How To Start A Rocket Engine // Chilldown, Spin Up, Thermal Conditioning & Ignition!
Today we’re going to do a deep dive on how exactly you start a rocket engine. We’ll cover pretty much everything from a simple solid rocket motor, to all the intricacies of liquid fueled rocket engines. We’ll go over thermal conditioning the engine, the spin up process, the scary transient regions, and the actual ignition […]
Watch The 1st 3D Printed Orbital Rocket Launch Attempt! #Relativity // #GLHF
Good Luck, Have Fun (GLHF) is Relativity Space’s first mission taking off from Launch Complex 16 (LC-16) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, USA. This launch will be the first 3D printed rocket to ever take to the skies. Since this is a test flight for the company to prove Terran 1’s capabilities there’s […]
Watch SpaceX Launch #CREW6 for NASA!
For the sixth time, SpaceX will launch astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in the Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket for the Commercial Crew Program. The rocket is set to lift off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. Crew-6 will be the fourth flight of the Crew […]
#KSP2 Full Review and Gameplay! The good, the bad, and the broken!
Thank you so much to Private Division for flying myself and our team manager Florian to Amsterdam to play KSP 2! This technically means this is #sponsored, but regardless, my opinion on this game is my own and I made this video to help set your expectations of KSP 2 Early Access. 00:00 – INTRO […]
SpaceX Super Heavy 31 Engine Static Fire [Slo Mo 4K]
[[[HEADPHONES ON]]] Enjoy an incredible 4K slow motion replay of SpaceX’s Starship Super Heavy Booster’s biggest static fire to-date, setting a new record for the company, despite the booster producing less than half of its rated thrust!!! When this thing launches it will be unbelievable!!! Audio and Video brought to you by Ryan Chylinski & […]
How Stoke Space’s Unique Rocket Works // Exclusive Tour & Interview
What if I told you, there’s a company you likely haven’t heard of who’s developing a fully and rapidly reusable rocket… and this isn’t a power point rocket, they’re already building it, and have been testing it at a pace that’s frankly ridiculous. And they’re using the aerospike effect in a genius way to make […]
Watch SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launch a Top Secret Satellite! #USSF67
USSF-67 is classified mission for the United States Space Force lifting off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. USSF-67 will be inserted directly into a GEO by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, which will fly for the fifth time in total and the first time this year. Want to learn more? […]
Who won the best space moment of 2022?? #AstroAwards
Welcome to the 2022 Astro Awards! This is when we look back and reflect on all the exciting things that happened throughout the year in spaceflight and space science. This year had some of the biggest and most exciting launches of my lifetime, and tons of incredible science missions that have helped inspire the masses! […]
I asked you to predict 2022's spaceflight milestones…
On January 1st, 2022, I tweeted a set of polls and wanted to see how well we in the spaceflight community could predict what would happen in the year forward. You did pretty decent this year! Want to participate next year? Here’s the links to 2023’s polls! Twitter – https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1609557794650202112?s=20&t=dYo16pKBhl4KvoAR410Flw Survey Monkey – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BT29GL5 And […]
#Artemis1 Incredible Audio & Slow Motion 4K Compilation
[[[HEADPHONES ON]]] Crank the volume on this incredible floating point audio from inside the pad and 3.5 miles [5.6 km] away from the most powerful rocket to ever launch from Kennedy Space Center, SLS!!! 4K slow motion captured on ZCam’s and BlackMagic 12K Ursa and Studio 4K’s. NASA launched the Orion spacecraft to a distant […]