POV: You and a few thousand friends spent many more thousands of hours making the most powerful rocket in human history and today it flew for the first time.
Starship and Super Heavy loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant in a rehearsal ahead of Flight 4. Launch is targeted as early as June 5, pending regulatory approval
In a filing with the FAA re SpaceX's proposed use of pad 39A for Starship, Blue Origin asks for a cap on "the rate of Ss-SH launch, landing, and other operations, including but not limited to test firings, transport operations, and fueling." 1/2
It was an absolute honor to work with the incredible other engineers and technicians to do this work and the work we get to do every day, no part of this mission is done alone :)
God this is completely disingenuous. It’s a cubesat no bigger than a lunchbox on which people can pay to change the colors of pixels on a tiny screen. You wont be able to see it from the ground even with a powerful telescope. We won’t be projecting beer ads into the sky fuck sake
Elon Musk is going to launch a satellite that displays ads in space, reports
@BusinessInsider
.
He is one of several billionaires investing vast sums on the space race. SpaceX will launch the satellite with a display screen in 2022. Ad space will be bought using cryptocurrency.
These videos will live with me forever as a reminder of one of the coolest experiences of a lifetime. A beach full of rocket designers, builders, simulators, and so many countless other roles necessary to make this thing fly. Next time, orbit.
As Fly Me to the Moon rolls out over the dunes in Boca, the largest rocket in the world is stacked, and tears roll foes my cheeks. What an unbelievable sight to witness.
Some of you were asking what a day in the life of an intern at starbase looks like, so I figured I’d drop it here🥰
5:15am: wake up😤
6:20am: leave for work🤪🚘
7am-9pm: W̵̫̅h̴̝́â̶͍̪ṱ̸͔͚͋͝ ̵̥́t̵̳̙̂ĥ̶́͜e̵̜̅ ̸̡͂̓́f̸̬͙̉̈́͂u̵̜̝̗̐͊c̶̟͚͕͛̈́͠k̴͍͘
10pm: skincare routine and sleep🤗🤗
I must be one of the luckiest people in the world, getting to see things I worked on functioning like this is absolutely surreal. I can’t wait to see what’s next
Last day of my internship in Boca is done, what an amazing summer. I learned more than I could have ever imagined in the past three months. Now I just have to survive a few more months of school before coming back full time!
12 year olds on here love to do the most intense graphic design and renderings for their Aerospace Company named like Aurelius or some shit, and then what they actually make is an Aquafina bottle filled with tiki torch fuel with a PLA printed nozzle and they blow their arms off.
I started almost 7 years ago in the fall of 2015 with the goal to propulsively land a model rocket. I had no background in aero, EE, coding, etc so it took a lot of trial and error, but today I finally stuck the landing 🚀🎉
The
#MarsHelicopter
executed Flight 72 on Jan. 18, but on its descent, communication between Ingenuity and
@NASAPersevere
terminated prior to touchdown. The team is analyzing available data and considering next steps to reestablish comms.
My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me.
To the people of DMing me (or any other SpaceXers) asking me to identify the purpose of proprietary hardware you see in pictures taken over the fences at Starbase: don’t :)
NASA awards Aerojet Rocketdyne $AJRD with a contract worth up to $600 million to develop the Orion Main Engine, for up to 20 new engines – with the first six Orion missions featuring refurbished engines from the Space Shuttle program.
NASA press release:
From the beginning, New Shepard was designed to fly above the Kármán line so none of our astronauts have an asterisk next to their name. For 96% of the world’s population, space begins 100 km up at the internationally recognized Kármán line.
Wow... December 2022 (420 ppm CO2) was 0.20°C cooler than December 1987 (350 ppm CO2)... despite a doubling of manmade CO2 (280 ppm pre-industrial). h/t
@tan123
CO2 warming is a hoax.