RocketTalk🚀

Talking to rockets not about rockets. Experimental and amateur rocketry. Helping the next generation get to space. #FAR #RRS #ROC ☮️❤️🚀

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

We static fired our LOX/Alcohol kit rocket yesterday and a student team set up a Kevlar baffle as part of a moon dust experiment — a crazy combination to have on a pad. Current score: Rocket 1 Kevlar 0

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

Six teams scheduled to launch at noon PDT today. Streaming live now.

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

Follow FAR-OUT live tomorrow as twelve liquid teams from around the world prep and launch. https://t.co/irAo5G6G0V

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

Follow FAR-OUT live tomorrow as twelve liquid teams from around the world prep and launch. https://t.co/irAo5G6G0V

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

So sad for the Blue O team. It brings back memories of the 2016 Falcon 9 Cato at SLC-40. “Gradatim Ferociter”

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4.

https://t.co/tANS0dWyIH

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

@kegrocket …and no PTs, just a TC that only goes to 100F. The whole country is getting a BLEVE education this weekend.

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

If they need to shoot the tank in Garden Grove, I know a guy.

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

@andrewmccalip Airplanes are designed with a 1.5X load limit factor, so that’s my number.

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

I just love how Elon's post is crediting @DJSnM for the video. This clip is epic -- I'm sure it will show up in Scott's next DJ set. This is what I'm here for. 🔥

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

@joebarnard @Robotbeat This is so next level. Expecting your toaster-cam pop tart to take equally amazing photos.

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

Majestic lift-off.

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

Rocket Team from Poland came to the US for FAR OUT. They went to a sporting goods store to buy black powder and said it was for their student rocket. Got denied. We told them to return and say it was for ammo for their guns. They went back with the gun story and the clerk offered them as much as they wanted. The students were like, damn ��merica is so whack. Morale of the story… tell them it is for your car.

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

There has never been a rocket flight carrying more financial burden than Starship Flight 12. Timing it immediately before IPO, the outcome could carry a 15-30% swing in investor sentiment (Grok). Unfortunately, that is true for all future launches, but this one feels more consequential. Go Starship Go!

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

@kegrocket @jimbelosic @zanehengsperger Tres Comas

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

@83dollaroring 3rd nickel

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

“What size is your LOX vent?”
“about thirty-aught-six” 🙄

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

Can confirm it was not a ULA or OSU sniper

[Patrick Finley @PatrickFinley_]

We just partnered with the Musk Foundation to give out $175k in grants to advance the frontier of collegiate rocketry.

This is in addition to the $390k we’re already giving out to collegiate teams building propulsive self-landing rockets.

When we first started, people laughed and told us what we were attempting would be impossible.

2 years later, several student teams have achieved both TVC and throttled hotfire with liquid engines, and they are making fast progress on their hoppers. We’re already seeing hover attempts at a collegiate level!

These kids are doing this on 0.001% of a typical rocket budget, dedicating 80 hour weeks without any pay to build some of the most capable rockets outside of industry.

The reason why so many people fall in love with space and rocketry is because it is proof that humanity is capable of the impossible.

We want to continue to advance that mission.

Back to work.

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

@kegrocket Does SCSCC have a football team?

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

Congratulations @USCRPL on another beautiful trip to space. ✌️
https://t.co/D7gWIe5Ypa

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

"The best camera is the one in your pocket" #ShotOniPhone Amazing!

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[RocketTalk🚀 @Pad33space]

@kegrocket @BestCoastBrian @StormSilvawalk1