Landon Young 🇺🇸🚀

All rockets are cool

[Landon Young 🇺🇸🚀 @Astro_Young1]

Artemis II has made them proud ❤️🌕

[Max Evans @_MaxQ_]

One week ago today, Starship went to orbit for the first time.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

20 years ago today, ‘DEXTER’ premiered.

[Starlink @Starlink]

Views from of one of the first 26 Starlink V3 satellites successfully deployed to orbit by Starship

Thanks for the ride, @SpaceX!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship performs its orbital insertion burn and enters orbit of Earth for the first time

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship’s 14th flight is set to launch on Monday, Sept 28. The 75-minute launch window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT. Live coverage of the mission starts ~35 minutes before launch → https://t.co/uQKQvgaTmJ

[NFL @NFL]

NFC Players of the Week! (Week 2)

@brockpurdy13 | @DevinLloyd_ | @rodgers_isaiah

[NFL @NFL]

3 total TDs
2 incompletions

Only one Brock Purdy 🔥

[Isar Aerospace @isaraerospace]

Circularization burn complete, payload separation confirmed, standing by for more information.

[The Notorious S.E.B. @bigseb31213]

seems increasingly likely that the manned lunar landing part of Artemis is going to be scrapped and the next humans to land on the moon will be Chinese, in yet another national humiliation caused by you know who

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Introducing Starbase, Louisiana – a high-cadence launch site that will enable Starship to open a pathway to the stars for humanity.

Thank you to @LAGovJeffLandry and the great people of Louisiana for all of their support as we work together on this audacious project → https://t.co/zGKVOGSxfW

[Landon Young 🇺🇸🚀 @Astro_Young1]

Wait until they find out what every other rocket besides a select few does….

[Janna Levin @JannaLevin]

I love space exploration...I hate the dumping of industrial waste in the ocean...I love space exploration...I hate the dumping of industrial waste in the ocean...I love space exploration...I hate the dumping of industrial waste in the ocean...

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

After approx. 24 days at sea, the SpaceX Recovery team successfully guided Starship to a location just off the coast of Christmas Island. A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle in calmer waters before attempting to return it to Starbase

[Landon Young 🇺🇸🚀 @Astro_Young1]

It’s beautiful

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The foundations for an exciting future are being built in Texas. Next up: Terafab → https://t.co/jGg52Zhn5I

[Landon Young 🇺🇸🚀 @Astro_Young1]

Why is everyone stupid

[Pop Base @PopBase]

An abandoned SpaceX rocket travelling at around 5,400mph is expected to crash into the moon, leaving a crater with a diameter of around 17m. (via BBC)

The collision is expected to take place today at 7:35 BST, just under an hour from the time of this post.

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

@DrChrisCombs Dear god i just read the part where he said 1 month turn around.

Chris. We gotta just eventually get real here.

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

As a person who was very anti-tile when that approach was announced, I have to disagree here completely.

My gut feeling here was proven wrong by testing. Here are the real world results:

Starship is now routinely making flights without losing tiles.

Every Starship to make it to reentry has reentered and landed succesfully

Starship has tested missing tiles in essentially every location, with and without back-up ablation protection (which it has) and again, has always landed.

Hell even when parts of rear flaps and tiles have been blown up it has survived and landed.

SpaceX has replaced the full heatshield of a ship in ~2 weeks. (And this is early days). Rapidly reusable aircraft regularly have 2+ week maintenance stand downs. And also a full heatshield replacement will basically never be required.

So here's what we have:

The tiles stay on well. The tiles work. The ship works when missing tiles in various areas, with no redundancy. And the tiles can be replaced very quickly.

They simply are doing the job, and I don't think we have a better tech for this application yet, hopefully some day.

Starship has a working heatshield, with built in redundancy, and the ability to survive both layers failing, and can be quickly replaced. This is good enough for quite rapid reusability. As fast as you would need for 1000's of flights per year off of a few pads.

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

Lets say you have 5 pads (what they currently have under construction).

Lets say each pad has 5 ships, and that ships are the flight bottleneck.

Lets say a ship refurb is 2 weeks. (this is how long it took to strip and replace an entire heatshield. So this is a very conservative rate, but probably good for early years and covering other non-ship bottle necks).

5 pads, 5 ships each, 2 week turn around = 650 flights per year. Almost 2 launches per day.

Thats all Falcon 9 launches ever, but 100t capability each, in one single year.

Reduce avg refurb to 1 week? Thats double. 10 pads? Double again. 10 ships per pad? etc etc.

10 pads, 10 ships, 1 week refurb = 5,200 launches per year or 14 flights per day.

If 650+ launches annual of a 100t vehicle isn't rapid enough for ya, you have a lot in common with elon

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship soared on the second flight of the next generation, deploying advanced Starlink satellites for the first time and providing priceless data as it travelled through air, space, and sea → https://t.co/Rp7VwBzpWx

[Landon Young 🇺🇸🚀 @Astro_Young1]

@jrxcket Real reason why it scrubbed

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Christopher Nolan's ‘Oppenheimer’ released 3 years ago today