Luke Powers

Veteran Structural Engineer 🚀🛠️ | Tech Enthusiast | Bike Trail Explorer

[Boneyard Safari @Boneyardsafari]

Nosing around the Blackbird at @pimaair #sr71 #blackbird #pimaairandspacemuseum #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

that's a tu-160 blackjack in the image not a concorde. over 20 years since supersonic commercial flight though. we went backwards.

[Aviation @xAviation]

That unforgettable day at London Heathrow on Friday, October 24, 2003, when British Airways Concordes Alpha Echo, Alpha Foxtrot, and Alpha Golf landed one after another on Runway 27R, marking the end of commercial Concorde flights and a supersonic era.
📹: Mike Bowsher

[Space Intelligence @SpaceIntel101]

Orbital launch no. 137 of 2026 🇺🇸🚀24⭐️🔗🛰️

Starlink 17-54 | SpaceX | June 15 | 1400 UTC

@SpaceX successfully launched 24 v2.0 @Starlink Mini🛰️ on its Falcon 9🚀 to LEO (Low Earth Orbit) from @SLDelta30 SLC-4E, California.

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

@SpaceIntel101 @John_Winkopp those shockwaves refracting outside the disk - incredible detail. amazing capture.

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

@DavidMoodie_ 72 hours CAD to casting. That's what real investment looks like. Canada's still waiting.

[SpoxSpace @SpoxSpace]

Planetary defence, even if unlikely to cause anything any time soon, is till an extremely exciting and important thing we should be doing, and already doing.

[Augustus Doricko @ADoricko]

Everytime I go to Reindustrialize I have to take an odyssean redeye, to and fro across the far reaches of the continent

But I go because it’s important

Our national inheritance, our progeny’s inheritance, our station among the stars, it all requires reindustrialization

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

@drcrater @NASAArtemis congrats! those samples look incredible. this is the kind of project canadian engineers can only dream about. talent follows funding.

[Daniel Fischer @[email protected] @cosmos4u]

Isar Aerospace is standing down from today’s launch attempt: https://t.co/OsrAILZG7A - they are still detecting off nominal behavior in the vehicle's fluid systems, and the teams are analyzing the new data to isolate the root cause.

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

@StephenClark1 3 of the top 4 LEO breakups from chinese rockets. says it all really

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

Nothing beats feeling that rumble in person. Caught some solid launches in the UAE too. Starship is bucket list though.

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

I’m hoping to catch a V3 launch this fall. Starship is a great show!

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

@SpaceChickJen watched a launch from the KSC causeway. the sound hits your chest before your brain catches up. nothing like it.

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

@JoeTegtmeyer @wolfpackberlin the moving map overlays are solid - makes construction progress actually trackable

[UHF Satcom 🇬🇧 📡 📻 @uhf_satcom]

Has anyone built the new ve2zaz gpsdo? https://t.co/JGmKHglFpm - I got a lovely Oscilloquartz double ovened frequency standard that I'd like to discipline to GPS.

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

@Stellarixorine first attempt catch is remarkable. thousands of requirements all hitting green - that's engineering discipline, not luck.

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

@GewoonLukas_ storing boosters that close to the pad was always a risk - that door blowout could've been way worse if stages were fueled

[tina.in.boca @Boca_Tina]

Lots of misinformation being spread about me the last couple days, so some quick facts
- My name is Tina, not Guo Can (or Jessie Anderson). I’m one of many Raptor flight operators on console since flight2. Before that, I wrote control software for the vehicle, and was a stage software operator for flight1

- Been living in Starbase since surborbital days in 2020, absolutely love it down here. The people are wonderful and so so excited about the mission - the lows are lows but the highs are very high. My friends here are the best in the world, and I love them to the moon/mars and back :)

- The reason I decided to say something was because facts matter, but also because wanted to share my real life journey to how I got here. I don’t have a masters or a PhD, I started full time directly after college after 2x internships also at spacex doing software/automation. I was on a couple design teams in college, including Stanford solar car + mars rover. When I started spacex as a software engineer, I knew very little about fluids / propulsion engineering - I learned a lot of it on the job with some pretty incredible mentors. Then I swapped over to propulsion about halfway through my career and have been loving it ever since

[ESRA | Experimental Sounding Rocket Association @ESRArocket]

The countdown is over. IREC 2026 is officially underway at the Horseshoe Arena in Midland, TX.

Students and volunteers are checking in, clearing safety and frequency checks, meeting media, grabbing SWAG, and kicking things off with Terrapin Rocket Team.

Let’s go. 🚀

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

the 747-8 is engineering done right. shame the production line is winding down

[AIRLINE VIDEOS @airlinevideos]

Two Boeing 747-8s lined up for takeoff on opposite sides of the airport! ✈️✈️ One after another, the Queen of the Skies took to the skies in an incredible sequence captured live on the Airline Videos Live broadcast on June 14th, 2026.

[Luke Powers @StrutMasterL]

@NASA_Events @NASARoman roman's wide-field survey will be incredible. meanwhile we keep gutting our own space funding...