as always we'll start with the latest
developments of the spacex starship at
boca chica
talking of spacex as you know ula
really isn't happy about their success
so what do they do of course
they start playing dirty oh this story
is going to be brutal
and of course it's time to bash sls
again
come on we have held ourselves back for
weeks now
because Kathy Lueders the nasa chief of
human exploration and operations
revealed in a blog post that sls
could be postponed even further oh and
of course
sls will cost more than originally
estimated
what a surprise today is space rant time
again
so stay tuned
so let's as always start with an
overview of the latest developments at
boca chica
unfortunately yesterday's sn6 hop event
was scrapped
due to high wind speeds bummer and it
looks like the hop
also won't take place today or tomorrow
since the road closures for these two
days have been cancelled as you can see
here
thus we have the feeling that we can
expect the next hop attempt with sn6
earliest again by the end of the week
let's hope that this time the weather
will play nice with us
starship sn5 is meanwhile waiting
already outside the mid bay
it would be so cool to see sn5 hop again
very soon after sn6 the super heavy high
bay is continuing to grow with some very
brave people doing some work
up there better not be afraid of heights
for this job
and will soon reach its final height of
80 meters
this means also that work on the super
heavy booster itself
will begin soon which has also been
confirmed by
elon he is of course again doing his
elon time thing in this tweet
saying that they will attempt a hop with
super heavy already by
october we believe that might be a bit
too elon timey
but we probably will get a new starship
update presentation by then
with new interesting information but of
course we hope that a super heavy
prototype booster can still hop
by the end of this year talking of super
heavy
the insane launch mount for this
behemoth booster
is also progressing as you can see in
these as always amazing shots
from BocaChicaGal thanks a lot as
always
just imagine super heavy launching from
this mount
we try but fail to imagine how insane it
will be
then another starship test tank the
SN 7.1
is already waiting for its cryo pressure
test
this starship prototype is based on 304l
steel
and will test the resilience of this new
alloy
and the welds which are the most
important part
it's thought that the welds will be much
stronger with the new alloy
so there's a lot going on at boca chica
and we just have to be a bit more
patient
until we can see the next starship hop
still
on the topic of spacex they now have
secured
the launch of masten space systems
moon lander
in 2022 as part of nasa's commercial
lunar payload services program
or short clps spacex will launch
masten's xl1 lander here towards the
moon
where it will set down near the lunar
south polar region
as we remember spacex will also deliver
the first
two modules of the lunar gateway station
on a falcon heavy in 2023
and will also resupply said lunar
gateway station afterwards
with falcon heavy and the new dragon xl
spacecraft
and of course we have spacex as the
primary launch provider for nasa's
manned missions to the iss
with Falcon 9 and crew dragon the next
mission which will be the crew 1 mission
will take off on the 23rd of october
this year
and the crew 2 mission is set for march
2021
so nasa is relying more and more on
spacex
which is of course logical and makes
economically the most sense
very much to the dismay of the good old
lobby companies
such as boeing and lockheed boeing is
still trying to get its starliner to fly
with the next unmanned mission planned
for december 2020
and if they don't mess it up again a
first mission with astronauts to the iss
in 2021 lockheed and boeing are jointly
working on the SLS
and orion launch system as we know and
they also form the joint venture
ula and you know that ula doesn't really
like spacex a lot
since as we saw spacex takes more and
more
of the launch contracts away from ula
what a coincidence
that suddenly out of nowhere that some
politicians
start to propose anti-spacex laws how
convenient for ula
that while they are declining more and
more suddenly this cool colorado republican
senator named Cory Gardner comes along and
suggests
to put spacex under scrutiny for
possible ties to china
senator Gardner told the washington
examiner recently
quote i'm concerned that companies in
china
could come into the u.s make a
sweetheart deal
take sensitive information take
proprietary technologies
and use it to enrich their own space
program
their own national security efforts in
china
now anyone who is intelligent certainly
has noticed
okay but what does that have to do with
spacex
spacex doesn't have any contracts or
ties
to china in any way but before we answer
that question
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extremely thankful now some senators
such as gardner say
that since elon is also the chief of
tesla
and tesla has a huge factory in china
and now even gets a 1.4 billion dollar
worth of loan from
chinese state-owned banks this could
indirectly profit spacex
this is quite a stretch of course but
that didn't stop
a congressional republican aide to say
what is there to stop them
from going to musk directly and saying
we'll call your line of credit early
unless you give us x y or z and there's
no real clarity
that there's any kind of mechanism that
would stop that
other than good behavior by an
individual
wow okay but you still might say so what
politicians gone mad again
what's the big deal happens all the time
classic and by the way
as we see this insane behavior is
prevalent
among both sides of the political
spectrum so it's not
tied to a specific party dems and reps
both have their black sheep but the
highly interesting part is this here
guess who strongly urged senator gardner
to introduce the bill any guesses any
guesses
yes you there in the third row yes
that's right
ULA and no this is not a joke
when this came out a gardner aide had
to say this
that's just responsible vetting but to
say this is a rubber stamp of something
ula gave us and it's a ula spacex
fight reveals a lack of recognition of
what the real
issue is really so attacking an american
company
that has no ties to china whatsoever
just because the ceo
has another company which has a factory
in china
which gets chinese loans is responsible
vetting
again spacex has no ties to china
in any way and we highly doubt that the
chinese loan
will be used for anything else than for
the production of the model y
at tesla's gigafactory in china so here
is our take
ula is losing the fight they are dying
they know that they are inferior to
spacex in every
way they have the inferior rockets they
have the inferior technology
they have no innovation they are losing
the race
the market share they are losing more
and more launch contracts to spacex
they are a dead man walking kept alive
by government subsidise
and without the government keeping them
alive
in a free market they would have already
died a long time ago
so what do they do of course play dirty
try to hinder spacex with every dirty
trick they can
try to persuade politicians such as this
gardner guy
to bring out bills that would put spacex
at a disadvantage
that is the last resort of a dying
company
when companies the same is by the way
true for states
empires or any other organizational
structure
die they get desperate and thus very
aggressive
any means to survive is now legitimized
we know that ula is corrupt and that
their highest goal is to survive for
a few more years but we just don't
understand the short-sightedness
and frankly stupidity of some
politicians
they think they do the u.s a favor but
by actively hindering spacex
they actually do the us a gigantic
disfavor because spacex will have the
funds thanks to starlink
to act completely independent from the
us
with their floating sea platforms they
will be able to launch
starship missions from anywhere they
want
they will land on the moon if it has to
be without
nasa they will land on mars if it has to
be
without nasa thus by hindering spacex those politicians effectively hurt
the u.s it's just brutal to watch it
really hurts to watch this stuff okay
now let's fast switch to a topic that is
not quite as aggressive
sls the same corrupt companies
that want to hinder spacex want to
continue
building their insanely overpriced and
outdated sls
also known as senate launch system so
Kathy Lueders
the current chief of human space flight
at nasa
let's see for how long because they just
keep coming and going
faster than we can say SLS wrote in a
recent blog post
link in the video description quote well
it's too early to predict the full
impact of the pandemic we are confident
a november 2021 date
is achievable with the recent pace of
progress
and a successful green run hot fire test
will enable us to better predict our
target launch date for the mission
confident a november 2021 launch
is possible better predict a target
launch date
that's so funny if it wasn't so sad
please remember that the first launch of
sls
should have taken place already in 2017
and only a few months ago the launch has
been postponed by a full year
from late 2020 to late 2021
we wouldn't be surprised if it would
slip to 2022
because Kathy Lueders' wording is
already such
that it allows for further delays and
hey
what is one year more for this
monstrosity called SLS
which has been under development since
2010
never flew and already cost over 17
billion dollars
yes that's right never flew
already cost over 17 billion and will
cost at least
1.3 billion more until it can fly
and Lueders wrote that it could cause
even more 30%
more actually than originally estimated
until the first flight of Sls what a
surprise
imagine what spacex could have done with
that amount of money
but don't be sad because we won't let
the episode end on such a down note of
course
because spacex will win in the end
despite ula's desperate tries to hinder
spacex
despite the monstrosity of sls despite
short-sighted politicians spacex will
win in the end with
starship why two words
technological superiority oh
and the extremely high funds from
starlink should also help
oh and the independence from any
national state with launches from the
sea
should also help oh and this baby here
which will cost a thousand times less
than sls
and be much much more capable these
things
will see our dreams of humanity becoming
a spacefaring civilization
be fulfilled and people like Gardner
and companies like ula will in 100 years
not even be remembered as a footnote of
history
it will be elon musk spacex
and starship that will be remembered for
generations
to come and if you want to see us bash
blue origin and their
tiny moonlander compared to starship you
can watch this video here
it's a good one so thanks for watching
the JS space report
and i would say on 2 the future
