Why NASA's SOFIA Telescope On A Plane is "Perfectly Balanced"

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Why NASA's SOFIA Telescope On A Plane is "Perfectly Balanced"

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Scott Manley

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@rrni2343 4 жыл бұрын

The size difference between Scott and the interviewee makes it look like its a forced perspective shot.

@rhodexa 4 жыл бұрын

it's so wierd xD

@scottmanley 4 жыл бұрын

Accidental forced perspective from the PR person holding my camera.

@rhodexa 4 жыл бұрын

@@scottmanley Was funny anyway xD

@johnballs1352 4 жыл бұрын

@@scottmanley Mistook you for Frodo lol

@chris-hayes 4 жыл бұрын

That interview was not in perfect balance

@WolfPeste 4 жыл бұрын

"Scopes on a Plane" I'm tired of these perfectly balanced scopes on this perfectly balanced plane!

@EditioCastigata 4 жыл бұрын

If only we had this balance in our lives.

@spookydonkey2195 4 жыл бұрын

Ahhh, well done

@Dremsilruth 4 жыл бұрын

Enough is enough! I have had it with these...

@ravneiv 4 жыл бұрын

Came here for this comment

@ravneiv 4 жыл бұрын

Jokes aside this was a really great video

@boesesascha 4 жыл бұрын

I've seen SOFIA live in Germany when it was at Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg for maintenance. Its an awesome piece of technology.

@5Andysalive 4 жыл бұрын

Not that Scott mentioned anything but Nasa :)

@Xatzimi 4 жыл бұрын

@@5Andysalive It even says DLR on the side

@firefoxfree 4 жыл бұрын

The Flight Plan is even more complicated: SOFIA has to stay in the dark during the complete flight including landing, not only during observations. This is to be prepared for a malfunction of the telescope door, as the telescope should not be covered in sunlight to protect the instruments. So it is a Vampire-device! Also the reach the different heights during the flight they have to take into account the fuel weight. At the beginning of the flight they start in lower altitudes at about 10.000 meters and go then higher to 13.000m only after enough fuel is consumed.

@PanzerBuyer 4 жыл бұрын

For the SI impaired that is 13KM = 42,650ft or ~8miles.

@MiguelMorales85 4 жыл бұрын

All I know he’s got manly

@frankeinfish 4 жыл бұрын

@@capDPR 13,1km is close enough to 13 that most would just round it down when you're talking about it casually though....

@grugiv 4 жыл бұрын

Dio-device for alliteration.

@AndreSomers 4 жыл бұрын

@@capDPR There is no 1:1 mapping between FL's and altitudes in feet, as FL is relative to a standard isobaric plane which may but probably is not accurate. So you can't really say they'd be at 43,000ft, as that suggests an altitude as measured from the ground.

@michaels5917 4 жыл бұрын

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

@QuintonMurdock 4 жыл бұрын

SCOTT THANOS SCOTT THANOS

@ekoden 4 жыл бұрын

Or how about Thanos Manley?

@elijaho59 4 жыл бұрын

@Dremsilruth 4 жыл бұрын

Scott Thanley

@buffysaviation 4 жыл бұрын

Thanos liked that

@damienmcfarland7267 4 жыл бұрын

"I'm Scott Manley, fly Sofia"

@pedrocrb 4 жыл бұрын

Best comment I've read today

@TrickOrRetreat 4 жыл бұрын

😋 hehe

@filanfyretracker 4 жыл бұрын

I am sure the original engineers on 747, those that are still alive must be thrilled to know their bird has found all kinds of uses never originally planned for yet still excels at those tasks

@Markle2k 4 жыл бұрын

SOFIA was a classic over-budget, behind-schedule debacle. Originally intended to be a 20 year life cycle operation, it took 16 years from the OK in 1994 to first light in 2010, by which time the plane had matured to 33 years old. The original proposal had been 10 years prior, but Germany had to pay for absorbing the East in the reunification so it had to be put on the back burner. Then, DLR in the 2010s then had to step up its contribution or NASA was going to run out of money after just 5 years of operation. Its predecessor, the Kuiper Airborne Observatory went operational in 4 years with just 3 years from proposal to funding go.

@RCAvhstape 4 жыл бұрын

@@Markle2k The 747, on the other hand (which is what the guy is talking about) has been an overwhelming success and has stayed in production and service far longer than Boeing ever imagined, and way outlived the customer who originally asked for it, Pan Am. It is also in my opinion, one of the most beautiful airliners in history.

@Markle2k 4 жыл бұрын

@@RCAvhstape Not really, he's talking about the engineers for the original 747 being proud of it being used for SOFIA _if they are still alive_ . I pointed out that the SOFIA project was first conceived before the 747SP used was 10 years old and was given the go ahead before it was 20. SOFIA was to aerospace nerds in the 80s and 90s as the JWST is today.

@witeshade 4 жыл бұрын

@@Markle2k that answers the question I was going to ask, which is why they would spend so much time and money on an airframe that is that old. I'd be worried about metal fatigue and so on.

@Markle2k 4 жыл бұрын

@@witeshade The 747SP was a dream in this regard. Cycles are what matters and a relatively young, long-range aircraft is going to have a particularly low cycle count. It's the opposite of the 747s that Japanese domestic carriers use to pack as many people into each departure/arrival slot as possible.

@whatdamath 4 жыл бұрын

awesome! I wish this was a longer/more detailed video because I still have so many questions.

@daanwilmer 4 жыл бұрын

"Orion, for instance" - "One of my favourites!" Your other favourite being Skye?

@daemonhat 4 жыл бұрын

i guess one could say they could look at Orion from the Skye

@VulpeculaJoy 4 жыл бұрын

@@daemonhat Looking at Orion from the Skye with a perfectly balanced telescope. Nice.

@Rutherford_Inchworm_III 4 жыл бұрын

More of a Master of Puppets man, myself.

@floriangutensohn4083 4 жыл бұрын

Ahem Scott, as a DLR intern: *NASA AND DLR’s SOFIA telescope :)

@scottmanley 4 жыл бұрын

Check the description.

@VolkerHett 4 жыл бұрын

Scott Manley ja ja 😊 hide it in the text nobody reads 😁 I remember writing to my local politicians to please support this project’s financing. It was a close call!

@TheShowdown16 4 жыл бұрын

When it comes to international cooperations like that, the US usually forget to mention that.

@KaiHenningsen 4 жыл бұрын

@@scottmanley Yeah, that was a bit disappointing. All the hints in the visuals, from the rather obvious markings outside the plane, to talking to a guy with markings that read much closer to "DLR" than "NASA" ... and not a single word. Not what I expect from a Scott Manley video.

@swunt10 4 жыл бұрын

@@scottmanley the telescope is not NASA's it's from DLR. NASA's part of the project SOFIA is the aircraft. so your title is simply wrong.

@rebsredone450 4 жыл бұрын

Why no shoutout to DLR and their role in it one wonders....

@akshanshkmr 4 жыл бұрын

"Perfectly balanced, like all things should be" -Thanos(2018)

@StarStrider99 4 жыл бұрын

General Misquoti!

@jesserosas7177 4 жыл бұрын

Akshansh Kumar SHIT YOU BEAT ME TO IT

@gracefool 4 жыл бұрын

Already referenced in the video description.

@akshanshkmr 4 жыл бұрын

@@gracefool not in the way i said it

@Archaeopteryx_ 4 жыл бұрын

4:44 my man is so tall he could look at distant stars with a magnifying glass

@EricValor 4 жыл бұрын

Hey! SOFIA! I trained their first IT guy in Linux/UNIX which allowed him to get the job! He then later got a job at VA Linux. When they went public, he got enough money from the stock to buy a house for his family. This was in the late-90s when they had just cut the hole in the side of the airplane for the telescope, and it was down in Texas being installed with the door. It's good to see the old girl still being used!

@myFailedProductions 4 жыл бұрын

Nice! I got to work support for the complex it's stationed at in 2016. Sometimes the IT world can get you crazy places.

@GalileoAV 4 жыл бұрын

Him singing to himself "Im So ExCiTeD" as he walked up the steps is me for sure lmao

@mihirpatil8843 4 жыл бұрын

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@Joesolo13 4 жыл бұрын

@Mark Steven lmao still buying into the soy myths. "The chemicals are shaped the same so clearly they're identical"

@alt8791 4 жыл бұрын

Joesolo13 the soy shit drives me nuts

@Nifilheimur 4 жыл бұрын

7:39 they got 55 science on that mission. must have forgot the mystery goo unit.

@pkz420 4 жыл бұрын

Is Scott tiny, or is the flying telescope guy a giant?

@SW-qr8qe 4 жыл бұрын

Nothing To See Here Hoping it is a step

@gordonrichardson2972 4 жыл бұрын

The Dutch are quite tall.

@berttorpson2592 4 жыл бұрын

I always picture Scott being like 6’2” (1.87m)

@gordonrichardson2972 4 жыл бұрын

@@berttorpson2592 In one of the other comments Scott says its a camera angle perspective issue.

@ShadowZone 4 жыл бұрын

Giant telescopes need giant astronomers. It's science.

@bernardli9514 4 жыл бұрын

Sofia - "perfectly balanced, as all things should be."

@tomasformanek8172 4 жыл бұрын

Unexpected Thanos

@P3x310 4 жыл бұрын

This does put a smile on Scott's face.

@CarFreeSegnitz 4 жыл бұрын

"Did you get the observation?" "Yes" "What did it cost?" "Everything"

@tmdrake 4 жыл бұрын

Very true!

@anthonyc4138 4 жыл бұрын

@@CarFreeSegnitz lol

@Mikoto- 4 жыл бұрын

For a second there I thought this was a Spiffing video. Perfectly balanced, As all things should be.

@sweginator1084 4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@cdnarmymedic 4 жыл бұрын

Scott Manley, the Spiffing Scot.

@commiebobo 4 жыл бұрын

"SOPHIA is a perfectly balanced telescope with no exploits - excluding unlimited fuel glitch!"

@collonellbenered8088 4 жыл бұрын

I actually visisted SOFIA recently when it stayed in Stuttgart for a few days, which was really cool... If SOFIA ever comes to a place near you and if they have tours, defenitely go there, so much worth it!

@sidv4615 Жыл бұрын

now unfortunately its retired.

@phunkydroid 4 жыл бұрын

That feeling when you see a new Scott Manley video and it says "20 seconds ago"

@SocksWithSandals 4 жыл бұрын

I thought I'd be the first commenter, but 3552 people saw the video before me.

@britpoint7022 4 жыл бұрын

"Catching a planetary occultation in an aircraft is much harder than you'd think" ...wow, that's saying something, because I was already thinking it sounded like a pretty SOFIAsticated maneuver

@Psycorde 4 жыл бұрын

Elon, please mark this person for the first trip to Mars. Thank you.

@unflexian 4 жыл бұрын

you win two first class tickets redeemable on all Air Manley flights

@fabianstriebeck8054 Жыл бұрын

made in Germany. its our pleasure.

@tedsmith6137 4 жыл бұрын

In some parts of the industry, the SP is assumed to stand for Small Pachyderm. BTW, an SP fin is 8 feet higher and the horizontal stabilizer span was increased by 10 feet. We had two at QANTAS, both Rolls Royce powered.

@Hendiadyoin1 4 жыл бұрын

Always love seeing something related to the DLR

@kirkcreelman 4 жыл бұрын

Oh man, this brings back memories. I was in a nasa hanger 7 or 8 years ago doing a consult on another project. Way in the back corner was "sophia" . The hanger was so big that a 747 short looked like a little citation. Such an amazing piece of equipment.

@Mrjonblakely 4 жыл бұрын

SOFIA is the 2nd generation IR observatory. The first was the Kuiper Airborne Observatory which was a C-141 with a 1 Meter telescope, (well really 36"). Kuiper was dedicated in 1975 and was retired in 1995. I worked at NASA Ames and knew some of the controls engineers who came up with the balancing system in the late 1990s. It is great to see it all working and thanks for the tour!

@humorinpolitics56 4 жыл бұрын

I just found your channel a couple weeks ago and I'm really enjoying your content. The new push towards space has me really intrigued and I'm trying to soak up all the information I can. Keep up the great work.

@bami2 4 жыл бұрын

I could listen to the scottish pronunciation of "mirror" for days.

@Malfunct1onM1ke 4 жыл бұрын

*NASA & DLR's SOFIA Telescope - please ;)

@brandonspike 4 жыл бұрын

He did mention DLR in the description

@PedroMarco94 4 жыл бұрын

@@brandonspike and only there.

@swunt10 4 жыл бұрын

@@brandonspike the telescope is DLR, NASA is responsible for the aircraft. so the title is just wrong. very simple.

@x--. 4 жыл бұрын

What is DLR?

@AndreSomers 4 жыл бұрын

@@brandonspike That's still not very... balanced... reporting. As reporting should be. Look, this kind of thing is quite important for the organizations involved. They need to keep up funding, and that is a whole lot easier if you get proper recognition for what you do. Mentions in media are a key part of that, something that is actively tracked and reported on in societal impact reports towards politicians.

@owenhardy7035 4 жыл бұрын

“Perfectly balanced” spiffing Brit intensifies.

@Ondra011 4 жыл бұрын

I love the genuine excitement of the scientist at 11:43, you can tell he's really looking forward to upcoming observations

@chris-hayes 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I wish there was more footage of that guy, listening to someone who's super passionate about a subject is the best way to learn.

@Acid_Burn9 4 жыл бұрын

perfectly balanced telescope with no exploits whatsoever for british empire to find

@Vulcano7965 4 жыл бұрын

longest the DLR logo was shown in a Scott Manley video! :D

@mathiwiekroed3695 4 жыл бұрын

Perfectly balanced - as all scopes should be

@gustavgnoettgen 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, the DLR! Greetings from 🇩🇪

@886014 4 жыл бұрын

Everything old is new again. The original 747 used a sextant to check the inertia navigation instruments. Thanks for that video Scott, I've often wondered how that telescope worked. I never got to fly the "classic"; it was the end of the era unfortunately. However my colleagues speak very highly of it and it's nice to see the old girl getting good use.

@among-us-99999 4 жыл бұрын

When will you do a video about Copenhagen Suborbitals? Manned spaceflight, but completely crowdfunded! They already had many successful unmanned launches.

@ravener96 4 жыл бұрын

they also have the rare honor of having a funding member go on to be a psycho killer.

@LazyLifeIFreak 4 жыл бұрын

If you look hard enough into the history of any given topic of discussion you'll find some pycho killer.

@etbadaboum 4 жыл бұрын

@@ravener96 Epstein?

@Mariano.Bernacki 4 жыл бұрын

@@ravener96 unrelated to the main discussion

@adamrasmussen3521 4 жыл бұрын

@@etbadaboum Peter Madsen, who took a Swedish reporter on his private submarine only to dismember her and drop the pieces in the ocean and then sink the sub. He's a bit of a psycho.

@mvmmotovlogmusic2815 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve know about SOFIA for many years...but where else could we get a close up like this?!?! Thank You Scott Manley .. mVm

@AndreasHontzia 4 жыл бұрын

This plane was shown in "Sendung mit der Maus" (German national TV show for kids (and of course adults :-D)). So you should be able to see a sticker of an orange mouse on the panel, where all signatures are.

@SimplySpace 4 жыл бұрын

It's really cool I get to see SOFIA when it visits NZ during our winter months.

@wastedtalent1625 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, I guess I haven't paid attention to how much your channel has grown in the last few months. Congrats man, 1 mill is right around the corner.

@buckstarchaser2376 4 жыл бұрын

I thought this was going to be a colab with The Spiffing Britt when I read the title.

@PendragonDaGreat 4 жыл бұрын

I've always said that the 747SP is one of the 4 drawings you'll get from a 2nd grader that was just at the airport to show a plane. The others are the B753, A318, and Q400. You got your stubby bois (747SP, A318) your LOOOOOOONG BOI (B753), and a prop plane (Q400). (yes tehre are longer planes than the B753, but it's a long single aisle which gives it a characteristic ratio) You'll also start getting some A380s with todays generation.

@Markle2k 4 жыл бұрын

I dunno, today's generation may not get to see a 380 for long enough to make it stick.

@mattbland2380 4 жыл бұрын

Very impressed that Scott scored an invite aboard SOFIA. Fly safe 👍🚀

@bat2293 4 жыл бұрын

Scott Manley - "Our man in the field reporting". A new Meme is born. Looking forward to your live on board reporting of the first _Crew Dragon_ re-entry.

@Veptis 4 жыл бұрын

I am a thermal imaging enthusiast, especially the LWIR spectrum which is about 7.5 - 13.5 micro wavelengths. SOFIA can avoid the atmosphere and they are able to see even shorter wavelengths. In theory LWIR can be observed from the earths surface. But I don't have any great instruments who ever done it. I am working on doing a proof of concept myself with a modified thermal camera to observe Orion.

@Aviator27J 4 жыл бұрын

I have a coworker who planned SOFIA flights for NASA and we just chatted about it. If you're interested in talking to her I'm sure she could give more info. We both plan airline flights now but her second job for about 20 years was also NASA dispatching. Working onboard SOFIA being the go-to between the flight deck and scientists/engineers would be a fun job! (To clarify though, she didn't fly on it, she planned the route, altitude, fuel load, etc just like we do with our airline. She also planned the U2, Air Force One, and other NASA missions.)

@droppointbaker 4 жыл бұрын

Scott Manley position confirmed: Thanos did nothing wrong.

@needleonthevinyl 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome timing with this video! Sam Chui just released a video on a 747SP private jet, so I went off learning about what a 747SP was, then I learned about this thing. Now I can stop wondering how it works and what it's really like inside. And more importantly why it exists.

@gustavderkits8433 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks for putting this on KZfaq. I can’t believe there is really a “standard tour”.

@MayhemCanuck 4 жыл бұрын

Mighty Plains TV show did a great episode on this, watching a time lapse of the Telescope moving was in fact the plane moving around the telescope. What a great chance to see it up close, lucky guy :)

@vikkimcdonough6153 4 жыл бұрын

Are you going to be doing a video on SOFIA's predecessors ( _Galileo I_ and the KAO)?

@rowlock 4 жыл бұрын

I was there this Saturday too - probably didn't miss you by much. Hope ya had as much fun as we did!

@vicv9503 4 жыл бұрын

Great to see this A/C funded again! I use to see SOFIA left with no funding, parked and all dusty in Plant 42 in the southern part near the blackbird airpark museum near were i live. Those were sad days. I'm jealous of all the young scientist that will get to explore with this baby.

@BrickNewton 4 жыл бұрын

I was lucky enough to have a private tour through the KUIPER flying observatory (the C141 Starlifter) when it was in Christchurch New Zealand when I was a boy, was so much to take in at that age. It was an awesome plane and wish I could remember more about it. Now need to get a tour through SOFIA

@haph2087 4 жыл бұрын

What are the tolerance requirements for the balance of the telescope? At least for the passive balancing mechanism that is.

@matthewbyrd398 3 жыл бұрын

Scott Manley: “These calculations would make for an excellent video game.” Me: *struggles to find the “throw grenade” button in video games*

@arsonor 4 жыл бұрын

I am... well, was... scheduled to fly on SOFIA in June. Everything is on hold for now, but I'll be going later when the rescheduling happens. Thanks for the look inside! My training has included discussion of the way it all comes together and the history, but this is a great sneak peak to my on the ground training to happen later.

@GoomEevee 3 жыл бұрын

The way he said "Perfectly balanced, as all things should be" Gave me chills.

@nkondrashov 4 жыл бұрын

Marvelous! An ultimate mount for airborne telescope placed anywhere you want!

@MrKelseyB 4 жыл бұрын

Timely for me. I woke up to a plane over the house a couple of weeks ago, and checked Flight Aware, and this was it. Cool. I had no idea about it till then, and now I know much more! Thanks!

@thenotflatearth2714 4 жыл бұрын

Normal civilian airlines: please do not use your phones during flight as it might interfere with flight control SOFIA: Entire fuckin mission control and massive telescope with many electrical powered parts

@scottmanley 4 жыл бұрын

Some instruments are subject to interference so they disable the WiFi and microwave overs on the plane.

@Cydonius1 4 жыл бұрын

4:49 Scott Manley auditioning for new LoTR series as a hobbit :O

@ravneiv 4 жыл бұрын

The inertial steadiness is such simple ingeniousness it's amazing. I immediately thought this video would go over the complicated ways of keeping the telescope stable and some tracking algorithm software with crazy feedback control loops and stuff... but nope they just give it a lot of mass and make sure it's balanced and free to move.

@brandonburr4900 4 жыл бұрын

Mark, Fantastic video! Maybe next time they will let you tag along for a mission! More videos like these please! Thanks!

@Jestus13 4 жыл бұрын

I live in the Antelope Valley and I can tell just by the sound when SOFIA takes off over my house. Such an amazing AV!

@ScottMaday 4 жыл бұрын

This telescope has been approved by Thanos

@CodyDockerty 4 жыл бұрын

Was lucky enough to go onboard earlier this year when it was based in Christchurch. It is a very beautiful piece of machinery

@timstoffel4799 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the fascinating tour of SOFIA! I have two friends who occasionally fly on observing missions, and some of what you described has never been explained to me before.

@slick4401 4 жыл бұрын

I remember reading an article in Popular Mechanics on the discovery of the rings of Uranus by the Kuiper Airborne Observatory in 1977. That was Sofia's father.

@christjan08 4 жыл бұрын

I was lucky enough to go for a mission flight in SOFIA back in July. She's based in NZ for June and July and she's becoming a regular sight.

@MrChainsawAardvark 4 жыл бұрын

For a while my dad worked for Goodrich Aviation. One of the major projects he got to work on were the linear actuators that open and close the door that covers the telescope.

@tafftastic 4 жыл бұрын

It’s here in Christchurch, NZ regularly as it does it’s thing in Antarctica. Awesome to see in real life (they allow tours).

@alexlandherr 4 жыл бұрын

You should start doing closeups more often of similar hardware if possible. I liked it very much Scott, thanks!

@Hopeless_and_Forlorn 4 жыл бұрын

So, the bulkhead with the instruments and light tube is now the functional aft pressure bulkhead, and everything aft of it is unpressurized?

@scottmanley 4 жыл бұрын

Yep

@michaelwojczik3740 4 жыл бұрын

Had the opportunity to visit this plane inside as it was in Germany for her first observation flight over Europe this year, incredible technology

@theespatier4456 4 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t there a movie called Scopes on a Plane starring Lawrence Fishburne?

@jpe1 4 жыл бұрын

The Espatier “I’m tired of these perfectly balanced scopes on this perfectly balanced plane!”

@TechyBen 4 жыл бұрын

This is one of those technologies/maths/expertieses... I'm glad someone else is working on. It's amazing, but it makes my head hurt just thinking about all that hard work!

@techexpertsllc296 4 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine from high school works on this. It is pretty neat what they do and how it works.

@remliqa 4 жыл бұрын

Aeroplane don't really excites me that much. But this... does put a smile on my face.

@travisgamble8765 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing video on this unique aircraft! I've always known about SOFIA, but it's wonderful to have been taken inside of it and had it explained. Thanks Scott!

@MililaniJag 4 жыл бұрын

Used to fly her NRT-JFK & SEA-HKG while at UA in the late 80's. Cheers!

@GediMini 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, discount Thanos. That telescope and all the machinery and infrastructure needed for it to work is really amazing.

@alloneword7427 4 жыл бұрын

The knowledge behind this marvelous bit of kit is more than every FE put together can muster.

@laptop006 4 жыл бұрын

@ALPINa85 4 жыл бұрын

An Australian airline called QANTAS had 2 747sp’s and further to that QANTAS once used to maintain SOFIA’s PW engines in the 80’s which not many people know about.

@Fabrizio_Ruffo 4 жыл бұрын

One of my favorites of your videos. I want to know more about that magnetic field stuff.

@Kevin_Street 4 жыл бұрын

So cool! I've never even heard of SOFIA before, but it sounds like a great instrument. It's also fascinating how rugged those old airframes from the 1950's-1970's are. They can just be renovated and reused over and over, for all kinds of purposes.

@bobblum5973 4 жыл бұрын

"...I'm Scott Manley. Fly safe." Even when the door is open at near sonic speeds! Thanks for being our tour guide, Scott.

@thomashill1340 4 жыл бұрын

I wasn't expecting the thanos quote at the end. I'm sattisfied with watching this entire video.

@tylerhensley2312 4 жыл бұрын

I have to ask the question, why didn't they make the telescope go vertical out of the top instead of out of the side?

@artemius8442 4 жыл бұрын

Is this a new game? :o Spiffing would approve. :P

@TyMoore95503 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Scott for that awesome report. I have never seen SOFIA in person but I read many technical reports in college, as I am also an "All Things Space Related" Geek!

@Turvok 4 жыл бұрын

I don't know how you get access to some of this stuff. this was great i'm happy that you did! Really interesting.

@karadan100 4 жыл бұрын

I love the fact you go to these places to report on awesome science.

@ZacLowing 4 жыл бұрын

Can the dual-fuselage Stratolaunch get a payload pod with a bigger telescope? Might that platform have performance advantages?

@DanielSmith-wq5qe 4 жыл бұрын

As an engineering student I found this fascinating!

@Inexpressable 4 жыл бұрын

I learned about infrared telescopes from a lecture I randomly watched from Walter Lewin. He was talking about having to send up balloons and whatnot, but a plane certainly seems like a solid way of doing it. Interesting video

@skaltura 4 жыл бұрын

You need better mic setup. Tim Dodd / Everyday Astronaut seems to have this nailed (based on elon musk interview). Amazing stuff! NASA seems to do so much more than you'd expect, and more info about this stuff needs to be looked at. It's not all about just rockets at all what they do.