let's as always start with the current
progress of spacex's starship
at boca chica what is the plan with sn5
and 6 for this week
now on the topic of spacex we of course
must also talk about the spacex
and ula launch contracts for the u.s
military
oh and this is going to be good elon
also had some strong opinions on that
as do we then Rogozin is at it again
delivering some highly entertaining
remarks
also very entertaining is what nasa
sometimes does
for example renaming some offensive
space objects
to fully comply with the current pc
madness zeitgeist
but nasa is also making giant progress
on Artemis
they installed an adapter an adapter
oh and we also have some news on Doug Loverro
spacex's latest funding round and the
speed of starlink
this episode will be quite rant heavy so
if you love political correctness
please turn off now everyone else stay
tuned
times are exciting and especially at
boca chica
where every day so much is happening for
example
elon posted an awesome picture of sn5
and sn6
side by side the old prototype that
already hopped
and the new one that will hop the old
301 based stainless steel alloy
versus the new 304l based one
spacex now has two functioning
prototypes that can hop
and the third one with sn8 under
development
which as we said will be the first one
to be fully assembled
complete with nose cone and flaps for
the 20 kilometer hop test
later this year sn5 is now together with
sn8 in the high bay or wait is it now
the mid bay
now that the super heavy high bay is the
highest bay apparently the consensus is
mid-bay so we'll totally go along with
that term
sn8 will soon be fully stacked while
sn5 undergoes maintenance to prepare it
for the next hops
thanks as always to Mary aka bocachicalgal
and nasa space flight for these
amazing shots
please go out and check out their
awesome channel
sn6 will be the next prototype to
undergo major tests
and for that purpose it has been carried
and placed onto the launch mount
the space flight activity beach closure
request
reveals the schedule for the upcoming
cryo proof tests
the primary closure date was yesterday
on sunday
august 16th with backup closure dates
today and tomorrow
we know that the cryo pressure test
always comes first
to test the maximum tank pressure at
cryogenic temperatures
since the 304l based steel has better
material properties
at cryogenic temperatures starship sn6
should perform better than Sn5 after the
cryo tests
we will have the green runs static fire
and then hopefully soon
maybe already next week we can see the
next starship hop
with sn6 by that time sn5
might be ready again so we might see
starship hops quite frequently from now
on
meanwhile the super heavy high bay is
getting taller and taller
and the launch pad for super heavy is
also progressing
with more rebar pillars being cast into
the ground
spacex now even has robots that are
being tested
to install the hexagonal heat shield
tiles on starship
as for the future of boca chica a new
job posting
calls for a resort development manager
while we don't have very specific
information yet
on how exactly this will look the idea
of a 21st century spaceport resort is
really cool
this will be basically like Mos Eisley
spaceport but
at the coast not in the desert and minus
the scum
and villainy but now to a topic that
makes us
really angry so angry in fact that we
can barely keep the she-hulk at bay
(She-Hulk Screaming...)
see what I mean but before we get to that
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and it's completely free so the ula and
spacex satellite launch contract for the
us
military first and foremost the u.s
space force
the national reconnaissance office and
the missile defense
agency this launch contract is worth
billions of dollars
and foresees many satellite launches in
a five-year window from 2022
until 2027. now many news outlets
reported
this as a big win for spacex as they got
40%
of those so called phase 2 missions
beating blue
origin and northrop grumman but who got
the major share
that's right good old ula
what news media outlets were praising as
a big win for spacex
is actually a blatant display of
taxpayer money waste
and a confirmation that lobbying which
is just a euphemism for
corruption does indeed pay off
of course tory bruno president and ceo
of ula
shows himself positively surprised
saying
we knew we were going to be competitive
yeah
we bet being competitive sure works best
when you have good lobbyists in congress
right
elon also had some strong opinions
regarding the contract
he tweeted that this is a substantial
underpayment
compared to what the ula has received
and also that
since the ula is relying on non-reusable
completely expandable rockets this is
like buying airplanes
that fly only once which then crash into
the ocean
after use and no the Vulcan rocket
doesn't count
as only its engines are reusable which
is a complete joke
sorry it's like throwing away the whole
airplane
but only keeping the turbines the ula is
by the way a joint venture
of boeing and lockheed so why is this
madness
acceptable for ULA rockets lastly
elon said that over time it will become
obvious
that ula is a complete waste of taxpayer
money
well we already said it often and we
will say it again lobbyism
(She-Hulk Screaming...)
while for people like you and us here in
the space community
this has already been obvious for many
years we really hope
that more youtube channels will start
talking openly
and more aggressively about lobbying and
corruption
regarding boeing and lockheed we really
have to speak openly about such stuff
so celebrate the launch contracts for
spacex
yes but only when the ula is where they
should be
namely together with the other companies
that rely on non-reusable rockets
on the graveyard of disrupted companies
and the engineers
working at ula might do a lot more good
for humanity
working for spacex oh and now a topic
that we
we really love nasa has decided to go
full pc compliant
by removing some as they say offensive
names from
deep sky objects eskimo nebula
offensive pc violation detected
does not comply with current zeitgeist
will henceforward be known as
ngc 2392 siamese twins galaxy
offensive must be eliminated from speech
hence forward shall be known as ngc 4567
and 4568 thanks nasa
thanks we are very sure this will help
to end racism
once and for all and we will enter a new
golden age
where racism will be a thing of the past
thanks to nasa
you know our stance on pc we think it's
just another form of censorship
censorship in the guise of friendliness
and manners
this obsession with semantics as if
renaming words
making them sound friendlier also makes
reality friendlier
hint it doesn't in other news
nasa's former chief of human space
flight Doug Loverro
might face criminal investigation for
secretly helping boeing
with the human landing systems award in
nasa's artemis moon program
we really hope it won't come to that
because despite all
we liked loverro under his supervision
spacex got the lunar gateway resupply
missions
with dragon xl and falcon heavy and was
even awarded a chunk
for the moon version of starship so he
really did a lot
for spacex but on boeing loverro had us
completely fooled
so let's see how this will develop when
the results
of the current investigation from nasa's
inspector general
are released one more news on spacex it
seems that the sum of the latest funding
round now has been increased to 2
billion dollars they are close to
finalizing this latest funding round
which would bring in 2 billion dollars
of new investment money spacex is
currently valued at 44 billion dollars
this is excellent as we are sure that a
lot of this new capital
will flow directly into development of
starship
regarding starlink we now have the first
data from the internal beta test
users report 11 to 60 megabit per second
download
and 5 to 18 megabits per second upload
speeds
these are of course not yet final
numbers and will improve
some users got latencies as low as 20
milliseconds which is really excellent
starlink will go online for north
american customers
in early 2021 excellent news for all
people living in rural areas
now some funny news our friend Dmitry Rogozin
is in his element again saying some
really entertaining stuff
which makes even the hulk laugh Rogozin
chief of roscosmos
knows that the russian space agency is
basically dying
as if an annual budget of 2.4 billion
dollars wasn't small enough
this budget will be cut even more in the
coming years
by as much as 10 percent so what do we
do faced with such brutal circumstances
that's right bark as loud as possible
classic Rogozin said that not only
will russia develop
reusable rockets which are going to
surpass spacex
yes really he said that surpass
spacex but no they will also return to
venus
which according to Rogozin is a much
better target than mars anyways
and has always been a russian planet
and of course he also said a few weeks
ago that roscosmas is planning to
build a moon base together with china
he really can talk this guy he really
can talk
but we highly doubt that we'll see even
one of his
even one of his announcements come true
and what is nasa doing meanwhile on
artemis
huge progress yes if you call installing
the orion adapter
for artemis 1 huge progress then yes
so this adapter connects the orion
capsule
to the upper stage of sls by the way
artemis 1 is the unmanned mission which
will take the orion capsule around the
moon
in late 2021 yes late
2021 progress on artemis is really
painfully slow
and congress bills like the hr 5666
about which we talked in this video here
might delay artemis even more
we really hope this bill will never pass
the senate and you can by the way also
help
by writing to your representatives what
a massive
pile of garbage this bill is okay you
might want to use a bit more euphemistic
language
but you get the idea we hope nasa can
really speed up with artemis
else we can completely forget the 2024
moon landing
well at least nasa ended racism
once and for all by renaming those deep
sky objects
and if you want to know if china could
actually copy starship and build their
own starships
you can watch this video here so thanks
for watching the JS space report
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