Space ops are still slow, expensive, and unreliable compared to every other mode of transportation...especially if you consider schedule. Rapid upper stage reusability changes that, and here’s a small peek into why.
Stoke is the one space company with the same vision and scrappy persistence as SpaceX. It's incredible to watch and I am rooting for them every step of the way.
Funny, Elon Musk gave up on the idea of using aerospike engines for Falcon 9 or what became Starship a long time ago, and here's Stoke coming along and possibly proving him wrong about that.
@@mikedicenso2778 He gave up on it for a good reason. He wants to actually send a 100% reusable spaceship into orbit, and accomplish this in the shortest amount of time, with the largest possible payload, for the lowest cost. Stoke space made a video..... Whoopee!
@@mikedicenso2778 you have to remember that this isn't your traditional toroidal or linear aerospike engine, spacex and a lot of other companies gave up on those because of weight, cooling issues and complexity. Stoke's design is very different from those since their headsheild doubles as the kickstart for their expander cycle. Not a fair comparison since this requires boiloff and a traditional heatsheild doesn't so the extra weight isn't justified if u want a normal heatshield.
The industry is at its infancy, once in-space manufacturing options are available at a reasonable cost, get ready to witness the next industrial revolution off the planet.
Everything is possible with a highly cooperative and intelligent team! Kudos to stoke space and it's team for its achievements. May you grow and also help others to grow in the field of space science!
In my opinion, for flights beyond LEO, the best solution would be to attach a tug to the second stage, for example with a nuclear drive like the one built for NASA with New Class of Bimodal NTP/NEP with a Wave Rotor
Feels like we will have things like very futuristic from sci-fi...I wish would witness this when this happens. All the best for achieving this idea...may it bring a future for a better world.
I can see that this company is next to SpaceX and Rocket Lab in the level of cool and very promising things in their rockets! I'm Stoked! Go Stoke Space!
You need it for return. It’s unlikely that they’ll dock it with a capsule and return it without the second stage. The whole point of it is to be reusable
I love how Nova is maximising its mini Philip Bono ROMBUS parallels (said design had Lunar mission proposals called Project Selena), though for BLEO missions I see some issues. I do appreciate how you addressed the hydrolox tanker variant needing increased volume above the stage due to hydrogen's low density, however, the stage sent to say, the moon, itself doesn’t look like it would be able to support a great deal of boiloff presentation systems without severely impacting its payload capacity. The extra radiators and power systems would probably take a good chunk out of a prospective LEO>Lunar surface payload unless further refuelling occurred in a different orbit which seems not particularly practical. I love the rocket design regardless, I'm just not sure it can be this adaptable to long range missions without some significant upgrades or tweaks (a propellant depot of sorts might be logical aswell). At least landing on the moon would be comparatively easy with the small thrust chambers making control and touchdown thrust very precise and safe.
They are very much like SpaceX in terms of iteration, so what reaches the moon would have gone through multiple upgrades. It happened with upper-stage engine testing and the skipping of Hopper 1 and going straight to Hopper 2 which was successful.
Love the concept, and the progress made is impressive. but im so tired of these companies talking about ideas like they're developed products. Like, just write a sci fi novel already
I wish you a lot of success. The aerospike engine effect and heat shield technology aren't easy to master. It is admirable that you want to put this daring technology into practice. Congrats Stoke Space. European enthusiast.
@@rokadamlje5365I don't think so. Not as minimal as you might think. The huge diameter of the heat shield creates a very big low pressure zone which ends up redirecting a lot of the thrust that is otherwise lost due to plume expansion and if I understand this concept correctly actually uses the pressure differential towards the vacuum of space to vastly increase efficiency of the engine. It's not really a traditional aerospike which mainly aims to be able to provide relatively constant thrust from sea level all the way up to space. That's what the small engines itself are for. So considering the low thrust and these engines would have in space this is actually a huge advancement.
@playnicebekind Stocked space and your stocked. I'm so stoked. It's quite funny to say. I'm so stocked for stoke. I'm Stocked For Stoke. That should be a tag line for stoke space.
