Alex

Aiming for the Moon 🌖
Co-founder @Instinct__Space YC W25

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

So excited to finally share what we’ve been building at Instinct. Moon travel is about to get a lot easier 🚀

[Instinct | YC W25 @Instinct__Space]

Today, we're sharing how Instinct is making lunar transport routine.

Getting to the Moon costs $100M and a dedicated launch. We rideshare to orbit, then fly the rest of the way, delivering 20kg at half the cost per kg.

Fly with us 📷 https://t.co/x9OQjT2h7T

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

@100MBTC Thank you! We are building what we wish existed today 🚀

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

So excited to finally share what we’ve been building at Instinct. Moon travel is about to get a lot easier 🚀

[Instinct | YC W25 @Instinct__Space]

Today, we're sharing how Instinct is making lunar transport routine.

Getting to the Moon costs $100M and a dedicated launch. We rideshare to orbit, then fly the rest of the way, delivering 20kg at half the cost per kg.

Fly with us 📷 https://t.co/x9OQjT2h7T

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

@Samuelai_Qauntu Exactly! We don't want to design around future potential prices. If we build something good now it will be even better when launch becomes cheaper!

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

@Jinglexvector @Instinct__Space Soon enough lunar missions will feel like they happen every other Wednesday!

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

How exactly are we going to the Moon? If you are curious I wrote a more detailed deep-dive into our lunar plans here:
https://t.co/KgKRPO4NVV

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

Had a great time sharing our story with @payloadspace !

[Instinct | YC W25 @Instinct__Space]

It was great to share our plans and story with @payloadspace ! You can read the full story about how we are going to the Moon here: https://t.co/4A9uF5TPXf 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

@Instinct__Space Lesgoooo we are going to make it so easy to travel to the Moon! :)))

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

Turns out we had all the equipment in the office to do some schlieren imaging!

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

@cmflanne Nice mach diamonds on the inverse Rao though!

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

@DJSnM I once asked ChatGPT about the turbopumps of the RD-107 and it’s only reference was my own Reddit comment from the day before stating my own assumptions about that very question (which it presented as facts)

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

Waking up to the Claude news today

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

I LOVE ITAR I LOVE ITAR I LOVE ITAR

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.

Here’s what this means for you:

Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error.

On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models.

We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

@brwnguywitename Did you tell it to not make any mistakes?

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

The day onshape adds a grid like fusion 360 all my anger will go away

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

YC is the YC for hard tech :)

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Sam Altman deserves credit for YC's turn toward hard tech. When he became CEO in 2014 he went out and recruited companies doing stuff like airliners and fusion, and hard tech startups have been some of the best in every batch since.

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

@dpoddolphinpro So many European companies working on launch vehicles… wonder how many will survive

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

SpaceX knows the importance of lunar infrastructure. A multi-trillion-dollar economic opportunity!

[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

@___Dario_____ I don’t like to publicly complain about other companies but xometry and protolabs prices are insulting

[Lachlan Chavasse 🦄 @lachlan_xyz]

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[Alex @Alex__Pinel]

@AStarryDawn It’s demonstrably impossible to enjoy valves