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| 0:23 | · | if I'm being honest this is the moment |
| 0:26 | · | where everything changed for me when it |
| 0:28 | · | comes to Blue Origin the moment when a |
| 0:31 | · | company actually has a successful flight |
| 0:34 | · | and in this case a very successful |
| 0:37 | · | flight that earns them a generous |
| 0:40 | · | measure of respect from the angry |
| 0:42 | · | astronaut especially if it was the first |
| 0:45 | · | flight yes it took Blue Origin forever |
| 0:49 | · | to get to this point years and years |
| 0:52 | · | later than they were expecting and yet |
| 0:54 | · | they still insisted on being treated |
| 0:57 | · | like any other company that had already |
| 0:59 | · | reached orbit and were willing to file |
| 1:02 | · | multiple lawsuits to enforce their claim |
| 1:05 | · | i never respected that and I still don't |
| 1:08 | · | but when it comes right down to it Blue |
| 1:10 | · | Origin has finally reached the point to |
| 1:13 | · | where other companies need to be |
| 1:16 | · | respectful of their accomplishments and |
| 1:19 | · | they deserve some contracts at this |
| 1:21 | · | point and they have definitely earned |
| 1:23 | · | some even from the US military but all |
| 1:27 | · | of that having been said one flight of |
| 1:30 | · | their flagship rocket is definitely not |
| 1:33 | · | enough certainly they're not going to |
| 1:35 | · | accomplish the same things that SpaceX |
| 1:37 | · | is going to be accomplishing in the next |
| 1:39 | · | few years especially if we're talking |
| 1:42 | · | about Artemis missions obviously SpaceX |
| 1:45 | · | has a big lead with Starship and we can |
| 1:48 | · | expect Lunar Starship to be landing on |
| 1:50 | · | the lunar surface well before Blue Moon |
| 1:53 | · | does well hold on for a minute because |
| 1:56 | · | it seems that Blue Origin has other |
| 1:59 | · | plans indeed if everything goes the way |
| 2:02 | · | Jeff Bezos plans the first blue moon |
| 2:05 | · | mission will take place this year well |
| 2:08 | · | before lunar starship comes anywhere |
| 2:10 | · | close to cis lunar |
| 2:16 | · | space good morning and welcome to |
| 2:19 | · | another angry bulletin from Manhattan |
| 2:23 | · | New York and uh really looking forward |
| 2:27 | · | to the flight that I'm about to take |
| 2:29 | · | that's going to take me back to London |
| 2:32 | · | back to the UK the place where at least |
| 2:34 | · | most of the time I like to call home |
| 2:37 | · | although really I end up traveling all |
| 2:39 | · | over the world it's tough for me to |
| 2:42 | · | determine exactly where I live on a |
| 2:44 | · | permanent basis but still plan to be in |
| 2:47 | · | the UK for several months at least in |
| 2:50 | · | the meantime we need to talk about Blue |
| 2:53 | · | Origin a topic that usually goes |
| 2:56 | · | handinhand with harsh criticism on this |
| 2:59 | · | channel i've been rather vicious and |
| 3:02 | · | ruthless when it comes to criticizing |
| 3:05 | · | Jeff Bezos and his stepbystep |
| 3:08 | · | ferociously policy which has generally |
| 3:11 | · | meant stepbystep and doing nothing |
| 3:14 | · | however that's changed lately my |
| 3:17 | · | philosophy always is show me something |
| 3:21 | · | impressive and my opinion about you |
| 3:24 | · | folks might change and that applied to |
| 3:27 | · | SLS i was just nonstop criticizing SLS |
| 3:32 | · | until actually managed to toss the Orion |
| 3:36 | · | spacecraft into lunar orbit came back |
| 3:40 | · | without any sort of significant issue |
| 3:43 | · | sure maybe a couple things with the heat |
| 3:44 | · | shield but overall it was close to |
| 3:47 | · | flawless on the first flight it's |
| 3:50 | · | impressive and certainly deserves at |
| 3:52 | · | least some respect and that is the case |
| 3:56 | · | with New Glenn as well in spite of the |
| 3:58 | · | enormous time that elapsed before this |
| 4:01 | · | rocket finally took flight didn't just |
| 4:04 | · | reach orbit actually reached a pretty |
| 4:07 | · | aggressive orbit with a very high |
| 4:10 | · | perigan apogee and again I think quite |
| 4:14 | · | impressive for a rocket's first flight |
| 4:17 | · | sure the booster didn't land on the |
| 4:19 | · | first try but that was to be expected i |
| 4:23 | · | would have liked Blue Origin to have |
| 4:24 | · | shown us more details to actually show |
| 4:27 | · | the booster plunging into the ocean or |
| 4:31 | · | attempting to land something along those |
| 4:33 | · | lines but unfortunately up to this point |
| 4:35 | · | we haven't seen much of anything from |
| 4:37 | · | that but one announcement we have gotten |
| 4:41 | · | which is very very impressive from my |
| 4:45 | · | perspective is the notion that Blue |
| 4:47 | · | Origin may be setting the unmanned |
| 4:50 | · | version of their Blue Moonland lander on |
| 4:52 | · | the lunar surface before the end of the |
| 4:54 | · | year that is their stated objective not |
| 4:58 | · | only that they've also rolled out the |
| 5:01 | · | details for their Earth to Moon |
| 5:04 | · | transport that is to say a refueling tug |
| 5:07 | · | essentially that carries fuel to lunar |
| 5:10 | · | orbit rather than doing the refueling in |
| 5:13 | · | Earth orbit and this of course being an |
| 5:16 | · | absolutely crucial part of their whole |
| 5:19 | · | HLS design the ability to refuel in |
| 5:23 | · | lunar orbit before setting down on the |
| 5:26 | · | moon any reusable lunar lander is going |
| 5:29 | · | to have to have that refueling |
| 5:32 | · | capability so what does all of this mean |
| 5:35 | · | is Blue Origin really going to set down |
| 5:38 | · | on the moon this year and if so does |
| 5:41 | · | that mean they may have a humanrated |
| 5:44 | · | spacecraft ready for a lunar mission |
| 5:47 | · | before SpaceX does |
| 5:53 | · | in the course of this video I'm going to |
| 5:55 | · | be quoting extensively from two articles |
| 5:58 | · | one from |
| 6:00 | · | aviationweek.com and the other from |
| 6:02 | · | spacnews.com we'll start off with the |
| 6:05 | · | aviation week article quote Blue Origin |
| 6:08 | · | will attempt to land an uncrrewed |
| 6:10 | · | prototype of its human landing system on |
| 6:13 | · | the moon south pole this year according |
| 6:16 | · | to John Kures senior vice president of |
| 6:18 | · | lunar permanence and this was a |
| 6:20 | · | statement made on May 20th just a few |
| 6:23 | · | days ago the company's HLS is one of two |
| 6:27 | · | in development in partnership with NASA |
| 6:29 | · | to support crude landings on the moon |
| 6:32 | · | under the Aremis program nasa awarded |
| 6:34 | · | the first of two hls flight service |
| 6:38 | · | contracts to SpaceX which plans to use a |
| 6:40 | · | variant of its still in development |
| 6:42 | · | Starship Superheavy system for NASA's |
| 6:45 | · | Aremis 3 and four missions blue Origins |
| 6:49 | · | HLS was tapped for Artemis 5 okay none |
| 6:52 | · | of that is new let's see what else is |
| 6:55 | · | going on blue Origins Mark 1 which is |
| 6:58 | · | slated to launch this year on a |
| 7:00 | · | shakedown mission to the lunar south |
| 7:02 | · | pole is designed to carry nearly 3.9 |
| 7:06 | · | tons to any location on the moon's |
| 7:08 | · | surface by contrast the small fleet of |
| 7:11 | · | small robotic landers that NASA is |
| 7:14 | · | backing under its commercial lunar |
| 7:16 | · | payload services contract are designed |
| 7:19 | · | to carry about one ton powered by a |
| 7:22 | · | single liquid oxygen and liquid |
| 7:24 | · | hydrogenfueled BE7 engine the Mark1 will |
| 7:28 | · | launch aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn |
| 7:30 | · | rocket and aim to touch down within 33 |
| 7:33 | · | ft of its intended target or 10 m and |
| 7:37 | · | this is according to an announcement |
| 7:38 | · | that Gurus made at the opening day of |
| 7:41 | · | the lunar surface innovation consortium |
| 7:44 | · | conference at the John's Hopkins |
| 7:46 | · | University Applied Physics Lab in |
| 7:48 | · | Maryland assembly of the BE7 flight unit |
| 7:51 | · | is nearly complete and is expected to |
| 7:53 | · | ship out to Johnson Space Center in |
| 7:56 | · | Houston in about 6 weeks for thermal |
| 7:58 | · | vacuum chamber testing quote "Once |
| 8:01 | · | that's done it'll come to Cape Canaveral |
| 8:03 | · | get integrated get encapsulated and then |
| 8:06 | · | launch on New Glenn a few months after |
| 8:08 | · | that." Once again according to Coloris |
| 8:11 | · | in addition to testing technologies and |
| 8:13 | · | operations for future Mark 2 vehicles |
| 8:16 | · | the Mark 1 will host some NASA and |
| 8:19 | · | commercial payloads including a NASA |
| 8:21 | · | awarded experiment to measure BE7 plume |
| 8:25 | · | impingement on the lunar surface very |
| 8:28 | · | important to gain an understanding of |
| 8:30 | · | how much debris and how much regalith a |
| 8:34 | · | rocket engine is going to kick up on the |
| 8:36 | · | lunar surface because really big rocket |
| 8:38 | · | engines could theoretically launch |
| 8:41 | · | debris into lunar orbit which could be |
| 8:44 | · | very hazardous for future missions |
| 8:46 | · | gloris also unveiled an updated design |
| 8:49 | · | for the hls systems transporter module |
| 8:53 | · | the vehicle is designed to launch |
| 8:55 | · | separately on a new Glenn and be |
| 8:57 | · | refueled in low Earth orbit using excess |
| 9:00 | · | propellant from the rocket's upper stage |
| 9:02 | · | the transporter will then travel to |
| 9:04 | · | lunar orbit and refuel an awaiting Blue |
| 9:08 | · | Origin lander ahead of a crew arrival |
| 9:11 | · | via the space launch system and Orion |
| 9:14 | · | capsule so refueling being required here |
| 9:17 | · | both in low Earth orbit and in lunar |
| 9:20 | · | orbit given the fact that the human |
| 9:23 | · | rated blue moonland lander is not nearly |
| 9:25 | · | as massive as lunar starship I suspect |
| 9:29 | · | it's going to require a lot less |
| 9:31 | · | refueling than SpaceX's plans will |
| 9:34 | · | require so the transporter is capable of |
| 9:37 | · | bringing roughly 110 tons from Earth |
| 9:40 | · | orbit to lunar orbit or up to 33 tons to |
| 9:43 | · | Mars orbit and this opens up the solar |
| 9:46 | · | system according to a ground |
| 9:49 | · | demonstration of zero boiloff cryogenic |
| 9:52 | · | propellant storage which is absolutely |
| 9:54 | · | necessary if you're going to be |
| 9:56 | · | refueling things in orbit is underway in |
| 9:59 | · | Washington state where Blue Origin is |
| 10:01 | · | based quote "By June we will be able to |
| 10:04 | · | be showing that we are consistently |
| 10:07 | · | holding cryogenic hydrogen oxygen as |
| 10:10 | · | storeable propellant." That's again |
| 10:12 | · | according to Kurus it will be the first |
| 10:14 | · | time on this scale that we've done this |
| 10:17 | · | by June next month now let me tell you |
| 10:21 | · | something compared to everything that |
| 10:23 | · | Blue Origin has done up to this point |
| 10:25 | · | that is some very aggressive timing now |
| 10:29 | · | although the transporter is not |
| 10:31 | · | necessary for the unmanned version of |
| 10:33 | · | Blue Moon to set down on the lunar |
| 10:35 | · | surface it definitely is for the HLS |
| 10:38 | · | version so let's learn a little bit more |
| 10:41 | · | about it the company provided few |
| 10:44 | · | details about the transporter at the |
| 10:46 | · | time that they won the NASA contract |
| 10:49 | · | $3.4 billion by the way originally the |
| 10:53 | · | transporter was going to be developed by |
| 10:55 | · | other companies that were part of the |
| 10:57 | · | Blue Origin national team but industry |
| 11:00 | · | sources said that Blue Origin has since |
| 11:02 | · | taken over development entirely and I |
| 11:06 | · | think that's a hell of an idea because |
| 11:08 | · | the companies that they were going to be |
| 11:11 | · | collaborating with the old legacy |
| 11:13 | · | companies would have taken forever to |
| 11:15 | · | get this job done quote "This vehicle |
| 11:18 | · | has evolved significantly since we first |
| 11:20 | · | won the contract." This again according |
| 11:22 | · | to Coloris the purpose of the vehicle |
| 11:25 | · | remains to aggregate liquid hydrogen and |
| 11:27 | · | liquid oxygen propellant in Earth orbit |
| 11:30 | · | and then transport it to a near rectal |
| 11:32 | · | linear halo orbit around the moon where |
| 11:35 | · | it will transfer the propellants to the |
| 11:37 | · | blue moon lander to enable it to perform |
| 11:39 | · | a lunar landing the transporter will be |
| 11:42 | · | launched into low Earth orbit on a new |
| 11:44 | · | Glenn rocket and then fueled using |
| 11:46 | · | excess propellant from the new Glenn |
| 11:48 | · | upper stage as we said before although |
| 11:50 | · | he did not disclose how many refuelings |
| 11:53 | · | would be required it will use tanks 7 m |
| 11:56 | · | in diameter which is the same as the |
| 11:58 | · | upper stage quote instead of doing |
| 12:01 | · | bespoke tanks for individual vehicles |
| 12:03 | · | it's using the same assembly line a key |
| 12:06 | · | enabler for the system is zero boiloff |
| 12:10 | · | technology to prevent losses of |
| 12:12 | · | cryogenic propellants you always hear |
| 12:14 | · | "Wow that's hard to do." And it is hard |
| 12:16 | · | to do he said but he noted that the |
| 12:19 | · | company is making progress on that zero |
| 12:21 | · | boiloff technology that maintains liquid |
| 12:24 | · | hydrogen at 20° Kelvin or 20° C above |
| 12:29 | · | absolute zero and liquid oxygen at 90° |
| 12:32 | · | Kelvin by the way something I've noticed |
| 12:34 | · | about this design it has a sun shield |
| 12:38 | · | absolutely essential to keep propellant |
| 12:41 | · | from boiling off very similar to what |
| 12:43 | · | ULA had in mind for a Centaurbased fuel |
| 12:47 | · | depot so they're definitely putting |
| 12:49 | · | thought into this working with NASA Blue |
| 12:52 | · | Origin has integrated its first |
| 12:54 | · | prototype and put it in a thermal vacuum |
| 12:56 | · | chamber quote "By June we will be |
| 12:59 | · | showing that we are consistently holding |
| 13:01 | · | hydrogen and oxygen as storeable |
| 13:03 | · | propellants and by December we'll start |
| 13:06 | · | our flight units." Once again very |
| 13:08 | · | aggressive timing gloris argued that |
| 13:11 | · | being able to store liquid hydrogen and |
| 13:13 | · | liquid oxygen for extended periods would |
| 13:16 | · | be a breakthrough that propellant |
| 13:17 | · | combination has the highest performance |
| 13:19 | · | of major chemical propulsion systems and |
| 13:22 | · | can be obtained from water on the moon |
| 13:24 | · | or other celestial bodies i completely |
| 13:27 | · | agree with that hydrolocks is much |
| 13:30 | · | easier to access through insitu |
| 13:32 | · | processes especially on the moon than |
| 13:35 | · | methylox is a fully fueled transporter |
| 13:38 | · | can carry about a 100 metric tons as I |
| 13:40 | · | said before from Earth orbit to lunar |
| 13:43 | · | orbit with applications beyond the moon |
| 13:45 | · | as well including that 30 metric tons to |
| 13:48 | · | Mars that we talked about it can open up |
| 13:50 | · | the asteroid belt he said it can open up |
| 13:53 | · | the solar system he didn't offer |
| 13:55 | · | schedules for testing the transporter or |
| 13:58 | · | the blue moon lander during a separate |
| 14:00 | · | panel at the conference on May 20th |
| 14:03 | · | Jackie Cortez senior director of civil |
| 14:06 | · | space said that the company expects to |
| 14:08 | · | conduct both an uncrrewed test landing |
| 14:11 | · | of the Blue Moon Mark II as well as a |
| 14:13 | · | crude landing before the end of the |
| 14:16 | · | decade now is that fast enough for Blue |
| 14:20 | · | Origin to put humans on the moon before |
| 14:22 | · | China does assuming that SpaceX can't |
| 14:25 | · | come through with lunar starship kind of |
| 14:28 | · | hard to tell but it looks like that's |
| 14:30 | · | what they're trying to accomplish blue |
| 14:32 | · | Origin is also building a second Blue |
| 14:35 | · | Moon Mark1 lander about 6 to 8 months |
| 14:38 | · | behind the first quote "We're building |
| 14:40 | · | intentionally now to get hardware rich." |
| 14:43 | · | According to Kuris if the first mission |
| 14:46 | · | is not successful we'll learn from it |
| 14:48 | · | and learn from the objective we |
| 14:50 | · | succeeded in and the ones where we |
| 14:52 | · | didn't succeed in and we'll incorporate |
| 14:54 | · | those into the next vehicle corteiz said |
| 14:57 | · | that the work on the blue moon is in a |
| 14:59 | · | dedicated facility we intend for it to |
| 15:02 | · | be a production line capability she said |
| 15:05 | · | but she did not discuss the projected |
| 15:07 | · | production rate for the lander quote it |
| 15:10 | · | was really important for us to procure |
| 15:12 | · | all hardware for the two Mark1 missions |
| 15:15 | · | years ago citing supply chain challenges |
| 15:18 | · | ideally we'll have a successful first |
| 15:21 | · | mission of Mark 1 incorporate any |
| 15:23 | · | findings and be able to fly again she |
| 15:26 | · | said and if it's not successful we have |
| 15:28 | · | another lander ready to go that was |
| 15:30 | · | something that was really important to |
| 15:32 | · | us but here's the big question is Blue |
| 15:35 | · | Origin going to be able to put an HLS on |
| 15:40 | · | the lunar surface before a SpaceX can |
| 15:43 | · | and if so is that something that NASA |
| 15:46 | · | would actually entertain especially if |
| 15:48 | · | it looks like lunar starship is starting |
| 15:51 | · | to lag |
| 15:56 | · | behind so of course an obvious question |
| 15:59 | · | remains if Blue Origin does manage to |
| 16:02 | · | pull this off and if they can get their |
| 16:04 | · | humanrated version of Blue Moon ready |
| 16:07 | · | before Lunar Starship is ready are they |
| 16:10 | · | going to be the ones carrying out |
| 16:12 | · | Artemis 3 i mean there's a lot of |
| 16:14 | · | contractual obligations a lot of |
| 16:16 | · | commitments that NASA has made that's |
| 16:19 | · | going to give SpaceX a pretty strong |
| 16:22 | · | position both legally and otherwise to |
| 16:25 | · | set down on the moon first but if Lunar |
| 16:29 | · | Starship starts running into issues it's |
| 16:31 | · | very possible that Artemis 3 isn't going |
| 16:34 | · | to happen before the end of Trump's |
| 16:37 | · | final years in office and if that |
| 16:40 | · | happens the only chance that Trump may |
| 16:43 | · | have to make that historic phone call to |
| 16:46 | · | astronauts setting down on the moon |
| 16:49 | · | something that was a huge distinction |
| 16:52 | · | for Nixon's administration something I'm |
| 16:55 | · | sure Trump would like to have well Blue |
| 16:58 | · | Origin may turn out to be his only |
| 17:01 | · | alternative and let me tell you |
| 17:03 | · | something regardless of what Elon Musk |
| 17:05 | · | might have done for Trump in the past if |
| 17:08 | · | it's a choice between making that phone |
| 17:11 | · | call and not making that phone call I |
| 17:14 | · | assure you Trump is going to go for the |
| 17:18 | · | first option regardless of whose toes he |
| 17:21 | · | has to step on and from my perspective |
| 17:24 | · | if it comes to beating the Chinese to |
| 17:27 | · | the surface of the moon and establishing |
| 17:29 | · | a permanent presence on the moon before |
| 17:33 | · | China can manage to do it I think that |
| 17:35 | · | stepping on toes may be what's necessary |
| 17:38 | · | and is entirely justified thank you very |
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