Scott Manley

Travelling At 99% of The Speed Of Light Looks Strange - Project Hail Mary's Space Warp

Project Hail Mary is my favourite movie of the year, and while many people have made videos explaining time dilation due to travelling close to the speed of light, nobody has tried to visualise how th...

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When Pilots Used Sounds To Guide Planes

From the 1920's to 1950's the main way that aircraft navigated across the US was using the audio cues from the Low Frequency Radio Range system, or, 4 way beacons. These specialized antennae would emi...

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Starship May Be Recovered? Starliner Might Fly Again? Deep Space Updates July 29th

Go to https://ground.news/manley for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access to world-wide coverage through my link. A roundup of news from around the world, and I mean ...

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Why Lightning Loves Rockets

Recently a rocket was struck by lightning as it ascended, and it's not the first time we've seen a rocket get hit. It turns out that rockets actually encourage lightning to form by reducing the breakd...

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Starship Flight 13 - Where's The Kaboom?

Check out BlueDot's free Future of AI course: https://bluedot.org/scottmanley Starship Flight 13 is the second flight of the V3 Starship, Superheavy and of course the V3 Raptor Engines. Flight 12 had...

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Skyroot Launches India's First Private Rocket... Successfully

India's Skyroot Aerospace was formed in 2018 with plans to develop orbital launch vehicles, and last week they succeeded in sending their Vikram-1 rocket to orbit on their first attempt! Follow me on...

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China Lands Rocket, Reflect Orbital Declares War on The Night - Deep Space Updates, July 15th

Use code MANLEYFB50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box plus free breakfast for 1 year at bit.ly/4tJEYqV ! A quick roundup of all the most important spaceflight news for the last couple of weeks. Sp...

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It's Official, There Are Too Many Satellites!

There are so many satellites its breaking old satellite tracking systems, the US Space Track began tracking satellites in the 1950's and the standard 'Two Line Element' or TLE format only allowed for ...

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