Astra’s Back, NG-22 Cancelled, and China At It Again! | This Week in Spaceflight
In our 100th episode of This Week in Spaceflight, we break down the latest shock to the ISS schedule as NASA cancels the NG-22 mission after damage to Cygnus was discovered—just when things were stabilizing. Meanwhile, China unveils an ambitious roadmap to explore the Solar System, aiming for Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Neptune, and more.
Plus:
🚀 ESA bids farewell to Gaia
🛰️ NASA’s Starling teams up with SpaceX’s Starlink
📦 Astra names a new head of launch
🔥 Electron spots wildfires
🌕 Artemis II hits a major milestone
🌞 Parker Solar Probe’s fiery close pass
🔭 Curiosity finds fatty acids on Mars
…and so much more.
Whether it’s planetary science, launch cadence races, or orbital intrigue, we’ve got the full rundown on this week’s happenings in space.
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🤵 Hosted by Elysia Segal (@ElysiaSegal)
🖋️ Written by Martijn Luinstra & Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (@AlexPhysics13).
🎥 Footage from: Jack Beyer, Ryan Caton, Max Evans, Brady Kenniston, Patrick O’Laughlin, Jerry Pike, Simon Minnican, NASA, CNSA, Astra, Thales Alenia Space, SpaceX, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU, NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS, NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, NASA Goddard, DSEL, CNSA/DSEL/CCTV/CGTN, CNSA, NASA JPL, ESA, NASA Ames, Dr Marco Langbroek, Rocket Lab, OroraTech, CCTV, Firefly Aerospace, @satofishi.
✂️ Edited by Ryan Caton (@DPodDolphinPro).
💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed).
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Finally…an informative scientific discovery so fascinating and not a piece of CICK.BAIT…thank-you
Yeah !00 the episode
China's going to Calisto. That's the most logical place for a station in the outer planets. The other Galilean moons are cooked by radiation trapped in Jupiter's magnetosphere. Ganymede has its own weak magnetosphere, but anything living is cooked.
Congratulations
Sleep well Gaia.
Congratulations to you all 🎉
🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
Its tbe pot rock
The US should WORK with china and science already? we work with every other country but china, and why? genuingly old dinosaurs in charge STILL fulla hate THEY made up towards the chinese people in general.
Yeah!!! Congratulations 👍
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that NROL-69 orbit makes me so happy it's unreasonable
Many congratulations on the 100th episode to everyone at NSF. Thank you so much for all you do to keep us informed. Really appreciated. Love your style. Love the jingle music and intro.
Wow you folks are becoming a bigtime media group. Elysia's 100th news episode and all the young rocket companies coming to you for streaming services. Let's gooooo 🚀
10:21 is this adjusted for inflation? If not, I wish it was! If it is, current funding is a lot higher than I thought!
Congratulations on your 100th episode. Great reporting….
And Breath
Well done for the 100th ep. ♥🔥🖖
Here's to 100 more 🎉
🎉 awesome 100 episodes ❤
🎉 Congratulations NSF! You nerds never cease to amaze me and I’m very grateful. Everyone please leave a like on video
While I am glad at least one country is spending more money on space research. Just wondering how much of their finding they share ?
Congratulations on the 100th show!!! 😃😃😃 Half of Central Europe saw it and wondered what it was! There were many, many anxious calls to the police, fire department, and scientists, and a huge media hype ensued, for example: Mysterious luminous phenomenon in the sky! As a long-time NSF viewer, I knew immediately when I saw the videos over Germany, yikes, some Falcon 9 maneuver from the NROL mission!
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Congrats on your 100th episode. I have enjoyed watching you and have learned so much for which I thank you.
The Starling segment is fascinating because it deals with the concept of right of ways similar to maritime navigation. Are there any efforts to establish international right of way navigation in space on an international level?
Anyone know why they cared whether Gaia might whether turn back on?? 🤷♂️
If it has no propellant, so presumably can't somehow go boom. If it turned on and burned out, well who cares because that's no different than corrupting it's software 😅
She is shining more than usual today ⭐✨😁
Life existed/exists on Mars.
Congrats on 100th episode
Good luck for 100 more for future ✌
NASA needs to get out of the space launch business (i.e. SLS) and space station business (Gateway), contract for those, and move the freed up funds to cutting edge and beyond cis-lunar science missions. Right now, SLS/Gateway is consuming all the oxygen and $$ in NASA's world.
If you're a European, it's hard to see this last NROL mission as anything else but a precursor to a possible attack on Greenland, monitoring any military ship movement by Europe. I can't believe I'm saying this (especially after working 25 years for the U.S. military as a civilian), but the U.S. may have become our enemy.
Congrats on 100 weeks of TWISF!!!!!!!!!!
Also i think another big problem plaguing NASA interplanetary exploration is the dwindling availability of plutonium -238
An episode that does not mention Starbase, wow!
I love the lead in music on this channel top notch!
Is there anychance that our science projects are more expensive and over engineered while china manages to produce more for rest i don't understand how we put so much money into nasa and not get returns like china or other agencies
Congrats on 100 shows! Keep 'em coming! :)
💯 episodes! 🥳🥳🥳
Here's a tenner for your 100 episodes, congratulations. 👏👏
Strange rock! Strange rock! Strange rock!
Thank you NSF.
Congrats to Alyssa and NSF on the 100th episode of TWISF! Almost 2 years!
I went onto my apartment roof here in Barcelona at 11:48am eclipse max, nice scoop out of the top-right corner, about 5% I'd say. Looked great with the welder's glass but couldn't get a good picture because it was so small.
Happy 100 anniversary ❤love you
Best show in the business
Congratulations
I like the show. But wearing an occupy Mars TShirt undermines your cerdibility
Congratulations on 100 episodes Elysia. Here’s to the next 100.
One Starship probe to every planet please.