Bengineer/Simply Space

🛰️Building Embedded Systems for Space
📺Creator of 'Simply Space' on YouTube
🕹️Developer of 'Manual Docking'
🏎️Former Technical Director @ucmotorsport

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

@TylerGlaiel They have all the oxygen they need

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

On of the worst thing non-space people do is compare ISS costs to anything as if its relevant.

For non-space people the best comparison i could make would be like:

A Bugatti Chiron costs $4M and has 4 windows. So if you want to build a house that has 20 windows that will cost you at least $20M

Like literally. ISS expensive and have radiator therefore unrelated thing with radiator is $150B . This is not analysis this is stupidity

This doesn't even come close to how bad it actually is because there are several unique things about ISS that make it's cost worse.

[Kevin Chau @kchau]

The heat from the sun travels through a vacuum to cook your shiny head and also sunburn it.

This is what scratching glass all day does to your IQ.

[Truthful🛰️ @Truthful_ast]

It’s all so predictable

[Truthful🛰️ @Truthful_ast]

Anti-SpaceX groups say the company and Starship are complete failures while they can't even develop rockets close to Falcon 9 with cries about iterative development

Meanwhile Chinese rocket company "i-Space" posted the longest detail of Flight 12 I've seen praising them saying they need to take lessons from SpaceX's iterative development and admit how far ahead the company is compared to themselves.

From iSpace (Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Ltd) themselves:

"For China's reusable rocket development, Starship serves as both a mirror and a catalyst. We must acknowledge the gaps in engine reliability, rapid iteration capabilities, and system integration levels, but more importantly, we must recognize that catching up in aerospace technology is never a simple matter of parameter benchmarking, but a comprehensive competition encompassing engineering concepts, R&D systems, and the industrial ecosystem. In the future, we should adhere to the R&D approach of "small steps, rapid iteration, and continuous evolution," continuously tackling key challenges in core technologies such as liquid oxygen-methane engines, thermal protection systems, and vertical recovery. Simultaneously, we should learn from SpaceX's engineering methods of "simplified design, rapid verification, and data-driven approaches," establishing a rapid iteration mechanism suited to China's national conditions, fully leveraging our institutional and industrial advantages, and forging a path of independent and controllable reusable rocket development."

ESA and its employees have cried about SpaceX for over a decade doubting every single thing they have done also while saying Elon is a "nazi" without any meaningful arguments against Starship, this is why they're falling massively behind China.

You have to accept that you're behind in order to strive to be better, and to my knowledge this is the first time seeing an aerospace company cover SpaceX/Starship in such detail and appreciation.

[Bengineer/Simply Space @SimplySpace_Ben]

@SpaceX @Starlink Can your cameras shoot RAW? Obviously you don't have bandwidth to stream that real-time, but if you can save to on onboard storage then you can retrieve it later. The image compression is the only thing holding these photos back.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

We have barely scratched the surface of V3's genius

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

Fixed it for you BBC

[Prometheus @CaribbeanRythms]

Albania mentioned 💪

[PointlessHub @HubPointless]

They're grinding Grogu up into biofuel as we speak

[Daniel @danielgothits]

just scrolled Linkedin for the first time in years lol how do people actually post like that and not wanna kill themselves

[Make NZ Greater 🇳🇿 @Make_NZ_Greater]

By saying "ensure all New Zealand money stays in the New Zealand economy", you are effectively saying we shouldn't trade with any other countries. This would turn us into North Korea.

Trade is what makes us prosperous. In order to trade, some "New Zealand money" has to end up in overseas. Those countries then return this money to us by buying other things from us (such agricultural products or tourism). This way, each country can specialise in what they do best, and sell these products to buy everything else.

If other countries are better at running banks than us, we should leave it to them and buy banking services from them with the proceeds of the industries we are actually good at. Trying to do everything ourselves out of some misguided attempt at self-sufficiency will only send us backward. Research Japan's sakoku period (1639-1853) to see how this works out.

Please get someone on your team who has even a basic understanding of economics before you destroy our country.

[Make NZ Greater 🇳🇿 @Make_NZ_Greater]

@TaxpayersUnion Superannuation shouldn't be the responsibility of government at all - let people keep the taxes and save for their own retirement instead.

[Greg Koenig @gak_pdx]

I keep trying to explain to people, but America doesn’t have a viable 3D printer company because we don’t have any of the underlying architecture.
Shocking how many people think a complex product is some singular thing you build at a “factory.”
A 3D printer is really just a featherweight CNC mill, so much so that they speak yeh same language (G-Code). You need:
- micron accurate linear rails
- Sub micron bearings for those linear rails.
- High resolution servo/stepper motors.
- Motion control chips and boards and stuff.
- Sheet metal, injection molding, various coatings.

America has *no* industrial base for *any* of this at consumer product scale. We invented or definitively innovated everything above, then the McKinsey set came in and convinced us to ship it all to China for the last 40 years.

So yea, sure… you can screw a 3D printer together in America, at great expense… but you are doing so with primarily Chinese components.

What we need is a bunch of uninvestible (by venture funds) businesses that are boring and competently supply a bunch of even more boring, medium margin, no-moat components.

[Stefan Salaices @stefan_salaices]

YJSP Stream going well I see

[풀소유 수행자 @Rich_Monk_]

$rklb @RocketLab

Rocket Lab의 시작

거대한 Electron도, Neutron도 아니었다.

첫 로켓 Atea🚀
Atea는 마오리어로 “우주(space)”

발사일: 2009년 11월 30일
발사 장소: 뉴질랜드 Great Mercury Island
종류: 서브오비탈(궤도 진입 X) 사운딩 로켓
높이: 약 6m
목표 고도: 약 120km

뉴질랜드 최초 민간 우주 발사
사실상 차고 스타트업 수준의 도전

여기서 시작해
지금은 재사용 로켓, 위성, 우주 시스템까지 만드는 풀스택 우주기업으로 성장.

작은 실험용 로켓 하나가 오늘의 Rocket Lab을 만들었다. 🚀

[Dave Jones @eevblog]

Arnham Space Centre looks good, just saying @elonmusk @SpaceX
Look at how goodly close it is the the equator.
It has nearby ports and an airport.
Forget the Permanently Closed sign, that's just for tourists.

[Jack Fields @OrdinaryInds]

The AI bros are discovering CSS stylesheets. What a fucking time to be alive.

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

MD-11 stall test footage with the horizontal stabilizers hanging on for dear life, set to that classic 1980s corporate synthesizer soundtrack… absolute perfection.

[WhatsApp Teto @WhatsAppTeto]

genuinely what the fuck was this folder for????????