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Things with wings and / or rocket engines

[Chez @Chezentery]

Since I’ve never properly explained, here’s a quick thread to explain what I’m actually attempting, hopefully my posts make some sense now!

The project is a 1/60th Scale, mostly 3d printed, thrust vector controlled starship!

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[Blobifi @Blobifie]

HOLY MOTHER FUCKING SHIT

[Luca 🪐 @AstraNeo_]

> comically low TWR
> coasts for 3-5 business days after staging

go my gravity losses queen

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Chez @Chezentery]

Welcome home Artemis 2 !!

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Artemis II: AOS with the crew!

[NASA @NASA]

"Welcome to my old neighborhood." Our @NASAArtemis II astronauts woke up on the sixth day of their mission to a special message recorded in 2025 by astronaut Jim Lovell, the pilot of Apollo 8.

[Max Evans @_MaxQ_]

(HEADPHONE WARNING)

Come take a seat inside the gates of Launch Complex 39B to watch & listen as SLS and her crew of four take to the skies, destined for the moon on the Artemis II mission.

Lots to break down in the audio - from the HPU's chuffing away, the ROFI's popping, and the poor microphone taking the acoustic brunt of four RS-25 engines and a pair of five-segment solid rocket boosters.

Come check it!

📸 - @NASASpaceflight

[Chez @Chezentery]

@ThePrimalDino Visibility I think, same reason the worms moved

[Chez @Chezentery]

Given this talk, rumours of a SpaceX IPO being true wouldn't surprise me.

He's probably convinced there are now profit motives strong enough to make space colonisation more than a philanthropic effort

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A major additional factor should be considered.

Satellites with localized AI compute, where just the results are beamed back from low-latency, sun-synchronous orbit, will be the lowest cost way to generate AI bitstreams in <3 years.

And by far the fastest way to scale within 4 years, because easy sources of electrical power are already hard to find on Earth. 1 megaton/year of satellites with 100kW per satellite yields 100GW of AI added per year with no operating or maintenance cost, connecting via high-bandwidth lasers to the Starlink constellation.

The level beyond that is constructing satellite factories on the Moon and using a mass driver (electromagnetic railgun) to accelerate AI satellites to lunar escape velocity without the need for rockets. That scales to >100TW/year of AI and enables non-trivial progress towards becoming a Kardashev II civilization.

[What about it!? @FelixSchlang]

Aftermath of the Booster 18 test anomaly at Massey's test site.
More photos coming soon. Thank you to @redlineheli for getting us airborne this morning!

📸: @Jordanguidry6

[Chez @Chezentery]

@Blobifie @jackywacky_3 Block 5 just to be safe

[Chez @Chezentery]

@BSF42069 They’ll have it cryoproofed and ready to static fire by this evening

[Chez @Chezentery]

Ah, so V3 is cursed even harder than V2, that’s great

[Starship Gazer @StarshipGazer]

A full view of super heavy booster 18's catastrophic damage during testing tonight. Very significant damage to the entire LOX tank section.

11/21/25

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Booster 18, the first Super Heavy V3, is beginning prelaunch testing. The first operations will test the booster's redesigned propellant systems and its structural strength

[Boca Bingo Infographics @BingoBoca]

So I guess #B18 isn't flying anymore huh? My guesses:

- GSE failure
- Procedure error
- Bad weld
- Fatal design flaw

Source: LabPadre RocketRanch camera stream

[Yatharth Mann @yatharthmann]

TEN YEARS

[Blobifi @Blobifie]

Donald Trump will bring about a golden age of spaceflight!!

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Like any good pilot, despite the turbulence, he stuck the landing.

[Chez @Chezentery]

YES!

[Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman]

Thank you, Mr. President @POTUS, for this opportunity. It will be an honor to serve my country under your leadership. I am also very grateful to @SecDuffy, who skillfully oversees @NASA alongside his many other responsibilities.

The support from the space-loving community has been overwhelming. I am not sure how I earned the trust of so many, but I will do everything I can to live up to those expectations.

To the innovators building the orbital economy, to the scientists pursuing breakthrough discoveries and to dreamers across the world eager for a return to the Moon and the grand journey beyond--these are the most exciting times since the dawn of the space age-- and I truly believe the future we have all been waiting for will soon become reality.

And to the best and brightest at NASA, and to all the commercial and international partners, we have an extraordinary responsibility--but the clock is running. The journey is never easy, but it is time to inspire the world once again to achieve the near-impossible--to undertake and accomplish big, bold endeavors in space...and when we do, we will make life better here at home and challenge the next generation to go even further.

NASA will never be a caretaker of history--but will forever make history.

Godspeed, President Donald J. Trump, and Godspeed NASA, as America leads the greatest adventure in human history 🇺🇸