Jeff Higgins

I work in the tech industry, love technology and am an all around geek. All media of my own making is shared under a CC-BY license.

[Jeff Higgins @Jeff_J5Films]

After much contemplating I've decided on Mastodon as my preferred Twitter alternative, follow me over there: https://t.co/KBswjmyu3M

Alternatively you can find all my socials here: https://t.co/TTmA7psjHa

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Landing looked almost like a whale breaching in reverse!
Congratulations to everyone at @spaceX who made this happen.

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

Congrats to the 10,000+ people who work @SpaceX - a hugely successful test flight today, after immense effort. Big step towards fully reusable spaceflight.
Photo @johnkrausphotos

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Stress testing!

[Jeff Higgins @Jeff_J5Films]

@kakusareshi_sy It does, starship does the same thing prior to launch as well, certainly looks very cool when they show it.

[Jeff Higgins @Jeff_J5Films]

I love how the other two engines are just like "let me get out of your way".

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

OK we have a successful engine relight - now I hope this is all the requirements to let them proceed to orbital flights!

[Mobius Digital Games @Mobius_Games]

*Studying marshmallow roasting rates at different distances from the fire*

A new friend from @youtooz is on the way!

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

It may seem like a tragedy to deploy these young satellites into a suborbital trajectory where they will burn up before they can truly experience life in space.

But they real tragedy is nobody put cameras on these.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Space Pizza deployment!

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Here comes Booster 16 for an experimental water landing!

And here comes the boom!

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Holy shitballs time!

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

OK it's a wet dress rehearsal and therefore a scrub.

[IGW @interstellargw]

IGW’s exclusive first look at an annihilated flame trench post RUD of Starship S36 in Starbase, Texas.

We will stream and release unseen views of the Massey’s test site from ABOVE the Mexican border at 2PM ET/1PM CT and NEVER BEFORE SEEN Ship hardware.

You can’t miss this.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time

A once-in-a-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply

[Jeff Higgins @Jeff_J5Films]

It's a damn pretty firework.

[D Wise @dwisecinema]

An extra-slowed down and cropped view Ship 36's RUD tonight.
📺: https://t.co/wL0tTdxtla
📸: @NASASpaceflight

[D Wise @dwisecinema]

An extra-slowed down and cropped view Ship 36's RUD tonight.
📺: https://t.co/wL0tTdxtla
📸: @NASASpaceflight

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Oh yikes, well I guess we're not expecting Flight 10 before the end of the month any more

[Jeff Higgins @Jeff_J5Films]

pop.

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

ANOMALY! Just before Ship 36 was set to Static Fire, it blew up at SpaceX Masseys!

Live on X and YT:
https://t.co/GPjZIX1Zyd

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Looking at a few frames from @dwisecinema and you can see the separation of the forward tank and escaping methane appears to generate an impulse that crushes the top of the lower tank leading to propellent mixing and ignition.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

They for sure don't try to hide it anymore, and it's working (I want to see the probe lens shot)

[Jeff Higgins @Jeff_J5Films]

Seems like booster has been rock solid and only getting better, but then starship, the problem child, just likes to ruin the fun.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Well, not the success they wanted, V2 Starship was a lot like flight #3.
But on the bright side we saw a reflown booster which pushed out the flight envelope even if it died a few seconds before they expected.
Onwards to flight 10.