 Hello all and welcome to tomorrow news now in this week's episode Ryan's gonna be lighting up his raptor. I'm gonna not tell you about things you're not supposed to know about. Dr. Tamethyskov is back with space weather and then I'll cruise on out to the end of our episode. Now before we get started just want to let you know of course that if you like us here tomorrow don't forget to subscribe to us, like our videos, share our videos, hit the little notification bell where I think it's over there. You can set it up for all of our videos or just a few videos depending upon what you would like. So let's go ahead and get started with tomorrow news for May 11th 2020 and we're gonna go ahead and head on over to Ryan to start with our SpaceX update. Starship has been burning although it hasn't yet left the launch stand. On May the 7th SpaceX lifts up the Raptor engine on the SN4 vehicle in preparation for a short 150 meter hop coming very soon. This video here really shows the power of the Raptor engine as just one will be able to lift this entire vehicle into the sky. Well it isn't just SN4 that is being worked on as SN6 has made an appearance although it is in individual sections at the moment I have no doubt that the team down in Boca Chica will get that vehicle under construction in no time at all. It's not only the Starship development that is getting me very excited about the future of this company but it is also the special launch coming up in only 17 days. Bob Benken and Doug Hurley the two astronauts who will be traveling on demo mission 2 have completed their final training in Houston. They ran through a full launch simulation in the SpaceX Dragon simulator making sure that they are prepped for everything if anything goes wrong. The Dragon capsule that will be used for DM2 is also going through its own final preparation in Cape Canaveral awaiting the launch of what I believe will be a very historic mission for the new era of space flight. The Dragon capsule and its crew should be on orbit from anywhere between two to three months as NASA are going to have to play a balancing act to serve all of their needs being the need to keep the ISS with enough astronauts for a significant period of time but they also need to certify the Dragon for future human flight and until it is back on earth they can't say that. Just before the next episode is released on May 17th at 0800 UTC SpaceX will be launching styling 7 which will include sunshades on the satellites. More of that will be explained next week but for the time being I believe Jared has some more launches for you. We'll be heading to China this week for a double feature launch and arrival and it's a doozy on May 5th at 10-100 universal time China's largest rocket the Long March 5 lifted off from the Wencheng satellite launch center. This was a big one for China this is a special version of the Long March 5 rocket known as the 5B specifically designed for locking modules for an upcoming space station and their new crewed spacecraft which a prototype was the payload for this flight roughly 21 and a half metric tons on the uphill. The Long March 5B uses a stage and a half method meaning the outside boosters drop off while the center core continues to take its payload to orbit and that worked successfully deploying the prototype spacecraft into low earth orbit. Now one experiment the flexible inflatable cargo reentry vehicle which tested an inflatable heat shield as a means of returning cargo from that upcoming space station was reported to have failed but the prototype crewed spacecraft passed with flying colors raising its orbit to nearly 8,000 kilometers in altitude and re-entering the earth's atmosphere at nine kilometers per second. It came down under three parachutes and unlike China's current Shenzhou spacecraft it deployed six airbags to soften its landing instead of the usual landing rockets. That touchdown occurred at 0549 universal time on May 8th in China's inner Mongolia region. So far all reports have been calling the flight a total success. Of note because of that stage and a half design the core stage of the Long March 5 rocket does actually make it all the way to orbit and it is not controlled at any point after that. That means that when it performs its re- entry it will be uncontrolled and it's pretty big actually it's 30 meters long five meters in diameter and weighs about 20 metric tons so the last time we had something that big performing an uncontrolled re-entry was Space Station Mir and luckily we can report that earlier today that core stage did re-enter into the Atlantic Ocean just off of the west coast of Africa. And here are this week's upcoming launches. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. So top secret I can't even talk about showing you me telling you that what I'm about to tell you is top secret because even it being top secret is a top secret so don't tell anyone I told you. Got it? Okay no worries I'm confused too. But you know what isn't top secret the United States Air Force has their own little mini shuttle called the X-37B. Now most of the time on those flights we don't really get a lot of details. The payloads on them are classified even which of the X-37Bs that the United States Air Force has two of that's also classified as to which one is flying which mission. So you would imagine for the upcoming six flight OTV-6 we're not going to know about any of the payloads on board they're all going to be classified right? Well nope we actually know about a few of them. The two NASA experiments are going to be on board with this flight one of those will expose materials to the conditions of space another will expose seeds to radiation. The Naval Research Laboratory is flying a prototype for a system that would turn solar power into radio microwave energy for transmitting to earth a little mini test of space-based solar power which if you know someone who lived through the 70s or is a big fan of Gerard K. O'Neill ask them about space-based solar power and the US Air Force they're also going to have a small satellite on board Falcon sat 8 which will be deployed. The rest of the experiments you guessed it classified so uh yeah we don't know but one cool thing that we do know about this mission that has not been done before is that this specific X-37B is going to be flying with a service module where a lot of these experiments are going to be hanging out at did you see it in all the photos see there it isn't yep you guessed right we know that there's a service module there because the United States Air Force has said yes we're flying it on this X-37B but what does it look like well that's classified it's literally right below the bottom of all of these pictures and no pictures please and I thought visiting SpaceX and Hawthorne with Stringen. The X-37B is one of the United States Air Force's crown jewels in terms of being able to do research and development and experimentation and I'm really looking forward to those materials experiments that NASA is going to be performing on board and you know what affects materials out in space is space weather so let's go ahead and go to Dr. Tamethascoe for this week's space weather update. After a little bit of a reprieve space weather this week is definitely beginning to pick up as we switch to our front side sun you can see a finger-like chrono hole in the south that is now rotating into the Earth strike zone and it's been sending us some fast solar wind on just over the past day or so and that fast solar wind is definitely kicking Aurora up especially at high latitudes it's also affecting the near-Earth space environment and along with a remnant chrono hole that's continuing to rotate in through the Earth strike zone over the next couple days expect for these kind of disturbed conditions to continue. Now as we switch to our far-sided sun now this is Therio A and it's looking at the sun from the side you can see yet another finger-like chrono hole from the south that is beginning to rotate into Earth view and it should give us some more disturbances here probably in about a week or so but pretty much other than that the sun has been pretty spotless except for the last couple days you can see some stuff on the east limb beginning to rotate into Therios view these are bright regions that were on the Earth-facing disc about a week ago and they had boosted the solar flux up quite a bit so they have managed to survive their far-sighted passage and they will be rotating back into Earth view here in less than a week so amateur radio operators and emergency responders hey keep your fingers crossed because it looks like we're going to get a boost in radio propagation. And now for your Leo, Mio, Geo orbit outlook. As we switch to our low energy environment now these are the particles that charge up the outside of spacecraft including the solar arrays that then can discharge and cause disruptions and electrical short circuits. As we look at the particle fluxes you can see that big ring around Geo that's building and it even is beginning to dip into the Mio orbits and this is because we have that fast solar wind that just keeps coming but it's not a big enough solar storm to cause any flushing so again the orbit's just getting worse and worse and worse with these fluxes you can see the injections especially in the pre-dawn regions so you satellite operators especially for Geo orbits and possibly into Mio orbits expect some surface charging issues here over the next couple days. Now as we switch to our higher energy environment now these are the particles that end up penetrating a bit more deeply and can cause like things like single event upsets and cause performance degradation these particles are also beginning to build up you can see that red ring just inside of Geo moving down into the Mio orbits so we're not expecting anything quite yet within it comes to internal charging but definitely over the next few days as this fast solar wind continues to pummeled earth expect issues with internal charging maybe even over the next week. For more details on this week's space weather including when and where to see aurora and how space traffic is going to fare come check out my channel or see me at spaceweatherwoman.com Usually when we're talking about space flight celebrities that's something that just never pops up but if you have paid attention to NASA in the past week you'll know that in an official capacity they have acknowledged that they are presently working with Tom Cruz to figure out how to actually film an action adventure movie on board of the International Space Station. Now there's been nothing official as in who's going to be going and what's actually going to be happening on the station but those talks they are actually underway and SpaceX and its Crew Dragon may be involved as well. Details are very scarce regarding specifics but last year NASA did approve allowing private astronauts to spend up to a month aboard the International Space Station and Crew Dragon is able to fly for astronauts at a time so you could potentially send Tom Cruz two members of a film crew and a professional astronaut up on the same launch. Now Tom Cruz is really well known in the movie industry for doing his own stunts when he was hanging off of that plane in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation he really was hanging off of that plane and in the last movie when he did that halo jump he actually really did do the halo jump. But if Tom does head to the International Space Station to film a movie you might be surprised to learn that this will not be the first film shot in space. In 2009 astronaut Richard Garrett who bought a seat on a Soyuz in a two-week stay on the ISS for a cool 30 million dollars made a nine-minute short film called Apigee of Fear while on board with three of the astronauts participating in front of and behind the camera and you can actually watch it on YouTube I'll go ahead and include a link in the description of our video here it is a bit cheesy but hey it's the real deal and it was shot in space and it's really a good reason to you know maybe give astronauts some acting lessons. But even before 2009 there actually was a film that was shot partially in space back in 1983 a soviet film called Return from Orbit was released and it's about the salutes space station getting hit by a micrometroid impact which damages a whole bunch of systems injures the commander on board and the astronauts have to figure out a way to get home. Anyway that sounds quite like a familiar movie that might have been made 30 years later in 2013. Now some of the shots in that movie were actually shot on board of salutes 7 by the crew of Soyuz T9. And to wrap up this week's space news I of course want to thank all of you who helped contribute to the shows here at tomorrow. We really can't do this without you each and every one of you who does so you are amazing and it's greatly appreciated. Seriously I wouldn't even be able to do this out of my garage if it wasn't for all of you. Now if you'd like to contribute to the shows of tomorrow head on over to youtube.com slash tmro slash join to do so and check out all the great rewards we have available to you at the different levels of support and of course watching our shows liking subscribing setting up notifications and sharing our videos everywhere is one way that you can help as well. And that's Miko for this edition of tomorrow news thank you so much for watching this week and remember stay healthy stay safe and keep exploring.