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26 - Aerospace Engineering

[Emanuele @dinaastyy]

@femmefleurie @cacacazz_ Fino a 50 views appare per primo chi ha appena visto la storia, da 50 views in poi è come dicevo prima; può essere che la storia aveva meno di 50 views o che, essendo tue amiche, sono i profili con cui interagisci di più

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Earthset.

The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.

[Emanuele @dinaastyy]

@LaJe_87 @Makabes_ @femmefleurie No, non è questione di lasciare i dati in giro, è questione che questi call center di cui parlate riescono ad accedere al database delle utenze con tutti i numeri di telefono delle persone normali. La colpa è dei call center che operano in malafede e ne approfittano

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

@mmealling @rookisaacman We are going to build a Moon base

[du @thedulab]

The 9-5 lifestyle was the real alpha all along. Start the morning by getting out of the house. Lock into a few hours of deep focus. Socialize with fellow humans when you want a break. Retreat back to your sanctuary after a long day of progress

The only reason it feels like a prison is because you're being forced to do it. But have your own autonomy and make your own rules, many of you will eventually come to structure your routine this way again by choice after experiencing the insidious comfort of undisciplined freedom

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I've been reflecting on the Starship program the last week and one thing has become obvious to me. SpaceX is enjoying the freedom to try and fail in a way they couldn't with Falcon 9.

Doing anything "experimental" on the Falcon 9 was risky because it was SpaceX's only source of income, it was their lifeline, their work horse. Making any tweaks to the Falcon 9 to try and land a booster back in the day was a delicate balance. Don't push the envelope too hard because it could lead to a failure of the primary mission (which did happen twice).

When SpaceX first landed a booster almost 10 years ago, they were fairly slow to refly and those first non "block 5" boosters were only capable of a couple of re-flights. This gave pause to some in the industry / community fearing all this reusability hype wasn't going to pan out.

But SpaceX learned from every landing attempt to develop their Block 5 Falcon 9 which has now gone on to have a single booster fly 30 missions. Absolutely unheard of.

Now imagine if SpaceX could've had the freedom to not worry about flying customer payloads to get data during Falcon 9's reusability campaign. Imagine if they could've tested engine out procedures or push booster reentry profiles, or try hot staging, or what have you.

This is the phase that SpaceX is in now during the Starship program. I know we hear the talking point of "today's payload is data" and it could seem like a gimmick or excuse even, but that's a freedom almost no rocket program has had before. To know you can just try things out, fly real life hardware, without bankrupting the company, is the ultimate development platform.

To be able to push engine out capabilities, remove heat shield tiles on purpose, test reentry profiles, have failures, have set backs, discover flaws, learn operations.

When people say things like "Starship hasn't even reached orbit yet" are completely missing the point. They're not just trying to reach orbit, they're trying to do something that's never been done, build a rapidly reusable rocket. A rocket that can land and refly. This has never been done before and honestly it's silly to think you COULD do something like this without trying some extreme things. That's what we're seeing today, and that's extremely exciting to me.

I can't wait to see version 3 of Starship fly because they've learned so many lessons already and they have a factory capable of making rockets at scale, and we just get to sit back and watch the cook. It's an exciting time to be alive.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

View of Starship landing burn and splashdown on Flight 10, made possible by SpaceX’s recovery team. Starship made it through reentry with intentionally missing tiles, completed maneuvers to intentionally stress its flaps, had visible damage to its aft skirt and flaps, and still executed a flip and landing burn that placed it approximately 3 meters from its targeted splashdown point

[Emanuele @dinaastyy]

@RF_Areas Uh nice, that's exactly what I am studying right now

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Learn like you lift.

[signüll @signulll]

i work at meta. hr systems. mostly comp processing. quiet job. stable. sometimes i daydream about retiring in portugal.

today a package hit my queue. base + bonus + equity. looks normal at first glance. then i open the details.

$1,000,000,000
over four years.
plus signing.
plus year 1 minimum: $100m.

i stare at it like it’s a typo. check the name. triple check the level. researcher.

coolcoolcool. so now i have to enter this into workday.

i paste the first number, field throws an error.“value must be below $99,999,999.”
lol. okay. i try splitting it. base in one bucket, equity in another. nope. i try scientific notation. it rounds it down.

the system can’t HANDLE a billion dollars.

i call someone on payroll infra. tell them i’ve got a 10-digit comp packet. they think i’m joking. i forward the req. they go quiet.

“we’re gonna need to escalate this,” someone mutters.
“to who?” i ask.
“god, maybe.”

next thing i know zuck’s chief of staff is in the thread. now i’m in a thread with zuck. because of a number.

then i find out the guy declined the offer.
just said no. no negotiation. no counter. just… no.

i’ve been maxing out my 401k for 11 years & this man said no to a billion dollars like he was skipping dessert.

i close the ticket. delete the draft.
go for a walk.

& then i rethink everything.

[Emanuele @dinaastyy]

@Abhinavstwt there are only 10 types of people in this world, those who know binary and those who don't

[Gene @SpaceBasedFox]

On this day in 1969, humanity showed it was worthy of another world.

[Element115 @Element115art]

Palette swap: Gemini <-> Apollo

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship in space

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship to Mars

[Emanuele @dinaastyy]

@calebprints volume

[Emanuele @dinaastyy]

@EXM7777 think

[SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded @Splitgate]

Splitgate 2morrow.