#  @scottmanley Scott Manley Scott Manley posts on YouTube about scott, space, spacex, in the the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/youtube::UCxzC4EngIsMrPmbm6Nxvb-A/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +44% - [--] Month [---------] -35% - [--] Months [----------] +40% - [--] Year [----------] -26% ### Mentions: [---] [#](/creator/youtube::UCxzC4EngIsMrPmbm6Nxvb-A/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] -56% - [--] Months [---] +21% - [--] Year [---] +201% ### Followers: [---------] [#](/creator/youtube::UCxzC4EngIsMrPmbm6Nxvb-A/followers)  - [--] Week [---------] no change - [--] Month [---------] no change - [--] Months [---------] +1.70% - [--] Year [---------] +4% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/youtube::UCxzC4EngIsMrPmbm6Nxvb-A/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [countries](/list/countries) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [finance](/list/finance) [stocks](/list/stocks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [gaming](/list/gaming) **Social topic influence** [scott](/topic/scott) #151, [space](/topic/space) #354, [spacex](/topic/spacex) #79, [in the](/topic/in-the), [the first](/topic/the-first), [youtube](/topic/youtube), [science](/topic/science) #3634, [flight](/topic/flight) #191, [to the](/topic/to-the), [china](/topic/china) #1161 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@nasaspaceflight](/creator/undefined) [@astronomylive](/creator/undefined) [@djsnm](/creator/undefined) [@livermorelabvideos](/creator/undefined) [@relativityspace](/creator/undefined) [@dwisecinema](/creator/undefined) [@jerrypikephoto](/creator/undefined) [@bocachicagal](/creator/undefined) [@austinbarnard45](/creator/undefined) [@labpadre](/creator/undefined) [@nuclearanthro](/creator/undefined) [@nickhenning3d](/creator/undefined) [@jaredowen](/creator/undefined) [@astrumextra](/creator/undefined) [@everydayastronaut](/creator/undefined) [@frasercain](/creator/undefined) [@rgvaerialphotography](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [StarShip (STARSHIP)](/topic/starship) [Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT)](/topic/lockheed-martin) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bqd0b3X6Ejs) 2026-02-11T01:59Z 1.8M followers, 128K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CP0VKd66Jyc) 2023-12-23T05:40Z 1.8M followers, 160.4K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PgT9-oMXgCU) 2021-11-06T15:54Z 1.8M followers, 1.6M 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=U5lidnLtO7c) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YuHowF32IAU) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=f2gM66v4noY) 2025-12-28T19:13Z 1.8M followers, 164.9K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2jiS0lmjLPg) 2026-02-14T16:57Z 1.8M followers, 133.4K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_q2i0eu35aY) 2020-11-24T04:05Z 1.8M followers, 460.9K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dBHbLV7xEhc) 2021-07-17T04:12Z 1.8M followers, 4.8M 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gv4ClusLU2s) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jGwmywlr-vY) 2026-02-08T19:41Z 1.8M followers, 128.9K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=49mA722IhMA) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4pzgFHrLXmc) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5mIRFxYYaC0) 2020-08-08T21:01Z 1.8M followers, 874.6K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6lWDbwmsz9E) 2021-09-11T13:54Z 1.8M followers, 344.6K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=82fvyKIJ1lI) 2025-11-27T18:22Z 1.8M followers, 233.9K engagements "Why did SpaceXs Falcon [--] Make a Visible Shockwave in the Sky #shorts" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DlkXVJQ0atE) 2021-05-27T05:29Z 1.8M followers, 1.6M 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K7J2amaTpBc) 2025-11-28T23:08Z 1.8M followers, 176.8K engagements "Wormholes Get Weirder - Watch Other Objects Near Wormholes & Learn How I Created The Images The second part to my wormhole video project first we have a few visuals showing what an outside observer sees when another spacecraft crosses through the wormhole or moves around near the entrance. Secondly there's some explanations of the geometry the shape of the space and illustrations of the way light moves around the entrance to a wormhole. Finally we take a closer look at the math and how to implement a raytracer to make wormholes and how I solver problems with the original design to remove" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PVO8nvb1o2w) 2020-03-23T15:21Z 1.8M followers, 113.7K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RYoyIfKGhag) 2026-01-29T18:03Z 1.8M followers, 331K engagements "How Fast Are Spaceships In 'The Expanse' I take a few scenes from the TV show and do the math on how fast the spacecraft are moving how long they would take to cover the distances in the solar system with brachistochrone orbits powered by the Epstein drive. To illustrate a number of things I use the magnificent 'Space Engine' - http://spaceengine.org/ Yes this contains lots of spoilers. the expanse science space engine the expanse science space engine" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SIaGXcEnC74) 2017-05-02T16:57Z 1.8M followers, 1.1M 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TD3DIs_vaj4) 2026-01-28T19:53Z 1.8M followers, 427.8K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XxRJudX_3p4) 2025-11-21T00:03Z 1.8M followers, 187.9K engagements "The Jet Propulsion Laboratory W/Doug Ellison - Part [--] Continuing the Tour we visit the control center where spacecraft operations are run from and more Thanks to NASA JPL and of course Doug for making this possible. NASA JPL mars space deep space network NASA JPL mars space deep space network" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YKpB7lCM68k) 2017-10-28T17:58Z 1.8M followers, 36.9K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bOE5H9b_nSE) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dJ2yqga7IrI) 2013-02-22T18:56Z 1.8M followers, 193.2K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dZKYVunfHcE) 2023-07-03T00:34Z 1.8M followers, 2.2M engagements "Buzz Aldrin Space Program Manager - Race To The Moon Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager is a modern remake of Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space a classic PC strategy game where you manage a space program with the goal of beating your competitors to the Moon. BASP extends this by including missions beyond the Moon and allowing you to ignore the Cold War hostilities and run a unified space program. The game is available on steam or directly from the developer http://slitherine.com/games/BA_SPM_Pc http://store.steampowered.com/app/308270/ Buzz Aldrin (Astronaut) Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space (Video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=k5xucaKXjPg) 2014-10-31T16:53Z 1.8M followers, 93.9K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=u2bUKEi9It4) 2020-12-30T20:38Z 1.8M followers, 1.2M 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SP1EnoojDNU) 2023-02-28T17:05Z 1.8M followers, 2M 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lj7JtmoHQlY) 2023-01-13T19:01Z 1.8M followers, 2.4M 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wD3rnYVNLoI) 2026-02-04T01:35Z 1.8M followers, 145.1K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-0FcQzDG3C8) 2025-10-14T07:24Z 1.8M followers, 499.3K engagements "Where Will Astronauts Go After The ISS Is Destroyed The International Space Station is currently scheduled to come to an end in [----] but before then we're hoping that there will be other space stations for humans to visit from small single module stations like Vast's Haven-1 to the massively ambitious modular Orbital reef. These will move space stations from being government projects to the private sector ideally in the same way that rocket launches became a commercial operation. The US has [--] leading candidates with Europe Canada and Japan already making deals so humanity's presence in low" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3CujjUfE504) 2024-07-21T21:30Z 1.8M followers, 975.9K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3_oMwlTDuiA) 2013-11-03T17:45Z 1.8M followers, 1.5M engagements "Frontier Pilot Simulator - Sci-Fi Pilots Don't Always Fly Spaceships Frontier Pilot Simulator puts you in the role of a sci-fi aircraft pilot helping settlers on an alien planet survive by transporting cargo and passengers. The main barriers to this not-space trucker's job is limiter fuel and fickle weather on the planet which is a big part of the game mechanics. Frontier Pilot Simulator is currently in early access on steam. http://steamcommunity.com/app/673210 Also watch a more informal livestream of this game: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=VqQyKq7JuIE sci-fi frontier pilot simulator" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3tGi2i1vaic) 2018-03-20T17:39Z 1.8M followers, 86K engagements "What Is The Meaning Of Joy Division's Iconic Album Cover I'm a bit of a music and science nerd and these unrelated fields have come together for the iconic cover to Joy Division's album "Unknown Pleasures". There are quite a few pop culture works that use images of space but this uses a data visualization from an astronomer's PhD thesis and there's a lot to be said about this. Thanks to the resurgence of Vinyl as a recording medium you can still buy this in its original form: https://amzn.to/2tllQTo astronomy music pulsar radio astronomy joy division new order bernard sumner factory astronomy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4H_d5imXZF0) 2018-06-19T16:24Z 1.8M followers, 100.3K engagements "How to Move The Planet Earth To Save It From The Sun On the timescale of hundreds of millions of years the sun is increasing in luminosity and may one day render the Earth uninhabitable. Is it possible to envisage a way to move the entire planet further from the Sun to prevent this fate David Brin: Let's Lift The Earth http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/11/lets-lift-earth.html The Wandering Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary orbits https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0102126.pdf" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5StYppuJ_lg) 2021-06-11T18:25Z 1.8M followers, 190.1K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6kimTg_G-Z4) 2025-04-30T16:16Z 1.8M followers, 272.9K engagements "What Would Happen If Asteroid Bennu Hit Earth After OSIRIS REx grabbed a sample a coupe of weeks ago many people remarked on how the asteroid just seemed to disintegrate when sampled. Some commenters took this fragility as a sign the asteroids would just disintegrate in the atmosphere before it hit the surface of earth. Unfortunately that's not the case Bennu is so large that it would still hit the surface albeit in fragments and still cause massive amounts of damage" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7OSvtznJYuI) 2020-11-08T20:30Z 1.8M followers, 413.8K engagements "How Would Maverick Survive Ejecting From the SR-72 Darkstar At Mach [--] Sometimes people tweet wrong things and I feel compelled to make a video: Neil Degrasse Tyson made a number of comments about Top Gun 2: Maverick including this one which spoke to me: https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1579177010374799361s=61&t=BuJKbsQei2UGhHHlj9w0Dg Now he does a fine job communicating cool things about science but hes an astronomer and hasnt spend nearly as much time studying aerospace as myself nor did he recently make a video about the most extreme Ejection seat ever made for the X-15. Darkstar in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8XZ9q-8Trqg) 2022-10-18T16:06Z 1.8M followers, 735K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BdCizNwLaHA) 2022-10-11T18:26Z 1.8M followers, 394.2K engagements "Space Tourism - Virgin Galactic vs Blue Origin (& SpaceX) The last [--] months have seen some significant developments to the prospects of space tourism. Virgin Galactic are performing powered tests of the 3rd iteration of their suborbital spaceplane Blue Origin have been demoing New Shepard as flown by Mannequin Skywalker. And on the other side of things SpaceX confirmed it's no longer planning on using Falcon Heavy to send a pair of tourists around the moon. spacex blue origin virgin galactic virgin orbit dragon [--] x-prize space tourist iss spacex blue origin virgin galactic virgin orbit dragon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bsgrbd_Yv4Y) 2018-06-14T18:38Z 1.8M followers, 93K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cb_U_CbQ5sc) 2017-01-17T17:45Z 1.8M followers, 524.7K engagements "Last Minute Updates on Falcon Heavy & BFR - February 6th We interrupt my irregular programming to bring an update on the Falcon Heavy hours before the launch. unless they scrub for weather or some other problem. Launch is 10:30 PST and it'll be viewable on spacex.com falcon heavy spacex science rocket nasa tesla elon musk falcon heavy spacex science rocket nasa tesla elon musk" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dvb3tbmIF1w) 2018-02-06T15:09Z 1.8M followers, 161.3K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EH1nyPIvLjI) 2018-12-08T19:31Z 1.8M followers, 1.3M engagements "NASA Spacecraft Returns Extraterrestial Material To Earth. Scaring Scientists During Landing NASA's OSIRIS REx spacecraft completed its primary mission by returning a large sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth over the weekend dropping its sample return capsule neatly onto a test range in Utah after giving the engineers some concern that it might crash. Now the material has been recovered it'll be sent to labs to be analyzed using technologies and instrumentation which could never fly on a spacecraft. Meanwhile the parent spacecraft is renamed OSIRIS APEX and is headed toward a rendezvous" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EQi-CN8Vn1w) 2023-09-25T19:57Z 1.8M followers, 604.3K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E_gSdrBwrvA) 2026-01-21T01:32Z 1.8M followers, 161K engagements "Asteroid Impact In [----] - What Are The Chances What Can We Do My take on Asteroid [----] YR4 which currently has a 2.3% chance of colliding with the Earth in [----] an event that's likely comparable to a multi megaton nuclear weapon. The odds are still good that it'll miss but the chances may look worse before they get better and there's a real chance we can't honestly know the answer by April when it gets too faint to observe until [----]. But this won't be the end of the world and might be an opportunity to put the capabilities of DART into real world use. Follow me on Twitter for more updates:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Esk1hg2knno) 2025-02-07T07:59Z 1.8M followers, 745.1K engagements "Rocket Lab's Neutron Rocket Will Be More Reusable Than Falcon [--] Rocket Lab's Peter Beck presented a new update on the design of their forthcoming Neutron rocket and it's gone from being a near direct equivalent to the Antares to nearly matching the performance of the Falcon [--] but with much greater reuse potential and a significantly simpler and cheaper second stage. Key differences include a much wider booster with more aerodynamic features for recovery and replacing the fairing with doors that can open and close to eliminate the need for separate fairing recovery. Follow me on Twitter for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GcZ19f-yqfs) 2021-12-02T21:22Z 1.8M followers, 475.8K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gk8Ay3QmF6s) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GpoR87UDnPA) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HMyOSJX7a9Q) 2024-10-17T19:30Z 1.8M followers, 238.7K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8m-ypoglM) 2025-12-17T22:43Z 1.8M followers, 262.5K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JqVBu-gXdsE) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KCU2sT0wNrU) 2022-12-08T17:43Z 1.8M followers, 554.7K engagements "NASA looking at UFO's Webb Hit By Meteor & Tiangong Gets New Crew - Deep Space Updates - June 10th A collection of space worth news updates from the first week and a half of June: Shenzhou [--] brings a crew to Tiangong and China announces plan to keep it permanently occupied. NASA OIG report finds that another part of SLS has been mismanaged by a contractor. MASA Space suit contract gets awarded in the hope that some competition makes things happen faster. JWST it getting closer to coming online but has already suffered detectable damage to mirror. NASA to spend $100000 on scientists looking" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KFBdFYN3k6s) 2022-06-11T15:45Z 1.8M followers, 377.7K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KzLDuyCKZoI) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OislF7OG_BI) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OylMmZ54e7M) 2023-05-25T02:41Z 1.8M followers, 285.1K engagements "How To Do A Hoverslam - Things Kerbal Space Program Doesn't Teach. If you're landing a rocket then waiting to the last minute slamming on the brakes actually saves fuel over slower more considered approaches to landing. kerbal space program rocket spacex kerbal space program rocket spacex" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T3_Voh7NgDE) 2018-02-19T20:08Z 1.8M followers, 1.1M 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TxJVH5TZQFY) 2015-06-08T20:29Z 1.8M followers, 253.9K engagements "Why The Electron Rocket May Be Cheapest Way To Get To Space Yesterday Rocket Labs successfully launched their Electron rocket into orbit carrying test satellites. The Electron is small cheap rocket which uses a 3D Printed engine Electrically driven pumps and composite fuel tanks. All features which are new to orbital launch vehicles. All the videos are to be found on Rocket Labs youtube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsWq7LZaizhIi-c-Yo_bcpw rocket labs electron orbit rocket new zealand planet labs dove spire global lemur rutherford rocket labs electron orbit rocket new zealand planet" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=U5k1mlu6A7I) 2018-01-21T19:57Z 1.8M followers, 689.4K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WoaDW-AmfIA) 2026-02-06T22:47Z 1.8M followers, 74.6K engagements "Catching A Falling Rocket With Another Rocket - Kerbal Space Program I was asked whether SpaceX could recover their 2nd stages by catching them using another 1st Stage Booster. This ridiculous idea needed testing so I tried to capture something falling from orbit with another rocket before both get destroyed on reentry. Unfortunately due to issues with Comcast the video quality is lousy I hope I can get this fixed before my next livestream. kerbal space program spacex crazy rocket live kerbal crash kerbal space program spacex crazy rocket live kerbal crash" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gFO49aKtfUE) 2018-04-11T19:12Z 1.8M followers, 70.2K engagements "Spinning Asteroids To Make Space Stations In sci-fi the idea of an asteroid base is a common trope we see them in The Expanse and in Elite: Dangerous. However spinning up an asteroid leads to all sorts of problems and challenges so let's crunch the numbers. Edit: made a bit of an oopsie with my first slide on radiation pressure it shouldn't say 'Yarkovsky' effect. asteroid science the expanse elite dangerous engineering asteroid science the expanse elite dangerous engineering" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gU9dCWY7G2M) 2017-04-21T17:50Z 1.8M followers, 514.3K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jXVYZm9epmU) 2019-05-20T16:57Z 1.8M followers, 695.6K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kZw2vyZNz5I) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ooXi4xAoEE8) 2022-11-21T21:27Z 1.8M followers, 159.8K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qnE0QXFtn4Y) 2025-12-10T18:39Z 1.8M followers, 68.5K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=r1G3xg0-9KA) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rLmpXgdgNZM) 2020-08-20T21:32Z 1.8M followers, 243.2K engagements "Rez Infinite - Classic Cyber-Rave Game Finally On PC One of my favourite console titles ever is Rez - originally released on the Dreamcast and Playstation [--] the game was an on rails shooter which synchronised the action to the the music and filled the screen with as many abstract cyberspace visuals as the hardware of the day could manage. But now after [--] years it's been updated for modern hardware and includes an straight up mind blowing VR mode. rez cyberspace dreamcast rez: infinite rave oculus vive rez cyberspace dreamcast rez: infinite rave oculus vive" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMq_XSc3vzA) 2017-08-10T18:05Z 1.8M followers, 30.4K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tjx0KcDH7pQ) 2018-06-04T14:18Z 1.8M followers, 451.2K engagements "NASA Considering Sending Nuclear Powered Flying Robot To Titan Dragonfly is a finalist in the latest New Frontiers program. Scientists are hoping to send a Quadcopter to Titan where the energy requirements for flying are a lot lower. Also under consideration is CAESAR a mission to return a sample of a comet to earth for analysis. NASA dragonfly titan caesar comet saturn spaceship kerbal enceladus venus NASA dragonfly titan caesar comet saturn spaceship kerbal enceladus venus" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uM_PtID0bcc) 2017-12-23T21:04Z 1.8M followers, 75.9K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wSSmNUl9Snw) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wncRFPd69rg) 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xBGkIWGTWkA) 2018-03-17T18:05Z 1.8M followers, 164K engagements "How To Recognize Space Rocks vs Satellites A recent Starlink reentry was visible over California and as usual all the locals were confused as to whether it was a meteorite UFO plane or spaceship so I figured it would be nice to talk about the differences that can be seen and why they behave differently. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=y5bYAjCMcwM) 2025-09-28T23:26Z 1.8M followers, 102.3K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6vMLWFgWVjE) 2025-10-14T22:16Z 1.8M followers, 485K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=71MRUgpGAYo) 2023-02-27T17:54Z 1.8M followers, 230.9K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UHLqZ-L4zoY) 2026-02-04T17:05Z 1.8M followers, 218K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aa4ATJGRqA0) 2020-03-09T20:39Z 1.8M followers, 934.8K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gWEQVnhZZ_Q) 2026-02-12T16:22Z 1.8M followers, 321.2K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i9RjA0r-KQU) 2025-10-23T19:25Z 1.8M followers, 243.2K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yNDfMzskI_0) 2024-12-11T17:56Z 1.8M followers, 400.6K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1fHKeZYlhEM) 2026-01-13T21:35Z 1.8M followers, 178.8K 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DJcbevbBzsc) 2026-01-12T18:10Z 1.8M followers, 209.8K engagements "What Is China's Plan To Beat the USA Back To The Moon. In recent months we've seen China making various critical steps to develop the Long March [--] Mengzhou and Lanyue with the goal of putting Chinese astronauts on the Moon. As it stands this would be a huge prestige win for China as it's set to be the second nation to put humans on the lunar surface. But with the US program repeatedly seeing dates moved back from the overly ambitious [----] towards the end of the decade there's chance that further delays could see the US return to the moon to see China already there. That would be an even" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IJva2cvtF9k) 2025-08-23T22:03Z 1.8M followers, 327.8K engagements "What is the EM Drive And Does it Really Work In the last few days a paper from the NASA Eagleworks team experimenting with the EM Drive has cleared peer review and been published. Does this really mean that one day we'll be using this technology to drive spacecraft Probably not. Follow up with the The Results of The Best EM Drive Test Yet https://youtu.be/rJM6lP9CuSw" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JGcvxg7jJTs) 2016-11-21T02:17Z 1.8M followers, 1.1M 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O6kXOOgQDac) 2025-11-24T22:04Z 1.8M followers, 703.3K engagements "Kerbal Space Program - Challenge - Interplanetary With No KSC Upgrades - Part I I wanted to see whether it's possible to mount a successful crewed interplanetary mission without upgrading any of the buildings in KSP [----]. This means a very limited parts selection & rocket size limit and a map which does not display patched conics or allow maneuver nodes" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PjSZihvrD04) 2015-01-04T21:26Z 1.8M followers, 114.8K engagements "SpaceX Superheavy Launch [--] Recorded By Infrared Satellite Starship Flight [--] captured by the TUBIN satellite: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1mz29y4/starship_flight_9_from_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 directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZgeGwrn9Lbk) 2025-08-25T23:08Z 1.8M followers, 213.8K engagements "Keep Your Hands Away From The Plutonium Core #shorts It turns out that Louis Slotin's hand was the critical factor. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dncjE1-_pRg) 2022-08-20T06:46Z 1.8M followers, 618.3K engagements "How Hypersonic Wind Tunnels Recreate Mach [--] Wind tunnels have been part of aviation research since before the first powered aircraft took to the skies. And there are a huge range of capabilities available to researchers including the ability to test models are mach numbers close to orbital velocity. I discovered the thumbnail image on a NASA page showing a Mach [--] helium wind tunnel testing a model of the Space Shuttle Orbiter and thought it was worth explaining how all this comes together to create the image. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/unflyable.html If you want to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=v0Z_4VyuzcA) 2021-10-29T17:07Z 1.8M followers, 1M engagements "Solar Storm Forces Changes On Space Station - Real Life Communications: #space Just a portion of the communications from yesterday: 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wI1o_I1rS_0) 2025-11-12T20:56Z 1.8M followers, 80.6K engagements "The Smallest Rocket Thrusters - How Can Tiny Rocket Engines Work I previously talked about the largest rocket engines but it turns out there's a lot of interesting small rocket engine designs and the smallest designs possible heavily depend on the type of engine cycle used. Small engines enable smaller spacecraft which means lower launch costs without giving up capabilities which might have been previously reserved for full size spacecraft. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zP7d4sGYaQ8) 2025-04-15T15:42Z 1.8M followers, 245.2K engagements "Where Does Rocket Exhaust ACTUALLY Go From one of my supporters over at Patreon - what happens to rocket exhaust after it leaves a rocket engine in space Where does it go Can it be a problem The answer of course depends on many things and let's face it this literally is rocket science. 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 Edited by Supercruise Productions" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-HutWQKyH6E) 2025-07-29T21:43Z 1.8M followers, 177.5K engagements "How SpaceX Designed A Heat Shield For The Largest Spacecraft Ever Built For the first time we saw the fully assembled Starship/SuperHeavy stack assembled on the pad. This is all designed to put Starship the largest spacecraft ever built into orbit but we also got a really good look at a near complete thermal protection system and that's critical to bringing the Starship back from orbit safely. Thanks Again to everyone who's sharing their photos with the world: https://twitter.com/thejackbeyer https://twitter.com/BocaChicaGal https://twitter.com/StarshipGazer https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Lsbi-bVfk0) 2021-08-08T15:54Z 1.8M followers, 1.2M engagements "Kerbal Spaceships are Serious Business - Part [--] We're still waiting for the boys in the lab to deliver bigger and more powerful engines meanwhile Realism Overhaul updates have fixed the problems with tiny fairings but introduced much more temperamental engines and parachute resizing problems" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-O1nnl4goA4) 2015-08-31T17:07Z 1.8M followers, 234.7K engagements "Parachute Fails To Deploy During Boeing's Starliner Abort Test. A critically important test of the escape system used by Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft showed that the abort system would work and would save the crew if they needed to escape from a rocket on the pad. However [--] of [--] parachutes failed which is acceptable and within the design margins but having this happen in a test will likely lead to a lot more post flight analysis to ensure this isn't the result of an issue that needs to be addressed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=033iokEj1gQ) 2019-11-04T18:22Z 1.8M followers, 333.1K engagements "Eve or Bust - Episode [--] - Return To Space So now the question is whether all my number crunching actually pays off and the vehicle makes it to orbit with [--] passengers on board" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0EkFdyqMojg) 2023-10-25T13:32Z 1.6M followers, 73K engagements "First Privately Funded Lunar Landing Mission - 'Beresheet' SpaceIl was one of the frontrunners in the Google Lunar X-Prize but nobody win the prize because the deadline passed. However without the prize the team continued and today their spacecraft 'Beresheet' is heading into space on top of a Falcon [--] rocket as a secondary payload. If they make it to the surface of the moon it'll make Israel the 4th country to put a lander on the surface of the moon and the first privately funded spacecraft to go there" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0PUjA6sekB4) 2019-02-21T17:15Z 1.7M followers, 234.3K engagements "Galileo Conquest - Episode [--] - Squishy Meatbags Jeb's Cheap Sheep experiments push him all the way to new frontiers and a rich investor demands a tour of the space center" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0aSHHDM4PaY) 2017-03-21T17:49Z 1.8M followers, 134.6K engagements "The Ridiculous Journey Of The First Email From Space The first email sent from space is a common story dredged up by lazy publications on a slow news day the story that in [----] Astronauts on Atlantis send an email to Earth containing Terminator [--] references. The story usually stops there. But you might have noticed I'm a bit of a nerd and I wanted to find out exactly how this occurred I've built some strange hacks to solve problems and know that computer networking can frequently devolve into digital matroshka dolls with data inside other data packaged in different ways. And the first E-Mail" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0mBurvPxNRI) 2024-02-06T17:32Z [--] followers, 119.1K engagements "When Does The Sun Look Like Any Other Star Will Voyager Ever Lose The Sun An easy question to answer. but then I got sidetracked on to other questions like how many stars have night skies brighter than our own How exactly does this magnitude scale work. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=15xfkPUQexA) 2025-05-12T15:04Z 1.8M followers, 192.1K engagements "Venus Rover Concepts That Beat The Killer Atmosphere How do you build a rover that can happily work at 500C [--] Atmospheres of pressure and the problems of dust and corrosion NASA has [--] approaches - one seeks to harden electronics against the heat the other replaces electronic logic with mechanical hardware. NASA and HeroX are crowdsourcing solutions for a mechanism to detect obstacles and allow the rover to head in a different direction with a $15000 prize to the best entry: https://www.herox.com/VenusRover Follow Me elsewhere on Social Media http://twitter.com/djsnm http://twitch.tv/szyzyg" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1DEvcJgBy0c) 2020-02-18T18:11Z 1.7M followers, 366K engagements "The Ways Russia's Invasion Ukraine Will Affect Space Programs - Deep Space Updates Feb 27th This news update comes a bit late because I need to tackle the massive effects and implications of Vladimir Putin ordering Russian armed forces to invade Ukraine. Frankly it's a mess and it's going to affect a lot of space activities for years to come but let's temper this with the rest of the space news. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1V-lj-jCqe8) 2022-02-27T20:00Z [--] followers, 647K engagements "Classified Delta IV Rocket Launch Aborted With Seconds To Go The NROL-44 Launch for the National Reconaissance Office is carrying a secret payload on a massive Delta IV rocket. After several delays the rocket got seconds away from launching even creating the massive Delta Fireball but the launch was aborted with [--] seconds on the clock" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1jkjgo0Cs_8) 2020-08-29T18:22Z 1.8M followers, 359.8K engagements "USA Put A Nuclear Reactor In Space And Abandoned It - How Did It Work In the early days of the US Space program there was a parallel nuclear power program to develop the nuclear power technologies needed for spaceflight. The Space Nuclear Auxiliary Power (SNAP) program worked on both isotope decay generators and fully operational fission reactors. And while several spacecraft have been launched to other planets using radio isotope generators the US only launched one fully operational test reactor - SNAP 10A which operated according to predictions from ground tests. Until the host spacecraft" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1oS-BmoSBtQ) 2024-04-25T14:02Z 1.8M followers, 365.9K engagements "Facts I Learned At School Which Aren't True Any More Turns out that not everything I learned in school was accurate but frequently it wasn't the teachers fault new discoveries are made old secrets get revealed. I'm on vacation which means no gaming but I figured there's a bunch of fun questions I can answer and make videos using nothign more than my iPhone. Suggest questions to me on Twitter @djsnm" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1wIZ2sp39Cc) 2016-03-26T02:04Z 1.8M followers, 887.8K engagements "Elon Musk's Abandoned Plan To Grow Plants On Mars - Mars Oasis Before deciding to build his own rockets Elon Musk wanted to take his PayPal millions and send a private space mission to Mars to show that plants could be grown on another world. Extensive mission planning and design took place to get all the components understood to the point that the mission could be built for real. Ultimately this plan never happened because the rockets ended up being more expensive than originally promised. Here's some more public information https://stvp.stanford.edu/videos/opportunities-in-space-mars-oasis/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2WkEdQy1hoo) 2024-12-28T19:05Z 1.8M followers, 245.5K engagements "Live Astronomy Let's See what I can see. Unistellar loaned me this telescope for this video and If you're really interested in one of these I have a helpful link to their store (which gets me commission in return). And for the next week or the Black Friday sale is running giving everyone a 20% discount AND. for channel viewers there's a special code that'll get you the Solar Filter for the Odyssey series for free the filter is essential if you are interested in viewing sunspots or with the telescope. * add an Odyssey/Odyssey Pro and the 'Smart Solar Filter' to the shopping cart and use the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2epa3PrWGc8) 2024-12-02T13:46Z 1.7M followers, 15.3K engagements "The World Fastest Tesla - Launching On Falcon Heavy (Or Just Elon Trolling) It's flying Car time Elon Musk confirmed my long held suspicion that SpaceX was going to use a Tesla as a mass simulator in the first Falcon Heavy launch. MAJOR ERROR I Made was thinking it would be the new roadster and not the old 1st gen version. (I missed those comments) Thanks for the awesome car model: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php/topic/166771-ford-gt-2017-stock/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ACGzbu8LbA) 2017-12-02T17:11Z 1.8M followers, 109.5K engagements "Elite: Dangerous - Beta [--] - More of Everything Elite: Dangerous released a massive update to its beta program yesterday with [---] star systems new stations new maps new UI new spaceships. Basically a whole lot of new. So Here'a a quick skimming over the surface of some of the new stuff" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3a91Hh4Pk88) 2014-10-01T18:35Z 1.8M followers, 100.4K engagements "Building The Largest Telescope Ever - In Space - Europe's Groundbreaking LISA Mission The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna - LISA is a set of [--] spacecraft which will work together to make a massive gravitational wave telescope in deep space with arms millions of kilometers long it will be able to detect events at much lower frequencies meaning we can detect black hole mergers months ahead of the event and entirely new phenomena involving supermassive black holes. The LISA spacecraft at there core use free flying gold cubes as reference masses for the telescope arms and managing these so" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3mXNt-BDUss) 2024-11-22T16:59Z 1.7M followers, 213.1K engagements "SpaceX Dragon Burns Through California's Sky - Deep Space Updates - 26th May A belated roundup of new stories including all the rockets launches and a couple of failures. The publication of SpaceX's failure investigation for Starship flight [--] and a return to flight in the next few days. Dawn aerospace is looking for people who want the fastest and highest flying drone in the world or rather off it. Axiom [--] get ready to go to space while Varda just returned from space Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3nV5bqE_y1o) 2025-05-27T00:08Z 1.8M followers, 195.5K engagements "Looking Back On The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn Originally launched in [----] the Cassini-Huygens mission was one of the largest space probes ever a massive space exploration mission which would spend over a decade orbiting Saturn and sending back over [---] gigabytes of scientific data. Using data and images from NASA's Cassini team I talk about the voyages. (and yes I mispronounce a couple of moon names) Background Music is by Kai Angel http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/ https://www.kai-engel.com/ 'daemones' 'daedalus' 'Chance' 'Denoument' 'modum' 'periculum'" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ubr151wrHQ) 2017-09-14T16:59Z 1.8M followers, 319.6K engagements "Elite: Dangerous - Flying The Lakon Type [--] Heavy Cargo Hauler Another tour of one of the flyable ships in the current Elite: Dangerous alpha - the Lakon Type [--] Heavy is the largest cargo ship in the game right now able to move [---] tons of cargo. In terms of weapons it's a bit better than the Cobra Mk III but not by much. It's also the slowest and least agile ship in the game. I've seen lots of these lost by other players during docking but so far I've been relatively lucky and only scraped the sides a couple of times" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=46_BNj1Jdow) 2014-05-29T17:03Z 1.8M followers, 140.2K engagements "The Surprising Success of NASA's First Moon Landings - The Surveyor Program 1966-1968 The Surveyor program was originally the grand plan for lunar exploration in the 1960's until Kennedy decided to prioritize putting humans on the moon. Instead the Surveyor missions developed and operated by JPL became precursor missions to test technologies and measure the lunar surface to make sure humans could safely land on the moon. After recent lunar landing missions experienced various levels of success I was really curious as to how the landing guidance operated on a [--] year old spacecraft without" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4BmJNx4e8_Y) 2024-03-06T18:12Z 1.7M followers, 192.2K engagements "SpaceX's Spectacular Twilight Launch of SAOCOM I'd predicted SpaceX's launch on October 7th it would be visible from all over California and beyond and would provide spectacular views of the exhaust gasses interacting with the upper atmosphere of the Earth. For bonus points this capped off a long weekend of chasing things to photograph it was Fleet Week in San Francisco and I love photographing planes in the sky" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4G6GLhlez9w) 2018-10-08T14:50Z 1.8M followers, 107.4K engagements "KSP Doesn't Teach: Rocket Engine Plumbing A huge part of rocket science is the system of tanks piping valves and burners which deliver the fuel from the tanks to the engine. I try to explain why different designs exist and the advantages that more complicated designs deliver. To be clear I'm not a rocket scientist I only play one on the internet. Rocket engine diagrams are largely from Wikipedia with some Modification for narrative purposes https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gas_generator_rocket_cycle. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pressure_fed_rocket_cycle.svg" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4QXZ2RzN_Oo) 2016-10-01T14:11Z 1.8M followers, 1.1M engagements "Kerbal Space Program - Rocket Powered Binary Logic A new entry in the list of 'odd' things to build - a 1-Bit half-adder using action groups as inputs probes and docking ports for internal state and rockets for output. Created by 3_Bit he's got plans for bigger and more complicated machines. You probably neet to watch this in HD to see the rockets firing. Find out more here http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/s" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4Sr8zEXwWFg) 2013-06-03T16:33Z 1.8M followers, 51.9K engagements "Kerbal Space Program - Career Mode - Part [--] - Resource Mining The final part of this playthrough demoing the construction of a resource mining and refining rig this design is obviously sub optimal but it packs all the necessary parts into a [---] ton launch vehicle meaning you can launch it with the Tier [--] launchpad" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4THjWIrJQOU) 2015-07-06T17:39Z 1.8M followers, 323.8K engagements "How Britain's Air Breathing Rocket Engine Would Have Worked. If The Builder Hadn't Gone Bankrupt. Reaction Engines had been working on an innovative engine design named SABRE this was intended to operate as an air breathing engine up to about mach [--] and then switch to a pure rocket engine cycle. The ultimate goal was to build an aircraft named 'Skyline' which could fly all the way to orbit without dropping stages but the company was first and foremost focussed on demonstrating the engine design and in particular the pre-cooler which would be required to chill the incoming air down to usable" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4YLg8X0BAL0) 2024-11-12T17:05Z 1.7M followers, 343K engagements "Why NASA's Deep Space Network Is The Most Important Part Of Any Space Probe The Deep Space Network is operated by JPL at [--] different sites around the world offering continuous support for spacecraft in deep space. The network goes back to the late 1950's and has expanded and adapted over that time to offer capabilities [--] trillion times superior to what the earliest spacecraft used. But more than that the DSN delivers essential navigation and science support making it a hugely important contributer to any mission to the planets. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4aRr4bYiJFM) 2022-09-17T17:32Z 1.8M followers, 243.6K engagements "Dawn Spacecraft Buzzes Largest Asteroid - Final Orbits. The Dawn spacecraft has moved to its final orbit an orbit which will bring it down to 35km from the surface of Ceres. It's being placed in this orbit to collect better data from its Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector instrument to give scientist a better understanding of the chemistry" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4kfmnjrKmPY) 2018-07-04T18:44Z 1.8M followers, 131.5K engagements "Kerbal Space Program [----] - Tutorial For Beginners - Part [--] - Science Labs Struts & Space Probes THIS GUIDE IS FOR AN OLD VERSION OF KSP. "CAREER MODE" in this release is now "SCIENCE MODE" in the current release. In the previous episode we unlocked the science lab so I take a moment to explain how science works in more detail and how the science lab can help. We also send a probe beyond the sphere of influence of the planet Kerbin into deep space" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4prZNg0DAjM) 2014-02-08T20:07Z 1.8M followers, 263.9K engagements "Do Spacecraft Really Have To Endure The Hazards of Reentry An extended answer to a question I keep seeing - can spacecraft avoid the furious heat of reentry by slowing down before reaching the atmosphere or but flying above it until slow enough to avoid it. The footage is from the Artemis [--] mission reentry. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5kl2mm96Jkk) 2023-12-31T07:21Z 1.6M followers, 938.5K engagements "The Antares Rocket - NASA's Less Famous Ride To The Space Station The Antares rocket is not the best known rocket except when it exploded then everyone noticed. The Antares grew out of the same commercial orbital services program that launched the Falcon [--]. The design used a Ukrainian built first stage with Russian engines and a solid upper stage to launch the Cygnus cargo vehicle. The Engines themselves have a story worth telling. This collection of existing technologies meant it was built quickly and is considered a low cost option compared to Atlas. Background music by DJ Rkod" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5ttmG-HBUXE) 2019-06-04T16:38Z 1.8M followers, 275.4K engagements "What We Know About India's Failed Lunar Landing Chandrayaan [--] was a highly ambitious mission for ISRO and while the orbiter is working the lander failed during the last few moments before touch down. Based on the handful of public statements and images from mission control it looks like braking from orbital velocity worked correctly but the transition to fine control for descent may have resulted in a tumbling spacecraft which impacted the surface at about 100m/sec. However I hope more information comes along soon. Cees Bassa's tweets with the radiotelescope trace can be found here:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5xKJG00-S_c) 2019-09-07T18:18Z 1.8M followers, 1.4M engagements "Star Wars Armada - Playing Admiral With Model Star Destroyers Star Wars: Armada Core Set On Amazon: http://amzn.to/2eSpYXY Star Wars: Armada is a tabetop wargame which models capital ship engagments you can run small fleets of ships supported by fighter squadrons and spend a couple of hours quoting Star Wars and making 'pew pew' sound effects. In short It's hella fun. And the models are great who doesn't love moving model Star Destroyers into the rebel fleet only to have them rammed by a hammerhead corvette Star Wars: Armada Core Set http://amzn.to/2eSpYXY Imperial Class Star Destroyer" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5y3-L0vDDws) 2023-10-21T18:02Z 1.6M followers, 58.5K engagements "SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft Exploded Because of 'Corrosive Bullets' and Leaky Valves Yesterday SpaceX released a report on their analysis of the '4/20' Anomaly that destroyed their Crew Dragon spacecraft during a ground tests. It was the result of oxidizer leaking into the wrong part of the plumbing and then being propelled through the system as fast as a bullet. https://www.spacex.com/news/2019/07/15/update-flight-abort-static-fire-anomaly-investigation Raptor Engine images by Jack Beyer https://www.jackbeyer.com/print" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6P063KnI5NI) 2019-07-16T15:30Z 1.8M followers, 353.9K engagements "XS-1 Booster - DARPA's New Launch Vehicle Concept Building a working version of the XS-1 Booster Plane concept in a Kerbal Space Program livestream. The XS-1 concept uses an uncrewed rocket plane as the first stage which then lands back at the launch site while the payload launches to orbit. Originally streamed on http://twitch.tv/szyzyg Full unedited stream https://www.youtube.com/watchv=LhcIgnwj_l4" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6njjm2vmAyw) 2017-05-31T16:59Z 1.8M followers, 100.1K engagements "NASA Studies New Missions To Venus Io or Triton NASA's Discovery program works with universities to develop low cost missions to solar system targets. Yesterday they announced [--] finalists from the latest batch VERITAS DAVINCI+ Io Volcano Observer and Trident. These missions cover Venus Io and Triton with launches in the 2020's. However the award only covers designing the mission and only [--] are expected to proceed to actual mission status" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6txkItycgYQ) 2020-02-14T19:36Z 1.8M followers, 187.5K engagements "How Amateur Radio Fans Decoded SpaceX's Telemetry & Engineering Video Over the weekend amateur radio tinkerers in Europe managed to decode some portions of the telemetry data broadcast by the second stage of the Falcon [--] when it's in orbit. This data was in a somewhat standard format but decoding still required some custom tools to extract the bitstream from the signal and then some guesswork to figure out the exact format. There's still lots of unknown data but most interestingly this gave access to the engineering cameras including one showing the interior of the liquid oxygen tank. Video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=74_N163HyhA) 2021-03-15T19:40Z 1.8M followers, 835.8K engagements "How Did The Apollo [--] Documentary Get Film Of The Upper Stage Ignition I kept getting asked about a sequence from the Apollo [--] documentary showing the ignition of a Saturn V upper Stage known as the S-IVB in space. After asking around I tracked it down to Apollo [--] which was needed the full Saturn V for launch but didn't need the upper stage to go to the Moon. Skylab Launch video was assembled by Retro Space https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJgMAoS30yYoLOYUe_lAXQ" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=780SAiciNbU) 2019-03-25T16:15Z 1.8M followers, 763.9K engagements "What NASA & Elite Dangerous Have In Common The original version of my video I used on NASA TV properly narrated to explain how bits of the Elite universe intersect with real space exploration being done by NASA Here's the original stream archived from Twitch.tv https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Ct6fqG09zW4" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7HJnFB97w9A) 2018-11-03T20:01Z 1.8M followers, 103K engagements "Dice - 3D Printed Metal Steampunk Dungeons & Dragons These Dice represent a lot of cool/geeky things in one place - 3D Printing RPG's Geometry and ancient notions of the nature of the universe - so plenty of stuff for me to talk about. After my video of the Jebediah Kerman statue a few months ago Shapeways offered to send me some other items from their catalogue if I'd make a video. Obviously this is a cunning ploy to get some advertising of their wares and service so I was careful to make sure I selected something that would genuinely be worth talking about. The set I show is the Steampunk" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7HjRZ64PBFI) 2014-05-01T18:05Z 1.8M followers, 50.7K engagements "Blue Origin's Blue Moon in Blue Lights Showing Big Blue Spherical Fuel Tanks Alternative Title: 'The richest man in the world shows off his sci-fi dreams and presents a small step to making it real' Blue Origin had their super exclusive PR event which gave the audience the first look at their Blue Moon lunar lander. The BE-7 engine is headed for testing by NASA this year and will be a dual expander cycler engine designed for 40kN of thrust and deep throttling. Watch the full presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=GQ98hGUe6FM Explanation of Expander cycle engines here:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7I17kvYhCB8) 2019-05-10T16:41Z 1.8M followers, 246.4K engagements "Blue Origin Misses Its Mars Launch - SpaceX Gets Grounded (For [--] days) - Deep Space Updates In the last couple of weeks we saw SpaceX lose its oldest booster get grounded return to flight and still not launch Polaris Dawn. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7L8C6wjmFv0) 2024-09-06T23:05Z 1.8M followers, 383.8K engagements "Why Starships Booster Failed After Staging" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7LYw6gU65ac) 2023-11-18T14:55Z 1.8M followers, 573K engagements "Japan Finally Reveals What Happened To Their Lunar Lander And It Really Did Surprise me Wow JAXA's SLIM Spacecraft performed a near perfect lunar descent until the point it was hovering 50m above the lunar surface at that point there was a huge engine failure and one of the nozzles breaks off. The lander adjusts guidance and successfully lands anyway but with too much lateral velocity to reach the correct orientation. Thanks to Tony De La Rosa for translating the slides. Original slides images and video are here: https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/slim/SLIM/gallery/index.html Follow me on Twitter" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7bFiJvbKyPs) 2024-01-25T18:18Z 1.8M followers, 527.2K engagements "How To Make A Nuclear Reactor Safe Enough For Children To Operate In the 1950's Edward Teller thought that more people needed access to nuclear reactors so he lead a team to design a reactor that was inherently safe due to the laws of physics a small reactor that would stop reacting before it could melt down by using a fuel which was intimately mixed with the moderator. The result was the TRIGA reactor a small research reactor which has been used around the world to perform experiments that require neutron radiation. Includes footage from Tom Scott's video 'The Nuclear Reactor Run By" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=81YJZoE997U) 2022-08-21T23:41Z 1.8M followers, 453.4K engagements "Another Small Rocket Builder Quits The Launch Market - Deep Space Updates November 15th It's been a monumental couple of weeks for the US and by extension the US space program and industry. Meanwhile satellites are launched by Japan Russia New Zealand and China. Australia's Gilmour Space get closer to launch and ABL Space Systems switch to the missile defence business. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ROKeKp3lfs) 2024-11-15T16:44Z 1.7M followers, 278.7K engagements "SpaceX Orbit Largest Spacecraft In History also SpaceX Destroy Largest Spacecraft In History. SpaceX's 3rd flight of Starship was spectacular even though it's the first such flight without any explosions. It was also a step forward for the space company making it a success but far from a complete success as both booster and Starship failed to control themselves all the way to landing and at least one on Orbit test - the engine relight failed. The starship on orbit failed to maintain attitude during the initial reentry phase and this doomed the spacecraft to a fiery disintegration over the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8htMpR7mnaM) 2024-03-14T18:22Z 1.8M followers, 2.4M engagements "Why Do Planes Still Use Lead In Fuel [--] Years After Cars Stopped It's a story about chemistry engineering and regulation - many small aircraft owe their heritage to World War II and were designed for high octane fuels which require lead. Why has it taken so long to figure out an alternative and why are we now facing potentially incompatible fuels in the coming decade. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8zfIy17q9sE) 2025-01-01T02:37Z 1.8M followers, 597.9K engagements "Australia's First Homegrown Rocket Goes Down Down Under. Gilmour Space is an Australian rockect company hoping to launch their Eris rocket to orbit this is a small hybrid fueled launch vehicle making it unique in the world of orbital rockets. However it's first flight was unique in its own way ending after only [--] seconds of flight. Let's figure out what happened. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=98haEggTw4A) 2025-07-30T17:15Z 1.8M followers, 283.6K engagements "KIC [-------] Looks Strange But Is It A Sign Of Aliens Probably not. While I've been away this has been one of the bigger stories in astronomy a paper titled 'Planet Hunters X. KIC [-------] - Where's the Flux' has shown bizarre brightness variations. http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622 There's no viable explanation at this time but the media likes to speculate that extraterrestrials may be responsilbe" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9UZdXJQERHE) 2015-10-20T13:08Z 1.8M followers, 127.8K engagements "Artemis [--] - Orion Entry and Splashdown The one minute version of todays return to Earth (full video incoming) Music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin Macleod 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9W3D95qyY5s) 2022-12-11T19:44Z 1.8M followers, 101.8K engagements "SpaceX Loses [--] Satellites To Solar Storm SpaceX were caught by surprise when their latest batch of [--] Starlink Satellites launched into low Earth orbit with much higher atmospheric drag then they expected as a result of high solar actitivity. This drag has ultimately resulted in the satellites being unable to gain altitude and reach their deployment 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 directly through Patreon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9kIcEFyEPgA) 2022-02-09T22:06Z 1.7M followers, 603.7K engagements "Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes - Family Bomb Defusing Party Sometimes we do 'family board game night' sometimes we do 'movie night' but last night I got together with the kids and set about defusing bombs for fun and comedy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9zGmCc3iw9o) 2016-07-25T17:44Z 1.8M followers, 32.1K engagements "StarShip StarLiner Chang'e [--] & Oh Dear Moon - Deep Space Updates June 8th Some people are calling the first week of June the most historic week in spaceflight. ever Well probably not but while Starship was flying Starliner was docking and Chang'e [--] was returning samples from the surface of the Moon. The Dear Moon mission was called off with almost no warning and Apollo [--] Astronaut Bill Anders was tragically killed in a small plane crash. And thats still not all the big stories Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9zcOqW5CfFw) 2024-06-09T19:20Z 1.7M followers, 473.9K engagements "Supersonic LEGO Build And Chat 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ACgjufLU-yo) 2025-01-29T05:13Z 1.8M followers, 24.2K engagements "Orbital Rendezvous And Docking Tutorial For Kerbal Space Program [----] This step by step guide takes us from launch to rendezvous to docking with another spacecraft in orbit. Hopefully someone will find it useful when [----] is officially released" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AHkY3FusJIQ) 2012-11-28T18:12Z 1.8M followers, 890.6K engagements "The Space Shuttle That Didn't Reach The Runway - Why Did Atlantis Land Short on STS-37 In [----] Space Shuttle Atlantis returning after STS-37 was forced to land on a lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base which had never been used by a shuttle before and wasn't included in mission plans. But across the US the weather made it the only option and to compound things in addition to the runway being unfamiliar the winds threw a few curveballs at them resulting in an approach that landed over [----] feet before it was supposed to. Wayne Hale published his excellent first person account of this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AZ4UWbt6vZg) 2024-04-05T17:16Z 1.7M followers, 523K engagements "Big Suborbital Launches - Starship And Starsailor - Deep Space Updates August 29th A roundup of news in over the last couple of weeks. All the launches including a couple of suborbital flights Crew [--] comes home Firefly looking at launching from Japan and Blue Origin pitch their solution to Mars communication. If the Gemini Remastered book looks like your thing and you want to order it with my Amazon link then I get a few dollars: https://amzn.to/427E63D 00:16 Starlink launches 00:44 Other Rocket launches 04:53 Bion 10:20 Starship Flight [--] 11:43 Starsailor 13:24 Crew [--] Landing 14:25 Launch" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ad5jWc-ARDs) 2025-08-29T21:37Z 1.8M followers, 191K engagements "Jingle Bells Made with VidRhythm by Harmonix on iOS. http://www.vidrhythm.com/buy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AwYmkYcRtvE) 2011-12-16T03:38Z 1.8M followers, [----] engagements "Asteroid Discovery - 1970-2015 - 8K resolution The latest version of this famous video. Music is 'Thinking Out Loud' by Kevin Macleod Incompetech.com http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.htmlisrc=USUAN1100043" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BKKg4lZ_o-Y) 2015-09-24T22:52Z 1.8M followers, 300K engagements "Rebooting a [--] Year Old Computer - Making The Apollo Guidance Computer Work Again The Apollo Guidance Computer is a pivotal part of computer history and it was a key part of making it possible for Apollo to land on the moon. And elsewhere on youtube a team of electronics wizards have been trying to resurrect a computer that was scrapped [--] years ago and I was lucky enough to turn up at the exact moment they got everything running on its original hardware. You should make a point of watching Curious Marc's multi part series on their quest to bring this computer back to life - [--] years after it" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_gP5aF3ys) 2019-07-20T19:46Z 1.8M followers, 649.5K engagements "Can An Astronaut Orbit The Space Station The space station masses over [---] tons so can an astronaut orbit this And what does this question have to do with supernova We can use Universe Sandbox [--] to simulate how the forces of gravity work down to small scales but also how they interact in more complcated ways than most people imagine. http://universesandbox.com/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bt54lfOFsDs) 2016-12-16T18:02Z 1.8M followers, 595.3K engagements "Random Silly Things To Do In Kerbal Space Program A compilation of random bits and pieces from some of my 'experiments' in Kerbal Space Program. Stupid flying stupid rockets explosions aplenty. Even Jeb stops smiling from time to time. http://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com Music: Double O - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Pure Attitude - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C4D3ZfbcSfI) 2011-07-28T15:15Z 1.8M followers, 79K engagements "The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project In the 1960's NASA undertook an effort to map the near side of the moon at high resolution to find landing sites for the Apollo spacecraft. Over the last few years the team at Skycorp have been working to recover and improve upon this original data by restoring old tape machines and extracting the original data from the original tapes. Of course I need to give their ISEE-3 Reboot Project a shoutout too: http://rkthb.co/42228" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CGwyhc4g3q4) 2014-05-09T18:02Z 1.8M followers, 37.1K engagements "Why Does Boeing's Starliner Not Look Burned After Reentry A simple question which lead me to talk about heat shielding on many different capsules over the years. Boeing's spacecraft uses a non-ablative heatshield on the backshell partly because it has lower thermal loads compared to Dragon thanks to a shallower cone angle. And that's where I started. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CPwMkU0HSOM) 2022-06-17T20:07Z 1.7M followers, 713.9K engagements "ULA Stops Selling Atlas Rocket Launches The Atlas rocket traces its ancestry back to the 1950's it's been at the core of the US space capabilities carrying historic payloads for NASA the DoD and commercial partners. This week ULA made it clear that it has no more Atlas rockets for sale as it move to transition to Vulcan which is not reliant on engines from Russia. There are [--] launches left which is likely more than some 'new' rockets but this decade should see the final flights of Atlas Delta and Proton - all historic vehicles with their roots in the cold war" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CS8W_4T4Mh0) 2021-08-27T18:01Z 1.8M followers, 422K engagements "Rare Lightning Travelling from Ground To Clouds In Slow Motion We had some storms in the Bay Area over the weekend and I captured a slow motion video of a lightning strike which I'm told is a rare case of lightning starting from the ground and travelling upwards to the clouds. This was recorded on a Sony RX100 Mk VII at 960FPS ISO [-----] https://amzn.to/2QdUH0F" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CctTDj6SN1U) 2020-08-17T19:10Z 1.8M followers, 264.1K engagements "NASA's Plan To Rescue Stranded Astronauts - Playing Sardines In A Space Capsule In [----] there were concerns that the crew on Skylab may be stuck without a ride home after half the thrusters on the Service module failed. In response NASA turned to its existing Skylab Rescue plans which involved squeezing [--] people into a capsule designed for [--] and assigned Vance Brand and Don Lind to train for this mission. Over the next few days this crew showed the rescue was possible but as they analyzed the problem in with the spacecraft they also showed that there were safe ways to return the damaged" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Chn6yNHJ2UU) 2023-01-16T00:54Z 1.8M followers, 406.8K engagements "Wreckage Of Titan Submersible Reveal How It Imploded The US Coast Guard has just begun its public inquiry into the Titan Submersible accident and in the process has released a number of documents including critically footage from a remotely operated vehicle showing the wreckages on the ocean floor. I believe this wreckage confirms that the failure began at the interface between the carbon fiber pressure hull and the forward titanium interface ring. A great deal of composite debris has been pushed backwards into the rear hemisphere while almost none is visible near the forward sphere. Many" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CxBtZmyPzVA) 2024-09-19T07:13Z 1.8M followers, 5.7M engagements "SpaceX Fail To Repeat Booster Catch But Starship Shows New Tricks - IFT6 Post Flight Review SpaceX's 6th Flight Of Starship & SuperHeavy was supposed to repeat the booster catch trick for the second time but part way through the boostback SpaceX got warnings that the tower may not be operating correctly. Instead booster [--] headed offshore to a safe landing in the Gulf while Starship [--] continued into space relit its engines and landed safely in Daylight. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=D-Ri1mWpkQk) 2024-11-20T07:04Z 1.7M followers, 621.5K engagements "Putting Parachutes On Planes: The Genius Engineering Behind Rocket Powered Airframe Parachutes. The most popular light aircraft sold in the US now come with rocket propelled emergency parachute systems which can be deployed to save a stricken aircraft safely. Cirrus has been fitting these to every single one of their aircraft since they launched back in the later 1990's and hundreds of people have been saved over the last few decades. It was a phenomenally complicated engineering problem to design a parachute system that deploys quickly doesn't destroy the aircraft or injure the occupants and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=D6eCIlgHAqY) 2025-04-01T16:22Z 1.8M followers, 210.4K engagements "Can You See A Laser Pointer From The Space Station Green laser pointers are amazingly useful tools for teaching the general public about the night sky it's easy to point out specific targets and have everyone know what you mean. Sometimes people will point out satellites and even the ISS so I wanted to figure out whether an astronaut on the ISS would be able to see lasers from people on the ground. Here's the original video of the ISS Flash project: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=2UoY15WDuHQ" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DCQ2CbfGs6g) 2018-07-10T17:17Z 1.8M followers, 1.1M engagements "How Europe Designed and Evolved The Ariane Rocket Over Last [--] Decades The first launch of the Ariane [--] happened on December 24th [----] starting a long and successful career as the worlds most popular launch vehicle for Geostationary spacecraft. The design evolved through [--] major generations with the Ariane [--] set to fly in [----] and eventually replace the Ariane [--]. Further Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_(rocket_family) http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/West_Europe/West_Europe.htm https://what-when-how.com/space-science-and-technology/ariane-rocket-program/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DFbzvbkoEYs) 2019-12-27T16:31Z 1.8M followers, 322.2K engagements "Unmanned Rockets In Space - Kerbal Space Program I redesign my launch system to stop the random rotations and finally get a rocket up to orbital velocity. Shame it's pointing the wrong way. Check out Kerbal Space Program at http://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com - and thanks to the developers for encouraging these videos" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DNaBIVcbuj0) 2012-07-31T06:55Z 1.8M followers, 18.3K engagements "Cosmic Girl Will Attempt To Launch Rocket Into Space Virgin Orbit have announced their first test launch is targeted for Sunday May 24th they'll attempt to launch their Launcher One rocket into orbit from the Cosmic Girl carrier aircraft. The launch will occur over the Pacific ocean west of Southern California. It's the first time a cryogenically fueled air launched orbital rocket has been attempted so it'll be fascinating to see whether all the engineering planning testing and rehearsals will reward the company with a successful launch on their first attempt. Most rockets fail on their first" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dc8ASYxob0A) 2020-05-21T16:28Z 1.8M followers, 300.5K engagements "Will New Glenn Be First BIG Launch of [----] Deep Space Updates January 6th [----] ended as another record year in spaceflight with launches every day and a half and less than a week into the year we're looking at the two largest rockets in the world launching within days or even hours of each other. 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dp2Dj2GfOUk) 2025-01-07T01:22Z 1.8M followers, 281.7K engagements "Russia Launches All Its Space Rockets - Deep Space Updates - October 26th It's been over [--] weeks so there's a lot of space news to catch up on in particular Russia has managed to get launches in with all of its launch vehicles and from all of its launch sites. Many thanks to Trevor Mailman for the amazing Moon Transit Footage of Falcon [--] carrying Galaxy 33/34 https://youtu.be/Bk7b4olOpRQ 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" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ECz1EOvdp2c) 2022-10-27T06:40Z 1.8M followers, 409K engagements "Live Astronomy. Take [--] Let's See what I can see. Unistellar loaned me this telescope for this video and If you're really interested in one of these I have a helpful link to their store (which gets me commission in return). And for the next week or the Black Friday sale is running giving everyone a 20% discount AND. for channel viewers there's a special code that'll get you the Solar Filter for the Odyssey series for free the filter is essential if you are interested in viewing sunspots or with the telescope. * add an Odyssey/Odyssey Pro and the 'Smart Solar Filter' to the shopping cart and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EGQpBDlpoNk) 2024-12-03T02:39Z 1.7M followers, 26.4K engagements "SpaceX Reveal Details Of Starships Planned Orbital Test Flight #shorts" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EV9A4T6NUAQ) 2021-05-16T16:43Z 1.8M followers, 363.2K engagements "NASA Budget Cuts vs Pop Stars In Space - Worst Comments Section Ever Deep Space Updates April 17th Over the last two weeks we've have big new on NASA's Leadership & Funding while in commercial spaceflight Katy Perry went to space. Both of these events have resulted in 'spirited' discussion. But we also have 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](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EX45e-d16HU) 2025-04-18T18:25Z 1.8M followers, 212.2K engagements "Why Do Lunar Satellites Eventually Crash Into The Moon Spacecraft orbiting the Earth have remained in space since the 1950's and may last for centuries more but spacecraft orbiting close to the moon can crash within weeks. The reason for this is the lunar gravity field is lumpy with geological features making the smooth orbits of space probes distort until they hit the surface. The recent publication on the giant lunar impactor: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JE005826 Moonquakes Paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0362-2 Footage and images taken from" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EadClM4Y45A) 2019-05-22T18:34Z 1.8M followers, 341.8K engagements "A Rocket Engine Inside Another Rocket Engine - The Lance Missile The MGM-52 Lance Missile is a short range ballistic missile developed for the US Army in the 1960's and deployed from 1972-1992. One of the most fascinating things about the missile is the engine design which places the sustainer engine inside the booster engine leading to a pair of concentric nozzles that looks like no other rocker engine out there" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ehp2Y_JWVO8) 2020-04-30T17:38Z 1.8M followers, 276.4K engagements "The Lead Scientist Behind NASA's Asteroid Mission Talks About The Biggest Problems They Solved Dante Lauretta has been working on the OSIRIS REx mission for the better part of [--] decades all the way from the early proposal through the design of mission target selection and the experimentation with the sample acquisition process. Even after launch there are new problems they've had to solve to support the plan of returning a substantial sample of a primitive asteroid and return it to Earth. Most of the asteroid images in this video are from the mission website: https://www.asteroidmission.org/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EjsFIviqSCQ) 2020-03-15T16:34Z 1.8M followers, 140.7K engagements "Russian Space Station Module Suffers 3rd Coolant Leak This Year. Yesterday ISS crew were investigating another coolant leak on the Russian side of the space station the third on this year. It's in a radiator which was launched in [----] and remained in storage until earlier this year when it was attached to the side of the Nauka lab module to provide enhanced cooling for certain experiments and activities in the module. Updates will no doubt come on this thread at NASASpaceFlight https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.phptopic=59664.0 Follow me on Twitter for more updates:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EoX2XGfu3a0) 2023-10-10T17:45Z 1.7M followers, 202.7K engagements "Kerbal Space Program [----] - Tutorial For Beginners [--] - Getting Into Orbit THIS GUIDE IS FOR AN OLD VERSION OF KSP. "CAREER MODE" in this release is now "SCIENCE MODE" in the current release. This series covers the modern career mode https://www.youtube.com/watchv=d74m3qThOoU The third part of my Career mode tutorial - we build a rocket that'll take us into orbit learn a little about how to maneuver while in orbit and grab some science while we're up there" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F0KiePxOuuc) 2014-02-01T20:46Z 1.8M followers, 555.9K engagements "What Does It Take To Reach Lightspeed In Kerbal Space Program After travelling relativisticly in A Slower Speed Of Light a few people asked about building lightspeed capable rockets in Kerbal Space Program. Here I do a few calculations to examine just what's needed to do this starting out with stock rockets modded rockets and of course the infinite fuel cheat from the debug menu. Or you can always get lucky with glitches - like this entertaining one from Danny2462 http://www.youtube.com/watchv=NLscXyIP4c8" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FCXMpWMEc1w) 2012-11-15T15:00Z 1.8M followers, 2.4M engagements "The Voyager Golden Records Last Recording A few years ago Ozma records created a new pressing of the records sent into interstellar space on the Voyager space probes. https://ozmarecords.com/pages/voyager" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FDLWYXPnKQ8) 2021-04-01T16:58Z 1.8M followers, 95K engagements "The Black Arrow & Britain's Rocket Program It's been [--] years since the first successful suborbital flight of the British designed and built Black Arrow rocket. Ultimately it would prove its ability to launch satellites into low Earth Orbit before being cancelled but there's a lot to talk about. The Propellent choice of High Test Peroxide and Kerosene is not one we see very often but it has some very interesting advantages over more conventional choices. Lots of info on British rockets is available on Nicholas Hill's site: http://www.spaceuk.org/index.html Gamma [--] image in thumbnail by Andy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FKRkFwc9234) 2020-03-05T20:18Z 1.8M followers, 269.2K engagements "The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds I found this fascinating story about a computerized telemetry system which was designed to be placed in the heart of a nuclear warhead replacing the plutonium pit in a test device. I'm not 100% sure this was flown because the documentation disappears about [--] years ago which is likely to be the case if it was actually used in a test. Some references: https://www.lanl.gov/orgs/padwp/pdfs/2nwj2-03.pdf https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/661650 https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/607352/ITC_1998_98-04-2.pdfsequence=1&isAllowed=y" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FYdAT0v4DHs) 2023-01-01T01:30Z 1.8M followers, 407.7K engagements "Firefly Win The Night With Victus Nox Blue Origin Gets New Leadership - Deep Space Updates Updates for the second half of September including many launches. Firefly succeeded in their responsive launch challenge. Rocket Lab had another setback as another second stage failed. China's Ceres-1 had its first failure during the boost phase. The crew of MS-22 finally return home after a record [---] day stay on the ISS setting a new record for a NASA astronaut. Bob Smith is retiring from Blue Origin many hope that this will fix the company's slow progress also the FAA closed the investigation of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fib_k0mIzJc) 2023-10-02T18:03Z 1.7M followers, 205.1K engagements "Kerbal Speedrun - Building Launching Landing Returning from Mun Forget the science let's see how fast I can go from an empty VAB to the surface of the mun and then back to kerbin. And then let's see how fast everyone else can do it. Rules: 1) start with empty VAB 2) build a vehicle one part at a time no subassemblys 3) launch to moon you may have already setup correct orientation. 4) land softly on moon for at least a second a bounce does not count. 5) return to kerbin and land safely Stock KSP 1.2.2 only no mods allowed no custom categories video needed for verification. I'll have another go" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fl_cX4NCMjo) 2017-01-20T16:12Z 1.8M followers, 191.2K engagements "What Is This Debris Falling Off The Sides Of Rockets Many videos of Chinese Long March rockets show huge amounts of debris being shed immediately upon liftoff and I often get asked whether that's normal. These are of course foam insulation panels needed for temperature control and depending on the rocket and the location they might be to keep them cool or to keep them warm. Ariane V Photo in thumbnail by Trevor Mahlmann https://www.tmahlmann.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" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fn-2Fd0e2RY) 2022-04-17T01:07Z 1.8M followers, 437.6K engagements "The Third Country To Build an Orbital Rocket - A Diamond In The Sky After the USSR & USA reached orbit it would be [--] years before another country managed the same feat when France's home grown Diamant rocket launched the Asterix satellite. France's rocketry program started during World War II and would build larger and larger sounding rockets until committing to building an orbital launch capability (and ballistic missiles) became a priority in the 1960's. There would be [--] iterations on the Diamant rocket before France transitioned to the Ariane launch vehicle. Follow me on Twitter for more" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FrAKbnkXRgc) 2024-11-29T17:14Z 1.8M followers, 171K engagements "What does it Take To Deorbit A Moon In Kerbal Space Program No. you can't deorbit moons in stock kerbal space program the planets and moons are all on rails but I did some number crunching to figure out what it would need. Warning: Big Numbers Ahead" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G01NoaTM46o) 2012-11-10T21:51Z 1.8M followers, 2.1M engagements "Galaxy Trucker - Realtime Spaceship Building Boardgame Galaxy Trucker is a popular board game which sees players attempting tot throw spacecraft together out of a common pool of parts then racing across the galaxy fighting pirates evading asteroids and collecting cargo. The creators of the game have adapted this to iOS and Android while adding some features to make one of the best boardgame adaptations to date. The digital version is here: http://www.galaxytrucker.com/ However purists with friends might be interested in the physical version:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G0m1q4FsVNA) 2015-01-21T17:46Z 1.8M followers, 61.1K engagements "How The V-2 Rocket Launched America's Space Race It's well known that after World War II the rocket scientists involved with the V-2 were recruited to the the US under Project Paperclip but the exact evolution of the Model [--] rocket engine used on the V-2 into the engines used by US rockets is less well known. The engine was far from perfect and US engineers tore them apart and designed improvements ultimately the majority of US launch vehicles had engines with some heritage from the V-2. A lot of relevant information comes from the Engine History Website" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GFECEAp3pWU) 2024-08-16T13:22Z 1.8M followers, 186.1K engagements "Hawaii Science: Gemini Observatory While on vacation in Hawaii I did get to visit a lot of cool places obviously I really wanted to see telescopes on the top of the mountain and we will get to that however a lot of the telescopes are operated from the much more hospitable environment near sea level. Gemini Observatory is a pair of [--] Meter telescopes in different hemispheres able to cover the whole sky between them. I dropped by for a chat with the staff. http://www.gemini.edu/ Yes the audio is bad and you're a dum dum if you think I don't know this already and insist on pointing this out" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GJs0OhdcGVI) 2018-04-12T18:24Z 1.8M followers, 25.5K engagements "SpaceX To Refly Starship Booster First Astronauts Fly Over Poles - Deep Space Updates April 4th A round of up the news for the last two weeks with the obviously zenith being Fram-2 which set the limit for orbiting further North than any other astronauts the first humans to look down on the ice caps from space. But also there's a massive National Security launch deal signed with SpaceX ULA and Blue Origin and SpaceX have decided to try reflying the booster they caught on flight [--]. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GcbAVItep2c) 2025-04-05T01:27Z 1.8M followers, 243.2K engagements "Kerbal Space Program - Rosetta This is my version of the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko - built using Kerbal Space Program and a couple of extra mods. I've setup the target as an asteroid with almost the same orbital elements as the real comet with the semi-major axis scaled to Kerbin's orbit. I will point out that this was recorded on Sunday before the harpoon and engine failures on the real mission the fact that my grabber failed also is merely a coincidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GlMRKKLGWlU) 2014-11-13T17:59Z 1.8M followers, 195.8K engagements "Kerbal Space Program - Interstellar Quest - Episode [--] - The Return Of The Duna Express The Minmus exploration program discovers further flaws in its plan specifically staffing shortages have led to the inability to process science correctly. Meanwhile the Duna Express returns to Kerbin's sphere of influence and an unplanned course correction causes some consternation" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GmEIkE3CmAA) 2014-10-06T17:19Z 1.8M followers, 151.4K engagements "Asteroid Update - Interview with Ed Lu - Former Astronaut & CEO of B612 Foundation I sit down with Ed Lu CEO of the B612 Foundation to talk about the latest developments in asteroid hazard mitigation and new NASA missions to asteroids. B612 is an organization that works towards protecting the Earth from asteroid impacts and informing and forwarding world-wide decision-making on planetary defense issues. B612 provides a non-governmental voice on the risks options and implications of asteroid data while advancing the technical means by which that data is acquired. We work to make interpretation" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GpRrBrJ4fTI) 2017-02-09T18:30Z 1.8M followers, 23.3K engagements Limited data mode. 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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, 128K 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, 160.4K 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
"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, 164.9K 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, 133.4K 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
"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
"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, 128.9K 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
"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 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, 233.9K engagements
"Why did SpaceXs Falcon [--] Make a Visible Shockwave in the Sky #shorts"
YouTube Link 2021-05-27T05:29Z 1.8M followers, 1.6M 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
"Wormholes Get Weirder - Watch Other Objects Near Wormholes & Learn How I Created The Images The second part to my wormhole video project first we have a few visuals showing what an outside observer sees when another spacecraft crosses through the wormhole or moves around near the entrance. Secondly there's some explanations of the geometry the shape of the space and illustrations of the way light moves around the entrance to a wormhole. Finally we take a closer look at the math and how to implement a raytracer to make wormholes and how I solver problems with the original design to remove"
YouTube Link 2020-03-23T15:21Z 1.8M followers, 113.7K 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, 331K engagements
"How Fast Are Spaceships In 'The Expanse' I take a few scenes from the TV show and do the math on how fast the spacecraft are moving how long they would take to cover the distances in the solar system with brachistochrone orbits powered by the Epstein drive. To illustrate a number of things I use the magnificent 'Space Engine' - http://spaceengine.org/ Yes this contains lots of spoilers. the expanse science space engine the expanse science space engine"
YouTube Link 2017-05-02T16:57Z 1.8M followers, 1.1M 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, 427.8K 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 Jet Propulsion Laboratory W/Doug Ellison - Part [--] Continuing the Tour we visit the control center where spacecraft operations are run from and more Thanks to NASA JPL and of course Doug for making this possible. NASA JPL mars space deep space network NASA JPL mars space deep space network"
YouTube Link 2017-10-28T17:58Z 1.8M followers, 36.9K 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
"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
"Buzz Aldrin Space Program Manager - Race To The Moon Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager is a modern remake of Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space a classic PC strategy game where you manage a space program with the goal of beating your competitors to the Moon. BASP extends this by including missions beyond the Moon and allowing you to ignore the Cold War hostilities and run a unified space program. The game is available on steam or directly from the developer http://slitherine.com/games/BA_SPM_Pc http://store.steampowered.com/app/308270/ Buzz Aldrin (Astronaut) Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space (Video"
YouTube Link 2014-10-31T16:53Z 1.8M followers, 93.9K 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
"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
"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
"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, 145.1K 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
"Where Will Astronauts Go After The ISS Is Destroyed The International Space Station is currently scheduled to come to an end in [----] but before then we're hoping that there will be other space stations for humans to visit from small single module stations like Vast's Haven-1 to the massively ambitious modular Orbital reef. These will move space stations from being government projects to the private sector ideally in the same way that rocket launches became a commercial operation. The US has [--] leading candidates with Europe Canada and Japan already making deals so humanity's presence in low"
YouTube Link 2024-07-21T21:30Z 1.8M followers, 975.9K 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
"Frontier Pilot Simulator - Sci-Fi Pilots Don't Always Fly Spaceships Frontier Pilot Simulator puts you in the role of a sci-fi aircraft pilot helping settlers on an alien planet survive by transporting cargo and passengers. The main barriers to this not-space trucker's job is limiter fuel and fickle weather on the planet which is a big part of the game mechanics. Frontier Pilot Simulator is currently in early access on steam. http://steamcommunity.com/app/673210 Also watch a more informal livestream of this game: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=VqQyKq7JuIE sci-fi frontier pilot simulator"
YouTube Link 2018-03-20T17:39Z 1.8M followers, 86K engagements
"What Is The Meaning Of Joy Division's Iconic Album Cover I'm a bit of a music and science nerd and these unrelated fields have come together for the iconic cover to Joy Division's album "Unknown Pleasures". There are quite a few pop culture works that use images of space but this uses a data visualization from an astronomer's PhD thesis and there's a lot to be said about this. Thanks to the resurgence of Vinyl as a recording medium you can still buy this in its original form: https://amzn.to/2tllQTo astronomy music pulsar radio astronomy joy division new order bernard sumner factory astronomy"
YouTube Link 2018-06-19T16:24Z 1.8M followers, 100.3K engagements
"How to Move The Planet Earth To Save It From The Sun On the timescale of hundreds of millions of years the sun is increasing in luminosity and may one day render the Earth uninhabitable. Is it possible to envisage a way to move the entire planet further from the Sun to prevent this fate David Brin: Let's Lift The Earth http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/11/lets-lift-earth.html The Wandering Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary orbits https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0102126.pdf"
YouTube Link 2021-06-11T18:25Z 1.8M followers, 190.1K 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
"What Would Happen If Asteroid Bennu Hit Earth After OSIRIS REx grabbed a sample a coupe of weeks ago many people remarked on how the asteroid just seemed to disintegrate when sampled. Some commenters took this fragility as a sign the asteroids would just disintegrate in the atmosphere before it hit the surface of earth. Unfortunately that's not the case Bennu is so large that it would still hit the surface albeit in fragments and still cause massive amounts of damage"
YouTube Link 2020-11-08T20:30Z 1.8M followers, 413.8K engagements
"How Would Maverick Survive Ejecting From the SR-72 Darkstar At Mach [--] Sometimes people tweet wrong things and I feel compelled to make a video: Neil Degrasse Tyson made a number of comments about Top Gun 2: Maverick including this one which spoke to me: https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1579177010374799361s=61&t=BuJKbsQei2UGhHHlj9w0Dg Now he does a fine job communicating cool things about science but hes an astronomer and hasnt spend nearly as much time studying aerospace as myself nor did he recently make a video about the most extreme Ejection seat ever made for the X-15. Darkstar in"
YouTube Link 2022-10-18T16:06Z 1.8M followers, 735K 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
"Space Tourism - Virgin Galactic vs Blue Origin (& SpaceX) The last [--] months have seen some significant developments to the prospects of space tourism. Virgin Galactic are performing powered tests of the 3rd iteration of their suborbital spaceplane Blue Origin have been demoing New Shepard as flown by Mannequin Skywalker. And on the other side of things SpaceX confirmed it's no longer planning on using Falcon Heavy to send a pair of tourists around the moon. spacex blue origin virgin galactic virgin orbit dragon [--] x-prize space tourist iss spacex blue origin virgin galactic virgin orbit dragon"
YouTube Link 2018-06-14T18:38Z 1.8M followers, 93K 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
"Last Minute Updates on Falcon Heavy & BFR - February 6th We interrupt my irregular programming to bring an update on the Falcon Heavy hours before the launch. unless they scrub for weather or some other problem. Launch is 10:30 PST and it'll be viewable on spacex.com falcon heavy spacex science rocket nasa tesla elon musk falcon heavy spacex science rocket nasa tesla elon musk"
YouTube Link 2018-02-06T15:09Z 1.8M followers, 161.3K 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
"NASA Spacecraft Returns Extraterrestial Material To Earth. Scaring Scientists During Landing NASA's OSIRIS REx spacecraft completed its primary mission by returning a large sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth over the weekend dropping its sample return capsule neatly onto a test range in Utah after giving the engineers some concern that it might crash. Now the material has been recovered it'll be sent to labs to be analyzed using technologies and instrumentation which could never fly on a spacecraft. Meanwhile the parent spacecraft is renamed OSIRIS APEX and is headed toward a rendezvous"
YouTube Link 2023-09-25T19:57Z 1.8M followers, 604.3K 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
"Asteroid Impact In [----] - What Are The Chances What Can We Do My take on Asteroid [----] YR4 which currently has a 2.3% chance of colliding with the Earth in [----] an event that's likely comparable to a multi megaton nuclear weapon. The odds are still good that it'll miss but the chances may look worse before they get better and there's a real chance we can't honestly know the answer by April when it gets too faint to observe until [----]. But this won't be the end of the world and might be an opportunity to put the capabilities of DART into real world use. Follow me on Twitter for more updates:"
YouTube Link 2025-02-07T07:59Z 1.8M followers, 745.1K engagements
"Rocket Lab's Neutron Rocket Will Be More Reusable Than Falcon [--] Rocket Lab's Peter Beck presented a new update on the design of their forthcoming Neutron rocket and it's gone from being a near direct equivalent to the Antares to nearly matching the performance of the Falcon [--] but with much greater reuse potential and a significantly simpler and cheaper second stage. Key differences include a much wider booster with more aerodynamic features for recovery and replacing the fairing with doors that can open and close to eliminate the need for separate fairing recovery. Follow me on Twitter for"
YouTube Link 2021-12-02T21:22Z 1.8M followers, 475.8K 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
"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, 262.5K 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
"NASA looking at UFO's Webb Hit By Meteor & Tiangong Gets New Crew - Deep Space Updates - June 10th A collection of space worth news updates from the first week and a half of June: Shenzhou [--] brings a crew to Tiangong and China announces plan to keep it permanently occupied. NASA OIG report finds that another part of SLS has been mismanaged by a contractor. MASA Space suit contract gets awarded in the hope that some competition makes things happen faster. JWST it getting closer to coming online but has already suffered detectable damage to mirror. NASA to spend $100000 on scientists looking"
YouTube Link 2022-06-11T15:45Z 1.8M followers, 377.7K 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
"How To Do A Hoverslam - Things Kerbal Space Program Doesn't Teach. If you're landing a rocket then waiting to the last minute slamming on the brakes actually saves fuel over slower more considered approaches to landing. kerbal space program rocket spacex kerbal space program rocket spacex"
YouTube Link 2018-02-19T20:08Z 1.8M followers, 1.1M 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
"Why The Electron Rocket May Be Cheapest Way To Get To Space Yesterday Rocket Labs successfully launched their Electron rocket into orbit carrying test satellites. The Electron is small cheap rocket which uses a 3D Printed engine Electrically driven pumps and composite fuel tanks. All features which are new to orbital launch vehicles. All the videos are to be found on Rocket Labs youtube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsWq7LZaizhIi-c-Yo_bcpw rocket labs electron orbit rocket new zealand planet labs dove spire global lemur rutherford rocket labs electron orbit rocket new zealand planet"
YouTube Link 2018-01-21T19:57Z 1.8M followers, 689.4K 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, 74.6K engagements
"Catching A Falling Rocket With Another Rocket - Kerbal Space Program I was asked whether SpaceX could recover their 2nd stages by catching them using another 1st Stage Booster. This ridiculous idea needed testing so I tried to capture something falling from orbit with another rocket before both get destroyed on reentry. Unfortunately due to issues with Comcast the video quality is lousy I hope I can get this fixed before my next livestream. kerbal space program spacex crazy rocket live kerbal crash kerbal space program spacex crazy rocket live kerbal crash"
YouTube Link 2018-04-11T19:12Z 1.8M followers, 70.2K engagements
"Spinning Asteroids To Make Space Stations In sci-fi the idea of an asteroid base is a common trope we see them in The Expanse and in Elite: Dangerous. However spinning up an asteroid leads to all sorts of problems and challenges so let's crunch the numbers. Edit: made a bit of an oopsie with my first slide on radiation pressure it shouldn't say 'Yarkovsky' effect. asteroid science the expanse elite dangerous engineering asteroid science the expanse elite dangerous engineering"
YouTube Link 2017-04-21T17:50Z 1.8M followers, 514.3K 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
"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
"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
"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
"Rez Infinite - Classic Cyber-Rave Game Finally On PC One of my favourite console titles ever is Rez - originally released on the Dreamcast and Playstation [--] the game was an on rails shooter which synchronised the action to the the music and filled the screen with as many abstract cyberspace visuals as the hardware of the day could manage. But now after [--] years it's been updated for modern hardware and includes an straight up mind blowing VR mode. rez cyberspace dreamcast rez: infinite rave oculus vive rez cyberspace dreamcast rez: infinite rave oculus vive"
YouTube Link 2017-08-10T18:05Z 1.8M followers, 30.4K 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
"NASA Considering Sending Nuclear Powered Flying Robot To Titan Dragonfly is a finalist in the latest New Frontiers program. Scientists are hoping to send a Quadcopter to Titan where the energy requirements for flying are a lot lower. Also under consideration is CAESAR a mission to return a sample of a comet to earth for analysis. NASA dragonfly titan caesar comet saturn spaceship kerbal enceladus venus NASA dragonfly titan caesar comet saturn spaceship kerbal enceladus venus"
YouTube Link 2017-12-23T21:04Z 1.8M followers, 75.9K 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
"How To Recognize Space Rocks vs Satellites A recent Starlink reentry was visible over California and as usual all the locals were confused as to whether it was a meteorite UFO plane or spaceship so I figured it would be nice to talk about the differences that can be seen and why they behave differently. 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 2025-09-28T23:26Z 1.8M followers, 102.3K 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, 485K 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
"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, 218K 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
"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, 321.2K 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
"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
"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, 178.8K 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, 209.8K engagements
"What Is China's Plan To Beat the USA Back To The Moon. In recent months we've seen China making various critical steps to develop the Long March [--] Mengzhou and Lanyue with the goal of putting Chinese astronauts on the Moon. As it stands this would be a huge prestige win for China as it's set to be the second nation to put humans on the lunar surface. But with the US program repeatedly seeing dates moved back from the overly ambitious [----] towards the end of the decade there's chance that further delays could see the US return to the moon to see China already there. That would be an even"
YouTube Link 2025-08-23T22:03Z 1.8M followers, 327.8K engagements
"What is the EM Drive And Does it Really Work In the last few days a paper from the NASA Eagleworks team experimenting with the EM Drive has cleared peer review and been published. Does this really mean that one day we'll be using this technology to drive spacecraft Probably not. Follow up with the The Results of The Best EM Drive Test Yet https://youtu.be/rJM6lP9CuSw"
YouTube Link 2016-11-21T02:17Z 1.8M followers, 1.1M 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, 703.3K engagements
"Kerbal Space Program - Challenge - Interplanetary With No KSC Upgrades - Part I I wanted to see whether it's possible to mount a successful crewed interplanetary mission without upgrading any of the buildings in KSP [----]. This means a very limited parts selection & rocket size limit and a map which does not display patched conics or allow maneuver nodes"
YouTube Link 2015-01-04T21:26Z 1.8M followers, 114.8K engagements
"SpaceX Superheavy Launch [--] Recorded By Infrared Satellite Starship Flight [--] captured by the TUBIN satellite: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1mz29y4/starship_flight_9_from_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 directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley"
YouTube Link 2025-08-25T23:08Z 1.8M followers, 213.8K engagements
"Keep Your Hands Away From The Plutonium Core #shorts It turns out that Louis Slotin's hand was the critical factor. 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 2022-08-20T06:46Z 1.8M followers, 618.3K engagements
"How Hypersonic Wind Tunnels Recreate Mach [--] Wind tunnels have been part of aviation research since before the first powered aircraft took to the skies. And there are a huge range of capabilities available to researchers including the ability to test models are mach numbers close to orbital velocity. I discovered the thumbnail image on a NASA page showing a Mach [--] helium wind tunnel testing a model of the Space Shuttle Orbiter and thought it was worth explaining how all this comes together to create the image. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/unflyable.html If you want to"
YouTube Link 2021-10-29T17:07Z 1.8M followers, 1M engagements
"Solar Storm Forces Changes On Space Station - Real Life Communications: #space Just a portion of the communications from yesterday: 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 2025-11-12T20:56Z 1.8M followers, 80.6K engagements
"The Smallest Rocket Thrusters - How Can Tiny Rocket Engines Work I previously talked about the largest rocket engines but it turns out there's a lot of interesting small rocket engine designs and the smallest designs possible heavily depend on the type of engine cycle used. Small engines enable smaller spacecraft which means lower launch costs without giving up capabilities which might have been previously reserved for full size spacecraft. 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 2025-04-15T15:42Z 1.8M followers, 245.2K engagements
"Where Does Rocket Exhaust ACTUALLY Go From one of my supporters over at Patreon - what happens to rocket exhaust after it leaves a rocket engine in space Where does it go Can it be a problem The answer of course depends on many things and let's face it this literally is rocket science. 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 Edited by Supercruise Productions"
YouTube Link 2025-07-29T21:43Z 1.8M followers, 177.5K engagements
"How SpaceX Designed A Heat Shield For The Largest Spacecraft Ever Built For the first time we saw the fully assembled Starship/SuperHeavy stack assembled on the pad. This is all designed to put Starship the largest spacecraft ever built into orbit but we also got a really good look at a near complete thermal protection system and that's critical to bringing the Starship back from orbit safely. Thanks Again to everyone who's sharing their photos with the world: https://twitter.com/thejackbeyer https://twitter.com/BocaChicaGal https://twitter.com/StarshipGazer https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut"
YouTube Link 2021-08-08T15:54Z 1.8M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Kerbal Spaceships are Serious Business - Part [--] We're still waiting for the boys in the lab to deliver bigger and more powerful engines meanwhile Realism Overhaul updates have fixed the problems with tiny fairings but introduced much more temperamental engines and parachute resizing problems"
YouTube Link 2015-08-31T17:07Z 1.8M followers, 234.7K engagements
"Parachute Fails To Deploy During Boeing's Starliner Abort Test. A critically important test of the escape system used by Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft showed that the abort system would work and would save the crew if they needed to escape from a rocket on the pad. However [--] of [--] parachutes failed which is acceptable and within the design margins but having this happen in a test will likely lead to a lot more post flight analysis to ensure this isn't the result of an issue that needs to be addressed"
YouTube Link 2019-11-04T18:22Z 1.8M followers, 333.1K engagements
"Eve or Bust - Episode [--] - Return To Space So now the question is whether all my number crunching actually pays off and the vehicle makes it to orbit with [--] passengers on board"
YouTube Link 2023-10-25T13:32Z 1.6M followers, 73K engagements
"First Privately Funded Lunar Landing Mission - 'Beresheet' SpaceIl was one of the frontrunners in the Google Lunar X-Prize but nobody win the prize because the deadline passed. However without the prize the team continued and today their spacecraft 'Beresheet' is heading into space on top of a Falcon [--] rocket as a secondary payload. If they make it to the surface of the moon it'll make Israel the 4th country to put a lander on the surface of the moon and the first privately funded spacecraft to go there"
YouTube Link 2019-02-21T17:15Z 1.7M followers, 234.3K engagements
"Galileo Conquest - Episode [--] - Squishy Meatbags Jeb's Cheap Sheep experiments push him all the way to new frontiers and a rich investor demands a tour of the space center"
YouTube Link 2017-03-21T17:49Z 1.8M followers, 134.6K engagements
"The Ridiculous Journey Of The First Email From Space The first email sent from space is a common story dredged up by lazy publications on a slow news day the story that in [----] Astronauts on Atlantis send an email to Earth containing Terminator [--] references. The story usually stops there. But you might have noticed I'm a bit of a nerd and I wanted to find out exactly how this occurred I've built some strange hacks to solve problems and know that computer networking can frequently devolve into digital matroshka dolls with data inside other data packaged in different ways. And the first E-Mail"
YouTube Link 2024-02-06T17:32Z [--] followers, 119.1K engagements
"When Does The Sun Look Like Any Other Star Will Voyager Ever Lose The Sun An easy question to answer. but then I got sidetracked on to other questions like how many stars have night skies brighter than our own How exactly does this magnitude scale work. 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 2025-05-12T15:04Z 1.8M followers, 192.1K engagements
"Venus Rover Concepts That Beat The Killer Atmosphere How do you build a rover that can happily work at 500C [--] Atmospheres of pressure and the problems of dust and corrosion NASA has [--] approaches - one seeks to harden electronics against the heat the other replaces electronic logic with mechanical hardware. NASA and HeroX are crowdsourcing solutions for a mechanism to detect obstacles and allow the rover to head in a different direction with a $15000 prize to the best entry: https://www.herox.com/VenusRover Follow Me elsewhere on Social Media http://twitter.com/djsnm http://twitch.tv/szyzyg"
YouTube Link 2020-02-18T18:11Z 1.7M followers, 366K engagements
"The Ways Russia's Invasion Ukraine Will Affect Space Programs - Deep Space Updates Feb 27th This news update comes a bit late because I need to tackle the massive effects and implications of Vladimir Putin ordering Russian armed forces to invade Ukraine. Frankly it's a mess and it's going to affect a lot of space activities for years to come but let's temper this with the rest of the space news. 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 2022-02-27T20:00Z [--] followers, 647K engagements
"Classified Delta IV Rocket Launch Aborted With Seconds To Go The NROL-44 Launch for the National Reconaissance Office is carrying a secret payload on a massive Delta IV rocket. After several delays the rocket got seconds away from launching even creating the massive Delta Fireball but the launch was aborted with [--] seconds on the clock"
YouTube Link 2020-08-29T18:22Z 1.8M followers, 359.8K engagements
"USA Put A Nuclear Reactor In Space And Abandoned It - How Did It Work In the early days of the US Space program there was a parallel nuclear power program to develop the nuclear power technologies needed for spaceflight. The Space Nuclear Auxiliary Power (SNAP) program worked on both isotope decay generators and fully operational fission reactors. And while several spacecraft have been launched to other planets using radio isotope generators the US only launched one fully operational test reactor - SNAP 10A which operated according to predictions from ground tests. Until the host spacecraft"
YouTube Link 2024-04-25T14:02Z 1.8M followers, 365.9K engagements
"Facts I Learned At School Which Aren't True Any More Turns out that not everything I learned in school was accurate but frequently it wasn't the teachers fault new discoveries are made old secrets get revealed. I'm on vacation which means no gaming but I figured there's a bunch of fun questions I can answer and make videos using nothign more than my iPhone. Suggest questions to me on Twitter @djsnm"
YouTube Link 2016-03-26T02:04Z 1.8M followers, 887.8K engagements
"Elon Musk's Abandoned Plan To Grow Plants On Mars - Mars Oasis Before deciding to build his own rockets Elon Musk wanted to take his PayPal millions and send a private space mission to Mars to show that plants could be grown on another world. Extensive mission planning and design took place to get all the components understood to the point that the mission could be built for real. Ultimately this plan never happened because the rockets ended up being more expensive than originally promised. Here's some more public information https://stvp.stanford.edu/videos/opportunities-in-space-mars-oasis/"
YouTube Link 2024-12-28T19:05Z 1.8M followers, 245.5K engagements
"Live Astronomy Let's See what I can see. Unistellar loaned me this telescope for this video and If you're really interested in one of these I have a helpful link to their store (which gets me commission in return). And for the next week or the Black Friday sale is running giving everyone a 20% discount AND. for channel viewers there's a special code that'll get you the Solar Filter for the Odyssey series for free the filter is essential if you are interested in viewing sunspots or with the telescope. * add an Odyssey/Odyssey Pro and the 'Smart Solar Filter' to the shopping cart and use the"
YouTube Link 2024-12-02T13:46Z 1.7M followers, 15.3K engagements
"The World Fastest Tesla - Launching On Falcon Heavy (Or Just Elon Trolling) It's flying Car time Elon Musk confirmed my long held suspicion that SpaceX was going to use a Tesla as a mass simulator in the first Falcon Heavy launch. MAJOR ERROR I Made was thinking it would be the new roadster and not the old 1st gen version. (I missed those comments) Thanks for the awesome car model: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php/topic/166771-ford-gt-2017-stock/"
YouTube Link 2017-12-02T17:11Z 1.8M followers, 109.5K engagements
"Elite: Dangerous - Beta [--] - More of Everything Elite: Dangerous released a massive update to its beta program yesterday with [---] star systems new stations new maps new UI new spaceships. Basically a whole lot of new. So Here'a a quick skimming over the surface of some of the new stuff"
YouTube Link 2014-10-01T18:35Z 1.8M followers, 100.4K engagements
"Building The Largest Telescope Ever - In Space - Europe's Groundbreaking LISA Mission The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna - LISA is a set of [--] spacecraft which will work together to make a massive gravitational wave telescope in deep space with arms millions of kilometers long it will be able to detect events at much lower frequencies meaning we can detect black hole mergers months ahead of the event and entirely new phenomena involving supermassive black holes. The LISA spacecraft at there core use free flying gold cubes as reference masses for the telescope arms and managing these so"
YouTube Link 2024-11-22T16:59Z 1.7M followers, 213.1K engagements
"SpaceX Dragon Burns Through California's Sky - Deep Space Updates - 26th May A belated roundup of new stories including all the rockets launches and a couple of failures. The publication of SpaceX's failure investigation for Starship flight [--] and a return to flight in the next few days. Dawn aerospace is looking for people who want the fastest and highest flying drone in the world or rather off it. Axiom [--] get ready to go to space while Varda just returned from space Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:"
YouTube Link 2025-05-27T00:08Z 1.8M followers, 195.5K engagements
"Looking Back On The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn Originally launched in [----] the Cassini-Huygens mission was one of the largest space probes ever a massive space exploration mission which would spend over a decade orbiting Saturn and sending back over [---] gigabytes of scientific data. Using data and images from NASA's Cassini team I talk about the voyages. (and yes I mispronounce a couple of moon names) Background Music is by Kai Angel http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/ https://www.kai-engel.com/ 'daemones' 'daedalus' 'Chance' 'Denoument' 'modum' 'periculum'"
YouTube Link 2017-09-14T16:59Z 1.8M followers, 319.6K engagements
"Elite: Dangerous - Flying The Lakon Type [--] Heavy Cargo Hauler Another tour of one of the flyable ships in the current Elite: Dangerous alpha - the Lakon Type [--] Heavy is the largest cargo ship in the game right now able to move [---] tons of cargo. In terms of weapons it's a bit better than the Cobra Mk III but not by much. It's also the slowest and least agile ship in the game. I've seen lots of these lost by other players during docking but so far I've been relatively lucky and only scraped the sides a couple of times"
YouTube Link 2014-05-29T17:03Z 1.8M followers, 140.2K engagements
"The Surprising Success of NASA's First Moon Landings - The Surveyor Program 1966-1968 The Surveyor program was originally the grand plan for lunar exploration in the 1960's until Kennedy decided to prioritize putting humans on the moon. Instead the Surveyor missions developed and operated by JPL became precursor missions to test technologies and measure the lunar surface to make sure humans could safely land on the moon. After recent lunar landing missions experienced various levels of success I was really curious as to how the landing guidance operated on a [--] year old spacecraft without"
YouTube Link 2024-03-06T18:12Z 1.7M followers, 192.2K engagements
"SpaceX's Spectacular Twilight Launch of SAOCOM I'd predicted SpaceX's launch on October 7th it would be visible from all over California and beyond and would provide spectacular views of the exhaust gasses interacting with the upper atmosphere of the Earth. For bonus points this capped off a long weekend of chasing things to photograph it was Fleet Week in San Francisco and I love photographing planes in the sky"
YouTube Link 2018-10-08T14:50Z 1.8M followers, 107.4K engagements
"KSP Doesn't Teach: Rocket Engine Plumbing A huge part of rocket science is the system of tanks piping valves and burners which deliver the fuel from the tanks to the engine. I try to explain why different designs exist and the advantages that more complicated designs deliver. To be clear I'm not a rocket scientist I only play one on the internet. Rocket engine diagrams are largely from Wikipedia with some Modification for narrative purposes https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gas_generator_rocket_cycle. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pressure_fed_rocket_cycle.svg"
YouTube Link 2016-10-01T14:11Z 1.8M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Kerbal Space Program - Rocket Powered Binary Logic A new entry in the list of 'odd' things to build - a 1-Bit half-adder using action groups as inputs probes and docking ports for internal state and rockets for output. Created by 3_Bit he's got plans for bigger and more complicated machines. You probably neet to watch this in HD to see the rockets firing. Find out more here http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/s"
YouTube Link 2013-06-03T16:33Z 1.8M followers, 51.9K engagements
"Kerbal Space Program - Career Mode - Part [--] - Resource Mining The final part of this playthrough demoing the construction of a resource mining and refining rig this design is obviously sub optimal but it packs all the necessary parts into a [---] ton launch vehicle meaning you can launch it with the Tier [--] launchpad"
YouTube Link 2015-07-06T17:39Z 1.8M followers, 323.8K engagements
"How Britain's Air Breathing Rocket Engine Would Have Worked. If The Builder Hadn't Gone Bankrupt. Reaction Engines had been working on an innovative engine design named SABRE this was intended to operate as an air breathing engine up to about mach [--] and then switch to a pure rocket engine cycle. The ultimate goal was to build an aircraft named 'Skyline' which could fly all the way to orbit without dropping stages but the company was first and foremost focussed on demonstrating the engine design and in particular the pre-cooler which would be required to chill the incoming air down to usable"
YouTube Link 2024-11-12T17:05Z 1.7M followers, 343K engagements
"Why NASA's Deep Space Network Is The Most Important Part Of Any Space Probe The Deep Space Network is operated by JPL at [--] different sites around the world offering continuous support for spacecraft in deep space. The network goes back to the late 1950's and has expanded and adapted over that time to offer capabilities [--] trillion times superior to what the earliest spacecraft used. But more than that the DSN delivers essential navigation and science support making it a hugely important contributer to any mission to the planets. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM"
YouTube Link 2022-09-17T17:32Z 1.8M followers, 243.6K engagements
"Dawn Spacecraft Buzzes Largest Asteroid - Final Orbits. The Dawn spacecraft has moved to its final orbit an orbit which will bring it down to 35km from the surface of Ceres. It's being placed in this orbit to collect better data from its Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector instrument to give scientist a better understanding of the chemistry"
YouTube Link 2018-07-04T18:44Z 1.8M followers, 131.5K engagements
"Kerbal Space Program [----] - Tutorial For Beginners - Part [--] - Science Labs Struts & Space Probes THIS GUIDE IS FOR AN OLD VERSION OF KSP. "CAREER MODE" in this release is now "SCIENCE MODE" in the current release. In the previous episode we unlocked the science lab so I take a moment to explain how science works in more detail and how the science lab can help. We also send a probe beyond the sphere of influence of the planet Kerbin into deep space"
YouTube Link 2014-02-08T20:07Z 1.8M followers, 263.9K engagements
"Do Spacecraft Really Have To Endure The Hazards of Reentry An extended answer to a question I keep seeing - can spacecraft avoid the furious heat of reentry by slowing down before reaching the atmosphere or but flying above it until slow enough to avoid it. The footage is from the Artemis [--] mission reentry. 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 2023-12-31T07:21Z 1.6M followers, 938.5K engagements
"The Antares Rocket - NASA's Less Famous Ride To The Space Station The Antares rocket is not the best known rocket except when it exploded then everyone noticed. The Antares grew out of the same commercial orbital services program that launched the Falcon [--]. The design used a Ukrainian built first stage with Russian engines and a solid upper stage to launch the Cygnus cargo vehicle. The Engines themselves have a story worth telling. This collection of existing technologies meant it was built quickly and is considered a low cost option compared to Atlas. Background music by DJ Rkod"
YouTube Link 2019-06-04T16:38Z 1.8M followers, 275.4K engagements
"What We Know About India's Failed Lunar Landing Chandrayaan [--] was a highly ambitious mission for ISRO and while the orbiter is working the lander failed during the last few moments before touch down. Based on the handful of public statements and images from mission control it looks like braking from orbital velocity worked correctly but the transition to fine control for descent may have resulted in a tumbling spacecraft which impacted the surface at about 100m/sec. However I hope more information comes along soon. Cees Bassa's tweets with the radiotelescope trace can be found here:"
YouTube Link 2019-09-07T18:18Z 1.8M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Star Wars Armada - Playing Admiral With Model Star Destroyers Star Wars: Armada Core Set On Amazon: http://amzn.to/2eSpYXY Star Wars: Armada is a tabetop wargame which models capital ship engagments you can run small fleets of ships supported by fighter squadrons and spend a couple of hours quoting Star Wars and making 'pew pew' sound effects. In short It's hella fun. And the models are great who doesn't love moving model Star Destroyers into the rebel fleet only to have them rammed by a hammerhead corvette Star Wars: Armada Core Set http://amzn.to/2eSpYXY Imperial Class Star Destroyer"
YouTube Link 2023-10-21T18:02Z 1.6M followers, 58.5K engagements
"SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft Exploded Because of 'Corrosive Bullets' and Leaky Valves Yesterday SpaceX released a report on their analysis of the '4/20' Anomaly that destroyed their Crew Dragon spacecraft during a ground tests. It was the result of oxidizer leaking into the wrong part of the plumbing and then being propelled through the system as fast as a bullet. https://www.spacex.com/news/2019/07/15/update-flight-abort-static-fire-anomaly-investigation Raptor Engine images by Jack Beyer https://www.jackbeyer.com/print"
YouTube Link 2019-07-16T15:30Z 1.8M followers, 353.9K engagements
"XS-1 Booster - DARPA's New Launch Vehicle Concept Building a working version of the XS-1 Booster Plane concept in a Kerbal Space Program livestream. The XS-1 concept uses an uncrewed rocket plane as the first stage which then lands back at the launch site while the payload launches to orbit. Originally streamed on http://twitch.tv/szyzyg Full unedited stream https://www.youtube.com/watchv=LhcIgnwj_l4"
YouTube Link 2017-05-31T16:59Z 1.8M followers, 100.1K engagements
"NASA Studies New Missions To Venus Io or Triton NASA's Discovery program works with universities to develop low cost missions to solar system targets. Yesterday they announced [--] finalists from the latest batch VERITAS DAVINCI+ Io Volcano Observer and Trident. These missions cover Venus Io and Triton with launches in the 2020's. However the award only covers designing the mission and only [--] are expected to proceed to actual mission status"
YouTube Link 2020-02-14T19:36Z 1.8M followers, 187.5K engagements
"How Amateur Radio Fans Decoded SpaceX's Telemetry & Engineering Video Over the weekend amateur radio tinkerers in Europe managed to decode some portions of the telemetry data broadcast by the second stage of the Falcon [--] when it's in orbit. This data was in a somewhat standard format but decoding still required some custom tools to extract the bitstream from the signal and then some guesswork to figure out the exact format. There's still lots of unknown data but most interestingly this gave access to the engineering cameras including one showing the interior of the liquid oxygen tank. Video"
YouTube Link 2021-03-15T19:40Z 1.8M followers, 835.8K engagements
"How Did The Apollo [--] Documentary Get Film Of The Upper Stage Ignition I kept getting asked about a sequence from the Apollo [--] documentary showing the ignition of a Saturn V upper Stage known as the S-IVB in space. After asking around I tracked it down to Apollo [--] which was needed the full Saturn V for launch but didn't need the upper stage to go to the Moon. Skylab Launch video was assembled by Retro Space https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJgMAoS30yYoLOYUe_lAXQ"
YouTube Link 2019-03-25T16:15Z 1.8M followers, 763.9K engagements
"What NASA & Elite Dangerous Have In Common The original version of my video I used on NASA TV properly narrated to explain how bits of the Elite universe intersect with real space exploration being done by NASA Here's the original stream archived from Twitch.tv https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Ct6fqG09zW4"
YouTube Link 2018-11-03T20:01Z 1.8M followers, 103K engagements
"Dice - 3D Printed Metal Steampunk Dungeons & Dragons These Dice represent a lot of cool/geeky things in one place - 3D Printing RPG's Geometry and ancient notions of the nature of the universe - so plenty of stuff for me to talk about. After my video of the Jebediah Kerman statue a few months ago Shapeways offered to send me some other items from their catalogue if I'd make a video. Obviously this is a cunning ploy to get some advertising of their wares and service so I was careful to make sure I selected something that would genuinely be worth talking about. The set I show is the Steampunk"
YouTube Link 2014-05-01T18:05Z 1.8M followers, 50.7K engagements
"Blue Origin's Blue Moon in Blue Lights Showing Big Blue Spherical Fuel Tanks Alternative Title: 'The richest man in the world shows off his sci-fi dreams and presents a small step to making it real' Blue Origin had their super exclusive PR event which gave the audience the first look at their Blue Moon lunar lander. The BE-7 engine is headed for testing by NASA this year and will be a dual expander cycler engine designed for 40kN of thrust and deep throttling. Watch the full presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=GQ98hGUe6FM Explanation of Expander cycle engines here:"
YouTube Link 2019-05-10T16:41Z 1.8M followers, 246.4K engagements
"Blue Origin Misses Its Mars Launch - SpaceX Gets Grounded (For [--] days) - Deep Space Updates In the last couple of weeks we saw SpaceX lose its oldest booster get grounded return to flight and still not launch Polaris Dawn. 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 2024-09-06T23:05Z 1.8M followers, 383.8K engagements
"Why Starships Booster Failed After Staging"
YouTube Link 2023-11-18T14:55Z 1.8M followers, 573K engagements
"Japan Finally Reveals What Happened To Their Lunar Lander And It Really Did Surprise me Wow JAXA's SLIM Spacecraft performed a near perfect lunar descent until the point it was hovering 50m above the lunar surface at that point there was a huge engine failure and one of the nozzles breaks off. The lander adjusts guidance and successfully lands anyway but with too much lateral velocity to reach the correct orientation. Thanks to Tony De La Rosa for translating the slides. Original slides images and video are here: https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/slim/SLIM/gallery/index.html Follow me on Twitter"
YouTube Link 2024-01-25T18:18Z 1.8M followers, 527.2K engagements
"How To Make A Nuclear Reactor Safe Enough For Children To Operate In the 1950's Edward Teller thought that more people needed access to nuclear reactors so he lead a team to design a reactor that was inherently safe due to the laws of physics a small reactor that would stop reacting before it could melt down by using a fuel which was intimately mixed with the moderator. The result was the TRIGA reactor a small research reactor which has been used around the world to perform experiments that require neutron radiation. Includes footage from Tom Scott's video 'The Nuclear Reactor Run By"
YouTube Link 2022-08-21T23:41Z 1.8M followers, 453.4K engagements
"Another Small Rocket Builder Quits The Launch Market - Deep Space Updates November 15th It's been a monumental couple of weeks for the US and by extension the US space program and industry. Meanwhile satellites are launched by Japan Russia New Zealand and China. Australia's Gilmour Space get closer to launch and ABL Space Systems switch to the missile defence business. 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 2024-11-15T16:44Z 1.7M followers, 278.7K engagements
"SpaceX Orbit Largest Spacecraft In History also SpaceX Destroy Largest Spacecraft In History. SpaceX's 3rd flight of Starship was spectacular even though it's the first such flight without any explosions. It was also a step forward for the space company making it a success but far from a complete success as both booster and Starship failed to control themselves all the way to landing and at least one on Orbit test - the engine relight failed. The starship on orbit failed to maintain attitude during the initial reentry phase and this doomed the spacecraft to a fiery disintegration over the"
YouTube Link 2024-03-14T18:22Z 1.8M followers, 2.4M engagements
"Why Do Planes Still Use Lead In Fuel [--] Years After Cars Stopped It's a story about chemistry engineering and regulation - many small aircraft owe their heritage to World War II and were designed for high octane fuels which require lead. Why has it taken so long to figure out an alternative and why are we now facing potentially incompatible fuels in the coming decade. 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 2025-01-01T02:37Z 1.8M followers, 597.9K engagements
"Australia's First Homegrown Rocket Goes Down Down Under. Gilmour Space is an Australian rockect company hoping to launch their Eris rocket to orbit this is a small hybrid fueled launch vehicle making it unique in the world of orbital rockets. However it's first flight was unique in its own way ending after only [--] seconds of flight. Let's figure out what happened. 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 2025-07-30T17:15Z 1.8M followers, 283.6K engagements
"KIC [-------] Looks Strange But Is It A Sign Of Aliens Probably not. While I've been away this has been one of the bigger stories in astronomy a paper titled 'Planet Hunters X. KIC [-------] - Where's the Flux' has shown bizarre brightness variations. http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622 There's no viable explanation at this time but the media likes to speculate that extraterrestrials may be responsilbe"
YouTube Link 2015-10-20T13:08Z 1.8M followers, 127.8K engagements
"Artemis [--] - Orion Entry and Splashdown The one minute version of todays return to Earth (full video incoming) Music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin Macleod 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 2022-12-11T19:44Z 1.8M followers, 101.8K engagements
"SpaceX Loses [--] Satellites To Solar Storm SpaceX were caught by surprise when their latest batch of [--] Starlink Satellites launched into low Earth orbit with much higher atmospheric drag then they expected as a result of high solar actitivity. This drag has ultimately resulted in the satellites being unable to gain altitude and reach their deployment 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 directly through Patreon"
YouTube Link 2022-02-09T22:06Z 1.7M followers, 603.7K engagements
"Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes - Family Bomb Defusing Party Sometimes we do 'family board game night' sometimes we do 'movie night' but last night I got together with the kids and set about defusing bombs for fun and comedy"
YouTube Link 2016-07-25T17:44Z 1.8M followers, 32.1K engagements
"StarShip StarLiner Chang'e [--] & Oh Dear Moon - Deep Space Updates June 8th Some people are calling the first week of June the most historic week in spaceflight. ever Well probably not but while Starship was flying Starliner was docking and Chang'e [--] was returning samples from the surface of the Moon. The Dear Moon mission was called off with almost no warning and Apollo [--] Astronaut Bill Anders was tragically killed in a small plane crash. And thats still not all the big stories Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:"
YouTube Link 2024-06-09T19:20Z 1.7M followers, 473.9K engagements
"Supersonic LEGO Build And Chat 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 2025-01-29T05:13Z 1.8M followers, 24.2K engagements
"Orbital Rendezvous And Docking Tutorial For Kerbal Space Program [----] This step by step guide takes us from launch to rendezvous to docking with another spacecraft in orbit. Hopefully someone will find it useful when [----] is officially released"
YouTube Link 2012-11-28T18:12Z 1.8M followers, 890.6K engagements
"The Space Shuttle That Didn't Reach The Runway - Why Did Atlantis Land Short on STS-37 In [----] Space Shuttle Atlantis returning after STS-37 was forced to land on a lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base which had never been used by a shuttle before and wasn't included in mission plans. But across the US the weather made it the only option and to compound things in addition to the runway being unfamiliar the winds threw a few curveballs at them resulting in an approach that landed over [----] feet before it was supposed to. Wayne Hale published his excellent first person account of this"
YouTube Link 2024-04-05T17:16Z 1.7M followers, 523K engagements
"Big Suborbital Launches - Starship And Starsailor - Deep Space Updates August 29th A roundup of news in over the last couple of weeks. All the launches including a couple of suborbital flights Crew [--] comes home Firefly looking at launching from Japan and Blue Origin pitch their solution to Mars communication. If the Gemini Remastered book looks like your thing and you want to order it with my Amazon link then I get a few dollars: https://amzn.to/427E63D 00:16 Starlink launches 00:44 Other Rocket launches 04:53 Bion 10:20 Starship Flight [--] 11:43 Starsailor 13:24 Crew [--] Landing 14:25 Launch"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T21:37Z 1.8M followers, 191K engagements
"Jingle Bells Made with VidRhythm by Harmonix on iOS. http://www.vidrhythm.com/buy"
YouTube Link 2011-12-16T03:38Z 1.8M followers, [----] engagements
"Asteroid Discovery - 1970-2015 - 8K resolution The latest version of this famous video. Music is 'Thinking Out Loud' by Kevin Macleod Incompetech.com http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.htmlisrc=USUAN1100043"
YouTube Link 2015-09-24T22:52Z 1.8M followers, 300K engagements
"Rebooting a [--] Year Old Computer - Making The Apollo Guidance Computer Work Again The Apollo Guidance Computer is a pivotal part of computer history and it was a key part of making it possible for Apollo to land on the moon. And elsewhere on youtube a team of electronics wizards have been trying to resurrect a computer that was scrapped [--] years ago and I was lucky enough to turn up at the exact moment they got everything running on its original hardware. You should make a point of watching Curious Marc's multi part series on their quest to bring this computer back to life - [--] years after it"
YouTube Link 2019-07-20T19:46Z 1.8M followers, 649.5K engagements
"Can An Astronaut Orbit The Space Station The space station masses over [---] tons so can an astronaut orbit this And what does this question have to do with supernova We can use Universe Sandbox [--] to simulate how the forces of gravity work down to small scales but also how they interact in more complcated ways than most people imagine. http://universesandbox.com/"
YouTube Link 2016-12-16T18:02Z 1.8M followers, 595.3K engagements
"Random Silly Things To Do In Kerbal Space Program A compilation of random bits and pieces from some of my 'experiments' in Kerbal Space Program. Stupid flying stupid rockets explosions aplenty. Even Jeb stops smiling from time to time. http://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com Music: Double O - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Pure Attitude - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"
YouTube Link 2011-07-28T15:15Z 1.8M followers, 79K engagements
"The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project In the 1960's NASA undertook an effort to map the near side of the moon at high resolution to find landing sites for the Apollo spacecraft. Over the last few years the team at Skycorp have been working to recover and improve upon this original data by restoring old tape machines and extracting the original data from the original tapes. Of course I need to give their ISEE-3 Reboot Project a shoutout too: http://rkthb.co/42228"
YouTube Link 2014-05-09T18:02Z 1.8M followers, 37.1K engagements
"Why Does Boeing's Starliner Not Look Burned After Reentry A simple question which lead me to talk about heat shielding on many different capsules over the years. Boeing's spacecraft uses a non-ablative heatshield on the backshell partly because it has lower thermal loads compared to Dragon thanks to a shallower cone angle. And that's where I started. 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 2022-06-17T20:07Z 1.7M followers, 713.9K engagements
"ULA Stops Selling Atlas Rocket Launches The Atlas rocket traces its ancestry back to the 1950's it's been at the core of the US space capabilities carrying historic payloads for NASA the DoD and commercial partners. This week ULA made it clear that it has no more Atlas rockets for sale as it move to transition to Vulcan which is not reliant on engines from Russia. There are [--] launches left which is likely more than some 'new' rockets but this decade should see the final flights of Atlas Delta and Proton - all historic vehicles with their roots in the cold war"
YouTube Link 2021-08-27T18:01Z 1.8M followers, 422K engagements
"Rare Lightning Travelling from Ground To Clouds In Slow Motion We had some storms in the Bay Area over the weekend and I captured a slow motion video of a lightning strike which I'm told is a rare case of lightning starting from the ground and travelling upwards to the clouds. This was recorded on a Sony RX100 Mk VII at 960FPS ISO [-----] https://amzn.to/2QdUH0F"
YouTube Link 2020-08-17T19:10Z 1.8M followers, 264.1K engagements
"NASA's Plan To Rescue Stranded Astronauts - Playing Sardines In A Space Capsule In [----] there were concerns that the crew on Skylab may be stuck without a ride home after half the thrusters on the Service module failed. In response NASA turned to its existing Skylab Rescue plans which involved squeezing [--] people into a capsule designed for [--] and assigned Vance Brand and Don Lind to train for this mission. Over the next few days this crew showed the rescue was possible but as they analyzed the problem in with the spacecraft they also showed that there were safe ways to return the damaged"
YouTube Link 2023-01-16T00:54Z 1.8M followers, 406.8K engagements
"Wreckage Of Titan Submersible Reveal How It Imploded The US Coast Guard has just begun its public inquiry into the Titan Submersible accident and in the process has released a number of documents including critically footage from a remotely operated vehicle showing the wreckages on the ocean floor. I believe this wreckage confirms that the failure began at the interface between the carbon fiber pressure hull and the forward titanium interface ring. A great deal of composite debris has been pushed backwards into the rear hemisphere while almost none is visible near the forward sphere. Many"
YouTube Link 2024-09-19T07:13Z 1.8M followers, 5.7M engagements
"SpaceX Fail To Repeat Booster Catch But Starship Shows New Tricks - IFT6 Post Flight Review SpaceX's 6th Flight Of Starship & SuperHeavy was supposed to repeat the booster catch trick for the second time but part way through the boostback SpaceX got warnings that the tower may not be operating correctly. Instead booster [--] headed offshore to a safe landing in the Gulf while Starship [--] continued into space relit its engines and landed safely in Daylight. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:"
YouTube Link 2024-11-20T07:04Z 1.7M followers, 621.5K engagements
"Putting Parachutes On Planes: The Genius Engineering Behind Rocket Powered Airframe Parachutes. The most popular light aircraft sold in the US now come with rocket propelled emergency parachute systems which can be deployed to save a stricken aircraft safely. Cirrus has been fitting these to every single one of their aircraft since they launched back in the later 1990's and hundreds of people have been saved over the last few decades. It was a phenomenally complicated engineering problem to design a parachute system that deploys quickly doesn't destroy the aircraft or injure the occupants and"
YouTube Link 2025-04-01T16:22Z 1.8M followers, 210.4K engagements
"Can You See A Laser Pointer From The Space Station Green laser pointers are amazingly useful tools for teaching the general public about the night sky it's easy to point out specific targets and have everyone know what you mean. Sometimes people will point out satellites and even the ISS so I wanted to figure out whether an astronaut on the ISS would be able to see lasers from people on the ground. Here's the original video of the ISS Flash project: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=2UoY15WDuHQ"
YouTube Link 2018-07-10T17:17Z 1.8M followers, 1.1M engagements
"How Europe Designed and Evolved The Ariane Rocket Over Last [--] Decades The first launch of the Ariane [--] happened on December 24th [----] starting a long and successful career as the worlds most popular launch vehicle for Geostationary spacecraft. The design evolved through [--] major generations with the Ariane [--] set to fly in [----] and eventually replace the Ariane [--]. Further Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_(rocket_family) http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/West_Europe/West_Europe.htm https://what-when-how.com/space-science-and-technology/ariane-rocket-program/"
YouTube Link 2019-12-27T16:31Z 1.8M followers, 322.2K engagements
"Unmanned Rockets In Space - Kerbal Space Program I redesign my launch system to stop the random rotations and finally get a rocket up to orbital velocity. Shame it's pointing the wrong way. Check out Kerbal Space Program at http://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com - and thanks to the developers for encouraging these videos"
YouTube Link 2012-07-31T06:55Z 1.8M followers, 18.3K engagements
"Cosmic Girl Will Attempt To Launch Rocket Into Space Virgin Orbit have announced their first test launch is targeted for Sunday May 24th they'll attempt to launch their Launcher One rocket into orbit from the Cosmic Girl carrier aircraft. The launch will occur over the Pacific ocean west of Southern California. It's the first time a cryogenically fueled air launched orbital rocket has been attempted so it'll be fascinating to see whether all the engineering planning testing and rehearsals will reward the company with a successful launch on their first attempt. Most rockets fail on their first"
YouTube Link 2020-05-21T16:28Z 1.8M followers, 300.5K engagements
"Will New Glenn Be First BIG Launch of [----] Deep Space Updates January 6th [----] ended as another record year in spaceflight with launches every day and a half and less than a week into the year we're looking at the two largest rockets in the world launching within days or even hours of each other. 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 2025-01-07T01:22Z 1.8M followers, 281.7K engagements
"Russia Launches All Its Space Rockets - Deep Space Updates - October 26th It's been over [--] weeks so there's a lot of space news to catch up on in particular Russia has managed to get launches in with all of its launch vehicles and from all of its launch sites. Many thanks to Trevor Mailman for the amazing Moon Transit Footage of Falcon [--] carrying Galaxy 33/34 https://youtu.be/Bk7b4olOpRQ 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"
YouTube Link 2022-10-27T06:40Z 1.8M followers, 409K engagements
"Live Astronomy. Take [--] Let's See what I can see. Unistellar loaned me this telescope for this video and If you're really interested in one of these I have a helpful link to their store (which gets me commission in return). And for the next week or the Black Friday sale is running giving everyone a 20% discount AND. for channel viewers there's a special code that'll get you the Solar Filter for the Odyssey series for free the filter is essential if you are interested in viewing sunspots or with the telescope. * add an Odyssey/Odyssey Pro and the 'Smart Solar Filter' to the shopping cart and"
YouTube Link 2024-12-03T02:39Z 1.7M followers, 26.4K engagements
"SpaceX Reveal Details Of Starships Planned Orbital Test Flight #shorts"
YouTube Link 2021-05-16T16:43Z 1.8M followers, 363.2K engagements
"NASA Budget Cuts vs Pop Stars In Space - Worst Comments Section Ever Deep Space Updates April 17th Over the last two weeks we've have big new on NASA's Leadership & Funding while in commercial spaceflight Katy Perry went to space. Both of these events have resulted in 'spirited' discussion. But we also have 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 2025-04-18T18:25Z 1.8M followers, 212.2K engagements
"Why Do Lunar Satellites Eventually Crash Into The Moon Spacecraft orbiting the Earth have remained in space since the 1950's and may last for centuries more but spacecraft orbiting close to the moon can crash within weeks. The reason for this is the lunar gravity field is lumpy with geological features making the smooth orbits of space probes distort until they hit the surface. The recent publication on the giant lunar impactor: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JE005826 Moonquakes Paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0362-2 Footage and images taken from"
YouTube Link 2019-05-22T18:34Z 1.8M followers, 341.8K engagements
"A Rocket Engine Inside Another Rocket Engine - The Lance Missile The MGM-52 Lance Missile is a short range ballistic missile developed for the US Army in the 1960's and deployed from 1972-1992. One of the most fascinating things about the missile is the engine design which places the sustainer engine inside the booster engine leading to a pair of concentric nozzles that looks like no other rocker engine out there"
YouTube Link 2020-04-30T17:38Z 1.8M followers, 276.4K engagements
"The Lead Scientist Behind NASA's Asteroid Mission Talks About The Biggest Problems They Solved Dante Lauretta has been working on the OSIRIS REx mission for the better part of [--] decades all the way from the early proposal through the design of mission target selection and the experimentation with the sample acquisition process. Even after launch there are new problems they've had to solve to support the plan of returning a substantial sample of a primitive asteroid and return it to Earth. Most of the asteroid images in this video are from the mission website: https://www.asteroidmission.org/"
YouTube Link 2020-03-15T16:34Z 1.8M followers, 140.7K engagements
"Russian Space Station Module Suffers 3rd Coolant Leak This Year. Yesterday ISS crew were investigating another coolant leak on the Russian side of the space station the third on this year. It's in a radiator which was launched in [----] and remained in storage until earlier this year when it was attached to the side of the Nauka lab module to provide enhanced cooling for certain experiments and activities in the module. Updates will no doubt come on this thread at NASASpaceFlight https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.phptopic=59664.0 Follow me on Twitter for more updates:"
YouTube Link 2023-10-10T17:45Z 1.7M followers, 202.7K engagements
"Kerbal Space Program [----] - Tutorial For Beginners [--] - Getting Into Orbit THIS GUIDE IS FOR AN OLD VERSION OF KSP. "CAREER MODE" in this release is now "SCIENCE MODE" in the current release. This series covers the modern career mode https://www.youtube.com/watchv=d74m3qThOoU The third part of my Career mode tutorial - we build a rocket that'll take us into orbit learn a little about how to maneuver while in orbit and grab some science while we're up there"
YouTube Link 2014-02-01T20:46Z 1.8M followers, 555.9K engagements
"What Does It Take To Reach Lightspeed In Kerbal Space Program After travelling relativisticly in A Slower Speed Of Light a few people asked about building lightspeed capable rockets in Kerbal Space Program. Here I do a few calculations to examine just what's needed to do this starting out with stock rockets modded rockets and of course the infinite fuel cheat from the debug menu. Or you can always get lucky with glitches - like this entertaining one from Danny2462 http://www.youtube.com/watchv=NLscXyIP4c8"
YouTube Link 2012-11-15T15:00Z 1.8M followers, 2.4M engagements
"The Voyager Golden Records Last Recording A few years ago Ozma records created a new pressing of the records sent into interstellar space on the Voyager space probes. https://ozmarecords.com/pages/voyager"
YouTube Link 2021-04-01T16:58Z 1.8M followers, 95K engagements
"The Black Arrow & Britain's Rocket Program It's been [--] years since the first successful suborbital flight of the British designed and built Black Arrow rocket. Ultimately it would prove its ability to launch satellites into low Earth Orbit before being cancelled but there's a lot to talk about. The Propellent choice of High Test Peroxide and Kerosene is not one we see very often but it has some very interesting advantages over more conventional choices. Lots of info on British rockets is available on Nicholas Hill's site: http://www.spaceuk.org/index.html Gamma [--] image in thumbnail by Andy"
YouTube Link 2020-03-05T20:18Z 1.8M followers, 269.2K engagements
"The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds I found this fascinating story about a computerized telemetry system which was designed to be placed in the heart of a nuclear warhead replacing the plutonium pit in a test device. I'm not 100% sure this was flown because the documentation disappears about [--] years ago which is likely to be the case if it was actually used in a test. Some references: https://www.lanl.gov/orgs/padwp/pdfs/2nwj2-03.pdf https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/661650 https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/607352/ITC_1998_98-04-2.pdfsequence=1&isAllowed=y"
YouTube Link 2023-01-01T01:30Z 1.8M followers, 407.7K engagements
"Firefly Win The Night With Victus Nox Blue Origin Gets New Leadership - Deep Space Updates Updates for the second half of September including many launches. Firefly succeeded in their responsive launch challenge. Rocket Lab had another setback as another second stage failed. China's Ceres-1 had its first failure during the boost phase. The crew of MS-22 finally return home after a record [---] day stay on the ISS setting a new record for a NASA astronaut. Bob Smith is retiring from Blue Origin many hope that this will fix the company's slow progress also the FAA closed the investigation of"
YouTube Link 2023-10-02T18:03Z 1.7M followers, 205.1K engagements
"Kerbal Speedrun - Building Launching Landing Returning from Mun Forget the science let's see how fast I can go from an empty VAB to the surface of the mun and then back to kerbin. And then let's see how fast everyone else can do it. Rules: 1) start with empty VAB 2) build a vehicle one part at a time no subassemblys 3) launch to moon you may have already setup correct orientation. 4) land softly on moon for at least a second a bounce does not count. 5) return to kerbin and land safely Stock KSP 1.2.2 only no mods allowed no custom categories video needed for verification. I'll have another go"
YouTube Link 2017-01-20T16:12Z 1.8M followers, 191.2K engagements
"What Is This Debris Falling Off The Sides Of Rockets Many videos of Chinese Long March rockets show huge amounts of debris being shed immediately upon liftoff and I often get asked whether that's normal. These are of course foam insulation panels needed for temperature control and depending on the rocket and the location they might be to keep them cool or to keep them warm. Ariane V Photo in thumbnail by Trevor Mahlmann https://www.tmahlmann.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"
YouTube Link 2022-04-17T01:07Z 1.8M followers, 437.6K engagements
"The Third Country To Build an Orbital Rocket - A Diamond In The Sky After the USSR & USA reached orbit it would be [--] years before another country managed the same feat when France's home grown Diamant rocket launched the Asterix satellite. France's rocketry program started during World War II and would build larger and larger sounding rockets until committing to building an orbital launch capability (and ballistic missiles) became a priority in the 1960's. There would be [--] iterations on the Diamant rocket before France transitioned to the Ariane launch vehicle. Follow me on Twitter for more"
YouTube Link 2024-11-29T17:14Z 1.8M followers, 171K engagements
"What does it Take To Deorbit A Moon In Kerbal Space Program No. you can't deorbit moons in stock kerbal space program the planets and moons are all on rails but I did some number crunching to figure out what it would need. Warning: Big Numbers Ahead"
YouTube Link 2012-11-10T21:51Z 1.8M followers, 2.1M engagements
"Galaxy Trucker - Realtime Spaceship Building Boardgame Galaxy Trucker is a popular board game which sees players attempting tot throw spacecraft together out of a common pool of parts then racing across the galaxy fighting pirates evading asteroids and collecting cargo. The creators of the game have adapted this to iOS and Android while adding some features to make one of the best boardgame adaptations to date. The digital version is here: http://www.galaxytrucker.com/ However purists with friends might be interested in the physical version:"
YouTube Link 2015-01-21T17:46Z 1.8M followers, 61.1K engagements
"How The V-2 Rocket Launched America's Space Race It's well known that after World War II the rocket scientists involved with the V-2 were recruited to the the US under Project Paperclip but the exact evolution of the Model [--] rocket engine used on the V-2 into the engines used by US rockets is less well known. The engine was far from perfect and US engineers tore them apart and designed improvements ultimately the majority of US launch vehicles had engines with some heritage from the V-2. A lot of relevant information comes from the Engine History Website"
YouTube Link 2024-08-16T13:22Z 1.8M followers, 186.1K engagements
"Hawaii Science: Gemini Observatory While on vacation in Hawaii I did get to visit a lot of cool places obviously I really wanted to see telescopes on the top of the mountain and we will get to that however a lot of the telescopes are operated from the much more hospitable environment near sea level. Gemini Observatory is a pair of [--] Meter telescopes in different hemispheres able to cover the whole sky between them. I dropped by for a chat with the staff. http://www.gemini.edu/ Yes the audio is bad and you're a dum dum if you think I don't know this already and insist on pointing this out"
YouTube Link 2018-04-12T18:24Z 1.8M followers, 25.5K engagements
"SpaceX To Refly Starship Booster First Astronauts Fly Over Poles - Deep Space Updates April 4th A round of up the news for the last two weeks with the obviously zenith being Fram-2 which set the limit for orbiting further North than any other astronauts the first humans to look down on the ice caps from space. But also there's a massive National Security launch deal signed with SpaceX ULA and Blue Origin and SpaceX have decided to try reflying the booster they caught on flight [--]. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn"
YouTube Link 2025-04-05T01:27Z 1.8M followers, 243.2K engagements
"Kerbal Space Program - Rosetta This is my version of the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko - built using Kerbal Space Program and a couple of extra mods. I've setup the target as an asteroid with almost the same orbital elements as the real comet with the semi-major axis scaled to Kerbin's orbit. I will point out that this was recorded on Sunday before the harpoon and engine failures on the real mission the fact that my grabber failed also is merely a coincidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko"
YouTube Link 2014-11-13T17:59Z 1.8M followers, 195.8K engagements
"Kerbal Space Program - Interstellar Quest - Episode [--] - The Return Of The Duna Express The Minmus exploration program discovers further flaws in its plan specifically staffing shortages have led to the inability to process science correctly. Meanwhile the Duna Express returns to Kerbin's sphere of influence and an unplanned course correction causes some consternation"
YouTube Link 2014-10-06T17:19Z 1.8M followers, 151.4K engagements
"Asteroid Update - Interview with Ed Lu - Former Astronaut & CEO of B612 Foundation I sit down with Ed Lu CEO of the B612 Foundation to talk about the latest developments in asteroid hazard mitigation and new NASA missions to asteroids. B612 is an organization that works towards protecting the Earth from asteroid impacts and informing and forwarding world-wide decision-making on planetary defense issues. B612 provides a non-governmental voice on the risks options and implications of asteroid data while advancing the technical means by which that data is acquired. We work to make interpretation"
YouTube Link 2017-02-09T18:30Z 1.8M followers, 23.3K engagements
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