Launching Into Sunlight & Revealing The Moon's Shadows - Deep Space Updates January 20th 

Good luck y'all!

Go Jackets!! THWG!!

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9:06 . . . Ramblin' Space Wrecks from Ga. Tech !! 🐝🚀

cries in german where i cant just build and test a rocket in a desert

How can I invite Scott to Spaceport America Cup 2023? He doesn’t have an email! Lol

Yes, Atlanta loves Scott, I want to tag along. 🤣😊

@@burnte come with! We’ll have tickets!

Again, Sign-Language Guy pleads to us, "SOS.....NEED..... MORE...... METH!!" 😳

Have you postet it anywhere?

aaaaandd? what did you figure out? lol.. are you trying to tease us?

Pics or it didn’t happen

No airspace closure?

@@josephc.9520 He is lying

Is a Lunar Flashlight v2 possible?

I cant speak for NASA. But personally I don't think so. If the science really mattered they wouldn't have sent a technology demonstrating CubeSat. For the propulsion technology there will be more. All that is preventing a successful mission is metal chips in the feed lines.

I'd love to see you, Reds, and Scott do another live launch collaboration sometime. You do an amazing job recording these launches.

Buzz Aldrin 93 just got married to a 50 year old. Scott i dunno is this warrants a deep space update

I think we underestimate the effort to source 20+ little videos for all these launches from different sources.

Please do share!

@@TheStormpoet I will try to upload to utube tonight. Right now its only on my FB (note is only on my cell phone so quality not the greatest )

Blue Streak as well.

Yeah, loved it!

Do you remember what day that was? Both engines were delivered to ULA in October. On October 31st Tory Bruno tweeted "FE2 is on. FE1 will join it momentarily." Along with a photo showing one engine mounted and the other BE4 being brought in on a trailer. I always wondered what he meant by "momentarily" as no follow up photos were posted and the next released photos as far as I know were the recent ones of the Vulcan being loaded on a ship for transport to KSC.

@@StevePemberton2 It was on October 21st, and if I remember correctly one of the engineers showing us around said it had only been there for like two weeks.

@@literallykey3298 Thanks. I had wondered about the timeline. Both Blue Origin and ULA announced the delivery on October 31st. But Bruno's Tweet and photo that day seemed odd, as if he was saying "hey we just got the engines and we just popped one of them on and we're about to stick the other one on any minute now." I knew that wasn't the case, but I wondered when they did arrive, and why the delayed announcement for such a high profile delay that it even had its own meme (Where are my engines, Jeff?). Maybe they wanted to make sure everything fit right and looked okay before publicly announcing it. But ten days plus two weeks is about three weeks, that's quite a delay in announcing it. I guess they were using an abundance of caution.

Much less information is released about them. I'm sure Scott would share more information if he could get it. Perhaps you can persuade the Chinese authorities to appoint a liaison officer who can answer questions.

Hey I saw a green comet streaking yesterday. I thought I was crazy, it was bright green with a bright red tail.

@@DrWhom Yeah, people keep telling me the stuff behind the clouds is really spectacular.

Sounds fair!

Gonna make a wild guess and say that the mountain project doesn't get off the ground.

All of that sounds like a list of reasons why Kenya might decide to shop around for other partners to build a spaceport when China comes around offering their deals that just seem too good to be true.

@@noahway13 Agree...That would be something if they got a mountain into space.

The bottom of the stratosphere near the equator is over 60,000 feet. Mt Kilimanjaro is 19,300 feet. It’s through more than half of the atmosphere already but not through the stratosphere. Not even close

The boosters are also still climbing when the boostback burn occurs. They don't try and negate the climb in altitude since gravity will take care of that, the boostback burn is directed parallel to the Earth's surface in order to negate the downrange velocity, and as you said start to move the booster back towards the launch site. When the boostback burn is ended the booster is still climbing in altitude, but now going in a different direction. It's amazing to realize that prior to the boostback burn the booster's momentum is taking it towards a spot in the ocean hundreds of miles downrange. After the brief boostback burn is complete the booster's momentum is directing it on a nearly perfect trajectory to land at Cape Canaveral, with only the grid fins needed for adjustment. It's almost as if it is returning to Earth from a retrograde orbit.

You're right. Nov 1, 2022. This 2023 launch was USSF-67.

Yeah its really had a boost or two.

Probably because it doesn’t really exist yet.

Britain did make Skynet

Probably residual tea-teb from the igniter

Was wondering what was up with that😄

@@gecho194 makes sense.

Are they that hard to find if you know where to look? What about radar?

@@Mike-oz4cv Radar is how they are tracked so there is no real issue.

An underrated test of a potential future lunar or arean exploration vehicle.

...or it's ejecta from a meteor strike...

That was pretty amazing. Although they used a U.S. built Scout B rocket to launch the Italian satellite. But it still was a very early satellite launch in 1967. The first launch by the Italian team was done at Wallops in 1964 where they received training on launching the Scout by U.S. technicians. Between 1967 and 1988 four more Italian satellites were launched from an Italian floating jackup barge that was towed to a spot two miles off the coast of Kenya.

All geocentric orbits either lay in the equatorial plane or cross it. In fact, that’s true for any plane that contains the Earth’s center. That said, you can have an orbit with a period equal to one Earth rotation, those are geosynchronous orbits. However, those are less attractive because to the observer on Earth (read: satellite dish), the spacecraft oscillates aling North-South direction.

All orbits must be circling the centre of mass, so yes, they must pass over the equator. And a geostationary orbit must be equatorial, since that's the only way to not only match the earth's rotation, but to stay fixed above a specific point on the surface.

In equatorial regions like the Maldives and Indonesia, it's going to be very low and hard to spot due to horizon cloud cover, but in deep northern regions like Germany and Greece, the comet will appear a few dozen degrees below the zenith and can be easily spotted because it's high in the sky

Like ejecta from a impact.

Maybe if it were cryogenically cooled ?

That's what a gas generator is. A mini gas turbine engine that spins the turbopumps

If you are refering to the China launches I think those are the insulation panels coming off.