Normally we talk a lot about Starship,
but let's try this once also talk about some other
fascinating developments in space
and spaceflight, because as always
there is so much happening again
SpaceX has test-fired a Falcon 9 rocket at
Cape Canaveral in preparation for the
space station resupply mission for the 4th of December
Then we'd also like to talk about a company called Nanoracks that has a highly interesting
idea for building space stations and also wants
to test that method on a Falcon 9 rideshare mission
Meanwhile, Boeing has joined their CST-100 Starliner capsule to the Atlas V rocket, which will be
launched on Dec. 17 to the ISS as a first uncrewed test flight.
And as if not enough what's already happening in December, the Long March 5
China's most powerful rocket will blast off
in mid to late December, carrying a communications satellite into orbit
But there's more to this story than only a communications satellite
And then a bit about Mars, because We all love Mars right
so of course we want to talk a bit about the 2020 mars rover mission that will actually search for past martian
life, then we're shown a fascinating weather
simulation of mars by NASA's Ames Research
Center, and lastly a crazy professor goes
full berserk and sees bugs on Mars.
and then we want to talk about a new study that suggests that we might all be Aliens.
that's right we all might be aliens
ok I give up I will never have the cool hairstyle like the alien guy
So stay tuned for these fascinating,
but also partly weird news!
So last week on Tuesday, we could witness
the test firing of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape
Canaverals launch complex 40 in preparation for the December 4 cargo resupply mission
CRS-19 to the ISS with its trusted Cargo Dragon Spacecraft.
Now interestingly, it's the same Cargo Dragon capsule, that already flew on the fourth and the eleventh
resupply missions.
But more interesting than this, is the company Nanoracks upcoming mission in late 2020 with the
Falcon 9 ridesharing
For those of you who don't know, SpaceX introduced the Rideshare program a few months ago, to
further reduce launch costs for small payloads, by simultaneously launching many smaller satellites
or experiments along with larger payloads.
So on that rideshare mission, Nanoracks wants to use a robotic arm developed by Maxar technologies
and apply a process called friction milling in order to cut metal in such a way, so that no space
debris is created in that process.
so what might sound a bit boring and technical at first is actually freaking cool
because they want to
further develop this technology in order to
build space stations later on.
But not just normal space stations like the
ISS, but they actually want to use space debris from
upper stages of rockets that are currently
circling the earth as space debris, in order to transform
that space debris into space stations because we all know that
Space debris really is a very big and serious problem for space flight,
and what's better than to turn the
space debris into space stations, so that's why we are really excited about this mission
and that's why we hope to see it succeed in late 2020.
Over at Boeing the Starliner CST-100 capsule has been attached to the Atlas V rocket,
that will carry the capsule to the ISS on
December 17th, as the first ever uncrewed
test flight.
Yes, we know, we often like to call out Boeing for their corrupt behavior and greedy business practice
but this time we actually would be very happy
to see this mission succeed, because an additional
option to get to the ISS is not so bad.
Even though of course, SpaceX has already done an uncrewed test flight with their crew dragon
capsule half a year ago
It will be interesting to see who will reach
the ISS first with crewed flights, but SpaceX
seems to be leading here, and we estimate
that we will see the first crewed flights
with the crew dragon capsule at the latest by mid 2020.
When exactly Boeing will reach the milestone to carry astronauts to the ISS remains to
be seen, but probably also sometime in 2020.
Too bad though that they almost got twice
the money that SpaceX has received, to achieve the
same goal.
Now meanwhile, in China, preparations are underway to launch China's most powerful
rocket, the Long March 5, in mid to late december.
This flight will carry a communications satellite to orbit, which at first sounds really boring,
but it will actually also serve as a test
flight, for the mission in 2020, that will
send China's first unmanned probe to mars, complete with a lander and a rover
We've already talked a bit about that mission in one of our last videos here, but this will
be China's first interplanetary mission ever!
Now the Long March 5 has a LEO capacity of
25 metric tons, putting it into the same league
as an Atlas V, Delta IV Heavy or Ariane 5.
but of course it's not in the same league as Falcon Heavy,
because Falcon Heavy can carry almost 3 times more payload to low earth orbit.
A lunar sample return mission, the Chang'e 5 mission which is planned for the next few years
will also be carried to the moon on this rocket.
that's why a successful flight for the Long March 5 is so important for China
and of course also in light of the future
because they want to perform an uncrewed test-flight of China's new spacecraft in early
to mid 2020 of course also with the Long March 5.
This new spacecraft, which hasn't been named yet, will be capable of venturing beyond
low earth orbit and carrying four to six astronauts.
Beyond LEO!
so make no mistake, what we see here is the prototype of the spacecraft that will carry chinese
taikonauts to the moon.
It is an open secret that China has plans
to carry out crewed missions and land people
on the moon in the 2030s, complete with building
lunar bases with a special focus on mining
lunar resources.
China thinks very long term, and they probably already know that the moon will become very
important in the mid 21st century as a crucial source for resources, with giant reserves of
Helium-3, which can then power Helium-3 Fusion reactors.
And who controls Helium 3, will have vast amounts of energy at its disposal.
Now we would be a bit worried that this might lead to an imbalance of powers on the moon,
if we were to fully rely only on NASA.
But luckily we have these guys here, who are working on this so-called "moon lander"
as it funnily is called in this official NASA
press release.
This little "moon lander" will fortunately
land quite a few years before China, and will
then be chartered by many nations in the 2020s
in order to build an international moon base,
where many nations will be able to collaborate on the moon
at least that's what we hope will happen
that's why we don't have to fear that
a single nation will dominate the moon in our opinion
and it's of course all thanks to this guy here and certainly not thanks to this guy here
or this one or this one
and now finally to mars, our favorite planet in the solar system after earth of course because we
like earth kind of quite a lot it's a neat little planet with nice
lakes and plants, and also funny looking animals, for example this race of ape creatures is quite funny
we have to say, we like them sometimes I mean sometimes.
Sometimes also not so much no sometimes no don't like them so much
But yeah, back to mars, so last week, a fascinating
animation has been released by NASA's Ames
Research Center, showing the evolution of
clouds on mars over an entire day night cycle.
It is so fascinating to watch what a dynamic atmosphere mars has, despite the atmosphere
being so much thinner than here on earth at only maximum 1% of earth atmosphere
pressure at the surface.
But that is already enough for dynamic cloud formation as we can see here
These clouds by the way consist of water ice, not carbon dioxide, which makes all this even
more exciting
Future astronauts will certainly be able to
witness many fascinating weather phenomenons
such as blue sunsets and sunrises, dust devils,
glowing high altitude clouds, among other
extraordinary phenomenons.
Then the 2020 mars rover, which is actually quite identical to the 2012 Curiosity rover
which by the way still roams around on Mars and makes quite amazing photos and discoveries
now this rover has the necessary science equipment to actually
search for past martian life, for example for fossilized remains of ancient Mars life
it will carry out its mission in the Jezero crater,
which is also thought to have once harbored a giant lake, a few billion years ago exactly like Gale crater
this was actually an ancient delta an ancient river bed and we know that Mars harbored liquid water
for more than one billion years maybe up to two billion years as newer research shows
so there actually might have been enough time for simple organisms to develop and those fossilized
remains might be found by the 2020 Mars rover fascinatingly it will be the first time
that a drone will fly on another world yes that's right the 2020 Mars rover will carry a drone with it
that will be able to fly around a bit and test the technology for later drones which will then
fly on Mars for quite long distances
so we are really excited for this mission because you know
possible ancient Mars fossils and a flying drone I mean that's freaking awesome
and what's even cooler
you can still fly drones on Mars without being arrested
let's see how long that will last
Speaking of mars, a funny professor named William Romoser went full retard
against the clear warnings of this
gentleman here, that specifically warned us
not to go full retard.
you're full retard man never go full retard
But the professor chose to ignore these warnings, and thus made this drawing
here, claiming to have spotted bug-like creatures on mars.
Ok, we shouldn't be too harsh on him, he's
a professor emeritus, meaning a retired professor
at Ohio University, who has studied entomology, so ...insects his entire life.
This however is a fascinating case study of
pareidolia, the phenomenon that the human
mind sees familiar shapes such as faces, animals, or other stuffs on rocks or in clouds, and so on
Our brains are hardwired to that, by millions
of years of evolution.
Speaking of millions of years of evolution,
ladies and gentlemen a new study has found that
we actually all might be Aliens
no I will not do the hair stuff again
Now a new study published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
of the United States of America, found evidence for ribose sugar in extraterrestrial meteorites.
Now why is that so fascinating?
Because the precursor of all our DNA, and
by the way all life on earth is based on DNA,
is RNA, and that is ribonucleic acid
So the precursors of those ribonucleic acids, which are the precursors of DNA
are found on freaking meteorites drifting in space through the solar system
and probably throughout the galaxy and the universe
so it's very likely that the building blocks of life already developed in space, even before earth existed
and were then carried to earth and other planets, such as mars,
but of course also exoplanets in other
star systems, by bombardments with meteorites.
now this is highly mind-blowing, because this would mean several things.
First: Life is extremely common everywhere because the building blocks are
spread throughout the universe in countless meteorites.
Second: The rare earth theory is a stupid
theory, as we ourselves have long suspected,
because life immediately started on earth,
when the conditions on earth were still brutally
life-unfriendly.
So this is a very important finding, showing
us just how common life is in the universe.
Oh yeah, and it's probably also based on
a quite similar chemistry.
wow so that's some freaking amazing news that the precursor to RNA was found in meteorites
like how awesome is that so we are all aliens or what yes yes confirmed
aliens that's why my head is also has has such a weird shape
and what do you think about the Chinese
when do you think they will be able to land the first people on the moon
probably around 2030 earliest
but spacex probably will be faster
and space stations built from space debris this idea is genius right
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