E. Weilow

Rockets, physics and batteries

[E. Weilow @eweilow]

@AmazonMGMStudio Stargate! #stargate #savestargate

[E. Weilow @eweilow]

@AdamRackis In half a year it’s dark at 3:40pm instead

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

POV: You’re coming home after a journey around the Moon. 🌕

Before reentering Earth’s atmosphere at the end of Artemis II, the Orion spacecraft’s crew module — carrying the astronauts — separated from the service module that provided propulsion and power throughout the mission.

[E. Weilow @eweilow]

I guess this

[E. Weilow @eweilow]

Vibe coding, not with AI, but coding with vibes

[E. Weilow @eweilow]

@MaxFagin There’s a dark version you can put on the Home Screen that matches

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Orion’s crew and service module have separated. The crew module continues on its path towards Earth while the service module will harmlessly burn up in Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. The Artemis II return trajectory is designed to ensure any remaining debris does not pose a hazard to land, people, or shipping lanes.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

NASA has published some of the best footage yet showing yesterday’s launch of Artemis ll, the first manned mission to the Moon since the 1970s, lifting off from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Brevard County, Florida.

[Justin @goaliebear88]

Orion capsule Artemis 2 mission during TLI burn. Over Florida

[Erik Kuna 🚀 @erikkuna]

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.

The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.

There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.

That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.

📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

[Kyle Henry @kyle_LTS]

Streaking into orbit Artemis II begins its 10 day voyage around the moon!

[lusso @luusssso]

Just stumbled upon something absolutely incredible

An extensive archive of hi-res photographs of NASA’s Apollo Space Missions from 1968-1972

[E. Weilow @eweilow]

Oh nice! To be fair it would be nice if React let you specify context that requires values to be provided with a Provider, with no default in createContext 😅

[E. Weilow @eweilow]

@KevinSVanHorn @Truthful_ast the low cost electronics is probably one part

[E. Weilow @eweilow]

@isaraerospace @AndoyaSpace You guys totally waited for the snow did you ☃️

[E. Weilow @eweilow]

@isaraerospace @AndoyaSpace Fresh snow 🙌☃️

[E. Weilow @eweilow]

@CSI_Starbase It would always be interesting to hear more about non-SpaceX things through your perspective!

[Nathan Moeller 🇺🇸 @TheAstroN8]

I'm not one for thermonuclear editing, but it's amazing to be able to see the pressure waves emenating from the Raptors as they throttle up to full power.

[Pauline Acalin @w00ki33]

Falcon 9 first stage can be seen maneuvering in MVac's wake during a stunning California Starlink launch tonight.