@scottmanley Scott Manley
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"What Would SpaceX's Space Datacenter Plans Look Like In the last week SpaceX has acquired XAI and presumably related to that they submitted plans to the FCC exploring the construction of a compute cluster in Earth orbit with one million spacecraft. So I try to use Universe Sandbox to visualize this. and it's not easy. For technical reasons this is a limited version visualizing the kind of orbits we expect but you can play with it yourself if you own Universe Sandbox https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/id=3663931075 Follow me on Twitter for more updates:"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T01:59Z 1.8M followers, 130K engagements
"The First Global Satellite Constellations - How Iridium & Globalstar Changed The World [--] decades before Starlink multiple satellite constellations were in development constellations which would enable connectivity to anywhere on the planet. Iridium and Globalstar were the ones which succeeded in launching but neither were able to make back their investment and entered bankrupt. However they both emerged on the other side and were able to maintain their business without the crippling debt. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I"
YouTube Link 2023-12-23T05:40Z 1.8M followers, 160.5K engagements
"How The Space Shuttle Started Its Engines And Launched During the last [--] seconds before launch the Space Shuttle performed thousands to operations to turn on the engines safely bring them to speed and leave the launch pad. There's dozens of engineering cameras which tracked these operations and they make for amazing viewing. I used this footage to lay out the operations and explain everything that's happening during this amazingly complex choreographed set of operations that are needed to get the Shuttle off the pad and on its way to space. Based on Footage from this video produced by NASA"
YouTube Link 2021-11-06T15:54Z 1.8M followers, 1.6M engagements
"SpaceX Shows Off Amazing View of Starlink Satellites From Starlink launch group 6-1 - a new camera on the captive tensioning rods gives a complete view of the upper stage stack on orbit. It's the ultimate selfie stick. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2023-02-28T17:05Z 1.8M followers, 2M engagements
"Saw Both Shuttle Disasters In Person Still Flew To Space. Was the backup for Challenger and was supposed to greet Columbia but wasn't deterred and would fly on Endeavor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Morgan Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2026-01-28T19:53Z 1.8M followers, 428.5K engagements
"How To Deorbit The International Space Station Safely The International Space Station may one day be forced to return to Earth so that it safely burns up over the ocean and this is actually a surprisingly complicated task given the huge mass of the station and the limited propulsion available. The plans aren't final by any means but this discusses the problems and one particular option using multiple progress spacecraft to augment the propulsion and propellent available for deorbiting this historic orbital facility. Some diagrams and figures are from the paper "ISS CONTROLLED DEORBIT:"
YouTube Link 2021-11-12T18:18Z 1.8M followers, 596.3K engagements
"Stunning New Videos From NASA's Asteroid Impacting Spacecraft Reveal Amazing Details Earlier this year a new paper on the NASA DART mission included some new processed videos which massively improved the quality of the imagery we have for the first time we can easily understand the 3D relationship between the asteroids and the ejecta cone. But beyond that there are individual boulders which can be seen and tracked and this leads to an idea about what might have happened during the impact. The newly processed videos are from the Paper "High-speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta""
YouTube Link 2025-09-23T14:47Z 1.8M followers, 211.4K engagements
"Was Apollo [--] Really Running Out Of Fuel Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-12-28T19:13Z 1.8M followers, 165.1K engagements
"ABL's RS-1 Rocket Fails Seconds Into its Maiden Launch ABL Space Systems made their maiden launch and it looks like it crashed back to earth after about [--] seconds. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2023-01-13T19:01Z 1.8M followers, 2.4M engagements
"How To Start The Massive F-1 Rocket Engine - Explaining "Ignition Sequence Start" Seconds before the launch of a Saturn V we hear the launch commentator calling out 'Ignition Sequence Start'. The ignition sequence is a complicated series of steps which spin the engine up to speed and light the combustion chamber so that the rocket lifts off rather than explodes. f-1 saturn v apollo apollo [--] rocket science liquid oxygen lox rp-1 kerosene rocket engine nasa f-1 saturn v apollo apollo [--] rocket science liquid oxygen lox rp-1 kerosene rocket engine nasa"
YouTube Link 2019-07-18T13:22Z 1.8M followers, 1.9M engagements
"Millions of New Asteroids - How The Vera Rubin Telescope Changes Everything The New Vera C Rubin Obsservatory in Chile is a fast telescope designed to survey the night sky at great depth and revisiting the same locations every few days. That means it's designed to collect data about the sky over space and TIME this massive data set will grow [--] terabytes per day and instead of requesting telescope time for scientific studies scientists will just be able to grab the data they need and apply computer power to analyze their problem. It's an absolutely revolutionary design in terms of its optics"
YouTube Link 2025-06-25T15:06Z 1.8M followers, 323.2K engagements
"What Makes Lagrange Points Special Locations In Space Lagrange Points are special locations in planetary systems where gravitational and rotational forces cancel out. Sometimes we find asteroids or dust clouds lingering near these places. Space missions may use some of these locations for spacecraft as they offer many advantages over orbiting in the Earth directly. Universe Sandbox is used for some of the [--] body problem animations https://universesandbox.com/ Other graphics are created with GMAT and POV Ray For a more mathematical derivation of these check out this series:"
YouTube Link 2021-10-15T22:02Z 1.8M followers, 1.6M engagements
"How Do You Make Rocket Fuels There's a huge variety of rocket fuels in use - RP-1 LOX LH2 Methane Hydrazine etc - Large quantities are needed usually shipped to the launch sites in tanker trucks but how do the fuels actually get made The industrial processed involved use chemistry physics and even biology to create the final product and they're the result of decades of research and experience. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly"
YouTube Link 2023-02-26T00:29Z 1.8M followers, 450.2K engagements
"The Toughest Space Probe Ever - How NASA Dropped A Probe Into Jupiter The Galileo mission to Jupiter featured a space probe which would be dropped into the atmosphere of Jupiter. Because of this planet's gravity the atmosphere probe would experience conditions that no other spacecraft has seen. Entry velocities [--] times faster than those experiences by humans returning from orbit massively higher temperatures and head fluxes and no way to test the system fully on Earth. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:"
YouTube Link 2024-12-15T18:05Z 1.8M followers, 546.7K engagements
"Going Nuclear - Part [--] - Uranium Enrichment The previous episodes covered the science behind how nuclear reactions and weapons work but the real barrier to building a device is the creation of the fissile material. Uranium in its natural form cannot sustain a fast chain reaction it needs to be enriched to eliminate the non fissile isotopes and developing this process was one of the largest projects in the Manhattan Project. This is largely a broad overview much of the details are classified. This is Cody's video on Uranium refining for those interested in the Chemistry:"
YouTube Link 2018-07-02T01:30Z 1.8M followers, 448.1K engagements
"Why Nuclear Rockets Are Going To Change Spaceflight Nuclear Rocket Engines or more correctly Nuclear Thermal Rockets were seen as a key technological requirement for missions beyond the moon and a lot of science and engineering effort was directed towards building a workable solution before the conclusion of the Space Race lead to the drawdown of funding for missions beyond Apollo. But the technology is back on the roadmap and is expected to be tested as soon as [----] with the DRACO mission. So in this video I want to explain why nuclear rockets can beat chemical rockets and Ion engines for"
YouTube Link 2024-06-02T18:34Z 1.8M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Far Future Rocket Engine Technologies - Fission Fusion & Antimatter In my NSWR video I used Kerbal Space Program to visualize the operation of this awesome engine in an imaginary future this came from a free fan created mod which covered a whole host of future engine concepts - Far Future Technologies by Nertea. The mod is available for the latest version of Kerbal Space Program and I suggest looking at the other mods produced by the same creator covering a number of other space technologies not in the base game."
YouTube Link 2021-01-15T17:06Z 1.8M followers, 641.8K engagements
"Launching From The Moon With Silicon Based Rocket Fuel And Other Ideas - Deep Space Questions Answering a question from my supporters over at Patreon - 'Assuming there will be mining and smelting operations on the moon how would you launch the resultant products into lunar or even earth orbit Spin-launch chemical rockets electro-magnetic angled ramp or other' https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM"
YouTube Link 2025-04-11T23:33Z 1.8M followers, 430.8K engagements
"Could This Be The True Successor To Kerbal Space Program Kerbal Space Program helped a whole generation of smart kids become rocket scientists sometimes for real. However the development of the game has since stopped and the sequel was never completed. And so an independent group of developers have decided to create a spiritual successor in the form of Kitten Space Agency. One of the most important problems they tackled was the game engine. KSP was built on a game engine which could truly model the scales needed for spaceflight with the precision required. KSA developers are creating Brutal a"
YouTube Link 2025-11-16T20:13Z 1.8M followers, 385.7K engagements
"Could We Land On The Moon Using Only A Single Starship Launch Building Apollo With Modern Rockets. Answering a Question from a Patreon supporter I tried to design a US lunar landing mission which used existing or planned hardware and had all the necessary delta-V requirements to get the crew to the moon and back safely. The biggest stumbling blocks are that both Human landing systems are still being built but everything else I choose has proven flight heritage. MHW [----] Super-Symmetrical asked: 'Given the complexity of in orbit refueling and the large number of flights. It takes what if we"
YouTube Link 2025-05-09T15:57Z 1.8M followers, 343.9K engagements
"How Deadly Are The Van Allen Radiation Belts The radiation belts around the Earth were discovered by James Van Allen in the late 1950's using data from the earliest US satellites and very quickly he concluded that the radiation levels were high enough to cause concern for human spaceflight. The belts have been well studied but they're still not perfectly understood for example the source of the low frequency radio waves that clear out the slot region between the inner and outer belts. Using models of the belts and radiation analysis tools we show just how much radiation crew would be exposed"
YouTube Link 2020-07-25T18:43Z 1.8M followers, 513.6K engagements
"Apollo 10's Lunar Module Snoopy Is Lost In Space - Could We Bring it Home The lunar module flown on Apollo [--] is the only flown lunar module which didn't end up crashing into the moon or burning up in the Earth's atmosphere. After the testing in lunar orbit the ascent engine performed a burn to depletion which meant it escaped into interplanetary space. At this moment the location is unknown but people are looking for it however it could take decades to be sure since it only comes into the vicinity of the Earth every [--] years or so. If it were found however would it be possible to bring it"
YouTube Link 2019-05-20T16:57Z 1.8M followers, 695.6K engagements
"Can The Human Body Handle Rotating Artificial Gravity Artificial gravity for spaceflight is a concept older than spaceflight itself but we've only ever seen one small scale test ever flown in space. However decades of research have been performed to show that the human body can adapt to the conditions required for rotating artificial gravity. This shows that it's an engineering problem that likely solvable for interested parties who want to spend the time effort and money creating the classic rotating space stations from Science Fiction. Here's a couple of papers which were heavily referenced"
YouTube Link 2021-08-17T20:32Z 1.8M followers, 2.9M engagements
"The First Interstellar Software Update - The Insane Hack That Saved Voyager [--] In November [----] Voyager [--] stopped communicating with Earth the telemetry it was sending contained no information but engineers working on the spacecraft could tell it was still listening. It would take months of experimenting to understand the problem and develop a fix using techniques that had never been employed before and designing software for a [--] year old computer using pen and paper. Based on presentations by Bruce Waggoner and David Cummings - check out the originals: https://youtu.be/7YgebbAqVmY"
YouTube Link 2025-05-17T13:01Z 1.8M followers, 811.5K engagements
"The Craziest Things You Can Do With Nuclear Weapons Do you have a giant stockpile of world ending nuclear warheads and want some good PR to suggest they're not only useful for destroying cities Here's crazy [--] things you can do with nuclear weapons that you might not have heard of. For education purposes only do not try this at home. Thanks to 'Martin Doomsday Pfeiffer () 🏳🌈 / @NuclearAnthro' for reminding me of a bunch of these. https://twitter.com/NuclearAnthro nuclear weapons project plowshare elon musk nuke mars sweetcorn starfish sedan nevada manhattan project nuclear weapons project"
YouTube Link 2019-08-23T15:00Z 1.8M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Why Chernobyl Exploded - The Real Physics Behind The Reactor With the TV show doing a great job at delivering its explanation in a manner that most people can easily understand I felt I wanted to do a more detailed description. So I cover basic reactor physics explain how the RBMK reactor works how Xenon [---] works Why the control rods included graphite tips and why the reactor became unstable and ran away. Many of the diagrams here are from https://www.nuclear-power.net and they have Lots more information on Nuclear Physics https://www.nuclear-power.net And of course I highly recommend the TV"
YouTube Link 2019-06-08T17:56Z 1.8M followers, 5M engagements
"How GPS Works And How It Got Better Than The Designers Ever Imagined Civilian GPS was originally supposed to have a precision of 100meters nowadays it's good within [--] meter and some small aircraft can use this precision to land entirely on autopilot. There's a lot of things that made this possible on one part new technology and on the other simply removing road blocks. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon"
YouTube Link 2023-08-31T18:09Z 1.8M followers, 952.6K engagements
"What Is A Rotating Detonation Engine - And Why Are They Better Than Regular Engines There's been a few stories recently about detonation engines and how they're supposed to be superior to traditional jet or rocket engines. So what is a detonation engine what's the difference between a pulsed and rotating engine and why does thermodynamics predict these are better than traditional engine designs"
YouTube Link 2020-05-11T23:44Z 1.8M followers, 1.4M engagements
"GPS Jamming & Spoofing - How Does It Work And Who's Doing It There's been lots of stories over the last few years about GPS Jamming and Spoofing this was always something that was known to be possible but in the last few years it's become a near constant feature of conflicts hot and cold around the world. Track GPS Interference using ADS-B data https://gpsjam.org/ Sorry about the crappy AI Generated thumbnail I'm just running out of spare time. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you"
YouTube Link 2024-05-13T17:01Z 1.8M followers, 298.7K engagements
"Reconstructing The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster - Learning Lessons From The Largest Crash Site On February 1st [----] Space Shuttle Columbia broke up during reentry killing all [--] crew. Commander Rick Husband Pilot William McCool Mission Specialists David Brown Kalpana Chalwa and Michael Anderson Payload Specialists Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon. The debris recovery operation also claimed the lives of Jules F. Mier Jr & Charles Krenek [--] years on we've not only solved the problems and moved on to new spacecraft but learned more about how to make spacecraft accidents of this type more"
YouTube Link 2023-02-02T00:33Z 1.8M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Rogue - The Original Roguelike Let's take a look at the origin of the term 'Roguelike' - the original [----] text terminal procedural content save-free dungeon crawler. Seeking the Amulet of Yendor in the dungeons of. err I forget. Look it's a game older than most of my fans. rogue roguelike history old school text rogue roguelike history old school text"
YouTube Link 2013-07-16T17:35Z 1.8M followers, 311.4K engagements
"India's Rocket Burns Up. AGAIN Startup Wants Hotel On Moon Deep Space Updates - January 12th Go to https://surfshark.com/manley or use code MANLEY at checkout to get [--] extra months of Surfshark VPN [----] Ended with a few more launches in India China and Russia. [----] Started and SpaceX are already leading the launch stats. Tory Bruno stunned the space world by moving to Blue Origin. The ISS is going to have a medical evacuation. Jared went on tour and Eric Schmidt formed CEO of Google wants to build world class astronomical observatories. Follow me on Twitter for more updates:"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T21:35Z 1.8M followers, 179K engagements
"SpaceX & Blue Origin Shoot For The moon - Deep Space Updates February 14th In a dramatic couple of weeks we see both Blue Origin and SpaceX reprioritize their programs making the Moon their focus. This may be one of the most significant weeks in history as two very capable space organizations laid out their plans to make the Moon a cornerstone of their future industrialization plans. In parallel we have a lot of launches the last flight of Proton Blok DM-03 an abort and recovery demonstration of the Long March [--] and Mengzhou capsule showing that China will soon be recovering rocket boosters."
YouTube Link 2026-02-14T16:57Z 1.8M followers, 164.1K engagements
"The Best Space Flight Simulator You Can Buy - Flip Every Switch Push Every Button Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator has finally reached the [---] release with the ability to play through almost all the important moments in the Mercury Gemini and Apollo programs. And by 'Play' I mean you can follow all the real documentation and checklists to perform the same complex procedures the astronauts needed for these historic flights. https://store.steampowered.com/app/882140/Reentry__A_Space_Flight_Simulator/ Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server"
YouTube Link 2025-11-27T18:22Z 1.8M followers, 234.2K engagements
"We Just Discovered The Fastest Interstellar Comet Yet - [------] MILES PER HOUR On July 1st the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of a comet on a hyperbolic orbit by ATLAS since then the orbit has been confirmed to have a hyperbolic excess of 58km/sec. This is only the 3rd interstellar object ever found and this is by far the fastest https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/des=2025%20N1&view=VOP Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can"
YouTube Link 2025-07-03T17:39Z 1.8M followers, 288.4K engagements
"Why Everyone Is Talking About Data Centers In Space Last year I made a video on Lumen orbit's proposal to build data centers in space now all the big players in spaceflight and AI are seriously looking at this. And while there's economic arguments that may be realized at some point in the future there are other forces that may drive this. Andrew McCalip's helpful tool for playing with numbers https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters Google's Suncatcher paper https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/suncatcher_paper.pdf The original Lumen (now Starcloud) paper."
YouTube Link 2025-12-21T20:18Z 1.8M followers, 374.3K engagements
"Stopping Power Why Radiation Shielding Is More Than Just Lead Bricks. Radiation Shielding is a standard trope in storytelling and you may well have heard about different radiation types and how materials work differently. However it's more complicated that you think sometimes a shield that's good for one source is bad for others and this comes down to the physics of radiation interacting with matter. So here's an overview of how radiation shielding works and what's going on at the subatomic level. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I"
YouTube Link 2026-01-12T18:10Z 1.8M followers, 210.2K engagements
"Airplane Lands Itself After Pilot Incapacitated A medical situation involving the pilot of a King Air aircraft had the potential to become a disaster but the new emergency autoland situation allowed the aircraft to land itself without any need for a crew. https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reported-safe/ Adam's Photos from the ground: https://www.facebook.com/adam.lendi/posts/pfbid0YF3ayW95LnSZVnGqY7ZRRUQpja2uYrhsddFtTVQoFGUxEhW5KwCXHJabpRGgTCePl Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:"
YouTube Link 2025-12-22T00:41Z 1.8M followers, 322.9K engagements
"Year End Rocket Launch Frenzy NASA Administrator Takes Control - Deep Space Update - Dec 23rd It's The end of the year and we have a rocket launch frenzy as everyone closes out their calendar. SpaceX China even Rocket Lab gets [--] more launches in. However for all the launch activity the most important event is in the US government where Jared Isaacman steps into the NASA Administrator role and Trump signs an executive order with new goals for US space policy. 0:00 - Hullo it's Scott Manley here 0:31 - Starlink Launches 0:58 - Guowang Launches 1:20 - The More Interesting Launches 12:14 - Long"
YouTube Link 2025-12-24T16:02Z 1.8M followers, 385K engagements
"How Real Satellites Dogfight - Proximity Operations In Space Explained Take your personal data back with Incogni Use code MANLEY at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/manley When spacecraft are moving around close to each other it's called 'Proximity Operations' the same laws of physics apply but we move the reference frame to the target spacecraft which means we see what looks like unexpected motion with spacecraft following ellipses and other paths not seen on earth. But these simple motions can be modelled by equations and easily broken down into simple"
YouTube Link 2025-12-29T21:00Z 1.8M followers, 224.6K engagements
"Rocket Implodes Instead of Explodes Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-12-17T22:43Z 1.8M followers, 262.6K engagements
"How Did The Shuttle Get Home Before GPS Having worked on the avionics in my plane I got curious as to how the space shuttle would navigate itself thousands of miles through reentry to a pinpoint landing in the days before GPS was a thing. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2024-04-01T18:14Z 1.8M followers, 714.8K engagements
"Blue Origin FINALLY Reveal All Their Secret Projects - Deep Space Updates - November 22nd Support Me By Buying My Stuff https://www.bonfire.com/scott-manley-rock-and-roll/ In the Last two weeks we saw SpaceX launch [--] times and Blue Origin only launched once but all the news is about Blue Origin somehow. But seriously the world has now exceeded last years launch count and both SpaceX and China are still launching with a blistering cadence. Blue Origin made the most of their big New Glenn success and revealed all the other cool projects they've been working on. Follow me on Twitter for more"
YouTube Link 2025-11-23T18:02Z 1.8M followers, 299.4K engagements
"Lost Engine Didn't Fall Down But Flew Up Over Doomed UPS Aircraft #UPS2976 The greatest stress on an aircraft engine is when the aircraft rotates for takeoff because gyroscopic precession adds extra load to the pylon. The engine on UPS [----] flew up and over the top of the aircraft as it separated because of this effect. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-11-24T22:04Z 1.8M followers, 704.2K engagements
"Blue Origin Landing Their Rocket on Their Second Attempt Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-11-13T23:08Z 1.8M followers, 2.2M engagements
"How Are Launch Windows Determined For [--] hours enjoy 15% OFF on all Hoverpens with code SCOTT or click on the link https://noviumdesign.shop/Scott - Free shipping to most countries. Also on Amazon: https://noviumdesign.shop/sKPBgb The time that a rocket needs to be launched is the result of many different factors that constrain when the launch can put the payload on to the correct trajectory and there's different strategies depending on the ultimate destination. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:"
YouTube Link 2025-12-09T15:23Z 1.8M followers, 190.4K engagements
"Japan's H3 Rocket Fails Satellite Burns Up Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-12-22T20:52Z 1.8M followers, 308.8K engagements
"Worlds Largest Laser - The Original Star Factory The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is the worlds most powerful laser (also the world's second most powerful laser) it's used for research into fusion physics able to create tiny nuclear explosions and observe the results in minute detail. Three years ago it achieved a landmark in inertial confinement fusion whereby the energy output exceeded the input and since then they've not just repeated the result but increased the output to more than [--] Megajoules. Thanks to Patrick Poole for leading this tour and answering my"
YouTube Link 2026-01-06T19:13Z 1.8M followers, 156.8K engagements
"SpaceX's Latest Booster Explosion Explained Given publicly available imagery I'm sure this was caused by a COPV failure again. Uses video From LabPadre: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=qw3uaLRrYNY Photos From https://x.com/StarshipGazer https://x.com/JordanGuidry6 https://x.com/FelixSchlang Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-11-22T19:15Z 1.8M followers, 827.9K engagements
"Russia Accidently Break Their Only Launch Pad To Space Station The Launch of Soyuz MS-28 was successful but the launch pad in Baikonur lost a critical piece of hardware which will require a lot of work to replace. Until this is done there's no way for Russia to launch Cargo or Crew to the International Space Station Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-11-30T01:51Z 1.8M followers, 600.2K engagements
"How Everyday Technology Is Used In Spaceflight NASA are finally allowing modern smartphones in space after private spaceflight has been using them for five years. But NASA has a long history of using everyday consumer electronics in spaceflight so I thought I'd pull together a few examples of things I've seen in historic photos from space. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2026-02-08T19:41Z 1.8M followers, 130.1K engagements
"How NASA Learned To Fly The Space Shuttle Like A Glider Before Space Shuttle Columbia could fly to space they needed to know that it would fly like a glider so that it could be landed. Learning how to fly was the primary mission of Enterprise the first space shuttle which was unveiled in [----] and named after the fictional Starship Enterprise (which was itself named after the real USS Enterprise.). There were years of modelling testing in wind tunnels and development of the design but it would take full scale tests to demonstrate that the Shuttle could really fly like a glider. The Approach"
YouTube Link 2021-10-07T17:29Z 1.8M followers, 2.6M engagements
"Boom's XB-1 Comes To Flight Sims Also Boom Sells Jet Engines For Datacenters. Two big piece of Boom news this week neither are particularly relevant to Overture but you can now fly the XB-1 in Microsoft Flight Simulator and it's a wonderfully detailed model. And they announced a gas turbine power projected named 'Superpower' which got them some more investment and could provide customers for their Symphony jet engine. https://boomsupersonic.com/superpower Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:"
YouTube Link 2025-12-10T18:39Z 1.8M followers, 68.5K engagements
"Record Number Of Spacecraft At Space Station #iss #soyuz #cygnus #spacex All [--] docking ports are in use: Crew [--] CRS-33 HTV-X1 Cygnus-23 Progress [--] & [--] Soyuz MS-27 & MS-28 Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-12-02T19:36Z 1.8M followers, 218.1K engagements
"China's Latest Booster Crash Lands after Second Stage Reaches Orbit China's Long March 12A is supposed to be able to recover the 1st stage but yesterday's test flight ended with the booster burning as it fell from space. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-12-23T22:00Z 1.8M followers, 689K engagements
"The End Of SpaceX Starship V2 - What Now SpaceX's Starship Program makes its final flight of its V2 Booster and Starship delivering a mission which appears to have met all the planned goals with no unexpected failures or explosions. Now SpaceX will be transitioning to the next and hopefully final version with upgraded engines redesigned structures and maybe the confidence to put it in orbit. Footage of Booster impact from NASASpaceFlight https://www.youtube.com/@NASASpaceflight Ground based footage of second stage from Astronomy Live https://www.youtube.com/@Astronomy_Live Follow me on"
YouTube Link 2025-10-14T07:24Z 1.8M followers, 499.3K engagements
"Kerbal Space Program - The Interstellar Quest - Episode [--] New series Using a pile of mods I plan to build out a new space program a worthy successor to the reusable space program with the ultimate goal of developing an interstellar starship. But don't worry there'll be plenty of non-sci-fi technology before we get there. Other rules are. * no Jeb/Bill/Bob - I only want mortal kerbals. * no cutting out of dumb mistakes sabotage or bad landing * No leaving kerbals in a one man capsule for decades (still looking at life support mod options) Episode one covers the first few missions [--] major"
YouTube Link 2013-11-03T17:45Z 1.8M followers, 1.5M engagements
"SpaceX Shows Off New Updated Vision of Lunar Starship Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-10-30T19:58Z 1.8M followers, 524.7K engagements
"Why Next Generation Rockets are Using Methane ULA's Vulcan rocket will be propelled Blue Origin's BE-4 engine and spaceX's next generation engine is the Raptor. Both are using Methane as a fuel rather than RP-1 or Hydrogen - so why is methane suddenly an ideal fuel for rockets after largely being ignored for half a century. methane rockets kerosene chemistry rocket science spacex ula raptor blue origin methane rockets kerosene chemistry rocket science spacex ula raptor blue origin"
YouTube Link 2018-10-02T16:53Z 1.8M followers, 844.6K engagements
"How To Send A Space Shuttle To The Moon "For All Mankind" is a TV show built around an alternate history of the space race and the trailer for season [--] includes one shot showing a space shuttle far enough from the Earth that it looks like it's coming back from the moon: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=U48vnfP0Rjo So let's do the math and figure out what it would take to send a Space Shuttle to the moon and why it's a really bad idea. The Space Shuttle orbiter model is part of the ReDirect mod for Kerbal Space program"
YouTube Link 2020-08-08T21:01Z 1.8M followers, 874.6K engagements
"What Went Wrong On Firefly's 6th Rocket Flight Did The Nozzle Fall Off The Second Stage On April 29th Firefly launched their alpha rocket with a payload for Lockheed Martin but something appeared to go wrong during stage separation and the nozzle extension from the second stage was lost. This reduced the engine performance to the point that it was unable to reach orbit. Let's look at what we have and see if we can figure out what happened. Addendum I'm pretty sure there's no piston pusher system on Firefly's alpha since we see the nozzle vectoring inside the interstage on flight [--] so maybe"
YouTube Link 2025-04-30T16:16Z 1.8M followers, 272.9K engagements
"Nike-Hercules - US's Surface To Air Missile with Nuclear Warheads. From [----] to [----] there were nuclear tipped surface to air missile stationed across the US ready to defend the country against massed squadrons of Soviet bombers. The Nike missile system began in [----] and developed a guided missile controlled by a computer on the ground it would quickly be renamed to Nike-Ajax and Nike-Hercules which used similar control equipment but Hercules could carry a W31 nuclear warhead. Find out more detail from these sites https://nikemissile.org/ http://www.ed-thelen.org/ Visit the Nike Missile Site"
YouTube Link 2021-09-11T13:54Z 1.8M followers, 344.6K engagements
"The Glorious Mohole - Gateway To The Singularity - Kerbal Space Program [--] The Kraken lives the Kraken is everywhere the Kraken is lurking at the core of Moho and the Mohole can bring us to the Kraken. Yes this is a bug in the early access release buyer beware. https://store.steampowered.com/app/954850/Kerbal_Space_Program_2/ Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2023-02-27T17:54Z 1.8M followers, 230.9K engagements
"Why Do Rockets 'Crackle' How Supersonic Jets Make This Distinctive Sound. Rockets are some of the loudest things that humans can experience the Saturn V generated more power than entire US electric grid and converted about 1% of that into sound There's a very distinctive crackle in the sound of a rocket which is a result of turbulence in the shear layer between the exhaust and the external atmosphere. I try to explain and visualize this using recordings of rocket launches and CFD simulations of jets. Thumbnail by Trevor Mahlmann Buy his images here:"
YouTube Link 2022-10-11T18:26Z 1.8M followers, 394.2K engagements
"Why Do Ion Thrusters Use Xenon KSP Doesn't Teach. Xenon is the most common propellant used on electrical propulsion systems in space it's also one of the more expensive gasses so what makes it especially suitable to Ion propulsion xenon rocket science technology xenon rocket science technology"
YouTube Link 2017-01-17T17:45Z 1.8M followers, 524.7K engagements
"Firefly Aerospace Explains Their Recent Rocket Failure https://fireflyspace.com/missions/alpha-flta006/ Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-08-26T23:16Z 1.8M followers, 98.5K engagements
"SpaceX's Water Landing Reveals Rocket "Secrets" (or What We Learned from CRS-16) Now that the CRS-16 capsule has berthed at the space station with a load of Christmas presents and other essential supplies it's time to look at what we've discovered in the last few days and clear up a few misconceptions. In particular I want to thank John Kraus for taking some great photos of the event - which is pretty much exactly what he does -check out his work and support it here: https://www.patreon.com/johnkrausphotos spacex booster falcon landing nasa hyrdaulics crash spacex booster falcon landing nasa"
YouTube Link 2018-12-08T19:31Z 1.8M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Medical Emergency On Space Station - Will Crew Come Home Early Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2026-01-08T19:20Z 1.8M followers, 231.8K engagements
"Amazing Camera Views From Inside SpaceX Rocket Fairings On Tuesday a great video was posted from the fairing of a SpaceX rocket carrying a payload of Starlink Satellites. It was one of the best looks at the interior of the fairings which are practically independent spacecraft able to control their entry & descent to steer their way to a rendezvous with the recovery vessels"
YouTube Link 2020-06-12T19:28Z 1.8M followers, 708.2K engagements
"Why Blue Origin's Lunar Lander Is A Radical Rethink Blue Origin's National Team won a $3.5 billion contract to develop and deploy a lunar lander for the Artemis program this is for landings after Artemis III which is currently supposed to be handled by SpaceX's Starship. Blue Origin's lander won over [--] other options with only the Dynetics Alpaca lander coming close. Blue Origin is the leader of the National Team which includes Lockheed Martin Boeing Draper Astrobotic and others. It's a [--] meter tall 100% reusable lander with the propellent tanks placed above the crew module allowing the crew"
YouTube Link 2023-05-22T01:48Z 1.8M followers, 424.6K engagements
"Electrifying An Inside Tour Of Archer Aviation's Midnight EVTOL: Engines Batteries & Simulator Archer Aviation is currently developing and testing the Midnight EVTOL an electrically powered aircraft using [--] rotors which can operate out of helipads and rapidly carry passengers to destinations around a metropolitan area in a similar fashion to Helicopters but quieter cleaner and easier to fly. I visited their facility in San Jose California where they designed and build their engines batteries and avionics. I got a tour from Archer's CTO Tom Muniz who gave me a great deep dive on the high"
YouTube Link 2024-10-17T19:30Z 1.8M followers, 238.7K engagements
"The Overview Effect #shorts"
YouTube Link 2021-05-20T17:31Z 1.8M followers, 415.3K engagements
"Going Nuclear - The Science Of Nuclear Weapons - Part [--] - Chain Reactions With the basic theory having shown that a nuclear chain reaction was possible the next step is to actually make it work first with a stable nuclear reactor - the Chicago Pile [--]. Then we discuss how to go from a controllable reactor to the very first nuclear device - the Little Boy. nuclear physics science little boy reactor uranium manhattan project nuclear physics science little boy reactor uranium manhattan project"
YouTube Link 2017-11-19T18:14Z 1.8M followers, 368.4K engagements
"Sea Launch And Its Amazing Ocean Going Rocket Launch Site Sea Launch was a launch provider who offered launched to geostationary orbit from a floating launch platform in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This enabled them to deliver satellites closer to the target orbit than any of their competitors using rockets that had been developed during the cold war. It was a collaboration between multiple organizations and while it went well initially it eventually struggled went bankrupt and stopped launching in [----] after the launch vehicle became a victim of politics"
YouTube Link 2020-08-25T21:13Z 1.8M followers, 279K engagements
"Why Does The Trident Missile Have A Spike On Its Nose The Lesser known aerospike the aerodynamic device found on the noses of missiles which have to have blunt noses to make them short enough to fit inside submarines. At supersonic speeds these reduce the drag by 50% and added 550km to the range of a Trident missile while still letting them fit in the same missile tubes designed for the original Polaris. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me"
YouTube Link 2022-12-08T17:43Z 1.8M followers, 554.7K engagements
"The Launch Umbilical Tower Model for the LEGO Saturn V Everyone keeps asking about the Saturn V model and launch tower in the background of some of my videos. Many of you know that the Saturn V is an official LEGO set which was hugely popular and is still available for purchase ( https://amzn.to/3ony2yL) despite being retired earlier this year. (EDIT: I found out it's being reissued under a new model number) The Tower and platform are based on a fan designs by Valerie Roche and Emmanuel Urquiet which made it through the LEGO ideas voting process but was rejected after human review. The plans"
YouTube Link 2020-10-23T18:45Z 1.8M followers, 214.1K engagements
"Shuttle Launch STS-114 In Portrait Video Shows Deadly Consequences for Avian #shorts STS-114 Return to flight - I just happened to find some portrait format video of this and thought this was a rare case where a Short actually made sense. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2021-12-03T17:46Z 1.8M followers, 13.1M engagements
"Why Atlas Is Using Dual Engine Centaur For Starliner Boeing's Starliner crew vehicle will be the first payload to use the Dual Engine Second Stage on the Atlas V since [----]. While the [--] engine version offers better payload to orbit it's very expensive and the actual reason for the [--] engine requirement is a bit more subtle and stems from earlier plans for post-Shuttle crew vehicles. NASA Spaceflight Forums has a lot more on this subject including links to many of the documents I'm citing https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.phptopic=42270.0 atlas starliner boeing crew ares nasa ula centaur"
YouTube Link 2018-09-04T20:10Z 1.8M followers, 276.2K engagements
"How Engineers Designed The First Computer To Fly In Space The Gemini spacecraft carried the first fully functional computer in space it ran with a clock speed of about 7kHz uses [--] bit data and 39bit memory words with [----] words of memory. It was one of the oddest computer architectures ever developed for a tiny niche only ever used on the Gemini. Some of the design may have made it into the Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital computer but The best source of information on the Gemini On Board Computer is here: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Gemini.html Amazing work has been done reconstructing the"
YouTube Link 2023-05-25T02:41Z 1.8M followers, 285.1K engagements
"Deep Space Questions: What Is Max-Q Strange Lights In The Sky Orbital Grammar A new installment answering questions from my supporters over at Patreon answering questions with minimal preparation and maximum speculation and maybe sometimes getting things right. If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM"
YouTube Link 2023-10-30T19:16Z 1.8M followers, 232.1K engagements
"Blue Origin Patent Shows Heat Shield-Aerospike Combo For New Glenn Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2023-07-18T14:47Z 1.8M followers, 284.1K engagements
"TIS-100 - The Assembly Language Puzzle Game That Nobody Asked For Zachtronics is back with an early access programming puzzler which is supposed to bring all the fun of coding assembly language to a puzzle game. I'd expect nothing less from the creator Infinifactory and Spacechem. Assembly Language (Programming Language) Puzzle (Video Game Genre) infiniminer spacechem Assembly Language (Programming Language) Puzzle (Video Game Genre) infiniminer spacechem"
YouTube Link 2015-06-08T20:29Z 1.8M followers, 253.9K engagements
"How Could a [---] Fly Around Jupiter - Deep Space Questions More question from supporters over at Patreon and I at least attempt to deliver answers even if I end up getting side tracked on the jet engine question. If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM 00:00 start 00:24 supersonic components on jet engines 05:41 Mars questions: 05:54 - martian atmosphere sample return 08:19 - landing a"
YouTube Link 2023-05-14T21:59Z 1.8M followers, 344.9K engagements
"Blue Origin Literally NAIL The Landing Of Their New Rocket It's been [--] years since Blue Origin demonstrated landing and reuse of their New Shepard rocket now it's time for New Glenn to show off this capabilty. On only the Second flight of their orbital class rocket they successfully landed it on a drone ship taking a few more steps ferociously. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-11-15T00:37Z 1.8M followers, 606K engagements
"Why Spinning Was A Good Trick For America's First Space Launch The first satellite launched into orbit by the US was Explorer [--] in [----] this was launched using a rocket design developed by the US Army using mostly off the shelf rocket hardware. One of the most distinctive features of the rocket was the visibly spinning nose which contained the top [--] stages of the rocket. This design enabled the rapid development of the design and meant that in theory it could have launched a satellite into space before Sputnik were it not for the political problems associated with the Army team being lead by"
YouTube Link 2021-04-04T18:59Z 1.8M followers, 266.5K engagements
"Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Captured From Every Angle By NASA Last month the interstelllar comet 3I/ATLAS made a close approach to Mars and this presented a unique opportunity to observe it from spacecraft that are usually studying Mars. This was partly done because the comet was also passing on the opposite side of the sun during it's closest approach to the sun. However because of the government shutdown none of the observations were released at the time so NASA had a press conference yesterday to reveal the new images. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/ Follow me on"
YouTube Link 2025-11-21T00:03Z 1.8M followers, 187.9K engagements
"The Most Important Space Shuttle Mission Never Happened The Space Shuttle was a vehicle designed to do many things and in a deal with the US Military it was redesigned to make it able to perform a very specific secret mission. The redesign radically changed the Shuttle from the early concepts to the actual design which we saw fly but before the shuttle even flew the secret mission had been abandoned. Most of the details of this mission are in this document found by James Oberg (thanks) http://www.jamesoberg.com/sts-3A_B-DRM.PDF The shirt is by Oaklandish:"
YouTube Link 2020-11-24T04:05Z 1.8M followers, 460.9K engagements
"What Happened After Space Shuttle Columbia Lost Contact Based on the Columbia accident investigation board report. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2023-02-03T17:21Z 1.8M followers, 6M engagements
"Kerbal Space Program [---] - When Do You Start Your Gravity Turn This video is outdated but still a useful comparison to show that you can do better than Mechjeb. This is a series of launches of the Kerbal-X first manuallly then using mechjeb with different parameters showing that starting your turn into orbit too early or too late will waste fuel. I've had a few people send me 'how to get to orbit' tutorials which have been stuffed with bad advice so I made this to show how the differences. Kerbal space program guide beginners kerbal orbiting rocket science space space simulation Kerbal Space"
YouTube Link 2013-02-22T18:56Z 1.8M followers, 193.2K engagements
"If You Could See Every Satellite What Would The Sky Look Like 360/VR There are over ten thousand satellites in orbit but only the largest ones in low earth orbit are visible in the hours just after sunset. What would the sky look like if you could see everything in space I took satellite data and rendered a view of the night sky for an 'average' viewer in North America. All the code and files needed to make this are shared with my supporters at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/31591742 Background Music is Spatial Harvest by Kevin Macleod. Satellite data from https://www.space-track.org/"
YouTube Link 2019-11-14T21:03Z 1.8M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Breaking The Starship V2 Curse - SpaceX Achieves All Their Goals on Flight [--] A round up of SpaceX's starship flight number [--] where everything finally worked even with the heat shield intentionally compromized the Starship landed on target something we've not seen this year. The V2 has been stricken with bad luck that resulted in [--] consecutive failures to complete the mission but today it delivered and now we have questions. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I"
YouTube Link 2025-08-27T06:02Z 1.8M followers, 664.8K engagements
"The Most Powerful Rocket Motors Ever Flown #ad Northrop Grumman builders of the [--] segment solid rocket motors which propelled SLS and turned night into day with the launch of #Artemis [--]. Find out more about Artemis at: http://bit.ly/3OreJlh Details on the SLS Boosters: https://www.northropgrumman.com/wp-content/uploads/NG-SLS-Booster-2020-1.pdf Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2022-11-21T21:27Z 1.8M followers, 159.8K engagements
"NTSB's Report On OceanGate Titan Submersible - New Information Old Conclusions. The US National Transportation Safety Board issued their final report on the implosion of the Titan Submersible in [----] it's available here with a lot of supporting documents some more interesting that others. https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/NTSBNumber=DCA23FM036 This follows on from the Coast Guard report issued in August. https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/ The things I find most interesting are their discussion of data forensics trying to recover data from cameras and computers"
YouTube Link 2025-10-18T18:41Z 1.8M followers, 1M engagements
"NASA Captured The Best Falcon Heavy Booster Landing Footage Ever Recorded by NASA for the Psyche launch Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2023-10-18T14:53Z 1.8M followers, 1.4M engagements
"The CIA's Secret Corona Spy Satellite Program On August 19th [----] the CIA recovered the first images from a Spy Satellite as part of its secret Corona program. The Corona satellite flew from [----] to [----] providing important intelligence on the Soviet Union and other potential adversaries. The technology of the time forced the use of photographic film which would have to be recovered using a reentry capsule and a capture aircraft. The program was declassified in the 1990's along with all the images however the reports made from those images continue to be secret. Lots more about the program is"
YouTube Link 2020-08-20T21:32Z 1.8M followers, 243.2K engagements
"Satellite Photos Show The True Shape Of The Earth Amazing high resolution photos of the Earth should show that the earth is oblate but it's hard to see because the difference is about 0.3%. So here's a quick demo highlighting the difference. Yes I made this because of the number of individuals who claim they can't see this and therefore by extension the world is flat/spaceisfake. But mainly I made it because it's a short little demonstration of this effect. oblate earth himawari satellite space nasa jaxa oblate earth himawari satellite space nasa jaxa"
YouTube Link 2018-06-04T14:18Z 1.8M followers, 451.2K engagements
"Kerbal Space Program - Tutorial For Beginners - Interplanetary Transfers I try and partly succeed in explaining how to navigate to other planets in kerbal space program leaving Kerbin's orbit and arriving at another planet is best performed when the planets are aligned correctly but it's still a slow process to refine your orbit towards a target. This online tool is quite helpful http://ksp.olex.biz/ Kerbal Space Program (Video Game) Interplanetary Spaceflight Tutorial Tricks Tips Video Game (Industry) Kerbal Space Program (Video Game) Interplanetary Spaceflight Tutorial Tricks Tips Video"
YouTube Link 2014-04-09T19:01Z 1.8M followers, 316.7K engagements
"Satellites Use 'This Weird Trick' To See More Than They Should - Synthetic Aperture Radar Explained. Synthetic Aperture Radar is a technology which was invented in the 1950's to enable aircraft to map terrain in high detail. It uses the motion of the radar and some fancy mathematics to get much higher detail images than should be possible from an antenna small enough to fit on an aircraft. This process has been extended to satellites and applies to not just the earth but to other terrestrial bodies in the solar system notably Venus and Titan which are eternally shrouded in clouds. For further"
YouTube Link 2020-12-30T20:38Z 1.8M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Thor Rocket - How A 'Temporary Solution' Became America's Most Popular Launch Vehicle Thor was one of the US's first launch vehicles it launched the first spacecraft for NASA and hundreds of Spy Satellites for the US Military. It would become the Delta and also the most launched rocket in US history but it started out as a humble ballistic missile which didn't even have the range to hit targets in the USSR without being stationed on its doorstep. A lot of this history is thanks to the work of Ed Kyle sadly his website no longer exists but the wayback machine has the all important Thor/Delta"
YouTube Link 2022-07-10T23:19Z 1.8M followers, 293.4K engagements
"The Computer Hack That Saved Apollo [--] Apollo [--] almost never made it to the lunar surface thanks to a hardware failure which caused a short circuit in the abort switch. With the computer seeing the abort switch enabled the software team back on earth had a limited amount of time to figure out how to make the computer ignore the erroneous signal while still performing the landing. This required tweaking program state in memory while the program was running a delicate operation with dire consequences for failure. No pressure guys. apollo [--] computer hack troubleshooting apollo saturn [--] saturn"
YouTube Link 2017-08-31T16:58Z 1.8M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Part Plane Drone & Spaceship How I Learned To Fly This Unique VTOL Pivotal have developed a one person aircraft that can take off vertically fly like a plane and then land vertically again and unlike many similar EVTOLs this one is actually certified and for sale in the USA https://www.pivotal.aero/ I visited the company a couple of months ago with the hope of getting to play around in their simulator but before I even started they upped the ante and offered to train me so I could actually fly the real thing and you'll get to see that happen in part [--]. For now I want to explain why the"
YouTube Link 2025-10-16T17:23Z 1.8M followers, 226.6K engagements
"The Oldest Satellite In Space - Vanguard [--] Vanguard [--] was the 4th satellite launched after being beaten by Sputnik [--] [--] and Explorer [--] it also suffered from multiple high profile launch failures. However [--] years on it's still in orbit long after these earlier satellites have fallen back to earth. And the rocket pioneered a design which is more consistent with modern launchers. vanguard rocket history satellite sputnik explorer vanguard rocket history satellite sputnik explorer"
YouTube Link 2018-03-17T18:05Z 1.8M followers, 164K engagements
"Blue Origin New Glenn Finally Ready To Beat SpaceX's Old Rockets. Is It Too Late After almost [--] years Blue Origin is finally ready to launch their first orbital class rocket - New Glenn - and it's a monster rocket that would surely be getting lots of people talking about just how big it was if it wasn't a lot smaller than SpaceX's starship. While Blue Origin think this first flight has a high chance of success there's inevitably the question of whether it'll be relevant in a future where SpaceX can offer 100% reusable spaceflight via Starship. Are Blue Origin only going to compete with"
YouTube Link 2025-01-12T03:13Z 1.8M followers, 546.5K engagements
"The First Toilet To Fly Beyond The Moon A New Era In Lunar Luxury Artemis II will return human astronauts beyond the moon for the first time in over [--] years and while this is something that's been done before this is a new spacecraft and there's all sorts of 'firsts' that will be claimed on this flight. And I have decided to focus on the first toilet to fly this far into space and you might think this is a joke and there are jokes but handling human hygene in space is an essential part of human spaceflight and requires innovative engineering and high tech materials. Follow me on Twitter for"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T17:48Z 1.8M followers, 200.8K engagements
"OOPS Japanese Rocket Drops Satellite Before Reaching Orbit. Last month a Japanese H3 rocket had a bizarre failure where the satellite appears to have broken off the rocket on the way to space. This is the conclusion of the investigators based upon the available data and it's something I don't remember seeing before. This is the report however it's in Japanese and my understanding is based on online translations which may not reflect the full nuance of the text https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/gijyutu/gijyutu2/060/shiryo/1421907_00004.html Follow me on Twitter for more updates:"
YouTube Link 2026-01-21T01:32Z 1.8M followers, 161K engagements
"Airbus Force Updates To Aircraft Over Cosmic Radiation Concerns This is the news story lots of A320's need to be updated because there's concern that cosmic radiation could mess with their flight computers and cause uncommanded maneuvers. https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-airbus-update-on-a320-family-precautionary-fleet-action Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon"
YouTube Link 2025-11-28T23:08Z 1.8M followers, 176.8K engagements
"What Does "Set SCE To AUX" Mean Anyway - Apollo 12's Lightning Strike Explained It's an often told story about Apollo [--] getting struck by lightning crippling the command module in flight and John Aaron in mission control figuring out the exact switch to flip to fix the stricken vessel and save the day. It's an understandably popular story but the details are never quite right so this is my attempt to explain what exactly went wrong and what problems SCE-to-AUX fixed. Here's a few of the references I used to understand what happened: Apollo [--] Flight Journal"
YouTube Link 2019-09-17T16:04Z 1.8M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Starship Heat Shield Surprises NASA's Bad Landing Blue Origin's Terawave - Deep Space Updates Rounding up the news from the last couple of weeks including the return of Crew [--] a number of rocket launches a new chinese space capsule and many more. 0:00 - Hullo It's Scott Manley Here 0:21 - Starlink & Guowang 1:34 - Launches 5:31 - A Chinese New Shepard 5:57 - New Shepard NS-28 6:27 - Crew-11 Returns 7:44 - Shenzhou-20 Re-enters 8:28 - H3 Launch Failure Report 9:37 - SLS Rolls Out 11:14 - X1.9-class Solar Flare 11:52 - Isaacman on Tour 13:13 - Firefly's Alpha Block II Rocket 14:27 -"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T18:03Z 1.8M followers, 331.1K engagements
"How Space Manufacturing Could Be Revolutionary Manufacturing In Microgravity is a potential business model who's time may have arrived there are a number of products like pharmaceuticals semiconductors and optical materials which can be made to higher qualities when the process is carried out in the absence of gravity so let's explain why this works and what kind of processes can be improved in orbit. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T19:30Z 1.8M followers, 145.8K engagements
"Specialized NASA Aircraft Has a Bad Day N927NA - a NASA WB-57 tracking aircraft had a bad day with a gear up landing Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T21:07Z 1.8M followers, 287.2K engagements
"The First Personal Computer In Space Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T22:47Z 1.8M followers, 74.8K engagements
"The Smallest Rocket - The SS-520-5 On February 3rd JAXA successfully launched a payload to orbit with the smallest rocket ever - [---] tons and less than [--] meters tall. The SS-520-5 takes a sounding rocket and adds a 3rd stage along with guidance and control hardware to orient the rocket prior to insertion. rocket jaxa japan ss520 cubesat space record rocket jaxa japan ss520 cubesat space record"
YouTube Link 2018-02-09T18:43Z 1.8M followers, 237.4K engagements
"The Old Rocket Designs That Make Starship Look Small While many people look at the size of the rockets being built and tested for SpaceX's Starship and Superheavy project fans of space history know that even larger rockets were designed in the past in fact one of the very first rocket concepts from Werner von Braun was larger than SuperHeavy because it needed to be. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon"
YouTube Link 2021-12-12T21:19Z 1.8M followers, 632.8K engagements
"Why The Space Shuttle Only Launched Three Deep Space Missions The Space Shuttle was "America's Ride To Space" for [--] decades it launched over [---] times and yet over that long career it only launched [--] interplanetary missions - Magellan Galileo and Ulysses. And all of those were launched in [--] years after that everything the Shuttle carried remained in Earth orbit. Multiple factors came together to limit this: - The Shuttle was late and expensive - The Reagan administration cancelled most interplanetary missions - Challenger's destruction changed NASA's policy requiring all launches on shuttle."
YouTube Link 2022-11-09T18:48Z 1.8M followers, 446.6K engagements
"NASA's Future SLS Booster Just Failed Its First Test Northrop Grumman are developing new large solid rocket motors for the SLS because if they don't SLS could run out of the old shuttle parts they're using. This is part of a program called 'BOLE' Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension - rather than simply building new boosters they're removing all the bits that were needed for the Shuttle but no longer make sense for SLS. They're using a new casing new fuel and new support systems. But their first test did not go as planned. NASASpaceFlight's Full Coverage"
YouTube Link 2025-06-27T18:39Z 1.8M followers, 443.8K engagements
"Why Did The Latest Lunar Lander Fall Over Why Is Landing On The Moon Harder Than We Thought Over the last week we've learned a few more details about how Intuitive Machines performed a minor miracle in crossing hundreds of thousands of miles gently slowing itself to arrive at its landing site as slowly as possible only to fall over. Almost like what happened on their first flight. Beyond that I keep getting the question of why modern lunar landers appear to crash so often when this seemed to be a solved problem in the 1960s. list of every mission to the moon"
YouTube Link 2025-03-13T21:01Z 1.8M followers, 761.3K engagements
"The Fountain War - A History of Gaming's Biggest War The Fountain War was the biggest war in Eve Online and by extension the biggest war in gaming history. It was between the two largest alliances in Eve Online and many allies it lasted months and key events during the conflict turned on spies diplomacy and straight up bribery. There's nothing approaching this in any other game and I think the story is worth telling. I got the idea after seeing the Kickstarter to write a Dramatized version of the Fountain War by an established author - I hope after watching this you realise there's a story"
YouTube Link 2015-11-21T14:46Z 1.8M followers, 1.8M engagements
"Geostationary Molniya Tundra Polar & Sun Synchronous Orbits Explained Illustrating different classes of orbits commonly used by satellites in Earth orbit there are special classes of orbit designed to solve certain problems and the physics behind them is important. All the orbits are displayed using Universe Sandbox [--]. Buy it here: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/universe-sandbox-squaredpartner=szyzyg&charity=61469 orbits orbit satellite geostationary molniya tundra sun-syncrhonous space orbits orbit satellite geostationary molniya tundra sun-syncrhonous space"
YouTube Link 2019-01-10T18:14Z 1.8M followers, 666.6K engagements
"The Titan Rocket - From War Machine to Space Giant to Obsolescence Born from the tense geopolitical climate of the early 1960s the Titan began its life as an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). It was an embodiment of American technological prowess and strategic might during the height of the Cold War. However as time progressed the Titan found its true calling transforming into the most potent and dynamic rocket in the United States' arsenal. The Titan's evolution was marked by its remarkable adaptability and power as it took on the challenge of launching the largest heaviest and most"
YouTube Link 2023-05-13T00:40Z 1.8M followers, 264.9K engagements
"The Nuclear Salt Water Rocket - Possibly the Craziest Rocket Engine Ever Imagined. The Nuclear Salt Water Rocket is a rocket engine concept that uses a rapid nuclear reaction in a Uranium salt dissolved in water to create a high thrust high efficiency engine which eclipses the performance of any rocket engine ever designed. It's a concept originally presented by Robert Zubrin which is appealing because it looks more scientifically plausable than many other futuristic propulsion concepts. It's also scary on so many levels using a propellent that has to be stabilized by specially designed tanks"
YouTube Link 2021-01-11T02:21Z 1.8M followers, 998.3K engagements
"Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space Can They Really Cost Less To Operate Lumen Orbit raised [---] million dollars from investors based on the notion of putting data centers in space computers that could be used to train AI or maybe mine crypto. Their argument is that at low enough launch costs the ability to get 24/7 solar power makes power much cheaper to the point that it's worth the cost of the launch: https://www.lumenorbit.com/ Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you"
YouTube Link 2024-09-09T15:18Z 1.8M followers, 473.2K engagements
"Will SpaceX Lose NASA Contract for Artemis III - Deep Space Updates October 23rd A round up of the launches announcements and minor accidents from space and spaceflight over the last couple of weeks. It seems that acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy wants to roll NASA into the department of Transportation and that's not popular with anyone. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-10-23T19:25Z 1.8M followers, 243.2K engagements
"Movies Always Get This Simple Thing Wrong About Space Shuttles. #shorts Just a silly little thing. Background music from Joel Cummins - Looped Ascent Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2022-04-18T18:07Z 1.8M followers, 10.2M engagements
"Going UP Flying A VTOL For Real - Pivotal's Unique Take on Accessible Aviation Part [--] of my visits with Pivotal where I spent a day actually flying the Blackfly EVTOL to demonstrate that the skills I learned in the simulator translate to the real thing. Starting with hovers and moving on to faster cruise flight headed out over fields and beaches while recording from every angle. This aircraft is legally a Part [---] Ultralight which means it's small enough to avoid a lot of complex certification requirements and can actually be bought and flown in the US unlike the larger more complex designs"
YouTube Link 2025-12-02T17:00Z 1.8M followers, 151.5K engagements
"China's Falcon [--] Reaches Orbit NASA Administrator Almost Approved Russia Breaks Launch Site All the deep space updates from the last two weeks and it's been eventful for all sorts of reasons SpaceX is cleaning up after Booster [--] failed Russia needs to fix its launch site. China almost recovers a rocket booster and the US government recovers the NASA administrator candidate who was ready to go earlier this year. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can"
YouTube Link 2025-12-06T17:27Z 1.8M followers, 213.6K engagements
"Starship Flight [--] - Ocean Landing & Explosion - All Angles Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-10-14T22:16Z 1.8M followers, 485.1K engagements
"Why Vulcan is the Most Important Rocket ULA Has Ever Built In less than [--] hours we expect Vulcan to make its first launch. Vulcan is going to replace both the Atlas and Delta rockets it's the first rocket designed in house by ULA which had inherited Atlas and Delta from its parents - Lockheed & Boeing. Vulcan needs to adapt to a modern launch market where SpaceX has been able to dominate in large part due to its booster reusability enabling lower costs. Vulcan isn't ever going to be fully reusable but its upper stage is more capable than the Falcon [--] and overall the vehicle is lighter"
YouTube Link 2024-01-07T20:05Z 1.8M followers, 411.3K engagements
"The Amazing Engineering Behind Solid Rocket Boosters The solid rocket motors on the space shuttle accounted for the majority of the launch mass and launch thrust. They're the most powerful rocket thrusters ever flown at least until the [--] segment versions take flight with SLS in the next year or so. I've often described solid rocket motors as being relatively simple compared to the complex plumbing pumps and turbines of liquid rocket motors. However there's still a huge amount of critical engineering and science that goes into these boosters. The design of the boosters were also partly"
YouTube Link 2020-09-22T01:41Z 1.8M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Soviet Engineers Turned Yuri Gagarin's Spacecraft Into A Spy Satellite The soviet Zenit Spy satellite is essentially the Vostok spacecraft with the cosmonaut replaced by cameras. The Zenit design would fly over [---] times as a spy satellite up into the 1990's and spawn a few other science variants that flew for even longer. And all these designs share the 2.3meter spherical return capsule in common a design chosen by Sergei Korolev to satisfy Kruschev's demand to fly humans in space and the military's desire for spy satellites. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I"
YouTube Link 2022-02-04T17:37Z 1.8M followers, 390.2K engagements
"Top Gun Pilot Lands Space Shuttle Astronaut Scott Altman ('Scooter') commanded STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope no doubt his experience flying fighter jets helped make this landing. Before he was an astronaut he was a naval aviator flying F-14's and he specifically flew many aerial stunts for the movie Top Gun. This is a montage of multiple cameras the shuttle view through the HUD and internal communications between the crew on the flight deck during this critical phase of flight. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I"
YouTube Link 2024-03-28T00:11Z 1.8M followers, 12.8M engagements
"SpaceX Ditched an Entire Falcon Heavy To Launch NASA's Massive Probe To Europa NASA's Europa Clipper mission will be the largest spacecraft ever to go into deep space. The [--] ton spacecraft will eventually arrive at Jupiter in [----] and will make multiple flypasts of Europa Jupiter's second moon which is believed to have a substantial sub-surface ocean warmed by tidal heating from the giant planet. This mission will spend years using its instruments to give us a better understanding of Jupiter's icy moons which may sustain a complex chemical system in their oceans and perhaps complex enough to"
YouTube Link 2024-10-20T18:32Z 1.8M followers, 799.4K engagements
"Boosters on the Boosters & Other Ideas For Improving Space Shuttles The Space Shuttle began development in the 1970's and even before it flew for the first time engineers were developing new ideas to 'improve' the Space Shuttle hardware. Expanding its cargo envelope by putting payloads on the external tank 'hammerhead' & 'lenticular' fairings getting rid of the crew section adding a massive passenger section and of course going full Xzibit and adding mini boosters to the regular boosters. Most of these pictures come from a review paper published in [----] after the Columbia disaster but before"
YouTube Link 2019-11-20T14:50Z 1.8M followers, 339.9K engagements
"Artemis II Explained - With Kerbal Space Program Because I spent the weekend with a bunch of people building real rockets who asked me when I was going to play more Kerbal Space Program. I wanted to explain the Artemis II mission and the reason for the series of maneuvers it will perform during its flight around the moon there's some clever tricks being done to maximize the performance of the booster and then allow the Orion spacecraft to run through a day of testing before it ends up departing Earth for a flight around the moon. Follow me on Twitter for more updates:"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T17:05Z 1.8M followers, 218.9K engagements
"Rocket Fuel Injectors - Things Kerbal Space Program Doesn't Teach Rocket Propellent Injectors are critical parts of the engine design they take the propellents and mix them so that they can quickly burn in the combustion chamber. Injectors can make or (literally) break a rocket design and over the years we've seen rocket engines move from injector plate designs to more efficient options as engineers have come to understand what works well. Thanks to Copenhagen Suborbitals for sharing some video of their injectors being tested I hope get get to see some more flights with these:"
YouTube Link 2020-03-09T20:39Z 1.8M followers, 934.8K engagements
"NASA Astronaut Medical Emergency - What We Know NASA confirmed they're bringing Crew [--] home early because of a medical issue with one of the crew members but beyond that there's very limited official information. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2026-01-09T20:17Z 1.8M followers, 454.9K engagements
"Is Apollo 11's Lunar Module Still In Orbit Around The Moon [--] Years Later In [----] Neil Armstrong announced a safe touchdown on the moon with the words 'The Eagle has Landed'. "Eagle" was the name of the Lunar Module the spacecraft which carried Neil and Buzz to the surface of the moon. After they walked on the surface of the moon they flew the Eagle back into orbit docked with the Columbia command module and undocked the Eagle leaving it in orbit while Columbia returned to Earth. Most spacecraft in lunar orbit suffer from instability in their orbits due to the 'lumpy' nature of the lunar"
YouTube Link 2021-07-17T04:12Z 1.8M followers, 4.8M engagements
"Virgin Galactic - Drop & Burn Drop the aircraft. Burn the Motor. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2023-07-03T00:34Z 1.8M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Vulcan Rocket Blows Out Another Booster ULA's Vulcan rocket has suffered a second ascent anomaly as a solid booster made by Northrop Grumman burned through and lost the nozzle the mission appears to have recovered. NASASpaceFlight Coverage here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=y_uwK1uuKlk Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T16:22Z 1.8M followers, 329K engagements
"UPS MD11 Crash Flight Reconstruction Using the public ADS-B data and the flight data recorder information released by the NTSB rendered using google earth pro. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T01:35Z 1.8M followers, 146.5K engagements
"NASA Reveals Why The Mars Helicopter Crashed - The First Air Crash Investigation on Another World This morning scientists and engineers from JPL & NASA presented their investigation into the crash of Ingenuity the Mars Helicopter which had pushed the limits of technology over its [--] year career. The root cause was the navigation system became unable to track features over the bland terrain where the accident happened leading to a loss of control. The full investigation will be published next month but you can watch the presentation from the AGU Meeting"
YouTube Link 2024-12-11T17:56Z 1.8M followers, 400.6K engagements
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