SNAPPY Launch and Deployment video

Añadido: 2026-05-10

[00:02:32]Can anyone hear me online?

[00:02:35]>> I can hear you, Nick.

[00:02:37]>> Okay, great.

[00:02:41]>> Okay, well, >> we just start with a little slideshow of things that we use to assemble the uh the cubat, then the cubat itself. Uh and uh let's see, we could ask certain students to narrate it if they want. Um and then at uh 1:44 the live link at uh SpaceX will start and then there's the launch and then uh there's uh after we're up into orbit uh there's a small delay because it takes about 50 minutes to position the spacecraft to the region where they want. Then there's deployment. We are number 11th to deploy today out of the 45 spacecrafts. Uh for those of you that are here in person, uh have a donut. Um we bought donuts or I bought donuts. I mean, the two things you need to stay up, sugar and caffeine, right?

[00:03:44]Uh there are donuts. If you like original crispy creams, there's those.

[00:03:48]And if you're strawberries, there's those. Alrighty.

[00:03:52]So, have a donut. Ah, chocolate is great.

[00:03:58]Chocolate.

[00:03:59]Okay.

[00:04:01]Uh, I have no idea how many people are coming. We've invited the whole university.

[00:04:08]So, let's uh let's wait and see. We got Yeah, somewhere like that.

[00:04:21]I've done it.

[00:04:26]Oh, and they opened the door for us.

[00:04:27]That's great.

[00:04:29]I appreciate that.

[00:04:39]Hey, Jonathan.

[00:04:41]>> Narrate some slides.

[00:04:42]>> No.

[00:04:48]>> Oh, well. Uh, narrating this is easy.

[00:04:49]That's my graduation picture. Uh here's the lab. I think this is actually before we had the water damage. Um there's a group picture from two three years ago.

[00:05:00]That was uh the trip we took to Paris.

[00:05:03]That was a lot of fun. Uh three of us from the project. Uh I suppose at the time two of us from the project and one of us former from the project went to Paris. Uh but we've we've been doing uh all of this work for oh the cubat's been about five years now.

[00:05:22]Yeah. 2022. So three years of dedicated cubat. Four years of dedicated cubat.

[00:05:28]But we've been doing some ground work for that for quite a while. And uh it's exciting. Uh I drove all the way from Iowa just to watch a rocket go up on a video.

[00:05:41]and deploy in space.

[00:05:43]>> Yeah.

[00:05:44]>> Sitting see it kick that down. It's gonna go flying by itself >> and you're gonna say, "Oh god, that's our poor little cube set."

[00:05:51]>> It's exciting.

[00:05:53]>> It's fun watching all of these pictures remembering, "Oh, uh, this is a fun picture." That one was uh the mission patch designed by local middle schoolers, >> high schoolers.

[00:06:03]Um, but uh it's it's been a long journey and uh in what half an hour we'll get to see the rocket go up.

[00:06:13]>> I'm 159. It's on time.

[00:06:17]>> So that's exciting.

[00:06:29]Impressed with that last question. We're trying to control the mass of this spacecraft and um you know every every gram counts. What did someone do? They slapped their property sticker on like someone's going to go up there and check it every now and then.

[00:06:46]>> And that just reminds me of the first meeting we had with NanoAvionics where they were talking about how how heavy do you think your payload's going to be?

[00:06:53]And we're like oh four or five kilograms. And the engineers just stared at us and were like, "Huh? You're going to do what? What's your pointing requirement?"

[00:07:05]>> To the limit, not >> what's your pointing requirement? Oh, 360 degrees.

[00:07:26]So, I suppose for those of you in the room who don't know, uh, I'm John Fulkurts. I graduated in December with a PhD. I've been with the project for about seven years before that doing various things. I uh I predate the cube set and uh we've done a lot of lot of really cool really good science in December.

[00:07:50]>> Yeah, this last December got my PhD thesis in October. It's October. Yeah, it's October.

[00:08:08]Oh, nutrino alley was so much fun to visit.

[00:08:14]>> Changed in size. I'm happy today sometimes worked on this project under graduates with these students aerospace physics experience.

[00:08:37]Ryan could tell us more about the integration of that.

[00:08:43]Oh, the cubat patch. Yeah, it was a this.

[00:08:50]>> Yeah, I was uh a little sad yesterday. I I drove to visit my friend in Casey before coming down to Witchah today and uh about an hour out of Iowa, I uh realized I had forgotten to bring my uh remove before flight shot glass. So, we'll have to live without that.

[00:09:14]smaller sometimes and it gets bigger.

[00:09:18]>> Mostly bigger over time. Bigger and better.

[00:09:25]>> Oh, I remember those integration days.

[00:09:27]Those were so stressful.

[00:09:36]The uh >> the second most stressful day of my life so far was uh watching Hogar do the rocket surgery for the uh the kill switch.

[00:09:53]>> Oh, I can believe how stressful that was. The most stressful day was when I did the burn wires for the uh the shake test.

[00:10:06]I was just thinking the other day that oh, I'm not there anymore. They have to completely relearn how to tie those burn wires.

[00:11:07]Wait a second. That's not how math works.

[00:11:19]>> So, Brian, what was the most stressful part of the project for you?

[00:11:25]was the Burn Myers. Yeah, I can believe that.

[00:11:28]>> Oh, yeah. Doing those for the the the shake test was super stressful.

[00:11:35]>> Oh, yeah. Um, when Hulker and I were working on the the wires for the the shake test, there was uh I don't know 40 minutes in where I just said, "Let's take an hour. Let's let's take a break.

[00:11:48]I need to calm down."

[00:11:52]>> Oh, no.

[00:11:59]Oh, I was about to say Paris.

[00:12:02]>> Uh, well, uh, discounting Paris. Uh, I think for me the most fun was just doing a lot of the lab development. Working in the labs just was fun. Getting to experiment and mess around with stuff and track down ground loops, even though it's a little annoying, is a lot of fun.

[00:12:29]>> What was your favorite part, Brian?

[00:12:36]>> I don't know. Maybe see planning the ground mission with the radio. um finding a way to implement an automated like timestamp file into automated uh radio contacts that then downloaded files and change the satellit's operating plan. Really like seeing all these different mission planning parts coming together independently.

[00:12:59]It's like solving a puzzle with all the different pieces that you know fit but you haven't fit them together before all at once.

[00:13:07]And uh as you know putting the integrating the parts into the satellite you can't always guarantee the puzzle pieces always fit together all in one cohesive piece even if they fit together in individual components both physically and you know like planning wise.

[00:13:24]>> What time is the first pet supposed to be?

[00:13:27]>> Okay. Okay. So, we're still working on that unfortunately, but we uh the moment we have a booked contact with Leaf Space will be then and we have to integrate or sorry, well, I don't know if integrate that word. I use that already. We have to put the information from Leaf Space and how the radio works. We have to put that into Nanoms's mission control software and then that will allow us to write control files that will initiate radio contacts. So, those are two pieces that I haven't fit together yet, but I've seen the form of them, but I haven't actually like dealt with the SBAN radio, which is probably very stressful in itself. I've only worked with the one of the two radios, the UHF radio. Um, so that's one actually untested piece that we have to assume documentation for and assume we did it right. That's another stressful thing, too. I could rant about about all the incredibly dense documentation that I had to read and understand for this project from NASA to to the nano avionics to leaf space all to the sat lab radio all the different documentations that you have to fit together it's satisfying but it's also pretty stressful and sometimes documentations are wrong as as Edward would know the most that that just working around incorrect documentation has to be its own skill you can put on a than me.

[00:14:51]>> So, uh, Daniel, most stressful, most enjoyable.

[00:14:54]>> Most stressful, most enjoyable. See, I think my most stressful moment was probably filling out the epoxy for the uh for the shielding. That was a lot of fun. We had to we had to measure things or we we had to measure the the tungsten a or the tungsten powder so that we we could have a density was it 3 and 1/2 g per cubic centimeter I think and then after we mixed it we had to vacuum it and after we vacuumed it we had to put it in the mold wait that wasn't too much fun. I think that was I think that was for me the most stressful part. But I'm also a lowly undergrad, so I didn't get tasked with uh the actual stressful stuff. So, >> the most fun.

[00:15:55]>> Yeah. Yeah. I get I get all the fun stuff. But uh I think my favorite part of being on this project was when I was able to finally uh reconstruct the energy spectrum for these simulations. That was about a year and a half of ridiculous simulations and teaching myself numerical linear algebra.

[00:16:19]Was a whole lot of uh goofing around, but it sure did feel nice to finally see it work out. So, I think that was my favorite part.

[00:16:34]>> Uh Edward, how about you?

[00:16:36]>> Stress levels. Yeah. Most stressful.

[00:16:42]>> I'd probably >> I'd probably say the most stressful part was, as Brian said, working around incorrect documentation.

[00:16:57]>> Sometimes things just don't quite work out the way that you hope they do.

[00:17:03]But the fun part is honestly sending up being help sending up a satellite in space.

[00:17:12]It's a great honor to be part of this project.

[00:17:19]stressful.

[00:17:22]>> All right, this is uh Hamaya. Uh I think the most stressful part was uh yet another piece of paperwork after you sort all the paperwork was done and then yet another piece of paperwork after that. Um and and not knowing how many more pieces of paperwork there would be.

[00:17:54]>> Yes. Right. Uh so the Yeah.

[00:18:05]>> Right. Yeah. Repeating what Nick just said. Uh after we did all the paperwork, there was an email. Uh yeah, you don't you don't have a way to steer the spacecraft. So if you hit anything, you are responsible.

[00:18:17]Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:18:23]The ISS, they pushed it out, but they didn't push it out so hard, you know, it hit off the spacecraft and hit off the solar panels of the ISS, killing off killing it on its way into space. like does that why did you scratch the paint >> and stuff like that happens and you know it's nice when uh silly things like that happen because that's how you know it's become routine to do these things. So >> it uh no for for us none of this is routine for us it's the first time doing this and so for me the most fun part is always doing anything for the first time and then finishing it. So you know talking the last screw on that spacecraft frame when when we did the last assembly and all all those steps when when it's really coming together. Those are the fun moments for me. So, anybody else?

[00:19:37]>> I just want to add that I am so glad that for most of the assembly I was the one with the camera so I didn't have to be the one touching the cube set.

[00:19:47]It was someone else's fault if I was just taking pictures.

[00:19:54]Oh, yeah. Trying to find the right picture. I was so sad the other day. I was looking for pictures of me and the cubat. And at least on my phone, I have no pictures of me with the cubat because it's always other people.

[00:20:10]So, uh, see, uh, well, we've gone through all the people who were recently on the project. Uh, Caleb. Sure.

[00:20:17]>> Most fun, most stressful.

[00:20:18]>> Yeah.

[00:20:20]>> Uh so, oh, okay. Uh to introduce myself, uh my name is uh Dr. Caleb Gimar. I'm uh I was uh on the project in in the very early days. So, uh I actually did some of the numerical simulations of the uh spacecraft concept.

[00:20:39]And at that time it wasn't immediately clear you know if something like this could uh actually be feasible uh using this um this veto ray method to uh detect uh cosmic ray events and other background radiation events and clear those out while maybe being able to detect nutrino events. So what I was doing from a master's degree research here was doing those numerical simulations. And I'd say the most stressful part of this was I I remember there was a point in the code development where I had something and if I remember correctly it was the frequency of galactic cosmic rays. I think I somehow I was getting too many events by about a factor of two and I couldn't quite track down why this was happening. I I think I just found a workound in the code. I don't know if I ever really figured out exactly what was going on in the code. That was one more stressful moments. I think the other more stressful moment was you I just had to find a a random number generator that that really was appropriate for uh for the code, you know, not really producing, you know, just identical numbers of events constantly. And uh so uh I I had to go through and find the best random number generator that I could and I eventually found something that worked very well. But I know those two episodes in that code development were a little on the stressful side.

[00:22:12]I think the most fun that I had uh probably a getting to meet a lot of the uh fellow researchers uh that we worked with at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in uh in Huntsville. That was really a great time. And then just seeing that this could actually be feasible, you know, getting code finally worked out enough to where we knew what we were doing and seeing that this was a workable concept out of that that that really surprised me the first time the uh initial instances of that were clear. So I think that was really the greatest thing out of all of this. But yeah. Okay. Uh Oh, okay.

[00:23:11]>> Uh here, uh who wants to go on next?

[00:23:14]Yeah, certainly.

[00:23:18]>> Yeah. I was going to mention if the next thing that we see is the SpaceX launch.

[00:23:21]I should mention when I was out in California, I had to stay up. Well, I mean, I I slept and then woke up at 3:00 a.m. for a launch that occurred that day that I arrived. So, that was cool. And it manifests as a big glowing orb on the horizon at night. And then you see a elongated streak of light in a camera because the camera does no justice to it. But that was pretty neat. And the delayed audio from the launch really sells how far away that was. And so, but besides that, cool rocket launch. So, the integration went so according to plan. Everything was so smooth and pre-planned that it really just felt like I was on vacation.

[00:24:01]Does feel nice to go travel for work and then only do about 2 hours of work.

[00:24:08]>> That's like just one plane flight.

[00:24:10]>> Very productive two hours.

[00:24:12]>> Yes. Technically, the people at Exolunch, they don't actually touch the satellite.

[00:24:18]All they do is set up the ramp, open the pod, and torque down the final screws and make sure the spring deploys correctly in the test to make sure that you you fit the requirements. But I but me and the other collaborator who also happens to be named Brian out there in California were the only people who touched us out there.

[00:24:38]>> Right.

[00:24:40]I hope this launches >> of this two and a half hour mission.

[00:24:46]Hello everyone. My name is Zachary Lubet and I'm an avionic supply chain engineer here at SpaceX. And I'm Nathan, a launch engineer here at SpaceX. at the very top of our stack 500-2 pressure rising for a strong back retract.

[00:27:24]>> And good news there. Uh, this booster previously launched Transporter 14, Transporter 15, Bandwagon 2, along with several Starlink missions, just to name a few. And the Falcon 9 first stage makes up the bottom 2/3 of the vehicle, and has nine Merlin M1D engines at the bottom, which are capable of generating more than 1.7 million pounds of thrust.

[00:27:44]About 2 and a half minutes into flight, the first stage will separate and make its way back to Earth. Today, the booster >> retract has started.

[00:27:52]>> Today, the booster is headed to landing zone 4 or LZ4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. With 4 minutes and 20 seconds to go, everything is still on track for launch. And we just heard that call out that uh Strongback Retract has started. And you can see the clamp arms opening around the second stage there on your screen.

[00:28:12]It'll take about 15 seconds for them to fully open, but once they're out of the way, the Strong back will recline back away from the rocket to give it room for liftoff.

[00:28:24]Now that those clamp arms are fully open, the vehicle is fully free at the top.

[00:28:33]And you can see there that the launch tower Strong back is now moving away from Falcon 9, allowing it to stand freely before liftoff.

[00:28:47]Right now, both stages are nearly fully loaded with about a million pounds of propellant. As noted earlier, that includes RP1, a highly refined kerosene, and liquid oxygen chilled to more than 300° below zero.

[00:29:20]stage one lock load is complete.

[00:29:23]>> And there's that call out that stage one lock loading is completed. Now, you may have also noticed uh white clouds venting from the rocket. And those white clouds are not smoke. That is condensation. As the liquid oxygen warms slightly inside the tanks, some of it boils off. That gas is vented to manage pressure. And when the vented oxygen hits the warm and humid California air outside, it instantly condenses into clouds.

[00:29:52]Now, coming up shortly, we will be hearing a call out that stage two locks loading is complete. And at that point, the Falcon 9 rocket will then be fully fueled. We should be hearing that call out in just about 15 seconds from now.

[00:30:30]Stage two lock load is complete.

[00:30:32]>> And there's that call out that stage two lock loading is completed. The Falcon 9 rocket is now fully fueled fully fueled for today's mission. Now at the t-minus 1 minute mark, Falcon 9 will be in startup indicating that the vehicles onboard flight computers will have taken over the launch countdown. And from that point onwards, the rocket >> close up.

[00:30:52]>> Uh, and from that point onwards, the rocket will be in full control.

[00:30:58]>> So, we should be hearing that call out that Falcon 9 is in startup in just about 15 seconds from now.

[00:31:20]Falcon 9 is in startup.

[00:31:22]>> And there's that call out that Falcon 9 rocket is in startup and the vehicle's flight computers have taken control of the count. Both stage one and stage two are now also pressurizing for launch.

[00:31:34]Now we're just waiting for the launch director >> for launch.

[00:31:36]>> There it is. The launch director has given the final go for launch. So awesome news there. And we'll just sit back and wait for Falcon 9 to launch the CAS 500-2 mission.

[00:31:49]T minus 30 seconds.

[00:32:03]T-minus 15 seconds.

[00:32:08]T-minus 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ignition and liftoff of Falcon 9. Go speed. Go cast 500 2.

[00:32:30]Vehicle is pitching down range.

[00:32:34]Stage one propulsion is nominal.

[00:32:51]at t plus 30 seconds into flight. Falcon 9 has successfully lifted off from SLC 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. We're currently throttling the booster's engines down to prepare for max >> power and telemetry point of maximum aerodynamic stresses on the vehicle. Max Q is reached when the air density of the atmosphere decreases faster than the increasing speed of the rocket.

[00:33:15]>> Falcon is supersonic.

[00:33:17]>> And there's that call out for max Q.

[00:33:25]>> Max Q.

[00:33:26]>> There's the call out for max Q. From here on, even though the velocity is rapidly increasing, the atmospheric density is rapidly decreasing, resulting in less loads on Falcon 9.

[00:33:37]>> And coming up shortly, we're going to have several events happening in rapid succession. In order, these are Miko, stage separation, stage one flip, second engine start, >> second engine start, or SCS1, the boost back burn, and fairing deploy. Main engine cutoff or MO is where all nine Merlin 1D engines shut down to slow the vehicle down in preparation for stage separation. when the first and second stage separate. The stage one flip is when the booster turns itself around.

[00:34:02]We'll then see the boost back burn of the first stage where the booster engines uh relight to send the booster back towards LZ4. And in parallel, the MVAC engine on the second stage will light which will be called out as second engine start one or SCS1. Now, this engine burn lasting several minutes will propel the second stage and the payload to orbit. And then finally, we will see the payload fairings jettison away from the vehicle. Now, that's a lot of major milestones, and we should see that sequence of events start in just a couple moments.

[00:34:37]>> Movation confirmed.

[00:34:47]>> And back ignition.

[00:34:50]Stage one boost back startup.

[00:35:02]And there we had that sequence of events. Next up will be the fairing separation happening in just about 15 seconds from now.

[00:35:24]Fairing separation confirmed.

[00:35:27]And there you heard and saw those six events that happened back to back, including main engine cutoff, stage separation, stage one flip, second engine start one, and the boost back burn and fairing separation.

[00:35:40]And that boost back burn is scheduled to conclude in a few seconds here.

[00:35:48]Stage one boost back shut down.

[00:35:51]>> And right on Q, another engine cut off on the booster and completion of that boost back burn. The next major milestone coming up is the entry burn on our Falcon 9 first stage, which is scheduled to occur at the 6 minute 13-second mark. The entry burn is used to slow the first stage during atmospheric re-entry as it heads towards landing zone 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

[00:36:15]Now, we're currently in our first MVAC burn, which should last another few minutes, and you can see the MVAC engine there on the right hand side of your screen. Now, today, Falcon, the Falcon 9 booster, which is on the lefth hand side of your screen, will be performing three burns in order to land. Now, we just observed the boost back burn. And as Nathan mentioned, next up will be the entry burn. Now, the entry burn slows the vehicle down just before it hits the denser parts of the Earth's atmosphere.

[00:36:39]And without this burn, we would only be using the atmospheric drag to slow down Falcon 9, which would add extra stress to the vehicle.

[00:36:47]>> Now, following that entry burn, the booster will then initiate its final burn, the landing burn, to slow the vehicle's descent and allow for a soft touchdown on the landing zone.

[00:36:59]Now, when that Falcon 9 fires up the center M1D engine for re-entry, the vehicle will be flying through Merlin's exhaust gases, also known as the rocket's plume, which deposits a layer of soot on the vehicle's surface. And you'll see, you have seen these marks across the flight proven Falcon 9 first stage fleet. That soot comes from the carbon based fuel that Falcon 9 uses.

[00:37:20]And with each flight, the soot builds up a little more on the outside of the vehicle.

[00:37:25]As we mentioned earlier, this booster, including today's flight, has flown over 30 times. And that awesome flight history, also means that this booster has a substantially syri.

[00:37:41]Now, on our Falcon 9 booster, attached at the very top are four titanium hypersonic grid fins, and those help steer the first stage as it returns to Earth. And when the booster is on screen, you may also see white puffs coming off of the Falcon 9. And those are cold nitrogen gas thrusters, which aid in attitude control.

[00:38:07]>> 306.

[00:38:09]>> We are moments away from the beginning of that entry burn. You should see the graphics at the bottom of your screen light up as the engines do on the bottom of your screen.

[00:38:22]We're about 10 seconds away from that entry burn startup.

[00:38:30]>> Stage one entry burn startup.

[00:38:35]>> There's a call out for that entry burn start up on the Falcon 9 first stage.

[00:38:39]This burn is set to last only 11 seconds and again it's just slowing down the vehicle in preparations for its final burn.

[00:38:45]>> Stage one entry burn.

[00:38:48]And that concludes our entry burn.

[00:38:50]Now, as mentioned earlier, we will be attempting to recover this booster. And today, we'll be targeting a landing at landing zone 4 at Vandenberg. And you can follow along with the burn via the engine graphic at the bottom left.

[00:39:02]>> FTS is saved.

[00:39:04]>> And good news there, you can follow along with the burn via the engine graphic at the bottom left hand corner of your screen. Now, as this burn happens, you'll notice a decrease in both speed and altitude, as well as see which engines are being relit.

[00:39:16]And this is coming up in just about 15 seconds from now.

[00:39:20]>> Stage one transic.

[00:39:27]>> I guess we missed it.

[00:39:39]>> Stage one landing burn.

[00:39:41]>> And there's that call out for landing burn start on the Falcon 9 first stage.

[00:39:44]And again, this is the final burn final burn that the booster will perform for today's mission.

[00:39:49]>> One landing leg deploy.

[00:39:58]>> Stage one landing confirmed.

[00:40:00]>> And fantastic news there. Another successful landing of this >> is under terminal guidance.

[00:40:05]>> Another successful landing of this Falcon 9 first stage.

[00:40:09]>> Coming up next, we are expecting the shutdown of the second stage MVAC engine. This is known as second engine cutoff one or one.

[00:40:20]This second engine cutoff is expected to happen in about 10 seconds from now.

[00:40:46]Nominal orbit insertion.

[00:40:48]>> And there's a successful cutoff of that second engine.

[00:40:51]>> Stage two FTS is safe >> and confirmation of good orbit. And with that, we're going to take a break as the next major milestone, SCS2, where the Merlin vacuum engine on the second stage ignites for a second time, will be occurring at the T plus 54 minute and 8second mark. So sit back, enjoy the views in the space shims, and we'll see you back here in about 40 minutes.

[00:42:20]I hope everybody on Zoom was as excited as we were here in Zoom. That was pretty good so far.

[00:42:55]Thank God. I think Steve Gated was your name.

[00:43:26]separation actually separation >> having for the time being >> yeah still online can share with us if they like that I could >> somebody don't know who that is >> yeah just the web server is your website but So yeah, about 10 minutes before the local time will continue to the live stream again.

[00:44:06]>> It's still there though, right? Yeah.

[00:44:07]Yeah.

[00:44:09]Hopefully we are watching the live stream, but people on Zoom now see what we are doing.

[00:44:19]>> I don't know which one is interesting.

[00:44:23]doesn't change,000.

[00:44:34]So I have to be in the area.

[00:44:51]circulation.

[00:45:10]>> 163 kilometers. I need to get to 500.

[00:45:14]Yep. Well, they said it's going to go to up to 8,000, >> but yeah, >> remember the early days they told us we couldn't go into now.

[00:45:38]Yeah, my role is council lady.

[00:45:42]>> It would be just picking it up sort of like just before >> but they also told us you can't be more than three kilograms impossible.

[00:45:55]>> Nowadays it's like 10k is fine.

[00:45:59]>> Yeah, it's all >> congratulations on this.

[00:46:04]>> Well, it's up there. Yeah.

[00:46:05]>> Hope it's survived one vibration test. It survived its temperature test. It survived the vacuum test.

[00:46:13]>> It should be good.

[00:46:14]>> It's done everything in separation.

[00:46:16]>> In separations. Yeah.

[00:46:17]>> And it's just fine.

[00:46:18]>> Yeah. we are at, you know, they they they displace in stage one and stage two and I had this nightmare scenario where suddenly I would have like uh 17 different >> some of these other spacecrafts we're going up some >> yes I mean apart from the sold >> thing is 4 by It doesn't even have a launch. It just has a long hel kicked out.

[00:47:19]>> Yes. Yeah, >> I'm glad the coverage goes that long. I know rather than saying >> maybe some people to bed now, but every customer is going to wait around for >> the first on the launch pad.

[00:47:45]So many cells. When they when they sent us a group picture >> applied mathematics >> they sent us very long time.

[00:48:08]This is all completely >> Yeah, I did a lot.

[00:48:34]>> I was there holding the camera doing the mira while he was working on it.

[00:48:38]Um girl see that satellite go up.

[00:48:50]I mean they really did.

[00:49:00]Well, we have to ask that.

[00:49:28]>> Yeah.

[00:49:29]like sit around and wait for our citiz.

[00:49:48]and baby although it It's more value.

[00:50:32]That's what at a certain point.

[00:50:48]>> Yes.

[00:50:59]>> Circle hold.

[00:51:08]But why don't we get a little >> radius a lot of that But like I mean mostly >> yeah because what we would do is they're not speak Yeah.

[00:51:58]So >> according to basically yeah like 100 kome Yeah, that was exciting.

[00:52:55]Hey John say you know something that's see if I don't >> Yeah.

[00:53:40]Is there anyone?

[00:53:42]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:53:42]>> Yeah.

[00:53:43]>> I remember.

[00:53:51]>> Ah, there's books.

[00:53:53]probably someone coming, >> right?

[00:54:25]message.

[00:54:28]Well, customer eventually I was going to say this is what you're physics.

[00:55:35]Yeah.

[00:55:38]After You'll see where it all takes me at this point.

[00:55:59]I think I just might make another pot of coffee. We got time for also vending >> universities have lots of ending.

[00:56:22]>> I hope this is good PR for the people who are reviewing our proposals on the radio test.

[00:56:30]>> So we're supposed to hear basically >> June.

[00:56:35]>> So the window opens in about a month.

[00:56:38]>> Yeah. Which means it's in the hands of >> That's the trouble. We don't get any feedback during this >> part of the press.

[00:56:55]>> It's like starting a race and not knowing how you're doing till the race is over.

[00:56:59]>> That's right.

[00:57:04]Go ahead and call. See if they're there right now.

[00:57:09]>> I was impressed. They unlocked the building. Okay.

[00:57:11]>> Yeah.

[00:57:14]>> I was coming up the door >> kind of late. There's not going to be anybody out the hall and then wait.

[00:57:22]>> We told them about >> they'll have someone stop by check.

[00:57:30]I would think so.

[00:57:32]>> Sounds like a cover story for nefarious activities.

[00:57:46]basically Okay.

[00:57:50]>> Overity.

[00:58:16]>> Oh, awesome. Awesome.

[00:58:19]They actually use massive call.

[00:58:28]>> Yeah, >> I know.

[00:58:48]already feels I don't know So I'm asking and founder of that organization >> and he has this abilities.

[00:59:47]Sorry.

[00:59:51]Universe.

[01:00:15]Yeah. And it it didn't go much further beyond that.

[01:00:47]Yes. Yes.

[01:00:56]>> Yeah. Well, I didn't really call It's a watch party.

[01:01:20]>> So, I brought some chips.

[01:01:21]>> Oh, there you go. There you go.

[01:01:24]>> And I brought some butter this >> And I brought some >> for the chips. I don't know if you want to do it or not.

[01:01:39]>> Okay.

[01:01:39]>> Thank you. Well, how are you?

[01:01:41]>> I just don't want to see when he says watch party and I hear party, I'm like I don't like coming to a party without doing something.

[01:01:49]>> Well, that's why I brought donuts and regular coffee.

[01:01:52]>> There's more coffee coming up soon.

[01:02:04]>> Yeah.

[01:02:05]Monday.

[01:02:21]Isn't that really close to that?

[01:02:33]Yeah. That's just calculated for search as because I think it's going to faster than >> Yes. I mean, but it what >> I think they're not up at like what is that?

[01:03:49]>> Daniel just recalculated this and he says no.

[01:03:55]>> Yeah.

[01:04:00]I mean, even if >> I guess I didn't I didn't see I know there's there's a important to satellite Korean commat.

[01:04:54]>> Yeah. Yeah. We're going to be getting the number CAS 500-2 J.

[01:05:01]>> Okay. Okay.

[01:05:02]>> And then we're supposed to claim our object in the space network tracking system.

[01:05:08]>> Only once we're absolutely certain it's ours.

[01:05:16]>> Yeah. Thought so too, but they didn't.

[01:05:20]the spy satellites like space object 37.

[01:05:25]>> Yeah, but at the same time you know it's never really fully class or the spy sent just don't tell you what they do.

[01:05:36]They'll tell you there. They won't tell you.

[01:05:39]>> Oh yeah.

[01:05:42]>> Yeah. Oh yeah.

[01:05:45]>> Find me a roof that like they there. So actually there's plenty of from back in the early days. Um when they were working on the A12 spark plane they come >> they have these Russian scen satellites go program in red film satellites. Well, pretty soon they got some intelligence saying, you know, the Russians are seeing what you're doing and they literally gave him a paper to show me out of the A12 >> and they were like, how do they see us?

[01:06:26]Because we've been monitoring the satellites going over and biting this, you know, in their hangers. And well, what they figured out was was that they had this uh radar uh test version on a pilot and they'd set it out in the sun, you know, for a long day and then they bring it in, you know, when the satellites were going over >> and it produced a shadow on the ground that area of the ground and so the IR film on the satellites was able to pick up that pattern on the ground with the shadows. Now, the way they batted was by traditionally going out and taking these big flat cardboard cutouts and making all these fake patterns to disappearing stuff, flying saucers and weird things like that to hide what they were doing.

[01:07:13]So, they they found a way around it. So, I was like, "Okay, well, >> they just can dump lots of ice on the runway."

[01:07:19]>> So, you they just dump lots of ice on the runway.

[01:07:28]out.

[01:07:35]The first people >> Yeah, that's right. The film was given false destroyed US reformulate all this film.

[01:08:20]Well, I don't know. There was one of those star tests were in place like elevator test.

[01:08:28]>> Yeah, I was about to say we know what elevator music is. Now we know what uh >> I have no idea what they are. One thing I ask everybody that one okay you got that one white in fact all the you know angels they have It made a full orbit. Yeah.

[01:09:31]Right. So >> like Yeah.

[01:09:40]about >> one of my friends >> I don't I don't think >> anything.

[01:10:40]Yeah. Would you voting right?

[01:11:08]It is >> should be another 10 minutes to come back.

[01:11:37]>> Yeah.

[01:11:39]Darth >> just generic general Obviously, >> yeah, like that's actually the speed.

[01:12:35]>> Speed of light.

[01:12:41]Brian's video about what it looks like when I was Yeah, >> from Los Angeles Antarctica.

[01:13:31]>> Oh yeah. Polar directly south.

[01:13:35]>> Yeah, that's Antarctica.

[01:13:36]>> Yeah, that's Antarctica.

[01:13:37]>> Yeah.

[01:13:41]>> Wonder where it's going to be passing over when when the second stage uh next second. Well, wait a minute. No, there's is there another burn scheduled?

[01:13:49]>> Yes.

[01:13:50]>> After circulariz second stage two minutes after the orbit after orbital burn the circle, it starts popping. I think they start popping us out. So, so I wonder where it's going to be over when they do that next second stage burn because I' i've seen one of those burns uh here on the ground. It's a really odd thing to look at. See this bright light and there's something kind of seen that go and Antarctica there's a distinctive okay I'll have to look this up this >> there was a there was a show like funny scientists Yes, >> naively. It's what 70% chance >> we don't know if this is actually updated correctly. Right.

[01:15:23]>> I think they've been updating it position. I don't think they've >> Oh, okay.

[01:15:30]>> Because I could believe that we've gone over Antarctica at this point.

[01:15:34]>> Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we should be over.

[01:15:37]>> That'd be real quick to get down, aren't they?

[01:15:39]>> Yeah, we're like I don't know like 15 degrees right now. 15 degrees from >> from uh from south Fahrenheit. Yes.

[01:16:00]in the uh the special ed class that I'm in every morning.

[01:16:14]So my name Right.

[01:16:30]>> You see that rocket?

[01:16:34]>> Where' the sheriff?

[01:16:53]full screen maybe >> just to see if it shows back up.

[01:17:13]audio >> more astronauts have I guess >> they're never like never back down here.

[01:18:01]Why did they do it?

[01:18:04]>> Okay. Uh we just wanted to share screen two. Is that >> or is it this way?

[01:18:12]>> Uh you can either do the Google Chrome window or screen two of just that screen.

[01:18:27]>> And then somebody posted something in the chat.

[01:18:39]Nothing interest nothing important.

[01:18:41]>> Oh yeah, just congratulations.

[01:19:02]>> How did Does this mean we're going over Antarctica a second time now?

[01:19:13]>> Well, this glue here.

[01:19:15]>> Yeah, but >> Oh, that's the location. That's the location of stage three.

[01:19:24]>> Yeah. So that's >> but I don't know if that's projected >> that's about right 90 minutes later that's about >> how do I get back why did they do this >> there was some information the people with things like that.

[01:20:37]Okay.

[01:20:45]Okay.

[01:20:59]This is still very still giving me Hi.

[01:21:30]Hello.

[01:21:55]54 center.

[01:22:29]Some other people Oh yeah.

[01:23:38]It's just Thank you.

[01:23:58]Yeah.

[01:24:28]I'm horrible.

[01:24:40]I think blue is protect the fastest type of Is that all?

[01:25:28]We're still at 163. There we go.

[01:25:31]>> Oh my.

[01:25:39]Yeah. 510 about 510. Let's go.

[01:25:44]>> We're heading 523.

[01:25:46]>> Oh, that's new.

[01:25:48]>> Well, that's where U that's 52.

[01:25:56]That's the mission that's 5002 and others.

[01:26:03]>> I like their first name. Let's just call the transporter 16 and 12.

[01:26:08]>> That's a good word.

[01:26:08]>> We sat there 25th century AD.

[01:26:11]>> Oh, made sense.

[01:26:12]>> We sat there and looked at the rockets from Mars.

[01:26:15]>> Like the airplane. Sorry, we over booked transporter 16. Would you mind going on 16 and 12?

[01:26:27]>> Oh, there they come.

[01:26:49]Got everything you want.

[01:27:25]Don't recognize our butts.

[01:27:50]By the way, this is really interesting.

[01:27:52]During the launch, we had 15,000 ft.

[01:27:55]Now, we've gone up to 71,000.

[01:28:17]Welcome back to our live coverage of the CAS 500-2 mission. And it's been a great launch and overall mission so far. We had an ontime liftoff at 12:00 a.m.

[01:28:28]Pacific time. And we recovered the first stage again, marking more than 30 successful landings of that booster. And now the MVAC engine on the second stage, which you see there on your screen, is preparing to reignite. And this is also known as SCS2.

[01:28:45]And that'll be coming up here at the T plus 54 minute and 8second mark and will only last about 3 seconds.

[01:28:53]Nominal orbit two.

[01:28:56]And >> there we have it, a successful SCS2 and a shutdown on the second stage engine.

[01:29:02]Next up is our primary payload deployment which will begin in just a few minutes at t plus 59 minutes 54 seconds. So we'll see you back here again shortly.

[01:29:12]>> Not more elevator.

[01:29:22]I didn't even see it glow.

[01:29:30]>> Did you see the previous launch? There was this paper.

[01:29:35]>> Right where those that big coil is, there was like chem white or something.

[01:29:41]Out of nowhere and blood stuff right there.

[01:29:45]Guess someone was cleaning.

[01:30:05]Okay, Heat. Heat.

[01:30:43]New York.

[01:31:03]Yeah.

[01:31:12]>> Yeah.

[01:31:29]here.

[01:31:49]I don't know about looking back.

[01:32:04]So, you know, I wonder what hopefully.

[01:32:25]Guess we're going to release it. 514 km.

[01:32:32]Oh, >> okay.

[01:32:38]You think so?

[01:32:44]No.

[01:33:20]Welcome back everybody to our live coverage of the CAS 500-2 mission. We are moments away from the beginning of our primary payload deployment on today's mission. The CAS 500-2 is a highresolution Earth observation satellite jointly led by the Korea Aerospace Administration and Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport.

[01:33:46]This satellite has been developed by the Korea Aerospace Industries and is equipped with an electrooptical payload designed to acquire high resolution imagery to support a wide range of applications.

[01:34:01]Let's now watch as this payload is deployed in roughly 60 seconds.

[01:34:11]Oh, we have to stop. There we go. Okay.

[01:34:14]Oh, it's a different view.

[01:34:17]>> First class passengers get off first.

[01:34:29]>> Looks like uh we're over Ethiopia and we've got an awesome view of our payload stack there on your screen. The second stage is currently flying over the eastern side of Africa.

[01:34:52]We're about 24 seconds now away from the deployment of CAS 500-2.

[01:35:17]Cast 500-2 separation confirmed.

[01:35:21]>> Okay, they separated it somewhere.

[01:35:24]>> And there's that confirmation of CAS 500-2 being deployed. And it is now on its way. But we still have another 44 payloads to deploy on tonight's mission.

[01:35:37]Now, we have about 15 minutes before our next deployment sequence. So, we're going to take another short break and we'll be back around the T plus 1 hour and 12 minute mark.

[01:36:02]>> 1 hour 12 minute mark.

[01:36:12]We'll be the ninth one of the small satellites. So, we don't have to wait till all the ends.

[01:36:22]I'm hoping when it's actually no gravity that just fly by itself cuz we're not sending up there.

[01:36:37]Oh, by the way, there's other snacks up here. More donuts. Help yourself. You got 12 more minutes.

[01:36:48]Someone brought in chips.

[01:36:50]Yips.

[01:36:52]Feel free.

[01:37:19]Well, we're supposed to be at 500.

[01:37:25]I don't know.

[01:37:50]511's fine.

[01:37:54]It'll stay up there about 9 years instead of instead of seven and a half.

[01:38:16]>> Did you see the video of them launching this that cube set from the >> No, I haven't.

[01:38:20]>> It's very funny.

[01:38:21]>> Set that up.

[01:38:22]>> Boom. Boom. Bang. Right on. Hold the cell in the solar panel.

[01:38:34]>> Yeah.

[01:38:39]>> What was the range? They told us it was going to be as high as 515 for us.

[01:38:45]As low as four as low as 490.

[01:38:52]Yeah.

[01:38:57]It's okay. It's a good altitude.

[01:39:04]And I assume the big gap is to make sure none of the little fats fit into the big spacecraft.

[01:39:21]Heat.

[01:39:36]Heat.

[01:40:11]Some more collective.

[01:40:28]Heat. Heat.

[01:40:47]Heat.

[01:40:52]Heat.

[01:41:08]Oh no.

[01:41:28]Heat. Heat. N.

[01:41:38]Heat. Heat. N.

[01:42:02]Heat. Heat.

[01:42:23]Hallelujah.

[01:42:34]Heat. Heat.

[01:43:13]Well, for the users, the main part, the public gets the lodge and then everyone goes to bed.

[01:43:27]Yeah, we do had to get up the next morning and install the cubes.

[01:43:37]Yeah, we're just about to go over Turkey, everyone.

[01:43:56]Looks like the altitude's climbing there. Maybe it's not updated enough.

[01:44:07]Yeah.

[01:44:10]Oh, you think it's a radar beam? Just going down to see how high you are.

[01:44:16]Okay, we are recording.

[01:44:41]Heat. Heat.

[01:45:21]Well, the first cube set's going to be Seline, then cube two, and we're going to be number 10.

[01:45:32]Well, no. We're 10 on the list total, but we're number nine on the small pack.

[01:45:42]What?

[01:45:45]Bri, I was just wondering if that just make sure none of these little things hit into it like they hit into the space station.

[01:45:53]No, they did.

[01:45:56]No, they they wasn't into view.

[01:46:22]Yep. It looks like Romania, actually.

[01:46:27]Heat up here.

[01:47:20]Welcome back everybody to our live launch coverage of the CAS 500-2 mission.

[01:47:26]Just before the break, we saw the first of three payload deployment sequences with our second coming up here now at T + 1 hour 16 minutes and 37 seconds.

[01:47:36]We've got a total of 19 separate payloads to deploy in this sequence and here's a few of them. First up, the Hellenic Space Dawn mission which includes two Cubats, Elios and Seleni.

[01:47:48]These missions will demonstrate innovative space technologies for Earth observation and optical communications.

[01:47:54]Also integrated via Exo Launch is Basalt 3 which will be the first privately launched satellite to be operated by LLM and AI models.

[01:48:04]We will also be deploying the Cube 2 satellite. Now Cube 2 also integrated via Exolunch will demonstrate the first ever quantum key exchange between a Cubat and a ground station laying the foundation for cost-effective unhackable global communications.

[01:48:21]We will also be deploying Frontier Sat, which is Calgary's first studentbuilt satellite, which aims to study space ionospheric weather and perform novel technology demonstrations.

[01:48:33]And another payload integrated via Exaunch, Raven, is the first Icorus 2.0 satellite. Its mission will enable researchers to better understand animal movement and how ecosystems respond to change.

[01:48:47]We'll also be developing or deploying sorry Unseen Labs's newest satellite bro 21 which is dedicated to the detection of radio frequency signals for maritime surveillance.

[01:49:00]Integrated via Exaunch Endurosat is the Balkan 2 Earth observation mission designed as a fully managed Earth observation data delivery service to provide fast highquality optical satellite data.

[01:49:16]Also, Hydra 3 integrated via Exolaunch features a next generation commercial multisspectral thermal telescope.

[01:49:27]We will also be deploying SNAPY, an acronym for solar, neutrino, and astroparticle physics, which is a NASA innovative advanced concept funded project of Witchah State University.

[01:49:40]Yeah.

[01:49:40]>> And it will study the background rate of our planned solar neutrino detector signature.

[01:49:47]>> Also integrated via Exaunch Gen 1 uh which is an Sband commercial communications mission with the platform provided by Orb Astro.

[01:49:59]We will also be deploying IICOR1, which is Poland's first truly domestic developed Xband synthetic aperture radar satellite, enabling highresolution Earth imaging, regardless of weather conditions or time of day.

[01:50:15]Now, we're about to deploy these 11 payloads plus eight more in just a few moments.

[01:50:39]getting some awesome views right now of our second stage of our Merlin Merlin vacuum engine.

[01:50:45]>> Yeah, absolutely spectacular views here of our payload stacks um on top of the second stage. Uh the second stage is currently flying over Eastern Europe.

[01:51:01]And we are now just under a minute from the start of that payload deployment sequence.

[01:51:21]This is quite a view right now of all these payloads on um on top of our second stage.

[01:51:28]>> Yep. 45 total for today.

[01:51:32]>> Cube 2 deploy confirmed.

[01:51:39]>> Here we go.

[01:51:39]>> Deploy confirmed.

[01:51:42]>> Our logo looks really nice. Deploy confirmed.

[01:51:45]>> Just a shadow there.

[01:51:50]>> Raven satellite for the Icarus Initiative. Talos deploy confirmed.

[01:52:03]>> Brow 21 deploy confirmed.

[01:52:11]>> That one with a new face. That one's ours.

[01:52:15]on the right. Oh, we're in more. Yeah, >> deploy confirmed.

[01:52:22]>> Our logo will probably be in the in the middle.

[01:52:25]>> 3 deploy confirmed.

[01:52:27]>> But I can't see the >> What is that?

[01:52:34]God, what is new space? It's like carpet tagged alongside a new soul.

[01:52:44]Snappy deploy confirmed.

[01:52:48]>> They say snappy deploy.

[01:52:58]>> That thing flew out. Yeah, >> we had a good view.

[01:53:10]>> It's amazing what a little can do not want to go out on the even table.

[01:53:18]>> Yeah.

[01:53:19]>> Gen one deploy confirmed.

[01:53:24]>> Yeah, that thing just shot right out the >> Yeah.

[01:53:30]>> Don't blink. Yeah.

[01:53:36]>> And even looked like our cube set.

[01:53:47]Link tower 7 deploy confirmed.

[01:53:55]>> There goes a big one. Wow, >> that was big. Yeah.

[01:54:09]Yeah, we had a nice view of our little set.

[01:54:14]>> I don't know. You were slowing them in >> expected loss.

[01:54:31]What's our updated line element? Where are we?

[01:54:37]Now, the upcoming second half of this deploy sequence will happen without a down link. So, we're going to be standing by for the next several minutes while we wait for confirmation of the next several deploys.

[01:54:49]>> We'll see you back here in a little under 10 minutes.

[01:54:56]>> That's great.

[01:55:05]Oh no.

[01:55:19]Oh no. Now we got lots of we have to register the cube set with the space force.

[01:55:28]They said do it as soon as possible. But then they also sent an email, you know, if you don't get to it for a couple days, it's okay. Make sure it's yours.

[01:55:44]>> I get honestly the first one.

[01:55:48]>> Yeah, it was a good one.

[01:56:03]Yeah, there was no ant, you know, Hogar was worried the antennas were would catch.

[01:56:14]Alrighty, everyone. I guess we're going to stop sharing. We could call it quits.

[01:56:23]>> All right. Thanks everyone online.

[01:56:26]>> Bye.