Dream Chaser Tenacity Just Missed Its Ride To Space 

commenting again in opposition to another comment. VERY GOOD NARRATOR. KEEP THIS STYLE. Dispassionate information is rare and very much desired

The delay is unfortunate, but it's good that Sierra is taking the time to make sure everything's ready. Thanks for the update my friend!🚀🚀👍👍

I really like the no nonsense relaxing narration.

Nobody in the comments understands the value of Vulcan. It’s extremely efficient and can take big payloads to HIGH earth orbit. SpaceX mainly sends into low earth orbit. That’s why people want to fly on Vulcan.

Thanks man!

It's the NRO and Space Force wanting a second large rocket ready ASAP.

Will someone design a space fighter already. Just for the bloody cool points.

2 launches for the rest of 2024 is a 'busy schedule'? :P

Impressive I hope all goes well with this. Someone has put a lot of time and money into this over a long time with no guaranty of a return. Keep at it.

Its a cute plane but my question is why is it that all of these space companies are having so much trouble getting their product to work and spacex is moving right along achieving its goals.?

Wonder how tthey stick the tiles on. Tiles falling off seems to be the biggest issues the shuttle had with 'em. Wonder if they've made innovations on adhesives? Even Starship is having issues with them falling off.

I love Dream Chaser, but they have to pick up the pace. If necessary, they should also consider alternate launch vehicles although now the problem is their speed, not ULA. The opportunity for Dream Chaser will not always be there.

Missed Its Ride

If you snooze, you lose

Whaaaat? I thought that ULA was going to be the biggest delay, not Sierra.

It is mind boggling how long it has taken them to build Tenacity.

ULA definitely dropped the ball here. They should have another Vulcan ready by now. They didn’t plan for any delays from Sierra after having dealt with Starliner? Really? Where’s the forward thinking?

The Dream Chaser looks like a water sports shoe designed for Hermes!

Christ….🙄 Not even a couple of university cube sats?

The whole "dream chaser" concept seems to be an reversion to the 1960's "Dyna-Soar" USAF concept, just maybe a little larger. For practical purposes there is an X-plane of this already flying, which has onboard tooling. Is the ULA just "playing along" and hoping that a commercial version of the X-plane will come to be, and then using it for "what exactly". Space tourism is not going to cut it. Needs to have a more relevant useage.

I always have an issue with the term "mass simulator." We don't have the technology to simulate mass. It's a "payload simulator."

IF a tile needs to be replaced after the flight, how long does it take to manufacturer it? Hours, days, weeks? Just asking about actually making it, not the installation.

I am SO looking forward to _Dream Chaser's_ first flight.

2 YEARS TO INSTALL HEAT TILES, WHAT?!?!

Don't care. I like Dream Chaser, it's a cool space plane.

Have they sorted out what exactly is the delay with the Dream Chaser? Seems weird they have cleared it up. Did the testing at KSC show something was going on with it?

Send it over to Elon, he will have it in space in like a day

Bummer.

Go with space X!!!

i have to wonder is there NO way for the falcon 9 fairing to be expanded? IF possible that would surely steal the supermajority of Vulcan/Arianne6 missions. Or is it an aerodynamic/centre of pressure thing considering falcons skinniness?

Is Falcon Heavy an option?

It has now become clear that all those people who have complained that Sierra Space has been delayed by ULA were simply wrong. Likewise, those that claim that NASA should have assigned Sierra to the Commercial Crew program ahead of Boeing were also in error. Boeing is starting from scratch, unlike SpaceX that had 5 years of Cargo flight heritage prior to designing Dragon 2. Sierra is in the same situation. Dream Chaser is a cargo spacecraft. After that is certified and flying, then only will they be in a good position to begin finalizing their Crew Capable version design. I give them about 4-5 years before a crew capable Dream Chaser will be certified by NASA, and it will need a crew escape system capable of aborting during all flight trajectory phases. NASA learned their lesson on Shuttle. No future human launch systems will be certified without complete crew abort safety capabilities.

Having to now wait until mid-2025 is a HUGE financial blow... Of course we won't be privy to that publicly, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand income vs expenditures.

I'm so concerned that we have a deorbit contract for station, but not a single bit of hardware in orbit for the commercial replacement and the shuttle designed to get us there is delayed...

Or... they could just do like SpaceX: lauch it, watch it blow up, then celebrate their success.

Seems like Sierra Space is dead set on NOT working with SpaceX. They've only considered ESA's Ariane 5 (canceled), ULA, and BO as launch providers. Sierra Space also has a big plan/agreement with BO to provide exclusive cargo and crewed flights to Jeff's new Orbital Reef space station.

Hope they do better than SpaceX!!! If not it will take them another 4 years...

Im sure if they ask musk to fly this thing he could fit it into his busy schedule. ^.^

What up with ULA and Boeing?

Why’d you flip the thumbnail image?

Is ULA working on developing a reusable booster? If not, why not?

Inherently not practical when it comes to actually ramping up missions with the ULA making only two launches a year. I would expect that the costs of sending it up by Heavy would be about the same or less if they increase the cadence. I would be surprised if Elon wouldn’t do it. On the other hand he has his own reusable coming through.

What's the point of having a rapidly reusable capsule when the rocket itself (mostly) isn't reusable?

Why not launch some student or hobbyist satellites for free. Make it a 1 month rapid prototyping competition, top 3 winners get to launch for free. People will come up with some cool projects.

Just buy a ride on Super Heavy.

Is Dream Chaser too big for F9?

heat tiles need change, we need a better system

Should just ride on Space X rocket.

All it will ever be is a dream.

launch with spacex

Meanwhile, back on the Darkside of the Moon, China is........... Meanwhile, back in Boca Chica, everybody is dropping ketamine as a homage to America's other unstable stable genius...........

What is that artificial intelligence voice is very weird

It's crazy how SpaceX launches at least twice a week, yet ULA considers launching twice in one year as busy. They really need to work on a reusable rocket

Sorry sierra space, but this is absurd. Work with spacex and you’ll never have to wait like this

Dream chaser could go on top or inside a falcon 9.

Best of luck to ULA. As for Dream Chaser, I hope they launch on top of the new Ariane-6. I still have the ESA Bulletin (glossy magazine) from 1989, there is a detailed plan for a European crewed space plane HERMES to be launched on top of Ariane-5, to service a small space station.

Dream chaser at first seems impractical cause it launches on a unreusable rocket, but the landing infrastructure is very cheap and it weighs the same as an Orion capsule so it's basically a reusable, cheaper version of that with a cargo bay, plus it looks really cool so it can motivate people to focus more on space. No one knows how good it is as a reentry vehicle, but considering the fairly low mass and a much bigger area to a capsule, as well as controllable attitude during reentry it could enable aerocapture for future interplanetary return, whereas I'm pretty sure Orion would need more ablative heat shield layers. In KSP RSS RO Ive been launching lifting body spaceplanes (not sstos) similar to dream chaser on my interplanetary transfer vehicles and a lander, to enable safe return to earth without needing extra fuel or having to ultra fine tune the trajectories. Considering the many shuttle mishaps from insulation hitting it on ascent, thinking of spaceplanes as effective reintry and landing vehicles is the way to go, shuttle tried to integrate that with a payload fairing and engine housing, and at some point it's too much. Now crew dragon is ofc much smaller, and lighter, but in terms of rapid reuse and the larger crew capacity of dream chaser, it paired with a reusable rocket could be a new era to cheaper and consistent spaceflight. I realize starship exists, but it has such a high dry mass because of its mission profile and now also requires ablative shielding, it is unpractical for crew return aside maybe like taking a few hundred people to LEO and back. Starship needs a 3rd stage to go anywhere besides LEO, and it needs improvements as it is to even reach that with any kind of payload. I look forward to seeing what develops from this craft.

Just let spacex launch that silly space plane, 'Dream Chaser'...😅

Delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay… Is SpaceX the only agency/company that knows what they’re doing?

ula NEEDS TO GO AWAY. tHEY ARE A huge WASTE OF MONEY!

i still dont get why these companies still are using the heat shield tech from almost 60 years ago. That tiled system is garbage and always has been.

Wait, why do we need this thing? Its not a shuttle, we have a capsule and a starship on the way so why the hell are we funding this?

What a joke! Only 20 years in the making, and every second paid for by the taxpayer. Of course they want to wait, why end the NASA gravy train!

Sierra Space has had years and years to get Tenacity ready for this flight and they blew it. Also, this reusable plane is not needed and is a waste of time and money. The program should be cancelled and Sierra Space terminated.

Very much appreciate the excellent material in the video. On the other hand, PLEASE, PLEASE get rid of the narrator! You can’t find anybody else on the planet to read the script?

is this a computer voice?so boring presentation!!

in the USA war and $$ comes before everything else and i mean that literally.