Andrew Hanna

U.S. policy in Outer Space and Earth. Bad (personal) takes | formerly SFRC, USIP, and POLITICO

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

Oh you’re a Middle East “expert?” Then differentiate for me when an Umm Kulthum song actually ends versus when people just start wildly cheering on the recording. Without looking at the time stamp.

[Greg Autry🚀 @GregWAutry]

@SciGuySpace The Stoke pad is ready at the Cape. I’ve seen that. Impressively simple.

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

i long for the days when my situational awareness was not flagged

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

my current dream is to be forgotten to be cc’d on an email

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

Exactly a week ago, China pulled off a genuinely impressive feat. It became not only the second country in the world to land a reusable booster but did so in a technologically innovative way using a sea-based arresting net.

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge that China’s achievement was genuinely impressive. But all indicators are pointing in the wrong direction. US launch for 2026 is expected to go down for the first time since 2019. The “launch crunch” is arriving at precisely the worst moment.

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

3️⃣ Countermove directly with 🇯🇵 : Tokyo and Washington should immediately initiate talks on the legal framework needed to enable US launch from Japanese spaceports.

Read more in @TheNatlInterest

https://t.co/dgYjDeadLf

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

2️⃣Respond multilaterally with allies through the proposed Artemis Alliance. NATO allies launched their own multinational HALO initiative in Ankara this month without the US.

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

It was a pleasure to have @NASA top civil servant Amit Kshatriya at @stoke_space HQ to see our first flight hardware! Can’t wait to deepen the partnership with NASA even more in the coming months and years.

[Andy Lapsa @AndyLapsa]

Great to host NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya at our HQ last week, just in time to see the aft module fit up to stage 1!🚀🚀

[Andy Lapsa @AndyLapsa]

Great to host NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya at our HQ last week, just in time to see the aft module fit up to stage 1!🚀🚀

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

Happy to see @stoke_space on the list!!

[GeekWire @geekwire]

NASA backs dozens of projects on the space frontier, including some with Northwest connections https://t.co/nh4meQYJhe

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

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[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

Excited to see this new partnership between @stoke_space and @NASA to advance our S2 reentry and GNC.

We can’t wait to get started with @NASAAmes and @NASALangley to accelerate the future of fully reusable rockets! LFG 🚀

more to come 👀

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

Saved last Sunday’s paper so I could do this. Looking good @seattletimes !!

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36 involving Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. 

Spaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult. We will work with our partners to support a thorough investigation of this anomaly, assess near-term mission impacts, and get back to launching rockets.

We will provide information on any impacts to the Artemis and Moon Base programs as it becomes available.

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

LFG

[Stoke Space @stoke_space]

The coolest "silo" in Eastern WA... is a Stage 1 rocket structure.🤘

Enjoy this footage of all the testing happening in Moses Lake, from structural qualification to engine hot fires.

[Stoke Space @stoke_space]

The coolest "silo" in Eastern WA... is a Stage 1 rocket structure.🤘

Enjoy this footage of all the testing happening in Moses Lake, from structural qualification to engine hot fires.

[Andy Lapsa @AndyLapsa]

Hey that's a neat truck

[Andrew Hanna @AndrewBHanna]

*me listening to my spotify all time top songs playlist*

yep every single one of these are bangers no misses

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

@Kenny_J_Miller @NASA @NASAArtemis Engineers investigated a sensor on the launch abort system’s attitude control motor controller battery that showed a higher temperature than would be expected. It is believed to be an instrumentation issue and will not affect today’s launch.