SpaceX's Polaris Dawn Launch Delayed

Published: Aug 26, 2024 Duration: 00:04:03 Category: News & Politics

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Once again, helium is a recurring theme with these space issues. Yeah, Helium is prone to leaking and it is a small molecule so it can find its way out of various small crevices. But this is just comes with the territory of following rockets and rocket launches. There's always some kind of delay, but hopefully it won't be too lengthy for and hopefully we'll see this launch take off soon. They basically have a backup window every morning at the same time, right the way through the weekend. So I imagine it will go off. A big part of this is not necessarily the crew of Polaris, Dawn, it's the spacesuits. And you wrote about that last week in the business space newsletter. Like and subscribe. Tell me about the spacesuits and why they're so key to that, too. What's due to take place in the mission? Yeah, So for people who have followed spacesuits up until now, you might be familiar with Space X's so called spacesuits, but the spacesuits that we've seen up until this point are really just pressure suits which are used by the astronauts. They're worn when they fly to space, when they come back from space, and they're really mostly meant to be used in the case of an emergency in case the capsule depressurized or there's some unforeseen event. But Space X built for this specific purpose is a spacewalking spacesuit, and it's really meant to be used for this exact reason for being able to leave the vehicle, perform repairs on the outside of a spacecraft for this mission. Space X is just going to test out the durability of the suits. But these suits look pretty cool. They definitely look like the sleek white design of the pressure suits that we've seen, but they're supposed to be able to withstand the vacuum of space. Even better, they have heads up displays inside of them and they you know, they have the signature space exile that we've all come to know and love. I mean, absolutely fascinating as to whether or not we're going to be investing in. I mean, the new way in which we see the suits involved. Loren Edwards, just tell it, talking us through the fact that we're going to be seeing a new launch window every single day. But ultimately, how quickly can things like Helium leak be recovered from? It's hard to speculate on this. I think when it comes to Space X, I am always amazed at how quickly they're able to kind of turn things around. If you recall, you know, about a month ago, they had a failure with their Falcon nine rocket while launching some StarLink satellites, and they were able to get back to launch within just a couple of weeks. So Space X is definitely garnered a lot of experience by launching so frequently. So it may be something that is easy to to to fix with this particular mission. I don't think Space X wants to be taking any chances. It's probably one of their missions that they've done to date. They'll be going to a much higher altitude than astronauts have gone to in a very long time. So I think they just want to make sure everything is buttoned up so it's possible they might take some extra care with this particular helium leak. I mean, I mean, there is risk in this mission, 700 kilometer altitude approximately for the spacewalk. Only two of them will do it. And what I find so amazing is like the crew's in quarantine basically right now. And yet Jared Isaacman is on Twitter or X saying, oh, don't worry, we know exactly what's going on. We're talking with Space X. He's kind of key to this because he went on Inspiration4 as well. Yeah. Jared Isaacman has definitely become an interesting space X figure. He is bankrolled the development of this program and also helped to fund this flight. And it's not he'll be flying again in the future to it. He didn't just buy this one flight. He has kind of invested in an entire program, a research and development program called Polaris, and this is just the first part of that. It'll eventually culminate with the first crewed launch of SpaceX's Starship Rocket, which is that massive vehicle that they've been building in South Texas. I assume that Jared will be on that as well. We'll have to wait and see that because we still have some development road to get through. But yeah, he's definitely become a dominant figure in the space community.

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