Shiva Vallabhaneni

I build engines | Designer | @shieldai / former @spacex

[Shiva Vallabhaneni @SValla40]

I have been working hard on my brand new podcast with Project Boom called Afterburner!

Project Boom was created with the goal of being the first student group to reach speeds in excess of Mach 1 with a jet-powered remote-controlled aircraft.

#Aerospace @Boeing #aviation

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The SpaceX Recovery team is still working to recover Flight 13’s Starship from the Indian Ocean. They’ve been overcoming challenging conditions and increasingly rough seas as they attempt to guide the 52m long spacecraft to port

[Shield AI @shieldaitech]

X-BAT + AVEN®: extending aerospace history

In modern warfare, runways are increasingly vulnerable. X-BAT, the world’s first AI-piloted VTOL fighter jet, is built to launch and land without one.

@GE_Aerospace's AVEN®, a flight-proven thrust-vectoring nozzle, is key to X-BAT’s vertical flight. By adapting established technology instead of starting from scratch, our teams are reengineering AVEN for a new mission while accelerating X-BAT’s development and reducing technical risk.

Senior propulsion engineer Shiva Vallabhaneni explains how we gave a 1990s F-16 nozzle a new life: https://t.co/JW1muICBjQ

Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war.

[Jade @WindowsTheHorse]

Pretty colours

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hot staging

[Shiva Vallabhaneni @SValla40]

Amazing work from the GE team. Looks cooler-er in person @shieldaitech

[GE Aerospace @GE_Aerospace]

NEWS 📰

GE Aerospace and @shieldaitech have successfully completed integration, actuation, and engine light-off testing of the advanced Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) for Shield AI’s X-BAT aircraft, a critical milestone in the program's path to vertical flight.

Engineers from both companies modified and integrated the AVEN into GE Aerospace's F110-GE-129E engine, then completed functional checkouts and engine light-off to verify system performance at GE Aerospace's test operations site in Peebles, Ohio.

Learn more: https://t.co/z7Y0G2JHO3

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship in space on Flight 13

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Landing burn and splashdown of Starship on Flight 13

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

beautiful engineering

[SLS @ScottLikedSLS]

Actually what the fuck.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX’s massive corpus of world-class engineering data (excluding material blocked by ITAR) will be added during supplemental training of the 2T run.

This will dramatically improve Grok’s engineering capabilities.

[Shield AI @shieldaitech]

X-BAT is on the way.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

The bad news is Starship scrubbed. The good news is that a bunch of traders who aren't used to rocket launches want to give you free money $SPCX

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The path to launch is filled with obstacles and success is only possible through the tireless efforts of many working together towards a common goal. “Critical Path” continues the ongoing Starship series, following SpaceX engineers through the final days before launch of the first Starship V3 and the challenges that come with development of the world’s most powerful and fully reusable rocket.

[SethOfficial @UTD_Seth001]

🚨 David Beckham on Cape Verde’s elimination after pushing Argentina to extra time in the FIFA World Cup:

🗣️ “This is the cruelest side of football. Cape Verde have been eliminated, but they leave this tournament with something far more important than just a scoreline—they leave with the respect of the entire football world. They took the defending world champions all the way into extra time and made Argentina fight for every single minute. Nobody expected that before kick-off.

When I think about this performance, I think about Vozinha first. His saves kept Cape Verde alive when many teams would have collapsed. Then you have Deroy Duarte and Sydney Lopes, two players who will forever be remembered in their country’s football history. They scored against Argentina, they believed when so many people doubted them, and they gave millions of Cape Verdeans a night they will never forget.

People will only remember that Argentina qualified, but those who truly understand football will remember how close Cape Verde came to creating one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history. They never hid, they never stopped running, and they never accepted that they were supposed to lose. Every challenge, every tackle, every attack showed a team playing with pride, courage, and absolute belief.

This is not a story of failure. This is a story of a nation announcing itself to the football world. Cape Verde arrived at this World Cup as outsiders, but they leave having proven they belong on the biggest stage. They stretched the world champions to their absolute limit, forced them into extra time, and made them earn every second of their qualification.

Football can be incredibly unfair. Sometimes the team that captures the hearts of everyone watching is not the team that advances. But no whistle can erase what Cape Verde have achieved. Vozinha, Deroy Duarte, Sydney Lopes, and every player wearing that shirt have inspired a generation. Argentina continue their journey, but Cape Verde leave this World Cup as heroes.”

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

"Cape Verde. Thank you, on behalf of the world. You made us dream and watch your dreams lived out in real time. We’ll never forget you. What a performance against the world champions."

- Fox analyst Stu Holden ⚽️🇨🇻🎙️

[Shield AI @shieldaitech]

Just in Heim for America's 250th.

@CoreyHeim_ @23XIRacing

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship 60-second static fire ahead of the thirteenth flight test

[Neuralink @neuralink]

The dura is the brain's armor: a membrane so tough that a surgeon normally cuts through it with a scalpel. For the first time in our clinical trials, we inserted the electrode threads of our implant straight through the dura and into the cortex, keeping the dura intact.

Here's how we did it 🧵