SciShow: The Record-Breaking Rocket You've Never Heard Of

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Content of the Lesson: If you're going to be a world-record holder in the Space Age, why not be tiny instead of giant! JAXA's SS-520-5 is the smallest rocket to ever achieve Earth orbit. Check out the SciShow Pin of the Month here: https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishowFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2018/04/20180427_guinness.html https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/missions/sounding_rockets/ss-520.html https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4120&context=smallsat https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8190154/ https://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/f_sounding.html https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/files/SRHB.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/tracers/rockets.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Series_(rocket_family) https://spaceflight101.com/ss-520-4-rocket-launches-on-experimental-mission/ https://spaceflight101.com/japan-ss-520-5-launch-success/ https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/02/japanese-rocket-record-borbital-launch/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-orbital_spaceflight https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cubesats/overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat https://www.space.com/34324-cubesats.html https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12567-020-00298-5 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/834/10-things-cubesats-going-farther/ https://www.space.com/suborbital-orbital-flight.html https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/rocket/rktrflght.html https://www.space.com/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-the-soyuz-spacecraft-k-4 https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-was-the-saturn-v-58.html https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/launch-vehicle/atlas-v-rocket/ https://www.businessinsider.com/compare-human-launch-rockets-sizes-sls-starship-soyuz-falcon-shepard-2022-9 https://www.newsweek.com/sls-vs-starship-stats-nasa-spacex-moon-mars-artemis-1688962 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/sls-4071_-_sls_reference_guide_2022_v5_508_0.pdf Images: https://images.nasa.gov/details/NHQ201704170027 https://youtu.be/TbUhlxYD02Y https://blogs.nasa.gov/Rocketology/tag/sls/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/tag/vehicle-assembly-building/page/2/ https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sls-in-full-view-inside-the-vab https://www.youtube.com/live/CMLD0Lp0JBg?feature=share https://www.gettyimages.com https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/337/what-was-the-saturn-v/ https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/rocketpark/saturn_v.html https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/spacecraft/launch-vehicle/summary/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soyuz_TMA-5_launch.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/benefits/observing-our-planet-from-low-earth-orbit https://youtu.be/mFdNcCsmYyI https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2023/image-feature/nasa-launches-two-sounding-rockets-for-tech-research https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mesure_du_fond_avec_la_sonde_sur_une_fr%C3%A9gate-Morel_Fatio-img_3163.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/oflittleinterest/7353564716/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starlink_4-34_Launch_(7574595).jpeg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/tracers/rockets.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ncube2.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/content/what-are-smallsats-and-cubesats https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/26563127467/in/photostream/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CubeSats_launched_by_ISS_Expedition_33.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/orion-stage-adapter-readied-for-ride-on-artemis-i https://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology/multimedia/lunahmap.html https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/sls-block1-cargo-leaves-earth.html https://youtu.be/FFkKaBxQ214


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