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i take photos and read one piece
Joined September 2020
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Share any BLUE photos you might have! 💙💙💙.
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i fuckin hate spacex man. legitimate step forward in rocket science but bcus theyre owned by a baby its "mechazilla caught the falcon!!!! scientists airdropped by roflcopter to examine le epic landing zone".
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@PopBase The Democratic Party has no one to blame but themselves for losing this election, I’m glad Bernie is calling them out for it.
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@poondaYZY life if Kanye could still write complete songs and finish albums and put it all out on time
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Honestly in awe of Block 1 Superheavy. This thing is able to loft a bigger upper stage with 300 tons of extra propellant + mass simulator payloads and still return to the launch site for a high precision landing. Genuinely an incredible machine.
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If you’re working on a Falcon 9 competitor right now, I’d really just take a second to think about what that means right now.
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@crape711 You may be too concerned with whether or not something feels "cringe" or "reddit". They're happy and they're having fun with it, that's all that matters. If you wanna be miserable about how other people have harmless fun, then keep your misery to yourself.
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I just love when the rocket exhaust has that thing that glows a little ways after the nozzle (idk what it’s called but it looks so cool!)
And the rockets' red glare! Thankful for our freedoms. 🇺🇸🔥🚀 #HappyFourthofJuly #IndependenceDay #FFSC
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Lmfao Elon gonna personally cancel SLS if Trump wins 💀.
TRUMP JUST NOW: . “Elon, because he’s not really busy, has agreed to head this new task force.”. Trump claims the new Government Efficiency Commission, headed by Elon Musk, would drastically reform and audit every government agency and save trillions over the next decade.
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My favourite one from the Flickr, so good
A first look at more photos captured by the Polaris Dawn crew during their five day mission orbiting Earth →
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ACTIVE COOLING??? ALREADY???? 😭😭😭
Starship’s sixth flight test aimed to push the vehicle to its limits as we iterate towards a rapidly reusable rocket. Up next: a new ship, new year, and new limits. Excitement still guaranteed →
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Pls don’t be afraid to have a foreground in your rocket photos, it can genuinely add so much. I just personally love that style of launch photo
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The way scale on the moon just makes no sense is so scary, like I have no idea how high up this thing is at any point in this video until it actually lands.
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- uses cryogens for the first time in cis lunar space.- has star tracker issues, patches them immediately.- laser system that was key to landing successfully fails, nbd just come up with a completely new approach using some LIDAR instrument.- first American landing since Apollo17
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Kids in ten years are really gonna be sayin “tf u mean rockets got thrown in the ocean?? Why didn’t they just catch em?”.
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Ouuuu here’s the trajectory for ship RTLS
The FAA is releasing a Revised Draft Environmental Assessment for public review and comment. The FAA will hold public meetings on @SpaceX's revised proposal to increase the number of launches and landings of Starship/Super Heavy in Boca Chica, TX.
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In terms of cinematography I think this is their best one yet. Felt like making a thread of my favourite shots out of appreciation. I love that these guys care enough to put this much effort into these, it’s not going unnoticed.
Starship’s fifth flight test was a seminal moment in iterating towards a fully and rapidly reusable launch system. Next up: the sixth flight test of Starship is targeted to launch as early as Monday, November 18 →
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Dude they’re 100% bringing a ship back next year, the control here is crazy. It definitely didn’t blow up from the landing, must’ve been FTS or just from it tipping over.
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Peregrine every 30 hours:
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The way the satellite deploys and reveals the earth behind it
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Quite funny if the FAA was pressed about the hot stage ring drop location, so SpaceX just said “fuck it, fine we’ll just go get it back then” and that’s how you get an October launch.
HOS Ridgewind has recovered the Hot Staging Ring that was jettisoned during Flight 5.
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The fact that the engine just came back to life for landing burn was so sick though lmao.
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Are they fr playing chicken with the FAA rn 😭??? Cause what is all this PR bro 💀.
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It wasn't very long ago that the SpaceX FAA relationship was so good that they managed to have two falcon 9 anomalies and return to flight within a matter of days both times. It seems like something's changed, I think there's a real animosity here now. .
The FAA is proposing a fine of SpaceX for two Falcon license violations. -For launch control from HangarX and removing a poll at T-2h without approval . - For launching using an unapproved propellant farm. Combined $633,009.
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Publicly announced Starship missions so far:.- Polaris 3.- Dear Moon.- 2Dear 2Moon.- HLS Demo.- Artemis 3.- Artemis 4.- Superbird 9.- FLEX Rover mission.- Starlab 8m module.- Gravitics 8m module.- Vast 8m module.- 1 starbillion starlink flights.
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The ticket America really needs:. Kelly/Kelly 2024 would sweep
Is Kelly for VP just spitter headcanon or a fr thing that might be happening?.
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> Set unrealistic deadline for Moon landing. > Put TikTok ban in motion. > Fumble the next election. > The guy who beats you winds up responsible for failing to land on the Moon and banning TikTok. > Win the next election, immediately unban TikTok, probably land on the Moon.
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Starship is absolutely going to work lmao, you'd have to be delusional or feigning ignorance to doubt it at this point.
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I love that people were getting pissy about the fictional scenario where they waste food by launching 100 tons of banana into the Indian Ocean, meanwhile they were donating to a food bank 💀.
Thank you @Chiquita for the special donation to Starbase and @foodbankRGV. A great way to celebrate our recent Starship flight test!
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Top 2 image produced by the starship program so far, straight up alien technology.
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If Booster 12 ends up getting caught successfully on the next flight I really hope they plan on preserving and displaying it somewhere by Starfactory, just like B1019 at Hawthorne. Just hoping it doesn’t get the SN5, SN6, SN15 treatment…
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Notes from Jeff tour:.- Jeff is a big nerd.- Targeting 16 day turnaround on New Glenn S1 .- hoping to eliminate/ minimize entry burn.- comical amount of ITAR blur 😭.- reusable second stage under dev kinda(?) but also not necessarily gonna happen? 💀.- BE4 every 3 days next year.
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A worlds fair at starbase would be the coolest thing to have ever happened ever.
Trump says he will bring back a “world fair” to celebrate 250 years of American independence. What would you want to see exhibited at the fair? .
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@JacobOller I love stuff like this, it's probably what the Star Wars universe felt like in the 70s and 80s before every blade of grass had a wiki page lol.
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This whole section where it’s transitioning to subsonic bellyflop and it looks like it basically removed most of its velocity parallel to the ground was my favourite part of flight 6. It looks like it just stopped in mid air! I love watching the GNC work!!
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On a side note, I just really like this as a photo lol. Idk the composition, the lighting, the sense of awe and drama?? It just works.
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Real life asteroid mining company getting ready to put hardware in deep space btw.
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Odds Starship ends up with an actively cooled metallic heat shield by the end of 2025? 💀.
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@Jxccson Someday the real guy in that profile pic is gonna find this account and see what you done to him 💀.
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Really cool early SpaceX vibes from Boom, small scrappy team pouring energy into a focused singular mission. All just genuinely excited and passionate about the work they’re doing.
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What voodoo witchcraft did they do to stage zero between fight 4 and 5 to make this possible? 😭.
Flight 6 Super Heavy booster moved to the Starbase pad for testing. The move comes just one week after returning the first booster caught following launch
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@SciGuySpace @Orbital_Perigee “Eric Berger’s sources are lying to him and can’t be trusted”. Eric Berger’s sources:
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the falcon 9 team is just so absurdly cracked.
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Genuine question, why does it take two weeks to fuel?.
#Starliner fueling is now underway for the Crew Flight Test. The propellant loading process will take about two weeks, after which final closeout activities will prep the spacecraft for its trek to the launch site at @ulalaunch. Learn more:
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Still can’t believe the ice issue just disappeared lol, they just fixed it and now it’s gone 😭. Ppl made it sound like some insurmountable obstacle that would take a full redesign of the engine, but it’s just gone now 💀.
33 Raptor engines powering the Super Heavy booster off the pad from Starbase 🔥🔥🔥
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Lars: "Flaps have control of the vehicle".Me:
Glad the recap video editors understood how cool Lars Blackmore’s callouts were, hearing what he was saying might’ve been one of my favourite parts of flight 4 🔥.
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Still so funny how they just casually had a tile that was twice as strong and an ablative secondary material just ready to go lol.
Starship 30 with a new improved heatshield has been lifted onto the static fire transport stand tonight for movement to Massey's test site tomorrow. 7/20/24
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I wonder what it feels like in an aircraft that’s rapidly losing so much mass? What’s it like to fly it as it happens?.
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The interiors on Starliner and Orion. Imagine in the 21st century you get the opportunity to build a goddam spaceship, and you make zero effort to make the experience of riding it special. I cannot fathom the minds that signed off on that. Embarrassing stuff
What is something in spaceflight that you can’t stand and hate aesthetically?.
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- Launches a falcon heavy.- launches a falcon nine a few hours later, cause why not.- finishes engine testing on the most powerful launch vehicle ever made, for the third time this year
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@CosmonautMarcus Hollywood is gonna implode when they find another young actor who did gymnastics.
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Dragon 2 capabilities:.- Crew and Cargo to/from space station with autonomous docking.- Free flying LEO missions with cupola .- EVA capable.- Polar orbits.- up to 1400km apogee .- space station reboosting. How much more is gonna get added to this list b4 starship takes over? 😭.
Dragon completed its first @Space_Station reboost capability demonstration, firing its Draco thrusters for ~12.5 minutes to adjust the station’s orbit.
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Random ass SpaceX update on sonic booms, but I think this is prolly the most important paragraph:
Sonic booms announce the return of rockets and spacecraft built to be reused. With Starship, they’ll signal the arrival of a rapidly reusable future in spaceflight →
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Ended it with a banger interplanetary mission 🫡.
Due to the additional performance required to deliver Hera to interplanetary transfer orbit, this is the 23rd and final mission for this Falcon 9 first stage booster.
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Idk I prefer the Star Trek "go explore, learn, and be good neighbours" motivation for going to space than the Avatar "bulldoze everything and extract resources" fuckery. That's really not the exciting future I wanna build.
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Just now setting in that they could probably do the propellant transfer demo next year using the same booster to launch both ships in rapid succession… catching could already unlock that.
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Folks in this community talk a lot about the American Shuttle vs the Soviet Buran, but they seldom mention the British Shuttle and I think that’s a bit unfortunate. It deserves appreciation too
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The obvious critiques aside, I think knowing the potential next NASA administrator isn’t a career politician but someone who cares a lot about space exploration (both science and human Spaceflight) is something to be excited about.(imo).
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HOOOOOOLY SHITTY THEY DROPPED IT.
Starship flip maneuver and landing burn on its fifth flight test. Vehicle improvements ensured flaps were protected from high heating, resulting in a controlled entry and high accuracy splashdown at the targeted area in the Indian Ocean
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The pressure on the SpaceX HLS team has to be pretty crazy, they really cannot afford for the un-crewed demo landing to be funky at all. The scrutiny from NASA and the public is gonna be insane.
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Very tired of the Eric Berger slander, anyone with their head screwed on right can see that he does a fine job reporting honestly. It just happens that some companies consistently do things well and that some others don’t, so he tells the story. It’s just pattern recognition lol.
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Yo I did not know starship life support hardware/ sensors were flown on Polaris dawn!!.
Enjoyed speaking w/ @EdLudlow. We touched on @PolarisProgram but focused on @SpaceX—their incredible talent, the challenges they tackle & how they inspire entrepreneurs & engineers to solve big problems for humanity. The world & our nation need more companies like SpaceX, they.
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Ong you guys are so stupid. Everyone's fixated on one guy accidentally making a hand gesture while like a hundred executive orders are being signed rn that you're not paying attention to. Real shit is happening tn, personally I think this matters a LOT more.
🚨 President Trump signs an Executive Order unleashing Alaska's potential as an energy reservoir for the entire nation
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In hindsight it’s very funny that SpaceX bought two whole ass oil rigs all the way back in 2020 thinking “yeah we’ll be needing these ASAP” lmao
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Twitter users will really try to convince you this masterpiece of a rocket is “boring”. Just look at how perfectly everything works! Every time!!! It’s so fucking sick 🔥.
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I’m actually still in awe of the fact that the one politician who seems to actually have been interested enough to learn how spaceflight works used that knowledge for evil lol. Like how many other politicians would even know what a depot is and why it’s good? Straight villain.
Digging through some old notes. Found this quote from a few years ago from a senior academic engineering source at the time. "Senator Shelby called NASA and said if he hears one more word about propellant depots he’s going to cancel the space technology program.".
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Massive improvement on the TPS tiles holy shit.
Despite the overcast conditions, Ryan got one of the best shots of Starship I've ever seen!!! Another teaser at Max Q from our 8" tracking scope w/ our @RED_Cinema Komodo X. Our continual upgrades (thanks to all of your support) are paying off!!! MORE TO COME! - @considercosmos
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“B13 did nothing wrong” mfs when I ask them who knocked over the antenna 🤨
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Live footage from the boats in question:
New liftoff time is 8:02 a.m. CT, team is clearing a few boats from the keep out area in the Gulf of Mexico.
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How it feels waking up every morning knowing that there’s at least two companies trying really hard to build fully reusable rockets.
This is why we started from day 1 thinking hard about rapidly reusable heat shields. It’s metallic, ductile, and the surface temperature is tailorable and controllable well below material limits. It certainly hasn’t been to space (or back) yet, but to the best ability on earth
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Would love some clarity on what’s happening to the Polaris program now. Is it over? Is it just on break for 4 years? Can it continue but without Jared himself flying up? Personally don’t think that’s a bad option.
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“Just one more environmental review bro, 60 more days bro. We just gotta check that again bro, just two more months. Yeah we checked it already but I just wanna be super extra sure yk. Just give me till September bro, actually maybe November”
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The new SpaceX comms strategy of not responding to requests for comment but then just dropping an essay directly responding to claims is… interesting. Not sure if it’s the right or wrong way to do things but we’ll see.
CNBC’s story on Starship’s launch operations in South Texas is factually inaccurate. Starship’s water-cooled flame deflector system is critical equipment for SpaceX’s launch operations. It ensures flight safety and protects the launch site and surrounding area. Also known as.
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Oh yeah when I was at KSC visitors centre earlier this week I saw this tiny lil rendering of starship landing on the moon and got excited. Took forever for it to loop back to that part so I could film it lmao
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Tory’s tweet reminded me that after Raptor 2 was revealed a few years ago, a lotta folks said SpaceX was being misleading by showing an incomplete engine, but now we know it wasn’t really that far off. I think Raptor 3 might really just be that clean…
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???? WHAT???.
Starship’s fifth flight test is preparing to launch as soon as October 13, pending regulatory approval →
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If the FAA has the excess resources to go snooping for ways to fine completely safe operations that pose no threat to the public, maybe they don't need 60 days to figure out how likely it is that a hunk of metal is gonna smack into some tuna.
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It’s so satisfying how the heating on the flaps becomes visible pretty much exactly at 100km altitude.
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2024 is gonna be the year of the Dragon in more ways than one: AX-3, AX-4, Crew 8, Crew 9, CRS 30, CRS 31, CRS 32, and Polaris Dawn!
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Mars got a little closer today.
Commander @rookisaacman has egressed Dragon and is going through the first of three suit mobility tests that will test overall hand body control, vertical movement with Skywalker, and foot restraint
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If Raptor is just stupidly overpowered to the point where they have to pull shit like this to take full advantage of it… How long until they just admit they need to make it wider 💀.
“150 meters” That absolutely had to be a mistake, I refuse to believe this is actually something they’re considering
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