A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 14, 2024. Full Story: www.space.com/spacex-launch-i... Credit: NASA / SpaceX
I can't believe how quickly this has become routine. They've gone from a room full of loud woops and cheers to 3 people giving a couple of claps. Amazing.
Falcon 9 rocket is so good that it can even carry lunar landers missions to the moon. That makes the falcon heavy overqualified aqs shown with it's significantly fewer missions.
No, it's a combination of payload mass and energy requirements. For any given orbit or trajectory, Falcon Heavy can launch substantially greater mass than Falcon 9. Thus, although the Falcon 9 has launched the X-37 before, when the Space Force wanted to put it in a much higher orbit last year, they needed the Falcon Heavy. Falcon 9 could have launched a payload to the asteroid Psyche but to take one as big as they wanted, they needed Falcon Heavy. So, Falcon 9 can launch a NOVA-C or various other payloads to the Moon, but the Griffin and VIPER Lunar landers, scheduled for November of this year, are much more massive than the other CLPS payloads and will be using Falcon Heavies. It is worth noting that, of the eight CLPS missions going to the Moon this year, seven of them are launching on Falcon rockets, either 9s or Heavies and another, Japanese mission, is also launching on a Falcon 9.
It won't happen. Guarantee it. They just want to keep stringing you along with false hope. If they really had ever made it, and they are consistently going to Mars right now, the moon should be no problem. They should be able to duct tape an iPhone to the side of that stupid thing and send us back all kinds of amazing shots of the Earth from the Moon, but they never do. There's always some technical reason why they couldn't make it, even though they essentially live streamed the moon landing 50 freaking years ago. They are just giving you false hope, and then there will be some technical issue and they will string you all along for a few more years until they try again, and there's another technical issue. And if they do make it they will send you back, get ready for it, pictures of dirt and rock right in front of the lander, that you only will think is the moon because they tell you so. No shots of the lunar sky, no shots of the Earth from the Moon, just dirt and rock. Yay.
If it’s in space hauling butt to the moon what’s all the white particles at the end of the video and why are they floating in different directions at that speed??? Anyone have some insight?
@@wolf7bb Absolutely true. We had computers but were not like they are today. They did all things by numbers, and one of the most fascinating things is that at the time computers were too big, and all of a sudden, the microchip board came along, which tells me that there are advances in technology hidden, still hidden. It would not be that long after that watches become battery, with chips in them, and radios, and eventually, the internet, which took some years to get onto the open market, in the 1980's
The guy doing the countdown is diluting the moment! SpaceX needs to hire one of those old guys who did for the space shuttle! You got to add some spice..
With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. We will collaborate with commercial and international partners and establish the first long-term presence on the Moon. Then, we will use what we learn on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars.
@@xanderortega4359 I mean, it’s achievable but at that point of adding the ability to refuel/ rendezvous you would just build a stage that launches ontop of the heavy with fuel already on board. Apollo style/lunar rendezvous is still the best method we have for the moon
@@Cafaura the iss refuel from the spacecraft that docked with it to adjust and correct its orbit, maybe all we had to do was just add a module dedicated to store the fuel, just enough to boost the spacecraft to get to lunar orbit and back
Fantastic! Let's look to the future! It feels so good that there is something positive on our planet. Putin and co... can continue to fight these shitty wars and drive their own country more and more to ruin. I am for the future, technology can solve everything! All the best for this mission!
Don't believe everything that governments and the media says. True is right before us, and here is something very special, leading to the return to the moon, which in my day we saw the landings, whilst the war propaganda government kept on spinning their lifes
They would run out of fuel. Wait, you believe the most efficient trajectory is just magically overhead/straight up? Why? You could learn (what am I thinking? learning is anathema to you 🤷♂️) that rocket-scientists don’t simply want to reach ‘space’; they can actually do that using much less fuel. What most rockets really want to do is enter the Earth’s ‘orbit’. A rocket must curve its trajectory post-launch, if it wants to enter the Earth’s orbit. If it didn’t do that and continued to go straight up, it would eventually reach a point where its fuel would run out and, most likely, it would end up plummeting back to Earth like a stone
No, this is unmanned. It will be doing precursor work for the next human landing, which is presently scheduled for 2026. It won't surprise me if that slips though. The last human landing was, of course, in 1972.
I thought i had got away from the talking head that continues to state the obvious, Anyone point me in the direction of a site that does not insult your brain? please
My personal opinion is that probably all viewers of this video don't need to hear from a SpaceX spokesperson that is reading from a script and not doing that very well. She sounds nervous. We know what's going on..
Good thing I'm not 7 years old and know about the firmament or I would've believed this but rocket curves to avoid the firmament and then the camera switches so many times 😢
You are scientifically illiterate and enmired in conspiracy-poopvomit. Problem is, once you willingly joined that human-caterpillar mind-cult, there is probably no way out…
I used to get really excited to see a rocket launch, but Elon is throwing these things up in to space so often now, it's beginning to feel commonplace. Has anyone thought about the fact that we already have way too much space junk floating around in orbit and on the moon? Or, the fact that all this space junk is robbing the Earth of precious metals and resources?
it's not a real video. or rhey edited it for some other reason.. bit it's 100% edited. you can take a screen shot of the flame and make it brighter.. than its obvious what has been added to the video..
The launch is visible to thousands of people for hundreds of km in every direction (yes, I know you said 'or they edited it' but you kicked off with 'not real').I didn't personally see the launch, but I satellite spot. I catch a few every clear night, where they're predicted to be. I've done triangulation measurements ( via scale drawing, or using simple trig) with the help of friends or relatives a few hundred km away, and measured these object’s heights and groundspeeds - these always come out as hundreds of km and km per second respectively. I've caught a couple of the bigger, lower altitude ones (including the ISS) through my telescope and they look as expected. And, getting a bit more technical, I used a radio set and a directional antenna to follow the signals produced by several of them, across the sky, so they are definitely machines in communication with the ground. All the above is repeatable by anyone, has been many times. Don't take my word for it, go out and try it.
The launch is visible to thousands of people for hundreds of km in every direction. As for the satellites: I satellite spot. I catch a few every clear night, where they're predicted to be. I've done triangulation measurements ( via scale drawing, or using simple trig) with the help of friends or relatives a few hundred km away, and measured these object’s heights and groundpeeds - these always come out as hundreds of km and km per second respectively. I've caught a couple of the bigger, lower altitude ones (including the ISS) through my telescope and they look as expected. And, getting a bit more technical, I used a radio set and a directional antenna to follow the signals produced by several of them, across the sky, so they are definitely machines in communication with the ground. All the above is repeatable by anyone, has been many times. Don't take my word for it, go out and try it.
