mano(li)

Mission Assurance at @VardaSpace. Previously at @reliable_robot, former Cosmic Girl ✈️🚀 engineer, and general space enthusiast.

[Varda Space Industries @VardaSpace]

The W-5 mission landed safely at the Koonibba Test Range operated by @SouthernLaunch. This is the first reentry of Varda’s next-generation satellite bus, which we designed specifically to meet the demands of both long-duration orbital pharmaceutical processing and reentry.

The W-5 flight carried a payload for the U.S. Navy in partnership with @AFResearchLab and was also equipped with a heatshield made in Varda’s El Segundo headquarters from C-PICA, an ablative material that has been used on all the W-series capsules and was originally developed at @NASAAmes Research Center.

Key highlights of the W-5 mission include:
· End-to-End Autonomy: The mission was a successful demonstration of the Varda-built bus in executing orbital maneuvers, concluding in a precise deorbit burn.
· High-Fidelity Recovery: Safe landing and rapid recovery of the customer payload for immediate post-flight analysis saves time and offers customers options for iterative development.
· Hypersonic S&T: The unique aerothermal chemistry of the reentry environment is impossible to fully simulate on the ground, and flight testing is the best way to advance understanding of the reentry environment.

W-5's success reinforces the advantage of building the entire integrated system in-house. By owning the spacecraft, the capsule, and the mission operations end-to-end, we can iterate faster, fly more often, and reliably bring complex manufacturing processes back to Earth.

[mano(li) @manoli]

@TremendousUM Need a gif of this immediately.

[SpaceNews @SpaceNews_Inc]

Varda to launch its first in-house built spacecraft for on-orbit manufacturing https://t.co/YYh51p0GTv

[Varda Space Industries @VardaSpace]

coming in hot

[mano(li) @manoli]

@BarstoolUofM Stop taking him out of the game and ruining his rhythm.

[Varda Space Industries @VardaSpace]

We are happy to announce that Varda received our FAA reentry license for our upcoming second mission launching in early November.

This flight will advance pharmaceutical research as well as fly several payloads in support of NASA and other government partners.

[mano(li) @manoli]

@itsAntWright JJ’s include the playoff.

[mano(li) @manoli]

@ChrisVannini And if we’re being honest, they were a Jordan Poole Hail Mary 3 from adding the sixth.

[A.C. Charania @ac_charania]

A great space technology story realized over the last few weeks: On Feb. 21, Varda Space Industries of El Segundo, California, in partnership with Rocket Lab USA of Long Beach, California, returned to Earth the first product processed on its autonomous, free-flying, in-space manufacturing platform. The product is a pharmaceutical that may gain unique properties by forming in the near-absence of gravity. Ames made the spacecraft’s heat shield material, and Langley assisted Varda in developing their re-entry capsule through aeroscience expertise, systems design and analysis, and trade studies support. https://t.co/MdRhWPG4uE

[Will Bruey @WillBruey]

You can see a @RocketLab Photon out the window! Big thank you to your team, @Peter_J_Beck, for turning a satellite into a home for the last 8 months and capping it off with a successful multi-day maneuver operation. One for the books.

[Michael Caine @themichaelcaine]

Will stay up all night to see
Super Bowl

[Tom Brady @TomBrady]

Bet

[mano(li) @manoli]

@AndrewBantly @MLB Let’s go to a game this year

[mano(li) @manoli]

@dantrainor1 @ChristynReuter You are alone in that arena.

[mano(li) @manoli]

@dantrainor1 Endorsing theater attendance? Have you conceded the box office challenge? The people want to know.

[mano(li) @manoli]

@moof2k Is there something I should know…

[mano(li) @manoli]

@dantrainor1 I didn’t understand any of this.

[mano(li) @manoli]

@SpaceAbhi Wish this addressed the root of the problem; Systems Engineering is done fundamentally wrong at a majority of places. In and of itself, it’s arguably the most important discipline.

[mano(li) @manoli]

@StephenDFletch Top album of 2020 so far imo

[mano(li) @manoli]

@stacy_smale I quite literally have this same photo in my old room at home. Haha.