Frontier AI Labs with Wil Waldon

SpaceX is gearing up for a key test of its immense rocket that is designed for commercial launches, as well as the Mars mission Elon Musk has long sought.  Near a beach east of Brownsville, Texas, employees at Mr. Musk’s space company are preparing for the inaugural orbital flight of Starship, the towering rocket system the company has been developing for years to one day launch into deep space. The initial test mission would last around 90 minutes, beginning with a fiery blast of the ship’s booster over the Gulf of Mexico, SpaceX has said in a regulatory filing.   It isn’t clear when SpaceX will attempt the first flight, after dates Mr. Musk has discussed came and went. Some officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a customer for a version of Starship, previously said they thought the mission could occur in early December. Mr. Musk, who acquired Twitter Inc. and recently delivered Tesla Inc.’s first all-electric semitrailer trucks, has described getting Starship into orbit as one of his main goals. At SpaceX, which Mr. Musk founded in 2002 and still leads, he has said the rocket system is consuming significant resources and faces formidable technical hurdles.   00:00:00 - Let's GO GO GO! 00:00:01 - SpaceX starship orbital flight test overview 00:01:00 - History of Starship orbital flight test 2021 00:01:30 - Steps for Orbital Flight test 00:01:40 - Orbital Launch Mount 00:03:00 - Booster 7 00:03:30 - Booster 9 00:04:00 - NASA HLS Starship 00:04:45 - Starship Setbacks 00:05:45 - NASA Admin questions Starship Production 00:06:00 - Gwynn Shotwell response to NASA 00:07:15 - Postponed Starship Orbital Flights & FAA  ►► https://starshipshirts.com►► https://discord.gg/dMXghpX►► https://twitch.tv/spacenewspod►► https://facebook.com/spacenewspod►► https://patreon.com/spacenewspod►► https://twitter.com/spacenewspod►► https://instagram.com/thespacenewspod►► https://gofund.me/0c6956f4

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson met with Gwen Shotwell, President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX, during Kennedy Center Honors this month. SpaceX is currently the second largest contractor for NASA, and is in the process of developing the spacecraft that will take humans to the moon. Nelson expressed concerns about SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's involvement in the company, as well as his distractions on social media platform Twitter. Shotwell reassured Nelson that he had nothing to worry about. NASA has made significant investments in SpaceX, including awarding the company a $3 billion contract to land astronauts on Mars by 2025, and a $1.5 billion contract for a second moon landing.

SpaceX is building a gigantic rocket, 400 feet tall, down in Boca, Chica, Texas, it's star Base, and I spent about 10 months there. And I want to share these experiences with you.

I think everybody that I met down there was really nice. I don't think there was only one person. And this is the interesting thing, this is the funny thing that I wanna tell you.  It was a couple days before Elon did his February talk about a February, 2022.

Talk about the state of star base and SpaceX's Starship. So I was there to cover the event. I was there to cover the stacking of the Starship, all that stuff. I was right down there. I was in the trenches for like 10 months. And this is the thing, I parked right around here, actually. It was. I was trying to get a shot.

You can kind of get a good shot from like right around here. And if you look over, you can see the orbital launch mount over here, right? The orbital launchpad, the orbit launch mount. You could see everything stacked up and I was filming from over here and for some reason there was this lady, and this is a weird story.

The Artemis program is named after the Greek goddess of the Moon and aims to establish a sustainable presence on the Moon by the end of the decade. Artemis 2 is the second mission in the program, following the Artemis 1 test flight which successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.

The Artemis 2 mission will be crewed by four astronauts, who will travel to the Moon in the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft. The mission will involve the astronauts spending about a week on the Moon's surface, conducting a variety of scientific experiments and demonstrating technologies needed for future exploration of the Moon and beyond.

The Starship system is a fully reusable, two‑stage‑to‑orbit super heavy‑lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX. The system is composed of a booster stage named Super Heavy and a second stage, also called "Starship".

The Starship system is a fully reusable, two‑stage‑to‑orbit super heavy‑lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX. The system is composed of a booster stage named Super Heavy and a second stage, also called "Starship".  

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NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, at 9:40 a.m. PST Sunday after a record-breaking mission, traveling more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the Moon and returning safely to Earth, completing the Artemis I flight test.

NASA’s Orion spacecraft is on course for its return to Earth on Sunday, Dec. 11. The spacecraft made its second and final close approach to the Moon at 10:43 a.m. CST Monday, Dec. 5, just before its return powered flyby burn, passing 80.6 miles above the lunar surface.

Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use.

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NASA’s Orion spacecraft is on course for its return to Earth on Sunday, Dec. 11. The spacecraft made its second and final close approach to the Moon at 10:43 a.m. CST Monday, Dec. 5, just before its return powered flyby burn, passing 80.6 miles above the lunar surface.

The burn, which used the spacecraft’s main engine on the European-built service module, lasted 3 minutes, 27 seconds, and changed the velocity of the spacecraft by about 655 mph (961 feet per second). It was the final major engine maneuver of the flight test.

“Orion is heading home! Today the team achieved another momentous accomplishment, flying Orion just 80 miles from the surface of the Moon. The lunar flyby enabled the spacecraft to harness the Moon’s gravity and slingshot it back toward Earth for splashdown,” said Administrator Bill Nelson. “When Orion re-enters Earth’s atmosphere in just a few days, it will come back hotter and faster than ever before – the ultimate test before we put astronauts on board. Next up, re-entry!”