Luis Rodriguez

APL Flight Software Engineer willing to go to space! 🚀🌕

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Akron, Ohio this past Monday to witness the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse.
Here is a mosaic of images I took of the eclipse along with a 6second movie of the last minute of the eclipse sped up 10x.

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

How cool!!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congrats to @JHUAPL on confirming we successfully moved an asteroid! The historic DART mission proved humanity could stop a threatening asteroid if needed — and shows what’s possible when we come together and do big things.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congrats to @JHUAPL on confirming we successfully moved an asteroid! The historic DART mission proved humanity could stop a threatening asteroid if needed — and shows what’s possible when we come together and do big things.

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

Heck yeah!!!

[Johns Hopkins APL @JHUAPL]

Mission success! ❇️

Analysis of data obtained by @NASA’s #DARTMission team shows the kinetic impact with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos has successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit by 32 minutes. https://t.co/rnonjvYhKg

@AsteroidWatch @NASASolarSystem #PlanetaryDefense

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

@AJamesMcCarthy You are what Twitter should be about! Holy cow…

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

When you find a bug in your code for which you had left a comment a mere 3 lines below WARNING your future self about it…. It’s time to call it a night 🥹

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Pulled all the high quality video from @nasa DART’s website to make this stabilized timelapse of the mission. Pretty incredible they pulled this off, and we’re able to get these images uploaded despite bandwidth limitations before the spacecraft met its doom. RIP #DARTMission

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

@AJamesMcCarthy @NASA Thank you for doing this! Looks amazing!

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

This is just BONKERS!

[ATLAS Project @fallingstarIfA]

ATLAS observations of the DART spacecraft impact at Didymos!

[Johns Hopkins APL @JHUAPL]

Bullseye 🎯

Mission control at #JHUAPL announced #DARTMission successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, 26 Sep 2022 at 7:14 p.m. EDT. This is @NASA's first attempt to move an asteroid in space.

@NASASolarSystem @AsteroidWatch

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

@malderi Thanks @malderi !!

[Johns Hopkins APL @JHUAPL]

In just a few hours, the #DARTMission will make history by becoming the world's first planetary defense test. ☄️ 🔭 All that's left on our checklist is the final step: to smash into it.

View the full schedule of events: https://t.co/0YPTJKV2Rl

@AsteroidWatch @NASASolarSystem

[Bobby Braun @BobbyBraun]

24-hours from now we impact.

Very proud of the @JHUAPL-led team who created and is operating humanity’s first planetary defense test mission.

The vision, dedication and daring of this team reminds me just how far our nation’s space program has advanced.

Go @NASA DART!

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

Get your pop corn ready folks!!!

[Johns Hopkins APL @JHUAPL]

Tomorrow will be a smash. ☄️💥🛰

In exactly 24 hours, DART will become first-ever space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor.

Watch the #DARTMission LIVE tomorrow, Sept. 26 at 6pm ET. ▶️ ➡️ https://t.co/0YPTJKV2Rl

@AsteroidWatch @NASASolarSystem

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

How cool is this?!?!?!

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

@JHUAPL @AsteroidWatch Follow along with the #DARTMission spacecraft as it closes in on its target using our “Eyes on Asteroids” simulation: https://t.co/TVRBqE3OZL

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

I can tell you for a fact… all I’m doing is… NOT EVEN PAYING ATTENTION to how close we are. Keep telling myself “It’s just another day at the office… “

[Johns Hopkins APL @JHUAPL]

1️⃣ Planetary defense spacecraft. 🛰️
2️⃣ Asteroids. ☄️ ☄️
3️⃣ Days to impact. 💥

Watch the #DARTMission impact LIVE Monday, Sep 26 at 6pm ET. ▶️ ➡️ https://t.co/0YPTJKDrsL

@AsteroidWatch @NASASolarSystem

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

Go DART!!!

[NASA @NASA]

Live: Join senior leaders from NASA and @JHUAPL working on the #DARTMission, the world's first test of planetary defense. Preview mission milestones between now and impact with a non-threatening asteroid on Sept. 26. https://t.co/Icq23Hb49a

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Since everyone loved my last Saturn shot so much, I thought I'd take another crack at it. This is my sharpest image so far of the ringed planet. Featuring 5 moons and a photobombing star, this composite image was created from over 80,000 photos captured through my telescope.

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

The wait was worth it!

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B

[Luis Rodriguez @LuisRod00376575]

For my Complex Systems class last semester I decided to model the Three Body Problem through the GW Orionis 3-star system. Hope you enjoy the dance between these 3 stars, ending with the ejection of 1 of them after a chaotic encounter. (All # have been non-dimensionalized)