: Looks at phone to check the time. Has to look again because he forgot what he was doing.

[@aspiceronni4462]

Damn that is accurate commentary. I bought a decent watch a year ago because I wanted to stop carrying my phone. I don't miss it on my person one bit. It's more freeing than one would think.

[@LeongGunners]

Meanwhile... Martians: Repurpose forgotten human rocket booster to covertly spy on Earth. They'll never suspect.

[@historyofvideogamesandmyop2913]

@@LeongGunners Mars has no intelligent life it's inhospitable to living beings and plants, you really mean Extraterrestrials or Aliens

[@whitedawn2122]

@@historyofvideogamesandmyop2913 tHaTs wHAt mARtIaNS wAnt yOu tO THiNk

[@historyofvideogamesandmyop2913]

@@whitedawn2122 again there's no atmosphere, no drinkable water and the temperature wouldn't support any living organisms not even microorganisms. Other planets surrounding other stars within the hospitable zones like Earth is could very well have intelligent alien life forms maybe even humonoid ones but not in our solar system we're already on Mars with robots mining resources and studying the planet for quite awhile. Martians is just an over hyped Hollywood concept. They'll be Martians in 2051 though living in ecodomes 1st children born on Mars from earthling scientists living there

[@jacobunofficial1146]

Everyone's gangsta until aliens from mars throws back the mars rover.. *"Keep your shit away from us"*

[@xrayban2]

I like how this video smartly never says "junk" ... but it is was it is.

[@OliaSmith0]

IT IS WAT IT ISSSSS

[@Project2457official]

@@xrayban2 its not junk, its history :/ Those stages were built and created by people who are either dead or have almost lived their entire life.

[@KingLordLele]

No

[@davidhicks6824]

Oh My God! Shut Up!

[@2mdjr532]

I'm so proud of what humanity has achieved during the Space Age.

[@Zealox]

ITS ALL FAKE CGI MONEY LAUNDERING BILL GATES STYLE VACCINE INSERTIONS. HOW WOULD THEY LEAVE THE PLANET IF ITS FLAT EH. NO PROOF THEY LEFT. ONLY COLLECTING MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR THEMSELVES WHILE THRIVING ON LIES. I SAY PUT NASA INFRONT OF A FIRING SQUAD AND SEE WHOS IN CHARGE NOW

[@franciscloutier5387]

@@Zealox LOL i hope this is satire

[@styled9876]

@@Zealox no proof? what about the hundreds of videos from space

[@itsmyfaultnotyours139]

you sound like an alien

[@DocHalliday]

Imagine what could be achieved if we didn't fight and bicker over trivial bullshit, and actually pooled our resources to expand across the solar system...

[@prakash00xx]

Everyone's a gangster until the voyagers returns Home 😎

[@KevyB.]

Smh

[@Garden_of_Edin]

Damn, imagine the people's reaction.

[@WEM2016]

With a note that says, "You lost this."

[@noodles6901]

@@WEM2016 more like "Wi Arr Koming Fur Yu"

[@MadeinOregon503]

@@noodles6901 maybe even a “pleeze cend nudes”

[@ErzengelDesLichtes]

We’ve seen this happen before. In 2002, J002E3, later confirmed to be the third stage of Apollo 12’s Saturn V, returned to Earth orbit temporarily. Look it up, the animation is interesting.

[@ab3ki84hayate]

Imagine if starman comes back to earth SENTIENT, lol. "hello humans" "Oh shit it's that one guy that got sent at escape velocity like 900 years ago" "yes, it is i, starman"

[@vedritmathias9193]

Or, imagine this: Starman becomes the central figure in a space-oriented religion. "PRAISE STARMAN, FOR HE APPROACHES US ONCE MORE!"

[@ab3ki84hayate]

@@vedritmathias9193 Some martians gon' praise starman

[@jarodatkinson5306]

And you know he's coming back crazy and evil from that much isolation....

[@kaiwalyaghotkar832]

Imagine roadsters clashing on earth for next new human civilization and starman survives landing burn

[@apollo5668]

he will burn up in the atmosphere

[@garramiro]

This is what happens when you forget to delete the rocket from the tracking station

[@michaelkiddle3149]

For sale one Tesla Roadster extremely high mileage Buyer collects 😂

[@mickavellian]

BRILLANT !

[@Holey_Moley]

...I’d say low miles. But it’s in transport.

[@Neojhun]

Motor Miles very low.

[@LossyLossnitzer]

Might need a new paint job as that colour does not do very well in sunlight

[@mariobandov6638]

Elon Musk should be informed about this comment. He would like it.

[@primalspace]

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[@heraldthegoose7877]

@Harshit Joshi I think the video was posted as private for some extra editing and reviewing, and he made this comment shortly after posting it.

[@heraldthegoose7877]

@@justinmusic1296 why dont you look it up?

[@CapSora]

"Preserverance"

[@eagletastic09]

Earlier: Confirmation of touchdown! Me: Holy F***

[@abdelwahabnassim6281]

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[@dissent9959]

No clickbait title, and a good story, well-explained. This channel gets a subscription!

[@jonrob4369]

You son of a gun, that segway into the ad was so smooth I was still on my curiosity high and couldn't turn away from it. Well played!

[@aspiceronni4462]

I saw some dickhead a couple weeks ago on a comment make a big deal about how its spelled segue and not segway. I personally prefer the way you spelled it.

[@Yes-dc2gm]

@@aspiceronni4462 That person was a wretched asshole, it's segway. He himself doesn't know.

[@jonrob4369]

He must've been having a bad segday

[@aspiceronni4462]

@@jonrob4369 LOL for sure.

[@Avus95]

@@aspiceronni4462 He was probably British. Brits have a weird way of misspelling nearly everything in the English language and then claiming that theirs is the only correct way to spell it. Like adding a "u" to the word "color" or a whole extra syllable to the word "aluminum" :)

[@campFTW]

Yes! Just another 26 years to go🤩

[@thegamewinnerchannel5698]

You act like that short but it very long.

[@Ethan5I5]

til what?

[@ophilia]

@@Ethan5I5 til the car thatwas launched into space in 2018 retourns

[@hey12yearsago21]

I will be thirty six

[@carlgrimes9983]

@@hey12yearsago21 i will be 37

[@TimFerber]

I am still figuring out if this is a human or a computer voice..

[@Franky1028]

Thank you

[@dinoplatinum3301]

Lol me too

[@henriksundt7148]

If you can't spot any artificialities after a minute or so of listening, it's human. But in a few years, you might not.

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

If you can't tell the difference, does it matter.

[@andrewb5894]

I'm pretty sure it's human, just cut together in parts.

[@abirdthatflew]

Top marks for a lucid account; evenly-paced, clearly spoken and with excellent graphics and archive footage.

[@officialdropnation]

And I will name him boosty and he will be my liddo booster friend

[@troy8349]

I misread it to booty Lmfao

[@samarthgautam]

@@troy8349 Considering his channel name is "Twerk Nation" you're not the one to blame

[@johnmoruzzi7236]

Booster was Atlas, Centaur was Upper Stage.

[@johnnyreb6421]

🤮

[@timothybracewell8622]

⁶

[@CURSEDvids]

Go Perserverance!

[@jonahsgang8830]

Yep

[@athenathechesscub7162]

we did it boissssssssssssss

[@tonyf.8858]

That's P-e-r-s-e-v-e-r-a-n-c-e.

[@Shreymani2]

\o/

[@JohnDoe-ny1wp]

Bless you. It's gone.

[@mr.soyhair8888]

Starman do be flying in space doe 😳

[@adrianrodriguez9997]

this do be a factual statement tho :flushed:

[@mr.soyhair8888]

@@adrianrodriguez9997 you too are speaking facts

[@Superbl0bby]

there's a STARRRRMAAAAAN waiting in the sky

[@nagarjunkashyap5987]

More like chillin' in space

[@DeneF]

Doh!

[@misoan]

Incredible story and amazing what scientists are able to do, locating tiny fragments in space. I can't even find a my keys most days. Love your videos.

[@davidstewart5811]

Knowing we have an advanced level of technology is one thing; to have this kind of detailed explanation is a whole order of magnitude of greater understanding. I am amazed. Great video.

[@shashwatdwivedi8184]

When you said finally it was proved it was human made I smiled 😊

[@makon2824]

If exposure to space alters spectroscopic properties of the materials we use, it would be interesting to track the changes in these properties in something that goes up and returns many times, such as a falcon 9 booster. Their limited exposure to low pressure microgravity environments should be able to provide many data points on this.

[@arcosprey4811]

its not space itself, but rather solar radiation. The F9 boosters don't really get that affected by solar radiation but if you look up pictures of the Skylab station and its CSM you can see how much solar energy affects the materials. They appear rusty, corroded. The ISS has special protection against that since its more modern ofcourse.

[@makon2824]

@@arcosprey4811 I used the booster as an example because it would be easier to track in increments. Also, I'd wager that exposure to cosmic radiation outside of the heliopause would render similar results.

[@petevenuti7355]

Got me thinking of the dashboard of Elon's Tesla...

[@insomnia20422]

imagine sitting in the ISS looking out of the window and you see an astronaut waving at you within a tesla travelling towards your station at 100 mph

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Astronaut: *chuckles* I'm in danger

[@Ruiluth]

100 mph is very slow for space. If something approaches you at 100 mph it's because it's been deliberately moved and slowed to come near you.

[@Ruiluth]

@@do0nv I know, that's what I was saying. If something has been slowed to 100 mph relative speed, it's because it's coming toward you and intending to stop. If it's not, the relative speed will be orders of magnitude higher. 100 mph relative velocity is *tiny* for space.

[@n1troni]

​@@Ruiluth thanks man u answered the question nobody asked

[@sumbuddy4088]

Centaur: “oh? You thought you got rid of me?”

[@catserver8577]

Aliens: Earthlings are litterbugs who leave their toys and stuff all over the galaxy.

[@uranus559]

I tried to tell them

[@oldschoolman1444]

Good thing other inhabitable planets to far away or we'd make a mess of them too.

[@davidm.4670]

not the galaxy - - yet. just nearby & a few around solar system, very little beyond. jus' crappn in back yard...

[@richardaird3636]

I am a teacher and find the KiwiCo box to be such a cool concept! Thanks for showing it here!

[@Smokie1523]

Its mind blowing that we can look at something so far away and make an educated decision as to what its comprised of.

[@NeilRoy]

Fascinating video, and I have to admit, your KiwiCo sponsor sounds really good. I would have loved that sort of thing as a child. I had a microscope and a radio electronics kit which I had and learned a lot from.

[@Coffianto]

Imagine in the year 2100 when the earth is really advanced and they go into space to collect the Tesla roadster and the centaur rocket as souvenirs

[@44R0Ndin]

It would take a fully upgraded (Block 2) SLS to get that stage back to Earth orbit, and due to the size of the thing probably another SLS launch to bring it safely back to the ground in one piece. Meanwhile you could send some humans to the Moon or Mars (including at least the start to a moon or mars base) with those two SLS launches. Point being, nobody's going to go spend the money to go out and get discarded rocket stages outside Earth orbit. It's just economically unfeasible with current propulsion technology. Our current record is that it takes SEVERAL entire Saturn V rockets to go get maybe 50-100 kilograms of Moon rocks. Technology has improved some, but not by the orders of magnitude it would take to go get a spent rocket stage back from deep space. Even less likely to go get the Tesla roadster, as its orbit is more different from Earth's than this Centaur rocket stage. Did I mention that this Centaur rocket stage has as much mass as TWO mid-size cars (2,462 kilograms or roughly 2.5 metric tons)? And that's with NO fuel in it. You gotta cart ALL that mass ALL the way back to Earth, and then once it's there the best option I can think of to get it on the ground would be the Space Shuttle, but that's not flying anymore so we'd have to come up with a different solution.

[@jacobleeson4763]

@@44R0Ndin he said when we are really advanced. Not with current technology. There will be a day when it’s efficient enough to be worth it.

[@44R0Ndin]

@@jacobleeson4763 So long as you're throwing "something" out the back of your spacecraft to go faster forwards, it's not going to be worth it. Presently there are no workable theories for reactionless motion of a spacecraft.

[@Haegemon]

@@44R0NdinBetter solution is to make it fall into the orbit.

[@44R0Ndin]

@@Haegemon Even better than that is to give it a little nudge when it comes back around again so it stays in orbit around Earth. Still take a monstrously large rocket to do that, which is why it's not happening.

[@HyperIonMake]

This actually gives me way more hope that extraterrestrial life may exist and even be common. If we suck this much at identifying our own object literally as close to earth as any unknown space craft can get, how could we detect life billions of times further away? Even we dont use the long band radio signals that we would be able to detect anymore.

[@darrenkrivit6854]

Well explained and informative, thanx, I was curious about this

[@MrTurbo_]

I hope we can catch one of these pieces of history some day, that would be pretty epic

[@tomblanckaert4089]

amazing work from these nasa people. and I have trouble finding my carkeys or wallet from time to time :)

[@davidrichter9164]

I hear ya Tom. I have trouble finding stuff even if it's right in front of me.

[@scottyj6226]

I found my favorite lighter today

[@undertoe3730]

HA! Wait till you get to be 74!! It gets WORSE!

[@heyitseyevan]

if you buy a infrared telescope and a normal telescope you can find it for a price of 5 billion dollars! what a steal

[@ballsin3d205]

the aliens are getting tired of our trash everywhere in space so they're starting to send it back

[@randygunn9499]

True hat! They should learn how to pick up after themselves!

[@3John-Bishop]

They turn into UFOs 👽

[@Ashik067]

The accuracy of those instruments always blows my mind!

[@marthai.garcia5760]

Loved it ! Felt like some sci-fi adventure. Excellent. Go Centaur !

[@ejmtv3]

This is like a long dead man that starts haunting us. Creepy af!

[@Gundplanatics00]

@@Vaginaninja Long, very long. Enough to attract all the women in the area.

[@carlsaganlives6086]

Long and slender.

[@ActuallyCPOS]

Don’t you idiots get it? This is just like the events in the documentary “Event Horizon!” That thing has come back from the hell dimension, it has funky evil all over it! Let’s sell it to somebody. I wonder who would want a used rocket thingy...

[@Gundplanatics00]

@@ActuallyCPOS It also went t

[@ActuallyCPOS]

@@Gundplanatics00 Jozef? JOZEF? It also went to WHERE? Speak to us! Key your mike twice if you’re in danger!

[@IsMaski]

Woah.. Now that's amazing. Can't believe it survived this long.. Great video.

[@hasnihossainsami8375]

Objects in space can technically survive seemingly forever. I say seemingly because solar radiation will eventually degrade them, but it would take so long that the change would be insignificant for one human lifetime. On the other hand, chuck a dildo in space at high enough velocity to escape our system and it'll eventually reach another planet with sentient life, if there are any. Imagine them studying this ancient object of unknown origin and purpose.

[@tonybrock5288]

Very well researched and presented! Thanks!

[@morenofranco9235]

Incredible. Thanks, Primal Space.

[@summeryim]

"When 2020 eventually returns..." *VERY* poor choise of words

[@sonnyplayz971]

OH SHIT UR RIGHT OH FUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[@KingLordLele]

Why?

[@lukenysen]

Great in depth story. Thx!

[@Xy_1]

This channel deserves more. The quality and everything is very good and i subscribed only after watching 1 vedio.

[@jaydaniels1790]

Thank you for the content

[@mingming9604]

it's incredible to see what we can do even with the more limited technology today compared to star trek techs!

[@user-yr6vv2np8r]

love the vids

[@SayyedHosseinJavidHosseini]

this was fantastic. Thank you

[@user-ky4qv4kd6s]

The way they measure elements in outter space or on a planet. It seems like such a simple way to do it but so complex at the same time

[@whattha_huh]

Imagine if they could rapidly speed up the process of the spectral measurements with basic A.I. that tells you immediately what it's made of. It would be like Star Trek Sensors basically.

[@honkhonk8009]

tf would AI do that would improve it.

[@AjayD-jv4mj]

This channel has awesome content please increase frequency of video's.

[@adamdry9423]

Thanks for the video! I bought a kiwi co box for my son through your promo :)

[@Hoseay_Jose]

Let's appreciate how he put the sponsor at the end of the video so it doesn't interrupt the video randomly

[@morrisputman8592]

THIS IS SO INTERESTING!!!

[@melvynobrien6193]

so bullshit, you mean.

[@NoahSpurrier]

Wrong NASA logo for a 60's booster stage. The worm didn't show up until 1975.

[@floridacracker1032]

It’s a thumbnail to make people click on it so it obviously did it’s job

[@glennchartrand5411]

The two logos are called "Spaghetti" and "Meatball".

[@Swiftwinter]

This is so well explained.

[@barryporteous4904]

A very interesting and well explained presentation. Thank you

[@primalspace]

Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!

[@TheSusanWojcicki]

1:13 - "Back in September of this year." September 2020, this is 2021; hmmm

[@jonahboundey7516]

He was probably working on editing it even back in 2020.

[@dysfunctionalpilot1545]

he was talking about the booster, nasa named it 2020

[@thunderwarrior1759]

It may of had “deposit returned” written on the side and some aliens thought “i wonder how much we’ll get”

[@qtig9490]

Great video!

[@Astronomy_Live]

Excellent video, as always. Just let me know in the future if you want any of my images for your videos, I had some frames of 2020 SO I'd have been happy for you to use.

[@Yuvr1aj]

the fact that we have launched so many rockets and satellites into space that we don't even have a count is mind-boggling, finding our own left over trash

[@jameslangridge1674]

I just watched a video that states approximately 1900 objects >10cm; 700 000 objects > 1cm and over 200 million objects >1mm are all flying about above Earth currently. Apparently there are a few organizations that monitor these things.

[@craidiefin]

@@jameslangridge1674 If not monitored you risk the loss of a spacecraft because there was a piece of debree in the way. Which creates a cloud of debree further increasing the chances of hitting something. Which causes more collisions. Worst case scenario is that the chain reaction creates a cloud of debris that prevents spaceflight for years, maybe even decades. This is known as Kesslers syndrome. Luckily only one major collision has occured. In 2009 Kosmos-2251 and Iridium-33 collided at a nearly 90 degree angle creating two debris clouds and by 2011 around 2000 fragments of 10cm or larger were catalogued.

[@halsnyder296]

The NASA logo on your graphic wasn’t used until 1975

[@devindykstra]

Woah you're right. That's a really good catch.

[@carlsaganlives6086]

Good call noticed same, my good man.

[@andyc3088]

As it came pass earth nasa gave it a new paint job lol

[@halsnyder296]

@@andyc3088 needs the meatball too then

[@lettersivewritten]

Are you suggesting it's untrue bc that? Because that is what the people who are reading your comment are seeming to think that this implies this isn't real and Centaur isn't reentering Earth's atmosphere? www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/science/nasa-rocket-orbit.html

[@Losangelespharaohs]

well executed video thanks

[@MandoMTL]

Wow. Impressive detective work from the scientific teams.

[@MrMarco7259]

Great content! I was not aware of this!

[@JohnDoe-ny1wp]

Seems there are quite a few things you are not aware of also.

[@MrMarco7259]

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp , Welcome Flatard! Nice of you to drop by!

[@JohnDoe-ny1wp]

@@MrMarco7259 So sweet of you to reply, Did I ever mention 'flat earth",,,NO. But thank you for your disrespect by jumping to conclusions, I love the sounds that a melting snowflake makes as it's dying from the inside out.

[@MrMarco7259]

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp , when you write stupid comments guess what you get. Explain yourself or move on.

[@JohnDoe-ny1wp]

@@MrMarco7259 If I have to explain myself, then you wouldn't understand. Glad you got a trophy for participating though,

[@crunchybro123]

centaur: hi channel: WHAT THE FRI-💥

[@arctic_haze]

A very good explanation. I may yet subscribe 😀

[@notharry9328]

nice video, cool story!

[@freezenexusblogspot]

Since Perseverance has landed i hope we will see a video about it in the future.

[@JohnDoe-ny1wp]

Don't believe everything you see in the internet.......Abraham Lincoln.

[@spynorbays]

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp "Abraham Lincoln" lmao

[@milestone1719]

Let me remind you... Opportunity and Spirit.

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

@@JohnDoe-ny1wp Yup. As false as YOU!

[@JohnDoe-ny1wp]

@@rickkwitkoski1976 Great Comment...Charles Darwin

[@brookeking8559]

I wondered how exactly astronomers and other scientists figured out 2020 SO was a Centaur booster and that particular one. Cool video. One nitpick: The animations were good, but the red NASA “worm” logo came into use nearly a decade after that Centaur launched.

[@jiggyv6139]

Where do you find the space photos / videos on this ? I wanna see. Those Hubble pics you showed @ 4:35 were amazing

[@andreanderson8639]

Wow we sent something so long ago to comeback with so much information. Imagine!

[@efretheim]

I just wanted to point out, the logo they keep putting on the animation of that rocket wasn't designed until 1974. In the mid-1960s, it would have had just a 'USA' vertically stenciled, if it had anything, although the 'USA' was probably on the Atlas first stage instead.

[@damiortiz]

I love you man! one of my favorite channels. please clarify the unit in kilometers 🙏🏻

[@thegreatfixer]

very nice presentation

[@peachrex8552]

such a smooth sponser slide in

[@MemesnShet]

It's crazy that we can analyze the composition of objects and planets from so far away And if we'd ever receive a visit from an actual alien spacecraft we could even make out what it's made of

[@paulstein8854]

I love the idea that we would probably be able to tell if an object is artificial and not made by us. Sure we might not be able to do much about or with it, but at least we can say we were aware.

[@Huggabizzle]

I not sure it’s “proved” but rather “provided suitably compelling evidence to conclude...”

[@marcmcmillan3376]

Surprisingly interesting video ,,, Got me thinking different ways

[@FullMetalNobody]

Amazing. God I love science. Often wondered if we'll ever come up a way to clean up these messes.

[@BiGG_X]

Imagine how pissed off a alien will be when its texting and flying, and suddenly some of our space junk bounces off its ship. Our crap messed up a freshly engraved hieroglyph, and now it wants revenge. ROAD RAGE IN SPACE!

[@JSB103]

A question, Primal Space: As more and more countries and private companies engage in space activity, is there any research being done to address the space debris problem? Thank you very much in advance for any reply.

[@CASA-dy4vs]

Unless we can breathe in space without space suits nah, the micro things flying at the speed of light that’s hitting these debris would rip through suits or ships so unless it has some shielding yes

[@bradhaughton6698]

Now that is very interesting

[@sunnybeaches1331]

Big respect for lthe scientists studying this and the methods used in determining the identity of this hitherto unknown object. This would have been just another 'conspiracy theory' without their thankless work! Good job!

[@adriannordstrom3277]

Here before Perseverance’s Mars landing

[@daviddavis]

Here after perseverance’s mars landing

[@sijenkai3928]

Here to be here

[@ganymede3141]

The Roadster is not free-floating in space. It's still firmly attached to the Falcon 9 second stage, so the visuals should show that. Also, all the wheels were removed except for one which is visible in one of the camera views (front left). 👍

[@samrowe2889]

Why were the wheels removed

[@ganymede3141]

@@samrowe2889 The wheels were removed because they were trying to shave as much mass off of the car as possibleb (battery was removed as well) to be able to launch it into heliocentric orbit (solar orbit). The wheel that they kept on (so it could be seen in one of the cameras and give the illusion that all 4 were left on) had the suspension removed and was welded in place to the subframe to prevent strong vibrations and possible damage from the rough launch environmemt.

[@techtinkerin]

Pretty amazing stuff😄👍😎❤️

[@Jgriffin0808081]

I love this channel

[@primalspace]

So glad to hear that!

[@shivdhanshinde8207]

That's sounds weird and Amazing 👍🚀

[@simonholmqvist8017]

This has a strange feeling. It feels like it's an AI that's speaking, but like very well.

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Thanks very much...!

[@MyRofaith]

Wow, so amazing...

[@digitaldwagon]

I kinda wish they would have tried to point a telescope at it and taken a picture, could have been a cool image.

[@devindykstra]

Sorry to be downer, but It would be really hard to see. They would have needed a super powerful telescope and even then it likely wouldn't be clearly visible.

[@jithinrajanvarghese5128]

Or used the hubble if the orbits and focus agreed, another option would be the iss

[@hasnihossainsami8375]

@@jithinrajanvarghese5128 hubble is extremely farsighted, so it wouldn't be able to see nearby objects. It was designed to be so.

[@henriksundt7148]

4:19 It is too small and faint to identify from a picture. Hence all the other efforts described in the video.

[@digitaldwagon]

i'm not saying it would have worked, i'm saying i would have liked a try.

[@tf7274]

I was in my hot tub at dusk in 2019. I observed a really fast moving cylinder at high speed pass overhead. From a 45 degree angle to my west, to a 45 degree angle to my east, it only took 8 seconds to pass overhead. The fastest space pass of anything I have ever witnessed. I believe it was a spent booster of some kind as it was passing at tilted angle. As it was dark over head and dark blue to the west, if the sun(not visible for an hour) had not hit it, it wouldn't have ever caught my eye.

[@arcosprey4811]

How did you know it was a cylinder? You most likely observed a satellite. I've seen a ton of them, and satellite spotting is pretty fun.

[@tf7274]

@@arcosprey4811 I spend hours each night in the hot tub watching satellites. No satellite takes 8 seconds to go from 10 o'clock to 2 o'clock position that fast or that low. . No plane flies sideways or off axis that high in altitude. It was a cylinder and shiny. I have not seen it again.

[@ttpechon2535]

The object 2020 is basically a time capsule waiting to be opened. Very interesting video also

[@ABESuperKiteDay]

Such a cool and interesting video