SpaceX Returns To Flight - Deep Space Updates - August 2nd - Scotland Edition!

So they're going to go pick up a stranded Goa`uld.

any chance there is very little rockets because all the companies have a summer down time?

Hello Scott. I have a thought you might want to consider passing up to the big guy. I am concerned about Space X testing, or the lack there of, to catch a booster on IFT 5. I think that the chopsticks finding a booster mounted in the launch pad is somewhat simplistic especially when repeated. I wonder if a simulated drop test, while lowered from a crane, would be more challenging for a catch simulation? To date, they have not tested any kind of a catch. They have only performed slap tests. The point I'm trying to make, is that by lowering a booster in the same manner a hovering booster might approach from, the chopsticks would be tasked to find and catch the booster. They haven't done any tests to show they can catch an approaching booster. If I was the FAA, I would insist on more data other than a slap test and the one hovering water landing they have had.

Did think that your accent is more Caledonian than Californian

Welcome home

Hi Scott, When ever I see any of the Boca Chica SpaceX videos where they are moving any of the boosters, or ships around, or show the buildings or the multi wheel transport vehicles, or the chopsticks, I get a real sense that I am looking at a Thunderbirds scene, where everything is mega scaled and the people look disproportionately small. The giant things moving around like they are in a dance really does reinforce that feeling. Are we really looking at a kind of Thunderbirds version of SpaceX in reality? Do you get that sensation too?

Got a question. Hope I can explain well enough that it's understandable.
Why can't they use the 'chopstix' to give the starship a little 'boost' ? Totally made up numbers next. If the ship goes from 0 to 10 mph in the first 50 meters, maybe the chopsticks could get it to 20 mph and save several hundred pounds of fuel.
Sorry I didn't have time to convert velocity into the universal 'Furlongs Per Fortnight' for those not born in the US. 😉

Nicely done.

One good thing about Boeing, the make SpaceX look good.

Do you know if there will be an August 11th Space X launch from Florida? I'm finding conflicting info. Thanks

I was delighted to hear Scott’s voice in the Wild Wild Space documentary, if only for a short moment.

Welcome home

This man is giggling with glee from all the launches

Questions: how much residual fuel was left in Super heavy booster and also Starship spaceship on launch 4?

" Yeah, well, I hope that works..." Fargin' hilarious. Love your sense of your humour. I mean who else has dissed Bezo's so effectively. Arrogant fucks deserve to be dissed at every opportunity!

Where in Scotland are/were you ?

how kind of elon musk to give you vacations lol

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Why why why do people keep making giant rockets that ignite at zero speed? They need to have the rocket ship already in motion, that would reduce the weight, need for fuel, etc.

You forgot about Rocket Lab's launch. They launched just before SpaceX returned to flight

"Planes are always gonna be cooler than rockets." False

Ahhh Space X , reinventing the wheel into a hexagon. All at tax payer money . To help a private corporation . This never ends well for Tax Payers .

new glenn is going to fail. I hope i'm wrong

less of you more of your content

If your back in Scotland then its 2nd of August lol.

Eating lead paint chips. Whaaaaat? Huh, I wonder why that company hasn't had much success?

I thought Crew Dragon can hold 7... send crew 9 up with a couple of Xtra seats

The US government should suspend all contracts with SpaceX until the allegations against Musk for election interference are invalidated!

SLS is a complete waste of billions of tax dollars. NASA has no business designing rockets anymore

It's sad that Scott still trusts Musk

Welcome home! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Boeing should pay spacex to send a crew dragon up there to save them. Epic fail lol

Good god that orange smoke

A three-hour tour...

"Planes are always gonna be cooler than rockets"
- Scott Manley

Can we see you in a kilt. wear a space kilt scott.

Brilliant. Welcome home.

Manly Scott Manley in Scottish studio of Scotland

Check around for any sign of Brigadoon. By now you might check under a freeway underpass in suburban Edinburgh . . .

That slow-mo Starship test fire footage is beautiful.

Drop a food wrapping on the footpath and get arrested for littering , but it's ok to dump space ship parts in the ocean and forget about them.... Weird world 🤔

Great vid as always, hope you can enjoy the Scottish summer. Is there no capability for SLS main engines to be recovered and re-used? Seems a waste of such proven, expensive and irreplaceable bits of equipment!

SpaceX will just strap a whole Falcon 9 onto Superheavy booster to get the Deorbitvehicle up there.
Funny thing is... Starship is more like Falcon Heavy weightwise...

Take some time off, Scott. Run wild.

Starliner.. How embarrassing! 😳 How long until it's axed?🪓

Why does starliner still have its contract? I mean, does contract law allow for this many chronic setbacks? Or does space+Boeing unlock somekind of special leeway?

That is what being a pilot perk, fly up northern Scotland, airplanes are "way cooler!"