Michael Smat

USC '22

[Smat @WickdSmat]

“If you don’t have eclipse glasses, they said you could use a pinhole to watch instead.” — @JamesSmat70

#Eclipse2024

[Relativity Space @relativityspace]

📣 Aeon R Mission Duty Cycle complete!!! Last night @NASAStennis #AeonR burned in a flight-like configuration for 143 seconds at 70% power – marking a record-breaking pace for engine development and a very speedy 48-hour turnaround from Aeon R's first ever hot fires to successfully completing a full flight duration burn.

< 2 days Aeon Rs first hot fires ➡️ Full MDC
< 3 months ➡️ Powerpack install, testing, conversion to full engine, hot fires
< 1 year empty land ➡️ dual-bay vertical engine test stand
≤ 2 years ➡️ 1,000+ Aeon R component level tests

[Relativity Space @relativityspace]

Agreed.

[School of Rock @SchoolofRockUSA]

jack black

[MCLA @MCLA]

USC Wins SLC-I Championship | https://t.co/kGIGEMRrSm #mcla22

[USC Rocket Propulsion Lab @USCRPL]

We successfully recovered Jawbone shortly after launch! The vehicle reached an apogee of 41,300 ft AGL, a max Mach of 1.717, and a peak acceleration of 7.266 Gs. Stay tuned for more updates and media soon!

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

#NASAWebb is fully deployed! 🎉

With the successful deployment &amp; latching of our last mirror wing, that's:
50 major deployments, complete.
178 pins, released.
20+ years of work, realized.

Next to #UnfoldTheUniverse: traveling out to our orbital destination of Lagrange point 2!

[USC Rocket Propulsion Lab @USCRPL]

Unfortunately, Earthshakiier failed shortly into firing. Next, we will begin an all-hands anomaly investigation to determine the root-cause and come back with an even better design. Stay tuned for what's next to come!

[Andrew Higgins @A_J_Higgins]

Teaching my compressible flow course online is giving me the opportunity to answer some long-standing questions, such as: Just how fast *is* that eagle in the @USPS logo going? Turns out, about Mach 4.9...

[USC Rocket Propulsion Lab @USCRPL]

USCRPL is working on another 8-inch static fire and spaceshot! The lab is aiming to complete “Ground2” and “Domepiercer” before the end of the 2019-2020 school year. Find out more at https://t.co/ZaHbIVEiw8

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

"That's no moon, that's a....."

STS-133 - Shuttle Discovery - Arriving at the ISS.

Always fun to hit random L2 historical threads for Shuttle goodness. This set from STS-133. This is what the crews of Dragon 2 and Starliner will get to experience!

#ShuttleSunday
#StationSunday

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

On December 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts broadcast a message from lunar orbit for all the world.

They read the first ten verses of Genesis, and concluded: "Good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas -- and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth."

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

Check out the full launch replay from #NS12 – including preshow with some great content from Blue https://t.co/8FBD62JzGZ

[Texas Football @TexasFootball]

Hard work pays off. Congratulations @LBrockermeyer &amp; @hankcoutoumanos you're on scholarship! 🤘

#ThisIsTexas #HookEm

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Electron, but reusable. Full details from today's announcement here: https://t.co/O4sygsDbvN

[Paramount Pictures @ParamountPics]

Watch the official trailer for #TopGun: Maverick starring @TomCruise. In theatres 2020.

[Earthquake Robot @earthquakeBot]

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurred 7.46mi SW of Searles Valley, CA. Details: https://t.co/CsvHHWeDut Map: https://t.co/tAcfoaiBdI

[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

Wow, wow, wow!

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched the STP-2 mission at 2:30am this morning. The two side cores, flying their second mission, returned to land successfully at Cape Canaveral.

It was incredible. Simply incredible.

[Smat @WickdSmat]

We have one week to boost our pre-orders as high as possible. Please help out our team on our first movie! For all those who don't know, here's why Pre-Orders are so important. #indiefilmmaking @IndieFilmPlace

https://t.co/dgfHBQNpvt