Pressure Fed

turbopumps are for suckers

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

imagine not knowing what Falcon 9 is

[jacobruh 🚀 @jrxcket]

Sorry, what the fuck is that?? 😭😭😭

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

The craziest thing about Cheap People is that they all think they're Elon Musk. They look at him, they look at ELON MUSK, and think "wow, he's just like me!"

[HankHeIl @HankHeil]

Finally, due to popular demand.

Cheap People: The Evil Within

Dedicated to the Cheap Bastard who originally inspired this concept for me, Stockton Rush of the infamous Oceangate Titan disaster.

[Department of War Innovation Unit @DIU_x]

1,000+ U.S. launches and reentries a year by 2030 is just the foundation.

Under President Trump's space guidance, DIU is scaling space architecture for domain overmatch through launch, re-entry, in-space logistics, and autonomy to secure space superiority.

We are scaling reusable tech, mobile infrastructure, control, advanced propulsion, and autonomous control to ensure U.S. constellations out-maneuver and out-last peer threats at machine speed.

https://t.co/7LhlrvByVI

(Video courtesy of @SpaceX)

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope was encapsulated into Falcon Heavy’s fairing this past week ahead of launch on Sunday, August 30 from pad 39A in Florida → https://t.co/oacS4jED83

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

@WardoftheStates It also implies that every planet is flickering between planet and not planet status every time some shit comes through the neighborhood.

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

Always loved how this definition implied that dual stars are... not stars, or something.

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

At a meeting of the International Astronomical Union 20 years ago today, astronomers vote on a definition of a "planet." The new criteria:

🌘 Must orbit its host star
🌓 Must be mostly round
🌒 Must be massive enough to clear away other objects of similar size in its orbit

Pluto fails on the third condition and becomes a dwarf planet.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

@NASAhistory @NASASolarSystem Worth revisiting...

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

@saoliath @ObviousRises I think it proves he's indian

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

@DonaldMills142 Back in the 2000s "we have a rocket with a price tag of $40M which you can launch 17t and recover, 23t if you have to, and you can amortize it with reuse into a 15-20t TLI machine" = shit a brick in excitement. But when 11,000 Starlinks is a beginner constellation, it's unsat.

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

This is the kind of experience that will allow SpaceX to ramp up Starship's cadence much faster than many believe.

[Donald Mills @DonaldMills142]

The concept of the runway is extremely important in rapid Spaceflight. You can have large processing areas like hangar X or Area 59 at the Cape with multiple lanes, but they all funnel down to 1-2 launch pads. So the launch pad hangar, transport erector, and pad itself are the "runway" just like a runway at the airport only has one plane on it at a time.

On Dragon this was visceral in it's importance. Dragon takes several months to process between splashdown to relaunch. When its on the runway howver, it's getting in the way of starlink missions that are going off every couple of days. So to the overall business, finding efficiencies to remove 1 hour of processing on the runway can be more impactful than removing a whole day of work in Dragonland.

Where is your business' runway?

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

@DonaldMills142 That's precisely what I mean.

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

@DonaldMills142 One of the most fun lessons to me, which from the timeline I think must have been learned during the Starlink R&D period, is that while Falcon 9/Heavy gives you just about everything you could have asked for in 2004, it's very inadequate for building real infrastructure in space.

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

@DonaldMills142 Yep, beyond the obvious it's "Falcon rebuilt on lessons learned from Falcon". Then they'll push the envelope again and get to learn whole new lessons as cadence picks up.

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

@ObviousRises Mr. Obviously Indian

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

@Robotbeat HERRO

[Atelier Missor @AtelierMissor_]

Very honored to have built the bronze statue of George Washington for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C.

America is incredible.

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

guys it's really not that hard

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

people don’t realize this, but 2026 appears to be the first year in human history where humanity as a whole is below replacement fertility.

this has never happened before. not during wars. not during pandemics.

for the first time in human history, we are not producing enough children to replace ourselves.

this is the only real existential crisis.

[Mookafish @Mookafish]

@IterIntellectus I have a simple message for the young people of Earth

[Pressure Fed @moonwarnow]

@zynaristoles 80% of the bother 0% of the adventure