Destination: Moon! ALL ABOARD! | This Week In Spaceflight

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Join Elysia Segal for an action-packed roundup of this week's spaceflight activities. From China's lunar relay satellite launch and Northrop Grumman's intriguing Lunar Railroad study to SpaceX's enigmatic Starlink mission and the long-awaited debut of their crew tower at Cape Canaveral. We're focusing our lens into the highlights of the week, including launches from SpaceX, China's space program, and Rocket Lab's latest classified mission. Stay tuned for insights on NASA's budget proposal for 2025 and what it means for future space exploration. Subscribe and hit the bell to stay updated on all things space!
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🖋️ Written by Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (@alexphysics13) with Justin Davenport, Evan Packer
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00:00 Intro
00:33 Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 6-44
01:13 Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 7-16
02:54 Chang Zheng 8 launch of Queqiao-2
04:22 Chang Zheng 2D launch of Yunhai-2 Group 2
04:54 Electron launch of Live and Let Fly
05:22 Falcon 9 launch of CRS-30
07:00 NASA's budget proposal for next year
11:04 Northrop's lunar railroad
12:23 First Ariane 6 fligt vehicle assembly has begun
13:00 First crew Starliner begins fueling
13:35 March 22nd: Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 6-42
13:50 March 23rd: Soyuz 2.1a launch of Soyuz MS-25
14:12 March 25th: Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 6-46
14:26 March 28th: Falcon 9 launch of Starlink 7-18
14:37 March 28th: Final flight of Delta IV Heavy
14:52 Outro

КОМЕНТАРІ: 141

@JackABeyer Місяць тому

ALL ABOARD THE MOON TRAIN LET’S GOOOOOOOO

@HughMann Місяць тому

CHOO CHOO!

@WSpace7 Місяць тому

Bro how does that work 💀 How does the very fast train not fly away from the moon?

@SebastianWellsTL Місяць тому

@@WSpace7 One could possibly design a type of locking mechanism to keep the train firmly attached to the tracks. However, even if you didn't you could go below a certain threshold of speed that would prevent the train from "flying away from the moon" as yo you say. Anyway, I am not the one working on this concept so I am merely providing my best guess.

@Michiellovietsj-qu2zw Місяць тому

@@SebastianWellsTL rollarcoaster type of tracks is one way that it can be done.

@richard--s Місяць тому

And don't forget the diesel engine ;-)))

@MickRonald Місяць тому

Thank you Elysia and team NSF for the latest This Week in Spaceflight video. Always want to be informed of all space related projects.

@edcallahan9536 Місяць тому

Great to see your humor shine through-loved it! 😂

@macebobkasson1629 Місяць тому

“Advanced Simulation” with clouds got me

@taesssi Місяць тому

Not too mention they managed to add all the nice plants that can be found on the dark side of the moon 😂

@davidlabedz2046 Місяць тому

Thanks to Elysia and NSF for the update!

@Tinman_56 Місяць тому

Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Great coverage and presentation, Elysia 😊🚀🛰

@WolfClinton1 Місяць тому

Elysia. Thank you for packing so much facts into your reports. Also..Loving the earrings ;-)

@user-li7ec3fg6h Місяць тому

Thank you very much for the always well presented space news. With hot rocket earrings from the fantastic Elysia! And team! NSF is doing a great job.

@MrKellymcilrath Місяць тому

Great TWIS Elysia, Thank you so much!

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Місяць тому

Great video...👍

@Andrew_Probert Місяць тому

Surface transportation on the Moon will be a "sticky" problem, due to the abrasive dust getting into everything, including wheel bearings. Vehicles on tracks may not kick up rooster tails of dust, but are not without problems. Vehicles on the Moon have 1/6th the weight compared to on the Earth, but all of the momentum. That means that moving vehicles will tip over easily, as recent landers have shown. Also, I don't know where the track material will come from, unless made from scrapped Starships, which should be plentiful as they will have transported up lots of supplies and equipment. I think that walkers and hoppers should be looked into.

@hamjudo Місяць тому

Starships are designed for recycling. They use a single alloy for all of the structural and most of the plumbing parts. So every one way Starship is a source for more than a hundred tonnes of stainless steel. I don't think the steel will be used for rails, I think it will be used to make equipment for smelting and forming aluminum. The moon is made of aluminum ore. I think they will figure out how to manage lunar dust over a series of experiments.

@iamaduckquack Місяць тому

Rollercoaster wheel design.

@sp66-know-try-think Місяць тому

IMHO it makes more sense for the Moon to have railguns and hoverloops.

@bigmackinlittleengland Місяць тому

@@sp66-know-try-thinkGadgetbahn, won't work. Just use existing maglev technology that is currently in use in Japan and China

@sparkysho-ze7nm Місяць тому

Resist th temptation to comment on what YOU DONT KNOW

@5K00O Місяць тому

Honestly, the idea of a moon train sounds way better than traversing through rough terrain everytime

@chax0208 Місяць тому

Yea plus using a roller coaster like rail would impove the traction and thus speed

@Inspace_noone_can_hear_u_honk. Місяць тому

Love the weekly updates.

@echomande4395 Місяць тому

The lunar railroad study is probably more oriented towards how to go about manufacturing the needed components for the railroad (rails, ties, clips, points, etc.) locally on the moon. In Situ Resource Utilisation should be at the core of any permanent offworld colony. That such a railroad would link together multiple bases with a single spaceport would be a bonus.

@sp66-know-try-think Місяць тому

Given the quality of lunar dust, a railway on the Moon has few prospects. For Luna, railguns and hoverloops make more sense.

@corrinastanley125 Місяць тому

Thanks Elysia and NSF team.

@marvinschmidt4041 Місяць тому

i love how the advanced Lunar Simulation is basically justa grayed out shot of a desert train

@richard--s Місяць тому

pssst! How can you spoil that high tech simulation? ;-)))

@32BitArcade Місяць тому

Another great week! Thanks again guys!

@user-ho3ck4gy3y Місяць тому

Thanks Elysia!! You are the best!! 😍 I like your ears ring 🚀

@adriangillies6037 Місяць тому

Thanks Elysia and NSF team

@ZomiEdit Місяць тому

Thanks Elysia

@wesleyhale4472 Місяць тому

I think a Moonorail would make much more sense

@jblob5764 Місяць тому

I see what ya did there lol

@gordonstewart5774 Місяць тому

They forgot the CRATERS!

@sp66-know-try-think Місяць тому

Given the quality of lunar dust, a railway on the Moon has few prospects. For Luna, railguns and hoverloops make more sense.

@peterford5408 Місяць тому

"A Moonorail would make much more sense! The regolith is not too dense." "I hear those things are awfully loud" "It glides as softly as a cloud" "Is there a chance the track could bend?" "Not at one sixth g, my Hindu friend" "But Main Street's still all cracked and broken" "Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken" Moonorail! Moonorail!! Moonorail!!!

@Ross-gf4fv Місяць тому

The Northrop Grumman gravy train

@jamescobban857 Місяць тому

One of the big problems with ground transportation on the Moon is the dust. It gets into everything, including the bearings of the wheels. I do wonder how they will obtain enough traction, as rail traction depends upon the weight (not mass) of the locomotive. They may need to use rack and pinion, as is used on terrestrial railroads that need to climb by more than about a 1 in 12 slope.

@garreth629 Місяць тому

When you mentioned the unusual launch altitude and number of satellites that changed I immediately thought, STARSHIELD. Though admittedly I couldn't recall the name. But I knew SpaceX was working on military satellites related to starlink.

@tctc0nsulting Місяць тому

She's back!

@niklasdornen4484 Місяць тому

In my opinion it was a bunch of Starshield Prototype Satelites!

@mikekrawczyk1197 Місяць тому

Engine-uity! Nice! :)

@SebastianWellsTL Місяць тому

Always enjoy watching updates and videos with you Elysia, well done!

@KGeisel62 Місяць тому

Loved the lunar "Advanced Simulation"! lmao

@marinmitu995 Місяць тому

5:02 Live and Let Classified Fly !

@NSAAMediaPlus Місяць тому

I think This Week in Spaceflight will work awesome on X

@meatyboi2503 Місяць тому

Lunar rail definitely has application for mass transport, not sure you can send tens of thousands per day with starship without it being a huge waste.

@slauberr7574 Місяць тому

1:40 “Advanced Simulation” That’s hilarious

@philipwhiuk Місяць тому

Telescopes replacing telescopes is a bit complex. There's a few things at play: field-of-view, wavelength and resolution We have never replaced a telescope with the same FoV and wavelength but better resolution. Instead we're generally adjusting the FoV or wavelength range at the same time. Some telescopes are like scalpels - looking at a very small section of the sky at once. Some telescopes are surveyors - huge area of the sky. You need both - the surveyors find interesting stuff, the scalpels allow you to dive into the detail. There's overlap between JWST and Hubble, between Hubble and NGRT, JWST and Spitzer. Chandra has no overlap with anything really - just some smaller missions that have scalpel'd tiny bits - e.g NuSTAR. There's the European XMM-Newton but that's also 25 years old.

@zimmy1958 Місяць тому

Thanks.

@basilcurrie8138 Місяць тому

A train around the moon would solve its day-night cycle, could be used for electrical transmission, and keep solar panels in constant sunlight. Think of the Mercurian city on rails from the novel 2312

@basilcurrie8138 Місяць тому

Circular train loops could also provide artificial gravity

@Bloodgod40 Місяць тому

Regular old earth hot weather sometimes ruins railroad track by causing the steel rails to expand so much that they buckle. How exactly they would be engineered to withstand the extreme lunar day-night temperature swings without buckling I am not sure...

@PenguinJockey13 Місяць тому

I have always assumed that was the actual purpose of The Boring Company ; tunneling on the Moon and Mars

@thearpox7873 Місяць тому

Trying to develop better tunneling tech, yes.

@garreth629 Місяць тому

My first thought when I heard Moon Railway was the LeTourneau Overland train. While I doubt they actually mean a land train, it might work. You probably could even power it by a small modular reactor (nuclear fision) sense diesel electric isn't an option. They're supposedly to be small enough to be transportable by a truck if I recall.

@rogers7262 Місяць тому

Whoo Hoo K-36 482!!!! That was my ride!!

@reginaldorossi9774 Місяць тому

engineNuity was awesome

@modrarybivrana5654 Місяць тому

actually using a rail gun system would provide a way to get back to orbit. 8 miles of track, @5G acceleration (dragon is currently 3G's ), would achieve escape velocity in about 24 seconds. the actual energy required by the rail system would depend on the craft and its mass

@NeroDefogger Місяць тому

bruuuh you are suggesting something sooo hard, 24 seconds of 5G means an EXTREMELY LONG rail gun, and 5G is EXTREME, very very unhealthy, getting to lunar orbit is REALLY NOT that hard, I really don't see that... I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool as F, but just not realistic at all

@sp66-know-try-think Місяць тому

To move cargo on the surface of the Moon, it is not necessary to accelerate transport to orbital speeds. For launching cargo into space from the Moon, orbital speeds definitely make sense.

@sparkysho-ze7nm Місяць тому

Roadsters on th moon would be fairly hip

@jackofclubs8791 Місяць тому

How can we even think about studying a concept for a LUNAR RAILROAD when we can’t even give nasa the money to use the Chandra observatory

@jeffreypierson2064 Місяць тому

DARPA is DEFENSE research, so it is not monetarily limited.

@caldodge Місяць тому

Railroads make a lot of sense for undeveloped land. When the US Transcontinental Railroad was built, the land adjacent to it became very valuable due to its accessibility.

@heartysteer8752 Місяць тому

Would think the escape slide should go down behind a wall at least, if not something more like a bunker.

@sp66-know-try-think Місяць тому

Starship is an effective transport from Earth to LEO, but it is not suitable for LEO-Moon flights; it is ineffective for orbital flights. Other, specialized ships with different engines and a different concept are needed to provide low-cost mass transport of cargo to the Moon. Enthusiasm in space will never replace sober calculation. NASA's budget restrictions will lead to this sooner or later.

@andrewreynolds912 Місяць тому

Funny enough i saw Darpa and such post this before this came out im very excited if we can have transportation on the moon

@williamstephens9945 Місяць тому

The subtitles spelt her name as "Alisia Seagull"

@shanent5793 Місяць тому

Lunar rails could be an application for Rearden metal

@wilbotiberiusbaggins2694 Місяць тому

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

@iamaduckquack Місяць тому

If the train is named Regolithpiercer I'll be happy.

@mig4868 Місяць тому

China's not messing around with these moon missions

@hawkdsl Місяць тому

NASA's budget never goes over 30 billion, and has always hovered at 24/25 billion for decades now. Artemis is designed to stay within the regular NASA budget, it gets no additional funding (with the exception of the BO lander). The only way Artemis is not "fully funded", is if NASA decides to allocate their budget away from it. As far as a Moon train is concerned... I'd think building roads would be cheaper (all vehicles will be Electric after all). Certainly less complex, and using way, way less materials.

@sp66-know-try-think Місяць тому

Given the quality of lunar dust, a railway on the Moon has few prospects. For Luna, railguns and hoverloops make more sense.

@hawkdsl Місяць тому

@@sp66-know-try-thinkagree, but I wonder how electromagnetic fields will react with the lunar regolith.

@sp66-know-try-think Місяць тому

@@hawkdsl For this, it is necessary to carry out a wide range of research on the Moon, to finance it fully and purposefully, and not to spend madly on meaningless “returns of man” for the sake of PR.

@hawkdsl Місяць тому

@@sp66-know-try-thinkTrue.

@redcoat4348 Місяць тому

FYI the timestamp at 12:45 is mispelled

@user-ThomReec8587 Місяць тому

Japan should have alot of ideas for the "Moon Train" as they surpased the US in that regard

@Rat-nl1xe Місяць тому

do you think they will launch starship to the moon as a test the payload doors and leave a load of starlinks there?

@vblaas246 Місяць тому

'Deliver us the moon' monorail station vibes..

@WSpace7 Місяць тому

Wdym “shady starlink mission?” 😭 Edit: it might be a space force satellite that they didn’t want other countries to see? Idk

@gameaddict6969 Місяць тому

Im still baffled that flat earthers think this is all fake. Also on another note, i feel as if China is trying their hardest to take the moon before the US does.

@romec3435 Місяць тому

👀🚀👍

@reginaldorossi9774 Місяць тому

🙂

@wodo81 Місяць тому

How many stops will the moon train have

@blpznchts Місяць тому

Star Shield Satellite😂

@photolife8511 Місяць тому

That's fine we don't need NASA, they can do what ever they want we don't look up to them anyway, if NASA won't or can't do guess who can and will SPACE X

@novembern939nn5 Місяць тому

If the orbit is big, can you just scale down the Earth to fit on screen please?

@ale131296 Місяць тому

The Earth does scale down, it just happens to scale down to like four pixels when the orbit is anywhere the size of the Moon's orbit... 😅

@Imagine_Beyond Місяць тому

2030 for Artemis 5?! This is not good news. At this rate, companies like SpaceX might just land humans multiple times on the moon before 2030. Look at how far they have gotton in the last 6 years. In 6 years from now, who knows what might happen. But a Mars landing will not happen in the 2030s IF we rely only on NASA since Artemis 4 in 2030 is definitely going to delay things.

@user-um2qy7zu1v Місяць тому

Artemis 5 not 4

@Imagine_Beyond Місяць тому

@@user-um2qy7zu1v I corrected it. But still, it is concerning that these missions are under budget and getting delayed

@user-um2qy7zu1v Місяць тому

@@Imagine_Beyond yes you are right

@gordonstewart5774 Місяць тому

Their railroad assumes no CRATERS?

@andreypopov6958 Місяць тому

Magnetic levitation train I guess

@sp66-know-try-think Місяць тому

IMHO it makes more sense for the Moon to have railguns and hoverloops.

@BMrider75 Місяць тому

"...returned back to....." is a redundancy. 'returned to' or 'came back to' would be correct. Otherwise, good episode.

@user-qr3fz5wk9w Місяць тому

चांद पर बीज बोने के बाद पेड कि जडो का तथा (शाखा ) डहली का आकर साईझ कैसी होगी 🤔

@scottymoondogjakubin4766 Місяць тому

How about allocating more $ on space and space exploration and less funding senseless wars !

@caldodge Місяць тому

Mars sample return is a silly mission. NASA would be better off sending analysis equipment on a Starship going to Mars.

@medannylee1 Місяць тому

2 missing satellites........spy sats!!!

@user-um2qy7zu1v Місяць тому

It would be nice if you also included India's spaceplane test flight

@JoeDaManTheHC Місяць тому

👀🐔👀🐔

@bs_serpents Місяць тому

Moon train? Sounds like Moon jobs! When are they hiring? Haha

@YOLFDK Місяць тому

First

@jeffreypierson2064 Місяць тому

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@steveadams7550 Місяць тому

Perhaps nasa should turn over Chandra to a private group to control.

@robertv1273 Місяць тому

We cant even stick the landing of a box on the moon,a railroad? hahahaha how much is that study costing us?b.s

@DutchAvgeeeeeeek Місяць тому

Second

@raafatalawad123 Місяць тому

🫶🤍💙❤️🌅💛

@MobileGamer18x Місяць тому

I’ll just buy a space ship from space x 😂

@wendyhood1006 Місяць тому

Moon moon 😂

@bobbyaxelrod5959 Місяць тому

I hope Amtrak isn’t on the moon

@martythemartian99 Місяць тому

Time to start the betting pool. How long after the launch of the Boeing Starliner, will the hatch blow out? I'll go for 7 minutes.

@maverikrom Місяць тому

Primero deberían construir una base antes de soñar que tienen varias bases y que las van a conectar con un tren 😂 En estos tiempos se vive más en los sueños y en las fantasías que en la realidad. 🫣

@user-pc2fe4ev1s Місяць тому

There is no way that Artemis is still flying in 2030.

@jctexan8160 Місяць тому

They should let the Japanese or Europeans design the moon train.

@jblob5764 Місяць тому

I wish they'd just cancel SLS. It has been such a massive money pit just for the sake of funding defense/politician pocket companies

@rareguitargallery2203 Місяць тому

Once Starship is crew rated, SLS will be cancelled. Until then, it is better than nothing.

@jeffreypierson2064 Місяць тому

@@rareguitargallery2203 There is a saying about Congress, 'The only unstoppable weapon is the one produced in all 435 districts.' SLS is produced by many companies that give jobs to constituents and campaign donations to politicians. SLS will continue even after Starship is human rated, even if for only a few launches.

@slevinshafel9395 Місяць тому

Budget, how is that possible? You make a lot of progres and all we know the next economic will be space and only alocate the same amount? doring 50 years you increse it and dont go back to moon. Now you keep it flat when try go back to moon and build base? nonsens decision. Yeah is still a lot more spend than other country but the point is to increse it when thigs is update not when is maintance.