Space Flight in 2024
summary
Commercial reuse drives scale: SpaceX lowers costs with Falcon 9 300+ landings and crew seats around $55M for NASA or ~$100M privately, while Starlink has flooded LEO with 6,159 in orbit after ~6,613 launches. Heavy lift races continue: SLS costs about $4B per flight, Vulcan and Ariane 6 debut methane engines, and Starship (a upper stage reached orbit (Starship test 4)) shows partial success but still needs in‑space refueling and thermal protection to become reliably reusable.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Space technology in 2024
- 3:34Space Shuttle legacy and failures
- 10:22Commercial spaceflight with SpaceX
- 22:42Starship reusable rocketry
- 29:03European and international missions
- 35:21Artemis Moon return
- 44:56Moon missions and discoveries
- 50:13Mars robotic exploration
- 56:15Summary spaceflight 2024
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