 special Christmas Eve edition of Tomorrow. Tomorrow happening today and to be celebrating. My name is Jared. I'm going to be hosting, primarily hosting, but of course anybody at any time, if something were to happen, you can take over very quickly. In the middle right here. See Jamie, if you do that correctly, you can get it started right. Hopefully you're in the middle for the broadcast. If not, everybody's going to be confused, but that's their problem. Careful. That is a one dada. You heard his voice. Now you see the man to go with the voice. So it's sort of like at Disneyland when you go behind the scenes on a ride. The magic, you know, attention to the man behind the curtain. Yes. And then all the way far, far, far on the right side of the screen right there and looking like he's falling asleep. Ryan hasn't come in this morning. It's not the morning. It's six o'clock in the evening, but he's going well. He's going well. That's true. And in fact, we should, we should definitely, you know, kind of remind everybody we are a little bit of an international show. And we're also super pleased to have all of you here with us today. And, you know, in our chat room, you all are all starting to check in. And of course, we're very excited to have you all to have a very cool discussion about some interesting things that have happened. And at DTH042, yep, we are streaming today. Everybody, frankly, has got awesome shirts. And Ryan has Christmas lights behind him there. And in fact, Ryan, because of your Christmas lights, I think it would be good to start with you. Sort of Santa, you know, came to Rudolph and was like, you know, your nose is shining so bright tonight. Would you like to lead my sleigh tonight? So why don't we have Ryan be our Rudolph and lead the show into talking a little bit today. So Ryan, what you got for us? This week, we had a launch. Wow, everyone, you know, rapture supports, everyone gets really excited. But it was, for me personally, it was a bit more than just a launch. It was it was relatively exciting. I'm going to bring up the details here. Because even though it ended up as a partial failure, Firefly is a flyby lightning. For me, it's definitely going to be one of the most exciting launches of all time because Firefly Aerospace very graciously partnered with NSF to produce their official launch broadcast, which is just, you know, something ridiculously awesome that I was, you know, I was allowed to be a part of and assist in some way pointing, not pointing cameras. That wasn't my job. Cutting between cameras more like more like, but it was a very, very exciting time. And yeah, the bit that we had to do went pretty much as best as it could go. So for me anyway, it was it was a success from my point of view, from Firefly's point of view and the customer's point of view. Unfortunately, the second stage relight didn't happen as planned. I'm not sure. Firefly's statement is a little bit vague. I'm not sure whether it means it reignited and it just didn't like fire for the correct amount of time, or if it didn't reignite at all, or whatever. But lucky Martin's demonstrated payload ended up in the parking orbit. So we're going to find out if they can do the science that they needed to do, do the testing that they needed to do with that parking orbit, we're just going to have to wait and see. But as you know, it's a bit, it's Christmas time. I think most people are probably going to have a couple of days off. So it might be a little while before we find out anything. But yeah, you are looking right now at the launch broadcast, which as you can see there didn't go perfectly, especially space to ground. It's, you know, SpaceX really blows us away with how well they can get footage live footage from the second stage and the first stage back down to earth space to ground video is incredibly difficult. So yeah, that's why you can see some things flickering in and out here. But yeah, we did the best job that we could. And Firefly tried to do the best job that they could. Unfortunately, that second stage, as I said earlier, didn't relight or didn't relight for as long, whatever happened with that. But yeah, it was a pretty, pretty exciting morning, if I may say so myself. Yeah, and we're super excited with Firefly. You know, this is still early on in the development of their rocket. And let's face it, whenever you're developing a rocket, it takes a little bit of time to get things right to iron out all those kinks and make sure that your problems and your potential anomalies are all understood. I feel like a really good example of this that a lot of people were bringing up this is Falcon one. It took four flights to finally get it to work correctly. We're kind of looking at the same same class of vehicle here with that. But still very exciting, wishing nothing but the best for Firefly and gang, obviously, probably not the result that they wanted entirely. But still definitely progressing, which is a lot more than we could say for some small set launchers that happened this year. So yeah, and always, I love that separation shot right there. That was excellent. So and now and also I've got to jump up to Vandenberg to catch this at some point. So yeah, I forgot what the exact point was called. But there is to my understanding, there is a publicly accessible point that you can actually see the rocket on the pad at Vandenberg, which is a very rare thing like Slick 4. You can't see the pad because there's a hill in the way because it's Vandenberg. But for fly for I'm pretty sure there's a publicly accessible spot where you can see it. I forgot what it's called. And I'm not from California. So don't take this as the gospel. But I think there could be a spot where you can actually see this as you know, as just a member of the public in public. Yeah, so Firefly Aerospace launches from Slick 2, which is where my my personal favorite rocket, the Delta 2, launched from. And that there was a specific area that you could go to that would actually allow you to watch it. Like there were like to the point that there were bleachers made out of concrete just sitting there for you to go and watch launches of the Delta 2 or really any launch that you wanted to. But the Delta 2 made the most sense because it was right there. And in fact, most of the tomorrow crew was there for the last launch of the Delta 2 as well. We all got up super early and went out. That was our that was our whirlwind 24 hour day that we did each other. That was a pretty wild day. We will talk about that in the members only show today, which if you become a member, right now you can come right in at the end of the show. But it was it was pretty amazing. But that is so so awesome to see that still utilized by a company today. So yeah, I as long as there's enough lead time, I would love to try to get up and see if that the Delta 2 viewing site is still where you can watch Firefly launches from. So that would make the most sense. I think it's only about somewhere in the order of about seven kilometers from the pad. So it's pretty close relative to to that. Not not as close to say like slick three or slick four, but definitely closer than say like slick six. And then as you mentioned, slick three, slick four, slick six, you can't see them. They're behind hills because it turns out here in California, we have this thing called active geology on like certain places in Florida. So which is both a blessing because it gives you really cool topography that's also a curse, because you have to rebuild your house every 30 to 40 years. So it's good. But you know, at least our houses are flooding every year slash rebuilding every five. So and then also 50 years from now, my house will still be above the waterline. I'm like a lot of Florida. Does that viewing location still require a military escort? Uh, I don't know. I so from so I had been to you and I had been to previous Delta two launches. And I had not. Oh, okay. I thought you had. Um, well, no, I ended up watching all that all of my Delta two launches except for the last one from a hill by been by my house where I used to live. I think I was in Roland Heights, but it was like super far away and it was all I could see was a tiny little dot, you know, rising through this guy. Well, myself having been to several Delta two launches, there was no there was no military escort. At that time, you just basically went to that road that was there and you parked and you walked to the concrete bleachers and you got there. So we got we got for the last launch, we got we got bust there from a parking lot. That was that was military escort is what I was considering. Yeah, I'm fairly confident that was there because it was the last launch. So there was I'm sure there was probably some worries about about too many people in the area and just wanting to make sure that people can get out of there quickly if they have to. So when they didn't want us to get rowdy. Yeah, exactly. Oh, they're getting rowdy. You know, us rocket nerds, we get pretty rowdy once once the the engines are lit and it's off of the pad. So, you know, I've seen people get picked up and thrown. So this rocket's doing so. Yeah, so pretty cool. All right. Well, obviously, that's a luck to firefly and figuring out what happened to that upper stage. And overall, um, yeah, just they're chugging along, which is really cool because it's we've all wanted a small sat launcher besides Rocket Lab, doing things constantly, which Rocket Lab also returned to flight during our break away. Right? I believe they did. So we talked about that. But they did. Yeah, Rocket Lab really kind of, to me, anyway, that they're nearly there or just there becoming my favorite aerospace company they're just doing. They're they're they're this latest anomaly to me showed that they've really kind of matured and they're right. They're like, they're a proper aerospace company to me now. They're not a small sat startup. They are an aerospace company who knows the game, who get serious contracts with the US government. They're doing good stuff and they're doing extremely well. You know, they lost the payload, right? And it's very easy for you to lose your temper. And, you know, the company kind of crumbles apart when you when when you lose your payload, not not looking at any company in particular wink. But Rocket Lab really seemed to Rocket Lab really seemed to, you know, get back on their feet, figure like, work the problem, figure out what happened and then get back flying again. And, you know, just it it seems like they have everything figured out, which is, you know, I just I just I just I just love their attitude and how they work things. Yeah, and I've also been seeing them putting out tweets about their building of their first interplanetary spacecraft, which they're going to be sending to Mars on behalf of NASA and UC Berkeley. So I'm super excited about that. So I don't know if that's technically the first no, that's not I'm sorry, that's way wrong. I was gonna say, I think that might technically be the first private spacecraft, but then also wait a second, it's a NASA UC Berkeley mission. So no, so that's how we're doing today. I should drink more of this. I got with that there. So to jump on the comments. Some of you, almost all of you are wishing us a super happy Christmas, of course, right back at you or whatever, whatever you may be enjoying around this time of year, we hope you have a good one. TSM space saying Merry Christmas, a bit of orbital transfer for flight of Nova and some space news. And, and goddess Kratos reminding us to ask for likes. So we're gonna do that it secures light, first letting Ryan know that your lights are fantastic. That's true. Some of you mentioned the shirt I got on as well. So, so continue to give us compliments as we fish for them and also give us likes as well. And yeah, look at Dutta's shirt. Hello, everybody. Dutta, take yourself. Dutta, take yourself so everybody can see your shirt because ours are very obvious. Look at that. It's time for Christmas. I would have my NSF. This is an antique now, but it's a bit warm. Yeah, how old is that shirt? Very, very. At least at least nine years old. Yeah, I was gonna say, are we talking a decade here? I think so. Oh, no. Yeah, it is. It is ten years old. I was gonna say, don't worry. I'll wear my my space shuttle ugly Christmas sweater next week to finish off the year with everybody. So this is not only tomorrow for Space News but also top fashion tip as well with everything. All right, so Ryan, we've also got a little bit of activity happening down at this place called Starbase. Don't know if you've ever heard of it. Yeah, it's a minor blip. But what's what's happening with our friends down there? Well, at the moment, not really a lot, but they tried, let's put it that way, SpaceX SpaceX tried very hard to knock out ship 28 and booster 10s testing within the span of 48 hours. And you know, props to the teams down there. They're very ambitious. And they nearly did it. They very, very, very nearly did it. Ship 28 was fueled up and performed a six engine static fire, which SpaceX has tweeted and said was successful, which means that ship 28 is now practically ready to be, it's probably it may be rolled back just to have it stickers put on with it's like, you know, S 28 and the logo and what have you. But as like as an operational vehicle, like ignoring aesthetics, ship 28 is now ready to go on top of a booster and fly. booster 10 on the other hand was lifted onto the orbital launch mount. And it appeared with overpressure notices and closures and what they got into testing with it appeared they wanted to perform a 33 engine static fire. However, just as they started to load propellant, they loaded a little bit in probably like 10% or less of the liquid oxygen and liquid methane. They suddenly stopped loading. And then the frost line started receding very un very naturally. So at that point, it kind of gives away the fact that the fuel started to boil off. So there was obviously some kind of issue with that test as it was then aborted, whether that means something got stuck something got frozen, we don't know SpaceX hasn't said anything officially. But yeah, we've got a static fire ship 28 we nearly got a static fire of booster 10. And if they if they managed to get booster 10 static fire before Christmas, you know, this is a month. We're just over a month since the last flight. And this turnaround is like just the pace is unbelievable. They've taken the light they've launched the largest rocket ever produced by humankind. And then a month later, they've got the next version on the pad, nearly ready to launch. I mean, the pace is just mind boggling. Yeah, and this early on in the program to that kind of cadence is unprecedented. If you think about the Saturn five and how often the Saturn five fluid was certainly not a month after, or even two months after a previous mission. Admittedly, there were there were times where the gap was long for certain reasons, like between Apollo 13 and Apollo 14, because obviously, you know, we've got to look at the command service module and make sure that's not going to blow an oxygen tank again. So, but still, this is just amazing. I mean, there's there's rockets, a hundredth the size of this that don't even have this kind of cadence. Yeah, everything there. And I just want to say that it's really it is really refreshing to see such positive progress being made on this. Because this is a really I don't think people really understand just how important Starship is not specifically for the goal of getting humanity off the earth and getting the Mars and other things like that, like that's that's a end game that's very far down the line. It's not the priority if you are, but it's more a pot. It's more a stated possibility, a goal to do that, but it's not a present idea as to what the aim is. The aim is to get operational and online. And that's very important for those little things that we're all rooting for called Artemis, which is to get people back to the moon and NASA doing that. So any of those positive progress that we're seeing from them to move forward and get that going is really, really great. So hats off to them. And I know if I were in charge of SpaceX, I would have everybody off for like the next week and be like, Hey, good job this year. Just take a take the week off, everybody. Just just rest, you know, and then let's get ready to come back in for 2024 and absolutely hammer everything. But also this is probably why I'm not in charge of SpaceX. So yeah, I'm just gonna I'll just go on into the next space right here and I'm going to quickly try and read out all of the road closures. What does it say here? So they give it they're giving them the 25th and the 26th and today off with no road closures. But the 27th, the road is preliminary closed from eight in the morning to eight in the evening. The 28th is closed from 12 in the morning to three in the morning. And the 29th is closed from 12 in the morning to three in the morning. So, you know, they're going to be burning the midnight oil, as you say, over at Starbase. So yeah, they have a couple days off. And then they're right back at it in terms of in terms of vehicle development. And also, sneak peek, there's a video going out on NSF tomorrow, which I hosted. And at the end of that video, I said, if you think 2023 was exciting for Starship development, you haven't seen anything yet. Next year, we're going to be seeing launches ramp up. We're going to be seeing HLS development ramp up. We're like, we're going to be able to see hardware for the first time really with HLS, which is, you know, it's a it's a moon lander for humans. Like, how is this not the coolest thing you've ever seen? Like, it's going to happen next year. So, you know, you just it's okay to be excited about 2023. But I think people are going to, you know, genuinely start boiling and losing their heads at what's going to happen next year, like in the cartoons, because there's so much cool stuff that's coming. Yeah, she is currently actively burning the oil. Who's say who said anything about days off? That's right, mom. You don't get to take any days off. That's why she's not here. Yep, that's why she's not. But also, Jamie, hopefully you're having a good, good holiday. And you should get some days off. But that's, again, we don't get to control that. And, man, I was going to say something. Yes, what I'm so excited. Um, let's activate the cube. Very good one, Jamie. I love that. What I was going to want to do, or what I'm excited for from SpaceX 2024 is I'm hoping for over 100 Falcon 9 launches. So I want that. I want to see that. Because I, I, you know, we have a old, there's a really old tomorrow space pod. Like, that's how old it is. It's called a space pod from 2015 that that I did, which is like the top five rockets or whatever. And I remember, no, I made the Delta 2 my number one because it was going to approach potentially 100 successful launches in a row. And that was unbelievable at that time. Of course, now, how many Falcon 9s have flown in a row? Well, I think if you look back, I can't remember. I think it was from the beginning. I think it's from December 2022 to a certain point. Oh my gosh, there it is. There's me. There I am. I'm such a child. Look at that. That is me eight years and 230 pounds ago. And also with significantly more hair, even with my hair as it is today, I still have more hair there than I do now, which is why I'm wearing a hat. So which is it's called insecurity. Look at that. That was us back in the day. So yeah, be in my garage lit by two construction floodlights. So that was that was where I started on the show. Now look at me. I'm in front of a whole bunch of chachkies and stuff. So yeah, it's a I'm hoping for that. That statistic, I think it was from like early December 2022 to somewhere in December, they did 100 launches of a Falcon 9 in that that year long time period. It's not 123 but in a year from this date to this day, it was 100 in 365 days total, which is just like that is just mind blowing. Yeah, in our day in 186 consecutive landing. Holy smokes. Of course, we just celebrated the eighth anniversary of the first landing of a Falcon 9 as well, which was which was pretty amazing. I don't know where you all were at, but I was I had I had I think I had predicted on the show that week that I thought it was going to get within the range and that it was going to go off and they were probably going to have to terminate it at some point. And of course, that didn't happen. It fricking landed. So it landed and they haven't looked back. And it's a very exciting to be in this future that back in 2011, I will admit when that animation came out, I laughed pretty hard. So but again, as I always like to say those, I am always happy to be wrong about things like that. So yeah, 19 three use on a booster to just recently. Again, I almost flipped my breakfast with how wild that was. Exciting. So I'm hoping I'm hoping 2024 between January 1st and December 31st that we get get 100 Falcon 9 launches. And I would love to see a double digit number of Starship flights. Regardless of whether they're test flights or other things like that, I would like to see a double digit number of Starship vehicles leave the pad, at least now make that whatever you will. But that would be very, very cool. And I also am really excited to see what happens with Starlink as well, especially with star shield, because I'm starting to get back into space policy and really kind of looking around at that and sniffing around. And it's really, really fun with that. And of course, yes, happy access to you, John and Dublin. So hopefully you're having a good one there. Also, I'm super excited for that Falcon heavy to be launching next 37. I'm pretty excited about that. So and I'll show you I'll show you all something I got this week that is related to the X 37. I was I was physically handed something that I have, but I'll show you in the members only show. So you have to show up there in order to see it. So yep. So it's pretty cool. It's not anything like secret or anything. So don't worry. I'm not going to do that. But it's also related to a fun thing I did this week, which I will also talk about in the members of show. So if you want to become a member, YouTube.com slash TMRO slash join become a member now and join us immediately in the after show. So there you go. That's how it goes. So there's my plug. Don't forget to like as well. Get your likes and to help us out and tickle the algorithm. And let's go to GTH 042, which I feel like this is a good one to ask about any chance of any UK spaceport action in 2024. Ryan, you've had the first 28 minutes of the show. You could have some more of those minutes if you'd like. It depends if there's a rocket to launch. There's your answer. If RFA, Skyraura, high impulse, ABL, if they have a rocket and they're ready to launch it from Shetland, then yeah, if not, no. And there's practically all the details I can give you, you know, there is the beginnings of a pad. There is a lot of a pad at the at the port already. They have their spaceport license. They, you know, legally, they're allowed to be a spaceport physically. They're becoming a spaceport. I think 2024 is extremely reasonable for the first look, first vertical orbital launch attempt from the UK. It all now depends on if anyone has a rocket which they're ready to launch. Because yeah, stuff exists. You know, they have buildings, they have facilities, they have a pad, they have like they have a launch pedestal. They just don't have a rocket yet. So, you know, now that now fingers should be pointed at Skyrora and RFA. You know, come on, launch your rocket already, be ready, because both of them have been testing engines for God knows how long now. So, you know, come on, just well, send it from the Euro Tunnel. So I'm sure. Yeah, through the Euro Tunnel, you get put on a Euro Star that they have a free car for that. Yes, I'm an American and I know what that is. I've watched enough Top Gear. That is so cool. That is an absolutely beautiful site. I got to say, that is really, really cool. So apparently I'm big on UK TV. Dang, you're big in the UK. So which honestly, we are Americans. So we probably are big just as ourselves in the UK. So I'm a big, I'm a big guy too. So you are a big guy. Yeah, there was there was a barely squeaking in of the women in certain supercars that that I drove. That's it. How's it said? Silverstone, I believe. Silverstone. Yes, yes. Silverstone with that there. So I got I got a cramp. I got a cramp in my abs trying to squeeze myself into a McLaren. That's like me any time I try to get into anything that's not a big SUV. So good. I had to move all the things from my pockets to the front of my thighs instead of the sides in order to get into the carbon fiber seat. Why don't you just put it in the the why didn't they just pop the glove compartment and put it in there real quick? Or is there not a glove compartment in the car? I don't know. I didn't what a terrible daily driver. I didn't pay any attention to the glove compartment. I'm sorry. Oh, OK, that's me. That's the stuff I would be doing. I was focused on getting good turn turn exit and and hitting 158 miles an hour down the back straight into. Oh, yeah, look at me. I've done 158 miles an hour down the hangar straight in the back. So I'm pretty cool. I drove an Aston Martin and a McLaren and the McLaren was great because I could adjust my point zero to five millimeters which moved the center of gravity around. And I was able to move particularly fast. And I was doing this and that and I was able to within half a second of a group around. Anyways, I'm sorry, Dada, you're you are an amazing driver having been in the passenger seat with you. When you said let's make this. I think you said something in your Subaru. Your your your newer Subaru that you no longer have. I think you said it out. I'm going to now make the car angry or something like that. Yes, but I put it in angry mode. Yes, that point didn't get angry. So Bennett Elder is asking a good question in our chat room, which is what about Astra? They still have a shipping container rocket. And the last I heard Astra. I don't want to necessarily say is on life support, but they are they are. Yeah, it's not looking great for them. Yeah, so Astra is very much a company which is in terms of, you know, what they said on the Internet are kind of like we're fine. Like they just haven't they just haven't acknowledged anything. But if you look at their financials, it's certainly not fine. They haven't said like there hasn't been any announcements. It's this kind of in the middle ground a little bit, you know, there. Yeah, there's not there's not really much you can say about Astra because they haven't said anything. You know, they haven't to my knowledge, I haven't filed for anything. They've just, you know, they've just got financial difficulties at the moment. So, you know, maybe they'll maybe they'll work their way through. But, you know, we've been waiting for a long time there for their return to flight. I forgot what the data I'll just quickly search that was. But they they flew a long time ago. I don't it was definitely not this year. I don't think it was last year. I think it might have even been 2021. I know that Astra said that they were moving on to rocket four, which is going to be bigger than rocket three. And then everyone that I know personally who was working on rockets at Astra basically got laid off as soon as they made that that announcement. And I am no expert in how to run a aerospace business. But I think if you're building a rocket and then you lay off all of your people who know how to build your rockets, I think you may not be building a rocket at that point. And I was actually mistaken. Yeah, their their previous flight, which was their first flight for the NASA tropics program, was from Space Launch Complex 46 in Cape Canaveral. That was on the 12th of June, 2022. So it was last year, barely. But yeah, they they're kind of their launch schedule forms like a little bit of a checkerboard pattern. You know, the last flight was a failure. They successfully reached orbit with their penultimate flight. Then it was a failure. Then success, failure, failure, failure. So, you know, they're kind of successes are kind of scattered around and it seems to be a little bit like a like a fluke really. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but, you know, then they've publicly stated they're moving on to rocket four and everything will be fine and everything will be great and it'll be marvellous. And, you know, we can launch it's like launching on a taxi instead of on a bus. That's the thing that everyone says, right? So, yeah. Yeah, where have I heard that before? I don't know. You know, when you fly across the Atlantic in a Boeing 747, even though no one does that anymore, you don't just throw it away. You fly it back. You reuse it. I was I was more along the lines of where where have I heard the this is not this is now like a this is now like a bus and it's safe as an airplane before. So I can't imagine a certain vehicle that that had been said about. So who knows who knows with what they have. So Curz Light says that they have hardware for the next rocket. So I don't I have not heard anything about that. So yeah, I assure you I assure you that means nothing. Yeah, I was about to say, I know a certain other company that had hardware for the next flight. The next five. Yes, actually, there was a large quantity of hardware for a certain rocket. Are you allowed to say the name of that certain rocket or is it not or is it still for about you know, you can say whatever you want to see. Yeah, it was a little little rocket that we call Launcher One, which is no longer with us. We're forcing out for Launcher One, our Virgin friends. All the hardware still exists. I know. But like it's just where is it? Can we nick it? No, anyway. Can we go get the 747 because that paint scheme straddle launch put on it is awful. I hate it. It looks so boring. It's just like it's it's even more boring than a cargo 747 to be honest. So I'm just going to say it. So it's like they've just forgotten that cargo exists and they've just got a big black crayon and just gone straddle launch. Yeah. And it's about on the tail like spray paint. Just they get done. Jobs. It's about as it's about as inspired as a cinder block. I look at it and I go. It's like, oh, it's it's economy New Zealand Airlines. So it's the way I feel about it with it. Yeah. Anyways, look, the straddle launch with that there. So yeah, there's just so much that happened this year, like a lot of things. Although we can talk about that next week, because that will sort of be like our little wrap up show that we have for that, where we can take a quick look back at the year with that. So what else do we have with our with our previous week since our last show? And we have any other any other cool things that have happened since then? I've expended my yes, unless you have anything else to talk about. Yeah, I do have one that I actually want to talk about. Which I thought was extremely cool, which is there's I don't know if you guys have ever heard of this, but there is a new type of engine that's being developed right now called a rotating detonation engine. And I absolutely love the sound of that. And I bet it makes a good noise, too, as well. But the the interesting thing about a rotating detonation rocket engine is that it uses detonation, right? So most of the time, Dada, correct me if I'm wrong here, most of the most rocket engines are not going to be generating detonation. It's going to be combustion, which is then going to be sped up through the shape of a nozzle to supersonic speed before it exits out the nozzle. That's correct. The difference the difference between conflagration and detonation is the speed of the shockwave from the flame front. And in rocket engines inside a combustion chamber, it is conflagration, so it is not in a supersonic shockwave. It is the it's that that nozzle shape that squeezing of the gases that increases the pressure, which increases the speeds, a tremendous amount, which then ejects that mass at extremely high velocities out the back, hopefully in the correct direction, most of the time. And even even supersonic jets, they require their air intake to be subsonic and they're they're the internals of the engine are all subsonic and they're accelerated by a nozzle. Yes. So a rotating detonation engine is different because in order to gain that pressure, there is a can there is a detonation. First of all, it's detonation this thing is so it's a supersonic flame front that's coming through this. And in addition to that, it is a continuous supersonic flame front that is going around a circular channel. So you can see right there, there's that little spike inside of the nozzle of the rocket right there. And that is essentially it's I don't want to call it a contained aerospike because principles are different, but there is a spike there. So, you know, maybe we could say a little bit like that. Is this a video or a looping gif? This is a video. So NASA just recently completed a two hundred and fifty one second burn of their rotating detonation engine test bed. So this puts out about six thousand pounds of thrust. And this was essentially a full duration firing of this specific type of engine. This is the first time this type of engine has ever been tested in what would be considered a full duration burn for say a stage one engine on a small rocket. That is gorgeous. This is a this is a huge leap forward for this type of engine. And what's great about these is that there a little bit more efficient than the traditional combustion combustion rocket engines that defecative combustion engines are somewhere in the order of about twenty five to forty percent more efficient, which is quite a lot. The problem there is there are some problems with them, which is that combustion instability is a thing. You're trying to control a supersonic flame front, which is pretty hard to do. But as you can see, they've done a very good job on it. And this is this is still going from when it started. So absolutely amazing that they were able to put this this system together. They had done earlier tests where it had only just gone for a couple of seconds at a time. But like I said, just this past week, they finally did a full duration static fire and it worked and it takes great. So I cannot. I cannot wait to see this get released as NASA does with all of their amazing info. It's a commercial sector and see what someone makes of it. So there we go. So that is freaking gorgeous. Isn't that nice? I want one of them. So that's great. Yeah, I second. Sack has also has a video pulled up that's got a description of how this works if you want to talk through it. Yeah, so that would be regular combustion for like a car engine. Sack, run that run that back to where you where you had it. There you go. There we go. As you can see, there's the flame front propagating around at supersonic speeds. And as you get that expansion, if you obviously aim the expansion of that flame front in a specific direction by the shape of the chamber that that's occurring in, the spike also helps with that as well, generating differences in pressure, which allows you to do that. So yeah, it's it is amazing. In it's it is it both is a incredibly complex and incredibly simple thing. And I love every single thing about it because of that. It's difficult, but it is it's an easy principle that is extremely difficult to do because the physics behind it is very, very tough. You have to have great materials that can obviously handle continuous supersonic shockwaves slipping across them. As you can imagine, the supersonic shockwave is very, very hot, even compared to a regular rocket's combustion chamber. It's very, very hot. Yeah, but the rewards are fantastic in terms of your efficiency with that there. So I'm very, very excited to see what what what the future may hold for rotating detonation engine. So that also that just that just sounds really cool too, right? Like, what do you do for a living? Oh, you know, I work on landing rockets. What about you? Oh, I work on rotating detonation. So. So. Rotating detonation. Yeah, DTH 10 out of 10 for the name shared with an aerospike. And yes, aerospikes are I their aerospikes are my my paper engine. And I love them and I will never I will never disparage them, no matter their difficulties. Nor nor what our friend Tim said about them, which I do forgive him for for that. So. So sorry, I've got a an animal has arrived and demanded attention, so I'm having to provide some for that. I just so I just I just think we haven't figured out how how to best put aerospikes to work for us yet. Yes, I agree. The the regime where they're at, they work everywhere, so we should definitely figure out how to do that. And I feel like there's some challenges that can be overcome easily if the design is willing to occur. You know what I mean? Like it feels like it feels like there are. I mean, come on. Look at this. Oh, I love it. Oh, that's the extra. The extra two 20 right? Look at that thing. That thing. Oh, my gosh. Sorry, I'm having a moment watching that there. So I just love aerospike engines because they're amazing. Calm down, your stroke, your stroke. Calm down, you're stroking a puppy. Yeah, I know I'm trying my best. I'm trying with that. But I just aerospikes have flown on small rockets. I know actually one of our local colleges here in the Los Angeles area, Cal State, Cal State Long Beach, their rocket, their rocket. No, dog, you're dark to have my breakfast. Hey, you're on spike. You did get some. I know Cal State Long Beach has actually flown a liquid motor aerospike before on a high power rocket. And Steven Glaster said, will it scale to the size needed for a rocket? Steven, I don't know if you saw the footage that we showed, but that was, oh, Saks got it now with that there. Okay, go somewhere else. Daddy's talking about aerospikes. Take a look. That's a full scale aerospike, baby. So that thing is lit and it's firing and it's going, which if I recall correctly, this was also hydro locks as well. So stupid, stupid efficient. Ridiculous. And man, what could have been with the X-33 and the Venture Star, which is what this engine was being developed for? But of course, you know, they had a problem with weirdly shaped cryogenic composite tanks. And everybody just said, you know what, we're just gonna throw in the towel. You know, it was too hard. And then of course, I can't remember, I think it was Lockheed that was building the tanks just like two years after the funding had officially had the towel thrown in, they went ahead with their own money just made it happen. Piece of cake by not following what they had been told to do, essentially doing it how they thought it should have been done. That's the problem with development money. It only lasts just shy of actually reaching your goal. And if you keep at it imagine how much better our world would be with all these great ideas that actually come to fruition. Yeah, and R and D is a really tricky thing too. You can be unbelievably successful like the Delta Clipper was, DCX, which I will always, I am the DCX stand of this world. I will go up to bat for that thing every time I can because I love that thing. And it's just really great to remind people that there was vertical launch, vertical landing rockets that were happening like in the early 90s, which by the way, admittedly in Japan there was one even before that. So I just say it's an 80s thing. So maybe we should find some new technology like a rotating detonation engine. Anyways, that's all I've really got to talk about. Other than, I guess one more thing I could talk about is that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here in Southern California is troubleshooting Voyager One. They're still working on it. So it's a little hard to do that. I think if you watched last week's show, you know that there was a computer issue with Voyager One and I think there's a few things I can say about that, which is that some people who know how the sort of the original guts and programming for Voyager One have been brought back in at JPL this week and they are working the problem with it. It's just that the problem is that Voyager One is currently around trip 45 light hours. So if I were to send a command to Voyager One right now, it's Sunday morning at 10.50 a.m. I will get my reply from Voyager One at Tuesday morning at around eight in the morning. So yeah, and when do we get to load the major protocol? First we have to send it through a black hole to the other side of the galaxy for it to continue to gather knowledge. So, and then also if I remember right for Voyager, it was given, it was an alien intelligence that found it and decided to give it a dive. This might be lore that's a little too deep for Christmas Eve. So that there, so yeah, all right. Well, that's all I've got, which is that they're working on it. And it's not easy. You can't just be like, did you try unplugging the RTG and plugging it back in? Like you can't exactly do that with Voyager One, but they're working on it. So Captain Quinn, I like that, which is well, it launched the same year as my mom injected me. So you both launched the same year. How delightful with that. So I guess if nobody's got anything else to talk about, we can just go and wrap up the show and get ready to go into our member's show. And the way that we will do that is we will, of course, thank all of you. This is a surprise Jamie for a split second there. So thank you all of our members of tomorrow. If you would like to become a member, very helpful to all of us making the show happen here. You can head on over to youtube.com slash T-M-R-O slash join. It is as little as a dollar a month. That's right. A quarter, a cup of coffee from your local coffee shop, that's all it takes for you to become a member of tomorrow. And of course, if you become a member of tomorrow, you are instantaneously allowed into our members only stream, which is what we're about to go into where we've got some cool stuff that I'm gonna show you both in terms of stuff I got handed this week and also some things I went and saw in person, which was pretty cool. And of course, Dada and Ryan, y'all got anything for our members in the show as well? I just push buttons and tell stories. Fair enough, fair enough. So, all right. I think on that note, we're gonna get ready to head into the members only stream. As far as I know, we are gonna have another stream on New Year's Eve. So we will be here for you to wrap up this amazing year in spaceflight. And we're obviously gonna be taking a look at some of our favorite stories from the year. So, everybody, have a good one, stay safe, keep exploring and enjoy your holiday ahead. Have a good one, everybody.