Wow, that picture with the Moon and the Falcon Heavy is a masterpiece! 8:14

@synonys

5 ай бұрын

8:14

Best thing about using Jack Black as a unit of measurement, his mother worked on the Apollo program.

@fensoxx

5 ай бұрын

No way really? Doing what?

@laurenmp7486

5 ай бұрын

@@fensoxx a bunch of stuff, including the abort guidance system, which is part of what saved the crew of Apollo 13. She also worked on other rocket and missile stuff, just Google Judith Love Cohen and you can find a bunch about her.

@orionbarnes1733

5 ай бұрын

@@fensoxx providing the world with a legend

@Astromath

5 ай бұрын

​@@fensoxxI believe she worked on calculating the free-return trajectory for Apollo 8, among other things

@ItsReallyJackBlack

5 ай бұрын

Much better than using your mom as a unit of measurement.

I had forgotten how much New Shepherd looks like a flying phallus. So fun to watch.

@philipgrice1026

5 ай бұрын

Yep! It's Jeff's dildo, and he's managed to get it up again. Wonders will never cease. Can you imagine Bezos owning ULA? That's scary. The North Koreans would have a base on the Moon before 'Benny Hill look-alike' Bezos could get a ULA product to the moon, given his past performance. And I use the term 'performance' generously. I'd rather see ULA becomes a Cessna division. Wow. From first solo to first orbit with one company. That would be kewl!

@dandel351

5 ай бұрын

Just need a couple of oval "Boosters" strapped to the base of it 🤣🚀

@user-df5zm4dk1c

5 ай бұрын

It’s modelled after Jeff Bezos’ bald head, which has a similarly evocative appearance.

@sophiamarchildon3998

5 ай бұрын

"It's a giant...", "Willie! Are you seeing this too?"

@ceddyd

5 ай бұрын

They launched a giant dick into space. And the rocket he was on looked funny.

I saw one of the Gemini-Agena double launches when I was a kid. We lived in Fort Lauderdale and took my dad's boat all the way up to Merritt island to watch. Dad said it was a good launch to go to because we'd get two rockets instead of just one. I remember the Agena launching, then we waited an hour and a half for it to come around again so the Gemini could go chase after it. I'm glad my dad took us because I still remember it to this day.

@RC-fp1tl

5 ай бұрын

W dad. Sounds super cool! Thanks for sharing!

@mjproebstle

5 ай бұрын

That sounds like an awesome day to remember

Please say someone tagged Jack Black to let him know that he's now an absolute unit... of measure!

@JaredMeadows

5 ай бұрын

16:51 🤣

@ericbrenenstuhl6039

5 ай бұрын

Is that by width or length lolz? And no, he can't be a unit of measure because all of his measurements are variable.

I am a cynical man. But seeing so many new rockets and projects from around the world along with true dreams like Starship really makes me exited for the next year.

Gee, I just had a conversation with a friend yesterday about space exploration and he wondered why there wasn't more. I told him the mass media doesn't pay much attention to space like they used to but the NASA web page and others like it are always available. So now I can send him this link to show that yes the world is still interested in space and yes there have been big advances this past year! And now 2024 is shaping up to be a very busy year!

@filanfyretracker

5 ай бұрын

I can tell id not last long in charge of a TV network, I figure the first time I disrupted a reality show for a rocket launch id be fired. "We had 35 million viewers wanting to see who this dude who looks like a hotel bartender is going bone and you showed a Falcon Heavy launch?"

Textron also owns Bell helicopter and Beechcraft, not to mention Lycoming who make turbine and piston aircraft engines.

@MrGordy61

5 ай бұрын

The Textron name used to be on a lot of things. Two thatimediatly come to mind are calculators, and the old Homelite chainsaw out in the shed, the riveted on serial # tag says Textron Corp. on it.

@2drx4

5 ай бұрын

They make dumpsters too. Not figuratively.

@paulmoir4452

5 ай бұрын

@@MrGordy61 Notwithstanding the Prestolite ignition system, the made in Quebec Textron chainsaw is the GOAT.

@MrGordy61

5 ай бұрын

@@paulmoir4452 Yep, replaced the coil twice, but it puts my other saws to shame when it comes to chewing up logs ;-) Too bad they sold homelite to someone who cheapened the crap out of the brand and ranit into the ground.

@FastSloth87

5 ай бұрын

@@MrGordy61 calculators? aren't you mixing it up with Texas Instruments?

13:07 You said 5 of those launches were Falcon 9s when of course you meant Falcon heavy.

@davetremaine9688

5 ай бұрын

I heard that and said to myself "he must mean Falcon Heavy... wait did SpaceX launch Falcon Heavy 5 times this year?!?!?" Somehow I only remembered the last 2 of the year

13:07 I think you mean 5 of those launches were *Falcon Heavy*

I'm glad the Lucy probe is doing well! By random chance we were returning to Port Canaveral aboard Carnival's Mardi Gras the morning of Lucy's launch, and we were running at max speed so we could clear the launch range safety area in time. We made it into the port and cleared the range just in time to watch the launch from the deck of our ship...and it was glorious. An unexpected but wonderful end to a great cruise.

@IronFist.

5 ай бұрын

Awesome story! Port Canaveral is the greatest cruise terminal in the world because of its proximity to the launch complex. Not too many places in the world where you can see a rocket launch, landing, and catch a cruise to the Caribbean all in one shot. 😎

Happy new year Scott - looking forward to your wonderful commentary in 2024

The Jack Black will never replace the Smoot!

@frankgulla2335

5 ай бұрын

That's for sure!

Thank you so much for these update videos. I love hearing all of the space related news. I've been following you since your KSP videos in 2012. Cheers!

Thanks Scott for keeping track of all this.

John Kraus photo is🤯absolutely epic!

I read about the Vega upper stage on Ars Technica when the news came out. I hoped you would do a video on it. I was most curious about the architecture of the Vega upper stage, and how it was possible to "lose" only part of the stage. Thanks for all you do, and fly safe!

@JamesGravesJr

5 ай бұрын

What's a little wacky to me is that titanium is expensive, you'd think that these tanks, instead of going to a landfill, would instead have gone to a scrap metal recycler to be melted down and reused.

@d.jensen5153

5 ай бұрын

@@JamesGravesJr Apparently Avio can't be bothered to do a lot of things.

Amazing update, Scott! Been a fascinating month and year! Looking forward to what's to come!

Thanks Scott! AWESOME content as ever, keep it up, it's much appreciated! Happy New Year to you, your family, friends and loved ones! 🙂😎🤓❤

Happy new year, Scott! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Happy New Year Scott!! Great start for 2024. Thanks for the first video of the year.

Thank you Scott for all the updates in 2023. Look forward to 2024!

Thanks Scott and best wishes for 2024

You and EverydayAstronaut Dj'ing together is like a space party nerd-a-palooza... and I'm here for it!

Great annual update. Thanks and Happy New Year Scott!

Happy New Year ya legend. Keep up the good content Mr Manley - you fly safe!

Thanks for the update, and Happy New Year Scott!

That was a lot of info, well done Scott. Happy New Year.

6:37 It’s a GIFT scott geez, they should be *grateful* ( /s obviously) (Edit: added clarification in case lol)

Thank you for this great summery, Scott. Happy New Year!

Thanks for the updates Scott!

Thanks for all your great work!

Happy New Year Scott. Thanks.

6:32 So glad that no house was damaged, unlike last time...

Happy New Year Scott! Fly safe

I learned a thing or two, and got entertained as well. A jolly delightful start to 2024 😅

The Jack Black is a good unit of measurement, just short of a fathom, but I'd like to propose the "Manley" - a standardized measure of baldness.

Space explainer extraordinaire! Happy New Year sir.

Just yesterday I was saying to myself, "I wish there was another Scott Manley episode available." Always a pleasure.

Scott Manley, my favorite lunchtime viewing

Happy new year Mr Manley 🙂

Scott, as usual, you delivered the latest on "Deep Space". Thank you. Sorry, I will miss you and Tim on the same stage. Please be sure to get some video.

Great updates video, 2023 was quite a year.

Happy New Year Scott!

Happy New Year, Scott Manley. Thank you for all of the hard work you did to help keep the rest of us informed. I especially appreciate the effort you put into keeping us up-to-date WRT the space launch activity of countries aside from the United States and NZ (China, India, NK and Russia).

That was quite a Citation, thanks.

Great video, Scott...👍

Happy new year Scotty 🙋‍♀️

HNY, Scott! 🎉

When your upper stage tanks wind up crushed in a landfill...🤣

GOOD JOB

Happy new year 🎉

Happy new year Scott.

"That's 144 for those that can do basic maths". Puts calculator down and concurs with Scott.

Happy 2024 everyone. I've just been reading about Vega's missing tanks. Looks like the tanks had not been entered into the company wide database. Good grief. Heads really should roll for that.

great vid.

Thanks!

Hi Scott! Fly safe!

Honest giggle at the 420 jack blacks lol

8:17 what a shot!

The video signal took 101 seconds to reach Earth, sent at 267 Mbps. That's around 3.3 gigabytes of data floating around in space.

cool capture of those NLC's i live far enough north in Canada i get to see the natural ones a couple times every summer.

While NTO probably flew away fast imagine having an Hydrazine spill in your backyard...

That was some cool drone footage

thanks

Haha. That satellite link is faster than Australia's national broadband network! 👍😆

So you just clocked 51. Congrats !

Finally the cone shape is being used

Nice. 👍

Bug smasher is the correct aviation term for a Cessna.

I’ve seen that footage of the booster stage dropping into the village. Apparently it’s a thing just about every time they launch from there a village (there are like 45 of them in the areas around there) gets a visit. Several houses have been damaged and one girl (14) killed. One villager got paid the Chinese equivalent of $250 dollars for damages. Another guy was given the equivalent of like $45 for spending a day recovering one booster from the forest outside the village. That man was not exactly pleased with the pay out! 😂 It was all translated to English so who knows how accurate that was.

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx

5 ай бұрын

So it could have been $25 for the damage and only $4.50 for recovering that highly toxic .... 🚀🏴‍☠️🎸

@abc-coleaks-info3180

5 ай бұрын

@@MichaelWinter-ss6lx yes, the footage I seen even showed the hypergolic fuel vapor wafting about. The villagers waited a bit for it to dissipate but then walked straight to it and it was still smoking. Some of the translation was of the villagers complaining about the smell. Well if they could smell it, they could breathe it.

I loved the cat video from JPL

rotating detonation hype!!!

A nostalgic reminder that Textron owned Polaris snowmobiles in the mid 1970s when their liquid cooled engine IFS RXL sleds were the hottest thing on skis after Mercury left the industry taking their amazing Sno-Twister out of the market. Maybe a little biased since a buddy and I had a Polaris dealership at the time. Now Textron owns Artic Cat after selling Polaris.

I'm pretty sure the first spacecraft to reenter using a non-ablative heat shield is not the X-37B. It might not be the space shuttle Columbia either-can't find a source but I think an early Mercury used a heat sink shield.

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx

5 ай бұрын

What about X15 ? The Mercury had the 3 engines sticking out from underneath, but might have been disposed of before decent. How did the Gemini come down, to land on a salt lake with skids, and a kind of dragster parachute ? The engines were in a "trunk", like Dragon has for extra payload. 🚀🏴‍☠️🎸

@robertmiller9735

5 ай бұрын

X-15 was suborbital, re-entering at much lower velocity, so less heat. Mercury did have detachable retros which where detached before entry (except on Glenn's flight). And while Gemini was designed to descend horizontally, the heat shield was in the back as usual.

Amazing

Textron also made a fighter out of the cessna plant. Got to see it at an air show.

One video I remember was really good was rods from the gods within KSP , surprisingly veritasium tried to make a video about it but I liked yours better

I think you're wrong about the Citation guys calling themselves Citation on the radio because they don't want to be associated with the diddly 172. In controlled airspace, the controllers want to know what plane characteristics they're dealing with. On the control strips in ATC, there's a code what aircraft type this flight is, and to that code, there's a fixed radio phraseology what this is called. So, the controller sees GLEX on his strip, he calls out, "Global Express , do ". It's just so nobody confuses the light piston single that can do maybe 110 knots with a twin jet that can do 400...

The 420 Jack blacks is extremely funny . I live in USA . It so fits Jack . I'm sure he loves your mention 😜

You forgot to mention that NASA released new pictures of Uranus.

@KevinSmith-ys3mh

5 ай бұрын

Did they verify the presence of Klingons? 😂

Did the recent Long March 5 launch leave a honking heavy 2nd stage in orbit, ready to come down on someone's house? Happy New Year, good luck with your airplane!

Thats so disheartening to hear about the Firefly 2nd stage... I really hope their company succeeds I love the story behind their rocket 💚

Oh Scott, you did not have any news about Dream Chaser? That is the one I am waiting to see launch!

Happy New year scott, What are you going to play at the space conference? Downtempo, Trip hop, Techno, pop? You are dj SnM right? I spin Jungle, Dnb, footwork, hiphop.

that's an interesting occasion for a dj set. the more interesting question is - will you go vinyl or digital for that one?

4twenty + the funny number = the best combination! 💚

17:05 It's all a plot! Cats will conquer the universe! Mark my words!

freaking awesome episode! Love the nod to pop culture! you rock!

Me clicking on a Scott Manley video: "OK Scott teach me something interesting and spacey so I can seem smart among my friends and family." 😎😂

@oberonpanopticon

5 ай бұрын

My parents just generally assume whatever I’m saying is correct I’m always mildly tempted to just start making shit up while I’m rambling

@BURDYMAN777

5 ай бұрын

​@oberonpanopticon same haha. So many awesome things to talk about already, it's hard to think of cooler things. Especially with all the UAP stuff going on as well.

If I were Textron's leadership I would totally rebrand ULA as Cessna and put the old school Cessna logo on future rockets.

That Electron launch name really sounds like something out of the Cthulhu mythos or a D&D game.

I really want to talk to people in the recycling centre accepting that piece of a rocket and saying: are you sure? Ok, thanks.

10:45 is it just me or does that thing accelerate ridiculously fast?

@BrassLock

5 ай бұрын

Does look like the videographer got overly excited and dropped the camera a few degrees in rapid succession.

@Mark_Bridges

5 ай бұрын

"Is it just me" Can you accelerate ridiculously fast too? I'd like to see a video of you doing that.

@sciencedude22

5 ай бұрын

those ISRO rockets can handle crazy g-forces!

😂 Scott your Chinese pronunciation is awesome 😂

228 launches with only 12 failures is just over 5% failure rate. Utterly impressive!

@jackdbur

5 ай бұрын

1 pre-launch failure 1 launch failure 3 engine failure with successful payload delivery and 12 landing losses

Talking about confusing a Jet with a Prop, a few years ago I flew a Grob G115 single engine aircraft VH-ZTL at the same time in the same airspace in to Perth Australia as my company Citation Bravo VH-ZLT. The ATC guy was very confused! 🤣

13:05 ... "falcon heavy".

Little Cessna prop that costs more than a small family home, not to mention the operational cost.

They also used to sell (I'm not sure if they made them or not) zero radius professional mowers. I own one that's over 25 years old.