SpaceX Starship Update | SpaceX to Land A Massive Spaceship on The Moon In 2022 for NASA
SpaceX’s next-generation Mars-colonizing Starship
vehicle could make its first extraterrestrial touchdown just three short years. SpaceX is eligible to propose using its Starship
vehicle to carry NASA robotic science payloads to the lunar surface, the U.S. space agency
announced Monday 18th November, on missions that could precede future Starship flights
with people on-board. In its ongoing effort to send cargo — and
eventually people — to the lunar surface, NASA announced five new partnerships with
commercial space companies that have designed robotic landers that can take large payloads
to the Moon via the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. SpaceX proposes to do this work with Starship
and Super Heavy, the reusable spaceship-rocket duo that the company is developing primarily
to help humanity become a multiplanet species. And Starship could start putting NASA payloads
down on Earth’s nearest neighbor quite soon, if all goes according to plan. “For Commercial Lunar Payload Services,
we offered the Starship and Super Heavy launch capability,” said Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s
president and chief operating officer. “That capability far exceeds the mass that
Commercial Lunar Payload Services was looking for, but we think that brings pretty extraordinary
capability to NASA, both for the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and others. Starship is capable of carrying 100 metric
tons to the moon’s dusty gray surface on each trip, Shotwell said. NASA requires the Commercial Lunar Payload
Services providers to be capable of delivering at least 22 pounds, or 10 kilograms, of payload
mass to the moon. Shotwell said SpaceX, founded and led by billionaire
Elon Musk, aims to land a Starship on the moon in 2022. SpaceX is excited about the CLPS partnership
as well. Starship was always designed to carry people,
but early uncrewed efforts such as communication-satellite launches, CLPS flights and cargo missions
to the Martian surface will prove out the vehicle, Shotwell said. “CLPS is a great piece of what we want to
get done with Starship,” she said, similar to the way SpaceX developed a cargo variant
of the Dragon capsule before designing and building an upgraded human-rated Dragon spacecraft. “We’re leveraging NASA initially for cargo
and science, so I think it’s a nice stepping stone and a nice path to getting comfortable
with the technology … so that it’s reliable enough to put people on-board.” In this video Engineering Today will discuss
SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft which May Start Flying Moon Missions in 2022. NASA partners with SpaceX and more to send
large payloads to the Moon. Let’s get into details. The other four companies that joined the Commercial
Lunar Payload Services pool on this monday are California-based Ceres Robotics and Tyvak
Nano-Satellite Systems incorporated.; Sierra Nevada Corp. of Colorado; and Washington-based
Blue Origin. They join Astrobotic, Deep Space Systems,
Draper, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, Lockheed Martin, Masten Space Systems, Moon
Express and Orbit Beyond, the nine companies selected as Commercial Lunar Payload Services
providers last year. The companies being added Monday— all vow
to transport much heavier payloads than what the original nine CLPS companies say they
can carry. The original nine companies needed to be able
to carry up to 22 pounds (10 kilograms) to the lunar surface, but some of these new providers
claim they will eventually be able to carry several tons to the Moon. “We have a need and saw a need to bring
on some additional providers that had enhanced lander capabilities,” Steve Clarke, deputy
associate administrator for exploration in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said
during a press conference announcing the new CLPS participants. “This is based on our objectives — the
agency’s objectives — to get to the moon as soon as possible, both from a scientific
standpoint and from a human exploration standpoint.” Clarke said NASA received eight proposals
to join the roster of Commercial Lunar Payload Services providers. The agency picked five companies to “on-ramp”
to the CLPS program. “All of them bring to the table different
strengths and different ideas, and that’s what we want to bring as NASA continues to
lean forward and use commercial services to explore the moon,” Clarke said. “We want as many … diverse ideas as we
can on the table. So we look forward to hearing reading and
assessing those ideas when we put out these task orders.” For Blue Origin, the company is bidding its
very public Blue Moon lander design, which founder Jeff Bezos first unveiled in May. Blue Origin’s Blue Moon cargo lander can
deliver nearly 8,000 pounds, or 3.6 metric tons, of payload equipment to the lunar surface. Brent Sherwood, Blue Origin’s senior vice
president of advanced development programs, said this Monday that the Blue Moon lander
is designed to survive the two-week-long lunar night and can launch on the company’s New
Glenn rocket. Some of the companies are fairly ambitious
with their timelines, claiming they’ll be able to send their spacecraft to the Moon
within the next few years. Ceres Robotics is aiming to land by 2023,
while Sierra Nevada Corporation says it will be ready by 2022. John Roth, vice president of business development
at Sierra Nevada’s space systems division, said the company will modify existing small
satellite platforms for lunar lander missions to haul lighter payloads to the moon. Technologies developed for Sierra Nevada’s
Dream Chaser space station cargo transporter could be used to carry heavier equipment to
the lunar surface, Roth said. The other companies’ initial lander designs
are capable of carrying smaller payload packages to the moon. Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems specializes in
building CubeSats and other small satellites, and Ceres Robotics to develop vehicles to
explore the surfaces of the moon, Mars, asteroids and other planetary bodies. NASA started the Commercial Lunar Payload
Services program to purchase unpiloted rides to the moon for the agency’s scientific
payloads aboard privately-owned spacecraft. NASA views this Commercial Lunar Payload Services
as a key enabler of its Artemis program of crewed lunar exploration, which aims to put
two astronauts, including the first woman, on the moon by 2024 and establish a long-term
human presence there by 2028. As the agency prepares to meet that challenge,
NASA wants to send tech to the Moon to study the lunar environment more in-depth, as well
as demonstrate technologies that might be used for future human missions. Additionally, NASA wants to send a new rover
to the Moon called VIPER, which will travel to the lunar south pole and scout for potential
water ice that might be lurking there. Engineers are interested in using this water
ice as a resource for future human missions. Commercial spacecraft will land hardware and
experiments — such as the VIPER — that pave the way for these astronaut pioneers,
agency officials have stressed. And buying a ride on private craft, rather
than developing and building its own landers, will save the agency a great deal of money,
NASA officials said. The 14 companies now part of the Commercial
Lunar Payload Services program are eligible to compete for NASA contracts to ferry scientific
instruments to the moon. Being chosen to be part of the CLPS program
doesn’t guarantee each company a NASA contract to send their spacecraft to the Moon. It simply means that NASA will consider using
these companies if and when it wants to send cargo or scientific instruments to the lunar
surface. NASA will put out calls for capabilities that
the agency wants, and the companies will bid to have the opportunity to ferry NASA’s
cargo to the Moon. “The services we are buying are buying,
or are procuring, are end-to-end,” Clarke said. “The companies that we award task orders
are responsible for securing a ride on a launch vehicle, and of course, delivering our instruments
or payloads to the surface, and then actually enabling us to operate those instruments or
payloads on the surface of the moon.” “American aerospace companies of all sizes
are joining the Artemis program,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a release. “Expanding the group of companies who are
eligible to bid on sending payloads to the moon’s surface drives innovation and reduces
costs to NASA and American taxpayers. We anticipate opportunities to deliver a wide
range of science and technology payloads to help make our vision for lunar exploration
a reality and advance our goal of sending humans to explore Mars.” In May, NASA selected three companies from
its original pool of participants — Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and Orbit Beyond — to
send robotic landers to the Moon in the early 2020s, with each spacecraft carrying a variety
of payloads. Only two of those companies are continuing
toward that goal now, as Orbit Beyond said it would not be able to meet its late 2020
deadline. None of these five companies have actually
built or launched their vehicles yet, so it’s likely their timelines will be delayed, and
it’s still unclear exactly which rockets will take these vehicles to space. Presumably, SpaceX will launch its Starship
on its own future rocket, the Super Heavy, while Blue Origin’s lander will fly on the
company’s future New Glenn rocket. The details for the other cargo spacecraft
have not been finalized yet, and it’s still unknown how NASA plans to use these companies
in the years ahead. NASA is also looking to the private sector
to build the crewed Artemis lander. The agency selected 11 companies this past
May to conduct studies and build prototypes, and this pool had to submit detailed proposals
by Nov. 8. NASA is expected to pick up to four finalists
early next year. In October 2019, NASA unveiled the new spacesuits
to be worn by astronauts during the upcoming moon missions. The Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit,
or xEMU suit for short, is designed to be less restrictive and allow far more movement
than previous spacesuit designs, and also protect the astronauts from the extreme temperatures
that they’re expected to experience during their lunar explorations. The Super Heavy and Starship, both designed
for reuse, will be powered by SpaceX’s methane-fueled Raptor rocket engines. SpaceX intends to land the Super Heavy on
the ground similar to the way the company lands Falcon rocket boosters. The Starship will be similarly capable of
vertical landings on Earth, or on other planetary surfaces. SpaceX is building prototypes of the Starship
vehicle in Texas and Florida. There are big SpaceX Starship milestones coming
in the near future as well.
How many fucking adverts were on this video? I’ve just closed it. YouTube is taking the fucking piss.
Always great content! Would it be possible to do a little paraphrasing rather than direct quotes? The "he said, she said, Gwenn said, Elon said" gets a bit jarring.
I DO want it to happen, but I know that it's not going to happen. They've been making the same promises since 1972. Face it, we're stuck here on earth. 😔
Just one question, Does Jim Bridenstine drive a Tesla ?…
Blue Balls !
Click bait title. Good video.
I have to admit that I am impressed with the innovation and imagination of the different companies in this endeavor. I also have to admit that I personally prefer SpaceX and Elon Musk's dream of making humanity a multi planet race. I have been following the developments of each when publicly available. I would really like to see how each will deal with the Van Allen radiation belts. I am hoping to see technology instead of bulking protection. Long term exposure to radiation going past the moon or dwelling in space f9r extended periods of time is detrimental to say the least. Technology is preferable to bulk.
I know there was a reason why they decided to go with methane but a hydrogen and oxygen mixture would have been so much cheaper
You said " according to plan "!?.
The joker said if things don't go according to plans, everyone panic…
They are going to turn our moon into a lunar junk yard with all of these one-shot technological wonders. It will be like Mount Everest in a decade. The international community needs to make some regulations about junking up the rest of the Solar system. The only ones mentioning cleaning up after ourselves are Elon Musk and SpaceX.
The other landers are so puny LOL
there are no subtitles!
Yet another neat presentation. 😀😀😀
Thanks.
22 pounds = 11 kg
Seems like the SpaceX Starship is kind of overkill to deliver payloads to the surface of the moon for NASA. It is a great way for SpaceX to test out and improve upon its spaceship technology before attempting to bring humans to the Moon and eventually to Mars.
NASA one day be sure to write that on their Tombstone ONE DAY.
I love how your videos lay out the information. Also the frequency of your videos being posted keeps my Spacex thirst satiated.
Compare the specs of a boring machine to the cargo capacity of the Starship.
It would require multiple launches, of course, but it is doable.
It doesn't require a hole in the ground to begin work. Just a relatively flat spot against a hill or crater rim.
imo, their earth based business is testing prototypes for use on the Moon and Mars.
Just a thought in passing.
Who else loves the narrators voice?
The only way he's getting shit on the moon is by blowing up from the pad with high explosives and hoping chunks of it land up there.
New Glen rocket? That’s a myth like Bigfoot and intelligent democrats. (Okay… that wasn’t nice.😞)
have they found the reason behind Mk1 anomaly and incorporating it into Mk2? Or are we looking at months of setback in Mk2?
since there is low gravity the lunar dust during land (potentially dangerous at high speeds) could escape to space (ok no prob) or many particles could do round the moon many times even orbit under circumstances- any precautions?
I love your content, but I'm allergic to the narrators voice. Please fix.
Scouting out lunar lava tubes should be a high priority as those are the best places for human habitation on the Moon.
Landing in 2022, SpaceX could put a Cybertruck on the moon and drive it around. That would be a hell of an ad!
I think you can already fix that first picture rendering with the cybertruck on the elevator
Before SpaceX can land a Starship on the Moon, they'll need to hire Blue Origin to land a bulldozer and create a concrete landing pad. Starship seems to be incapable of landing on "wild" unprepared regolith. Even SpaceX's own graphics show landing pads.
COMPETITION MAKES FOR MORE AND BETTER PROGRAMS. THIS IS ONLY GOOD FOR SPACE EXPLORATION AND HUMANATY. THE SOONER WE GET TO A MULTI-WORLD SOCITY THE BETTER! EVEN WITH THE SETBACKS SPACE X STILL HAS A BETTER TRACK RECORD THAN NASA.
Outer space is a hoax
SpaceX will be more likely the company who will launch large tonnage to the moon before any other company because it is already testing its own starship capabilities in large volume. Also, the other companies that propose to deliver payloads, but do not yet have a spacecraft, may very well need to form up with SpaceX to deliver their payloads.
Got to get the fuel tanks right first.
The way things are going we will be visiting the moon for recreation within 20 years. Crazy!!!
Don't bother with the moon. Get us to Mars.
I can just imagine the Artemus lander touching down on the moon (on a landing pad with a large X) as the crew step out a modified Tesla truck pulls up and the doors open. Over the radio a message comes over welcoming them to the moon and to come over in the truck for a coffee. Apologies for the Moon base Alpha not been complete quite yet but plenty of room on the Starship.
We are never going to the moon because we were never there. Space is a vacuum meaning that unlike on earth, there's nothing like air to create propulsion, also pressure levels in a vacuum would destroy anything man made. Basically space does not exist, but is in fact cgi created . Check out pastor Dean Olde on You Tube and read for yourself the declassified documents from the CIA, the Air Force, NASA, etc. They all make references to a Flat non-rotating earth for the testing of aircraft and missiles. ……..
In Musk's own words – "If (your rocket design) it's taking too long, you shouldn't be afraid to delete parts and processes to accelerate progress."
Why one would build obsolete parts and processes into their rocket design is unaddressed.
there is no air on the moon
A bigger bang than the last one, anyone that believes this things going to fly need to see a doctor.
when they launch a vehicle to go beyond eart6h, they cross their fingers
HAHA, I want it to happen, but we're all fucking dreamers. Not a snowball's chance in hell is anyone on the moon before 2026.
personally if i was going to do what these companies are doing, i'd create or construct a docking port in orbit to hold cargo until it had enough fuel for a mission to deliver cargo to orbit around the moon, along with landers for each "segment" of cargo. and this orbiting dock/warehouse would be used by all parties involved in delivering cargo… eventually constructing a lunar orbiting space station to receive, catalog and deliver the cargo to the moon… but that's just me… i'll admit if anything went wrong especially with the docking / warehouse type of satelite ,,, that more than one vessels cargo would be lost, but in the long run i think it would mean larger loads to orbit and faster delivery in mass to the moon. peace.
Will those landers eventually go to the orbit through Space X? That's the cheapest.
Space X throws competitors into the orbit and he will land directly on the moon.
This ship is big enough to build a Star Trek like deck for the ride there
All of these companies should be required to have a human standing next to their lander, for scale. Like SpaceX does.
Bitcoin, please go to moon with space x
I like your content but wow your weird pauses when you talk and your sentence structure is so annoying
So, when more people going to start up their own space companies?
You think it's hard, but you're stupid for thinking that. You have a computer, anyone can get a college degree, anyone can create a business, anyone can play business based games… So get up and DO SOMETHING!
You think you have to be a Einstein to build rockets? No you don't, you just need internet, and the basic understanding.
Take ion engines, copper wire, aluminum, electricity, and a basic frame. Bam a ion engine.
Rocket?
Oxygen tank
Fuel tank
Pipes
Pumps
Valves
Combustion chamber
Something to control the candle effect
A nozzle
A cooling system
A computer system that times everything right.
Your ready.
So… The people you would need.
Plumber
Programer
Engineer, and their team
Anything I mess?
So man will finally make it to the moon for the first time, should be interesting, as long as NASA (Never A Straight Answer) has anything to do with it, or they will revert back to their green screen productions.
Moon is for pussies. Mars or GTFO.
Spacex must be confident in their CGI capability to try and fool everyone into believing that rockets can work in a vacuum. . Wow.
I presume the windows are strong as Elon says.
Earth is flat Sheeples. Propaganda gaslighting the masses yet again.
SpaceX is wiping the floor with the opposition. I hope they will behave with all that power of will adopt a motto like: Don't be Google ?
Will it have a shitty camera with low quality video and photos….
I wonder if they put locks on cargo dumps. It’s just a matter of time when….
Nobody went to the moon, nobody is going to the moon, because the moon is not a “place” that people can go.
If goes according to plan????
Imagine a world with no BS
Warum nicht gleich sein Tesla auf den Mond?
Engineering Today is my space news source , THANK YOU!
Narrator sounds like Mickey Mouse stopped taking oestrogen and finally hit puberty.
Go, go, go, spaceX !!! I wish I was an Astronaut. I'd volunteer to ride the Starship, and the crew Dragon.
I'd really love to see Elon on the I.S.S. and fall down to Earth on his Dragon. It would be great training for him to get ready for his trip to Mars.
Here's another idea, for all you entrepreneurs who are trying to get rid of the competition, hurry up and send them to Mars. Lol. Love you Elon. I'm sorry for saying that, forgive me.
Im sure the residents of the moon will be there waving tesla flags made in china! 👀✌
what are you talking about the earth is flat. elon is part of the big lie 😉
A message for Elon, put some new batteries in the Lunar Buggy and take it for a spin, and go pro it live, Cheers Felix.
2022 ? no way I
New Glenn will be bigger, stronger, cheaper, and fly first. Once again space x trying to play catch up. We've already been to the moon. Late again Elon. Space x blew up thier crew capsule, also they just blew up thier BRF. Set them back a decade minimum
I'm glad that the Van Allen belts and Space radioactivity aren't a problem.
Am I the only one who thinks we have never sent any vehicles to the moon ? We could not even get a fighter jet to respond on 9/11 #propaganda
Is this a race for the moon resources SpaceX vs NASA?
Very interesting but the advert interruptions were too many and too frequent.
What do you want to bet, right before they press the button to launch, the government says: "sorry, we have decided you guys cant go now. The back side of the moon is still off limits." (mainly because we've been lying to the world for generations and we cant be busted.)
Hooray for Starship
Umm.. The moon is made of plasma and can't be landed on..
No one has ever gone to the moon
Best guess the initial delivery to the moon will be 2025 and less than 10 tons.
But didn't NASA said they forgot how 2 go 2 the moon?
I love what musk is doing,hes may hero! But musk is full of shit if he thinks that tin can starship will be ready by 2022 more like 2030 man rating will take 2 yrs by its self and its nothing but a hull and ruff as hell. But i have much respect for the man
Not going to happen.
The temperature in low earth orbit is 120°C. There is no manned orbit without shade, so if you ever see any models which don't sport solar panels or parasols, then you have to be suspicious.
Any rocket equipped with solar arrays, once in orbit, would immediately challenge Apollo's cold sun narrative.
All that aside, we still have no way to answer van Allens assesment of the lethal ionic cloud surrounding earth.
That might be worth bearing in mind if you want to send people out beyond low earth orbit. Or you'll kill them.
https://youtu.be/Zztbw7MLlkI
It is not a STARship.
Sure and monkeys COULD fly out of my butt too …
While Elon Musk has accomplished many great things, he’s also the worlds greatest self promoter. He often is wrong. He still yet to orbit the moon, and he’s about a year late where he claimed he accomplish such a feat. Many others as well. I believe it when I see it.
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Omg gas fills the avalible volume
You should rename this channel "science fiction today".
Heard there was a study somewhere that said because Starship is so massive. It would leave a crater on the moon and kick debris into orbit possibly damaging anything circling the moon.
SpaceX should make a custom MoonShip (or in NASA speak LSP=Lunar Shuttle Platform/Lunar Service Platform) to shuttle from LEO to the lunar surface. Use Starship and its heavy aerodynamic surfaces and batteries to shuttle from Earth to LEO. MoonShip needs no fins or fairings because it will never see an atmosphere. It also does not need as much tank capacity.
Assuming you keep the current tank capacity, but reduced the dry mass to 75,000 kg by eliminating 3 sea level engines, 3 Tesla battery packs, the whole nose-cone thing, and the four aerodynamic surfaces, and the heat shield, MoonShip could land 700,000 kg on the surface of the moon and return with 10,000 kg to LEO. In total: 4 tanker flights and 5-7 cargo flights to LEO. One MoonShip flight to the moon and back. This is much more efficient than taking all of that extra mass half a million miles.
Or you could create a smaller vehicle with smaller tanks for smaller payload missions. Or both.
Design the spacecraft to do one thing well.
I can’t stand this narrator
Wow, not a single comment calling out this video for its BS. You guys actually believe that we can reach the moon? Even NASA admitted many times they never landed on the moon. C’mon guys don’t be so easily deceived.
Yeah right …. on TV perhaps. Apollo 11 etc. were total hoaxes.
Cyber truck i need to get Cyber Fucked! Ooooooooo!
Its NOT "for NASA", they can go F off for all we care. Musk only cares about humanity. NASA has lost our confidence, they are lost in red tape.
To many comercials.
Please explain why Musks Starlink Satellites can be seen below the Clouds , the highest clouds are around 12 miles high yet these were deployed at a height of around 147 miles high.
Something does not add up , you wouldn't even see a 747 at that height.
Take a look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytUygPqjXEc
I’ll believe it when I see it I’ve heard so much space hype I will be surprised if crew dragon actually takes an astronaut up by 2022
Cant land on moon. Because its fakeX. Star war sci fi style ships are required. Millenium falcon is needed not falcon rocket.
100 metric tons? Place for experimental drill rig, exp. 3D structure builder, exp. small dozer, several scientific rovers, small power plant, stuff from diverse universities and funny more. That would be really amazing.