let's as always start with the current
status of the starships at Boca Chica
what are the several prototypes doing
and what is to expect next meanwhile
the demo one mission is getting prepared for real
and NASA showed up its cool transport
vehicle but just in case NASA made a
plan B agreement with the Russians then
of course another Falcon 9 Starlink
launch and the x-37b military space
plane launch on an atlas v then let's
also talk about Artemis a two-day NASA
advisory committee meeting concluded
that the 2024 moon landing date was
unrealistic on the other hand NASA
basically confirmed that indeed spacex's falcon heavy will launch the
first two modules of the lunar gateway
in 2023 and this launch will probably
cost as much as one single RS-25 rocket
engine for the SLS a lot to talk about
as always so let's get started
so after starship SN4's successful static fire tests in the last
few weeks now we are of course all
waiting for the 150 meter hopping test
a new raptor engine has been installed
into SN4 replacing the old one
used in the static fire tests by the way
the new engine carries the name serial
number 20 so after a new wet dress
rehearsal and a new static fire test
with SN20 Starship SN4 will
of course need systems installed to
control its rotation and provide
fine-tuning of its flight trajectory
after the altitude system being
installed we will probably witness the
first 150 meter hopping test still in
May with luck even as soon as in this
week meanwhile SN5 has already been
stacked and is ready to immediately
continue where SN4 will have left off
after the completion of the hopping test
SN5 will be the first starship to get
three Raptors installed and fly to an
altitude of 20 kilometers but as if the
speed with which SpaceX is building
these rockets isn't insane enough SN6
and even SN7 are already being built in
parallel the speed with which SpaceX is
ramping up starship production is
absolutely crazy and people working at
Boca Chica are absolute beasts and heroes
of humanity the names of the people
working on these early prototypes should
be inscribed on a giant shiny plaque at
the entrance of the Erebus Montes base
station on Mars in the future so with an
upcoming first hopping test of a real
starship prototype May could indeed turn
out to be a very important month for the
future of human space flight because on
the 27th of May as we have mentioned
plenty of times now the first flight
bringing American astronauts to the ISS
from American soil again in almost a
decade will take place the two
astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley also heroes by the way now
entered a two-week quarantine on the
13th of May this procedure is routine
and has nothing to do with the pandemic
however now it shows more than ever that
NASA safety protocols make a lot of
sense but of course the current pandemic
makes NASA safety protocols even more
strict
so anyone interacting in any way with
the two astronauts will have to be
screened and tested for the virus and
how will they get to the launch pad 39a
on the 27th you ask well with this cool
nasa Tesla model X of course it looks
really amazing but we have to say it
would have been even cooler to have a
NASA cybertruck already well we will
probably have to wait another one and a
half years for that to happen but NASA
thinks that just in case that something
doesn't go according to plan on the
demo2 mission and thus the first real
crew dragon mission namely the crew one mission has to be delayed why not make a
deal with the Russian space agency you
know as a backup the crew one mission is
currently scheduled to take place in
September on a very long mission of 210
days to the ISS with four astronauts on
board we remember that the Russian space
agency decided not to send one of their
cosmonauts to the ISS with crew dragon
we talked in detail about the real
reasons in this video here of course
officially because Roscosmos doesn't
deem the crew Dragon capsule safe enough
yet in reality of course because Roscosmos hates spaceX since SpaceX is
totally destroying their entire business
and what does NASA do as an answer
already prepare a seat aboard Soyuz just
in case you know and of course the
Russians asked 90 million per seat by
the way NASA has paid the Russians 3.9
billion dollars since 2006 to launch
American astronauts to the ISS isn't it
ironic that NASA basically kept Roscosmos alive all this time and that
Roscosmos now doesn't want to participate
in the crew one mission we'd say it's
about time to stop funding Roscosmos
all together that will then maybe force
them to lower their prices and maybe
also start developing reusable rockets
because without reusability Roscosmos will play absolutely no
role anymore whatsoever in human
spaceflight in the future
anyways let's hope that demo 2 will be
successful so that crew 1 will be able
to launch as planned in September on the
Falcon 9 and crew Dragon but if you think
that the Russians are ripping off NASA
don't worry
because American companies are also very
good at that for example a seat on
Boeing's Starliner also costs NASA 90
million dollars how patriotic of Boeing
to ask the same as the Russians that
really shows that it's not all about
money for Boeing that they're not only a
greedy company that only thinks about
money no they really want to help NASA
in any way they can real Patriots Boeing
managers real Patriots and those same
Patriots which are by the way part of
ula have launched an x-37b space plane
on an Atlas V last Sunday the 17th of
May some of the mission details are
classified others however are not
classified such as the technology to
beam back power generated in space via
solar arrays back to earth it's a quite
old idea actually why not build giant
solar arrays in space and beam back the
energy via microwaves down to earth the
science is quite well understood however
there are of course engineering
challenges to be overcome for scaling
this technology and show that it's
technologically feasible highly
interesting for sure and for Tuesday the
19th of May we have the next launch of
sixty Starlink satellites scheduled it
should have taken place already last
sunday but has been delayed due to bad
weather the number of working Starlink
satellites will thus be increased to 480
and SpaceX just continues to launch them
every two weeks so that by the end of
the year we could have around 1200
starlink satellites in orbit this would
be enough for quite good broadband
coverage of the
US and Canada the Starlink public beta
will launch around October this year and
the real launch then by the end of 2020 or
early 2021 and now as always Artemis
come on we really like Artemis the
program itself is actually awesome and
we are strong proponents of the idea to
first build a moon base and afterwards a
Mars base we have to first train on the
moon and gain experience because
honestly humanity's track record for
deep space missions is pretty laughable
the only thing we have to show for are the
Apollo missions that took place between
51 and 48 years ago since then nothing
has happened in that direction we were
stuck in low-earth orbit since then
which is absolutely pathetic attempting
to immediately build a Mars base and
bypass the moon is highly risky in our
opinion therefore the Artemis missions
will serve as an excellent opportunity
to gain some skills to level up you know
like in an RPG
you cannot just kill some super
difficult bosses when you're still at
level 1 can you no you have to level
up kill a lot of bosses and enemies to gain
experience to find new equipment and so
on to make your character more powerful
level by level and that's exactly how it
will also have to happen in space SpaceX
and NASA will have to gain a lot of
experience by building up a moon base
which can be applied to Mars afterwards
so back on topic of Artemis a two day
NASA Advisory Committee meeting has
taken place last week the conclusion
they basically arrived at was that it
would be really difficult to achieve the
2024 landing date for the crewed Artemis
3 mission that certainly comes as no
surprise no one said it was going to be
easy so in the end the committee made
some recommendations a uncrewed and
other precursor flight missions should
be performed to demonstrate the readiness of the systems
before committing to high-risk human
missions b NASA management at all
levels but especially in the HLS program
should always emphasize safety over
Schedule C mission aboard and potential
crew rescue operations should be
included in HLS planning D timeliness
of decision-making can lead to improved
safety by avoiding later schedule
compression so in short this means that
safety should come first and not the
landing date itself we should keep in
mind that these are just recommendations
though what is much more important is
the budget for NASA in the coming years
and this still hasn't been decided yet
it will be decided later this year and
guess where a lot of NASA's budget is
going to yes that's right more and more
is going to SpaceX which is an excellent
development for example now it's
basically confirmed that indeed Falcon
Heavy will launch the first two
modules of the lunar gateway into a
rectilinear halo orbit around the moon
in 2023 the two modules are the PPE and
the halo modules and of course spacex's dragon Xl will resupply
the Gateway afterwards these are really
excellent developments however still far
too much money is going to Boeing Lockheed
and Aerojet Rocketdyne the latter
company builds the RS-25 rocket engines
for the SLS and one such engine costs a
relaxed 146 million dollars one for 146
million so for all the engines of one
SLS rocket you need 584 million dollars
and of course they are all thrown away
after each launch what did you think
imagine what SpaceX could achieve with
such funds but changes my friends take
time and we are already starting to
witness a change a gradual change from
inefficient old
companies towards SpaceX SLS is the last
time that such companies will be able to
suck out money from NASA and when SLS is
retired by starship in a few years the
era of NASA subsidizing inefficient and
greedy companies will also come to an
end so what do you say will the era of old
and inefficient and greedy companies
soon come to an end thanks to starship
and do you also think that we should first
try to colonize the moon before we fly
to Mars
so you just watched the Monday JS Space
report where we talk about the most
recent news and developments on
spaceflight and on Fridays we go in
deeper into some topics for example next
Friday we'll talk about Elon's Mars
colonization plans so stay tuned for
that so thanks for watching and I'd
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