00:04 hello it's Scott Manley here it's
00:06 January 21st it's time for another batch
00:08 of deep space updates on the 5th of
00:12 January we had the quo 1A rocket
00:15 launching out of China carrying the
00:17 tianmo 15 to 18 satellites these are
00:20 meteorology satellites going into sun
00:23 synchronous orbit as part of a larger
00:25 constellation 7th of January Falcon 9
00:29 launched 3 starlink satellites from Cape
00:31 canaval slick 40 this is group
00:36 6-35 and on the 8th of January we have
00:39 our first major launch of this episode
00:42 we have Vulcan Centaur making their
00:44 debut onto the international launch
00:47 scene carrying the peragine Lander as
00:50 its primary payload and the paragen
00:52 Lander was part of NASA's commercial
00:54 lunar payload Services mission built by
00:57 astrobotic it was supposed to take a set
00:59 of payloads NASA experiments to the Moon
01:02 two of the experiments it carried were
01:04 uh Iris and uh kma K Mena which are
01:08 Rovers which would have been deployed on
01:09 the surface but uh yeah let's talk about
01:12 the launch first so Vulcan centor ula's
01:16 new rocket the one which will ultimately
01:18 replace Atlas and Delta the first thing
01:20 that they have built inh housee it is um
01:24 well it's a methyl first stage hydrogen
01:27 second stage and then it can have a
01:29 number of large solid boosters to help
01:31 it get off the ground and it operated
01:34 spectacularly well it was a beautiful
01:36 launch and there are some amazing photos
01:38 and I love some like first of all yeah
01:40 you've got the close-ups like John
01:42 krauss's amazing close-ups showing those
01:45 beautiful blue mock diamonds was was
01:48 absolutely oh perfect but then you have
01:51 people just a lot further away taking
01:53 these nice time laps or you know like
01:55 long exposure images and you can see the
01:57 rocket trail go from white to this deep
01:59 blue as this uh you know the srbs come
02:03 off of it so anyway successful launch
02:05 placed the uh spacecraft into its Target
02:08 orbit and uh unfortunately paragen had a
02:11 bit of a problem we can talk about that
02:14 later on the nth of January we had long
02:17 march 2C launching uh out of chi chang
02:21 this was carrying the Einstein probe
02:24 which is a an x-ray telescope built by
02:27 China in collaboration with the European
02:29 uh European Space Agency so this is like
02:32 a A500 kgam payload and it operates in
02:36 like a 600 km uh 29° inclination orbit
02:40 it carries two telescopes first of all
02:42 is the Widefield x-ray telescope which
02:46 uses a lobster eye Imaging system that's
02:49 where you have a lot of channels that
02:50 Focus the light down cuz x-rays you know
02:53 you can't reflect them with traditional
02:55 mirrors you can only use grazing
02:56 incident op Optics so they actually have
02:59 lot lot of these Lobster eye telescopes
03:01 to cover 360° of the sky and with this
03:05 the spacecraft can effectively scan the
03:07 entire sky in uh 5 hours and then if
03:11 there are transient sources it can then
03:14 follow up with the follow-up x-ray
03:16 telescope a a much more conventional
03:19 telescope which uses grazing incidents
03:21 Optics to image parts of the sky so this
03:24 is going to be a mission that operates
03:25 for several years Europe and China
03:27 working on this together it love of
03:30 January another quo 1A carrying the
03:33 tiang sing one satell number one number
03:36 two uh launched from jquan again all you
03:39 know solid four stage rocket carrying uh
03:42 you know payloads this this is for uh
03:44 space environment sensing so I think
03:46 it's going to be looking at you know
03:47 environment in low earth orbit radiation
03:49 magnetic fields that kind of thing but
03:52 more interestingly on the 11th of
03:54 January gravity 1 made its debut this is
03:58 another new rocket out of China and well
04:01 boy this is one of the weirdest looking
04:02 Rockets so again this is a rocket that
04:04 is built out of you know not so much off
04:07 the shelf but they bought these motors
04:09 from the Chinese government solid rocket
04:11 Motors and they assemble them into a
04:13 rocket uh this one has like a core which
04:17 is a large booster and then they have
04:19 four of these strapped onto the side so
04:21 it creates the look of this short stubby
04:24 you know thing with boosters that peel
04:26 off it's definitely an odd looking
04:29 rocket they launched off a ship in the
04:31 China the LC and so anyway this um solid
04:35 rocket launcher H it can carry 6 and 1
04:39 12 tons into low earth orbit making the
04:41 most making it the most capable of these
04:44 all solid uh launch vehicles I think
04:46 it's like twice the payload of any of
04:49 its near competitors and so that was a
04:52 success the payload it carried was a
04:54 spacecraft called Yuna uh numbers 18
04:57 through 20 which I believe are
05:00 satellites uh on the 12th of January
05:03 Japan's h2a launched carrying the IG
05:07 opticle 8 payload which is a
05:09 reconnaissance satellite basically
05:11 you're doing military reconnaissance It
05:13 Go has gone into a sun synchronous orbit
05:15 and you know Japan started you know
05:17 launching reconnaissance satellites
05:19 because it's primarily interested in
05:21 North Korea which uh you know frequently
05:23 launches missiles over
05:25 Japan um 14th of January we had fulcon 9
05:30 launching out of venburg that had been
05:33 delayed several times because we've been
05:34 having lousy weather on the west coast
05:37 uh 15th we had another starlink launch
05:40 out of The Capes from slick 40 17th of
05:44 January we had a long march seven that's
05:47 uh of course cryogenic I believe
05:49 carrying tianu 7 or Tiano I guess to the
05:54 Chinese space station this is a um you
05:57 know it's a logistics Mission carrying
05:59 car I believe it's also carrying the Nan
06:02 Jing satellite which is a an educational
06:04 satellite for one of the China's
06:06 universities U 18th of January Falcon 9
06:10 carrying Axiom 3 carrying a dragon with
06:14 the crew of Michael Lopez alria Marcus V
06:18 from Sweden Alper garvi from um from
06:23 turkey and a Walter V from Italy and
06:26 many were saying oh this is the first
06:28 all European dragon mission so sort of
06:33 because technically turkey actually
06:35 spans two continents The bosphorous
06:38 Straits north of it is considered Europe
06:40 south of the bosphorous that's
06:41 considered part of Asia and I believe
06:43 Alper was actually born south off it so
06:46 technically he's Asian even although
06:48 turkey is sort of European Marcus sorry
06:51 Michael Lopez he was born in Spain moved
06:54 to the US and became a US citizen and
06:56 that's how he became a NASA astronaut
06:58 but his birthplace is in Europe so
07:00 anyway I'm going to say technically
07:02 Albert wasn't born in Europe but I can
07:06 say that all four astronauts on this
07:08 flight come from Nations which have won
07:11 the Eurovision song contest so there is
07:13 that and Sweden of course that you know
07:15 they wanton it more than anyone else so
07:16 that means that Marcus is really the
07:17 king of this Mission so yeah this is a
07:19 14-day commercial launch to the
07:21 International Space Station uh they'll
07:24 be doing of course various um you know
07:26 scientific stuff for their Nations it is
07:29 interesting that Marcus is actually an
07:32 Issa astronaut he's selected as such but
07:35 Sweden is paying to launch him on this
07:38 private Mission rather than say
07:40 contributing to the European space
07:42 agency and then hoping indirectly to
07:45 have him launch at some point so I'm
07:47 seeing a lot more of this governments
07:48 that are paying for their crew to fly to
07:51 the space station um rather than say
07:53 contributing to Issa and and hoping to
07:55 get some benefit from that of course you
07:58 know the astronauts that that go with uh
08:00 Issa they spend 6 months on the station
08:04 weeks and then on the 20th we had a new
08:08 one the Kim 100 launched out of Iran by
08:11 the Iranian revolutionary guard carrying
08:14 the Sara satellite which is a
08:16 Communications experimental satellite of
08:18 some sort launching Out of sheru Space
08:21 Center it has gone into a 750 km orbit
08:25 65° inclination and notably the Kim want
08:29 100 is now the most powerful rocket Iran
08:31 has it is all solid rocket Motors and it
08:34 is much more closely aligned with what
08:37 you might find from a expect from a
08:39 ballistic missile U this is a much more
08:42 capable launch vehicle and something
08:44 that uh I'm hoping remains for peaceful
08:46 use that would be very nice but yes uh
08:50 moving onwards the last couple of weeks
08:52 well there was a big thing for me I
08:54 spent last weekend out in Austin Texas
08:56 at a everyday astronauts as Awards he
09:00 invited me out in um you know just
09:02 before December he said wouldn't it be
09:04 cool if you just like turned up to the
09:05 pre- party and then played a secret DJ
09:07 set in a mask and um my wife said that
09:10 sounds great but let's not do the mask
09:12 and thankfully I don't know where the
09:14 mask thing was dropped but I am happy
09:16 that I got to go out and relive my DJ
09:20 career days I brought about you know 15
09:23 tracks that were all sequenced with uh
09:26 space themed footage and it was so much
09:29 fun I mean sure the second to last track
09:31 was ktie Perry's fireworks which was all
09:34 synchronized to Rockets exploding we
09:36 also had you know um gold frap a bit of
09:40 DJ Shadow and then we went of course
09:42 like some deep techno like German techno
09:45 we had some left field we had some disco
09:48 from Sarah Brightman who you might think
09:50 well that's a little odd but you know
09:51 she actually did train to be a cosmonaut
09:53 although she fluff you know flubbed out
09:55 of the training at some point and never
09:57 flew and of course ended with um high
10:00 contrast days go by people on shoulders
10:03 Club goes wild I love it yeah so the
10:05 next day we actually had the Astro
10:08 awards ceremony I got to talk with a lot
10:10 of cool people um and I got to sit up on
10:13 stage as part of a panel with like
10:15 Firefly and SpaceX and relativity which
10:19 was quite intimidating because I would
10:21 be the first person to get the question
10:22 and uh sometimes I didn't have an answer
10:24 right away it was definitely an
10:26 interesting weekend but unfortunately
10:28 what happened was we then had this
10:30 massive polar vortex blow down over the
10:33 middle of the country and everything
10:36 froze and while Texas didn't have it
10:38 that bad it was bad enough that my
10:41 flight was back through Dallas was
10:43 cancelled like literally an hour after
10:46 you know before it was supposed to go
10:48 and then we were rescheduled for like 2
10:50 days later to the wrong airport we
10:52 eventually sorted that out but I did end
10:54 up with like a spare day in Texas and
10:56 thankfully Firefly they came through for
10:59 me and they were like hey come on we'll
11:01 take you out give you a tour of
11:02 everything and I got to see their
11:05 manufacturing facilities I got to see
11:07 the hi I've got to see their valver um
11:10 most I did get to go out and see their
11:12 Test Facilities next to their uh you
11:14 know their uh test stand which has been
11:18 testing the Miranda engine and while I
11:20 can't tell you anything about it I can
11:22 tell you that I learned a lot when I was
11:24 there got to see their uh new you carbon
11:27 fiber manufacturing facility they've got
11:29 the new wider rings that they're going
11:31 to have for the tanks that are required
11:33 for the Miranda launch vehicle which is
11:35 of course is going to be the first stage
11:37 of the Interior 330 which is you know
11:40 the replacement for the the current
11:42 signus launch vehicle that's going to be
11:44 great for Firefly I really look forward
11:46 to spending more time with them and
11:48 maybe they could help me answer some
11:50 questions but thanks for that it was
11:52 truly an amazing way to spend the day so
11:56 anyway yeah Astro Awards great meeting
11:58 all of you took a million selfies thanks
12:00 for everything thanks for the the cool
12:02 people that wanted to talk to me and
12:04 help me out and uh yeah I am humbled I'm
12:07 humbled thanks very much but anyway
12:10 moving onwards we have uh in Space the
12:12 uh India's adicha spacecraft finally
12:15 reached its Target location at the L1
12:17 point between the Earth and the Sun it's
12:20 going to be studying the sun using a
12:22 number of indigenously developed
12:24 instruments looking at the heliosphere
12:26 and uh other you know parts of the Sun
12:29 hoping to get some good science out of
12:30 that NASA and the UAE announced a
12:33 collaboration whereby the UAE will
12:36 develop and deliver the crew and science
12:40 airlock for lunar Gateway so they are
12:42 going they're going to be you basically
12:44 putting Hardware in orbit around the
12:46 moon this is an airlock which will allow
12:48 experiments to be placed on the outside
12:50 and of course will allow crew to perform
12:52 Eva now it's notable that it was
12:55 originally thought that this would be
12:57 provided by Ros Cosmos but back in
13:00 2021 Dmitri Rogen pulled out saying that
13:04 the thing was too us Centric and of
13:06 course it's probably a good thing in the
13:08 long run because that would never have
13:10 worked with the current situation in uh
13:12 Ukraine now while UAE are paying for it
13:15 and largely being heavily involved in
13:18 developing it's highly likely that it
13:19 will end up being built largely by a
13:22 contractor that has existing ISS
13:25 experience I know that boen are
13:27 currently talking to the UA about doing
13:29 this and we we might equally see say uh
13:33 you know telis elinia for example in
13:34 Europe collaborating and it's also
13:37 notable that UAE are also signed up to
13:40 work with China on their International
13:42 lunar research station um a few days
13:45 after this NASA also made a big
13:47 announcement that was will surprise
13:49 nobody that Artemus 2 and three missions
13:52 are being delayed it's really not
13:54 surprising to anyone I mean if you
13:56 remember NASA when the origin Ally
13:59 proposed this Return To The Moon using
14:00 SLS and Gateway uh they was this was
14:04 published in 2018 with a
14:07 20128 uh Target date now this was moved
14:10 up to 2024 for political reasons but
14:13 those political reasons didn't actually
14:15 translate into any funding that was
14:17 required to do this so yeah it's been
14:20 slipping right because nobody wants to
14:22 pay the amount of money that's needed to
14:24 move on those kind of time scales there
14:26 were three issues technical issues that
14:28 were cited for the delay of artmus 2
14:31 which will go around the moon and come
14:32 back uh there's the heat shield issues
14:35 where there was more damage to the heat
14:37 shield than they would like big chunks
14:38 breaking out now it wasn't it didn't
14:41 threaten the spacecraft or rather the
14:43 conditions inside the spacecraft were
14:45 totally acceptable but they didn't
14:48 understand it they need to understand
14:50 this because it could develop into
14:52 something wor and could actually
14:53 threaten the spacecraft secondly there
14:56 is a life support problem with Orion
14:58 where they were doing tests on the emus
15:01 3 Hardware found a problem traced it to
15:03 like a Divine Design deficiency in the
15:06 electronics and so they're ripping those
15:08 out on the Orion for arimus 2 and
15:12 they're going to have to re that will
15:13 involve ripping out a lot of other gear
15:15 and then reassembling it so it's
15:16 definitely pushing that flight backwards
15:19 and uh yeah finally there's some
15:21 concerns about power during launch abort
15:24 that they can't guarantee that they will
15:26 deliver all the load all the power
15:28 required for all the loads during during
15:30 theart sequence so yeah that's pushing
15:32 things back so currently Artemus 2 is
15:35 now no earlier than September 2025 and
15:38 emus 3 is no earlier than September 2026
15:43 and that should give SpaceX a little
15:44 more time to develop Starship and their
15:46 refueling and their lunar uh Lander um
15:49 there have been rumors that emus 3 might
15:53 actually switch to be a non- landing
15:55 Mission if the hardware gets ready but
15:57 at that this time they have not taken
15:59 that decision and emis 3 is still
16:02 generally considered to be a landing
16:03 mission for now and that brings us
16:06 neatly to Elon giving a presentation at
16:09 Starbase which I happened to miss
16:10 because I was doing touristy things with
16:12 my wonderful other half but uh yeah you
16:14 give a presentation and the most
16:16 interesting thing for me that came out
16:17 of that was that they confirmed that the
16:19 second stage failure on Starship Flight
16:22 2 was caused by an oxygen dump which uh
16:26 you know you increase you dump oxygen it
16:28 gets entrapped it causes combustion
16:31 where combustion isn't supposed to
16:33 happen uh we did actually note that the
16:36 oxygen levels in the spacecraft were
16:38 visibly dropping fast towards the end of
16:40 the burn and I think that was presumably
16:43 part of this oxygen dump which led to
16:45 the fire and the loss of the vehicle the
16:48 reason why they dumped this excess
16:50 propellant was that the vehicle had no
16:53 payload and therefore had too much mass
16:56 so they wanted to dump this so that it
16:59 wouldn't go into orb with too much
17:00 payload as I understand I'm not sure
17:02 exactly what the logic is there that was
17:05 problem he said that uh if they had a
17:09 payload they wouldn't have needed the
17:10 propellant dump and they would have made
17:12 it to orbit oh the irony anyway um third
17:16 Starship launch is looking like it may
17:18 well happen in February I I've heard
17:20 February 14th from some people uh which
17:23 would be an interesting Valentine's day
17:25 trip uh they also confirmed that wanted
17:29 to demonstrate an engine burn while in
17:31 orbit and as part of a NASA Tipping
17:33 Point Grant they want to
17:35 demonstrate pumping or transfer of
17:38 propellant between tanks inside the
17:40 spacecraft so transferring propellant
17:41 from the header tank into the main tank
17:43 and per possibly in reverse and uh also
17:48 want to test the Pez dispenser which
17:50 will be part of launching starlinks this
17:51 will just a very thin door on the side
17:54 which they will presumably have in there
17:56 and verify that the structure works and
17:58 verify that the door works and whatever
18:01 else they can do so this will be tested
18:03 in Flight it won't actually launch any
18:05 payloads because you know they're going
18:07 to be suborbital and the payloads would
18:09 just burn up um anyway the presentation
18:13 also talked about new options for
18:15 starlink and one thing that stood out
18:17 for me is a small like laptop sized
18:20 antenna which would be great for getting
18:22 limited connectivity I don't need fullon
18:25 gigabit or 100 megabit connectivity I'm
18:27 happy with megabit level connectivity
18:30 after all Comcast keep giving me that
18:32 right now uh yeah that's that's cool so
18:36 anyway um also also it looks like
18:39 there's a proposal to expand star base
18:42 whereby SpaceX would purchase a bunch of
18:45 uh land in the area and then basically
18:49 donate it to the you know Texas
18:51 government so where it would become
18:53 protected wetlands and in return they
18:56 would give a bunch of land in that in
18:58 near star base to you know Space X so
19:01 that they could expand out add second
19:04 launch Towers which would be very
19:05 helpful because you know if you're
19:08 literally going to be Capt landing on
19:10 the tower you really want to have a
19:12 spare Tower going around otherwise that
19:14 kind of ruins your testing going
19:15 forwards so I don't know if this is
19:17 going to happen and they're definitely
19:19 concerns that if SpaceX acquires more
19:21 and more land then they might be able to
19:25 stop people using the beach and a lot of
19:27 people don't want to lose beach access
19:29 particularly because it lets us drive
19:31 along that Highway and stop and admire
19:33 the massive rocket there something which
19:35 I really wanted to do but yeah I didn't
19:37 want to drive on Texas roads for 6 hours
19:41 frozen anyway idium they have announced
19:43 something called Stardust now back about
19:46 a year ago they began this project with
19:48 Qualcomm to you know provide chip sets
19:52 for Android phones that would enable
19:54 them to do the SOS connectivity through
19:56 iridium satellites just like you know
19:58 Apple's iPhone does right but no Android
20:02 handset manufacturers wanted to pay the
20:04 premium for this hardware and that you
20:06 know agreement essentially died leaving
20:08 you know no phones with this capability
20:10 it Stardust instead has said okay forget
20:13 about extra Hardware we're going to do a
20:15 software version of this by updating our
20:18 satellites and we'll provide
20:20 specifications and work with you know
20:23 the standards people to make sure it's
20:25 something that can be implemented in
20:26 phone Hardware without serious changes
20:30 to it now that's how I'm understanding
20:31 it so they're not launching new
20:33 satellites they're going to be changing
20:35 the software and satellites and hoping
20:37 that there is some mechanism for uh
20:39 phones to connect and provide this
20:41 Emergency Services uh and in the direct
20:44 cell phone capabilities well Google and
20:46 AT&T have given like $155 million
20:50 invested into as space mobile which is
20:53 of course is going to do direct to
20:56 device but we just saw from SpaceX a
21:00 demonstration of directed device
21:03 messaging using Apple iPhones they they
21:06 you posted this image showing you
21:08 messages app exchanging the messages now
21:11 some of the messages are out of order
21:13 which you know is understandable since
21:14 it's having to go via the satellite but
21:16 it was also pointed out that uh they're
21:19 using the green bubbles which is what
21:22 you get when you use SMS rather than
21:24 Apple's iMessage which actually has to
21:26 run over the Internet so the early
21:29 directed device capabilities that we're
21:30 going to get from cell phones are not
21:32 going to be internet capable it will be
21:35 messaging and then later voice and then
21:37 maybe at some point in the future you're
21:38 going to get internet but it's going to
21:40 be conventional Communications rather
21:43 than browsing your twitters right a few
21:46 days ago impulse space surprised
21:48 everyone with a massive kickstage the
21:50 Helios now impulse is uh Tom Mueller's
21:54 company he's the guy that developed the
21:56 Merlin engine of course for SpaceX uh
21:58 the Helios stage is like a 15 ton third
22:03 stage that could be used say on a falcon
22:05 9 to take a payload from low earth orbit
22:08 into geostationary orbit and you know
22:10 deliver it there this is a methane
22:13 fueled uh with a a new engine I think
22:15 it's a denb engine which we understand
22:18 is going to be a closed cycle engine so
22:21 probably fuel Rich staged combustion uh
22:24 if I'm guessing correctly now the exact
22:27 numbers are um you know not clear but
22:30 apparently a specific impulse of about
22:33 370 is close to the performance we
22:35 expect from this engine and according to
22:37 Tom it could add 3.9 km/ second of Delta
22:41 V to the 6 ton um Europa Express Mission
22:46 so yeah this is interesting because to
22:48 get a 5 and 1/2 ton satellite direct to
22:52 geostationary orbit right now requires a
22:55 falcon heavy but if you could take a
22:58 regular Falcon 9 put this impulse stage
23:00 on top of it and then put your satellite
23:03 on top of that then it might be a
23:05 cheaper way to go so look this is a
23:08 methane fueled stage it's going to
23:09 require new ground service equipment to
23:11 make sure you can fuel it with cryogenic
23:13 propellent on the pad but guess what
23:16 SpaceX already has that because
23:18 intuitive machines has the Nova C lunar
23:21 lander and that's going to need to get
23:23 fueled up inside the payload so it sort
23:25 of fits with them however is rocket
23:29 agnostic it might potentially launch on
23:32 other launch Vehicles say relativity
23:34 space they already have a you know an
23:36 agreement with impulse to develop a Mars
23:39 spacecraft I don't know this is a fairly
23:42 big thing SpaceX might simply say add
23:44 their own version or they might stretch
23:46 the upper stage on the Falcon to get
23:49 performance but you know Tom Tom Muller
23:52 has a good relations with SpaceX right
23:54 now maybe they end up just becoming part
23:56 of the same company in the long term who
23:58 knows but anyway I'm excited to see if
24:00 somebody uses this elsewhere in the you
24:04 the orbital Ferry market the orbital tug
24:07 Market momentus which had been flying
24:09 the Vigor ride spacecraft on every
24:11 transporter Mission has decided to skip
24:14 the next one uh and then fly more
24:16 payloads on the subsequent flight and
24:18 the reason they have cited is that they
24:20 are running out of cash so maybe we
24:23 don't get the next one but yeah if they
24:25 can launch fewer pieces of hardware and
24:28 still satisfy as many customers that
24:31 might keep them afloat so they were
24:34 expecting to get some space development
24:36 agency contracts and that never happened
24:38 uh that would have definitely helped
24:39 with the cash flow if you remember
24:41 remember momentus went public back in
24:44 2021 via the spa route and for a moment
24:47 they were valued at about a billion
24:50 dollars and right now based on their
24:52 market cap they are worth less than 10
24:55 million yes uh moving onwards yeah we
24:59 had uh slim the Japanese Lander the
25:02 smart Lander for investigating the moon
25:06 successfully touch touch down on the
25:09 moon making Japan the fifth country to
25:12 successfully land on the moon however it
25:14 then subsequently fell over and it looks
25:16 like its solar panels are not generating
25:19 power right now we got a small amount of
25:22 data from it I am hopeful that as the
25:24 sun moves they will get more data from
25:26 it but as of right now they haven't said
25:28 much more beyond the initial press
25:30 conference in particular I'd love to
25:33 hear what happened to their little lunar
25:34 Rovers and see if they got any imagery
25:38 spacecraft um the other side of this was
25:40 the paragr spacecraft which as I
25:42 mentioned it launched on Vulcan uh soon
25:45 after separation it uncovered or the it
25:49 experienced a propellant leak and that
25:51 propellant leak started to spin the
25:53 spacecraft up now they worked through
25:56 various uh worked through through the
25:58 problem they managed to get the
25:58 spacecraft stabilized but it was burning
26:01 propellant to offset the you know the
26:04 impulse off that uh fuel leak so they
26:07 did manage to keep it alive they managed
26:09 to power up the various payloads
26:11 verifying that they were delivering data
26:13 get some of that data back towards uh
26:15 the Earth so some of the customers were
26:17 somewhat satisfied or happy because they
26:20 at least got some data out of their
26:22 Hardware even if they Hardware didn't
26:26 moon then the propellant leak that
26:29 changed the orbit enough that the
26:30 spacecraft ended up coming back to Earth
26:34 and burning up and yeah so we got some
26:36 imagery of that now I have a whole video
26:39 about slim and paragen and again
26:42 congratulations to them for you know
26:44 successfully getting to the surface of
26:46 the Moon and congratulations to paragr
26:48 for yeah at least giving it your best
26:50 shot not screwing things up too badly uh
26:53 hope that we get to see some successful
26:55 launches as part of NASA's clips program
26:58 in the near future now in the last
27:00 couple of weeks Japan also had news
27:02 about the other payload that went with
27:04 slim the the Chism the X-ray
27:07 spectroscopy Mission which was going to
27:09 go to geostationary orbit and it
27:10 launched at the same time as Slim so uh
27:14 this has two x-ray telescopes and
27:16 they're having trouble opening the
27:17 shutter on one of the telescopes so
27:20 there's an an instrument called resolve
27:23 which is supposed to do high resolution
27:25 x-ray spectroscopy and it has this thin
27:28 burum shutter to protect it and
27:30 unfortunately that doesn't appear to be
27:32 opening the good news is that burum is
27:34 at least somewhat transparent to x-rays
27:37 so the instrument can still be used but
27:40 they're going to have a bit more
27:41 scattering they're going to lose more of
27:43 their low energy x-ray they're going to
27:45 have to re-calibrate their thing if they
27:47 can't get this open so the other
27:50 instrument they extend the wide field
27:52 instrument that's working fine so you
27:55 know they are going to get stuff out of
27:56 this mission maybe not quite the quality
27:59 of data they were hoping for uh
28:02 landspace in China they flew their
28:04 vertical testing vertical Landing J 3
28:09 spacecraft so this is a stainless steel
28:12 rocket which is supposed to be 100%
28:14 reusable we'll see how far they get with
28:17 that uh but yeah they flew that up to
28:19 1,000 ft they brought it back down they
28:21 soft landed it it's just one of many
28:24 Chinese companies following SpaceX to a
28:27 lesser extent blue origin trying to
28:29 build uh reusable rockets and meanwhile
28:33 a lot of the western companies were who
28:35 were ridiculing the idea are uh still
28:38 not following up in the same way yeah on
28:42 Mars Ingenuity had a bit of a scare as
28:45 on the the latest flight as it landed
28:48 they lost contact with it and we were
28:50 very worried that we were going to lose
28:51 paragr and Ingenuity in the same week
28:55 but uh perseverance stopped you know you
28:58 know stuck out its ears and listened
29:01 very carefully and it was able to
29:02 establish communication via the zigg B
29:04 Communications protocol so it appears
29:07 that this was just terrain occultation
29:09 terrain occlusion was causing trouble
29:11 and that they should be able to get
29:13 Ingenuity flying and hopefully to
29:15 somewhere where it can get better
29:17 connectivity and also finally last night
29:20 in the middle of Europe we found an
29:25 bx1 a few hours before it was going to
29:28 hit the earth and so people were ready
29:30 over the middle of Europe getting some
29:32 great imagery of this it was marvelous
29:35 to see this thing coming down and
29:37 pulsing and you know disintegrating as
29:40 you know bits fall off of it and produce
29:42 flashes of light it it's great that we
29:44 can actually find asteroids come up with
29:47 a solution and notify people to be able
29:49 to get out and get images of meteorites
29:52 you basically pointing the camera in
29:54 almost the right direction to be able to
29:55 see this that was fabulous to see that
29:59 and uh I hope we see more so yeah that's
30:01 the deep space updates in the next
30:03 couple of weeks we expect uh rocket lab
30:05 to have a launch called four for kind
30:07 carrying four satellites for Spar Global
30:10 and uh northr Grumman will debut the
30:12 signus on Falcon 9 carrying cargo to the
30:16 International Space Station until then
30:18 I'm Scott Manley fly
