Multiplanetary Solutions

The future is Now. 🌎 🌖 🟠 Edited by Bradford Zink.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

The future of exploration will be built through thriving spaceports, reusable rockets, orbital assembly, and technologies we once only imagined.

Just as railroads and highways transformed our economy, tomorrow’s orbital and lunar economy will help power what comes next.

Very exciting times ahead.

[Multiplanetary Solutions @Multiplanetary9]

@catherine_wines It is in the process of a renovation right now. It will be a hotel with retail spaces.

[NASA @NASA]

Introducing Artemis III.

Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown.

In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface.

[NASA Armstrong @NASAArmstrong]

NASA’s X-59 just cleared a huge milestone with its first supersonic flight. Next up: the first mission conditions flight at Mach 1.4 and an altitude of 55,000 feet, key for future community overflights.

Bonus: You can follow the upcoming flight live on NASA’s flight tracker.

Follow the Quesst blog for what’s coming next in the mission!
🔗: https://t.co/XRadFOf4zS

[NASA @NASA]

UPDATE: The Artemis III event will start at 11:30am ET (1530 UTC) on Tuesday, June 9!

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy is about to launch one of NASA’s most important science missions of the decade

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is officially slated to launch on August 30 from Florida, with SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy sending it on its way to deep space

This is a huge mission

Roman has a 2.4-meter mirror, similar in size to Hubble, but with a field of view at least 100x larger

That means it can scan huge parts of the universe far faster than Hubble ever could

The data output is insane:
Roman is expected to downlink around 1.4 terabytes of science data every single day
For comparison, NASA says Roman will send over 500x more data back to Earth each day than Hubble

Over its 5-year primary mission, NASA expects Roman to build a roughly 20,000-terabyte data archive

That data will help scientists study dark energy, dark matter, galaxies, stars, black holes, exoplanets, and rare cosmic events we may have never seen before

SpaceX is once again carrying a mission that could rewrite what we know about the universe

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 launches 29 @Starlink satellites from Florida

[sourcery @sourceryy]

Tom Mueller (@lrocket) says his "proudest development" as the 1st Employee at SpaceX was creating the Merlin engine:

"Currently flying on Falcon 9, it is the most reliable rocket engine ever developed, and also the highest thrust to weight of any rocket engine ever developed."

"I worked on Starship for the last six years at SpaceX."

" When I left, I had the plan of launch mostly being solved or is being solved."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The car that used to be in my garage is currently in an Earth-Mars elliptical orbit and will be there for at least 10 million years

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 launches and deploys 29 @Starlink satellites from Florida

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

Data centers in space are a "no brainer."

SpaceX's 1st employee Tom Mueller (@lrocket) on @elonmusk's plan to move compute into space:

"It makes the most sense of anything to move to space. All you need as an input is power, and all you have as an output is data."

"You move it to space, you have all the power you would ever need, and you transmit that data back down on a terawatt laser beam—it's solved. It's just so simple."

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

We’re excited for Falcon Heavy to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as early as this August from pad 39A in Florida

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Thanks to @POTUS and the national space policy, America has a real advantage…but this is a close race. China is moving quickly, and the timeline could come down to months, not years.

We’re moving with urgency to return American astronauts to the lunar surface before 2028 and ensure America leads in the next chapter of lunar exploration.

[NASA @NASA]

Since arriving at its destination five years ago, our Perseverance Mars rover has collected data that hints at a history of past life on the Red Planet.

Catch up on Percy’s biggest discoveries in this week’s episode of our Curious Universe podcast: https://t.co/J5dh8FhHjw

[Lunar Outpost @LunarOutpostInc]

The Moon's South Pole is one of the coldest, harshest places in our solar system. Lunar Outpost's Pegasus LTV is built to go there.

Built to operate through 500ºF temperature swings and tackle 20º slopes, Lunar Outpost's rovers will prospect and eventually extract resources at scale in these regions, including Water Ice and critical volatiles. Our robotic workforce unlocks the resources that will be crucial to enabling a truly sustainable human presence on the Moon.

#LunarOutpost #DrivingArtemis #TheNextLeap #SpaceTech #Innovation

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has released its full IPO roadshow presentation that it's showing to investors.

Here are some of the most important slides:

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

That’s right. Under budget AND ahead of schedule.

Looking forward to seeing the beginning of the world-changing Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope NET August 30.