Ethan

Rocket Propulsion Engineer @ a cool space company | Opinions Are My Own

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Some interesting details in this IG report:

• SpaceX says it needs at least 15 launches for HLS landing
• Blue Origin seeking third New Glenn pad, just north of NASA's LC-39 complex
• SLS nitrogen demands may cause 1-2 month blackout of N2

https://t.co/9q672DbaqJ

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

@elonmusk I support antimatter propulsion.

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

"You are sheltering a Mythos-level model in your server room, are you not?"

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude Fable 5 has been out for a couple of days. Some projects people have already built with it:

[Nasdaq @Nasdaq]

Mission: @SpaceX.
Objective: Make life multiplanetary.
Exchange: @NasdaqExchange.
Status: Initial Public Offering. $SPCX

[𝓓𝓸𝓬_𝔃𝓮𝓮 ✧ @doc_zee7]

Me refusing to sleep because i didn't get enough time to feel like human after work

[Ethan @prop_eng_ethan]

@dwr Sometimes I think people forget we are rocket scientists our entire job is to make hard shit happen and be damn good at it

[Investing Addict @InvestingAddict]

POV: Me and the SpaceX lunch lady when she becomes a millionaire after the IPO.

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

"Never Tell Me The Odds" looks fine. No obvious damage.

https://t.co/tANS0dWyIH

[Sam Elliott @samelliottsam]

Early anthropic employees commuting to work post IPO

[Spaceflight Now @SpaceflightNow]

NASA head urges new launcher for Blue Origin’s moon landers to meet Artemis mission deadlines

📰: https://t.co/uxFxp46ifU

[Ethan @prop_eng_ethan]

@typeclonghouse No it's highly unlikely

[Dave Limp @davill]

Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.

I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.

We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy.

Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through the aftermath and better understand the challenges ahead.

There is a lot of work to do, but this is exactly why people choose careers in aerospace, whether at NASA, Blue Origin, or across the industry. The talent in this field thrives under pressure and performs at its best when solving the toughest problems.

We have been saying for months at NASA that we are not going to sit on our hands and wait for the capabilities necessary to achieve the nation’s most pressing objectives. We are going to take an active role alongside our partners, just as we did in the 1960s, to overcome setbacks, remove obstacles, and deliver the intended outcomes.

@NASA is committed to helping the Blue team recover, continue to advance their lunar lander and get New Glenn back to launching as soon as safely possible.

America’s greatest achievements in space were never the result of avoiding setbacks. They came from overcoming them. We have done it before, and we will do it again🇺🇸

[santos-inistas @JDabknee]

Heartwarming: Rocket randomly assembles following explosion

[Ethan @prop_eng_ethan]

@Punished_Jess I live in the Pacific Northwest and the blast knocked me off my feet. Very alarming to say the least

[Daniel Jimenez @spaces2k]

Me pulling up to work ready to clean up

[Kiko Dontchev @TurkeyBeaver]

Couldn’t agree more with Shana. Thinking about the entire team at Blue. We’ve been there before and there are very few things worse than losing a vehicle on the pad. Remember @blueorigin, it’s the darkest before the dawn and you will be measured not by this anomaly, but by how you respond. We are all rooting for you to get safely back to flight as soon as possible!

[Alex Quinn @ItsAlexQuinn]

Video of the Aerial view of New Glenn exploding from Orlando Airport