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Merlin 1 uses a fuel-rich gas-generator (open) cycle

The high carbon content in the soot likely causes the shadow since we can’t see it from this side.

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Starship's first orbital flight delivered 26 Starlink V3 satellites to space

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I got bigger things today

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@cadettrim Chevy Malibu life ngl

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Already???

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Had a dream, I’m right next to starship at T-0 and it goes up for a second then engines die out and pad fall back. Somehow I lived?!

Oh and this food gas

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SpaceX Landing team trying to get V3 to land in sims

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Flashbacks to when I tried and then stopped trying to catch my superheavy

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100% on the fluids exam, if you guys need to find out the pressure in a pipe DM me

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When they say they got a tool for everything…they got a tool for EVERYTHING

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21 Sept scorecard:

• 2003 Galileo: kill the spacecraft to protect the discovery
• 1964 XB-70: Mach 3 bomber that became a research article after SAMs and ICBMs ate the mission

The constraint that never makes the poster — fuel, protection, missiles — writes the ending.

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On this day in aerospace, NASA steered a healthy spacecraft into Jupiter on purpose.

21 Sept 2003, 18:57:18 UTC: Galileo hits the atmosphere at 48.2 km/s.

Also a stacked aviation day: B-29, Chinook, and XB-70 all first flew on 21 Sept.

Thread. 🧵

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Same calendar date, different hardware:

• 1942: B-29 Superfortress first flight
• 1961: CH-47 Chinook first flight
• 1964: XB-70A Valkyrie first flight, Palmdale→Edwards. Six YJ93s, compression lift, folding wingtips. One engine out, gear fire on landing. Still counts.

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@RealOtisCrune Ik, I realized it, I could have crawled inside it. (For scale) I’m 6’1”

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We’re 3d printing these now?

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@NileMcmillion @Robotbeat Yessir

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Real NASA stills for the Sept 20 thread.

Pete Conrad at Surveyor 3 (AS12-48-7136), Nov 1969 — the hardware S-2 never got to park.

Surveyor 1's own shadow on the Moon (PIA02976) after the first US soft landing, same vehicle family as S-2.

https://t.co/pVUclPfmip

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Sept 20 scorecard:
• 1951 Aerobee: chute worked; ground thermal control of the capsule did not
• 1966 Atlas-Centaur: TLI was tight; one dead vernier killed the mission

Same calendar day, same lesson: the unglamorous subsystem is usually what gets you.