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But what about, in a complete science fiction scenario, just slowing the spacecraft down until you could just lower it through the atmosphere. I know we don't have that ability, but would that even work?

A surgeon’s quote, “The patient died, but the operation was a complete success.” 🤣

Sorry to be a sceptic but i think it is still sitting in the same studio where they filmed the big luner lie in originally

In the hot Rod industry it is difficult to get an aftermarket dash rear gear ratio tire size to all match up and get the correct gearing for the Speedometer so they have come up with GPS speed indicator

Yeah. It's not rocket surgery, it's brain science.

They're jamming GPS...in their own country? 🤔

This has me curious what the heatshields will/do look like for any craft that utilize aerobraking in Mars' atmosphere?

6:21 Although we cant easily direct neutrons, how about if the plasma was moving in a loop and we arranged the fusion to occur while it was heading in the desired exhaust direction, even faster than the speed that the neutron would be fired off at? I figure this could both mean that the neutrons were useful as propellant mass and that they would not collide with the walls of the rocket. I guess this would mean you have to suck a bunch of energy out of the charged products and put it into spinning up the plasma. (edit) ah, just noticed there was 4x more energy going into the neutron. I suspect you are throwing so much energy away in the neutron that although you have not wasted it, it goes into thrust, you cannot replace it with the energy from the charged products. (edit) Maybe this would work for a fission rocket though. According to wikipedia: For uranium-235 (total mean fission energy 202.79 MeV[15]), typically ~169 MeV appears as the kinetic energy of the daughter nuclei, which fly apart at about 3% of the speed of light, due to Coulomb repulsion. Also, an average of 2.5 neutrons are emitted, with a mean kinetic energy per neutron of ~2 MeV (total of 4.8 MeV) ..so you could potentially expel all the neutrons safely and just have charged products to manipulate?

This was good

Amazing that these space shuttles go out to different planets and galaxies and return to earth like gliders

Amazing that these space shuttles go out to different planets and galaxies and return to earth like gliders

Amazing that these space shuttles go out to different planets and galaxies and return to earth like gliders

If visiting me & you use GPS, you can find my 3rd floor apt in a local park, down the street. Thx google for being that superstar that ruins so much. To bad you don't have a search engine. Type in your search query and if lucky, within 3 pages there might be ONE RELEVANT entry which is questionable due to google being Bias, a liar and unaccountable for their crap products. What a shameful failure.

are all systems (Gps, Galileo, Baidou, Glonass) the same as to robustness to jamming?

This is the second time that the development studio working on KSP 2 has been completely destroyed by its publisher.

SCOTT! This would be huge if it still orbitting!. Can we get SpaceX to bring it home maybe if we can find it!!!!!!!! that would be amazing!

The gunk near electrical contacts make me think of the carbon buildup on old cathode ray tubes in televisions.

couldn't get bats out of my head. They still here. Thanks 😅

The status of this game has changed in 2024?

This is why us Americans don't buy China crap!!!

A year later and it was delayed again!!!!

the EU should do what Russia does.... Invade a country, ship out the residents and implant their own citizens then hold elections with their people and claim independence.... In a few months Kaliningrad can be part of Poland.. all legal (following Russia's rules).

Going to space in a Chinese craft? You're either very brave or very stupid.

Theoretically couldn't one build a vertical rotating experiment and fill it with water and make the astronaut neutrally buoyant simulate 0 g and then simulate the gravity back.

Always an interesting topic

The angle of the dangle is proportional to the beating by the heating.

i wonder what a large to massive vivarium would look like after 6 years in space. yes with plants, animal and bugs.

Nice Where's Waldo hat parachute

Just watch airplane II

8:38 Sounds like this little maneuver's gonna cost us 51 years.

"Arm the gears" the landing gear must not come out too early. It might not only rip off. It could incinerate the shuttle.

Hello Scott! I am a pilot on the Phenom 300. I work for a large charter airline. Last week, when flying along at FL410, we encountered jamming that was predicted by RAIM. In the Phenom, when the GPS drops out, you lose yaw damp, ventral rudder, autopilot, and several other systems until it is able to aquire a good signal. When we finally re-aquired, everything came back except for our Normal Pitch Trim control, which the autopilot uses. We had to fly the remaining 400 miles of our flight by hand down from FL410. Fun times!

TTL was the first big thing. I think a hobbies tried to make an 8 bit computer using TTL.

NASA wouldn't have a space program if it weren't for SpaceX

Scott... Bet you didn't know that the last NorCal LORAN-C transmitter was up in the hills east of Middletown (Hwy 29, Lake County). (38.78257557108548, -122.49539299090081) [No, people, it's all private land so don't try to drive up there, just look it up on Google Maps.]

11:14 can we take a moment to appreciate how durable that american flag is?

Moon above, that is so wildly complicated.

10:34 the money shot

5:03 inertial dampers!!

1:18 is the whole inside of this thing hollow? Was that the most efficient use of the launched volume?

Whatever dude

For me as a pilot the big thing to avoiding GPS jamming/spoofing is treating my mind like an FMS. An FMS or Flight Management System in a modern aircraft is “the GPS” to a lot of pilots today.. but it’s a multi-sensor system that is taking inputs from air data, attitude and heading gyros, accelerometers, flux valves, and ground based navaids (VOR, DME, ILS) and comparing them to each other just as it is comparing GPS satellites to each other to detect or exclude faulty ones (RAIM) or a Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) for LPV approaches. And how I do this is yes.. maps and pilotage. If I’m on a familiar route I should see the same landmarks in the same place at roughly the same time. Also things like the position of the sun and stars. They don’t have the fidelity for even enroute navigation without charts, equipment, and training but they could be a gross error check or “parity bit” if things go amiss (this could even be misspelling a waypoint that gets past a distance or North Up MFD error check). Finally it’s just looking at those VOR needles, DME readings, and indentifiers. The FMS will come up with a position disagree flag if they are off… but it’s nice to be proactive just in case it gets confused.

Well...guess its back to LORAN. 😂

I went on a prop to Shetlands recently to do an install at their hospital, loud AF.

I thought it was just cars that they couldn't drive. Hope everyone is ok.

Just remember pitch to airspeed powered altitude.

An interesting piece of trivia is that the Pilot for STS 41-C (the LDEF deploy mission) was Francis R. "Dick" Scobee. He was the Commander of STS 51-L.

One quick note about RF jamming in general - you jam the *receiver*, not the transmitter. You don't necessarily have to radiate more power than the transmitter - you just have to have more effective radiated power measured at the receiver.

Have several large gyroscopes designed to store and absorb energy to be used later in retrograde. 😎😂😂😎 Btw, definitely not a physicist.

Aviation GPS receivers have RAIM