1x03 - SpaceX: To Reusable Rockets, and Beyond

• Εισαγωγή
  
  • Why listen to a podcast on this topic in Greek? Why not Youtube in Greek, or a podcast in English?
    
• NASA (ιστορία, κόστος, συστήματα πυραύλων)
  
  • JPL: 1936, rockets in Pasadena! Later 1958 part of NASA
    
  • Vanguard/Saturn: $500k/kg (until 1970)
    
    • NASA Saturn 5
      
  • Space shuttle: $50k/kg (until 2000)
    
    • 1970 start
      
    • Accident in 1986 - cultural problems
      
    • Accident in 2003 - cultural problems
      
    • Stopped in 2011
      
  • Falcon 9: $3k/kg
    
  • Falcon heavy: $1k/kg
    
  • Kg to ISS: $16k Space shuttle, $6k Falcon+Dragon
    
• SpaceX milestones (2002)
  
  • Falcon 1 (4th attempt successful 9/2008)
    
  • Dragon capsule in orbit 2010 (onboard falcon 9)
    
  • May 2012, first private company to attach Dragon capsule on ISS
    
  • First upright landing 2015
    
  • 2016 landing on drone vessel
    
  • 2017 reuse Falcon 9 and recover it (satellite on board)
    
  • June 2017 reuse Dragon capsule
    
  • 2018 Falcon heavy + tesla starman launch + landing of side boosters
    
  • May 2020 Crew Dragon launch and dock at ISS+ August safe return- Demo-2
    
  • August 2020 - 100th launch + 6th reuse of Falcon 9
    
  • November 2020 Crew-1 4 astronauts
    
• Άλλες ιδιωτικές
  
  • Blue Origin (2000)
    
    • Reusable vehicles. Space tourism. LEO Earth Orbit. Blue Moon by 2024, Moon lander. Awarded human landing system contract to the Moon (Artemis)
      
  • Virgin Galactic (2004)
    
    • Tourism
      
  • Διάφορες για δορυφόρους και ~100km ύψος
    
  • Activity στην Ελλάδα