Orbital looking to build a mini Space Shuttle? - SpacePod 2010.12.15

[beakz]

Fret not!

[mrteemumilto]

He is holding prominent the parts of his face as he is gesturing: Cheeks and the back of his head. Rather obscure.

[saintrupert]

I looks like the Dyna Soar, the X-20, based on the Convair shuttle from the 1950s,

[JasonJavac]

ha looks like they got the old design out, as a kid in the 70's, one of my friends had a toy one of these :)

[AntiKipKay]

I hope I'm alive when they invent and use anti gravity

[Alexander19851]

Is it reusable?

[64MojoMan]

Orbital

GO at Throttle Up

[MrSrgj]

American "Space Pod" very similar to Russian space shuttle "Clipper".

[DrunkenDriverStudios]

@MrSrgj Or to the Soviet space plane "Spiral". It looks exactly the same.

[tnhl77]

star trek fan lol awesome why does american craft not have a cockpit cam?

[SVKBizarre]

Homo 0:20

[fallbread]

ya voyager that is so awsome

[802mikes]

i like how he said created by humans.thats another clue that we are not alone

[toocoolforu]

Veger made aliens hostile

[phoenixar]

i want to watch our astronauts bounce around during launch too!

[bihtori]

like this if you had to watch a German Coca Cola Zero ad

[MakeSensePlz]

should let apple build the spacePOD, apple will make sure it returns us safely back to earth, or else we wont be able to buy the one that comes out next year.

[dcb1138]

So Orbital is going to built the 1960s planed Dynasoar

[graphattic]

I have seen this mini-shuttle in a 2003 issue of the Greek Focus Magazine. Its not exactly new as an Idea, but it lagged cause of financial issues.

[Backlight22]

Why dont you upload the live shows anymore??

[spacevidcast]

@Backlight22 They are uploaded to Spacevidcast's website and Youtube after they get processed.

[Backlight22]

@spacevidcast okay, I would watch the shows live if they werent in the middle of the night here in sweden.

[rnech]

Look at the Silver Dart made by PlanetSpace if you want to see a spaceplane that can take up to 7 people into orbit.

[spikes2020]

Veger will kill us all~!

[ThomasARickhoff]

I found the Soyuz launch hilarious. They have that boring translator with the monotone voice. And they were having like conversations all the way up about how Cady Coleman is left handed.

[Membrane556]

Looks a lot like OSC's space plane entry.

It also seems the Atlas V is the LV of choice of commercial vehicles.

[Membrane556]

I meant orbital space plane aka OSP entry which was a project that was in effect before Bush mandated Constellation and Griffin started micro managing what the CEV was supposed to be.

[42Nikolay]

Ничё нипонил - оп чём он квакает...

[snoopyloopy]

"the more things change, the more they remain the same."

with that in mind, it's not surprising at all that they're going for a runway-recoverable vehicle launched from atlas instead of an ssto. ssto just is not technologically feasible for the near future in a manner that would be economical. of course, there has to be a first. but so far, money for that first is in short supply.

[Taco1011]

ITS A BABY SHUTTLE!!

[fuzzynoob2]

haha loved the star trek reference!

[jaydfeldman]

Mini shuttle to launch on an Atlas 5... hmmm seems a lot like Spacedev's Dream Chaser which was derived from NASA's HL20.

[Unstung]

IIRC, the X-33 was supposed to be an SSTO, unlike Orbital Sciences' idea. So Orbital Sciences is not groundbreaking.

[sapphirefile]

the squint and facial expression at 2:15 leading into the V'ger reference was PURE GOLD.

[ebaybenjidogg]

love the Star Trek VGER reference...good stuff

[Thesterness]

That's Voyager 6, Ben. Not Voyager 1 :-P

[Hexydes]

Just being a stickler Ben, but Russian space travelers are cosmonauts, not astronauts. ;)

Great production, you're up there with the big boys now! :)

[nilbud]

It's the Hermes.

[TalksWithDirt]

@nilbud Better than that, it's Soviet, look up the Bor program.

[ceasefire066]

how does voyager saves itself from micro meteorides or even the normal ones as there is a delay of apprx 16 hrs for a signal to reach there?

[nilbud]

@ceasefire066 Space is really really really big.

[ceasefire066]

@nilbud yup and gravity makes n breaks the world

[shariar1995]

DUDE RUSSIAS ROCKET LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THE ONE IN BLACK OPS

[nilbud]

@shariar1995 Some of the things in video games are actually copied from a gigantic map called "Reality". You can access it with the following key sequence [power][doorhandle]

[OTmikhail]

@shariar1995 Actually the rocket in black ops looks just like the russian rocket called soyuz. They've had this rocket long before videogames even existed.

[shariar1995]

@OTmikhail STOP YELLING AT ME !!!! LOL JK thanks for the info

[0tedaCecapS]

@applesweeter If you have to ask u'll never know.

[applesweeter]

@0tedaCecapS

I have some idea myself, but i would like to hear others opinions.

What will be your opinion???

[Buttmunch5000]

does anyone remember that movie must have been in the 90s where a space ship crashed into voyager out in space, sorry i cant remember any more than that.

On a side note wouldnt the shuttle have been better if it was just built for humans to travel to space and come back with the carge being sent up in a seperate launch , meaning that a smaller rocket would have been needed for the shuttle

[TalksWithDirt]

It's a rehash of the Orbital Space Plane! When they screw it up, NASA will move on to a rehash of X-33. Then maybe they'll rehash shuttle or shuttle-c. While they iterate and fail, they'll just keep flying with the Russians. Anything but fly with a vehicle designed and developed by a private AMERICAN firm....Really I don't think it will come to this for long. NASA will come around and fly with the home team after a few years of humiliation and Dragon is tested way beyond anything NASA ever did.

[spacevidcast]

@TalksWithDirt Do remember that this is an Orbital Sciences Corp Space Shuttle, not a NASA Space Shuttle. Orbital is just trying to get some NASA Funding, much like what SpaceX has under COTS, just a different program. So this would be privately designed, tested and deployed just as the SpaceX Dragon is. Assuming it is funded of course.

[TalksWithDirt]

@spacevidcast Do we know the contract details yet? My understanding is Space X set all the specs for Dragon and fronted the startup money. By my understanding the COTS funds are for services but did not play a role in the start or definition of the Dragon program. With Shuttle gone and Space X flying, everyone, NASA, Boeing, and now Orbital will be under pressure to fly and not dally. Orbital has a pretty bad record, I'll set my bets against this. It's a good approach for runway recovery tho.

[spacevidcast]

@TalksWithDirt The Press Release is on Orbital's site, but it sounds like they are simply bidding for cash right now (to over simplify it). 2014 is also a very agressive date for a pretty complex vehicle. We shall see though, more vehicles and competition is better. Even if a majority of them fall by the wayside, at least options are starting to open up!

[esurfer26]

@spacevidcast

Anyway, it should be a good news. At lease it is a reusable. And humanities can dream again to go outer space, to live and to explore a new worlds.

[esurfer26]

I thought they gave up this shuttle????!

[spacevidcast]

@esurfer26 This is a new design from Orbital, not from NASA.

[esurfer26]

@spacevidcast

It looks very close and almost identical. I bet it attaches to the nose of a rocket.

[Vleesball]

lol