This Company is Revolutionizing the Logistics of Spaceflight - Firefly Aerospace
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Published 2024-08-07
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Producer/Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus
Head of Production: Mike Ridolfi
Editor: Dylan Hennessy
Animator: Eli Prenten
Animator: Stijn Orlans
Sound and Production Coordinator: Graham Haerther
Sound: Donovan Bullen
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Camera Operator - Chandler Jowell
On Location Audio -Bryan Hagemann
Launch Footage: Trevor Mahlmann
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All Comments (21)
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OMG the audio for the joke at 28:31 got cut off somehow?!
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So cool to see some of my footage in here right from the start. What a neat opportunity it is to work with Firefly—can’t wait to watch this ep of Real Engineering!🎥🚀
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18:50 that animation of the fuels mixing was extremely satisfying.
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The first pilot onboard firefly: I’m a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar.
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Having a chief engineer called Jordi at a rocket company has gotta be a deliberate nod to startrek TNG
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Firefly’s cool but Rocket Labs or Stoke Space would probably be closer to a new SpaceX.
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"I'm trying to get rid of the cork." I love that guy. You know you've reached max engineer when cork is too heavy. Edit: That guy next year be like "this aerogel isn't light enough"
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5:37 ah yes the flacon 9😆
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The engine names are great. All of them Firefly show references. Love it.
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Firefly is cool I’m glad to see that spacex hasn’t killed the rest of the launch industry
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I have to say I am really liking the more personal style your videos have had recently!
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7:24 the Launch Escape System is armed before the propellant is loaded, so in an event where the second stage explodes, the crew dragon would escape
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The SpaceX pad explosion was for a test fire, NOT a launch. That said if that were to happen with crew, the escape system ignite and the crew capsule would fly away and a parachute just off the coast. SpaceX did a pad abort AND an inflight abort to make sure this is an option. It is unique that the crew is on abort while the Falcon 9 is being fueled with their abort system armed.
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Are the "reaver" engines so named because it's a Firefly? Is this a company of Browncoats?!
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Composite tanks are the future. My friend told me he trusted them so much he was going to take a composite tank and a controller to look at some boat wreck. Must have been so much fun bc I haven’t heard back from him in a couple years
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Interesting tradeoffs, and unique offering
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19:20 I'm not quite clear on what is meant by "propellant rich" zone. If the other recirculation zone is "fuel rich" does that make this oxidizer rich or truly just a more dense region of mixed F+O "propellant" that isn't as fully combusted as the third region marked in red?
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with that many design iterations, the quality engineers must be living on coffee and anxiety
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Bridgette is so amazing at explaining complex topics simply, awesome work by firefly, it's exciting seeing these innovations
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I think Rocket Lab is more suited candidate as next SpaceX
