Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸

Mechanical engineering student building rockets 🚀 | Liquid propulsion, CAD & fabrication | USAF veteran 🇺🇸

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

We are now one step closer reopening Michigan’s access to space.

This weekend I completed my first static fire on BlueCat, a nitrous/alcohol pressure fed liquid engine.
Thank you to Michigan Team-1 Rocketry for supporting the test.
Very happy with how the first test went.

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

@_mikegrace @MichaelAlleged When you think about how much a gun cost compared to a bullet, the math makes sense. It’s even better when most of the bullet is someone else’s. You don’t buy a new gun every time you fire a bullet

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

Very cool project, great way to track and plan your personal launches.

[Next Model Rocket @NextModelRocket]

NEXT MODEL ROCKET

PUBLIC BETA: SEPTEMBER 15th

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

Summoning the 3D printer algorithm gods…
So the new Prusa Slicer supports different sized nozzles in the same print. Any way or chance this can be ported to Bambu? Is anyone working on this.

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

@Gabe_Brower @HunterALanier My left wheel won’t turn

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

The children yearn for the mines

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

Why Doesn’t Michigan Mine Copper Anymore?
https://t.co/zLJEViCD3B

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

@_mikegrace with @LongshotSpace is the answer to that. Build your cargo to their specs and they’ll launch it cheap and VERY fast

[Todd Master @MasterActual]

Companies talk about how they aspire to be the Uber of space or the Anduril of space, but maybe the industry would be better served by more people aiming to be the In-N-Out burger of space.

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

Woot woot!
New @ handle came through

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

@NextModelRocket J270 on a Mercury Redstone

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

Still no pictures. Sound like the German government trying to beat the war drums over a couple of Estes rockets

[Faytuks News @Faytuks]

From WDR and SZ national security reporter @florianflade o

- Several "homemade rockets found"
- Up to two fired at the Jänschwaldepower plant in Brandenburg
- Not commercial fireworks/projectiles
- Multiple unlaunched rockets embedded in ground around the power plant

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

@Robotbeat I want to see the details. A lot of the fuel economy standards forced manufactures to build bigger cars to get around the rules. If you loosen some of the rules, you can make smaller and more importantly cheaper vehicles

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

@NextModelRocket @LoganTurkowski Keep leaning into Liquid Glass. It’s not my favorite OS, but it’s so nice when an app ties into an existing UI. Great work!

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

Who was the genius who decided put a 2.0L diesel in an engine bay designed for a 1.4L gas?

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

Feels good to be making parts again.

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

@hunterlanier

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

I feel like I'm designing stuff right when it looks like a sci-fi prop

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

@hunterlanier It’s a set of pneumatic propellant valves packaged to fit in a 2” diameter rocket body

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

@ps_tsele Extremely high return on investment. Do it

[Shawn Blue 🚀🇺🇸 @shawnblue]

@dpoddolphinpro That’s nice, but do you get text messages?