NASA's Dream Chaser Space Plane Is Finally Complete!
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@paulmichaelfreedman8334
5 ай бұрын
A scaled up and modified version of dream chaser as a replacement for the nose cone of starship, detachable, and able to glide back to earth with 30-40 people to any runway on earth -> Guaranteed human rating. For those who also foresee the problems with starship and human rating...something to chew on.
@Thumbnail5398
5 ай бұрын
Amazing!! If you need thumbnail contact with me.
@RamblingRodeo
5 ай бұрын
This is the second most exciting project vehicle next to starship that i am really excited to see happen!
@benhuffington8482
5 ай бұрын
omg its like your brain cant say x37b
@RamblingRodeo
5 ай бұрын
lolol @@benhuffington8482
I’m a big SpaceX fan, but I love me some Dream Chaser!
@Victor-2099
5 ай бұрын
Right😂 humanity is great indeed🙌🏼
@Sandux930
5 ай бұрын
It's unique
@RTeague
5 ай бұрын
Just my opinion but I think it will be the new delivery work horse for the ISS. It will definitely help keep costs down.
I listen/watch many space reporting shows. You are one of my favorites. Professional, detailed, enthusiastic and hopeful. Keep up the great work!
@TheSpaceRaceYT
5 ай бұрын
Much appreciated! @dctranberg1
@thisguyhere85
3 ай бұрын
I would be careful they get a lot of things very wrong frequently
Their main factory is a couple of miles away from my house and got a tour of their facility. Really amazing team of young engineers. Happy to see them making it happen and hopefully they manage to make the crewed version someday
I hope the Dream Chaser will be able to carry passengers
@TheSpaceRaceYT
5 ай бұрын
They do have a crew variant coming!
@chrischeshire6528
5 ай бұрын
Once it becomes man rated, just like cargo dragon did to become the crew dragon, it will carry up to 7 people but will probably carry 4 per flight.
@winslowjoy2629
5 ай бұрын
I believe the crew variants are destined to support Orbital Reef. Sierra Space was not selected for commercial crew contract to transport crews to ISS.
@NeedsLessWedge
5 ай бұрын
I hope it is crew worthy as well. Human rated. It would be nice to have multiple options in the US
@paulmichaelfreedman8334
5 ай бұрын
@@chrischeshire6528 Imagine a scaled up and modified version so it would fit in place of the nose cone of starship. 30-50 person capacity, detachable so it can glide back to earth on any runway. The tanks and engines can do the classic belly flop re-entry while the crew returns in the safest and least uncomfortable manner in existence. And it acts as an abort vessel in case of a failure during launch.
X37b was docked onto the I.S.S., i put it on you tube for the world to see.. Awesome craft
Baby shuttle! Would be cool to see an upsized model using the SpaceX heavy engines
@Forevertrue
5 ай бұрын
It's already too heavy to be useful.
@liquidpatriot4480
5 ай бұрын
They plan to build a crew version in the future. For now they want to test the design and start fulfilling cargo deliveries to the ISS.
@CASA-dy4vs
5 ай бұрын
@@Forevertrueca
Imagine being the person who made the error with those tanks for the Vega, or the supervisor who failed to catch it. 'Oops' doesn't cover it, and future job prospects may be dim if they want to stay in anything like the same industry.
Thanks!
Hold on, it is Sierra Space that is developing "Dream Chaser", not NASA !!! I wish them well, but they have been working on this since 2010, and they still have considerable work to do.
Great Work ! Love to see Dream Chaser make its mark early 2024. Outstanding development & tech , plus it can also land anywhere around the world. A new chapter in the making, all the best. 😎
Dream chaser is my favorite project out here ! ❤
On the way back from Mars they should stay on the 🌕 moon for about a month before returning to Earth in order to reacclimate to gravity to rebuild strength after such a long return voyage.
Oh my god, the missing Vega Tanks story killed me! 😂😂😂
Never heard about Dream Chaser before, the concept sounds good
Always to the point and well delivered no-nonsense news
Honestly my biggest surprise with space travel right now is that there isn't a station-to-station rocket operative or in development. It would be pretty useful to have a craft that doesn't need to undergo the stress of escape and reentry every time. It would also be able to hold a lot more cargo, fuel, and crew, making it probably a lot better for missions to the moon and mars. It would definitely be helpful for a mars mission, since you could stock up on like 5-6 years worth of food, water, fuel, etc. and just ship it to martian orbit, then use a few surface-to-orbit and orbit-to-surface missions to bring it down as necessary.
@chrishartley4553
5 ай бұрын
Well there really are only two space stations up there and neither is permanant. Nor is it so easy to transfer from one to the other when you consider the different orbits and the relative velocities. You might as well sent up rockets instead. You idea isn't bad, we're just not there yet in either technology or need.
@theplaneguy45
5 ай бұрын
@@chrishartley4553 I guess I'm thinking moreso about the future, and I do think it would be a lot easier for a mars mission/moon mission.
All you "space kids" out there might not remember that it took YEARS to mount the Space Shuttle heat tiles too. They had massive problems with them falling off. So I guess all the old hands must have been shaking their heads when today's engineers were expecting Dream Chaser would not pose a problem. And all those people saying that Dream Chaser should have been chosen over the Boeing Starliner, have no idea how much longer it will be before a manned Dream Chaser ever flies. I think Starliner will have been operational for several years before a manned Dream Chaser is.
It's good to see that nasa's farescape program is reaching an ultimate conclusion
@MarkAClarke
5 ай бұрын
I thought the same thing 😂😂
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman
4 ай бұрын
Just watchout for an electromagnetic wave...😉
Of course just teasing here but that fuel transfer test internally between two tanks feels a little like the fastest gun in the west routine: “wanna see me draw?”Waits 2seconds without moving “wanna see it again?” I do love this content and thanks for clearing up the timing of the transfer test misunderstanding.
@jtjames79
5 ай бұрын
How else would you do it?
@BreakingBarriers2DIY
5 ай бұрын
@@jtjames79 :) Exactly. It is not criticism...it is funny is all. Hopefully they are as awesome at displaying the transfer telemetry as they are about engine status graphics.
Wow, the Vega tanks were mistaken for garbage and ... just wow. 10/10 😜
They should have an extra one connected to the Space Station at all times as an emergency vehicle.
@SiXiam
5 ай бұрын
They already have ships there for emergency, which are moved out when crews swap. You can't really keep a ship there all the time without swapping them. They are rated for so many months only. Things like the batteries, filters, and even the vales and pipes only have a set life.
Tiling the Space Shuttle, at least for Columbia and Challengers. The issue in the 1970's was the extreme cation engineers used when installing the tikes on the first Shuttle. The tiles were extremely critical to the safety of the Shuttle missions. Nothing like the tile system had ever been tried before. They had to make sure they weren't missing some small thing that would cause the tiles to fail.
I've been watching for about 6 months. Great videos. Very informative. Thanks folks !
Is me or does Dreamchaser look like John Crithons ship from Farscape 😂😂😂.
Thank you
gorgeous looking ship
I been waiting for you to drop this ❤honestly I love the dream chaser and I hope it feels the gap where the shuttle left
The solution for the ESA's Vega problem is to launch their satellite on a Falcon 9. It would hurt, however, it would get the job done.
Avio, use shulker boxes and a sorting system, n00b!
It looks just like John Chriton’s space plane on Farscape. Farscape was awesome.
I can't wait to see this tech get used in space
Science and the universe are something too sublime for me. Thank you for letting ignorant people like me see more of the universe. I really like this channel
Aye OK... 2012?. This design has been "flying!" about since the 50s. You could say its... A dinosaur!. Ha.
@frankmcgowan9457
5 ай бұрын
Wasn't that one the "Dynosoar"?
@BarryHWhite
5 ай бұрын
@@frankmcgowan9457 aye
@darinladd5312
5 ай бұрын
that's exactly what i would say...1957-1963.
@BarryHWhite
5 ай бұрын
@@darinladd5312 GR8 minds
@darinladd5312
5 ай бұрын
@@BarryHWhite i love the usaf museum. they have a display, near the missile tower, but no artifacts. would love it if they could find the prototypes and display them.
Dream chaser looks like a giant Nike with wings! 👍🤣🏴🇬🇧
These would be great as escape vehicles for space stations.
7:58 propellant transfer in my mind is the biggest risk of failure for Artemis III.
@maxll85431
5 ай бұрын
NASA said it will take 20 starship tank to refuel just one lander.
Looking good NASA
Good to know the dream chaser becoming more than just a concept and a model.
So we got a new space pickup truck...... Nice
I love how Dream Chaser looks like a sci-fi re-entry vehicle named Komusai
Losing a couple of tanks is almost unbelievable. Heads will roll Lol !....cheers.
What about using the capsule they put the ship in to make or increase the size of the space station?
Dream Chaser looks sweet! I wish them great success. I wish they'd refresh the Space Shuttle. Dream Chaser for just manned missions and Shuttle for cargo missions. Like having both a car and truck.
@darinladd5312
5 ай бұрын
no; like having a car and a giant roman candle. shuttle design was terrible...it never met its turnaround promised (like two per month), and had an abysmal safety record. just say "no" to buran!
@scoutdynamics3272
5 ай бұрын
@@darinladd5312 Strip the Shuttle down to its bare airframe and refit it with Dream Chaser thermal tiles, avionics, and other modern systems. You would need Space X's Super heavy for its booster which would remove the SSME's making more like Buran
@darinladd5312
5 ай бұрын
Yes, it is technically possible (except the solid booster idea, discussed below); although, at their current age and condition the shuttles cannot be returned to service. Even if they could, and were literally sitting on the launch pad in the configuration you recommend, the cost per launch of launching a shuttle will NEVER match that of any rocket--reusable, or otherwise. It can't (by design). Plus, remember that the shuttle's main engines are used with an external liquid fuel tank, so they could not simply be retrofitted with a new solid booster (or two, or three). @@scoutdynamics3272
@angrymokyuu9475
5 ай бұрын
A pure cargo variant of the space shuttle was considered, but ultimately canned since very few payloads actually benefit from the orbiter.
What do you think about a manned version? Why it takes so long to develop an unmanned version, anyway?
Skip from 4:56 to 6:18 ! ... Your welcome 🤗
Go tenacity!
6:40 and the Starship landing on the moon isnt going destroy the landing area and possibly just fall over? I know its not like the boosters destroying the launch pad, but Space X is much larger than the Apollo and will require a lot of thrust to nail the landing.
Mini shuttle
Hope you will have a good time in Quebec :)
Nice. A space shuttle looking craft instead the same old rockets
I think Dream Chaser looks similar to a fictional spaceship called the Farscape module. Refer to the series called "Farscape" starting around 2000
Bro if you're ever in quebec, holla'at ya boy! Montreal or quebec I'll meet you there and we go out.
oh my!!
Thank you for building HERMES, - with a different name.
@darinladd5312
5 ай бұрын
dyna soar with a different name.
Since I came from the newest video on the channel, it looks to me that SpaceX is probably targeting a double launch in 2024. If they can get two platforms into orbit and do the transfer successfully, they can keep Artemis on track - at least for their part.
I saw the design and the first thing to come to my mind was "Farscape."
Bummer. Really sad to see that ESA is incompetent and inflexible at the same time. They are too inflexible to build some more Ariane 5 rockets to fill the time gap because the developement of Ariane 6 is delayed. Their new Vega-C rocket exploded already two times and now they are so incompetent to "lose" two tanks of the the old Vega rocket. And now they are too inflexible again to rebuild those two tanks? Big facepalm! At the same time a private space company is very close to reaching 100 launches of a reusable rockets this year, the same company ESA was launghing at some years ago when they started to try reusing an orbital class rocket!
A good book on how to frugally colonize our solar system is Second Exodus Colony. Located at the Internet Archives.
Dream chaser is the only vehicle that I care about outside SpaceX, maybe RocketLab, but they're a distant third.
why do we have to re-enter the atmosphere fast? Cant we use engines to descend slowly so it doesn't cause fire to develop on the tiles?
The fuel transfer will be interesting. S28 is already out of the Megabay, if they did mods to the ship to allow for the transfer it will already have been done . Hopewell can get a gleem into them doing the transfer. I'd hate to s e a last minute mod done to the ship. They're still trying get ship into orbit without any mechanical failure like S25 exploding.
reminds me of the space ship from FarScape
Lifting Bodies testing began in the 1960’s… Remember the “Six Million Dollar Man” opening, was a 2-Vertical Tail model… A shape similar to Dream Chaser’s was also proven… What’s old is new again!!
Now to build something like Sojourner from for all mankind
"Yuope has a problem" Yeah, that about sums it up.
0:25 It resembles the Black knight satellite...
SpaceX can launch it.
Would they have the money to go into production?
A 3rd option for Vega would be to 3d print new tanks...
You could easily guess which photos where which device, all Sony pics are warmer
Dream Chaser == MiG 105
@darinladd5312
5 ай бұрын
= dyna soar.
@JigilJigil
4 ай бұрын
Sorry to disappoint you, but it is based on Boeing X20 Dyna-Soar, actually Russians stole and copied the tech & the design, Soviet Mig-105 or BOR-4 were in 60s and 80s respectively while United States Air Force was working on X-20 Dyna-Soar in 50s.
Damn it !! Don't you know I watch all your shit... !! I was 10 minutes into this before I realized I had watched it Before !! I'm 70 yo and my Dad used to say the same thing when he was 83 !! But he didn't mind as he could watch his favorite TV show two days in a row !! ...and actually I'm just give you a hard time, it happens all the time, but I did think I had a new drop... until 10 minutes in... and Thank You, Sir... again Sir... !! ... lol...!!
2025 launch of Artemis 3 to land humans on the Moon was never realistic. 2027....Maybe but a lot of technical hurdles remain including dual starship refueling test and a non human starship demonstration landing must occur before NASA commits humans
@TheSpaceRaceYT
5 ай бұрын
Agreed, 2025 always seemed incredibly ambitious
@frankmcgowan9457
5 ай бұрын
True enough but I'm guessing that if NASA runs interference with the federal bureaucracy, we will all be amazed at what they accomplish and how quickly the get it done.
Suddenly the thumbnail changed. 😳
Stargazer!!!
Beyond the fuel transfer challenges, I'm _really_ having trouble seeing how they're going to get the Starship human-rated in anywhere near time for Artemis
@Dag0n3t
5 ай бұрын
i'm just waiting on the postponement to be announced, It feels inevitable at this point.
It goes back to Dyna soar program
@darinladd5312
5 ай бұрын
1957-1963.
Who going to launch 🚀 it, SpaceX is the only one flying these days?
they repurposed the usaf dyna soar design from the 60s. it was a better design than the shuttle to begin with. adding an external cargo bay solves the dyna soar problem, and the lifting body design solves the shuttle's problem. with a slight paradigm shift.
‘Years to put on the tiles’ imagine space x saying that
According to experts, the American Dream Chaser is neither more nor less than an unsuccessfully copied Soviet "BOR" (Spiral), which qualified American engineers managed to recreate only partially...
😂😂😂 Looks mysteriously similar to the one the military uses and the Phantom 'Aurora Project' craft. Finally, done, huh? It has state of the art tech, I bet! 😅
The Dream Chaser Space Craft looks like a bigger version of the one from the Farscape TV Series.
@vladimirnikolskiy
3 ай бұрын
No, it looks like a bad copy of the Soviet Spiral project.
Looks like the Farscape One.
Dreamchaser. Let's see. Does HL-20 from 60 years ago sound familiar? If it's a Boeing, it ain't going. And cost a LOT.
This is cool but small they need a space craft like the space shuttle but new and improved, So they can take big things to and from space ????
@darinladd5312
5 ай бұрын
absolutely incorrect. i'll let you do your own research as to why....
Does that come with their $10,000 coffee maker from Walmart?
When will we see a dream chaser mounted onto a dragon & falcon (9/heavy)?
10:09 watch there be some mysteriously missing money on top of it
"Boss, bad news. I misplaced 2 rockets stages."
If we are going to explore space can we all take time to think about what we will do there because if it's about making the same mess there as we do here it ain't worth it.
Nice! Can someone explain why NASA is going to use SLA? SpaceX Starship (100 people capacity) could do the whole work alone without SLA (4 people capacity)... is it about the timing as Starship is not prepared for people transport yet? But the plans assume it would be to hold people as a moon lander so it is not the valid argument...hmm...
Dream chaser is SOOO small! They should have doubled its size… then it would be mildly useful.
@winslowjoy2629
5 ай бұрын
Then what would launch it?
They SO need to paint one to look like Gizmo Duck…
Sovjet build on in the 60s
Vega === " Stupid is as stupid does " Forrest Gump.
When/if (sorry open minded) we went to the moon the LEM only had a few steps down . So how the hell are they going to be able to leave the lander when they land if they land . Dam they need some long steps .
Notification Squad! :)
Mini shuttle, suppose it will be ok for the sandwich run.....