Andre Kessler

Starship software engineering @SpaceX. High performance computing on GPUs. @MIT Mathematics. Tweets my own.

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Watch Starship's thirteenth flight test https://t.co/wYoNPiNMz8

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Starship’s thirteenth flight test is preparing to launch as early as Thursday, July 16 → https://t.co/Rp7VwBzpWx

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The path to launch is filled with obstacles and success is only possible through the tireless efforts of many working together towards a common goal. “Critical Path” continues the ongoing Starship series, following SpaceX engineers through the final days before launch of the first Starship V3 and the challenges that come with development of the world’s most powerful and fully reusable rocket.

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Super Heavy booster moved to the Starbase pad for testing ahead of Flight 13

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Catching Pic

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Starship 60-second static fire ahead of the thirteenth flight test

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Thomas Jefferson submits the final draft of his Declaration of Independence to Continental Congress.

[Bijan Tavassoli @BijanTavassoli]

Red-braised pork belly is the Poet‘s favorite dish!
东坡肉 is the original version — Su Dongpo invented it in Hainan during exile after losing the factional wars, turning the cheapest fatty meat into poetry. 毛氏红烧肉 is the winner's version — same belly, eaten by the poet who took the whole country and credited the fat with feeding his brain.
Su Dongpo braised pork to survive losing. Mao braised it to fuel the revolution. Same plate, opposite relationship to power. (The apples are the modern revisionist tendency.)
Best Dongpo rou I ever had was at a halal Hui restaurant in Hainan. I asked the waiter whether Dongpo rou being halal made it kosher too. He said, as far as he knew, neither Muhammad nor Moses had ever set foot on Hainan, so they couldn't possibly have meant to forbid it.

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Liftoff of Starship on its twelfth flight test

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Starship V3 landing burn over the Indian Ocean

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Onboard views from Starship and Super Heavy V3, which are equipped with upgraded cameras capable of streaming 4K video through every phase of flight via @Starlink

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Starship V3 takes flight for the first time → https://t.co/2gZQUxS6mm

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Starship and Super Heavy V3 moved to the pad at Starbase for final testing and preparations for launch

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Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 → https://t.co/2gZQUxS6mm

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Launch rehearsal complete. During a flight-like countdown, more than 5,000 metric tonnes (11+ million pounds) of propellant were loaded on the fully stacked Starship and Super Heavy V3 vehicles for the first time

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Full duration and full thrust 33-engine static fire with Super Heavy V3

[Andre Kessler @akessler]

@amycfanphd This is really fascinating and I’m curious what you think implications are for autoimmune conditions such as lupus. Could normal macrophage live cell sampling become pathological or route the sampled vesicles differently in SLE, and could this help explain HCQ efficacy?

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First 33-engine static fire for Super Heavy V3

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Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

My favorite Earth photo from Artemis 2, reminiscent of images from the movie 2001.